Continuing the discussion from New avatar is scaling wrongly : I couldn’t get avatar showing right and the reason for that was an experimental setting of sidecar plugin of topic list preview component. That is another story. But finding that issue took a while and reason for that was failing of saf…

Just to note, safe mode only disables the front-end code and doesn’t completely remove all plugin functionality/interactions from the server: [image] Using Safe Mode to troubleshoot issues with themes and plugins Safe mode currently only disables the JavaScript portions of plugins, to disable th…

That was actually very valuable note. And that means too that we can’t rely on safe mode too much, right? That bothers me now quite lot because if there is chance to get false result safe mode is, not useless, but unreliable. Because I disabled that sidecar, but it didn’t help either so I should r…

[image] Jakke Flemming: how we know when we (or I) can trust on safe mode and when not? For themes, safe mode will 100% disable everything. It’s fundamentally impossible for us to disable server-side plugin customizations on a per-web-request basis, so that’s why safe-mode can only disable c…

[image] David Taylor: Maybe we should make that That wouldn’t be the worst idea. Because I can’t be the only one who didn’t understand the difference. And Discourse is evolving more complex all the time.

Let’s do it https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/20670 [SCR-20230314-h58]

Safe-mode failed with a plugin

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JammyDodger March 14, 2023, 12:05pm 2

Just to note, safe mode only disables the front-end code and doesn’t completely remove all plugin functionality/interactions from the server:

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