Set up Zulip notifications using the discourse-chat-integration plugin

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@David_Taylor wrote:

This #howto describes how to setup the Zulip provider included in discourse-chat-integration.

Install

If you haven’t already, install the discourse-chat-integration plugin

Set up Zulip

1. In your Zulip settings, go to the Bots tab

2. Under the add a new bot view, enter the bot type, a name, an email, and optionally an avator for your bot.

3. Select the “Incoming Webhook” type for the bot

4. Click Create Bot

5. Copy down the API Key, you’ll need it later

Set up Discourse

1. In your Discourse site settings, enter your Zulip server address in the chat_integration_zulip_server setting. Make sure to include the protocol. (e.g. https://chat.zulip.org)

2. Paste the API Key you copied earlier into the chat_integration_zulip_bot_api_key site setting

3. Enable chat_integration_zulip_enabled

4. Go to the Plugins tab, then Chat Integration

5. Go to the Zulip tab, then Add Channel

6. Enter a Stream that you want to send the notifications to, and a Subject to attach to the messages

7. Save Channel

8. Use the Test button on the channel you just created to check that everything’s working. You should see something like this:
   

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9. Set up some “Rules” for your channel, according to the discourse-chat-integration instructions.

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August 21, 2017, 4:25 pm

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@pfaffman wrote:

I’ve noticed for a while that links are not opening in new tabs. I thought it was my imagination. I’ve finally managed to replicate it.

I most recently noticed it here: Set up Zulip notifications using the discourse-chat-integration plugin

And this quoted link opens in the same tab rather than a new one. I thought it might be some browser plugin, but I get the same behavior in an incognito window.

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:warning: This integration will not be functional until the [Discourse integration is added to Zulip's codebase](https://github.com/zulip/zulip/pull/6201)
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August 21, 2017, 4:32 pm

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@HAWK wrote:

Resources and guides for community managers and builders who want to build successful communities that go the distance.

This is not the place to ask for community management help. Such questions belong in #community.

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Building a Successful Community on Discourse – TOC

August 21, 2017, 4:36 pm

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@HAWK wrote:

Introduction

1. Why we are building this guide
2. How it works

Strategy and planning

1. Different types of communities
2. Should I build this community?
3. Conceptualising
4. Defining and targeting the right audience
5. Aligning the community with business goals

Hosting and setup

1. Self host or subscribe?
2. How to set up if you’re self hosting
3. Choosing a plan
4. Subfolder or subdomain?
5. Naming your community
6. Where to find support

Site design, structure and customisation

1. Site settings
2. Categories and structure
3. Customisation
4. Plugins
5. Where to get help

Seeding and launching

1. Writing guidelines and TOS
2. Founding members and beta communities
3. Seeding content the right way
4. Launching

Engagement and participation

1. Converting newcomers
2. Badges and gamification
3. Deploying superusers
4. Engagement tactics

Growth

1. Promotion methods
2. Growth tactics
3. Persuasion and values

Moderation and management

1. Moderation vs community management
2. How to moderate with Discourse
3. Metrics & reporting

Resources

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Building a Successful Community on Discourse – Introduction

August 21, 2017, 4:37 pm

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@HAWK wrote:

Introduction

So you’ve got a great idea for a community? Congratulations. You’ve made a solid first decision in choosing Discourse.

But it takes more than a great platform to build a successful community.

To build a thriving community that returns on your investment you need to understand things like

• how to structure your community to encourage engagement;
• how to moderate discussions to maintain community health;
• how to encourage top performers to model desired behaviour; and
• how to understand metrics and use them to diagnose potential problems.

This guide will arm you with that knowledge.

There is plenty of documentation on how to use Discourse and this guide doesn’t aim to replicate that.

This is about

• pulling that information together in a way that makes sense;
• helping you to make informed decisions when designing, building and managing a community;
• dispelling some of the common myths about community building; and
• offering support to build a thriving community that returns on your investment.

How it works

This is a work in progress. We have published the full TOC and will add articles and resources as they are ready. All topics can be found in the #cmgrs category.

If you have questions or need further guidance, post in the #community category.

