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How should we implement polls?

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Sam Saffron wrote:

Continuing the discussion from So, you want to help out with Discourse:

Almost all forum software out there supports "polls". They can be quite fun and allow you to easily gauge what people like / dislike.

@Hunter was asking for some sort of spec of how I would see this work, so here I go.

  • Polls should be designed as a standalone plugin. This important cause it ensures our extensibility story is solid and allows us, further down the line, to upgrade poll functionality outside of core releases.

  • I think polls should simple be an extension of markdown that only applies on the first post in a topic. Eg:

    <poll>
    - This is the first option
    - This is the second option
    - This is the third option
    </poll>
  • Initial implementation should only allow one vote per option.

  • Initial implementation should not allow for anonymous voting.

  • Choices must be locked in after 5 minutes

  • On initial render it should not display the results, you must either vote or click on "show results" to see them.

  • Initial implementation does not need to worry about randomising options on first view

  • Data for the polls should be stored in Topic or Post meta_data (an hstore column) or in PluginStore, a custom migration in a plugin is a major work to undertake which we can skip for now.

  • Controller to receive voting should be registered by the plugin using a rails engine, example is my blog https://github.com/samsaffron/blog

Questions / ideas?

I would like to keep the first go at this rather simple with minimal features.

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Special "Leaderboards" for Discourse Forums?

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Briancguy wrote:

You have to be careful with this idea because you don't want to promote just "volume" of postings - but it would be very interesting to see experimentation (perhaps via plugin) with leaderboards to help encourage quality participation in the forums.

I'm thinking of things like multiple leaderboards - for people with the highest number of "likes", or perhaps likes per month (so it doesn't just bias towards people who have been at the site the longest), or perhaps some calculated leaderboard with weighting towards different things like likes, regularity of participation, etc..

It seems like this could be very beneficial in encouraging quality participation. Any other thoughts on this topic?

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When I place the image at the first item of a post - post description goes wrong

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nXqd wrote:

I think those brackets shouldn't be shown there. it should be removed.

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After upgrade topics won't be shown, error message instead

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Ricardo Marques wrote:

Hey there,

I already lost like 40 hours on different days trying and trying different things and nothing works.

I had a successful discourse install version 0.9.7.5 on a debian wheezy environment, and since the discourse itself was bugging me always saying to upgrade, I did upgrade. I followed the instructions on the discourse install guide for upgrading and did a backup of the discourse directory and a pgdump of the database. It happens I was upgrading directly to version 0.9.8.2

Then it went wrong, topic pages would not open. Only a completely blank page when I tried to open a pre existing topic.

With this done, I tried to go back to version 0.9.7.5 so I could upgrade minor version at a time. I did it renaming the "new/broken" discourse folder to a discourse.bak and untar-ing the backup into its original place. I also dropped the database and created it again followed by restoring with the .sql from the backup.

Now I have a problem I can't solve, and for me it doesnt make sense ...

Whenever I try to open a topic, instead of a blank page like it happened on the 0.9.8.2 version, it shows an error:

Sorry, we couldn't load that topic, possibly due to a connection problem. Please try again. If the problem persists, let us know.

I don't know what else to try. Can someone please give me some guide lines?

Thank you

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Uploading images from mobile device

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David García-Navas wrote:

So, could we upload an image stored on our Android phone or iPhone?
I only see this:

...but how do i drag or paste on a little mobile device?
Is it a planned feature?

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Discourse plugin for static site generators like Jekyll or Octopress

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Sjors wrote:

It would be nice to have a plugin for static site generators like Jekyll or Octopress, since the performance and security benefits of those platforms are significant if you would take the time to learn it.

What do you guys think?

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Plugin doesn't work after install

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Rikki Tooley wrote:

I'm trying to get spoilers working on my forum using:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse-spoiler-alert

  • bluepill stop/quit
  • The folder is cloned into plugins/discourse-spoiler-alert
  • I've run RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile
  • Restart Discourse using bluepill
  • Spoiler effect isn't applied to posts with spoiler tags.

What am I doing wrong?

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How to change date and time format?

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raly wrote:

In China, we'd like to put YEAR first, MONTH second, and DAY last, for example: 2013 年 11 月 1 日.

I tried modifying the server.zh_CN.yml, recompiling the assets and restarting the forum, but there was no difference. Is there anything else I should do?

The modified server.zh_CN.yml:

zh_CN:
  dates:
    short_date_no_year: "MMM D日"
    short_date: "YYYY年 MMM D日"
    long_date: "YYYY年 MMM D日 h:mma"
  time:
    formats:
      short: "%m-%d-%Y"
      short_no_year: "%B %-d"
      date_only: "%b %-d, %Y"
...

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Is math (latex) supported?

