Justin Gordon wrote:
Woo hoo! got talksurf.com up and running. A couple questions:
- Any way that I can change the order of my 2 globally pinned topics?
- How can I prevent all the pin/unpin postings:
- What are the best resources for guidance building communities, picking moderators, dealing with spam, etc.?
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Mitch Davis wrote:
Hello. My apologies, this is almost certainly miscategorised, but there just doesn't seem to be a "dumb questions" category, and your FAQ seems to be fluff not stuff people have actually asked.
I'm a user of a popular open source program. That program has a Yahoo! group. A recent thread in that group mentioned the brokenness of Yahoo! Groups, and the overwhelming consensus from the membership (and from the main op) is that a change to something-anything-not-Yahoo!-groups is well overdue.
Two questions:
Is it possible for an ordinary subscriber to use Discourse purely through email, as one would use a conventional mailing list such as mailman?
Is it possible to migrate content from Yahoo! Groups to Discourse? (I am thinking of something like the Google Groups migration API:
https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/groups-migration/ )I've read the "is forum migration worth it" topic. The Yahoo! content doesn't need to disappear, and nothing special needs to be done to keep links working. I guess it's more of a membership acceptance thing. More people are likely to agree to a move if they know the old content is already there.
Thanks for your help.
Mitch.
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Rikki Tooley wrote:
Noticed this just now..
- Summarise a topic
- Reply to a post near the top
- Click on the post-jumper to get to my post (I had forgotten I was in filter mode)
Also, is there a name for this widget? Post-jumper sounds like an avant-garde clothing genre.
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Rikki Tooley wrote:
When you highlight a bit of text and click "quote reply," it feels like a bit of an oversight that the new post is not related to the quoted one with the reply chain.
I can see some problems when you're already replying to a post and you quote text, but this can be solved by only adding the reply chain when the post is created from the "quote reply" button.
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Rikki Tooley wrote:
A habit I've developed over the years is to highlight text on a page and drag it into the location bar of my browser in order to perform a web search. The current "quote reply" functionality seems to override this behaviour, instead selecting different text when attempting to drag.
The workaround is to right click and click copy, which is simple enough. I think it would be better if this interaction had the same results as other sites though.
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eriko wrote:
I have not updated my Dev version in a couple weeks and I wanted to test my plugin before updating production. I update to current master and now I get this:
Undefined variable: "$primary_background_color". (in /Users/eriko/Documents/repos/discourse/app/assets/stylesheets/desktop.scss:6)Initially I thought it might be my cas_sso plugin so I pulled that. Then all the other plugins. I purged tmp. I made sure that there were no compiled assets. I restarted the app at each stage before and after this.
I then modified discourse/app/assets/stylesheets/desktop.scss so that it was only 4 lines long and the bits trying to access plugin stylesheets did not exist and purged tmp again. Now here is where is gets weird. I am still getting an error saying that there is an error on line 6 of discourse/app/assets/stylesheets/desktop.scss. This is a line that does not existed as the file is shorter than that. I can get the app partially running by stopping the loading of
stylesheet_link_tag "desktop"put that is of little use.What obvious thing have I missed?
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Bradley Boven wrote:
Firechat (demo here) is an open source client side chat widget that can be used out of the box with some seemingly simple integration to Firebase. The instructions to use it are simple:
First, include this code before the body end tag.
<script src="https://cdn.firebase.com/v0/firebase.js"></script> <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.2/jquery.min.js"></script> <!-- Download from https://github.com/firebase/Firechat --> <link rel="stylesheet" href="firechat-default.css" /> <script src="firechat-default.js"></script>The firechat-default.css and firechat-default.js files are something that would need to be uploaded and accessed from within my domain.
Then, to initialize FireChat:
To initialize Firechat, you must initialize Firebase, and then Firechat. Here is a typical setup:
<div id="firechat-wrapper"></div> <script type='text/javascript'> var chatRef = new Firebase('https://<my-firebase>.firebaseio.com/chat'); var chat = new FirechatUI(chatRef, document.getElementById("firechat-wrapper")); chat.setUser('<user-id>', '<display-name>'); </script>The site I use Discourse for would really benefit from a real time subject matter expert able to direct the users of the website to the right topics in real-time and interact with them immediately. I'd love to do this with a lightweight chat client like this instead of using another chat protocol.
What would I need to do with my Discourse install to modify it to work with this? From within the Admin interface I only have the option to add stylesheets, so I'm likely looking at modifying the source?
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Passante wrote:
Since few days my discourfse docker install is broken.
here the log, i'm using @sam imageINFO -- : > /bin/bash -c 'sudo -u postgres psql discourse <<< "alter schema public owner to discourse;"'
psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
I, [2014-05-13T20:38:51.304750 #32] INFO -- :
/pups/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:85:in `spawn': /bin/bash -c 'sudo -u porstgres psql discourse <<< "alter schema public owner to discourse;"' failed with return # (RuntimeError)
from /pups/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:55:inblock in run'each'
from /pups/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:53:in
from /pups/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:53:inrun'run'
from /pups/lib/pups/command.rb:5:in
from /pups/lib/pups/config.rb:85:inblock (2 levels) in run_commands'each'
from /pups/lib/pups/config.rb:76:in
from /pups/lib/pups/config.rb:76:inblock in run_commands'each'
from /pups/lib/pups/config.rb:75:in
from /pups/lib/pups/config.rb:75:inrun_commands'run'
from /pups/lib/pups/config.rb:71:in
from /pups/lib/pups/cli.rb:31:inrun''
from /pups/bin/pups:8:in
cd9fd1b27d1c2f5b6ffde8acc66b30847387bb9c165ca3e955b9d2c18d258a4c
FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP
WARNING: No swap limit support
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sati wrote:
I just came across this concept for morphing different elements and would love to see something like this implemented into relevant parts of Discourse. I have read many peoples criticisms of Discourse not appearing 'modern' enough and little touches like this appear to lend themselves to the modern web, and it also seems to work fine on mobile devices. So are there any reasons why something like this would not be advantageous to Discourse?