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August 21, 2017, 7:04 pm

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@nadermx wrote:

Hi, I’m wondering if it’s possible to add in ability to edit the post title and category when choosing weather to approve or reject, currently you can only edit the content

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August 21, 2017, 10:44 pm

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@nixie wrote:

Some users end a sentence with a period (dot or full stop), but before they start the next sentence they do not add a whitespace before the start of the new sentence. This creates a hyperlink.

Example:
How are you doing .I am doing good.

Here the hyperlink is not coming - which is good - and this is how I’d like my discourse site to behave. But in my site, a hyperlink gets added.

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Elections Plugin

August 22, 2017, 2:13 am

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@angus wrote:

Repo: GitHub - angusmcleod/discourse-elections

This uses the Polls plugin as a base and adds controls and features specific to running elections.

1. Elections can be enabled for a category: Category Settings > “Category is used for elections”

2. If a category has elections enabled a “New Election” button will appear for Staff in the discovery nav button list.

3. Creating a new election only requires you to enter a Position. You can also add a ‘Details’ url if you want to link to a resource describing the election. Clicking create in the new election modal creates a new election topic.

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4. Elections have three states: nominate, electing and closed. When an election is first created it is in the nominate state. It will look like this

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5. All users see the “Nominate Yourself” button. Clicking this will ask them to confirm their nomination. Once confirmed their username will be listed in the election post along with any other nominees

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6. Users who have nominated themselves can withdraw their nomination prior to the start of the election. Once there are 2 or more nominations an election can be started by a staff member.

7. Once a staff member starts the election, the election post will transform into a poll with the nominees usernames (linked to their profile) as the poll options. The election state changes to “Electing”.

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8. When an election starts (and when it closes) nominees are notified.

9. The poll itself works like any other poll. Staff can close the election by closing the poll (this will change the election state to ‘Closed’).

10. Users can post in an election topic as normal, however to avoid confusion / shenanigans if a user tries to post another poll in an election topic, it will fail.

11. Elections with the state ‘Nominate’ or ‘Electing’ will be listed in the category discovery UI under the list controls

There are a few other bits and bobs, but that’s the gist of it.

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August 22, 2017, 3:00 am

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@OniSanctuary wrote:

Hi,

Today I decided to update from beta 7 to beta 9 but my installation needed discourse to be up to date so I made a git pull et rebuild my app.
The thing is my app can’t boostrap anymore and it ends with this error

I, [2017-08-22T09:32:48.048273 #15]  INFO -- : Terminating async processes
I, [2017-08-22T09:32:48.048316 #15]  INFO -- : Sending INT to HOME=/var/lib/postgresql USER=postgres exec chpst -u postgres:postgres:ssl-cert -U postgres:postgres:ssl-cert /usr/lib/postgresql/9.5/bin/postmaster -D /etc/postgresql/9.5/main pid: 44
I, [2017-08-22T09:32:48.048364 #15]  INFO -- : Sending TERM to exec chpst -u redis -U redis /usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf pid: 157
2017-08-22 09:32:48.048 UTC [44] LOG:  received fast shutdown request
2017-08-22 09:32:48.048 UTC [44] LOG:  aborting any active transactions
2017-08-22 09:32:48.048 UTC [51] LOG:  autovacuum launcher shutting down
157:signal-handler (1503394368) Received SIGTERM scheduling shutdown...
2017-08-22 09:32:48.051 UTC [48] LOG:  shutting down
157:M 22 Aug 09:32:48.141 # User requested shutdown...
157:M 22 Aug 09:32:48.141 * Saving the final RDB snapshot before exiting.
2017-08-22 09:32:48.573 UTC [48] LOG:  database system is shut down
157:M 22 Aug 09:32:49.143 * DB saved on disk
157:M 22 Aug 09:32:49.143 # Redis is now ready to exit, bye bye...


FAILED
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Pups::ExecError: cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake db:migrate' failed with return #<Process::Status: pid 427 exit 1>
Location of failure: /pups/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:108:in `spawn'
exec failed with the params {"cd"=>"$home", "hook"=>"bundle_exec", "cmd"=>["su discourse -c 'bundle install --deployment --verbose --without test --without development'", "su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake db:migrate'", "su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake assets:precompile'"]}
85c0a2689d4acb363df98461dbdd940da9832de2e7840e50357a1cbd8f55fc06
** FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP ** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one

I rebuilt my app last month and there where no problem.

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August 22, 2017, 3:46 am

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@TomekB wrote:

I get this error every time I try to edit a user, happens with every user, nothing i /logs.
v1.9.0.beta7 +18

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August 22, 2017, 4:17 am

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@fefrei wrote:

While a topic is pinned, the description text for the pin controls breaks quite badly:

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This is as rendered by Chrome Version 60.0.3112.101 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Windows.

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August 22, 2017, 5:42 am

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@adamprocter wrote:

Emoji does not show in pinned topic but does on topic page ? Not sure why

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August 22, 2017, 6:39 am

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@Ham wrote:

Maybe Im missing it but where can I hide the “pinned topic” “unpinned topic” etc from people seeing this?

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Page not found on Badges not earned

August 22, 2017, 7:09 am

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@schyllberg wrote:

Hello!
Users on Infinite Flight community are reporting issues opening the badges page for specific badges you have yet earned.
I’ve been able to repro it using the following, simple steps.

1. Go to “Badges” via hamburger menu.
2. Pick a badge not earned (one without the green checkbox).
3. Voila! (See pic below)

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It works fine here on Meta.

Sebastian
IFC Moderator.

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August 22, 2017, 7:35 am

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@Ham wrote:

Looking to bulk add all users from a certain trust level. I know the bulk add feature of one per line but I wanted to add about 400 members at once.

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Creating an API key for RSS reader?

August 22, 2017, 8:11 am

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@Ryan_Collins1 wrote:

Thanks in advance for any insight and advice.

I have a user who is trying to use the RSS reader “Feedbin” to view the latest posts in my Discourse forum.

This user recently asked…

Apparently because MFCC is using Discourse with authentication required, for me to read posts via RSS you’ll need to generate an API key for me (which is basically a per-user key that allows someone to do operations over HTTP without being directly logged in).

Would it be possible for me to supply this user with an API key that would suit his needs?

At first glance it appears I already have 1 API key which is probably being used to connect my Wordpress site with Discourse, and that I do not have the option to create any others keys.

I appreciate any words of wisdom.

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August 22, 2017, 8:14 am

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@lkramer wrote:

For some reason automated backups aren’t working for us. We have “backup frequency” set to “1” and “backup time of day” set to “1:00”.

We can hit the Backup button and manually backup just fine.

I’ve searched here for possible reasons and many times it seems like there’s something in the Logs that explains the issue but I don’t see anything relevant in our logs.

Any ideas what else to check? Thanks!

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Discourse Site Down - Help Please

August 22, 2017, 8:17 am

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@MAR wrote:

Hello Discourse Community,

I help manage a discourse based site and our members are trying to access it. We are however unable to access and we get this message:

This site can’t be reached

x…com took too long to respond

Search Google for x…com

ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

Do you have any suggestions on how to trouble shoot this and have you witnessed this before with your discourse sites?

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Randomly select active user?

August 22, 2017, 8:46 am

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@HadleyWickham wrote:

Is it possible to randomly select one (or more) users who have been active in the last week? To help get our forum up and going, we’d like to offer some weekly “door” prizes.

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Discourse-googlebooks plugin for integration of google books with discourse

August 22, 2017, 12:25 pm

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@net_deamon wrote:

discourse-googlebooks is a plugin for integrating google books with discourse. This plugin has been built to specific needs of site I run ie https://discussbook.com. Nevertheless, I feel that this plugin can be useful for people integrating google books with their site.

Here are some screenshots from the plugin

Screenshots from the plugin

1. Editor integration

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2. Category Settings

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3. Topic integration. Link to this post

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4. Settings page

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Your suggestions and feedbacks are welcome!

I am currently using the modified version of this plugin for discussbook. If you are interested in contributing to development of discussbook, I will be putting the code of discussbook on github in few days, so that people can contribute to the development of site.

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