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Would the community like me to open source the following chrome extension?

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@vikaskedia wrote:

Features of the chrome extension:

We use discourse internally as a learning management system.

We have tried more complicated LMS and discourse is significantly better with the help of this chrome extension.

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Exporting uploads from discourse.org to self-hosted

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@ampburner wrote:

Hi,

I’m in the process of transfering the ownership of my discourse community to a friend, and he would like to run Discourse with a different hosting provider (I’m currently on a discourse.org plan)

The transition appears to be going smoothly but there is one thing that I cannot figure out. Is there a way to export all user-uploaded content from the account so it can be transferred to another hosting provider?

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Error when restoring closed Discourse tab

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@Mayzie wrote:

  1. Visit meta
  2. Close the tab
  3. Restore closed tab (Ctrl + Shift + T)
  4. Be presented with a “Cannot load app” error screen.

I am using the latest version of Firefox.

See GIF below:

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Adsense Ads Not Working Properly on My Discourse Forum

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@iamjdk wrote:

Recently, I started a forum ask.supportmeindia.com and have monetize it with google adsense but ads not working properly. The problem is that ads are not loaded sometimes. Because of this I am having a lot of problems, can you help me fix this?

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Summary of current state of GDPR compliance

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@Judith wrote:

We (diem25.org) are in the process of GDPR-proofing our operations. As others pointed out, the danger is not the authorities but the Abmahnanwälte, who are suing e.g. small personal blogs for lacking the legally-mandated two distinct ways of contacting the author, using images without licensing information and similar things, and who are collecting several hundred or several thousand Euros each time in settlement fees from these tiny one-person businesses. They will make a killing under the GDPR.

Here’s our understanding of what our Discourse instance should provide in order to be safe from such litigation. Can a team member please indicate which of these already exists or is in the works, so that we don’t invest time re-inventing the wheel or parallel-coding something that is already in the works?

  • Delete all - since social media posts have been ruled to be ‘personal data’, forum posts are likely to be interpreted to be the same, and fines are likely until someone goes to court over this. I heard that some forums wish to try their luck with a CC licensing of posts and anonymising only. This is not an option for us because in Germany, ownership can never be legally transferred, so the way the CC licensing works out is that you always retain the right to delete your own posts, without however gaining the right to force people who copied/quoted your posts to delete the quote. So the option to mass-delete one’s posts must exist. We wish to offer users the choice to either anonymise or truly delete their posts upon leaving our community and we hope that most will decide to anonymise. Ideally, deletion should have a safety hatch, e.g. being required to type ‘DELETE’ as in Mailchimp, or posts being marked as for-deletion in the database but only effectively being removed after one week without remorse.

  • Export all - JSON export of all rows of all tables that include the user’s ID. This seems simple to do, see e.g. GitHub - ziptofaf/gdpr-rails: An example project on building a GDPR compliant application . The legal purpose is twofold: a) to show the user what information is collected on them and b) allow them to import the data elsewhere, i.e. truly make them the owner of their data.

  • Auditable data processing - Companies are required to be able to provide, if requested, a log of their staff’s data processing actions. This may be covered by Discourse’s Moderator Log. However, does it cover everything? E.g. if an admin changes someone’s forum name for them, is that logged somewhere? It should be, at least internally, in order to be able to comply.

  • Consent management - We have taken note that companies now cannot sign people up to all their newsletters through their Terms and Conditions but have to get separate consent for each newsletter, detailing its purpose. Hence Discourse would be legally on much safer ground if, beyond the consent to the Terms and Conditions, the Send Me Forum Emails checkbox could be present already on the registration page.

  • Log deleted users - The GDPR states that users’ personal data must be deleted even from backups. As that is very difficult to do, short of the cryptographic solution that GitHub - ziptofaf/gdpr-rails: An example project on building a GDPR compliant application found, we shall simply keep no backups beyond the 30 days that we have to delete users. However, if someone deleted their account 2 days ago and we are forced to restore a backup from 3 days ago, that person’s data will be back in our system and won’t be getting removed within 30 days. Hence, the list of user IDs of deleted accounts should be stored somewhere (outside the database) in order to make it possible to delete them again while restoring a backup.

  • Removing personal data from logs, since logs are another form of storage. Should be as easy as adjusting the filter_parameter_logging.rb: gdpr-rails/filter_parameter_logging.rb at master · ziptofaf/gdpr-rails · GitHub

I have read some of the GDPR discussions about what is or isn’t necessary, what Discourse should or shouldn’t do, and I don’t want this post to become another one of those. Our lawyer’s interpretation of the law is this, so my only question is in how far Discourse does the listed things, or will do these things, and in how far we’ll have to code it on our own, through API or possibly a plugin for those organisations whose lawyers have the same understanding of what should be done.

