Introducing Discourse forum hosting in Europe

September 5, 2017, 8:43 am

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Although DiscourseHosting is based in the Netherlands we have primarily been delivering our services from data centers in Washington DC and San Francisco to customers worldwide. In the past months many of our European customers have been asking us whether we could host their forum in a data center within the European Union. We have always welcomed these requests and we have been moving their forums into our hosting location in a Leaseweb data center in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. However, this was a ‘special’ option that we only offered to customers that were specifically demanding it.

If your main audience is in Europe, it’s not just about getting more speed for your forum. With the upcoming GDPR - the new European privacy law, effective May 2018 - in mind, we see a rising demand for compliant services. Since this is strategically important for a significant amount of our customers, it is also a strategic choice for us.

That is why we are introducing a number of new plans today, offering forum hosting from the Leaseweb data center in Frankfurt am Main. This data center is SOC-1, ISO 27001 and PCI/DSS certified and satisfies the highest ecological standards by using energy that comes 100% from hydroelectric sources.

The offsite backups and outgoing email are also handled from a data center within the European Union, so you’re perfectly safe with this setup.

If you really want to keep your corporate lawyers happy, the EU Business plan includes an EU Directive 95/46/EC compliant data processing agreement!

See our plans at Pricing « DiscourseHosting

And: in the upcoming months, before the GDPR will be in effect next year, we will update the EU hosting plans with a special configuration that satisfies the GDPR “Privacy by Design” and “Privacy by Default” principles.

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Custom OAuth2 fails for newly created accounts, related to user_emails?

September 5, 2017, 9:01 am

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@meriksson wrote:

I have a custom SSO solution and when I get a new member I manually create a Discourse user for them with the same email as they have set themselves in the other system. For this I use a simple piece of code which runs User.create! and sets a few settings. This has worked perfectly a few hundred times since I began doing it earlier this year. But since about a week it does not work anymore, all new users since then have reported that they are unable to login to Discourse.

Today I finally figured out that the issue is probably due to the email addresses not being set properly. When I inspect the most recently created users, their emails are nil. However, strangely enough their emails are visible from the Discourse admin interface (this made the issue hard to identify—since I could see the email addresses from the GUI, I assumed that they were saved correctly).

When I try to set their email addresses manually (user.email = "..."; user.save), at first looks as if it works, but the user object still has the email attribute set to nil.

Could this possibly have to do with email verification or some such? Has something new along those lines been introduced or modified recently?

In any case, I need a way to create new accounts which also sets email addresses. What is the best way of doing this?

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GA - Missing Valid Tracking Code?

September 5, 2017, 9:51 am

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@Martin_Cash wrote:

Has anyone else experienced this? Here are my settings:

GA is currently receiving traffic:

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GA says I’m missing a valid tracking code:

I just added community to GSC to watch what’s being indexed.

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Newly created unlisted topic is sent out via email

September 5, 2017, 10:29 am

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@niemeyer wrote:

Hello all,

As of 1.9.0.beta5, if one creates an unlisted topic (flag used during creation), everybody that asked to receive notifications via email (mailing list mode, at least) will get notified about the created topic.

Is that desired behavior? It’s surprising in practice at least, as there isn’t much of a difference between it being listed in the web UI or it being listed in everybody’s email clients.

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Turning off the FTFY repeated question mark feature

September 5, 2017, 11:19 am

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@jmsachs wrote:

OK, it looks like Discourse reduces multiple question marks; the next bullet points show 1-5 question marks:

?

??

???

???

???

Discourse has decided that more than three question marks should not be allowed.

How can I disable this “feature”?

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How can i change email addresses for non-approved user?

September 5, 2017, 11:19 am

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@bekircem wrote:

How can i change email addresses for non-approved user? I’ve import my forum Mybb to Discourse. Some of my old users has not access to emails? On the admin panel, i cant change email addresses.

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Discourse-official-slack: no error message after failed post to slack

September 5, 2017, 11:49 am

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@supermathie wrote:

While investigating a (probably) unrelated problem I noticed that the slack plugin does not post any kind of message to the error logs (https://site/logs) if the slack notification fails.

Tested by setting an invalid slack outbound webhook url on a site and posting a new topic as well as pressing ‘Test Notifications’.

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How Discourse implements Auth w/ Ember

September 5, 2017, 12:35 pm

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@Craig_Kahle wrote:

I am wondering, on a high level, how Discourse handles authentication in Ember. In the Discourse github repo, it looks like a Rails session cookie is being used to manage user state. I am not sure where the object that is being returned from Discourse.User.current() is being set on each request.

