@mcwumbly wrote:

I am starting to feel similar issues in our environment. I want to delegate more trust to people to help make design decisions about how we use the site, but the powers needed fall somewhere between moderator and admin.

Some examples of things I’d like to enable others to do, without giving them the keys to everything:

1. View site settings that do not contain credentials to other sites (auth keys, etc)
2. Create reports from existing data explorer queries
3. Create/edit groups
4. Create categories
5. Edit category settings

What’s the best way to approach this class of problems?

Is the lowest friction way to do these sort of things by considering them case-by-case and adding site settings that enable moderators to do more? Or is there some other design guideline that the team is thinking about with regards to permissions?

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@mcwumbly wrote:

Something occurred to me recently as I’ve been more deeply exploring what can be done with the Groups feature:

Groups can be (ab)used to allow users to “tag” individual posts.

This behavior could even be encouraged by creating groups that:

• Everyone can see
• Everyone can mention
• No one can message

Unlike tags, which are only topic-level, groups can be @mentioned anywhere within a post.

Like tags, I still have the benefit that I can see a list of posts where that group has been mentioned.

The group can even have 0 members and still be used to gain the above benefits.

But with these additional settings, people can publicly “watch” these pseudo-tags:

• Everyone can join
• Everyone can leave

“Joining” the group is like watching a tag. It is also a more public way to do so, as people can see these members on the group’s members page.

(I also like the fact that joining/leaving groups is a simple toggle rather than the more complicated notification level drop-down)

Another advantage over tags is that the groups have a section for a description.

I’m starting to think that groups may make better tags than tags for some things…

One group setting that I think would be nice to help this even further is to have the ability to set the default tab for the groups page. In this case, I’d likely set it to /activity/mentions

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@outofthebox wrote:

Hi @codinghorror, other Discourse team members -

In light of the 10, or 6, year plan for Discourse, what’s the plan for six years from now? Is there an end date to the Discourse project?

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@mcwumbly wrote:

I find this behavior surprising:

1. I post a link to an image on it’s own line, like the one below from the article.
2. It shows up in the preview fine
3. I create the post
4. It shows up fine in my post for a while.
5. Later, it gets replaced with a thumbnail saying: “This image is too large to display; click here to view”

Onebox link:

Preview screenshot:

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After post screenshot:

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After image is replaced screenshot:

TODO

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@dylanb wrote:

I have created a bit of a mess with logins from various different services on my website and am working to consolidate things.

Currently, I have Disqus Comments, Discourse Forum, WordPress Users (for subscriptions/membership) and legacy users that login to both WordPress and Discourse through Patreon (OAuth).

Safe to say, it is all a bit messy.

My plan is to consolidate the comments into Discourse, but I want to consolidate the WP/Discourse users as best as possible. My gut tells me that I need to use WP as the SSO Provider because of the membership features that I’m using on the WP site, but overall I am definitely not sure. If I do that, users could sign in to read content on the main page and click to join the discussion and be good to go.

The documentation also recommends doing the opposite, but that seems to assume that Discourse is the main tool. Am I going to create problems for current Discourse users if I use WP?

Any pros/cons or suggestions here?

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@gurupal wrote:

I have an rails application with rails_admin gem installed as a backend. I am using devise gem as an authentication and allow each user to sign in first and then upload their personal documents or images. I want one admin user to only see them from admin panel. But when ever I try to log out as user, I automatically logged out from admin panel also.

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@8BIT wrote:

I’m having an interesting challenge of potentially having too many sub-categories.

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For context, the challenge I see with our current implementation is that in our current implementation there is a near-infinite # of sub-cats that we could add and so this current implementation is unmanageable and unscalable.

One thought is to blow away all of the sub-cats here and use tags… but that is going to be pretty disruptive and confusing (at first, at least). Some folks of our community have suggested some other design implementations as well but I don’t like adding tabs into the design.

Thoughts on managing this growing issue?

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@Quintin_Par wrote:

Continuing my discussion from here:

I was successful in setting up discourse as the commenting platform for wordpress. Unfortunately, there are no migration scripts. Which means one can create a new wordpress post and the corresponding discourse post and comments will be created.

This leads to maintaining two commenting solutions (wordpress and discourse). It’s a messy thing to do.

@Simon_Cossar has a WIP project that needs to be completed

read through the earlier discussion link for context.
I run a small blog and don’t think I can afford these wonderful programmers. Nevertheless, I want to get this started and commit. Are there other people who would want to pitch in?

