@Bolarinwa_Balogun wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to create a block in the sidebar blocks plugin that list categories. I am trying to generate the URL for each category that a user has access to but I can’t find what route returns the JSON file with the name of the category. How can I find get the name of categories?Thank you.
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@jomaxro wrote:
New features in 2.0.0.beta3
Improved HTML Pasting Support
Introduced originally in Discourse 1.9.0.beta16, in this beta we’ve improved support for pasting lists copied from Microsoft Word.
Improved Theme Support
Community theme developer @lll requested the ability to whitelist a specific HTML class that could be targeted by a theme. Theme developers can now use
div[data-theme-*]as a target. For more information, see How can I whitelist a class in a theme?Improved Category/Tag Dropdowns
First released in Discourse 1.9.0.beta15, @joffreyjaffeux has continued to improve our select boxes and dropdowns. For 2.0.0.beta3, further improvements to the category and tag filters have been added, including category badges and a brand new tag selector in the composer.
Login by Link via Email
Thanks to contributor @fantasticfears and @tgxworld you can now login to Discourse without typing your password! Simply request a “magic login link” via email and click to login.
New Site Settings
Some extremely large/busy sites have requested additional controls limiting what users can do. We’ve added 3 new site settings giving admins additional control. These settings include:
allow staff flags, false by default - can users flag staff posts.min trust to post links- customize the minimum TL to post linksmin trust to flag posts- customize the minimum TL to flag a postMenu Toggle for Different Reply Modes
Ever started a reply to a post but realize it really should be a reply to the topic? How about realizing your reply is going off on a tangent and should be its own topic? Now you can easily switch between different types of replies right from the composer.
Security Updates
This beta includes 3 security fixes for issues reported by our community and HackerOne.
- Don’t onebox whispers
- Correct local onebox category checks
- Prevent robots from indexing certain routes
Even more!
But wait, there’s more! For a full list of new features, bug fixes, UX improvements, and more, be sure to review the Additional Features and Fixes listed below.
Plugin improvements
Staff Notes
- Log user silencing automatically
- Keep staff note even if linked topic is deleted
Ad Plugin
- Fix AdSense add formatting
- Fix broken Amazon setting
Auto Suspend
- Don’t suspend non-real users (like system)
Onebox
- New onebox for gfycat
Patreon
- Performance improvements
- Show additional details on user admin page
- Misc bug fixes
Akismet
- Add missing translation
Additional Features and Fixes
Click to expand
New Features
- Add
goannarendering engine to non crawler list- Show avatar flair on user profile page
- Notification API Endpoints for Admins
- Only load service worker for Android
- Style new gfycat onebox
- Vanilla bulk importer
- Display search on large category-drop and tag-drop
- Mixed text direction support
- Allow better fidelity for auto linkify, disable most tlds based linkify
Bug Fixes
- Oneboxing to private messages
- Allow local oneboxes to public topics/posts in PM
- CategoryTagStat queries need to exclude PMs with tags
- Makes mini-tag-chooser search more efficient
- Allow discourse app to link directly to upgrade page
- Show create new topic link in advanced search mode
- Group posts had the wrong paths in subfolders
- Couldn’t like staff when
allow_flagging_staffwas set- Allow 404 pages to use the current theme
- Better handling of category badge when displaying sub and parent cat
- Activate user even if email token is already confirmed
- Do not translate the same string two times when rendering icon label
- Check can_create_tag on create and not on select
- Broken composer-actions spec
- Improves contrast on period-chooser when using dark-theme
- Regression preventing uncategorized badge to be shown
- Continue discussion when creating new topic from composer-actions
- Rate limiter text is confusing, should not say daily
- Displays an error when reaching tags limit
- Embedded topic was not found when URL contained query string
- Include post in staff action logs when silencing a user
- Override backspaceFromFilter only if defined
- Don’t grant new user of the month badge to suspended users or based on deleted topics/posts
- Upload fails silently if it is bigger than max allowed size
- Stop counting offline page as a page view
- Invite to message was not allowing groups
- Border issue with group inputs on high resolution displays
- Allow links from one relative uri to another
- Don’t allow silenced users to reach TL3
- Post_destroyed webhook event not fired
- Don’t auto select ALL topics, only keyboard chosen ones
- Using cmd-f to search in a topic wasn’t restricting to that topic
- Makes sure we add ellipsis to action-title
- After deleting a post, staff can recover it
- Delete the invalid auth cookie even if you hit the rate limit
