Weekly Summary

This week on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • Total New Posts: 555
  • Total New Topics: 78

Top Users of the Week:


Interesting Topics

Support

  • Restricting Profile Visibility for Low Trust Level Users: A lively discussion emerged around the new feature restricting profile visibility for low-trust-level users. Robin.Grant raised concerns about its impact on private communities, and tobiaseigen shared potential workarounds. The team acknowledged the need for further tweaks. Read more.

  • Flood of Password Reset Requests: ale-re reported an issue with bots exploiting the /about page to generate password reset requests. The solution involved enabling the login required setting. Read more.

  • Docker Rate Limit Error on Rebuild: LotusJeff encountered rate limit issues during a rebuild. The problem was traced to IPv6 configurations on DigitalOcean, and disabling IPv6 resolved the issue. Read more.

  • Twitch Clips Embed Issue: RGJ identified a bug with embedding Twitch clips due to incorrect parent parameters. The issue appears to be related to Twitch’s embed code. Read more.

  • Signup Issues with hCaptcha: A misconfiguration of hCaptcha keys caused signup failures. tobiaseigen provided guidance and submitted a pull request to improve admin interface warnings. Read more.

UX

  • Enter vs. Shift+Enter in Chat: A debate on whether Enter should submit messages or create new lines in chat led to a planned update to make this behavior configurable. joffreyjaffeux is working on the implementation. Read more.

  • Avatars Overlapping Focus State on Mobile: NateDhaliwal reported a visual issue with avatars overlapping the focus state on mobile. The problem was confirmed across multiple themes. Read more.

  • Simplifying Profile Picture Changes: A feature request to streamline profile picture updates was discussed, with Lilly suggesting a theme component by Don. Read more.

Bug

  • Glimmer Topic List Hides Solved Checkbox: Lilly reported that the glimmer topic list mode setting hides the solved status in topic lists. The issue is under review. Read more.

  • Profile Click Bug in Chat: MihirR identified a bug where clicking a user’s name in chat caused the interface to break. joffreyjaffeux confirmed the issue and plans to address it in January. Read more.

  • Details Expanding from Bottom: A bug with the “Hide Details” feature was reported by Moin, who provided a video demonstration. The issue appears to depend on browser window size. Read more.

Announcements

  • AI-Powered Spam Detection: sam shared updates on the AI spam detection system, which successfully caught all spam over the weekend. Custom instructions were key to its success. Read more.

  • All AI Features Available on Standard and Business Plans: Discourse announced that all AI features are now accessible on Standard and Business hosting plans. Read more.

Feature

  • Solved Finder Button for Staff: Don proposed a feature to help staff quickly identify solutions in lengthy topics. The idea received positive feedback. Read more.

  • Control Section Expansion in Docs Plugin: jrgong suggested adding controls to the Docs Categories plugin to manage whether sections are expanded or collapsed by default. Read more.

  • Graph of Cheers History: ethandacat proposed a feature to visualize a user’s cheer history, akin to GitHub’s contribution heatmap. Read more.

Praise

  • Best Wishes for 2025: BrianC shared a heartfelt message wishing the community a happy new year and expressing appreciation for Discourse. Read more.

  • Thanks for Easy Installation: Jagster praised the relatively smooth installation process for Discourse, comparing it favorably to other platforms. Read more.


Activity by the @team Group


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This week on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • Total New Posts: 643
  • Total New Topics: 83

Top Users by Posts and Likes:


Interesting Topics

Community

  • Do users properly use categories?
    A lively discussion led by wellbing-go explored how users often miscategorize topics. Suggestions included simplifying category structures and forcing category selection before composing posts. Insights from noahl highlighted the benefits of radically reducing categories, as seen in the Wix forum.

  • Do you use Discord and Discourse?
    Saif initiated a conversation about running communities on both platforms. Participants like rburkej and noahl shared their experiences, emphasizing the complementary roles of Discord for real-time interaction and Discourse for structured discussions.

Support

Feature

UX

Bug

Announcements

  • AI-powered Spam detection
    The Discourse team introduced an experimental AI-based spam detection feature. sam and Moin discussed its implementation and resolved a toggle-related bug.

  • Write out smarter dates with AI
    Saif announced the Smart Dates feature, which converts human-readable dates into timezone-friendly formats. Feedback from CocoQuark highlighted areas for improvement.

Theme Component

  • Normalized Profile Links
    pfaffman introduced a theme component to add customizable links to user profiles and cards, enhancing user interaction.

  • Custom Lightbox
    Don updated the Custom Lightbox component, adding features like zoom cursors and FontAwesome 6 icons.


Activity by the @team Group


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This week on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • Total New Posts: 803
  • Total New Topics: 113

Top Users by Activity and Engagement:


Interesting Topics

Bug

UX

Support

Announcements

Marketplace

#Plugins


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This week on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • Total New Posts: 792
  • Total New Topics: 107

Top Users (by posts and likes received):


Interesting Topics

Theme Component

  • Watermark Image: Arkshine introduced a new theme component that automatically adds customizable watermarks to user-uploaded images. The component supports both image and QR code watermarks, with extensive configuration options.

  • Homepage Blocks: nolo shared a theme component for building custom homepages with configurable block components, combining features from right sidebar blocks and custom homepage routes.

#Site Management

Announcements

Bug

UX

Support

Plugin

  • Discourse Workflow: merefield introduced a plugin for creating configurable multi-stage workflows for topics, with branching and looping support.

  • Turbowarp plugin: thoka released a plugin to embed Scratch projects in posts via Turbowarp, enhancing educational content creation.

  • Discourse AI: sam discussed potential new features, including allowing users to upload PDFs for AI processing and Q&A.

Migration

Feature


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This week on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • New Posts: 942
  • New Topics: 130

Top Users (Posts and Likes):


Interesting Topics

Community

  • Discourse Rewind 2024: joffreyjaffeux introduced an experimental feature called “Discourse Rewind,” which provides users with a personalized summary of their activity over the past year. The community compared it to Spotify Wrapped, and feedback was overwhelmingly positive.

Support

Theme Feedback

Feature

Bug

Announcements

UX

#Plugins


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This week on meta.discourse.org

Key Stats

  • Total New Posts: 720
  • Total New Topics: 91

Top Users (by posts and likes received):


Interesting Topics

Announcements

  • Discourse now supports multiple drafts: lindsey announced a long-awaited feature allowing users to save multiple drafts simultaneously. This improvement was widely celebrated by the community as a significant quality-of-life enhancement.

  • PostgreSQL 15 update: mwaniki detailed the upgrade to PostgreSQL 15, including warnings for large databases and instructions for admins. The discussion included troubleshooting tips and updates to address issues encountered during the upgrade.


UX


Feature


Support


Bug


#Developer Guides


#Plugins

  • ActivityPub Plugin: Jagster suggested adding tags to posts federated to Mastodon, highlighting the importance of tags in the federated ecosystem.

  • Discourse AI: sam confirmed the plugin’s compatibility with OpenAI’s API, sparking further interest in its capabilities.


Community


Activity by the @team Group


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