Found the new Twitter dev forums powered by Discourse: https://twittercommunity.com/ They're pretty nice, and I'm glad Twitter has chosen to use Discourse as their discussion platform.
However, I noticed the page load time is noticeably faster on that Discourse instance than it is here on meta or any other Discourse forum I've visited. Curious to know what exactly they're doing to make it faster, because the initial Discourse page load has been an issue for me. I don't think it's because they use categories for the index page instead of topics, but then again I don't know enough about how that works.
When I click on a permalink button in a post while logged in, the link I get always includes the string "?u=anonymous234".
I tried to find some kind of discussion about this but could not find any. What exactly is the benefit of that? It seems like it could cause accidental privacy violations (if I don't want people to know my username in a certain forum, but share a link with it).
Discourse Devs, I am new to programming altogether and really liked the discourse project. I am steadily learning Ruby and Rails to understand the architecture behind Discourse. What would be really helpful for guys like me is a learning roadmap so that someone could focus on learning the right languages to fully understand the UI and backend of Discourse. Here is what I know I need to study:
I have seen some mention to coffee script, so if I need to learn that let me know. Also, if anyone has suggestions as to the progression of the learning of those programming/scripting languages I would greatly appreciate it!
It doesn't look like email notifications are being sent when users sent 1 to 1 messages. I've read through a few similar threads and none seem to match our current situation.
Our current version is 1.1.0beta2 but this has been the case since 1.0
Here are some details:
The forum is not using SSO
We have tested email delivery from PMs while the receiving user is logged out of the forum and is offline
I can see a school of thought that every email should have the same [prefix] and another school of though that all messages should be prefixed, administrative emails should not be. I'm strongly for tagging all emails.
Could we hear the discourse core team's take on subject lines?
I would like to create topic without creating any initial post along with it. How to do it?
For example, if a user wants to ask a question like "How to update to Discourse 1.0?" , the question itself is self explanatory and there is no need for a post (description).
On meta, I just got some very pleasing notifications for my achievements but it is a bit puzzling - I got 4 badges for "Nice Topic" and I am gratified - thank you for the recognition!
..but when I click on the notification for each one it just takes me to https://meta.discourse.org/badges/18/nice-topic which shows me generally what the badge means and how many have been granted. Really what I am expecting and hoping for is to be taken to a message telling me what I have done to get the badge.
When I go to my own badges "Nice Topic" does not show up either. Hmm..
I know this has probably come up before here but I could not find it - sorry if I am not searching diligently tonight.
A member of my discourse site pointed out that screenshots embedded in topics are hard to distinguish from the text written by the post author.
Here's his point:
And his example of a post where the text written by the author that is hard to distinguish from the embedded screenshot, and that a drop shadow would fix that:
Some sort of drop shadow styling or at least a way when mousing over to show that the embedded content is special would be helpful, methinks. This is an ssue I have come across also here on meta, where we often are talking about and sharing screenshots of discourse views.
I like the way http://stackoverflow.com/ displays the number of votes in the front page. This way, visitors can quickly conclude which topics are worth reading and which ones aren't. Furthermore, if the nature of discussion website is about opinions, having counter in front page could help distill which one is the best & which are not favored.
root:/var/docker# sudo apt-get install apparmor
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
apparmor-profiles apparmor-docs apparmor-utils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
apparmor
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 391 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,118 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://mirrors.sohu.com/debian/ wheezy/main apparmor amd64 2.7.103-4 [391 kB]
Fetched 391 kB in 0s (646 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package apparmor.
(Reading database ... 34731 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking apparmor (from .../apparmor_2.7.103-4_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up apparmor (2.7.103-4) ...
[....] Starting AppArmor profiles:[....] Mounting securityfs on /sys/kernel/security...[info] Insufficient privileges to change profiles..
failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript apparmor, action "start" failed.
[....] Reloading AppArmor profiles:[info] AppArmor not available as kernel LSM..
failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript apparmor, action "reload" failed.
root:/var/docker# sudo apt-get install linux-image-extra-`uname -r`
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-image-extra-3.2.0-4-amd64
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-image-extra-3.2.0-4-amd64'
root:/var/docker# sudo modprobe aufs
So when in admin mode I get that you can make special pages like privacy and tos etc, I also get that for convenience sake its really pretty easy to stick an image in a post and reference that in any html hacks you do.
I dont get why this is all in the "staff" category though
This is for a couple of reasons
staff would be a good hidden category for staff (ie site admins) to discuss stuff and therefore sticking sort of staticcy type asset pages which are often locked feels like its in the wrong place
the category isn't really "hidden" cos users who dont access rights can still get access to content ( eg. images in posts, and the content for privacy type pages
So I would say you need to serve static content through topics then maybe have a static content category for those type of pages thus freeing up the staff category for more general discourse amongst staff
So this morning, I logged in here to meta.discourse.org and saw a notification that I earned the "Nice Topic" badge. When I clicked on the link in the notification, I was taken to https://meta.discourse.org/badges/18/nice-topic but don't see myself (or my topic) on the list there. (Yes, I did in fact scroll all the way down the page to ensure that everything was loaded.)
Wasn't entirely sure if this was related to the following issue or not. If so, feel free to close the topic:
I logged in as me (the face with the red background) and made some introductory posts. Then I changed the owner of the posts to system (the blue and white logo), so it looks like it came from the system itself, so it looks more official and not my personal thing. The posts show the new owner, but the 'last post' slug is still my avatar:
