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Interesting Topics

Announcements

  • Meta has a new Community Manager!
    HAWK shared that tobiaseigen will formally lead community management, prompting congratulations and a reminder to flag issues to moderators. read more • congrats

  • 3.5.0beta3: Full admin search, better font selection, more robust site search, category personalization, and easier configuration management
    hugh introduced a unified admin search modal (Ctrl+/) and new category icons, along with myriad plugin improvements. read more • plugin details

  • OpenAI image generation and editing now supported in Discourse AI
    sam announced support for the gpt-image-1 API, enabling image creation/editing via a “Designer” persona and two new tools. read more • examples

  • 3.4.3: Bug fix and UX release
    hugh rolled out the stable 3.4.3 release with security fixes and enhancements to discourse-activity-pub and discourse-ai. read more • changelog

Theme component

  • AI Post Analyzer for Chat
    Don unveiled a theme component adding an AI-analysis button to posts; discussions ranged from naming to Chatbot integration. read more • naming debate

Installation

  • How do I even install Discourse?
    Vixi’s Bitnami container issues led to guidance from Lilly and merefield on unsupported setups, reverse proxies, and proper app.yml usage. read more • solution

Support

  • After the update, Chinese management interface is bad
    co_choa saw garbled Simplified Chinese in the admin UI; sam suggested a rebuild and kris.kotlarek traced it to Cloudflare WAF blocking aaa in the path. read more • debug steps

  • Reply Permissions?
    danvanmoll discovered subcategories don’t inherit parent permissions; ondrej pointed out each must be configured individually. read more

  • Renaming a bookmark does not work
    patrickemin noted mobile/desktop bookmark renames don’t appear in notifications; Lilly explained the UI hides the button until an email is entered. read more

  • Something missing from Discobot tutorial?
    tknospdr couldn’t see the completion certificate iframe; awesomerobot guided iframe inspection and HTTPS enforcement to restore it. read more • iframe check

  • No option to send invite emails
    benjamincfarmer lost the “send email” button on the Invites page; Lilly confirmed it only appears after a valid email is entered. read more

  • Automatic translation, how to disable?
    patrickemin saw French translations despite English prefs; Falco explained the locale header selector and locale cookie override. read more

  • Dark mode logo doesn’t work
    tknospdr’s dark-mode logo failed to display under NPM; after force https, both light and dark logos appeared correctly. read more

Dev

  • How to use a bulk import script (e.g., vbulletin.rb)
    pfaffman tackled a multi-million post import, mapping /var/run/postgresql in web_only.yml and debugging MySQL credential errors. read more

  • Is a theme component or plugin best for external API calls?
    noahl asked whether to use a plugin or theme component for certification ID validation; merefield recommended private user fields and a plugin if needed. read more

  • New plugin outlet for topic timers?
    jordan-vidrine requested a new plugin outlet around timers; david welcomed a PR and asked where it should live in the HTML. read more

Feature

  • Streamline Tag Intersections
    @mcmixed proposed easier multi-tag filtering in the topic list; merefield is brewing a plugin, and mcwumbly pointed to /filter and an experimental theme. read more

  • Expand automation scheduling options
    ganncamp wanted Data Explorer automations to pause on weekends; sam agreed and suggested similar AI report scheduling controls. read more

  • Permit setting all posts and comments to wikis
    jahan_gagan asked for a site-wide wiki toggle; community discovered category-specific “Make new topics wikis by default” as a workaround. read more

UX

  • Compact and AI Expanded
    DonBot couldn’t find compact vs. extended AI summary toggles; awesomerobot explained the conflict with Topic List Excerpts and updated the docs. read more

  • Truncated pinned topic title breaks the layout in “split view”
    anderer demoed a layout glitch when a long locked, pinned title is truncated; awesomerobot shipped a fix in the review-queue code. read more

Plugin

  • Locations Plugin :earth_africa:
    dsims noticed location_topic_status remains despite icon removal; community traced the original commit and suggested deprecating the setting. read more

  • “Onebox Assistant”, crawl for those previews reliably!
    tumbano reported YouTube oneboxes no longer render; merefield traced it to an external provider issue for tumbano to escalate upstream. read more

Site feedback

  • Meta tag cleanup: delete unused ones, delete misspelled ones, add icons and move to correct tag groups?
    NateDhaliwal audited offbeat tags; Lilly and tobiaseigen noted private-category usage and committed to tidying up the public /tags page. read more

Marketplace

  • [100$] Setting up a Non-Profit discourse platform
    d3r3k5u offered a $100 bounty for form-to-post conversion, structured questions, auto-posts, badges, and DM restrictions; responses pointed to plugins and PM strategies. read more

Activity by the @team Group

Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you again next week! :slight_smile:

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