David McClure wrote:
It currently sorts by first post date, but now after Consolidating Activity field, it really should sort by last post date.
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Activity column should now sort by last post date
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Wordpress Dashboard for Discourse
Christian Simplicity wrote:
I want to use Discourse for a blog / community site but I don't want to deal with two comment systems or even having to worry about the WP Discourse plugin moving comments back to the blog. I have a design idea that I'd like to run by some of you. Hopefully there are some UI experts here who could give me their thoughts on a design idea.
Imagine a Wordpress shell that along with the standard home & about pages, there are a handful of top level pages that match the primary community defined categories that our team will be blogging about.
The page itself would have some introductory text about the category with the rest of it consisting of a Pinterest-like Masonry Layout of Images / Short Excerpts. When the user clicks on a given post, instead of going to a blog post, they are directed to a topic in the forum with the full post as the starter post for the topic.
Sound reasonable?
No external comment system at all. Everything is right in Discourse.
I haven't worked with the Discourse editor enough to know if it the markup capabilities are robust enough to handle inline video, audio. It looks like it can handle images well enough.
I guess the thing I might be missing out on is some SEO goodies with the Yoast plug-in. Is that right?
Thoughts?
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Keyboard shortcuts for "Next/previous section" do not work with German keyboard layout
The keyboard shortcuts for "Next/previous section" do not work as expected with German keyboard layout.
I've tested it on Windows 8 with latest Chrome and German keyboard:
- ` is a Dead Key on the German keyboard. So I have to press it twice or another key like Space before it works.
- In order to produce the ~ I actually have to press AltGr and +.
I guess the AltGr modifier stops this from working in Chrome.
It doesn't work in Internet Explorer either. However, it works in latest Firefox.Could we use some other keys that are available on all keyboards (simple characters or the same one with Shift modifier)?
BTW: I had to search this forum in order to know what was meant with "section" in the keyboard shortcut help. Maybe adding a hint that Latest, New etc. are sections would help.
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Instalations on subdomains
Igor Da Cruz wrote:
You can perform an installation of Discourse in different forums that have no relation between them subdomains?
For example:
games.domain.com
movies.domain.com
tech.domain.comTherefore, each subdomain have its categories separately.
And another question, complicating the situation, you can have only one active login for both subdomains? Ie who log into games, you can also access and logged in to post all content in movies and tech.
Thank you for your help
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Pre-moderate topics in category
Phillip Kuoch wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if it was possible to pre-moderate topics in one particular category only?
Thanks!
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Other people are posting as me!
Joan Moser wrote:
Help! When one other person posts, she often comes up as me! What do I do?
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Bug in Likes - Not Counted in person's Profile view
Briancguy wrote:
THere is some kind of bug in the like code. Posts are getting liked - and that shows up on the post, but in the person's profile - the like isn't showing up. One of our users just noticed this:
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New topics show unread notifications, now without "new" notification
probus wrote:
Continuing the discussion from New topics with unread notifications:
after refresh:
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'New (3)' shows no topics
James Milligan wrote:
Reported by a member of my test forum, possibly a duplicate of this
The home page shows three 'new' topics or posts, along with the value next to
New, as shown below:However, clicking on
Newdoesn't give you any topics to view.
I think this is because the new items are posts rather than topics, but why update
Newif it's not going to show anything?
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Can't tab to Activity Column
cpradio wrote:
As a keyboarder, you can't tab to the activity column. It goes from the heatmap to the star of the next topic (skipping activity entirely).
It would be nice to be able to access that column since it is the only way you can get to the first post logged in.
Edit:
I verified this used to work prior to the consolidation.
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What should selecting each topic list field do?
Jeff Atwood wrote:
Continuing the discussion from Consolidating Activity field:
Since @probus brought it up, this does deserve some consideration, now that we've more or less stabilized the default set of topic list fields. What should selecting / activating each one of these fields do?
For logged in users:
- Title → your last read position, if no read position, top
- Category → category topic listing
- Avatars → that user's profile page
- Posts → same as title
- Views → (no action)
- Activity → popup, choose last or first post dates
For anonymous users:
- Title → first post
- Category → category topic listing
- Avatars → that user's profile page
- Posts → same as title
- Views → (no action)
- Activity → popup, choose last or first post dates
I think it makes more sense for the Posts field (the one bolded) to always jump to the last post, rather than being a carbon copy of the title behavior.
This seems a bit more logical to me (why would post count link to the top?), and also helps anons who have easy first and last post links now. It's not hugely different for logged in users, though it would help them when they haven't set a read position in the given topic, as it effectively gives them the same benefit as anons -- they can explicitly choose to enter at the top or bottom with 1 less click.
I also wonder if clicking the avatars should produce the user card, rather than jumping directly to the user's profile page?
