Jason May wrote:

Sometimes when I receive notification emails, I can't remember why. Even though the context is all in the message subject, some additional info would be nice.

Possibly add to the message footer, after the "To respond..." line, something like:

You received this message because you are subscribed to email notifications for the "XYZ" category at Meta Discourse.

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gahlord dewald wrote:

This has been discussed previously here and here and I suspect this isn't going to get re-opened. But I'd like to submit it for consideration perhaps in the future.

My concern is that neither /category/ nor /c/ have semantic meaning for normal humans. They could be done away with entirely and humans would have both a shorter URL as well as a URL that didn't treat them to codely "wearing of underpants on the outside" as the URL is read.

Is there any reason to not simply have the URL be discoursesite.com/categoryname/topic-title/ ? This would keep all of the words in the URL relevant to what a user might find on the page when they get there. In the case of topics and categories crashing into one another a simple appending of -number to the end of the topic-title could resolve that.

In addition to resulting in a URL structure that was entirely semantic and related to the content one might expect to find on the page it would help with (here is where I dodge rotten vegetables) search engines. Inserting the /t/ and /c/ between the most semantically meaningful part of the URL and the beginning of the URL encourages to think the forum cares a great deal about "t" or "c" and that these are the two most important things for all of our discourse-enabled sites.

I realize that URL structure things are always a massive pain in the butt and that you have recently closed this topic and settled on the /t/ and /c/ approach. But I would ask gently that it be reconsidered for some time in the future.

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Allen - Watchman Monitoring wrote:

I just setup a public forum with just one category available to everyone.

New posts are frequently showing with no category, how do I get them to go into the one category by default?

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Jeff Atwood wrote:

So you've selected a hosted Discourse plan. Lucky you!

The very first step is to point your domain name forum.example.com to our hosting.

• You will need to edit the DNS records for your domain name, example.com.

• In most cases, the DNS is controlled from the same place where you originally purchased the example.com domain from.

• Log into your name registrar and find your DNS control panel.

• In the DNS control panel, CNAME forum to point at hosted-vh1.discourse.org.

• Wait for the change to propagate and we'll take care of the rest.

This page provides a list of detailed instructions for many of the major Domain Name providers. Select your provider from the list below to get detailed instructions for how to CNAME your domain.

If you cannot find your provider or are still having trouble configuring your CNAME records, contact us at team@discourse.org.

GoDaddy.com

1. Log in to your account at www.godaddy.com by clicking the My Account tab.
2. Under the Domains drop down, find the domain you're using for your service.
3. Select your domain by clicking on the link that appears in the Domain Name column of the table of domains. The Settings, DNS Zone File, and Contacts tabs appear with the Settings tab selected by default.
4. Click the DNS Zone File tab.
5. Above the CNAME (Alias) section, click Add Record. A new row appears in the CName (Alias) table.
6. In the new row that appears, enter the following information:
   • Host: Enter the subdomain name for the alias assignment. For example, if you chose www.example.com as your host address, type www
   • Points to: Enter hosted-vh1.discourse.org
   • TTL: Select how long the server should cache the information.
7. Click Save.

DynECT Managed DNS

1. Log in to your account at https://manage.dynect.net/.
2. Click on Manage Domain.
3. Click Add New Node.
4. Enter the the address for your Discourse service and click OK. For example, if you chose www.example.com as the address, you should enter www.example.com.
5. Click Add New Record and then choose CNAME from the drop-down menu.
6. Set your TTL (Time To Live) if desired and then add the full path to Discourse's server. Example: if you chose www.example.com you should enter www.example.com.hosted-vh1.discourse.org.
7. Click Publish Now.

IX Web Hosting

1. Log in to your account at IX Web Hosting.
2. Click Manage below the Hosting Account section.
3. On the left side, click the domain you'd like to use with Discourse.
4. Next to DNS Configuration, click EDIT.
5. Click Add DNS CNAME Record.
6. Under Name, enter only the part of your website address that you designated for your Discourse Service. For example, if you picked www.example.com as your address, just enter www as the entry under Name.
7. Enter hosted-vh1.discourse.org under Data.
8. Click Submit.

1and1

1. Log in to your account at https://admin.1and1.com
2. If it's not already selected, click the Administration tab.
3. Click Domains. The Domain Overview page appears.
4. From the New drop-down menu, select Create Subdomain. (If you've already created a subdomain for your website's address, skip to step six.)
5. Enter the prefix of the address for your Discourse service, and click OK. Example: if you chose www.example.com you should enter www.
6. Check the box next to the subdomain.
7. From the DNS menu, select Edit DNS Settings.
8. Click the radio button next to CNAME.
9. Next to Alias, enter hosted-vh1.discourse.org
10. Click OK.

