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Internal Advertise Platform

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@adrianbblk wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I think we need a platform for adversiting on discourse, and I know already exist a plugin which display Adsense ads but I meaning a platform for internal ads.

I personaly don’t like at all the adsense advertise system since the ads are ugly and the revenues are really low.

Isn’t better a ad like facebook ?

What about “sponsored posts”. Inside of a topic to appear a ads as a post just with text and links and that to be paid by an advertiser. Check out the Reddit Ads new brand platform. What do you think about something similar.

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Book Suggestion

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@Irwin_Binamungu wrote:

I am in no way affiliated to the writer or Amazon. I just landed on this book online and thought i shouldn’t just keep quiet about my discovery.
It is called Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards by [Patrick O’Kee].

Other than the technical bits, i think the book will help us newbies learn how to manage our platforms without feeling like our heads are about to burst.

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Disallow topics from some categories from showing up on the /latest homepage while still showing the category itself on the front page

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@theguy wrote:

Admins can disallow categories from showing up on the /latest homepage by editing the category settings. But it also hide the category itself from showing up on the homepage. Could we let admins choose both options?

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Opening DigitalOcean server console defaults to configuring Discourse

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@Json_Blob wrote:

Hey there, I launched a new Discourse instance last night using DigitalOcean. The admin settings report a critical update is available, I’m currently on v1.9.0.beta1 +57, and 2.0.0.beta2 is available. When I click to update it instructs me to run a command in the server console. So I went to DigitalOcean, signed in, and opened the console for my server. But it INSTANTLY goes to “Configure Discourse” routine, which I have a feeling will wipe my Discourse out if I do that. I need it to just land at a command line to enter in the commands needed to update. Am I missing something?

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Help needed in setting up new relic plugin

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@nixie wrote:

Hi,

I’m using the below new relic plugin

I think this is a modified version of @sam 's initial new relic plugin

I made below changes in the app.yml file

in ENV:
NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY: licence-key-that-I-took-from-new-relic
NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME: i-used-a-random-name

added below line too
git clone https://github.com/davidcelis/new_relic-discourse

and on the last line:

And then did an app rebuild.

But when I checked the new relic dashboard I’m not really seeing anything there.

Did I make any mistake?
I’m guessing I didn’t go wrong here NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME: - I just put a random name there. And then used the same name twice in the app.yml file at both the places where it was required.

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Balance of engagement versus safety for social/political topics

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@PopoBawa wrote:

I am doing some research towards creating a forum which I hope to function as a sort of salon for discussing culture - art, science, politics, etc. My experience has been that it is easy to get people to superficially comment upon events such as “Saw X happening on the news, and that’s good/bad”, but rather more difficult to encourage deeper engagement of why things happen, or what we could do instead.

Some feedback that I got recently from one community, as well as a recent post from (somebody here) brought up the factor of safety in online discussions. That sometimes people can be terse and judgemental because they feel that deeper discussion is not safe for them. I have been doing some searches on the discourse forum here and finding a few topics about debate and dialectic, but not so much about people’s perceptions of safety. As I understand most communities’ rules and moderation already offer protections against harassment and insults. In your experience, what other kinds of safety are people looking for? Does this tend to be more a matter of their own degree of confidence, or specific concerns about somebody doing something to them that isn’t already covered in usual rules?

The basic kind of interactive ethic I am aiming for is to be issue-confrontational, but not personally-confrontational, where people join with the proviso to civilly “agree to disagree.” And rather than debates, adopting more of a maker-project approach for brainstorming a toolbox of diverse solutions to social problems. A divergent approach leading to a catalogue rather than arguing to converge upon a consensus. This is an approach I have tried but had difficulty engaging people in when the moderation style tended to encourage converging upon one popular solution, with tribal ingroup/outgroup dynamics taking effect.

What kind of safety are people looking for? And how can we facilitate that while encouraging deep topical engagement?

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Customizing Official Advertising Plugin

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@8BIT wrote:

What would you like done?

Related to this post:

When do you need it done?

ASAP.

What is your budget, in $ USD that you can offer for this task?

Willing to discuss! I had some thoughts about maybe even open-sourcing the solution for others to use. DM ME! Don’t mind paying for time too.

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Heatmap colors too dark on mobile dark theme


"Unknown error" when trying to long with incorrect credentials with cookies disabled

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@Tgr wrote:

When trying to log in with cookies disabled, and entering the wrong username or password, the login prompt will say “Unknown error”.

