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Android: Creating topic and selecting category fail due to selector issues

July 2, 2014, 8:51 pm
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lid wrote:

To replicate, on the mobile device start a new Topic

The create topic section will now have 3 inputs
- Title
- Category
- Body

Tap on the category, a dropdown list should open, but instead the keyboard will pop and the drop down will disappear immediately.

You can tap it repeatedly but it will keep on closing.

A partial possible fix:
The dropdown should not have the input box focus by default which will allow the user to first scroll through the options.
that will not prompt the keyboard to pop. if the user would like to search for topic then he can set focus on the input manually.

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Optimize images before uploading?

July 2, 2014, 11:33 pm
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How to change the background color or add an image?

July 3, 2014, 3:43 am
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Rahul Banker wrote:

I tried browsing through settings and everything but couldn't find anything. Is it something to do with css, if yes, how?

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Viewing Discourse in mobile screen emulator

July 3, 2014, 4:45 am
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Erlend Sogge Heggen wrote:

After some trial and error, I came to the conclusion that the built-in Mobile Emulation in Chrome is the best way to quickly preview Discourse pages on a mobile device.

Sure you can also just append ?mobile_view=1 to an URL, but the emulator has the added benefit of letting you select the screen profile of a specific device.

I also tested all of the most popular online screen emulators, but unfortunately Discourse doesn't work on any of these. I assume they're not made to handle JavaScript-heavy apps.

Edit: I asked Screenfly why Discourse wasn't working, this is their reply:

Screenfly doesn't work on every website. Most commonly, this is a security setting on the web server that disallows display inside of frames (like those used in Screenfly).

http://quirktools.com/screenfly/
http://cybercrab.com/screencheck/
http://www.viewlike.us/

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Uploading images from mobile phone

July 3, 2014, 5:08 am
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Max8000 wrote:

Hi guys. Thanks so much for your help so far.

At present I get a generic error message every time I hit the upload button on any mobile. Any advice much appreciated. Rod

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Usernames with periods are changed to underscore

July 3, 2014, 7:01 am
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Michael Downey wrote:

We use SSO from a central directory so users don't specify their name directly.

From SSO, from time to time user names are being sent that have periods in them, e.g., firstname.lastname. However, when their user accounts are being created initially in Discourse, they are actually getting created as firstname_lastname.

This will create a problem in the event we have two users with usernames such as foo.bar who's registered, and foo_bar comes along later but his user ID is already taken.

Any idea why the periods are getting replaced with underscores? We verified that what we're sending is accurate with the period.

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How do you allow for unknown/non-users to post to the forum?

July 3, 2014, 8:42 am
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Austin H wrote:

Hi all. As the title says, I'm trying to allow for unknown users to send an email in to the configured Discourse email and have it post to the forum. I'm trying to sset up a substitute for our mailing list so that users can reply and keep the forums going but without necessarily requiring everybody to register immediately. There are hundreds of people who use our mailing list, so it will be impossible to get them all to move over at once. My discourse email is set to receive automatic emails from the mailing list, which should (ideally) then be posted onto our forum.

I've consulted this post on replacing mailing lists, but specifically regarding the presence of a "global" category to allow unknown email in, I can't find it. I am able to set individual categories to supposedly allow email ins, but you can't set the category for users to auto post emails into, as per the bug here: Email-in category resets. So at the moment, when an unknown users emails in, I still get some combination of a "email_reject_no_account," or a bad reply key, or a posting error. I have the category it is supposed to post to set to use the same incoming email address as what users post to (as currently it may be the only category we need).

With those settings though, I still have unknown user emails being rejected, instead of being posted by the system account. My settings:

Allow email in: True
Email in Address: user@foo.com

Settings for my category:
Accept emails from non-users: true
Custom incoming email address: user@foo.com

Yet when I get an email, it still gets rejected with a "reject_no_account". Am I missing anything? Or did this break at some point? And how exactly does the custom email address work? I am not super familiar with POP3 polling, but how is it able to tell if an email is received from one of the custom emails? Or rather, how does it detect/pull email from custom email addresses with different credentials than the POP3 account?

Thanks!

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Going into best of view from main page

July 3, 2014, 10:24 am
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Мария Сергеева wrote:

I think that clicks on user icons and likes on a main page do not lead to logical pages. If I click on the title I go into a topic first post, if I click on a last date I go into a topic last post, but if I click on a user icon I go into a user page.

It seems more logical to go into the best of view mode when I click on the user icon on the main page and something like the best of view with only liked posts when I click on likes on the main page.

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Anyway to add facebook likebox to the sidebar on the topic page?

July 3, 2014, 10:31 am
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Rahul Banker wrote:

I am sure it's not available in discourse but is it possible anyhow to have a customized sidebar kind of a thing?

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To remove muted category option for new posts

July 3, 2014, 11:02 am
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Мария Сергеева wrote:

When someone creates a post he or she can select a muted category from dropdown list and post into it. If category is muted the user should not be able to post into it.