EveryDNS.net

1. Log in to your account at EveryDNS.net.
2. On the left side, click the domain you'd like to use with Discourse.
3. Since EveryDNS.net is your hosting service, and not your domain registrar, be sure that your domain points to EveryDNS.net's nameservers. This will allow your CNAME record configuration to take effect.
4. Below Add a Record:, you can create your CNAME record.
5. Next to Fully Qualified Domain Name, enter only the part of your website address that you designated for your Discourse service. For example, if you picked www.example.com as your website's address, just enter www as the entry next to Fully Qualified Domain Name.
6. Select CNAME as the Record Type.
7. Enter hosted-vh1.discourse.org as the Record Value.
8. Click Add Record.

Yahoo! Small Business

1. Log in to your account at smallbusiness.yahoo.com.
2. Click Domain Control Panel below the domain you'd like to use with Discourse.
3. Click Manage Advanced DNS Settings.
4. Click Add Record.
5. In the Source field, enter the part of the address you chose for your website using Discourse. For example, if you chose www.example.com, enter www in the Source field.
6. Enter hosted-vh1.discourse.org in the Destination field.
7. Click Submit.

No-IP

1. Log in to your account at No-IP.
2. On the left side, click Host/Redirects.
3. Click Manage underneath Host/Redirects.
4. Click Add for a new entry, or click Modify and skip to step six for an existing entry.
5. Enter the part of the address that you picked for Discourse as the host name, and select your domain name. For example, if you entered www.example.com as your address, enter www as the host name.
6. Select DNS alias CNAME at the host type.
7. Enter hosted-vh1.discourse.org as the Target Host and click Modify.

DNS Park

1. Log in to your account at DNS Park.
2. On the left side, click DNS Hosting.
3. Click the domain you'd like to use with Discourse.
4. Since DNS Park is your hosting service, and not your domain registrar, be sure that your domain points to DNS Park's nameservers. This will allow your CNAME record configuration to take effect.
5. Click Alias Records.
6. Under Host Name, enter only the part of your website address that you designated for Discourse. If you picked www.example.com as your website's address, enter www.
7. Enter hosted-vh1.discourse.org under Destination Name.
8. Click Add Alias.

eNom

1. Log in to your account at www.enom.com.
2. From the drop-down menu at the Domains tab, select My Domain. You'll be directed to the Manage Domains page.
3. Click the domain that you'd like to use with Discourse.
4. Click Host Settings.
5. To add a CNAME record, click NEW ROW. If you've already created a CNAME record for the address, simply edit the existing CNAME record.
6. Enter the part of the address that you want to use with Discourse. For example, if you entered www.example.com as your address, enter www
7. Enter hosted-vh1.discourse.org for the host name.
8. Click Save.

Network Solutions

1. Log in to your account at www.networksolutions.com.
2. In the left navigation bar, open the nsWebAddress (Domains) menu by clicking the + icon.
3. Click Manage Domain Names.
4. On the Domain Details page for the domain you're using with Discourse, select the Designated DNS radio button to the right of Change domain to point to. (If you've already configured advanced DNS settings, click Edit next to Advanced DNS Settings.)
5. Click the Apply Changes button.
6. Under the Advanced DNS Manager heading, click Manage Advanced DNS Records.
7. Under the Host Aliases (CNAME Records) heading, click Add/Edit.
8. In the Alias box, enter your custom URL prefix (such as www).
9. Select the radio button to the left of the Other Host box.
10. Enter hosted-vh1.discourse.org in the Other Host box.
11. Click Continue.
12. Review your changes and click Save Changes to create the CNAME record.

MyDomain.com

1. Log in to your account at MyDomain.com.
2. Click on the My Services tab.
3. Under Manage My Services, click on Manage Services.
4. Go to Domain Overview.
5. Click on Domain Administration.
6. Select the domain you're using with Discourse.
7. Click the DNS tab, and select DNS Records.
8. Click Add New DNS record.
9. From the drop-down menu, select CNAME, and click Next.
10. Enter your custom URL prefix (such as www), and then enter hosted-vh1.discourse.org
11. Click Finish.

