每周总结

[Discourse]

This week on meta.discourse.org…

Key Stats

• New posts: 549
• New topics: 76
• Top users (posts / likes):
  1. JammyDodger (43 / 68)
  2. RGJ (17 / 65)
  3. Moin (25 / 48)
  4. pfaffman (31 / 40)
  5. hugh (10 / 38)
  6. merefield (24 / 32)
  7. Falco (12 / 26)
  8. awesomerobot (10 / 24)
  9. pmusaraj (5 / 22)
  10. sam (9 / 20)

Interesting Topics

Announcements

• hugh introduced a new visual layout for themes and theme components in Announcements, bringing visual previews, improved gallery organization, and one-click access to theme details.

• pmusaraj published the 3.5.0.beta4 Security fix release, patching a data-leak vulnerability affecting login-required sites and updating Discourse AI, plugin improvements, and UX tweaks.

Support

• A deep dive into configuring a dedicated AI-bot homepage (Support ai) showed how to enable AI bot enable dedicated UX, map a group via the custom-homepage-for-groups component, and handle anonymous user prompts.

• MartijnvdWiel explored how to create a category that’s private to one group but open to others (Support), leading to advice on bulk group assignments and category permission best practices from mcwumbly and pfaffman.

• icaria36 reported that Summarize Topic with AI hung indefinitely and threw an Invalid JSON Payload error; Falco traced it to a Gemini API issue in 365587/1, now under review.

• satonotdead asked how to limit trust levels on specific groups (Support trust-levels), and JammyDodger proposed custom TL requirements with badge revocation automations.

• Olle11 discovered that the “Quick profile links” items are provided by a theme component, not core; Moin pointed out 365562/1 and Lilly confirmed the Quick Profile Links Menu settings control those labels.

Dev

• Juan_Manuel_Barreto wanted to preserve “New Topic” text on mobile; awesomerobot landed a patch in /t/-/364902/1 to expose the label via create-topic-label transformer.

• Richie discovered the /admin/users/list/all.json endpoint now wraps user data inside a users array; RGJ identified the commit in 365629/1, prompting updates to SSO integrations.

• David_Ghost noted that Recent replies on the homepage take 2 seconds to load due to multiple API calls; Arkshine and others discussed SQL-driven plugin alternatives in 365041/1.

• Steve_John found certain top-level categories missing from /categories.json; pfaffman and JammyDodger clarified that only categories with listed latest topics appear and suggested hard-coding or theme settings in 365544/1.

UX

• Moin filed an issue about autofill in the forgot-password modal (UX), proposing conditional autofill when hide email taken is enabled. awesomerobot’s fix landed in 365310/1.

• Moin also spotted a mislinked browser-requirements URL in the UX copy; david merged a correction in 365315/1.

Feature

• tknospdr asked if it’s possible to create dynamic tag groups at topic level (tags), and NateDhaliwal shared the undocumented /tags/upload.json approach for bulk tag creation.

• SoteFun requested support for mentions in Post Voting comments (Feature); the community pointed to 314645 for context.

Plugin

• Richard (RGJ) announced Discourse Dynamic Groups in 365342/1 (Plugin), a beta release enabling boolean-expression-based auto group management via plugin settings.

• elmuerte introduced Dark Visitors in 365158/1 (Plugin), integrating darkvisitors.com for crawler/scraper analytics and robots.txt monitoring.

#Data & reporting

• mcwumbly kicked off the IEEE Summer of Code 2025 with a guide on finding pr-welcome issues for contributors, linking to a filter of open Bug, Feature, and UX topics.

Activity by the @team Group

• hugh launched the new theme gallery layout in 364921/1.
• pmusaraj released the 3.5.0.beta4 Security fix in 364850/1.
• awesomerobot detailed how to configure an AI bot homepage via theme components in 365126/3.
• sam improved the AI-bot UX by removing the outdated “back to forum” button in 365126/8.
• Lilly demonstrated setting up a custom homepage for the AI bot using the custom-homepage-for-groups component.
• joffreyjaffeux fixed Android chat selection issues in 365496/3.
• mcwumbly welcomed IEEE SoC contributors and linked to the pr-welcome filter in 365374/1.
• david corrected the browser-requirements link in the client locale file in 365315/1.
• Falco triaged the AI summarization hang, pointing to Gemini payload fixes in 365587/1.

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