@RyanK wrote:

Saw a 200+% increase in web crawler PVs (over previous weekly high) despite no other major fluctuations in other areas. Did someting change or could it be a bug in the analytics?

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@McBlu wrote:

I’d like a template to appear for replies. Is there a way to do that?

Solved by @lll and @HAWK. Thank you!

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@McBlu wrote:

Does anyone know if the Canned Reply Plugin has a setting to allow:

1. The Canned Reply to be used by all forum members

2. The Canned Reply to be used for specific categories

Also, is the canned reply, once selected, editable?

My thought is that I could use the Canned Reply Plugin to give my members templates to use for replies.

Thanks in advance,
Blu

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@nixie wrote:

Is it possible to replace the share icon in mobile using CSS?

I would like to replace it with the below font-awesome icon

<i class="fa fa-whatsapp" aria-hidden="true"></i>

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@razaq wrote:

Continuing the discussion from Google Authentication Bug On Discourse:

Sorry the post was closed by @sam in Jan 2016 but I am having this exact same error on my installation which is a Discourse v1.9.0.beta4 +52 I believe this version is after the thread was closed. It should be sometime in 2017.

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@8BIT wrote:

… i’m kind of obsessed with updating the forum. Everytime I see New Version Available! I get all excited… perhaps more than I should…?

That is all. #confession

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@chriskuta wrote:

Hi, new to Discourse. Been reading here about Mute User as available in the Profile Settings. This seems to stop you receiving notifications (assuming on the site and via email?) from the users listed?

I’ve seen posts about using CSS to display:none and hiding content from user id or class muted? Its hard here in meta to find about what has been implemented and what is still under discussion (at least for me right now).

What are the current options available in Discourse to enable members to hide content from other users (if any?)

I really don’t care for the debate on for or against this, so don’t waste your time. I realise that some communities DO require block and/or mute user and there are very good reasons to offer this feature. if you really must PM me and I’ll give you a good reason.

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@William04GamerA wrote:

Hello! A few days ago, me and @JonnyGamer submitted a bug report regarding “topic nuking”. Discourse fixed this really fast, but now, there are a few more bugs that @JonnyGamer and some others has found at forum.gethopscotch.com.

Firstly, I have no idea whether these bugs are because of the configuration as I don’t are an admin, and if this isn’t a general software bug, you could just close the topic, I don’t mind.

The first bug can happen if you repeat the code (any letter)<big><small><sub>. This will cause posts to break like in this example topic:
https://forum.gethopscotch.com/t/test-topic-nukes-and-spamlikes-watch-this-jonny-gamer/40314/15?u=william04gamera

The second bug kind of breaks the tag system. I’ll quote @JonnyGamer’s “bug report”:

@JonnyGamer:
When writing tags for your topic, write one of them as: ﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽
﷽ is the widest unicode character that fits into the forum. And since you are only allowed to have a tag be at max 20 characters, “﷽” is the widest for this form.

He also included a screenshot:

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Once again, all credit goes to @JonnyGamer and anyone else involved in finding these bugs.

These are the bugs I consider as the most important ones, but there are a few more reported here:
https://forum.gethopscotch.com/t/official-guide-to-breaking-the-forum-keep-in-lounge-because-yall-regulars-are-trustworthy/40312?u=william04gamera
Some bugs that I didn’t write about here that are in the topic above are due to configuration bugs in the forum itself, like the fact that words starting with f and ending with k are getting censored.

To reach the topic above, you have to be Regular on The Hopscotch Forum. I think that @techAPJ already have a leader account there, so he/she might be able to see and get more information about those bugs.

I hope that you at Discourse can fix this!

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@Ivan_Rapekas wrote:

Hi, is there any way to get emails on topic reminder for myself? I set an option to send me email even I am online, but I don’t receive emails from reminder, only notification in the top right corner. My version is 1.9.0.