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Frank wrote:
This is a thread that you can respond to by your email which will allow the devs to see what your email looks like and normalize the experience.
Continuing the discussion from Support for migration of a Yahoo! group:
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Garrett Lisi wrote:
We're finding that having Suggested Topics below every conversation is confusing and distracting. Is there an easy way to hide that? Or, if not, is there a hard way? Thanks!
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Justin Gordon wrote:
We're doing great with talksurf.com. Loving discourse!
What would be the best temporary workaround until the proposed static pages feature is available? We simply want a link to a static page, maybe in the header, to show a list of sponsors of the forum.
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Jeff Atwood wrote:
I propose adding a "lookup" button next to most IP addresses in user fields that are visible to admins:
Clicking the lookup button would pop up a dynamically queried box that shows a spinner, which will populate with additional lookup info about that IP as the data arrives, e.g.
We can start simple with just the top 3 here:
- Geolocation info for this IP, with Google Maps link
- reverse DNS lookup info for this IP
- lookup other accounts sharing this IP
- query server logs for this IP
- query flags filed against this IP
etc, whatever else it makes sense to query or show for an IP
This way if you have a sketchy user, you can verify where they're coming from.
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Smith Airoli wrote:
Trying to set company domain.
Changed the company domain from default "www.example.com" to my company domain, but in invitation emails it is still pointing to www.example.com
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sam wrote:
Hello,
When looking through my site I noticed that topics added to the General category are listed on my main page in a "table" as every other topic is, although the category name is missing. Every other category works properly, does anyone know why that happens/ how to fix such an issue??
Thanks
Sam
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dave wrote:
I have a Linode box running 14.04 LTS that I wanted to install discourse on using the docker installation setup. It looks like the kernel Linode uses doesn't support Aufs yet (or at least docker doesn't think it does), because device mapper is the driver it decided to use.
When I tried to install Discourse, I got the following error:
"Your Docker installation is not using aufs
Device mapper and other experimental drivers are unstable"Is there a reason you require Aufs? Just for giggles I commented out the line in launcher that was exiting 1 for not having aufs, and the installation proceeded smoothly, and everything seems to work great.
Am I setting myself up for trouble or have things matured with device mapper since this message/check was first added?
Thanks! I'm really excited about the future of Discourse.
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John Arce wrote:
I tried adding image at Notification Email Top
It's working fine at Email Notification
But not working at Email Invite
I think we also need to include the email invite
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Jon Watte wrote:
I'm trying Discourse for an internal forum. When I try something out, I spin up a new VM and install the latest Ubuntu and then try to install the software.
It seems the instructions for "easy Vagrant installation" assumed a totally different environment than I have -- I use bare Linux, not Windows or MacOS X. So I went with the "advanced installation" recommendation.
I'm pretty handy with the Linux command line, but the recommendations in the section ended up driving me off the rails (pun intended) at the point of installing RVM.
This note is suggestions for how to improve the installation instructions, rather than a demand for a better installation path (although that would be nice, tooFirst, the double SUDO command to try to get the rvm-installer is doesn't work, as it assumes that there already exists a vagrant user with sudo privileges. Neither of those are true when just following the instructions at that point. I ended up just doing wget to get the installer, and then separately running the rvm-installer as root -- much easier; I recommend updating the instructions to use that method. Also, creating the vagrant and rvm groups ahead of this point -- aptitude install for the listed packages doesn't actually create those.
Second, RVM tells me that "2.0.0-turbo" us an old and outdated version of Ruby, that doesn't even build correctly, yet that's what's recommended in the instructions. If this is actually the correct version, calling that out would help. And why can't I use the ruby that gets installed through aptitude instead?
Third, when looking for more instructions on this path, I found that there's a docker version, so I switched to that. I like Docker.
The default Docker with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (literally, a month-old Linux installation) is 0.9.1. Yet, the Discourse scripts claim this isn't new enough and encourages an upgrade (that is not available pre-packaged.) Maybe suggesting Arch or Gentoo instead of Ubuntu would solve this?In the docker setup instructions, it suggest I edit the docker "bindings," but those are really known as "expose," so updating that would clarify.
Finally, you should include a mention of the "my-email-address@example.com" address that's used by default, because that should be edited before the first instance is created!
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Jon Watte wrote:
Is there any way to use Discourse without outgoing email?
Currently, I'm stuck on creating the admin account, because setting up outgoing email is a PITA in certain environments (plain unprotected SMTP is going the way of the Dodo bird.)
If I know what the email token is for approving an account, can I construct a URL to "verify" that email without seeing the email text? Or is there somewhere I can easily look up the email text (that failed to be sent) to get this URL?
And, more generally, if I want to run Discourse in an internal setting without email, is that generally possible, or is email a foundational, must-have core capability?
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In the docker setup instructions, it suggest I edit the docker "bindings," but those are really known as "expose," so updating that would clarify.
