We have an “Open Source” plan site hosted on .discourse.group. Recently, a “Tags is invalid” message has been a problem for our users who are trying to post. I cannot quite figure out why this keeps happening, and how to solve it. I am looking for advice with this.
I fear that several new forum members may have been put off from posting by this, and we may never even have noticed. Considering that our forum is still quite new, this is a serious problem.
Our setup:
We have a “Usage” category. The intent is to require all posts in this category to have at least one tag from the language tag group. It may also have other tags, but at least one tag from the language group must always be present. This is because this is a support forum for a software library that has (rather divergent) bindings to several programming languages. Users often forget to mention which binding they are using. Their questions cannot be answered without knowing this.
Here’s the configuration for the “Usage” category:
This is what happens if I try to create a new post. Strangely, if I then remove all tags, the post will go through (even though one tag should be required).
I can not reproduce it at this moment, and I have not idea why. Yet this problem has been occurring for a number of weeks before I asked about it here. I am very confused.
with 2.6.0.beta1 ( b9174c8e8a ), before the fix, I wasn’t able to create it (without any error message though, clicking on save on a tag group with “c” just doesn’t save the group, after a page refresh, “c” tag doesn’t appear).
You might try to repro the problem with “none” tag ?
Do you know when this fix will come to .discourse.group-hosted sites? I never paid much attention to releases as everything was conveniently managed and updated by Discourse themselves.
Ah yes I overlooked that part I don’t know about the update for hosted sites but in the mean time you can use “language C” or anything else and correct it to “C” as soon as the fix is deployed, https://your.domain/tag/your-tag click on “details” then “rename”
and may I add, for tipping my hat to the new gif component:
Your are probably right, maybe t̶h̶e̶ ̶T̶a̶g̶G̶r̶o̶u̶p̶ ̶c̶l̶a̶s̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶h̶t̶t̶p̶s̶:̶/̶/̶g̶i̶t̶h̶u̶b̶.̶c̶o̶m̶/̶d̶i̶s̶c̶o̶u̶r̶s̶e̶/̶d̶i̶s̶c̶o̶u̶r̶s̶e̶/̶b̶l̶o̶b̶/̶m̶a̶s̶t̶e̶r̶/̶a̶p̶p̶/̶m̶o̶d̶e̶l̶s̶/̶t̶a̶g̶_̶g̶r̶o̶u̶p̶.̶r̶b something could beneficiate of the validate :name_validator of the Tag class, but i don’t know… way above my paygrade
If I then remove most of the tags, the creation succeeds.
After that I can edit the title/tags and add the missing tags again, this time without error message.
This issue is present since month/years. I cannot find a pattern, maybe it occurs when trying to create new tags while writing the initial posting, but I’m not quite sure.
Update 1: I’m the website’s administrator and writing the new posting with this account, so I strongly assume this is not a permissions issue per se.
: wild guess
I don’t know about the update for hosted sites but in the mean time you can use “language C” or anything else and correct it to “C” as soon as the fix is deployed, 
