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New: Reply via Email Support!

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Robin Ward wrote:

We've just enabled the ability to reply by email to Discourse for all users on meta! It works like on other sites such as Facebook or Github. If an email is related to a topic, it will say in the footer that you can reply to it. Simply reply to the message in your email client and your post will be made on Discourse.

Please help us test it out and give us feedback!

Configuring Reply by Email

To enable the feature on your own Discourse site, you need to set up a few site settings:

  • reply_by_email_enabled - set to true
  • reply_by_email_address - change to your email address that will handle replies. For example reply+%{reply_key}@reply.myforum.com. %{reply_key} is required and will be replaced with a unique identifier for the email.

Receiving Email

Right now we only support parsing replies from POP3S servers. In the future we'll likely add other methods such as support for web APIs. Pull requests welcome! Here's how to configure POP3s:

  • pop3s_polling_enabled - set this to true
  • pop3s_polling_port - Your POP3S server port (default is 995)
  • pop3s_polling_host - The host to poll for mail
  • pop3s_polling_username - The username for your POP3S account
  • pop3s_polling_password - The password for your POP3S account

Using Gmail to Receive Email

We've tried it out with gmail and it seems to work great as they offer POP3s support. (Note: don't confuse this with sending email. Gmail is not recommended as a SMTP server for a Discourse forum as you will encounter many limits and spam prevention measures.)

To use gmail, create an account and use the following pop3 settings:

server: pop.gmail.com  (try pop.googlemail.com if this does not work)
username: <your full gmail account address>
password: <you know this>

Have fun! fish

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Restart docker instance and rebuild translation cache

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blang wrote:

Continuing the discussion from German Translation Sync between GH and Transifex:

Hey guys,
i need to restart my discourse docker instance and somehow rebuild the translation cache to give new translation files (not yet on gh) a try.
I'm new to ruby and nothing worked as expected, can someone please give me some commands which will fix this?
Thx

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Debugging reply-by email?

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Victor Ng wrote:

Is there a way to properly debug reply-by email?

I've got my reply-by email address set to: vasectomydiscourse+%{reply_key}@gmail.com

but I don't seem to see replies coming into my server.

I'm not familiar with how any of the queueing or event handling works in Discourse, so I'm pretty sure this is going to be easy, but I don't know where to start. The logs in the admin page don't show anything that looks useful. Is there anywhere else I can look?

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Discourse General Polish

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Sam Saffron wrote:

As we approach 1.0 I feel we need to spend a bit more time focusing on UI polish. I am creating this topic to collate issues I would like to see fixed.

Hopefully some people looking to help out with Discourse can try working on some of these.

Issues I want fixed

  • Footer padding gets out of sync: start typing a new topic in the composer ... size it big ... got to random topic ... footer padding is not added so you can not see the last post on topic. (workaround, resize composer once more so footer padding is added). This need to be added everywhere automatically. Including admin screens.

  • Expanding user card (click on my avatar arrow_left) has a shoddy jarring visual effect, it sizes the window twice. Instead just setting a fixed width and sliding down if it needs extra height.

  • When you make a new post it jitters, first render renders without your avatar, then its re-rendered with avatar. Jitter must go, needs to be seamless. Feel free to try on try.discourse.org

  • Uneeded "Loading ..." images when clicking between tabs. When you navigate from "latest" to "new" we unconditionally show a "Loading ..." gif, this should only show up if you are waiting longer than say 500ms.

  • We unconditionally reload topic page if you click on "title". instead it should scroll you to top if post 0 is already in memory. Same for in between posts navigation (eg quoting and so on)

  • Reloading a page with a big draft will often lead to this rendering bug:

  • Mac Chrome. Navigating back using the back button to the latest page is "glitchy" if you have scrolled down a topic. It rerenders the title undocked (as if you are on post 1) and then navigates back, this looks really glitchy

  • Synchronized editor, Ghost (open source) has a feature where it ensures the line you are typing in the composer is in view in the preview. This really helps composing longer posts like this or situations where space is tight. Whoever takes this needs to make sure perf does not suffer.

  • Mac OSX - Chrome ... while typing stuff in search box search box is half visible.

Experiments needed

  • Page transitions: nodebb and stripe use a technique that fades out the page you are leaving and in the page you are going to. see: http://community.nodebb.org/category/3/nodebb-development and click on a topic. This can either be over-the-top or help usability - it is worth an experiment, if done in a subtle way it can look pretty good (probably a default off thing for now)

Am I missing any other polish issues here?

If you are helping out with Discourse and would like to take any of these on, reply here.

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Make "quote reply" for several posts in a thread more obvious

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almereyda wrote:

I know you are open to PRs, unfortunately I'm not a polyglot coder, so I will just have to file in this feature request:

As the writing suggestions even state it, it's better to combine multiple answers into one post.
Unfortunately the UI does not highlight the easy workflow too well.


