Import Via Vanilla

March 10, 2015, 1:31 pm

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If you can't find an importer from your legacy forum to Discourse try Vanilla.

First use Vanilla Porter to export your old forum

Then import to Discourse with the vanilla.rb script

You don't have to install Vanilla for this, you just need to be able to run PHP.

Took me a while to find a way to convert from YAF to Discourse but it worked perfectly.

Vanilla supports:

PHP forums

Vanilla 1

phpBB 2-3

vBulletin 3-5

bbPress 1

SimplePress 1

Simple Machines 1-2

PunBB 1

IP.Board 3

XenForo

Joomla Kuena

Drupal Forum

MyBB

esoTalk

Expression Engine

ASP / .NET forums

Requires conversion to MySQL first. Try the dbdump tool.

Yet Another Forum

Toast

UserVoice

ASP Playground

Webwiz

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Use category slug in menus instead of category name

March 10, 2015, 1:44 pm

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@tobiaseigen wrote:

I don't know when category slug was introduced but I just discovered it today and I like it!

Would it be possible to change it so the category slug is used on menus, instead of the category name? This way we could have a longer name that is used on category lists and so on, while having a nice short name for menus.

Meanwhile and on a related note I noticed that the long names are truncated with ... to make it fit on one line, which is nice, but on mobile it is still juuust a little bit too long to display the new posts number next to it and have it still be on one line. Wraps to two lines which then looks ugly.

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Auto-response when taking action on flags

March 10, 2015, 2:07 pm

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@klow wrote:

Hi there -- I searched all over my admin settings and meta.discourse but couldn't seem to find the answer. Apologies if this topic has already been addressed.

Is there a way to disable an auto-response to the flagger when you take action (agree, disagree or defer) on a flagged post?
For example, I deferred a flag that was created by our system for flag_sockpuppets and it auto-replied with "Thanks for letting us know. We're looking into it."

I'd like to know if there is a way to disable this because this response gets sent out to all of the admins which isn't necessary and it's certainly not necessary to send our "system" a response.

thanks!

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403 when embedding a Digital Ocean droplet

March 10, 2015, 2:22 pm

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@takaminacchan wrote:

Been trying to solve this with a Digital Ocean technician for a couple days, but the situation seems too specific for his competence and I assume I'm not the only person who ran into this problem.

I'm trying to embed Discourse threads on some pages of my main site warranting discussion, which is Kirby CMS-based. Here's a discussion I had attempting to solve the problem on the Kirby support forum. Trouble is, I'm getting a 403 when the main site attempts to load the comments thread. I've already browsed through most of the obviously available resources, and haven't been able to solve the problem on my own, so I assume either the problem is just badly documented or my lack of competence with Docker are preventing me from advancing any further.

What I'm roughly sure about:

The issue is CORS-related. The main site is actually able to load part of the Discourse instance (the blue links at the bottom of the article are the custom header of my Discourse instance), but it can't load the threads proper.

Based on the error messages I'm getting, I assume the problem occurs at the nginx layer. enable-cors.org describes a method to get nginx to comply with CORS requests, but Discourse running in a Docker container means I can't just edit the configuration file of nginx within the container and expect the fix to last. Admittedly, I haven't tried (I'd like to go straight for the "hopefully lasting fix") because I don't know how exactly the configuration file is structured. In other words, I'm looking for an action I'd be able to apply to app.yml in order to properly configure nginx (assuming it's actually the problem) in the rebuilt container.

What I've looked at:

I've tried comparing my network logs with this page's on eviltrout's blog. It looks roughly the same, except for the 403 error occurring on my side.

I've included the CORS fix plugin's installation in my app.yml file.
https://meta.discourse.org/t/x-frame-options-sameorigin-header-prevents-embedding/14928/9
I've tried the generic "Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *" implementation in the app.yml file, and removed it because it didn't seem to change anything.

Sooo yeah, basically I'm stuck. Any leads?

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Sort/filter by likes

March 10, 2015, 2:28 pm

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@czhou1801 wrote:

is there any way to sort topics or posts by number of likes?

after you click "TOP", you have a page to list topics sorted by replies/views/activity

can we search/filter/sort topics/posts by likes?

