How to seperate the "drive by" topics from the "deeper" discussions?

August 17, 2017, 4:13 am

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I moderate a technical community that is used by many as a support channel: “I have this problem, help me fix it”. This is totally fine, that is how it is supposed to be used. Unfortunately many of these “drive by” users and topic are of very low quality: Didn’t read the docs, didn’t read the error message he got, underlying problem is not related to the software at all or similar. That’S also fine and we are working on things to improve this.

Problem is: The few “deeper” or more advanced discussions get lost in the noise.

Right now the forum is grouped by “component”, so which part of the software a user has a problem with. Most of the topics get posted in the “main software” category, only some into one of the “child component” categories.

The initial idea was to create a “beginner”, “newbie” or “support” category (or whatever name is not too pejorative), but of course these users won’t think of their question as this and will still use the main category and this could also mean we create a “ghetto” of questions nobody bothers to answer.

The other plan was to create an “advanced” category, but this would detain well written and researched posts of new users as they won’t feel welcome in this category. Also some would of course try to abuse this and post their lower quality questions in there to get the “advanced” people to reply.

Any thoughts?

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How can I add tab option in "Create new topic"?

August 17, 2017, 4:36 am

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@MCD wrote:

Hi everyone, I have a question!

I’m wondering, how can I add tab in “Create new topic” area? I need to option like that.

For example, users when writing a new topic, they can add another tab in same topic. You can imagine like that:

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Is that possible?

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Login popup doesn't work

August 17, 2017, 6:09 am

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@przlde wrote:

Hello,
I have site.
I have problem with open my login page. I added few code line in head section. Can I be able to solve this problem?

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Multisite shouldn't send upgrade emails to all admins

August 17, 2017, 7:20 am

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@pfaffman wrote:

I’ve got a handful of sites on a multisite install. Discourse emails all the admins to let them know that they should upgrade. Is there an easy way to get Discourse not to email admins except the one of the master site?

On a related note, there are a bunch of sites where I’m the admin that I don’t get those notices. How does Discourse decide who to send the notification to?

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Unable to send private message to a group

August 17, 2017, 7:58 am

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@nixie wrote:

Hi,

I have created a group and added 15 folks in it.
Group name: mod1

I am trying to send a private message to this group.
But its not working.

Anyone know why?

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Change email after registering and pending activation?

August 17, 2017, 8:02 am

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@fermelone wrote:

Hello,

It seems that this feature is a great opportunity for people to impersonate others using another domain name.

I register with @coolcompany.com

I get the “change email address” button when registering but pending activation.

I wait a few hours with that window open (or maybe a few minutes) until I get approved, you never know, maybe they are super effective.

I click change my email address, and I basically can put whatever there, but I am already approved!

The admin does not get a "@coolcompany.com has not activated, and @another.com is pending", no, instead, I have approved someone I thought it was from @coolcompany.com, but actually it was just using that domain to get approved, as I don’t get another pending approval item.

Is this by design? is it a bug? I could not find a topic like this in the forums.

My big question is, can I deactivate this feature? I honestly don’t want it.

Thanks!

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TransIP experiences

August 17, 2017, 8:22 am

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@tophee wrote:

I just came across this Dutch provider with some interesting VPS offers: TransIP:

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Has anyone tested them? (The downside for most of us is that their website is in Dutch only, but Google Translate seems to do a good job translating it. Don’t know what happens if you need support, but the Dutch tend to be excellent in English)

What I find particularly interesting is that every VPS comes with 1000 free emails per day, which should be plenty for most forums. They advertise it as “Carefree Mailing”, meaning that you supposedly do not have to worry about blacklisting (because mails are sent from your VPS). Basically, it is an MTA of your choice on your server: De VPS mailservice instellen Helpdesk TransIP

What do the email geeks here say? Is this really a worry-free email service or only for the experts who know the science?

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WYSIWYG Editor Plugin

August 17, 2017, 8:25 am

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@quangbuule wrote:

This is work in progress, please give me some thought.

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Better config/version.rb handling and loading more variables from it

August 17, 2017, 9:22 am

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@darix wrote:

I run my discourse instance from an rpm instead of git. that means may parts of discourse that try to find out the version from git fail in my installation. while investigating this i noticed that there is already code to load the version information from a file. But that code had a lot of duplicates. So i moved the common code into a function and then added another function to return the full git describe string.