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Topics that I don't have privileges for are not hidden

July 3, 2014, 11:41 am
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Jakub Ryška wrote:

This is looks as a very severe bug, so apologies if someone already posted it, but I don't know how to search for it. Here it goes:

The bug

Given I'm user who is not in the group staff,
When I go to the main listing of topics - / root of the discourse,
Then I see even the topics, that should be hidden to me, because I don't have read privileges for them.

Also, in the listing, I can see the topic title, but the topic category is hidden.

When I click on the topic, that should be hidden, only header will remain, with the rest of the page blank with this error in console:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '__ember_meta__' of undefined vendor-0cf7f8ddcf2bd3b5854f3b875e88d515.js:6

Version: 0.9.9.11

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Bounty / Crowdfund features

July 3, 2014, 11:50 am
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Greg_Swallow wrote:

I just came across bountysource.com, that uses the (currently disabled) github issues tracker to list issues and allows people to pay $X as a bounty for an issue to be solved. Then an interested developer can either accept the bounty or set a target amount for interested funders to reach. Here's the automatically created page for Discourse - https://www.bountysource.com/trackers/281434-discourse (It seems that the issues that were still open when the issue tracker was disabled are still there and maybe should be deleted?).

I'm wondering what @codinghorror, @sam, @eviltrout etc think of using this website for issues that are "blessed" by the development team, like the ones in the "Features / Spec" category? (I'm not sure if there's a way to allow just discourse github collaborators to post issues on the github issue tracker? That might be a good place for the "Features / Spec" issues only if that is possible.

Other bounties can be added manually without having them be in the github issue tracker it looks like too. So it would be possible for anyone to add a bounty even if it wasn't "blessed" by the dev team.

I think it's good because all the bounties will be open sourced, and I think there are some smart developers here (not me, lol) that are looking for ways to make some money from their interest in Discourse.

PS - I know I'd chip in to see a few features added, eg: having your Facebook profile picture automatically become your Avatar in Discourse if you login/signup with Facebook - anyone?? smile

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Vagrant and Virtualbox = slow (update)

July 3, 2014, 11:54 am
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lid wrote:

I decided to take the dive with the vm and it is slow ... so slow

Update:

After leaving the browser for know how long finally the site went up, now that I have many object cached on the browser level, if i refresh the page it will take about two minutes for the page to load again

some background, I am running virtualbox and vagarant on host machine windows 8

on a side topic
Vagrant really need to get smarted when downloading assets and support resumeable downloads I had my box image download failed at 98% and a 200k download speed blah.

I followed the tutorial, and started the rails server

bundle exec rails s

tried my luck at the browser and all I got was blank page that is keep a loading status for ever
"http://localhost:4000"

I looked at the ssh window and this is the last log from the request

-07-03T02:20:12.948646 #25269] INFO -- : Rendered common/_discourse_javascript.html.erb (25.6ms)
-07-03T02:20:12.950428 #25269] INFO -- : Completed 200 OK in 8690ms (Views: 8593.6ms | ActiveRecord: 26.0ms)

Windows8
Virtualbox 4.3
Image installed on external drive (usb3)

Bottom line, the virtualbox pulls the source of discourse from a shared folder (virtualbox feature)
which I assume is where the slowness is coming from, applying this fix did not help much
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch12.html#idp56302608

And i am still getting a blank page, Any idea why?

I have noticed this error in the log when first running "bundle exec rails s" startup
"failed to create symbolic link `/vagrant/public/plugins/emoji': Protocol error"

So who is using the combination of vagrant and virtualbox successfully ?

The all idea of having this setup is for hassle free installation for developers/contributors to start with their feet on the ground.

It is there and we need to make effort to make sure it is actually working or not having it at all.

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Improve Discourse's pagespeed score?

July 3, 2014, 12:53 pm
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Jeff Widman wrote:

When I run Google's pagespeed tool on Meta.discourse.org it gives a number of suggestions:

http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmeta.discourse.org

Discourse is only scoring a 62 on mobile and an 84 on desktop.

Are any of their suggested fixes easy improvements? For example, they suggest better image compression.

I'm a n00b on the tech side, but if @sam or @eviltrout can look at this and suggest a few easy fixes I'm willing to try putting together a pull request to implement them. I'm not sure when I look at the list of issues which ones are easy to improve and which are just a byproduct of Discourse's rich client-side architecture and therefore pretty much impossible to change.

Normally I wouldn't pay much attention to a silly score--I know in previous pagespeed threads @sam and @codinghorror said there isn't much that can be improved here--but an acquaintance who runs a large forum just sent me a Google Analytics screenshot showing a ~10% bump in traffic from Google after he spent some time trying to increase his PageSpeed score.

