However, filling in that information does not generated the privacy and tos like it used to do.
After some searching I found that this code has been removed from Discourse on July 17.
I am wondering what the rationale behind this removal is, and what the new way of generating these topics might be. In either way it seems like the copy needs to be changed on that form, since it still refers to the boilerplate ToS and Privacy Notice.
The gist is that those terms were written a while ago, are US-centric, and there’s a lot of variance by location (and this is changing all the time!). We also don’t want to provide a template that may give the appearance of legal advice, individual sites should seek out their own guidance if there’s any concern.
There’s no new way of generating those topics. You can still set the tos_topic_id and privacy_topic_id via the rails console, and tos_url and privacy_policy_url are still available as site settings in the admin interface.
Good catch on the copy being outdated, that’s an easy fix:
Though I wonder if we could remove a couple of these settings entirely @pmusaraj?