I am interested in implementing Ember in existing rails apps where a somewhat incremental approach would be ideal. Any insight on best practices would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

-C

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Error When creating custom plugin

September 5, 2017, 12:53 pm

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@afall wrote:

Dear Discourse Community,
So I am following the instructions on Beginner's Guide to Creating Discourse Plugins - Part 1 to create a discourse plugin, but everytime I add a new sub-directory in the plugins folder, and add a plugins.rb file in the sub-directory when I load up my discourse instance again I get the following error :Error while trying to load. I am running the instance as admin.
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Infinite loop in email_reply_trimmer

September 5, 2017, 1:06 pm

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@pfaffman wrote:

this is a , but I think only developers will care about it. There’s an infinite loop in one of these replacements. I found it while running the nabble importer. I banged at it a bit before just commenting it out to solve my immediate problem.

It looks like @zogstrip understands this. It seems that sometimes 183 gets stuck. I was wondering why these 170K messages need an entire holiday weekend to import.
github.com
discourse/email_reply_trimmer/blob/master/lib/email_reply_trimmer.rb#L175
# remove alias-style quotes marker
text.gsub!(/^.*>{5} "[^"\n]+" == .+ writes:/, "")


# change enclosed-style quotes format
text.gsub!(/^>>> ?(.+) ?>>>$\n([\s\S]+?)\n^<<< ?\1 ?<<<$/) { $2.gsub(/^/, "> ") }
text.gsub!(/^>{4,}[[:blank:]]*$\n([\s\S]+?)\n^<{4,}[[:blank:]]*$/) { $1.gsub(/^/, "> ") }


# fix all quotes formats
text.gsub!(/^((?:[[:blank:]]*[[:alpha:]]*[>|])+)/) { $1.gsub(/([[:alpha:]]+>|\|)/, ">") }


# fix embedded email markers that might span over multiple lines
(
  EmbeddedEmailMatcher::ON_DATE_SOMEONE_WROTE_REGEXES +
  EmbeddedEmailMatcher::SOMEONE_WROTE_ON_DATE_REGEXES +
  EmbeddedEmailMatcher::DATE_SOMEONE_WROTE_REGEXES +
  [EmbeddedEmailMatcher::DATE_SOMEONE_EMAIL_REGEX]
).each do |r|
  text.gsub!(r) do |m|
    m.count("\n") > 4 ? m : m.gsub(/\n+[[:space:]]*/, " ")
  end
end

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Pull 4961 question

September 5, 2017, 1:18 pm

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@Brian_Martin wrote:

The following PR and Commit was flagged as SECURITY:

github.com/discourse/discourse

SECURITY: when redeeming invite link verify that user does not exist with that email

by techAPJ on 02:39AM - 08 Jul 17

3 commits changed 8 files with 214 additions and 9 deletions.

github.com/discourse/discourse

SECURITY: when redeeming invite link verify that user does not exist with that email

by techAPJ on 02:16AM - 08 Jul 17

changed 4 files with 27 additions and 13 deletions.

Can anyone explain the scenario / risk for this?

Thanks!

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Navbar-Link bug

September 5, 2017, 2:06 pm

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@nixie wrote:

Hi,

Because of this bug, links added in the the top nav-bar doesn’t work properly.

I’ve recorded a video here:

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Anonomous Mode Description/Groups?

September 5, 2017, 2:29 pm

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@jylinman wrote:

Hey there everyone,

I have yet to find a good post on who can see what and what for anon mode. Could someone please explain that thoroughly? What can admins vs moderators vs users see / dig up if they need to for moderation purposes?

Also, I have a situation where I have different groups that have viewing permissions on categories. Each group has their own category and you can only see it when they belong to the group. However, if someone wants to post to that protected category anonymously, they need to switch to anonymous mode, somehow add them to the group, then they can post to the category (haven’t figured out how to add them to the group). Could it be possible, since each anonymous account is tied to a specific user, to have the same permissions the user has?

Cheers,
J

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Resizing browser will clip topic editor header

September 5, 2017, 2:33 pm

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@Drew_Warwick wrote:

The Problem:

There is a handle at the top of the topic editor which will allow users to increase/decrease the height of the editor:

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If the browser is resized, that handle and the header with the title/category will be clipped and are unable to be accessed. Not seeing the title/category is unfortunate, but especially being unable to access the resize handle to fix the scaling is problematic. Before vs after resizing:

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I originally noticed this because the Chrome download bar decreases the size of the browser’s (viewport?) when it pops up:

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Expected Behavior:

When the browser resizes, the topic editor is clamped to the new size. This way the topic editor header is always accessible, regardless of whether I lose browser space by downloading a file, unmaximize a window, etc.

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Show topic title even if you don't have access

September 5, 2017, 11:23 pm

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@James_Higginson wrote:

Is it possible to show the title of a topic in the topic list even if you do not have access. ie Padlock next to it.

I see you can do this wilth the category itself but what about the individual topic titles?

The reason I ask is that I want to create members only areas that users will be forced to create an account or login to see the content, showing the topic title will act as a teaser and help to promote the discussion.

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Create permalinks for redirect url all in a mass

September 6, 2017, 2:11 am

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@bekircem wrote:

Hi,

I’ve imported my forum Mybb to Discourse. My Discourse is now working on production server. My old url’s can’t redirect to new Discourse urls. I check import script. There is some codes for redirects url, it seems doesn’t work for me. How can i fix that? How can i redirect old urls to new in a mass?

Why this is doesnt work for me? My Mybb forum url structure is like that: /thread-title.html or/thread-title-id.html
github.com
discourse/discourse/blob/master/script/import_scripts/mybb.rb
require "mysql2"
require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/base.rb")

# Before running this script, paste these lines into your shell,
# then use arrow keys to edit the values
=begin
export DB_HOST="localhost"
export DB_NAME="mybb"
export DB_PW=""
export DB_USER="root"
export TABLE_PREFIX="mybb_"
export BASE="" #
=end

# Call it like this:
#   RAILS_ENV=production ruby script/import_scripts/mybb.rb
class ImportScripts::MyBB < ImportScripts::Base

  DB_HOST ||= ENV['DB_HOST'] || "localhost"
  DB_NAME ||= ENV['DB_NAME'] || "mybb"
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Cannot remove old container on rebuild

September 6, 2017, 3:56 am

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@Masin_Al-Dujaili wrote:

When rebuilding the app the launcher throws this error by docker:
Removing old container
+ /usr/bin/docker rm app
Error response from daemon: driver "aufs" failed to remove root filesystem for
b61f1bd758c905a71812a1b504a56dbd8aa78820e41f74ad9d6c1f18396235b3:
could not remove diff path for id
4a4e5c7e022e2f054357fd12d7752032fb2247336378dd12ba2e04f193b9efd1:
error preparing atomic delete: rename /var/lib/docker/aufs/diff/4a4e5c7e022e2f054357fd12d7752032fb2247336378dd12ba2e04f193b9efd1
/var/lib/docker/aufs/diff/4a4e5c7e022e2f054357fd12d7752032fb2247336378dd12ba2e04f193b9efd1-removing:
device or resource busy
I could find out that there were some processes still having this image in their mountinfo:
# grep -l 4a4e5c7e022 /proc/*/mountinfo
/proc/13022/mountinfo
/proc/13026/mountinfo
/proc/13029/mountinfo
/proc/13031/mountinfo
/proc/13071/mountinfo
/proc/13074/mountinfo
For some reason Dovecot still used these, thus issuing a systemctl stop dovecot.service freed these resources for docker to remove. Afterwards, I could docker rm app and ./launcher start app.

I don’t really need support on this issue, I’m just curious if anybody has a guess why Dovecot running on the host machine might have these mountinfo … for the moment, I inserted
systemctl stop dovecot.service
$docker_path rm $config
systemctl start dovecot.service
into the launcher at “Removing old container” but I don’t know if it will interfere with the launcher update check at the beginning.

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I've somehow lost my 'About' thread for a category

September 6, 2017, 7:06 am

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@Richie wrote:

Hi everyone,

I’ve somehow lost (possibly deleted) my “About the Category Name” thread.

Strangely enough, on the homepage of the forums, the description that I set is still showing under the category heading name, so it must be around somewhere!

Any pointers on how to find it??

I tried a normal search for some of the keywords - no trace

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Fixing data after import

September 6, 2017, 7:59 am

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@bekircem wrote:

After import i’ve some problems with tags like [font= ‘Open Sans’, serif;] [color] or [align=justify] [/align] Mybb ok with these tags but Discourse not supported. How can i delete these tags from the posts, but only tags, not the content? Can it be done with rebake?

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SSO & Registration Popup Problems?

September 6, 2017, 8:28 am

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@hross wrote:

We have SSO enabled for our Discourse instance. When logged in to our product, but we keep getting reports from customers and staff like this one:

discuss.newrelic.com

Discuss Registration Form Popup Closes Immediately

Hello, TL;DR: The registration popup for Discuss closes immediately and prevents registration for these forums. I wanted to reply to an existing topic on the New Relic Discuss forum, but could not register for Discuss. I have an existing user...

Any other SSO users out there see anything like this?

Thanks!

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