Suppress category from latest topics gone

#100

CAN’T BE HAPPIER!!!

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#101

Thank you so much for stepping in so quickly, @RGJ!

I feel a bit silly now to say on https://community.hiveeyes.org/, even after activating the plugin within settings, we don’t see the option at the place within the category settings where it was before:

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Did we miss something here or might there be something wrong with our instance of Discourse? We are running 2.4.0.beta8.

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#102

It was us. After deactivating and reactivating the plugin again (better safe than sorry), we found the option at the very bottom of the category settings tab. We probably just missed that before.

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@RGJ: We can confirm it works perfectly again, thank you so much and sorry for the noise.

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#103

THANK YOU @RGJ! Please give the explicit app.yml line on the GitHub page under installation instructions vs pointing to the general install page just like GitHub - curiousdannii/discourse-merge-users: A Discourse forum plugin for merging users does it.

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#104

Hi,
Does this plugin filter out suppressed messages from New category as well for you?

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#105

Thank you so much for this plugin, it does restore ‘suppress from latest’, but unfortunately it also causes tag filtering to stop working as it did before.

When this setting is enabled, selecting a tag under a topic no longer returns topics from categories that have ‘suppress from latest’ enabled. As soon as this setting is disabled, tag filtering works as expected.

I hope this is something that can be easily fixed, I really appreciate your efforts on this one, and thanks again.

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#106

I will take a look at that in the course of this week, shouldn’t be too hard to fix.

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#107

I pushed a fix, the plugin does not suppress categories in tag filters anymore.

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#108

@RGJ hi,
Is it supposed to this plugin hide also messages from suppressed category from New page?

Thanks

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#109

No, it’s not supposed to do that. I have pushed another fix.

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#110

Thanks! Works like a charm!

Happy New Year for all you guys! :christmas_tree:

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#111

Does anyone know how I can reverse things so that none of our foreign language categories are muted for any users? Those categories need to appear on /categories for everyone. At the moment, there are probably 25,000+ users who can’t discover content that should be visible to them.

If u is a user, I see u.muted_user_ids but I’m not sure where the muted categories live.

users.each do |u|
  # Here, I would find if any of that user's muted categories match a
  # foreign language category and delete them from the list for that
  # user.
end

Also, is it safe for me to find that field and adjust the raw value via a script in irb like that?

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#112

This is a fairly straightforward thing to do. The changes you need to make are to the category_users table. I outlined how to unmute a category for all users in this post: Trading buttons: Buy, Sell, Exchange and added some more details in another post in that topic.

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#113

Thanks, I’ll try that.

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#114

Simplest is just to change the site setting, it will prompt you to unmute for existing users if you wish.

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#115

Thanks, that worked. :slight_smile:

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#117

Hi,

We are having this issue on our website. We already had 3 categories suppressed from latest and now we need to add one more.

We would be willing to use the default categories muted instead. However, we would like to disable the old feature from the 3 existing categories so that the entire site behave the same way.

We are self hosting our discourse instance and have access to the database. Could you provide the information as to where the flag suppress from latest of the three previous categories is in the DB?

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#118

AFAIK When the feature was removed the categories became muted by default.

The flag didn’t continue to exist or function once the option went from the UI.

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#119

Our list is empty. Is there any other place where they could have been muted?

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#120

I’m so glad I finally found this topic. I was losing my mind trying to figure out how to get the noise from my private categories for staged topics from crowding up the /latest list.

Is the plugin from @RGJ going to be the de-facto solution or is the Discourse team still working on something?

(And of course I also go on the record with a +1 to restore the functionality in order to “hide” noisy content that was essentially split out into other views, such as KB articles using the various plugins for that, blog comment topics generated by the JavaScript stuff from other sites, and of course staging timed topics for future publication.)

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