I know there are site setting changes by system in the staff action logs. For example, at the end of July, the system enabled rich editor on my forum, and in April, the allowed iframes were changed.
But when I tried to find out why the welcome message from Discobot no longer worked, it was very difficult. I checked for changes of settings in the staff action logs, but there was no change. That’s why I assumed the problem was not related to a site setting. If those hadn’t changed and it had worked before, it couldn’t have been the cause.
Some days later, I found out that the Discourse update had changed the site setting Disable Discourse Narrative Bot welcome post[1].
An entry in the staff action logs would have helped me to find that. Is it possible to add an entry in those cases?
When allowed iframes was changed, such an entry was added:
Is it possible to do this for all migrations of site settings? Maybe also with “changed during Discourse update” in the context field?
Yes, I agree with you that this would be very helpful. We had spent quite some time rewriting and formatting the ‘Welcome message’, and even based some of the monthly metrics on number of views/replies.
I’ve been having ‘zero’ views/replies for that narrative welcome post so when investigating we found out that it was disabled by the system which would’ve been very important for us to know.
I hope that this feature request to let admin know of these changes in the Dashboard where we learn about new feature updates too!