- Don’t show personal messages if disabled as a composer action
- Consider oneboxes links wrt to
min_trust_level_to_post_links- Don’t show the link button in the composer if linking is disabled
- Makes sure we display whisper if we don’t have a post
- Validations could prevent moving posts
- Preserve original date when moving first post
- Ensure we never send elided content via email
- Too much Javascript
![:slight_smile:]( ":slight_smile:")
- Don’t show messages setting if messages are disabled
- Customizing site texts ignored current locale for _MF keys
- Overriding _MF translations worked only for English
- Don’t throttle local lookups
- Count the links in the post
- Only send up to 100 selected tags in the tag search request to avoid sending a query string that’s too long
- Correctly shows link to post number when editing
- Prevents exception when opening new topic on mobile
- Desktop/mobile heatmap colors should be the same
- Size of tags input field of tag group
- Process_post job should update baked_at and baked_version if it rebakes the post
- Automatically unsilence users
- Makes scrollbar always on for small dropdowns
- Prevents a regression where enter wasn’t working in inputs
- Prevent long composer overlapping controls
- Enable personal messages in tests
- If personal messages are disabled, don’t show messages for groups
- Order the homepage box in the same order as the top menu
- After moving the posts topic timestamp should be updated with newest post
- Simplify styling of category-name when using category-drop/link
- Makes sure we have a content to filter
- Improve dropdown-select-box on mobile
- Remove unused import
- Makes composer-actions toggling whisper instead of replying
- Unused import
- Admin reports charts should use same time of day as dashboard numbers
- Admin reports would sometimes return fewer than 30 days of data, causing current 30 day period counts to be too small and prev30day counts to count the wrong days
- Max-height auto is not valid
- Don’t show “Grant Badge” if badges are disabled
- Use css instead of js to fix select-kit-collection max-height
- Remove activation link from account approved email (#5548)
- Don’t return 200s when login is required to paths
- Only count ‘human’ users in group.user_count
UX Changes
- Make mobile timeline extra short in landscape
- Restore width of composer user selector.
- Link post ids in staff action logs to the post
- Preventing usercard and profile URLs from overflowing
- Improving post-link alignment
- Better alignment of small topic statuses
- Show the footer on the user summary and preferences pages
- Allow history modal to scale down on smaller screens
- Cleaning up category badge alignment
- Add specific classes to ip address rows on user admin
- Only crops images taller than 18:9 instead of 16:9
- Prevent anons from clearing pins in topic view
- Improve semantic of login button for better password managers compatibility
Performance
- Remove oga gem
- Have nginx cache and serve the service worker file.
- Only require the rss library if used
- A faster way to count tags used per category
- Add index on user email logs
- Optimize performance of new topics query (home page)
- Tl3Promotions job can limit the number of TL3 candidates by using some simple requirements in the query
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@TomHsiung wrote:
Hello,
I am new to Discourse. I installed Discourse with Docker on my sparse PC home. The PC runs Ubuntu. I found the Discourse site failed after I restarted my server. It seems that the
launcher COMMAND appcommands were not useful. Could someone write a short guide for how to restart Discourse after server rebooting? ThanksTom
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@Donald_Swofford wrote:
Following the instruction in my test email below that i sent to myself i sent a test email to mail-tester.com and it scored me 9/10 for mailgun.org saying my mail ip was on an ip blacklist "Listed in [Hostkarma] ( -1 )"
is the only way to fix this to pay $50 or something for a dedicated IP and how bad will this affect my users getting emailWe highly recommend you send a test email to mail-tester.com to verify that all the above is working correctly.
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@Ivan_Rapekas wrote:
Do admins receive notifications on new screened items added to Emails, IPs, URLs?
So, I found manually a new IP blocked in the list since 1 month it added there by a system. Not sure, but seems I did not receive any notifications on this action.
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@sybren wrote:
The automatic backup feature of Discourse has a setting
backup frequency. However, I suspect that this setting does not control the backup frequency, but rather the backup period (where period = 1/frequency), i.e. when set to4my suspicion is that it would create a backup every 4 days and not 4x per day.This is not clear in the user interface. The hint below the setting says “How frequently we create a site backup, in days”, which indicates that indeed this is the period and not the frequency. It also doesn’t indicate whether it accepts integers or floats.