Domain Direct

1. Go to domaindirect.com.
2. Click my account, and log in to your domain.
3. On the Domain tab, click Advanced Settings.
4. Click Edit Zone File. Note: Do not delete the A record for *.domain.com and domain.com, or you will have problems later.
5. Under CNAME, create an entry for the part of the address that you want to use with Discourse. For example, if you are using www.example.com as your address, enter www.
6. Point this CNAME record to hosted-vh1.discourse.org

gandi.net

1. Log in to your account at gandi.net.
2. Click the Administration tab, and then click the control panel link.
3. Click the domain you want to manage, and go to Technical Settings.
4. Click Manage DNS zone file.
5. Click Add an entry, and for each field, do the following:
   1. Name: Enter your custom URL prefix (such as www).
   2. Type: Select CNAME.
   3. Value: Enter hosted-vh1.discourse.org., making sure to include a trailing dot (.) at the end of the value.
   4. Click Submit.

6. You should be back to the list of entries. Click Submit Changes

eurodns.com

1. Log in to your account at eurodns.com.
2. Click My Domains in the My Domains menu on the left side of the page. A table listing your domains should appear.
3. Click the DNS column on the row of the domain you wish to change. The DNS records for your domain should now be displayed.
4. From the Add... drop-down menu of the HOST NAME table, choose Host Alias, and click the Add button next to it.
5. In the Alias: field, add the name you chose for your service Discourse. For example, if you chose www.example.com as your address, enter www.
6. Enter hosted-vh1.discourse.org in the Host Name field.
7. Click the Save Settings button.

Register.com

1. Log in to your account at register.com.
2. Under the My Accounts tab, click the domain that you're using with Discourse.
3. Scroll down to the Advanced Technical Settings heading, and click Edit Domain Aliases Records.
4. In the box to the left of your domain name, enter your URL prefix (such as www).
5. Enter hosted-vh1.discourse.org in the points to box.
6. Click Continue.
7. Review your changes, and click Continue to create the CNAME record.

myhosting.com

1. Go to http://myhosting.com.
2. Click on the Account link at the top of the page.
3. Log in with your Domain Name and Password.
4. Click on the Domain Name tab.
5. Click DNS Management in the left-hand pane.
6. Click the Manage DNS button.
7. Add an ALIAS (CNAME) RECORD by doing the following in the ZONE SERVER area:

NameCheap

1. Log in to your account at http://www.namecheap.com/myaccount/login-only.aspx
2. Click on Your Domain/Products in the right hand sidebar
3. Click on the domain you are using under the main Your Domains heading
4. Click on URL Forwarding under the Host Management tab on the left
5. Enter hosted-vh1.discourse.org into the IP Address/URL column for both @ and www as a CNAME
6. Click Save Changes.

(this page was adapted from Fastly with permission.)

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David McClure wrote:

The discussion about a whole sale Ability to block or mute another user feature has been deemed plugin material.

This feature is to track the request to be able to block or mute private messages from particular users, since that is something the team supports introducing into the core product:

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wrote:

This isn't much of a configuration question, rather a question from a user of Discourse forums else where.

I want to know if there's possibility to make a category specifically for drafting lengthy topics?

What I had in mind was that users would post in this category for drafting and revision purposes. Once revisions are made, authors could copy and paste his / her topic in the appropriate category.

Topics would only visible in this category if you are the author- avoiding early leaks / spoilers.

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Examples of topics that would have been easier with a drafting category.

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Clay Heaton wrote:

I see stuff popping up in my error log from time to time. However, there's not enough information there for me to know whether it's a bug that I should report or an issue that isn't serious. Recently, I've seen the following a lot:

Url: Line: Column: Window Location: http://mydomain.com/t/port-usage/200

I see this with a lot of different topics, not just port-usage.

There isn't much additional info, only this on the env tab:

HTTP_HOST: mydomain.com:9999
REQUEST_URI: /logs/report_js_error
REQUEST_METHOD: POST
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0
HTTP_ACCEPT: */*
HTTP_REFERER: http://mydomain.com/t/port-usage/200
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR: 172.17.42.1
HTTP_X_REAL_IP: 172.17.42.1

params:
  url:
  line:
  column:
  window_location: http://mydomain.com/t/port-usage/200

Any thoughts about this?

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Wes Osborn wrote:

When a user added the following link / text

<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zWvvJHxEdPoI.k0-_AW-7A9NY">https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zWvvJHxEdPoI.k0-_AW-7A9NY</a>

This generated the following "broken" link (screenshot below):

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It causes the same broken link over in try.discourse.org.