Would this patch be acceptable?
gist.github.com
https://gist.github.com/darix/4c6ba244186a6634be1ac6f0adf77f0a

dummy.patch
diff --git a/lib/discourse.rb b/lib/discourse.rb
index c2aa10a0ea..f4da14ed67 100644
--- a/lib/discourse.rb
+++ b/lib/discourse.rb
@@ -311,25 +311,41 @@ module Discourse
   def self.git_version
     return $git_version if $git_version

-    # load the version stamped by the "build:stamp" task
-    f = Rails.root.to_s + "/config/version"
This file has been truncated. show original

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Rerender on new route or transition

August 17, 2017, 9:54 am

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@codechef wrote:

I’m building a banner ad plug-in. I have a section of the DOM that I need to re-render each time the page transitions. I have attempted (unsuccessfully) both a Widget and Ember Component, but neither are updating. I loaded them via a Plugin Outlet. I even tried to simplify the problem and dump the current timestamp of the load to the screen (rather than a banner), but only get a re-render if I refresh the browser.

Can someone please point me in the right direction for a solution? I’ve been through the main Discourse developer tutorials, BTW. Just seems like I’m missing something simple.

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Duplicate Entries Across Different Users in "Needs Approval" Queue

August 17, 2017, 11:08 am

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@thermokarst wrote:

Hello! We recently upgraded to v1.9.0.beta6 +12, and now our “Needs Approval” queue is acting up:

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As you can see there are four posts (from 3 users) awaiting moderation, but they all have the same topic title and body text. The bottom-most post is the “correct” post, as in, the topic title and body text were written by that user. We found that the queue is now always showing the bottom-most (most recent) post’s content on all the others awaiting approval (so if there are three posts, all three will display the content for the third post in the queue).

We upgrade our deployment of the forum approximately once per week, so the upgrade event referenced above wasn’t updating a severely outdated deployment.

Please let me know if I can provide any more details (I know this post is a bit sparse but I don’t have a lot to go on just yet).

Thanks!

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Problem running `./launcher rebuild app` : no output and nothing appears to happen

August 17, 2017, 12:10 pm

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@chrisc wrote:

I have upgraded one discourse server without a problem, following these steps but on a second one, after a git pull, when I run ./launcher rebuild app nothing happens, there is no terminal output.

I have tried docker stop app and then ./launcher rebuild app and still no output and also ./launcher start app doesn’t appear to start anything and also has no output.

The only difference with the server that upgraded without a problem is that this site has a Nginx reverse proxy with HTTP Authentication, could this be causing a problem? I have read through the launcher script and can’t see why it might.

Does anyone have any suggestions for what I could try next? Thanks.

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Bug: Pinning Website Comment topics gives empty post on website

August 17, 2017, 2:13 pm

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@rriemann wrote:

Hello,

Discourse is configured to provide comments for a website. I have in Discourse pinned such a companion discussion topic. On the website, this gives now an empty comment:

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The expected behaviour would be that those topic entries are filtered out as they provide without context no information.

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Enabled HTTPS, how do i disable it

August 17, 2017, 4:57 pm

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@dchiniwal wrote:

Hi,

I am running a discourse version for a small forum I run.

I recently did some stupidity and enabled “force https” without any reading or any associated work I needed to do.

I tried disabling it, and get the error “Sorry, an error has occurred.”

This is causing an issue on the forum which I am sure you guys would know of.

How do I bail out of this situation?

My discourse instance is v1.7.0.beta10 +82

Thanks, all your help is appreciated.

Regards

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Autoload of lib in development causes error

August 17, 2017, 5:36 pm

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@angus wrote:

When I pull this commit, the autoload sequence fails in development.

github.com/discourse/discourse

Reload lib in development mode only

by eviltrout on 03:14PM - 16 Aug 17

changed 1 files with 4 additions and 0 deletions.

i.e.
if Rails.env.development?
  config.autoload_paths += Dir["#{config.root}/lib"]
end
The exception I get is

Unable to autoload constant Version, expected /Users/angusmcleod/pavilion/discourse/lib/version.rb to define it (LoadError)

If I remove the commit, or comment out the changes, the app loads fine.

This is a complete guess, but perhaps it’s failing due to naming conventions? Rails is looking for Version when autoloading version.rb, however the VERSION module is capitalized.

ref: Autoloading and Reloading Constants — Ruby on Rails Guides

Environment: OSX v10.12.6; ruby 2.4.1p111; Rails 4.2.9;

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Customizing banner in Discourse

August 17, 2017, 6:04 pm

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@jj11909 wrote:

Hello all,
I have really been struggling with finding a solution here using the built in banners. I would like to know if this is even possible with the banners or if I should add my own custom banner.