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How does the Top page show topics with lots of activity?
Jeff Atwood wrote:
What I want to know about a topic on first glance depends on the forum. But usually the age of a topic is completely irrelevant. What counts is the current activity.
In gaming forums, topics that are years old but still active are not uncommon. I've seen one with > 2000 pages of 15 posts each.
I've also seen topics that were dead for some time and then a single post occurred, so the topic shows up in "Latest". This is especially a problem with Discourse, because the auto-generated post when a topic is closed counts in that respect.
But I digress. The information I want to have in the topic list is how active a topic is. And that doesn't mean distance between first and last post, it doesn't mean distance between last post and now. Activity here is a metric of how many posts in the past X hours/days a topic attracted. Perhaps for topics where discussions take place also the ratio of replies to posts.
You can do that with a coldmap, a heatmap or by size manipulations of a number or the topic title. As long as the metric is right, people can do something with that information.
If the metric is wrong, the coldmap/heatmap/whatever is useless clutter.
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Email: replies are lost if they are not top-posted
Apoelstra wrote:
If you reply to an email inline, your message will be stripped and the result is a blank post on discourse. You need to top-post your entire reply.
It is suprising to delete content like this and this makes discourse lists unusable as mailing lists since you cannot quote messages.
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Email: mail headers should have tags in them
Apoelstra wrote:
It'd be great if discourse emails had an extra header with discussion tags in them (even just a comma-separated list would be fine). This makes automated filtering and sorting a lot easier and would give discourse an edge up over traditional mailing lists.
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What comes after Version 1?
Azareal wrote:
A couple of questions here.
What's going to happen after version one of Discourse? Version 2? Is it a much more minor update or a massive one?Also, what plans are there for the next update after version 1? For instance, what features are you going to add to it?
Edit: I see that Discourse is going with a cycle similar to Chrome and Firefox. I'm still interested in what you're planning to add in these releases though.
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Buttons in Admin -> Logs -> Screened IPs are overlapping
There's not enough space for translated buttons in the action column in Admin -> Logs -> Screened IPs.
So, the buttons are overlapping and are unusable. See the screenshot below.There's enough free space on the right side. Either remove the column width restriction (currently 275px) or allow wrapping.
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Destroying a Category does not destroy dependent CategoryGroup models
Jens Maier wrote:
As the title says, destroying a Category does not cascade to dependent CategoryGroup entries. It should.
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Scrolling a profile page crashes Chrome
Héctor Fernández wrote:
If I keep pressed PgDown on a profile page of a user with lots of posts, Chrome rapidly consumes a lot of memory and the page crashes with a He's dead, Jim! message. (Windows 7, Chrome 36.0.1985.143 m) Firefox and IE 11 also consume a lot of memory but they don't crash so easily.
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Should views column be removed?
Konrad Borowski wrote:
Continuing the discussion from What should selecting each topic list field do?:
First of all, this is a thread about views column, not view count in thread itself.
Does this column provide useful information? Or could it be simply removed? First of all, there is no doubt that views column shows threads that become popular, like discussion of JavaScript vs CoffeeScript. But, is that information useful to the user?
Views column is part of forum tradition. It's practically default on many forum systems, with few exceptions where admin manually removed view column from the layout (like Pixelmator Support or CSS Tricks).
But let's take a look at it. What does view count say? To be honest, I don't know. It's just an arbitrary number for me that I always ignored. On any forum system, including Discourse. Perhaps it means something else to you (tell me if it does). Why you would care how many people viewed this particular topic before viewing it yourself? There is no doubt that lurkers are important part of Internet culture, but information about their activity isn't useful for a forum user.
There is only one advantage of view column I can think of - it can be used by thread owner to determine how much activity the topic brings. However, Discourse offers a perfectly fine solution - view counter inside the thread itself.
And if we push it, there is another advantage. It could be used by staff members to determine popular threads, for analytics purposes (like the most common referrers). On Stack Exchange, there is Tools page which shows various statistics, one of them shows most active questions (yes, I know the "questions" on this image aren't question-like, but this is https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/). This could be added to admin dashboard page, if it could be useful.
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However, the view column has its disadvantages. It's yet another column in the view, confusing the users with the numbers. Without it, the main page would become cleaner. Wouldn't it be great to make thread list less confusing? In fact, I believe this is the goal, with the removal of way more useful likes column (view counter is just a rather arbitrary counter, when likes actually show if users like this thread).
One less column, and there is just one column with just numbers (the activity column doesn't quite count, as it has units) - the post count itself.Continuing the discussion from What should selecting each topic list field do?:
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Onebox Twitter embedding
Daniel Hollands wrote:
What are the chances that the onebox system can be configured so it uses Twitter's embedded tweets?
i.e. - this:
not this:
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