I would suggest either changing the (label of the) setting to
backup period, or adding a little explanation that a setting of4would create a backup every 4 days. This would take away the ambiguity between “most likely explanation” and “actual literal meaning”.
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@hddimon wrote:
Hey discourse team! Thank you for great product.
It’s pretty easy to install discourse on server which has internet connection, but how to install it in isolated network without internet connection?
Thanks!
Dmitry.
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@camilo3dves wrote:
Hi, I am working with discourse 2.0 and I using perfectly sso with my own site for discourse, I just have a problem, I need send some information to discourse from my site and I trying save this information in local storage in my site but when I change to the my discourse site the information that I had saved in the local storage disappear and the local storage only contain information about the discourse, I think that is because discourse run in a container of docker and dont share the same environment or similar with the local storage of my site, so I trying with the cookies but is so hard get the cookies form another domain so I don’t know how I can do this, send some information between my site to discourse, this information is a token that I need to do some validation, and I have to use to do a petition from a script that I am using in the discourse
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@outofthebox wrote:
Hi, when a Pinned Topic expires, it would be nice to be able to receive a notification that the Topic is no longer pinned. Perhaps this could be a toggle when pinning a post (“Receive notification when this Pin expires?”)?
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@outofthebox wrote:
Hi friends,
One of the tools I’ve relied on for selecting community software is FeverBee’s platform comparison tool:
https://www.feverbee.com/communityplatforms/
I encourage you to check it out. Also, if you love Discourse, why not write up a review of your experience there? The greater the adoption of this platform, the more we all win.
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@Philip_Colmer wrote:
We’re looking at using Discourse to increase communications between staff of a non-announcement nature, i.e. discussions :).
Given the attitudes of our staff, it is likely that the primary mechanism for interacting with Discourse will be via email. In testing, one of the challenges I’m trying to fix is how to get Discourse to send email notifications of new posts when they occur; note that Summary emails are working but this isn’t what the staff are used to.
I’ve set “default categories watching” to the category we’re using for testing but that doesn’t seem to have triggered an email to the test users when I posted to that category.
So:
- Does that setting only apply to accounts that get created after the setting is configured?
- If it automatically applies to all accounts, any suggestions when there wasn’t an email sent?
- Is there a better/more appropriate way of achieving what I want? I thought that maybe “default categories watching first post” might also be relevant, but that would seem to only apply to replies to a post (since you are watching after a topic has been created)?
I know that users can turn on “mailing list mode” but I’m not sure (yet) if that is the right way to approach this - I’m trying to strike the right balance on the level of email people are going to receive.
Thanks for any suggestions.
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@filip wrote:
Hi!
My workflow got broken when Discourse updated image uploads from html to markdown syntax. I wonder what others are doing out there.
1, This is what my workflow used to be when typing up a blog post:
- Write the skeleton locally in a text editor or draftin.com
- Copy paste into a draft post in Discourse
- Copy Paste in all images (which generated HTML img tags)
- Back to a text editor. Search and Replace ALL to go from relative URL to absolute (so it can be seen outside of Discourse)
- Push the post to Wordpress (draftin does that very nicely)
- Publish from Wordpress to Discourse using WP-Discourse plugin.
It’s a bit convoluted
, but it allowed me to use copy paste workflow for image uploads and create the master images in discourse right away
.
2, Now, this doesn’t work.
- Discourse generates markdown imag tag
instead of the old html.3, ??
- Is there an easy way to convert these into Absolute Path URLs so I can pass it onto Wordpress? Less clicks the better.
- Is there a better workflow in general? I bet there is!
Any ideas appreciated!
