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Email context can cause confusion

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Sam Saffron wrote:

I feel that the "email context" feature can cause a lot of confusion under certain cases, I use gmail, here is an example.

I just got a reply from @CarolineSiede on this topic. I did not check my email till now but have been browsing the site so am aware of all the responses to date.

My Gmail shows me this:

This is already a problem cause the reply is from CarolineSiede not from sr105, but this is a separate issue that also needs addressing. Other emails look like this, so clearly there is something we can do:

Anyway...

I expand it and see:




Caroline's reply is buried in a see of context. It is very hard to me to find it cause the context is forcing an incorrect ordering of posts. (I am looking for "I just created a post and flagged it response")

From top to bottom I see:

  • Post #1
  • Post #7
  • Post #2
  • Post #3
  • Post #4
  • Post #5
  • Post #6
  • Post #8
  • Post #7
  • And so on...

It is very hard for me to make sense of my notification.

I totally get that in isolation the context stuff helps, but once grouped it makes me very confused.

I would like a user setting to disable this context thingy. And also question if it makes sense given we work so hard to group emails on a topic.

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"Email Log Not Found" when pulling from mail server

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Austin H wrote:

Hi all. I'm currently trying to pull email from a Apache James mailserver to be automatically posted to my Discourse forum. I've confirmed that random email-ins from Users work, and post to Discourse but I seem to be having some trouble with this. When it polls the POP3 host for email, it seems to grab the email, but I get notifications in the admin box about "System Error Parsing Email" Here's the "full" text:

This is an automated message.

Parsing an incoming email failed. Please review the following Error:

Email::Receiver::EmailLogNotFound

I'm vaguely familiar with Ruby, and looking at the Receiver.rb file seems to indicate to me that the exception is generated when the email log is blank? Is this the same as the content of the email? I am positive that there is actual content to the email itself. It is all coming from an automated mail-bot that sends emails to everybody subscribed to our mailing list. Rather than forwarding a user to our mail server, I just subscribed the user we are polling to the list, and it receives the mail directly. Is there something inherently incompatible with this and Discourse, or am I missing anything? Thanks!

Edit: There's no actual information in the logs regarding this error, so I don't have anything else to go off of other than the fairly unhelpful message and the bit of information that I can glean from the Rb file itself, so any direction as to where more info could be found would be appreciated.

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Posting via e-mail in feature - E-mail address is case sensitive

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Paul Apostolos wrote:

We have turned on the feature to allow our users to start a new topic using the incoming e-mail feature.

I notice that many of our users set up their e-mail clients to have upper and lower case letters in their e-mail addresses.

For example, TomSmith@email.com

Because their Discourse profile has the e-mail address as tomsmith@email.com the e-mail is rejected because it does not match the list of valid user e-mail addresses.

Is it possible to have the validation for incoming topics by e-mail be a case-insensitive match of existing e-mail addresses?

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Image links with query string results in weird-looking filename caption

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samluescher wrote:

Embedding images with links containing a query string, e.g. foo.com/attachments/token/sc1kod6qalzegkg/?name=sunset.jpg
results in weird-looking filename caption "?name=sunset.jpg".

Maybe check for query string?

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Notification layout restructure

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kris wrote:

I'd like notifications to be structured a bit differently! Here's a mockup

Trying to achieve two basic goals:

  1. Float icons to the left and clear text from below, so I can visually separate type of notification and notification content.
  2. Enable entire notification row to be selectable rather than just a text link (similar to links under the hamburger icon)

I think to accomplish this the HTML would have to be structured like this

<li>
    <a href="#">
        <i>icon</i>
        <p>
          <span>Username</span>
          This is a notification
        </p>
    </a>
</li>

The a tag would get display: block which would make the entire li clickable, the i could be floated left, p would get overflow: hidden; so the text wouldn't float under the icon, and the span would be styled to differentiate username from notification content.

Any thoughts/concerns? Unfortunately this would mess with a translation, so it's not as simple as just changing the HTML!

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Building a Community to Build a Product

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Travis wrote:

I wrote an article about my experience and use of Discourse and how it lead me to a larger startup initiative. I thought some of you might find it interesting since I've noticed a lot of people here are in a similar trajectory.

This is the story of the founding of a simple gaming forum called Strats.co and how focused communities can be utilized to deliver ideas for future endeavors.

https://medium.com/on-creating/building-a-community-to-build-a-product-481b6fbc984e

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Customs email headers and/or subjects tags

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XioNoX wrote:

Hi!