Relevant discussion:

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@anaqreon wrote:

First off, kudos to all the Discourse developers and the community that supports it! For years I have participated in Discourse-powered forums, primarily in the FOSS communities, and recently I started a Discourse server of my own for my local neighborhood to supplement our Yahoo Groups email listserv system ( see how diplomatic I was there? ). I continue to discover features like hidden gems as I explore it from an admin perspective. But on to my topic:

I am in the tiny minority of people who use Android without Google services, and unless things have changed since this post, I understand there will not be an F-droid app option. However, are there any plans to release the app on the Amazon app store in addition to the Google Play store? I don’t know how much additional work that takes, but I’m sure people like me would appreciate it.

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@leoluk wrote:

Docker is officially supported in RHEL/CentOS 7 in the extras repository: How is the docker container runtime supported in RHEL 7? - Red Hat Customer Portal

They provide two different packages, docker (1.12.6) and docker-latest (1.13.1): Introducing docker-latest for RHEL 7 and RHEL Atomic Host - Red Hat Customer Portal

As with everything included in the base distro, they are maintained by Red Hat and fixes are backported as necessary. Red Hat’s Docker packages are stable and used in production for their OpenShift Enterprise product.

However, the Discourse installer refuses to use them, since it does not know that they are Red Hat LTS version, which makes sense if you’re using the official Docker repository, but not with Red Hat’s packages. Installing the Docker 3rd party repository is unsupported by Red Hat, introduces an additional dependency and is and potentially less stable than using the Red Hat packages.

I can confirm that the Discourse cloud setup - with the version check commented out - works perfectly fine with CentOS 7.4 and docker-latest (1.13.1).

The Discourse installer should detect RHEL and do some basic RHEL-specific checks:

• we might want to check for ftype=0 on XFS, but it probably works fine even with ftype=0 set (many production OpenShift setups use ftype=0 without experiencing issues, as far as I know, it’s mostly about performance)
• either correct SELinux context set for Docker volumes or Docker configured without --selinux-enabled (by default, Red Hat’s Docker version uses SELinux sVirt as an additional layer of security against container escapes - it can be turned off without disabling SELinux for the whole system)

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@RE_Towers wrote:

I turned on the need to approve all of the first few posts for new members of our forum a while ago, and it’s been pretty good, but recently I’ve noticed that images that are uploaded to the forum are not visible in the “Needs Approval” queue.

Below is what I see when someone uploads an image and it needs to be approved.

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And this one is of what I see when editing the post.

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@doctorbracero wrote:

Hello,

I’m convinced that my current project should feature Discourse (through a community install - how cool is this option?). The forums will be members only and content closed to the public.

But there’s something stopping me.

Part of the planned community/forum is a file management system. A place where users can upload certain documents, and ideally edit some of them in a collaborative manner.

I want to focus on the forum experience, so that aspect is taken care off by Discourse. The following Wordpress theme caught my attention (because of file management/closed intranet).

(ThemeForest) Thrive - Intranet & Community WordPress Theme

Regardless of WordPress theme… what would you recommend for a document storage and editing inside the forum? A Google Drive plugin was suggested by a colleague, but figure it’s best to ask the Discourse community.

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@outofthebox wrote:

Hi, does anyone use Discourse as their LMS? If so, what’s working? What’s not? How have you supplemented Discourse? We’re considering it ourselves - proof of concept and good ideas from others are appreciated!

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@worlddrumlessons wrote:

Hello. I have an online drum/percussion academy where members sign up and pay a monthly subscription to have access to all of my courses. Is there a way to integrate my Discourse Forum into my online academy so that when a student signs in to their academy portal they will automatically be logged into the forum and have direct access to it without signing in?

The forum should only be accessible to paying monthly subscribers. I’d like the forum to feel 100% integrated into my online academy so the user has seamless access to the forum discussions and their lessons.

Is this possible?
Thanks
Scott

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@AnimeCanuck wrote:

Hi, I’m not a host but rather a user of the WaniKani forums, and since this was not a bug for them, I thought I wouldn’t pester Viet. Any Details-related bugs that came up in the search were locked.

So first of all, writing the Details tag manually around the text does not seem to be working. So then I thought I was typing it incorrectly/didn’t leave enough spaces before/after my text.
So I tried using the button under the GEAR button to add details to selected text:

This used to function normally as desired, and then you could replace “Summary” with whatever title your heart desired. However over here at this post the button instead applied the details tag around every separate line of text. Seeing this in my text box, I didn’t even bother to edit my post, but instead came here to report it. I shall try to recreate it here as an example, because it is very odd behaviour.