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@Ivan_Rapekas wrote:

Hi, how can I find a list of my active reminders and reminders of other users (when I am admin)? For example, I set some reminders for topics and want to review them.

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@kyleballing wrote:

Hi community community,

I’ve recently been intrigued by the concept of an open source business model. There are all sorts of great open source software and hardware projects out there. There are many companies turning a nice profit from developing and distribute open source goods and services. I think this is wonderful, but there are a great many more wonderful open source projects being developed by the unsung heroes of the open source community working out of the goodness of their heart. I’d love to be one of those people, but I’ll admit my contribution to open source projects is quite minimal. I find that working for the man magically puts money in my bank account.

So, is there a way to fairly compensate people’s efforts toward large collaborative projects?

I’ve been brainstorming this for a few days now and I remembered that CodingHorror blog I read when I was writing a lot of software. Could something like StackExchange or Discourse be a model for real compensation for an open source business?

I like the concept of a trust rating or reputation. E.g. Perhaps as an engineer I see that a certain robotics project could use better motor control algorithms so I submit a pull request to the code, the community ranks how useful or valuable that code is, and when the company starts selling these robots, I get a slice of the pi based on my contribution. Maybe I’m an certified accountant and I’m looking for some freelance work. I like the mission and vision of Company X so I prepare their taxes, the community really appreciates this so I get a good rating and a larger slice of the pi. Maybe there more meta involved and as a community appointed manager over sales, my value is asses by how well I asses the value of my sales teams contributions.

Perhaps business decisions could be made by a community rather than by executive decision? E.g. John has a reputation of 10 and Jane has a reputation of 20 in the manufacturing department. Steve from the operations department needs need some defect data for a particular part. John posts a quick graph that’s enough to get Steve through his 2:00 meeting which earns him some reputation (compensation?) Jane follows up with a detailed analysis which let’s Steve ultimately decide to go with a better supplier which boosts Jane’s reputation even higher. In turn, Steve did a great job working with manufacturing and presents his information to the Purchasing group which increases his credibility. So there wouldn’t be traditional job titles and roles, but communities that drive the company.

What do you think? Could this work? What other aspects could be considered when trying to pull a large community together to form a solid open business model?

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@angus wrote:

The Terms of Service on your Discourse installation is something you probably haven’t looked very closely at. It’s highly unlikely they’ll matter, but there is a chance, however small.

I did an initial review of the standard Discourse Terms of Service for my own purposes recently and I have a few notes you may find useful. This is not legal advice however and if you are concerned about your Terms of Service, you should seek legal advice.

I have focused on what I consider to be the most important changes to this specific document. Keep in mind that there may be important aspects of a ToS in whatever jurisdiction(s) apply to your forum that are not contemplated by these ToS at all (for example, your jurisdiction’s equivalent of SOPPA and DCMA). Remember, this is not legal advice, as I am not a practicing lawyer in your jurisdiction and my comments are not specifically about your Discourse instance.

Most of my notes are relevant to people running their own Discourse installations, but there are some areas I think that Discourse itself should seriously consider changing, insofar as they are included by default in a standard Discourse installation, and probably shouldn’t be. I have indicated those notes with .

Introduction

Concerning this sentence:

The following terms and conditions govern all use of the %{company_domain} website and all content, services and products available at or through the website, including, but not limited to, %{company_domain} Forum Software, %{company_domain} Support Forums and the %{company_domain} Hosting service (“Hosting”), (taken together, the Website).

I removed everything after (and including) “including, but not limited to”. My company is not providing forum software, support forums or a hosting service.

Be aware that if Discourse is only part of your website, this scoping clause is broad enough to be construed as encompassing all of your website and any separate products and services you may provide. If you provide any other products or services on the same domain as your discourse instance, you should consider changing this. Otherwise it is entirely possible that Discourse’s terms apply to everything you’re doing.