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@TomHsiung wrote:
This is docker info
tomhsiung@toms-server:~$ sudo docker info Containers: 1 Running: 1 Paused: 0 Stopped: 0 Images: 2 Server Version: 18.02.0-ce Storage Driver: overlay2 Backing Filesystem: extfs Supports d_type: true Native Overlay Diff: true Logging Driver: json-file Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs Plugins: Volume: local Network: bridge host macvlan null overlay Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file logentries splunk syslog Swarm: inactive Runtimes: runc Default Runtime: runc Init Binary: docker-init containerd version: 9b55aab90508bd389d7654c4baf173a981477d55 runc version: 9f9c96235cc97674e935002fc3d78361b696a69e init version: 949e6fa Security Options: apparmor seccomp Profile: default Kernel Version: 4.4.0-112-generic Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS OSType: linux Architecture: x86_64 CPUs: 2 Total Memory: 3.859GiB Name: toms-server ID: TJ76:J47D:JQ4Z:2CJ6:AX6H:DDHI:ZBCB:CLP3:PI7J:SVJ4:L6E7:EHG3 Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker Debug Mode (client): false Debug Mode (server): false Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/ Labels: Experimental: false Insecure Registries: 127.0.0.0/8 Live Restore Enabled: false WARNING: No swap limit supportThis is docker ps
tomhsiung@toms-server:~$ sudo docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMESI encountered a strange issue. Discourse site got lost after server restarting. It seems that the container of app was running but cannot be stopped because when I run the
docker start appcommand the system tell me it had already been running.tomhsiung@toms-server:~$ sudo docker start app Error response from daemon: container "c4e83173678012b22a18d932fa818472d49876ed356393929e6a448bb5329246": already exists Error: failed to start containers: appBut when I used the docker ps command, there was nothing in the container list.
tomhsiung@toms-server:~$ sudo docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES tomhsiung@toms-server:~$Because I was not able to start the container app, so the site kept down.
Tom
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@McBlu wrote:
How do you insert images into the text templates under customize–>text content?
To see how this looks do I need to set up a new user account to to view the welcome dialogue?
Would a link work? Me thinks this might require html code . . .
Here is what I have so far . . .
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@awole20 wrote:
This has bugged me every once in a while, so perhaps this is an appropriate bikeshed topic to bring up - every time I see a topic in #plugin:theme I register for a second that it’s in #plugin:broken-plugin because the colors are the same.
Would the powers-that-be be down with changing the color to one of the subcategories so there’s not a color confusion in my brain?
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@Andrei_Berceanu wrote:
I would like to install discourse on a digital ocean droplet and have only registered users view the content, is that possible?
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@MostHated wrote:
Hey there,
I just switched over to Discourse, I was testing Flarum before with Apache and htaccess and I had a rule written up that whenever there was a subdomain (excluding www.) it would take that subdomain and append it to the end of the url to simulate a dynamic subdomains and I didn’t have to actually make them for them to work how I wanted. Example being if you type “abc.domain.com” it would end up as “domain.com/forum/t/abc” which would drop you in the abc section of the forum. Is it possible to do this with Discourse using nginx?Looking at how Discourse is laid out, I would want it to be abc.domain.com takes you to domain.com/forum/c/abc/ If anyone has any insight on this, I would appreciate it!
Thanks,
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@Biscuit wrote:
Feature suggestion: Monitor which forum members create the most moderation / administrative work for staff. This could be achieved by counting the number of “Staff contacts made” eg:
- Flags approved about their posts.
- Official warnings
- Suspensions
- Threads that had to be moved to correct category
- Threads renamed by staff
- Threads / posts removed
- Censored words used
- Threads that had to be merged into another thread by staff.
Each time a task like this is completed by staff, it could increment the users “Staff Contact” score. Staff could then view / report on that score to gain visibility of the number of staff contacts made for that user today, this week, ever, etc.
Use cases:
Forum staff periodically review a Staff Contact score report to determine which individuals are creating the most “noise” and consuming the most time for staff, to enable corrective action to be taken, which could range from a PM guiding the user, up to suspension depending on the seriousness.
The total of all members “Staff Contact” scores could be referenced as indicators of overall moderation workload trends over time.
Forum staff can view a specific users Staff Contact score on the users admin page, to factor this into any decision making about how to moderate.
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@Roland_W wrote:
Hi there.
I´d like to change the behavior of shown userpics on the main-site. Right about now after every reply to an topic the userpic of the last editor of a thread is shown. I´d prefer to have the userpic of the topics creator.
Any suggestions?
Thank you.
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@MostHated wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if there is a way to restrict who can edit in a certain category? My sites plan was to have different teams (assuming a team would need to be a group) who each get their own category and make it so only they can edit what is in their category. They should be free to browse, post, etc anywhere else as a normal user could, but basically be in charge of their own category and no one else’s. How might I go about doing this?Standard users, of course, would be able to post anywhere they wanted. I am wanting it to be a support forum, where the team in charge of the category is supporting the people posting in that category, but not to be an overall moderator of the site, as some of the teams might technically be in competition and I don’t want anyone messing around with other teams categories.
Thanks!
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, but it allowed me to use copy paste workflow for image uploads and create the master images in discourse right away 
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