Right now I'm basically doing this:

  1. Select (additional) text to quote, click Quote reply
  2. If I want to add more quotes
    • Paste in eventual clipboard content.
    • Select all text in the Create a new Topic: textarea
    • Cut it.
    • cancel edit
    • Go back to 1.
  3. Insert eventual clipboard content.
  4. Write the answer(s) below the quote(s)

Now by trying here I found out, that the client already supports multiple quote replies into the textarea.
I'm thinking of a little notification or reminder so to say, that selecting more portions of the posts continues to be possible.

That could also be done indirectly through changing the text from quote reply to quote another reply of the pop-up button once there's already a quote in the textfield below.

Or a little floating help similiar to the Your topic is similar to... or the initial help text once one quotes (for the first times?).

This idea could need some refining, though.

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Text after quote is bigger

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Sander Datema wrote:

Unless my eyes deceive me it looks like the text on this post is not all the same size.


Nothing fancy was added to the text, this is the raw source:

It looks like [this topic](http://meta.discourse.org/t/there-is-no-way-to-view-a-global-list-of-staff-user-invites/9032?u=sander78) between @sam and @codinghorror has a history of being in multiple places. Judging from this:
http://meta.discourse.org/t/there-is-no-way-to-view-a-global-list-of-staff-user-invites/9032/10?u=sander78
This new topic has @sam as the topic starter. However, on the mail list you see @codinghorror as such:
<img src="/uploads/meta_discourse/1556/48a48a549163d092.png" width="690" height="32">
So... I guess that is a bug?

It seems that the second bit of text has a different CSS class than the first one. Couldn't find out what yet.

Edit: ha, it happens here as well: first text is normal, then after the screenshot it's bigger and after the code block it's normal again.

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Giant blank space at bottom of pages after entering a reply

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Anton wrote:

This case is best explained with screenshots, so I'll use few words.

State 1 I'm about to post new answer:

Please make a note that there is enough space to put my new message into without having to scroll the page.

State 2 I've just posted my short answer:

I noticed this unneeded page scrolling happens all the time for me when actually it is not needed.
Also, after posting a message, I usually expect to see as much messages before mine as possible - I do not know why, it's just what I expect naturally. Anyone here feels the same?

If it was discussed already and the decision was made, then maybe at least lets avoid scrolling when it's enough of space to put my new message?

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Onebox and closed garden sites

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eriko wrote:

So our site requires login so see anything and we only use the cas_sso plugin for auth. I just noticed that the site locked up when making a link to another post on the same site. It seems to be true even if I connected from another vm and browser. In the logs there is

Processing by OneboxController#show as HTML
Parameters: {"url"=>"https://FAKESITENAME/t/how-to-create-a-very-simple-poll-in-the-commons/282", "refresh"=>"false"}
Rendered text template (0.1ms)
Completed 404 Not Found in 120148ms (Views: 6.5ms | ActiveRecord: 2.1ms)
Rendered text template (0.1ms)

For each time I tried to save the reply with the link in it.

I have tested it on a dev site running 0.9.9 as of a couple minutes ago. It still seems to happen. Prod is at 0.9.8.10 and I will be updating it in the morning.

It seems like the site can not see it's self as it has no exemption from the access rules. I can think of why it would be hard to do this but it should probably be something that works.

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In FF 26.0, horizontal scrollbar appears when scrolled to the top

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Anton wrote:

  1. Navigate to the home page and scroll bottom a little.

  2. Enter into Create New Topic mode. Don't input any text.

  3. Hide composer panel.

  4. Navigate to the top of the page with using the vertical scrollbar.

  5. At the very top, the horizontal scrollbar unexpectedly appears: http://imageshack.us/a/img850/7540/4aur.png - It scrolls just for 5-10 pixels.

Environment: Win x64 8.1, Firefox 26.0 (zoom = 100%), Dell 2209WA 1680x1050

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Can't get rid of "Create New Topic" item that I Cancelled

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cpradio wrote:

Okay, so this is annoying me and it may be a user issue, but I started to create a new topic and ultimately decided, it wasn't necessary (it wasn't truly a bug/feature needed).

So I hit cancel and said "Yes, abandon". However, the stupid thing persists. So every time I load meta, it popups my abandoned create topic request and wants me to continue it!

I've cancelled it 4 times now and it still keeps coming back. frowning

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Site Customizations: Only One Enabled at Once?

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TALlama wrote:

As the code currently stands, SiteCustomizations#custom_stylesheet(key) and SiteCustomizations#custom_header(key) look like they can support having multiple customizations enabled at once, but only one stylesheet is ever loaded and only one header is ever loaded. These two call sites should probably find all enabled customizations, and any previewed customizations, and load up the stylesheets/headers for each.

To make matters worse, previewing a customization replaces the customization all other users are using, since it's set in your session and the current code doesn't "trickle down" to also load the other enabled customization (preview_style ||= enabled_style_key, so it can never be both. Then, it doesn't seem to get cleared when it should; the preview goes away, but the globally-enabled customization never returns.

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Multiple Site Customisations at once

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Sam Saffron wrote:

Problem

At the moment you can not enable multiple site customizations at once, even though the UI misleads you to think you can.