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Reply field does not appear correctly on mobile view

March 10, 2015, 2:45 pm

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@noam wrote:

On a Right to Left discourse site, we just got the following:

https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=14B462D1A8B246DD&id=14B462D1A8B246DD%213679&authkey=%21ANfT-6WSuL6s9AA

It happens with different devices and screen sizes.

Any hint?

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Hosting Discourse on Shared Hosting?

March 10, 2015, 4:58 pm

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@Bow wrote:

Is it possible to host Discourse via shared hosting companies such as Host Gator? If no, why? Am I an idiot for asking? I want to know!

Thanks,
Bow

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MathJax or Discourse Issue?

March 10, 2015, 5:46 pm

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@terraboss wrote:

I have two Discourse installations on different servers. One of them is showing me a white/blank page if MathJax is enabled. The other one doesn't. The only difference between both installations is, that the other one hasn't installed the latest 12 official commits. Have a look...

How can I fix this? Unfortunately, I really need LaTeX support on this page. It's essential.

Thanks in advance!!!!
Kind regards

Server #1 (with blank page, if MathJax is enabled)
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Server #2 (without blank page, if MathJax is enabled)
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The latest 12 commits:

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Why don't discourse use email name to create username?

March 10, 2015, 7:10 pm

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@trandatnh wrote:

Continuing the discussion from Vietnamese slug support for better SEO:
thangngoc89:
@trandatnh There you go again
github.com
discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/user_name_suggester.rb#L36-L42
def self.sanitize_username(name)
  name = ActiveSupport::Inflector.transliterate(name)
  name = name.gsub(/^[^[:alnum:]]+|\W+$/, "")
             .gsub(/\W+/, "_")
             .gsub(/^\_+/, '')
  name
end
It uses transliterate (which we discuss above).
I find it's strange to use "people name" from Facebook to create username in Discourse. Why wouldn't we use "email name" as a default user name for Discourse forum?

The facts are

almost everyone use their "nick name" or "email name" on forum. for example

@trandatnh is not my fullname

@thangngoc89 is not his name too

@riking I think your name is Kane York?

@codinghorror It's your nick name too right?

@sam is exceptional

@... a lot of people use their nick name instead of their real name on the Internet.

We got problem with unicode "real name", my full legal name is: "Lê Trần Đạt". Facebook presents it as "Đạt Lê Trần". I don't like the way Facebook call me, but it's still ok, acceptable. But hey, what does Discourse call my name? There it is D_t_Le_Tr_n

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I would prefer trandatnh as my username rather than D_t_Le_Tr_n

Don't tell me to use vi as default language. There are 2 reasons

I encourage my members, friends to use English.

The vietnamese translation is not completed yet (around 40%)

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How many subcategory levels Discourse allows?

March 10, 2015, 7:52 pm

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@rodrigofarcas wrote:

Seems only 2 or I am missing something?

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Discourse sends email about a topic to a user who is watching the category

March 10, 2015, 9:01 pm

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@trandatnh wrote:

One of my members complain that my forum keeps sending him a lot of email about topics regardless that he has never read any of those topics.

I've check his setting and the emails sent to him as describle bellow:

This is his email setting:

I tried to log into his account and find that he has never view a topic "Khai báo một vector kiểu struct"

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But he recevied an email from this topic

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And nobody in that topic has mentioned him.

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If fixed ordering for forums, quick reply category selector should also follow that order

March 10, 2015, 10:42 pm

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@rodrigofarcas wrote:

I'm using fixed ordering for forums, but I see this order is not being used in the category selector when creating a new topic. I think it should.

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Saving Post results in Error: 422 Bad Request

March 11, 2015, 12:25 am

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@volker_ge wrote:

Hi there.

I am using Ubutuntu with the Docker Image of Discourse and I am running into trouble after SSL configuration. I configured Discourse according to the setup described here: https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-ssl-for-your-discourse-docker-setup/13847

Now whenever saving a post I am running into following dialog:

Unknown error saving post, try again. Error: 422 Bad Request

Any idea how I can debug the reason of this error?