This appears to be related to this issue that was previously reported: https://meta.discourse.org/t/underscores-in-linked-text-can-cause-markdown-bug/10848

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Thạch Phạm wrote:

Hello,
I'm Discourse's newbie, I have installed Discourse by followed Using Docker guide. But now I want to access /var/www/discourse to tweak some config but n.o such file or directory.

root@tpforum:/var/discourse# sudo -i
root@tpforum:~# cd /var/www/discourse
-bash: cd: /var/www/discourse: No such file or directory

Can anyone tell me how I can access to config/locales folder?

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Steven wrote:

When we installed and started to learn about the discourse system, I added all of our admins to trust_level_4. Now That I understand the system a little better, I have removed several people from being admins but I can not remove them from being trust_level_4

Steps to reproduce

1. Goto the admin page for the group /{discource url}/admin/groups/trust_level_4
2. Remove all users but yourself and system from this group by clicking the "X" next to their name
3. Click the Save button.

Bug:

Users are not removed from trust_level_4 group.

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Steven wrote:

Discourse has this great log of all the actions that the admins do (Staff actions).
/{discorse URL}/admin/logs/staff_action_logs

One thing it does not record is when an admin "impersonates" another user. This could be problematic as I want to have moderators and admins to have this ability but I want a log of this action to know when it is happening. To help reduce admin abuse.

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Eric Vantillard wrote:

How to enable the counter (like in meta.discouse.org) on links ?

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Eric Vantillard wrote:

as an example, the translation in french for the tooltip on pinned topic is

Ce sujet est épinglé globalement; il s'affichera en haut de toutes les listes de sujets

We have used an apostrophe (same character as the simple quote).

the resulting tootip is:

the html code is

<a href="#" title="Ce sujet est épinglé; il s" affichera="" en="" haut="" de="" sa="" catégorie'="" class="topic-status">
<i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i>
</a>

is this a translation misuse or a bug ?

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Ribas wrote:

Dear all,

1- We have installed a discourse instance here in France

It works fine until we:
- I disconnected from the forum
- then I can't login anymore!
- The system stays on the page 'login".. nothing happens.

2- Next, I can't see any 'REGISTRATION' Button on the forum

Can you help ?

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Dean Taylor wrote:

It appears links can be broken by censored words filter in email notifications.

At the bottom of a recent PM notification I noted the following text:

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When clicking the link it takes me to a 404 style page with the message The page you requested doesn't exist or is private..

In my case I am using Mandrill and tracking links which may be a factor.

However I would still expect the link to be readable as is without censoring.

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Erick Guan wrote:

It's quite exciting to watch Discourse growing with an ambitious goal - build forum software for the next decade. To me, online communication is a great deal to my childhood, for the others' thoughts and enthusiasm. I believe online forum must be more helpful for many guys in this world.

We launched the Discourse with many language and keep evolving that. As a open source program, and as an ambitious one, building a globalized community is exciting to me.

So here we go. I am announcing a Chinese Discourse Meta now. You can visit http://www.discoursecn.org/ and its meta.

I have already translated some guides and the official landing page there. As a localized community, I am going to work on with some problem related to the China, especially the fucking Internet problem and localization. What's more, I think it would be a great chance to introduce our great work to people want to be awesome who really care about the online forum.

Thanks for everyone's helping along the way! Sincerely.

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Discourse 中文社群将是一个本地化的论坛，独立于官方论坛。将主要关注文档、Bug 处理、开发、翻译和支持帮助。欢迎访问

中文网站： http://www.discoursecn.org/
中文论坛： https://meta.discoursecn.org/

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Michael Downey wrote:

Steps to reproduce:

1. Be running Discourse in SSO mode.
2. Create a new user, sending a payload with user ID, and name correctly capitalized such as "Jeffy O'Atwood".

Expected behavior:

• The user's full name on Discourse is listed as "Jeffy O'Atwood".

Actual behavior:

• The new user actually gets created as "Jeffy O'atwood" with a lower-case "A".

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charles wrote:

Is there option or 3rd party script to pull RSS feed into Discourse as regular post.

For example:

• setup a new category name world news
• get a rss link and feed it into the world news category as individual
  draft post
• each post can then be reviewed by moderator, approve and posted

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charles wrote:

I use the preview to look at the excerpt and have decided to decrease the length.

Where is that being controlled? I tried the minimize setting and when using the preview, it stays the same. Does option exist? How about only title of topic with no excerpt?

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Lukas Heddendorp wrote:

Hello, I have discourse running at /var/www/sgm/discourse/ but upgrading doesn't work anymore when using the web upgrading console. Can I tell discourse where to find itself?
I also tried finding the plugins folder and doing the upgrade commands mayself, but there is no plugins folder in my discourse directory ...

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