To be able to sort automatically notification emails sent by Discourse, it would be great if they could have customs headers (or a subject tag) based on the message's content/content:

For example, here is a list of headers Bugzilla sends with each notification email:

X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC AssignedTo
X-Bugzilla-Type: dep_changed
X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None
X-Bugzilla-Classification: Other
X-Bugzilla-ID: 1014331
X-Bugzilla-Product: mozilla.org
X-Bugzilla-Component: Server Operations
X-Bugzilla-Version: other
X-Bugzilla-Keywords:
X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal
X-Bugzilla-Who: foobar@email.com
X-Bugzilla-Status: RESOLVED
X-Bugzilla-Resolution: FIXED
X-Bugzilla-Priority: --
X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: email@email.com
X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: ---
X-Bugzilla-Flags:
X-Bugzilla-OS: Linux
X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Status Resolution
X-Bugzilla-Changed-Field-Names: bug_status resolution

Thanks!

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Why can't I create a new topic from the category index page?

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Michael Downey wrote:

As a user, I want to create a topic while viewing the /categories listing page so I can start writing without having to go back to the latest topics page. Right now, I can only "Create Category" (or maybe not even this since I'm actually logged in as an admin).

IMHO the "Create Topic" button should be visible both on /latest and on /categories.

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Options to disable hijack of CMD+F / CTRL+F and "/" keys for search?

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Brendan wrote:

I'm not sure why anyone thought it was a good idea to hijack the universally accepted "Find" functionality of the browser to open the search box... it's nothing but frustrating when you're trying to find text on the page. I noticed whoever implemented also decided they would be clever by also hijacking the less common "/" (vi-style) key shortcut for this as well.

Please at least offer a user-configurable option to disable and an admin-configurable default setting.

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Discourse V1.0 Next Month

HTML comments incorrectly parsed

Bug with blog.discourse.org

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Luke Larris wrote:

I seem to have discovered an interesting bug on the Discourse blog:

http://blog.discourse.org/2014/06/discourse-v1-0-next-month/

You can trick the previous post button to bounce up and down continuously by hovering your mouse over that bottom area. It's funny, but it's a bit annoying when you mouse over it from the bottom to click on it, because it glitches out like that.

Using Chrome 35 on Windows 8.1.

Just thought I'd let you guys know.

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Browser search shortcut should not be used

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Erick Guan wrote:

The search shortcut should use another combinator instead of ctrl+f. Discourse search feature can not find something like interface message. And it's annoyed to block a common browser action.

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Mixed HTML and Markdown is problematic

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Sam Saffron wrote:

JSON-ml often contains chunks of unparsed HTML, we perform inline replaces without understanding context causing all sorts of weird issues.

Issue 1

<a href="http://cnn.com">@cnn</a>

@cnn

Issue 2

<small>
http://cnn.com
</small>


http://cnn.com

Issue 3

<small>test @aa </small>

test @aa

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What's the path to Discourse installation and uploads directories?

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Aahan Krish wrote:

I installed Discourse following the official documentation using Docker. Looked for /var/www/discourse, but it doesn't exist.

So, what's the actual location of Discourse (i.e. site's root)? Where is the uploads directory located?

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Category name in URL and title

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Мария Сергеева wrote:

As I know it is important to have SEO keywords in URL and title (like most important tags in StackOverlow). Will it be good to add an option that enables adding category to both URL and title?

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Stop using Chosen for select replacement

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Robert De Luca wrote:

Why?

The main reason is it breaks screen readers. My blind mom can't use any discourse sites because of chosen.

Alternative:

I have a plugin named DropKick that's about to go to version 2.0 which does work with screen readers and acts exactly like a select.

https://github.com/Robdel12/DropKick/tree/version-2.0
www.robert-deluca.com/dk-2.0/examples/examples.html

I also had a presentation at a meetup here in Orlando on it but I can't link to it since I'm limited to 2 links.

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Can we use the new Transifex Live for direct translations?

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Sander Datema wrote:

As announced in this blog there is a live editor now. Just a line of code and you can edit your translations directly in Discourse.

Would love it.

Edit: just read the news and I suppose this is for post-v1

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Option to include audio uploads to posts as playable links

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Goke Pelemo wrote:

I think it is a great idea to give forum owners the option to either include audio (e.g. mp3) uploads as HTML hyperlinks as done today, or just include the raw links in the post so that onebox can pick them up and make them playable.

Today forum users have to manually strip the anchor tags and paste the link in a new line by itself to make it playable by viewers. I think the default behavior should be to have it embed a player (as per onebox) and then a clickable link at the bottom of the player with the file size for downloading.

Just a suggestion, open to critique.

Great work on Discourse by the way. Amazing!

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