This scoping clause should really be re-drafted for the standard Discourse distro. Using Discourse on a sub-domain is common and there is no need for the Discourse ToS to apply to all parts of a domain, as they do currently. It is also inappropriate for every company apart from Discourse itself ("…Forum Software" etc). One relatively simple change would be:

The following terms and conditions govern all use of the %{forum_domain} website and all content, services and products available at or through the website, (taken together, the Website).

Note that forum domain is not necessarily the same thing as a company domain. Discourse the company could retain the original version for its own sites.

Your Account - As is.

Responsibility of Contributors - As is.

User Content Licence - As is.

Payment and Renewal - I removed this entirely. I’m not currently taking payments related to my Discourse instance, and if / when I do I will probably want different terms.

Services - Removed. I’m not providing forum hosting services.

The Payment and Renewal and Services clauses should really be removed from the standard Discourse ToS and just added back in for the purposes of Discourse the company. They’re only relevant to Discourse as a hosting company. They could actually cause a problem, because they represent that the forum host provides services that they actually don’t.

Responsibility of Website Visitors - As is.

Content Posted on Other Websites - As is.

Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy - As is.

Intellectual Property - As is.

Advertisements - I removed this. If you do, or may want to display ads in the future, you may want to consider re-drafting this term. It is short on details and uses undefined terms like “Ad-free Upgrade” and “Services account”.

Attribution - I removed this. I am not providing forum software or forum software hosting services, so this is not relevant.

As above, the standard Discourse distro should probably not include ‘Attribution’ as it refers to a relationship that does not exist between a standard forum host and its users. Discourse should just re-add it for meta and sites they want it on.

Changes - As is.

Termination - As is.

Disclaimer of Warranties - As is, apart from:

If you’re actually reading this, here’s a treat.

Which is cute …but shouldn’t be part of a legal document.

Limitation of Liability - As is.

General Representation and Warranty - As is.

Indemnification - As is.

Miscellaneous -

This term has multiple problems and definitely needs re-drafting, both for Discourse’s purposes and the users of Discourse the software.

1. It has chopped up paragraphs from multiple clauses in the original Wordpress terms (‘Jurisdiction and Applicable Law’, ‘Arbitration Agreement’ and ‘Miscellaneous’) and not put them in an appropriate order.

   As a side note, if I were Wordpress I would consider redrafting ‘Miscellaneous’, as it is a bad idea to a have a ‘grab bag’ clause in a contract. But that is not the real issue here.

   At a minimum, Discourse (both as a company and for the Discourse distro) should just remove this clause and have the three original clauses in their normal order as in the Wordpress agreement.

2. For most people who are running their own Discourse, it makes no sense to have an agreement between them and their users being governed by Californian law and subject to either:

   • the San Francisco County court system; or

   • JAMS, which is a US-based arbitration organisation.

   Having these Californian and US-centric conflict of law clauses in the standard Discourse distro does more harm than good, unless the forum is based in California, or (possibly) the US.

   I would either leave conflict of law clauses out entirely from the standard Discourse distro (probably best), or use a more generic arbitration clause, like the standard ICC arbitration clause.

Missing clause - Translation

The Wordpress ToS contains a few terms not in the Discourse ToS, most of which aren’t relevant to Discourse. However, the Wordpress’ clause concerning translation is relevant and should probably be included both for the sake of Discourse the company and for those hosting their own instance.

22. Translation.

These Terms of Service were originally written in English (US). We may translate these terms into other languages. In the event of a conflict between a translated version of these Terms of Service and the English version, the English version will control.

If this term is included there would still be problems with the translations of the ToS (legal translation is a specialty discipline; words have special significance in law), but the problem would be considerably ameliorated.

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@mrkl16 wrote:

Hello,
i want to verify my discourse Forum for bing webmaster Tools.
How should i add my meta tag or the code to the Header to verify that?

or is there any plugin to put the bingsiteauth.xml to the root of discourse?

Thanks

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@DiscourseMetrics.com wrote:

I’m getting reports from users that posts in muted categories are counted in the notification at the top of topic lists when new posts are created or updated. This leads to the user tapping the notification to see their new posts, but then no new posts appear.