Spec

  1. Add a "position" field to the site_customization table

  2. Allow people to order the customizations (highlight selected)

  3. Amend the internals to include multiple customizations in the correct order (one file only for css)

  4. Add a new hidden site setting "suppress_default_style_sheet" default false. Allow people to toggle it from this screen. Rip it out of the site customization model.

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How do you setup Discourse on a VPS?

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Manthan Mallikarjun wrote:

Hey!

I was wondering how you setup discourse on an AWS server. I know there is the docker way, but I can't find the rails app files to edit them (let me know if you know where they are). I know that i could just get the reqs and clone it on github, but is there another way?

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Search/Filter Flags by User

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cpradio wrote:

We've been playing around with the moderating abilities in our test site and I've run into the issue where I want to see how many times a user's posts has been flagged and what they were for (Inappropriate, Spam, Other).

However, there doesn't seem to be a way to do this... am I missing something obvious or does this functionality not exist?

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Missing Category Causing Create Topic Failures

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Christopher Baker wrote:

Hi there, first, thank you for an amazing project. It's been a wonderful community catalyst for us.

First a few details about our setup:

  • We recently moved from the Ubuntu 12.04 to the docker setup (although I think this issue may have happened before). We upgraded by creating a backup in the admin panel and uploading it to our new clean docker install.
  • We are on Discourse 0.9.9
  • We are using a digital ocean 2 GB droplet with a 1 GB swap (just in case).
  • We are running Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS.

Some of our users are encountering a strange issue when creating new topics. For instance, this user posted a new topic with a hyperlink and ended up seeing this:

He was no longer able to see his post, but I was. It was not assigned a valid category, but rather a junk category that I have been trying to delete.

When I give this user admin rights he can see it OR when I re-categorize it (I have admin rights), it becomes visible to all.

Other users encountering the same issue have gotten message post failures that read "500 error" in a small modal window (sorry no screen shot). Still others have gotten this just after hitting the "create topic":

In this case, like the others, the user was unable to view the topic because it was categorized with a category that they were unable to see (he was not an admin). When I manually categorized it, everyone was able to see it.

Ultimately, from my sleuthing it seems to be some kind of problem related to a bogus category mixing with the permissions of the newer [Staff] category (we started using Discourse before that category was added).

Here are some other clues from my end.

  1. Sidekiq is choking on lots of category_id when sending email updates.

  2. I look at one of these failed posts and find it in the "staff" cateogory.

  3. I open the strange post.

  4. I check its category:

So my theory is that on occasion, when users are creating a new topic, this "Ghost" category (maybe it has a nil category id?) is being assigned to the topic (this happens even when the user manually selects a different category). Since this category is broken and has admin only security settings (not sure where to change that on a category I can't see ... without a manual dive into the database), the user is unable to see their new post.

Hopefully this makes some sense ...

Thanks for thinking about it with us!

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Quoted replies don't keep original formatting

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Bill Ayakatubby wrote:

When using the (very cool!) highlight-and-reply feature, the formatting of the original post is lost. For example, below you can see that I quoted Jeff. In his post, he italicized the word "wrong" twice, but the italicization doesn't come through in my quote:

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Double clicking on Discourse Logo responds with blank screen

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Alexandre Angelim wrote:

I love double clicking on links! It's just something I do for fun!

One of my users was getting a blank screens when trying to get back to the homepage. After exchanging a lot of messages I finally found out he thinks links should be clicked twice to do whatever they're supposed to do.
I know this is an absurd edge case, but I thought it would be good to report it.

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User-Created Categories

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Brian Palmer wrote:

I'd love to be able to give everybody the ability to create new categories, even if they aren't an admin. This is for a company private internal Discourse instance, so we don't really need to worry about spam or untrusted users mucking things up too much -- but we still would prefer not to make every employee a full site admin.

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S3 Backups fail with SSLError

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Geoff Bowers wrote:

I set up a dedicated S3 bucket to receive backups. Backup appears to build ok but errors trying to move the backup to the bucket.

[2014-04-11 13:40:50] Executing the after_create_hook for the backup
[2014-04-11 13:40:52] EXCEPTION: hostname "discourse-bks.farcrycore.org.s3.amazonaws.com" does not match the server certificate (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError)

If I go to http://discourse-bks.farcrycore.org.s3.amazonaws.com/ I get an access-denied error which I expect, given its a private bucket. But hitting https://discourse-bks.farcrycore.org.s3.amazonaws.com/ I get a general SSL certificate error. Is it an Amazon S3 issue, or have i made a mess of things already?

Have double checked the security policy and all seems well -- note, images/files appear to upload just fine to S3. It's just the backups that are borked.

Any help much appreciated.

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Chinese search issues

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Leung Aaron wrote:

Now the Chinese search function fails to work completely. I had tested from a previous built from Bitnami, and the search works well, but now in the 0.9.8.5 and even the 0.9.8.7 version, it is completely broken , and I could just only search by english keywords.

There is also one issue that I am very concerned about : Will there be compatibility problems if I backup from an older version, than restore to a newer version? I tried to restore from a 0.9.8.5 backup file after upgraded to 0.9.8.7 , but it seems to fail to restore successfully.

Please have a look in these matters, thanks!

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