Yes, it makes no sense, to try to log in with cookies disabled, but it can happen by mistake; the error message is remarkably unhelpful. (It looks like some kind of CSRF failure, so probably it should just say that.

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Where is my User menu?

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@darkslategrey wrote:

Hi,

I just installed a new discourse instance but I cannot see the user menu at the top right of the page.

Is there some specific settings I missed to make this menu visible ?

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How to enable search bar in "category dropdown"?

How to start discourse inside a linux container?

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@ingobaab wrote:

Hello Discourse Friends!
I managed to setup discourse inside a LXD/LXC and want to ask, is there a recommendation how to start the deamon process?

Is there a better ‘method’ than starting it with:

bundle exec rails s -b 0.0.0.0 2>&1 > /var/log/discourse.log

How can this be done with systemd? Thank you in advance.

Kind Regards,
Ingo Baab from Germany

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Hitting ENTER key not working in the full page search and in the text context page

"Search..." (for categories) should not be visible in some circumstances

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@Dax wrote:

Continuing the discussion from Not able to change category if I start a new topic from a specific category:

:arrow_up: If this is the behavior we want by default (impossible to change category if the topic is opened in a specific category) then the “Search…” field should be invisible when the category does not have subcategories

instead of giving a “no matches found” result.

Not finding matches, when in reality there are no matches only within that specific category, could confuse users, especially those newly subscribed

Alternatively, in this context specifying the text a little better we could avoid creating confusion, e.g.: “No matches found in the {%category} category”

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Adding More Statistics To The Stat Screen

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@Cool_Cool wrote:

So on the Hopscotch Forum, I know a lot of people who are wondering about certain things, and a lot of them are of wondering why they don’t have regular. And I know there is a requirement for regular that requires you to have read 25% of the posts created in the past 100 days. I thought would be a useful statistic to have as a profile stat.
So now I have been thinking of a bunch or profile stats that would be useful to have:
How long you have spent on that specific forum that day
A posts to day ratio (Days you have been a member or the forum/total posts)
How many topics you have replied to
Users that most reply to you
Most replied to topics


I don’t know how all the current stats are currently determined, like do topics views require ou to have posted in that topic?


I think these would all be very useful!
@team

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Notification bubbles on avatar at top-right of screen

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@McBlu wrote:

Can anyone tell me or link me to a description of what the notification bubbles (broken down by color of bubbles) tell you? ie. Each color-coded notification bubble is telling you there is a certain number of X waiting to be read by you. What are they?

Also, how is the number count cleared? By reading (clicking on) the items you are being notified about?

Thanks.

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Allow users to see who has access to a private category

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@Antroden wrote:

I currently have a few categories that are locked to specific user groups. However, it’s impossible (afaik) to easily see which groups have access to that category… Even if I am a member of a group that DOES have access to it.

Yes, the category shows up and has a Lock icon next to it. But it would be great if I were able to easily see that members of GroupA and GroupB have access to Category1, and members of GroupB only have access to Category2. Perhaps a subheading under the group name… or a dropdown…

This way I can be certain WHO will have access to the post I am creating in a given category.

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Unable to find Discobot's editable text?

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@KyleTryon wrote:

Following this tutorial here: Who is Discobot?

In my Admin>Customize>Text Content I only have 4 items and none are related to Discobot. I want to ask users to create a new post in the “introduction” section.

Side note. Is it possible to FORCE users to post an introduction?

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Importing mailing lists (mbox, Listserv, emails, ...)

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@gerhard wrote:

This guide is for you if you want to migrate a mailing list to Discourse.

:warning: This guide is still a work in progress!

1. Importing using Docker container

This is the recommended way for importing content from your mailing lists into Discourse.

1.1. Installing Discourse

Install Discourse by following the official installation guide.
Afterwards it’s a good idea to go to the Admin section and configure a few settings:

  • Enable login_required if imported topics shouldn’t be visible to the public
  • Enable hide_user_profiles_from_public if user profiles shouldn’t be visible to the public.
  • Disable download_remote_images_to_local if you don’t want Discourse to download images embedded in posts.
  • Enable disable_edit_notifications if you enabled download_remote_images_to_local and don’t want your users to get lots of notifications about posts edited by the system user.
  • Change the value of slug_generation_method if most of the topic titles use characters which shouldn’t be mapped to ASCII (e.g. Arabic). See this post for more information.