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@nokizorque wrote:

Hi,

I’m trying to setup a fresh installation of Discourse, with a fresh installation of Docker. Never installed either before. I’m trying to do this on an Ubuntu 16.04.3 installation with 2GB of RAM (should be enough from what I’ve gathered).

I want to run this alongside nginx, so I follow the official guide on doing so (the only difference was nginx was already installed and Discourse not set up).

I’ve tried to rebuild it, bootstrap it and reinstall it multiple times to no avail. I’ve searched and found nothing so far that has solved my problem.

The final error message is as follows:

    FAILED
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Pups::ExecError: cd /var/www/discourse && bash -c "ln    -s           /shared/log/rails/{production,production_errors,                                       unicorn.stdout,unicorn.stderr}.log /var/www/discourse/log" failed with return #<Process::Status: pid 6282 exit 1>
Location of failure: /pups/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:108:in `spawn'
exec failed with the params {"cd"=>"$home", "hook"=>"code", "cmd"=>["git reset --hard", "git clean -f", "git remote se                                       t-branches --add origin master", "git pull", "git fetch origin $version", "git checkout $version", "mkdir -p tmp/pids"                                       , "mkdir -p tmp/sockets", "touch tmp/.gitkeep", "mkdir -p                    /shared/log/rails", "bash -c \"touch -a                                                  /shared/log/rails/{production,production_errors,unicorn.stdout,unicorn.stderr}.log\"", "bash -c \"ln    -s                                                  /shared/log/rails/{production,production_errors,unicorn.stdout,unicorn.stderr}.log $home/log\"", "bash -c \"mk                                       dir -p           /shared/{uploads,backups}\"", "bash -c \"ln    -s           /shared/{uploads,backups} $home/public\""                                       , "chown -R discourse:www-data /shared/log/rails /shared/uploads /shared/backups"]}
9e5e314a1cc05f72408675a4dee667a7fea3e8b0931a84d21ab9313618a9f396

Any help is appreciated. Thank you!

edit: I should add, I’m not using LetsEncrypt. Docker versions are as follows (from docker version): Version: 18.01.0-ce API version: 1.35

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@jerdog wrote:

I did a mass move yesterday via the ruby console like was mentioned here (Bulk move many topics from one category to another) and it worked - however topic counts didn’t update. I have 0 topics in the old category, but it still says the old number.

For kicks and grins I did launcher rebuild app but that didn’t reset the counts.

Anything I am missing here? Is there a process that I should have kicked off to re-index?

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@Falco wrote:

Looks like you can get a Discourse-compatible “cloud” server for € 2.49 / $ 3 from Hetzner now.

The price point to host Discourse keeps going down.

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@obiwankenoobi wrote:

Hey guys. So I started with Discourse a couple of days ago and today I tried to install some plugin but couldn’t make it work. I followed this tutorial and when I get to the final stage and should have to rebuild the app I got the error ./launcher: No such file or directory notice that my /discourse is not in /var but in /Github dir so I don’t know if it’s matter. This is my first Ruby program I working on and having a rough time. Hope you could help me! Thank you!

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@RobMeade wrote:

On occasion, we have the need to include a total from another source, let’s say “Likes from Facebook” for a specific subject.

It would be great if it was possible to edit the current vote count. Appreciating this could look dodgy, I would expect an automated reply to be added which stated who, what and when (like that which appears when a topic is manually closed)… e.g.

“Rob Vote count set to 352.”

As an admin, I could then edit that automated reply and insert perhaps a reason, e.g. “Included likes from the Facebook post.”

I’m guessing that the votes are stored in a table somewhere against a user id also, so perhaps, a bit like the -2 user id for the discobot, a voting amendment could be stored again another fictious user?

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@Denis_Frosty_Andreyc wrote:

I just had a simple question. Can I check statistics of clicks on permalinks?

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