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Disable user account

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probus wrote:

What should the admins do when a user wants to disable his account? Meaning, have nothing to do with the forum any more but keep their posts in place.

Suspending the user indefinitely gets weird associations. Deactivating would be better, but this breaks the user page completely and doesn't give any hint to other users that this one has stopped participating. Also, don't unactivated accounts get deleted periodically now? What happens if they have posts?

Should there be a way to disable user accounts so that the posts remain, but the account gets clearly marked as disabled? For example their username gets grey like trust level 0 and the profile page gets a notification like when suspended but less aggressively.

Or could the deactivation be bettered to support users with history on the forum?

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Deleted post still showing up after 5 days

Trouble with activation links with web port other than 80

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David Krcek wrote:

Hey folks,

i need some help with my configuration. i did a standalone installation and use mandrill as smtp server.
Because of port 80 is used by my lighttpd server i decide to use port 8080.
Relevant parts of my config:

    ## this is the all-in-one, standalone Discourse Docker container template
templates:
  - "templates/cron.template.yml"
  - "templates/syslog.template.yml"
  - "templates/postgres.template.yml"
  - "templates/redis.template.yml"
  - "templates/sshd.template.yml"
  - "templates/web.template.yml"

## which TCP/IP ports should this container expose?
expose:
  - "8080:80"   # fwd host port 80   to container port 80 (http)
  ......

  DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS: 'admin@xxxx.de'
  ##
  ## The domain name this Discourse instance will respond to
  DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME: 'discourse.switchxxxx.de'
  ##
  ## The mailserver this Discourse instance will use
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: smtp.mandrillapp.com # (mandatory)
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 587                     # (optional)
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: xxxx  # (optional)
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: xxxxx #(optional)

After registration user get their emails with an activation link. But instead of

http://discourse.switchxxxxx.de:8080/users/activate-account....

the port is missing and the activation looks like:

http://discourse.switchxxxxx.de/users/activate-account.....

What i did wrong?

Thanks
David

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Get bitnami discourse working in subdirectory

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Varun wrote:

So here's the situation - I'm trying to install discourse on my university's server using the bitnami stack installer. However there is already another apache server running on port 80. Thus I used port 8082 for binding the bundled bitnami apache server. However, port 8082 isn't open on the machine so my sysadmin setup an apache virtualhost to proxy requests internally to that port.

The normal website (the one running on port 80) is accessible through http://www.animesoc.co.uk while port 8082 is accessible through http://www.animesoc.co.uk/forums. The proxy itself works fine (I can access any text files that I make in discourse's htdocs/public directory) but when I just try accessing /forums I simply get a blank page.

I assume this is happening because I have to change the application URL path from / to /forums to get the internal links working, but I'm not sure how to go about this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Running Discourse in Docker as a non-root user?

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So Ive followed the installation guide and things are up and running with Docker. However, I believe Discourse is now currently running as root. Whats the recommended workaround here? Ive created a user and added it to the docker group. Can I then simply make sure the docker service runs under that user, chown all the Discourse files and start the app as that user?

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"There was a problem sending another activation email" and a pair of questions

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Warren Allen wrote:

Hi all. I can't upload the image yet, but I'm getting "There was a problem sending another activation email. http: 404 - undefined." -- I deactivated then re-activated an account, and then tried to send a new activation email. Not a big deal; I can work around this issue.

Questions: I have invited a bunch of people to a Discourse site, and now they don't have passwords. How do I force invited users to create passwords? Also, where is the setting for timing-out logins? It seems like users stay logged in even across browser sessions?

Thanks!

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Clicking on a category lists the first 5 posts of each topic

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wrote:

As things stand now, clicking on a category name lists the post titles of that category. Not necessarily bad but a bit boring.

How about when you go to a category, instead of a list of post titles, you can quickly see the first 5 posts of each topic (or the first and the last 4 posts of that topic)?

I think that would be better because you get to see the discussion quickly and can decide immediately if you want to participate or not.

What do you think?

Is this easy to do? I'd be willing to pay a small fee for this to happen.

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Changing group permissions

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Ryan wrote:

Is there a way to change some moderator permissions to not change admin or other moderators settings? specifically the ones for:

  • Editing title
  • Editing badges
  • Modify trust level

I will only have close friends as admins on my instance but I will be appointing users from the community who show great input to the site as moderators, I don't really want them to change other staff settings (the ones above).

Is there a way to configure permissions for each group?

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Cryptic strings in the message baloon

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Marco wrote:

Here:

Maybe that [it.notifications.granted_badge] is non translated text?

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How to unflag a post automatically flagged by the "system" user?

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Vlad Magdalin wrote:

We had a legitimate (non-spam) new user create a post that triggered the newuser_spam_host_posts threshold, which led to the post being auto-flagged by the system user. I'm not seeing a way to remove the flag through the UI (with a full-permissions admin account) - is it possible?