I am trying to add a carousel style of divs into the banner.

Things I have tried:

Trying to add divs to topic (banner topic). This doesn’t work at all, though I doubted it would I figured worth a shot.

Using JQuery, I have tried to detect when the page is loaded and then append the custom divs and carousels to the banner-content item. This had marginal success but was null of all styling and solely showed what looked like a UL.

Using images but I still couldn’t make it scroll.

Has anyone done something like this before? Is it even possible, once again just using a banner topic, I like the easy dismiss. Should I just write my own item and append it before the controls?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

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I can use this badge as a title improperly duplicates edit button

August 17, 2017, 6:18 pm

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@clay wrote:

I think a picture says it all here. I received a notification that I can use a badge as a title, and I have 13 instances of the badge available. I have an edit button for each available instance, as shown here.

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Retrieving plugin settings in Handlebars

August 17, 2017, 6:22 pm

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@samnazarko wrote:

Hi,

I am developing a Discourse plugin for our forum.

It simply adds a div to the forum to act as a banner. This used to be possible in JS with Ember.View.Extend, but I believe this is now deprecated since Discourse updated to a new version of Ember.

I’m not a frontend developer, so I don’t have a lot of experience with this. I’d appreciate your patience and do apologise if what I’m asking has been covered before. I did follow @eviltrout’s excellent plugin tutorials. But I had some questions about settings being translated to Handlebars conditions.

plugin.rb
# name: osmc-banner
# about: An OSMC banner plugin
# version: 0.0.1
# authors: OSMC

enabled_site_setting :banner_enabled

require_relative 'lib/osmc_banner/osmc_banner_type_setting.rb'
lib/osmc_banner/osmc_banner_type_setting.rb
module OSMCBanner
  class OSMCBannerTypeSetting
    def self.valid_value?(val)
      values.any? { |v| v[:value] == val.to_s }
    end

    def self.values
      @values ||= [
        { name: 'Use a general announcement banner', value: 'announcebanner' },
        { name: 'Use an OS update banner', value: 'osbanner' },
	{ name: 'Use a special announcement banner', value: 'specialbanner' }
      ]
    end

    def self.translate_names?
      true
    end
  end
end
config/locales/server.en.yml
en:
  site_settings:
    banner_enabled: "Enable the OSMC forum banner"
    banner_type: "Type of banner to display"
    banner_announce_url: "URL for announcement banner background"
    banner_os_url: "URL for OS banner background"
    banner_special_url: "URL for special banner background"
    banner_text: Text to use on banner
    banner_link_url: URL banner links to
assets/javascripts/discourse/connectors/topic-above-post-stream/osmcbanner.hbs
{{#if site_settings.banner_enabled}}
<div style='color:#fafafa; padding:2.5em 1em; margin:0.2em 0; background-image: url(someurl);'>
<h2 style='color:white; font-size:130%; font-weight:300; text-align: center;'>{{site_settings.banner_text}}</h2>
</div>
{{else}}
not enabled
{{osmc_banner.banner_enabled}}
{{osmc-banner.banned_enabled}}
{{/if}}
All I get is not enabled. What is the correct query to see if banner_enabled is true?

I followed @eviltrout’s instructions on how to query for setting in handlebars. I’m sure I’m missing something obvious. I want to check the banner is enabled, then I can display the appropriate text and use the correct banner URL.

Thank you in advance

Sam

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Composer full screen "not really full screen" in mobile

August 17, 2017, 7:49 pm

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@nixie wrote:

Hi,

The composer screen isn’t really full screen in my phone or any phone.
Below I’ve included screenshots from Note5 (which has a pretty BIG screen) and its still not in full-screen.

Screenshot (while creating a new topic)

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Screenshot (While replying to a post)

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@team
As we can see in both the screenshots, about 20% of the screen (From the top) is not utilised at all. Is this a bug? Is there any way, we can make the composer window “fully full screen”?

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Is necessary to have a wordpress blog?

August 17, 2017, 9:19 pm

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@smota wrote:

I would like to use WordPress plugin in my brand new community,
but is necessary to have a blog in order to user the plugin?
this plugin let me setup a blog or is just a bridge btw WordPress and the community?

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