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How to enable sidekiq logging?

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@bartv wrote:

Hi,

I’m curious to see why some sidekiq jobs are failling, but I can’t find sidekiq.log in /log. How can I enable this?

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Remote login from main domain to subdomain

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@Ave wrote:

Hi i’ve got a site.
subdomain.domain.com (discourse) and domain.com (main site)
When a user signs up to my main site I’d like to log him into discourse on my sub domain. Is there a URL I should redirect him to that can automatically log him into discourse and then bounce him back to my main site? Similar to the way udacity does it.

Thanks.

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Is it possible to invite users from Admin account in level 1

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@burningman wrote:

I want to invite users through their email from my personal account means admin account. But I want them to TL-0 or 1 not mod. or leader.

Is it possible to do that.

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Some users getting "Unknown error" upon login

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@ThinkSaveRetire wrote:

Hi everyone - strange issue. First, we are running the latest version of Discourse (as of this writing, it’s v2.0.0.beta6 +90). We’re on Nginx, though I don’t personally have access to the server itself.

Some of my users are telling me that whenever they attempt to login, they are getting an “Unknown error” returned to them. The “fix” is to disable their account in the Admin console and resend the activation email. Once they click on the activation link, their account works again. But, this keeps happening. In fact, it’s happening twice with a couple of my users.

I put in a trouble ticket with my hosting provider but they didn’t find anything obvious.

Has anyone seen this problem before?

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Pinned banner doesn't show in front page if 'categories' is the first item in top menu

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@joshm wrote:

Hi,

I want my front page with the categories on the left and new items on the right:

I’ve set the option “desktop category page style” to “Categories and Latest Topics”, in /admin/site_settings/category/all_results?filter=desktop%20category%20page%20style

and my top menu to be Categories | Latest | New | Top | Unread in /admin/site_settings/category/all_results?filter=top%20menu

But now my global pinned banner doesn’t show in the front page, only if I click on an item like ‘Latest’ or ‘New’

Thanks! :slight_smile:

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Private global setting with some exceptions

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@Globulle wrote:

I am using Discourse for a long time now, and I am still amazed by its completion, thank you!

I’ve just made a fresh install for an association recently and I have a problem:

  • the instance needs to remain globally private (users need to log in to read topics)
  • we would like one or two specific categories to be public, and shared worldwide

In brief we would like a private default behaviour, with some exceptions. Ideally these exceptions should be clearly noticeable (e.g. with a planet icon). Is it currently possible?

Setting the instance public and restraining access to the majority of categories would do basically the same thing, but this is less secure, and there will be padlocks icons everywhere, which is not very convenient.

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Webhook for new users

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@Pad_Pors wrote:

it’d be nice to have a webhook specific for user creation. the usecase is to develop some on-boarding plan for new users (e.g. using zapier).

there is a plugin for this, but it doesn’t work with the current version of discourse.

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Arabic translation translates change email url

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@YaserAlnajjar wrote:

Hi

Today I was trying couple of features of my production forums, and I realized there is a bug when I changed the email… the sent email has this link:

After changing my interface into English then sending an email (don’t worry the token is not correct):

https://forums.coretabs.net/u/authorize-email/821ffd9c2f86fc3a93

Basically the translation is changing authorize-email into

أكّد بريدك الإلكتروني

Guess the yml file is the culprit (Search and replace would fix it).

Would love if we can have a hotfix soon !

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Default categories watching/muted in group levels


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CSS selector for the Category Page Latest Post column?

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@BlackKnob wrote:

I need to remove the border on the bottom of the Latest Posts column of the main Category Page.

The following doesn’t work:
div.latest-topic-list-item:last-child {border-bottom-style: none;}

For some reason this is the only list not structured as a table, just DIVs, which makes it more difficult to style with CSS.

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Misspelled CSS error?

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@BlackKnob wrote:

Looking at web inspector I noticed a stylesheet called: categoy_background.scss
while the desktop.scss references @import "category_backgrounds";.

the browser also reports an error:
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()
https://www.[domainname].com/stylesheets/categoy_background.scss

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Open all external links in a new tab not working

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@trangchongcheng wrote:

I had enabled external links in a new tab not working but not working.

This is my site…
E had test on new user, gest, admin…

Post example:

Thank support team!

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Private Message to Private Category

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@bisley wrote:

Long time lurker first time poster.

I’d like to be able to move a private message directly into a category that is only visible to a small group.

At the moment I can do this by publishing the message to public using the make public button and then editing the new public post to change the category.

This has the effect of flashing the private message chain that I’d like to reserve for those in the smaller group through the public category.

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