This week on meta.discourse.org…
Key Stats
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New posts: 600 
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New topics: 85 
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Top users: - HAWK (57 likes, 1 post)
- sam (55 likes, 17 posts)
- merefield (46 likes, 34 posts)
- RGJ (40 likes, 13 posts)
- Lilly (31 likes, 14 posts)
- awesomerobot (30 likes, 21 posts)
- Heliosurge (28 likes, 28 posts)
- pfaffman (23 likes, 23 posts)
- hugh (22 likes, 6 posts)
- NateDhaliwal (20 likes, 28 posts)
 
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Top @team contributors: - HAWK (57 likes, 1 post)
- sam (55 likes, 17 posts)
- Lilly (31 likes, 14 posts)
- awesomerobot (30 likes, 21 posts)
- hugh (22 likes, 6 posts)
- mcwumbly (10 likes, 5 posts)
- nat (10 likes, 3 posts)
- supermathie (9 likes, 3 posts)
- tgxworld (7 likes, 3 posts)
- joffreyjaffeux (7 likes, 4 posts)
 
Interesting Topics
Announcements
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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
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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
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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
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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 properapp.ymlusage. read more • solution
Support
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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 blockingaaain the path. read more • debug steps
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Reply Permissions? 
 danvanmoll discovered subcategories don’t inherit parent permissions; ondrej pointed out each must be configured individually. read more
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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
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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
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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
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Automatic translation, how to disable? 
 patrickemin saw French translations despite English prefs; Falco explained the locale header selector andlocalecookie override. read more
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Dark mode logo doesn’t work 
 tknospdr’s dark-mode logo failed to display under NPM; afterforce https, both light and dark logos appeared correctly. read more
Dev
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How to use a bulk import script (e.g., vbulletin.rb) 
 pfaffman tackled a multi-million post import, mapping/var/run/postgresqlinweb_only.ymland debugging MySQL credential errors. read more
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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
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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
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Streamline Tag Intersections 
 @mcmixed proposed easier multi-tag filtering in the topic list; merefield is brewing a plugin, and mcwumbly pointed to/filterand an experimental theme. read more
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Expand automation scheduling options 
 ganncamp wanted Data Explorer automations to pause on weekends; sam agreed and suggested similar AI report scheduling controls. read more
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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
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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
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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
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Locations Plugin  
 dsims noticedlocation_topic_statusremains despite icon removal; community traced the original commit and suggested deprecating the setting. read more
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“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/tagspage. 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
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HAWK announced our new Community Manager in 363874/1 and engaged with the community in post 2. 
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sam drove AI & automation discussions in AI Post Analyzer for Chat and championed scheduling controls in Expand automation scheduling options. 
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Lilly provided installation expertise in 364137/3 and restored invite emailing functionality in 364416/3. 
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awesomerobot refined AI summary UI in 363864/5 and weighed in on tag federation in 363970/2. 
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hugh showcased the new admin search in 362894/1 and detailed the 3.4.3 release in 362895/1. 
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nat resolved category cache poisoning for Chinese locales in 363663/7. 
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supermathie demonstrated GitHub line permalinks in 364303/3. 
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tgxworld highlighted plugin improvements for ActivityPub in 362894/3. 
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joffreyjaffeux patched the emoji picker’s CDN path issue in 363404/7. 
Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you again next week! 