Different home page for regular vs. new user

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Hrishikesh Thakre wrote:

For regular users of a forum "New" tab works best and is used widely. They may have bookmarked the best comments and Favorited the topics. The current system works like charm for regulars.

But for new users the current setup seems little lost.

  1. He is presented with "new" and "categories" tab. But both contains more and less same information. Newest topics / new topics by category.
  2. "New" tab is about the current discussions which necessarily does not mean the best discussion and it won't reflect the depth or the best of a forum.
  3. Categories also have topics sorted by age only. So other than knowing the high level setup of forum no more information is provided to user from second tab
  4. There is no section or tab to represent most liked topics, most discussed topics, editorial /admin marked topics.

We have pinning feature, but it reflects Important note, attention rather than the best quality topics.
We need little more flexibility to showcase site's depth and quality. My suggestions are:

  1. Provide settings where admin can pre-select the sort order for topics shown in categories tab (and topics of single category on selction). That will solve some part of problems. (Admin can decide if it is views, likes, no of comments which he thinks is important for his forum.)

    1. Extra Tab for Editorial /Admin marked Best of Topics. (many forums are still one man army (very few users) )

    2. Tab for Favorited topics by all users

I think first one should be easy, other two can be debated.

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Multiple email accounts for single user

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Hrishikesh Thakre wrote:

Shortly, I will be working with a school for the using my discourse based forum to improve the communication between school and parents (as a pilot program). One of the request is to have both parent's email accounts connected with student's name i.e. @studentname connected to parent1@abc.com and parent2@abc.com .

The students by themselves will not have an email account as they will be less than 14 yrs of age.

Is this feature planned, or any suggestions on how to achieve it?

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Problem with the mobile site

Author-only Topic

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Tedy Pranolo wrote:

Is it possible to create a topic that is only updatable (reply, edit) only by the author, but readable by everyone?

I'm thinking of an "updates/change log" topic where the author keep adding new replies as updates to the topic. To prevent noise, everyone else who would like to discuss the posts can only create "Reply as new topic".
While continuously reediting the original post is a way to do this, if the updates are long and numerous, a single post would be hard to read. Reediting the original post also prevents user from getting a nice notification and jumping to the latest post.

The single author filter is not ideal because it's an additional click and new visitors may not know of the feature. And if discussion is allowed in the topic and the author participates, this filter no longer works since it will mix "updates" with replies to comments.

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Change socket count depending on your NUM_WEB count


Domains for sale

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Pablo Corral wrote:

Hi everyone,

I've some domains registered last year that maybe are interesting for anyone working on discourse's ecosystem (freelancers, agencies, hosting companies, theme building, etc).

discourseConf.com
discourseGarden.com
discourseHispano.com
discourseLab.com
discourseThemes.com
discourseTutorials.com
discourseTuGo.com
discourseVip.com

Please, contact me if you are interested.

Tks!
Pablo

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Use of blockquote tag causes text outside a paragraph

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Kane York wrote:

Continuing the discussion from The West Virginia chemical spill is just one example of a much bigger problem:

This post has text in the raw <div>, triggering the canary of smaller text.

<div class="cooked">I was just in the area of beautiful Asheville, NC, visiting my mom, and as we drove to the airport we passed the local power company's generation station (not sure if it's natural gas/coal) which is sitting right on the edge of the French Broad River.  From the <a href="http://wnca.org/asheville-coal-waste-illegally-polluting-the-french-broad-river/" rel="nofollow">Western North Carolina Alliance</a>:

<br><blockquote>The plant has two old coal ash ponds, built in 1964 and 1982, that sprawl over 90 acres adjacent to the French Broad River.  The City of Asheville is about seven miles downstream from the plant.  Ash pond seepage has been documented for at least three decades, according to public records obtained by the groups.  The utility recently estimated leakage from the older impoundment may be as high as 1 million gallons per day.</blockquote>

<p>So there's that.  Dog forbid we should ever take an adult approach towards the environmental damage we're doing regularly and around the world.</p></div>

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Change text in invite Emails?

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Michael wrote:

How can I change the invite email text?
I want it to be a bit more specific about the forum you are invited to.
Current text:

USER invited you to FORUM.

If you're interested, click the link below to join:

LINK

You were invited by a trusted user, so you'll be able to join immediately, without needing to log in.

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Can email digest have links to updated topics (For smaller forums)

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Hrishikesh Thakre wrote:

My forum being very small, this week I had only two new topics but decent updates to other 5-6 topics.
When the digest email went it had a mention of only two topics and no mention of the updates ones.

Is is possible to include the updated topics also in an email digest, if total topics (new) in an email are say less than 10?

One more related suggestion, "Top" page algorithm gives weight to views, updated /replies to find the hot topics for a week. Why can't the same be used in Digest?

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