I’m definitely not an advanced user, even though I am able to follow some steps and with the help of ChatGPT and Claude, sometimes I can get to where I want to go.
That being said, when looking at this topic about having a page that’s shown when we are doing something that makes the forum show an error, a few genuine questions come to mind:
- Why doesn’t Discourse have this built in? Can someone explain in plain English (as much as possible, of course, because I understand this is very technical)?
- If it’s not possible now, will it ever be possible and implemented, so non-advanced users can rely on that kind of page?
- Since installing Discourse 3 months ago, I noticed that 99% of the time when I try to update it directly from the Admin page, it fails and I have to rely on Terminal. I believe I read somewhere that when we update via the Admin area itself, users may experience some lagging, but it doesn’t completely go offline, the way it does with Terminal? If so, why is that, and why do I experience those errors all the time that force me to rely on Terminal?
- Is there a way to update via Terminal without making it go offline? Because it seems that when adding/removing plugins, for example, I’m forced to?
Would love to learn more about this.