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Possible to donate money to Discourse?

March 11, 2015, 3:59 am

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@uwe_keim wrote:

Being a .NET developer I hardly can contribute anything in code to Discourse.

Still I would love to contribute otherwise.

I came accross this thread which talks about funding certain features.

Beside that I found no discussion related to donating money for the core Discourse development.

My questions:

Is it allowed/accepted to give some money to the Discourse developement team?

If yes, in which way? (PayPal? Patreon? Kickstarter? ...?)

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List of Invites is incomplete, can be (sometimes) encouraged to display by scrolling

March 11, 2015, 5:34 am

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@pacharanero wrote:

When I have sent a bunch of invites using the Bulk Invite from CSV function (which is great BTW), These invites do not always show up in the list of invites.

I just did a bulk invite of 51 users today, yet here is the list of invites, after a refresh:

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Just one invite.

If I query the number of invites that the user digitalhealth_admin has sent, it is (correctly) 51.
digitalhealth_admin's user_id is 4
[14] pry(main)> Invite.where(invited_by_id: 4).count
=> 51
And if I drill down into each of the invites, the information is correct.

Mandrill confirms that the emails were indeed sent.

Interestingly, on some occasions, if I scroll up and down on the page a bit, a few more names will be added on (1 or 2 usually). If I continue doing this repeatedly, I can get the entire list to gradually appear. This suggests to me it is something to do with the rendering of the View.

I am using FF36 in Linux Mint 17 mainly but also tested it in Chrome Version 41.0.2272.76 (64-bit) and had the same problem.

Anybody any thoughts?
Marcus

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&Colon ; gets reverted when posted

March 11, 2015, 7:14 am

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@Kuro wrote:

If you type &colon; into your editor, it shows up as : on the preview, shows up as : for a second and is then reverted into it's &colon; state when submitted.

Steps:
- Start a Topic / Reply
- Type in &colon;
- Watch the preview display ":"
- Submit your post
- See the ":" in your post
- Watch it transform into &colon;

Rebaking doesn't help either, thanks @boomzilla

Filed Under: Once again, not mission critical but still a bug

Addendum: all other tested html-entities seemed fine. Did not go through a complete list, though

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Handle customizations and automatic updates

March 11, 2015, 7:33 am

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@paulovieira wrote:

Quick question: suppose I want to make a small modification in lib/email/receiver.rb. I will do it directly in server. Will this affect the automatic updates of my discourse?

I mean, will the updates override my modifications? Or will the updates be possible at all?

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Howto for changing lock icon for categories

March 11, 2015, 8:19 am

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@tobiaseigen wrote:

Continuing the discussion from Alternatives to lock icon for categories:

[quote="cpradio, post:63, topic:24815, full:true"]
.badge-category i.fa.fa-lock:before { content: ""; } /* remove the existing icon */
[/quote]

@cpradio could you or someone else provide a simple howto for changing the lock icon for categories? It's now coming up in my community as something they find confusing because it is the same as the topic lock icon. I had some trouble finding the actual howto instructions in this thread.

Would be grateful!

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Customized Trust Levels

March 11, 2015, 8:29 am

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@Grimmhound wrote:

Hi guys, I need to make some changes to Trust Levels restrictions and conditions in my project.
For example, I want TL0 automaticaly become TL1 users after N days, where N is the amounts of days defined by admin.
I know there's no such feature atm, but are there any workarounds for this issue?
Thanks.

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Quoting vs. Direct Replying: What is proper etiquette?

March 11, 2015, 11:47 am

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@AdamCapriola wrote:

Something I've noticed happen with regularity on my Discourse install is that newer users tend to click the reply button for each individual post they want to respond to, rather than highlight and quote multiple posts at once. (The highlight + quote feature is less obvious.) The result is two or more posts in a row by the same user.

I originally considered this to be unmannered (posting multiple times in a row is typically frowned upon), but I starting thinking about it more and maybe it's not a bad thing? The user is at least trying to maintain direction in the conversation.

I'm interested in hearing people's thoughts on:

Is this behavior acceptable? (posting multiple direct replies in a row)

Is there a better way this scenario could be handled?

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