We're both very aware that correlation does not equal causation, but he dug through the analytics and the lift seemed to happen across his entire site--it wasn't caused by a couple of pages driving tons of traffic. The only code modifications he made during this period were related to improving pagespeed--stuff like compressing images, etc. Plus Google explicitly says they use loading speed as a ranking factor.

So any improvements here will not only help the user experience but also drive more traffic...

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Discourse update Permission denied

July 3, 2014, 1:31 pm
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Egor Lyfar wrote:

Hello, this is what I get when running the update from admin panel:

warning: unable to access '/root/.config/git/attributes': Permission denied
warning: unable to access '/root/.config/git/attributes': Permission denied
warning: unable to access '/root/.config/git/attributes': Permission denied
HEAD is now at 7d5d586 Import optimizations for topic creation: Prevent queuing of most jobs when importing posts and topics. Only do some recalculations at the end of the import.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

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Improve topic invites

July 3, 2014, 4:26 pm
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Jeff Atwood wrote:

Right now when you send an invite via the button at the bottom of a topic (requires trust level 2 or staff), the recipient gets this email:

Title: [Discourse Meta] codinghorror invited you to join a discussion

codinghorror invited you to a discussion

Merging authentication with our website?

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Discourse Meta

Discussion about the next-generation open source Discourse forum software

If you're interested, click the link below:

https://meta.discourse.org/invites/guid_string

This invitation is from a trusted user, so you can reply to the discussion immediately.

I suggest we make the following improvements to the email:

Title codinghorror invited you to "Merging authentication with our website?" on meta.discourse.org

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) invited you to a discussion

Merging authentication with our website?

Is it possible to to merge Discourse user authentication with that of our website, so its a single login? any documentation on this?

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Discourse Meta

Discussion about the next-generation open source Discourse forum software

If you're interested, click the link below:

https://meta.discourse.org/invites/guid_string

This invitation is from a trusted user, so you can reply to the discussion immediately.

We only want the first paragraph of the topic in the invite. The email digest code path already contains code to extract the first paragraph of content plus or minus a bit, written by @eviltrout. I suggest we use that.

Also, make sure including the name respects the "don't show full usernames" site setting which is off by default, but can be on for some Discourse instances that are particularly privacy conscious.

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Some proposed improvements to user invites

July 3, 2014, 4:43 pm
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Jeff Atwood wrote:

Hey sam, we're ready to go with this and I'm running into a few issues:

1 I'm too dumb to directly use the api (and would rather not if I didn't have to). It looks like the api is slightly different than your initial post based at what I'm looking at on github. I am a complete idiot when it comes to ruby, so that could very well be the problem smile

2 We would love to just use the invites page and not resort to ruby scripts. I would love to be able to

  • specify the topic ID I want use for content of the email
  • set a group that the user(s) will immediately be added to
  • have an option to use a bulk list of email addresses

It feels like the UI is so close to being able to do this already.

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Invite token bulk email API sample

July 3, 2014, 4:57 pm
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Sam Saffron wrote:

@codinghorror started a sister topic on general improvements to the invite system.

In some cases these changes just will not cut it.

  • In some cases people may want to send out a batch of invites via a third party tool, mailchimp, boomerang and so on. Many of these platforms are designed for email spam and provide better feedback and statistics.

  • In some cases people may want complete control over, subject and body of the email. They may want to include custom copy that differs to the standard email.

To achieve this we need to amend our API endopoint to allow for generation of tokens.

The spec is quite simple:

  1. Input is the exact same format our CSV invite takes
  2. Output is a CSV containing emails and invite links

Example

gem install discourse_api
discourse_api --key API_KEY --username USER generate_invite_tokens INPUT.CSV > OUPTUT.CSV

Side project here is making the api gem more usable, having it distribute a binary to run all sorts of tasks like this.

Note:

@techAPJ will be working on this after he is done with general invite improvements.

Feedback @stevebaer @bobmcneel ?

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Setting up discourse , few issues with it

July 3, 2014, 5:12 pm
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Alankrit Choudhary wrote:

Hello i am setting up discourse for a gaming community. To achieve this
i have a VPS hosted by bitaccel with the specified config requirements to meet the installation,

I have tried running the standard discourse installation method but i am getting docker not running error .
Went through several guides to fix docker but it did not work and has the same issue of docker not running,
So i opted for bitnami discourse stack.
The installer worked and i get my forum located to my IP. 1xx.xxx.xxx on port 80

The main concern is how do i add my domain name to the IP or bitnami stack , so if i go to mydomain.com , i directly enter the front page of discourse (Without adding port numbers)

And yes i have a domain name purchased + added NS servers on my domain name with IP of the VPS etc.

Secondly .
If u do not support bitnami discourse stack here , how do i install discourse using the generall installation method and after doing so how can i fix my domain name to the discourse front page directly as for example .
mydomain.com = discourse forums.

Thankyou.

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Why my Discourse won't onebox mp3 files

July 3, 2014, 5:32 pm
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