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Reflagged posts should show handling history

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Kane York wrote:

If someone flags a post that has past resolved flags on it, those flags should also show up, with the resolution information shown.

This would make deferring flags a more useful action - basically, it could mean "I'm not ready to act on this until someone else flags it."; while a past Disagree could indicate to the handler that the flagged content is probably okay.

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Upgrade has changed the volume folder locations - what goes where?

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Thisgeekza wrote:

I am using a data container and a web_only container. In the old(er) container templates, the shared volume for both containers was located at /var/docker/shared.

The upgrade recommendation is to rename /var/docker to /var/discourse, which I have done.
I'm busy updating my containers/data.yml and containers/web.yml to the new sample versions, but the data.yml shared volume now points to /var/discourse/shared/data and the web_only.yml template points to /var/discourse/shared/web-only.

My question is: What folders from the old consolidated /var/docker/shared folder goes in to /var/discourse/shared/data and what goes in to /var/discourse/shared/web-only?

My old shared folder contains the following list of folders:

backups
log
postgres_backup
postgres_data
postgres_data_old
postgres_run
redis_data
uploads
vendor_bundle

I'm assuming postgres_* and redis_data go in to the data folder, and the remaining folders go in to web-only?

My concern with this is that the new container builds picks up my existing data. I really don't want to have to build brand new containers and restore from backup if I can avoid it.

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Filter by group in digest preview

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Tobias Eigen wrote:

Continuing the discussion from "Staff" category posts showing in digest preview:

I came across this today - and it seems to me it would be very useful to be able to create a digest preview filtered by group. So you could see what would be sent out to people at trust level 1 etc. My use case for this is to identify and copy/paste recent content to include in a curated newsletter.

Cheers,

Tobias

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Top. Undefined date ranges

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Andy Routledge wrote:

Nexus 7.

The "Top" listing page.

The date selection. Click "This week" and you get the word "undefined" instead of "This year", "This month" , "Today". The selection works - just not displaying the date range.

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Italian translators, please read

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Marco wrote:

In this post I'd like to discuss Discourse translation in Italian. Since this topic is strictly about Italian language, from now on I will write in Italian.


In questo argomento discutiamo della traduzione di Discourse in Italiano. Vorremmo dare delle linee guida per migliorare la traduzione e per far sì che l'esperienza di uso di Discourse sia eccellente.

Ovviamente le decisioni le prendiamo insieme, tutti noi che partecipiamo alla traduzione su Transifex.

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Top Referred Topics CSS bug

Scenario for using all caps in topic title

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Adnan wrote:

I have a topic called "NFL 2014", this displays as "Nfl 2014". I can see other use cases such as "NBA 2014" or "NHL 2014", etc.

I tried to un-checking title prettify preference from "Settings" > "Posting", changing this preference gives me an alert saying "Title is invalid; try to be a little more descriptive". Anyway to rectify this?

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User invite process improvements

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Zane Beckman wrote:

Continuing the discussion from "There was a problem sending another activation email" ...:

Are there any plans to alter this process? It seems a bit dysfunctional. (The nature of my community is invite-only, so I'm using this feature a bit more and probably nitpicking more than typical.)

For example: if username changes are disabled (username_change_period = 0), there is no opportunity for the inviter or the invitee to set a username at all. An admin must wait for the user to accept the invitation, then must manually set a username for them. (The workaround I've used is to allow users to change their usernames at will — not ideal.)

Passwords are likewise, except that a user always has the option to set or reset their password.

Here's a simple mockup:

Additionally, it would be nice to be able to create invite links with no email attached at all. (i.e. retrieve the invite link in plaintext). This would be useful for sending invites to users by means other than email... such as IRC, facebook, etc.

It may be necessary in these cases to force the user to specify an email address once they accept / click the link. Another mockup:


Edit / additional thoughts.

I definitely like the idea of invites being painless / one click, but in my case, it would be very nice to force users through a subset of the normal registration process when they accept an invite.

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Image download and display issue

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Adnan wrote:

I noticed an issue with pasting image URL's. They show up properly at first, but then system account downloads the image and replaces the HTML from

http://www.funinstore.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/FaceSwap-Poolparty.jpg

to this:

<img src='http://www.funinstore.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/FaceSwap-Poolparty.jpg'>

the image source is encapsulated around single quotes and image doesn't show up for other users, except for yourself.

Fix:

<img src="http://www.funinstore.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/FaceSwap-Poolparty.jpg">

Changing the HTML to double quotes, fixes this issue. This does not occur when you upload an image, only happens when you paste an image URL.

Anyone else having this issue?

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Magic search code for keyboard shortcuts

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Sam Saffron wrote:

There appears to be a bunch of magic code in controllers/search.js.es6 for handling up / down arrow for search results.

I just had a play here and it appears we can just use tab to do this, so all this magic is no longer needed.

Are we good to nuke all this code with extreme prejudice?

@cpradio @TechnoBear @eviltrout

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