I notice the meta discourse has that notice from when there’s updates. What theme component does that? Is it a plugin?

This one? (I think the text is a little different than in this example) [image]"This site was just updated" popups are annoying [Screen Shot 2021-03-02 at 12.08.46 PM] That is part of Discourse core FEATURE: Move site updated modal into a less obtrusive prompt (#12577) master ← feature/subtle-software-update-prompt merged 10:56PM - 06 Apr 21 UTC (UTC) [image] martin-brennan +183 -54 ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/920448/113239454-1ceb8180-92e…e-11eb-82db-82a3200a7cc7.png) ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/920448/113248069-963fa000-92ff-11eb-819a-7cbda9c41c38.png) This moves the "This site was just updated" modal asking the user if they want to refresh into a subtle prompt that slides down from the header. Also in this PR I've added a helper to publish message bus messages in JS tests. So instead of this: ```javascript // Mimic a messagebus message MessageBus.callbacks .filterBy("channel", "/global/asset-version") .map((c) => c.func("somenewversion")); ``` We can have: ```javascript publishToMessageBus("/global/asset-version", "somenewversion"); ``` ### Testing Change this JS: ``` timeout = later(() => { updatePromptWidget.state.showPrompt = true; updatePromptWidget.scheduleRerender(); }, 1000 * 60 * 24 * 60); ``` to ``` timeout = later(() => { updatePromptWidget.state.showPrompt = true; updatePromptWidget.scheduleRerender(); }, 500); ``` And send messagebus messages via `rails c` like so (the numbers are just random): ```ruby MessageBus.publish("/global/asset-version", 428523235235) ```

Huh, I never get that. Is it triggered from ./launcher rebuild app or just the web buttons?

I don’t think the way you update matters. Maybe a reload happens automatically while you are using your forum after you performed the update, so the warning is not shown?

I have always done the rebuild. I recently setup 2 web-only nodes for HA/fault tolerance but unsure if that’s relevant since I never had the notice to begin with. Also no, I usually navigate around a bit to see if it’s responsive and working properly before I reload.

For the “you (the user) need to refresh your browser” banner to appear you’d need a browser tab that has been open before you perform the update and that you don’t touch for more than a day after the update. I guess you usually don’t do that which is why you don’t see this banner.

I guess I’ll test it out next time and see if it happens. At least I know it’s a core thing.

Yeah it’s pretty rare to run into unless you update your site often (Meta deploys multiple times a day, so it happens more often here) you’re leaving tabs open for a long time

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awesomerobot (Kris) July 8, 2026, 10:30pm 8

Yeah it’s pretty rare to run into unless

you update your site often (Meta deploys multiple times a day, so it happens more often here)
you’re leaving tabs open for a long time

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