:bangbang: The following steps assume that you installed Discourse on Ubuntu and that you are connected to the machine via SSH or have direct access to the machine’s terminal.

1.2. Preparing the Docker container

Copy the container configuration file app.yml to import.yml and edit it with your favorite editor.

cd /var/discourse
cp containers/app.yml containers/import.yml
nano containers/import.yml

Add - "templates/import/mbox.template.yml" to the list of templates. Afterwards it should look something like this:

templates:
  - "templates/postgres.template.yml"
  - "templates/redis.template.yml"
  - "templates/web.template.yml"
  - "templates/web.ratelimited.template.yml"
## Uncomment these two lines if you wish to add Lets Encrypt (https)
  #- "templates/web.ssl.template.yml"
  #- "templates/web.letsencrypt.ssl.template.yml"
  - "templates/import/mbox.template.yml"

That’s it. You can save the file, close the editor and build the container.

/var/discourse/launcher stop app
/var/discourse/launcher rebuild import

Building the container creates an import directory within the container’s shared directory. It looks like this:

/var/discourse/shared/standalone/import
├── data
└── settings.yml

1.3. Configuring the importer

You can configure the importer by editing the example settings.yml file that has been copied into the import directory.

nano /var/discourse/shared/standalone/import/settings.yml

The settings file is well documented and comes with sensible defaults, but here are a few tips anyway:

  • The settings file contains multiple examples on how to split data files:

    • mbox files usually are separated by a From header. Choose a regular expression that works for your files.
    • If each of your files contains only one message, set the split_regex to an empty string.
    • There’s also an example for files for the popular Listserv mailing list software.
  • prefer_html allows you to configure if the import should use the HTML part of emails when it exists. You should choose what suits you best – it heavily depends on the emails sent to your mailing list.

  • By default each user imported from the mailing list is created as staged user. You can disable that behaviour by setting staged to false.

  • If your emails do not contain a Message-ID header (like messages stored by Listserv), you should enable the group_messages_by_subject setting.

1.4. Prepare files

Each subdirectory of /var/discourse/shared/standalone/import/data gets imported as its own category and each directory should contain the data files you want to import. The file names of those do not matter.

Example: The import directory should look like this if you want to import two mailing lists with multiple mbox files:

/var/discourse/shared/standalone/import
├── data
│   ├── list 1
│   │   ├── foo
│   │   ├── bar
│   ├── list 2
│   │   ├── 2017-12.mbox
│   │   ├── 2018-01.mbox
└── settings.yml

1.5. Executing the import script

:bulb: Tip: It’s a good idea to start the import inside a tmux or screen session so that you can reconnect to the session in case of SSH connection loss.

Let’s start the import by entering the Docker container and launching the import script inside the Docker container.

/var/discourse/launcher enter import
import_mbox.sh # inside the Docker container

Depending on the size of your mailing lists it’s now time for some :coffee: or :sleeping:
The import script will show you a message like this when it’s finished: Done (00h 26min 52sec)

:bulb: Tip: You can abort the import anytime you want by pressing Ctrl+C
When you restart the import it will continue where it left off.

You can exit and stop the Docker container after the import has finished.

exit # inside the Docker container
/var/discourse/launcher stop import

1.6. Starting Discourse

Let’s start the app container and take a look at the imported data.

/var/discourse/launcher start app

Discourse will start and Sidekiq will begin post-processing all the imported posts. This can take a considerate amount of time. You can watch the progress by logging in as admin and visiting http://discourse.example.com/sidekiq

1.7. Clean up

So, you are satisfied with the result of the import and want to free some disk space? The following commands will delete the Docker container used for importing as well as all the files used during the import.

/var/discourse/launcher destroy import
rm /var/discourse/containers/import.yml
rm -R /var/discourse/shared/standalone/import

1.8. The End

Now it’s time to celebrate and enjoy your new Discourse instance! :tada:

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How to enabled user custom avatars from cnd?

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@p_shant_gohel wrote:

Hello,

I am using s3 to store custom avatars uploaded by users. I am running on version 1.8.5. I saw that meta.discourse.org has enabled cloudfront for user avatars. How can I enable that in my version?

Any link to git hub commit that I can pull to get this feature will be appreciated.

Thanks!

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