# Latest discourse-akismet breaks Discourse stable (1.3.x)
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-discourse-akismet-breaks-discourse-stable-1-3-x/33100
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** akismet
**Created:** [10 september 2015 om 13:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-discourse-akismet-breaks-discourse-stable-1-3-x/33100 "2015-09-10T13:41:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@pjv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pjv)
#### Post date: [10 september 2015 om 13:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-discourse-akismet-breaks-discourse-stable-1-3-x/33100/1 "2015-09-10T13:41:51Z")
Help; I just upgraded my forum from 1.3.4 to 1.3.5 and it seems to have killed it.
I’m using the docker install.
I tried going to `/var/discourse` and doing `git pull` and `./launcher rebuild app` and it’s the same. I can see my custom header but underneath that is just white nothing.
Any suggestions on how I can get my forum back online? (I do have daily backups - though I cannot reach the backups interface).
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [10 september 2015 om 14:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-discourse-akismet-breaks-discourse-stable-1-3-x/33100/4 "2015-09-10T14:41:20Z")
Do you have any plugins installed? If so, try disabling them.
Do you see any JavaScript errors when loading the page?
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### Author:  [@pjv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pjv)
#### Post date: [10 september 2015 om 14:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-discourse-akismet-breaks-discourse-stable-1-3-x/33100/5 "2015-09-10T14:43:12Z")
> [@zogstrip](#):
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> Do you see any JavaScript errors when loading the page?
yes:
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [10 september 2015 om 14:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-discourse-akismet-breaks-discourse-stable-1-3-x/33100/6 "2015-09-10T14:44:55Z")
You must have some plugins installed. I don’t see any “`rewire`” in the vendor file here.
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### Author:  [@pjv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pjv)
#### Post date: [10 september 2015 om 14:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-discourse-akismet-breaks-discourse-stable-1-3-x/33100/7 "2015-09-10T14:48:33Z")
> [@zogstrip](#):
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> You must have some plugins installed. I don’t see any “rewire” in the vendor file here.
I do; I have commented out and am rebuilding container now.
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### Author:  [@pjv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pjv)
#### Post date: [10 september 2015 om 15:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-discourse-akismet-breaks-discourse-stable-1-3-x/33100/8 "2015-09-10T15:01:40Z")
Seems to have been the discourse-akismet plugin. When I commented that out of app.yml and rebuilt my forum came back.
@eviltrout : I notice that you pushed a commit 6 days ago that has something to do with “rewiring” and that seems to have broken my forum.
I do want to keep akismet active though: does anyone know if there is a way to pull a specific revision of a plugin via app.yml?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [10 september 2015 om 15:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-discourse-akismet-breaks-discourse-stable-1-3-x/33100/9 "2015-09-10T15:27:11Z")
Are you sure it’s akismet? It’s enabled here on meta and it works just fine.
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### Author:  [@pjv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pjv)
#### Post date: [10 september 2015 om 15:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-discourse-akismet-breaks-discourse-stable-1-3-x/33100/10 "2015-09-10T15:35:44Z")
> [@zogstrip](#):
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> Are you sure it’s akismet? It’s enabled here on meta and it works just fine.
I’m sure that when I comment out discourse-akismet and rebuild then my forum comes back.
My forum is on the stable channel (which right now means Discourse v. 1.3.5). I wonder if the HEAD version of discourse-akismet works with 1.5.x (whatever meta is running?) but not with 1.3.x.
Would be nice if there was a way to specify a particular revision of a plugin. I’m trying to find or figure out a way to do that via a github URL, but so far no luck. Maybe I’ll fork the repo, revert the last commit on my fork and use that URL instead of the official one…
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [10 september 2015 om 15:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-discourse-akismet-breaks-discourse-stable-1-3-x/33100/11 "2015-09-10T15:41:01Z")
> [@pjv](#):
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> Would be nice if there was a way to specify a particular revision of a plugin.
There is a way, I’d just like to solve the core problem and not have to resort to that. I’m going to try and reproduce with the exact set up you have later today.
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### Author:  [@pjv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pjv)
#### Post date: [10 september 2015 om 16:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-discourse-akismet-breaks-discourse-stable-1-3-x/33100/12 "2015-09-10T16:02:35Z")
FWIW, this approach worked:
> [@pjv](#):
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> Maybe I’ll fork the repo, revert the last commit on my fork and use that URL instead of the official one…
I forked and just reverted the most recent commit and then used the URL for my fork in app.yml and now I am on 1.3.5 with discourse-akismet active.
@eviltrout if you could drop a note in here when the official repo again works with stable Discourse I’d be grateful so I can move back.
Thanks to @zogstrip for taking the time to shove me in the right direction to getting back online quickly.
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [10 september 2015 om 17:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-discourse-akismet-breaks-discourse-stable-1-3-x/33100/13 "2015-09-10T17:17:47Z")
It looks like the latest commit to the tagging plugin wasn’t backwards compatible. I’ve reverted it and now if you install the latest version of tagging your site should work.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [11 september 2015 om 00:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-discourse-akismet-breaks-discourse-stable-1-3-x/33100/14 "2015-09-11T00:10:58Z")