Summary

Hello, this is a block of text.

Summary

It has multiple lines, because I like the enter key.

Summary

Doesn’t everyone?

Summary

Extra text to prove my point.

EDIT: That was a small four-line paragraph with enters between each line. And that’s what the Details Button did to my text. Point proven. Very easy to replicate. Not just a problem at community.wanikani.com.

Anyone else having this issue?

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@barryvan wrote:

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a new theme, and add some assets to it (for example, an image).
2. Save this theme.
3. Choose a different (parent) theme, and add the newly-created theme as a child to it.
4. Observe that the parent theme no longer works at all.

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@stromfeldt wrote:

I’ve got a few dozen comments that I’m manually importing (we’re talking copying and pasting into the comment box) from Commentics to Discourse. Supposing a previous user from Commentics has set up an account with my new Discourse install I discovered that I can change ownership of the comment from me (as the copier and paster) to said user. What I’m wondering is, now that I’ve done that is it also possible to change the timestamp of said comments in a similar way to how it’s possible to change the timestamp of a topic? If not, would it be possible via some non-GUI method?

Sorry if this has been addressed before but I couldn’t find anything upon doing a search.

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@adopilot wrote:

Our discource is runing out of space on server.
We did bulk deleted old posts whit uploads.
But We did not gain any space.
When I query table topics they only havetopics.deleted_by_id is not null
Uploads for these topics are still on server.

Is there any way to make this Uploads orphans so sidekiq can clean these?
Or is there any way to PRUGE deleted topics so they do not consume space any more ?

I saw auto purge uploads from old deleted posts , but one year has past since post maded whit no replays.
So I started searching my way to release space on server

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@quimgil wrote:

Thank you very much for the feature allowing users selecting their preferred locale. Very helpful for communities living multilingual realities!

Have you considered to allow users to define their preferred locale at registration time? This is the point of time when it makes more sense for a user to make that choice in order to discover the new community in their preferred language.

Offering selection of locale in the registration form would solve two related problems:

• Discobot would send users its first message in their preferred language already. That makes Discobot cooler and easier to be understood by everyone. Currently there is no workaround for this, Discobot’s first message will arrive in the default language always.
• Discovering the possibility of changing your locale takes a certain skill, especially when you are a new user, perhaps using a complex interface for the first time, perhaps in a language you are not very fluent. Users need to know that such feature exists and can be found in almost the very last corner of their user settings. This can be solved socially by adding the note in the welcoming topic, but it is suboptimal for various reasons.

Selection of a preferred language is basically a one-time choice. Registration is the right time for it. Implementation of this feature is probably not that complex?

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@RobMeade wrote:

Hi,

I have just gone through our 121 categories/sub-categories in an attempt to re-order them. It was challenging to say the least.

I decided to implement a numbering system which would separate the categories by thousands, e.g.

1000 - category one
2000 - category two

with sub-categories numbered in multiples of ten in between, I figured this would allow me to re-order later on without having to re-order everything.

1000 - category one
1010 - category one, sub-category one
1020 - category one, sub-category two
2000 - category two
2010 - category two, sub-category one

I found that as I typed a number the box automatically jumped to its new position, but, because the cursor didn’t have focus, the model window didn’t automatically scroll down. Also, after the key press it assumed I was done, for example, if I was to try and type “300” after “30” the box would move, focus would be lost. In the end I used a text editor to type the numbers and then copy and paste them into each box. It took a while and was a bit of effort but eventually, I had removed all of the issues and everything was organised nicely.

The Re-Organise Categories model offered three buttons;

• Fix Positions
• Apply
• Save

Save was disabled, I applied the changes. Save was still disabled. The only way to actually change anything was to click “Fix Positions”, at this point, all of my carefully hand-crafted numbering reverted to a sequential flow of integers, I had lost all of the “spacing” I had injected.

Thankfully, all of the categories and sub-categories were at least in the order I wanted them in, but it wasn’t overly obviously that I couldn’t just number these however I wished. It also wasn’t overly obviously what the “Fix Positions” button was going to do, the hover text just suggested that I had some duplicate numbers, which I didn’t as I had checked them thoroughly.

The ability to have the numbers entered for positioning I think would be beneficial, especially for forums with large quantities of categories/sub-categories. In our specific case they represent courses and sections of courses, as such they will always be being added to and from time to time need some re-jiggling as we may want to move a course to be more prominent on the forum.

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