DiscourseUserDirectory - Experimental User Directory Plugin

March 1, 2013, 10:27 am

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Sam Bauch wrote:

Continuing the discussion from Creating Ember routes through a plugin:

I'm ready to put this out in the wild. Obviously it's very early and this is barely more than a trivial extension, but it will (should?) allow users to access a public facing user directory accessible via a top nav button.

I am having trouble with registering a CSS file, there is no test coverage, and is mainly comprised of code ripped from other parts of Discourse. Should go without saying that YMMV.

Thanks to @eviltrout for the help and @danneu for the tutorial

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In FF 26.0, horizontal scrollbar appears when scrolled to the top

January 30, 2014, 5:32 am

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Anton wrote:

1. Navigate to the home page and scroll bottom a little.

2. Enter into Create New Topic mode. Don't input any text.

3. Hide composer panel.

4. Navigate to the top of the page with using the vertical scrollbar.

5. At the very top, the horizontal scrollbar unexpectedly appears: http://imageshack.us/a/img850/7540/4aur.png - It scrolls just for 5-10 pixels.

Environment: Win x64 8.1, Firefox 26.0 (zoom = 100%), Dell 2209WA 1680x1050

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Integrating Discourse with current user database?

May 16, 2013, 11:55 am

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AppReviewer006 wrote:

Hi there,

Can discourse be integrated with an existing database of users? I own a site which has a great community, and we'd love to use Discourse. The website is on the RoR framework already.

Thanks!

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Issue with Custom CSS when modifying groups

January 30, 2014, 5:50 am

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Wint wrote:

May have found an issue here. I have set up and enabled a custom style sheet (still allowing the standard sheet). This works fine until I went to add a group in the admin panel. If I add the group, then click save, then refresh the page, the custom sheet is blown away (shift + refresh doesn't work either) and the only way to get it back is to go and change something in the sheet (so that the save button is enabled) and then click save. Shift + Refresh then reloads the custom CSS.

Also I would like to add that it would be nice to get some kind of message that the group saved when the save button is clicked.

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Looking For Designer

January 30, 2014, 8:39 am

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Google Warriors wrote:

I am looking for somebody that can create a custom theme for me. Need to be able to accept payment VIA credit Card as i do not use PayPal (hate em).

Message me if interested. The site Topic will be Marijuana cultivation, information, news, etc...

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What is the most awesome plugin for Discourse, that does not yet exist?

February 3, 2013, 3:43 am

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Sam Saffron wrote:

I would like to create this topic to inspire budding plugin authors.

As a user what is the most amazing plugin for Discourse you could imagineer?

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(5) in title, 1 in unread

January 30, 2014, 7:47 am

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Carlo Kok wrote:

I've got a weird issue, where when leaving the Window open for a while I get an unread count of say 1, and a (5) in the browser title:

what does this mean and how do I get rid of it? There don't seem to be 5 notifcations anywhere when this happens.

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Ldap support?

February 5, 2013, 11:46 pm

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Carlo Kok wrote:

are there any plans for LDAP support?

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Thin Missing In Install Guides

January 30, 2014, 7:15 am

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Google Warriors wrote:

Been working on getting things setup on Ubuntu as per the official guide and all has went smooth until i navigate to my domain >> guerillasinthemist.org and see bad gateway. After a little digging it seems that thin is not running and I see no refernce to it in the official guide. I am not familiar with thin at all or how to start it properly. Was it supposed to be auto installed with Bluepill? Do i start it with my normal sudo user or with the discourse user?

Edit: I notice also that in /var/www/discourse/config that there is a thin.yml.example but no thin.yml and that is not mentioned in the guide.

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Suggestion: Short description on main page and category pages

March 31, 2013, 5:32 pm

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David McClure wrote:

I poked around at a few of the other forums out there running discourse and something struck me - it wasn't clear what the forums were about. This 'meta' forum solves the problem with the pinned Welcome topic.

While looking around at other forums, its clear that this isn't universally done, though.

It feels like having some short about section that states what the forum is about would make sense.

Other forums help solve this by including excerpts of the posts or descriptions of the categories on the main page. But I have seen in other posts that this was experimented with here on Discourse before being deemed to be too much clutter (which I agree with).

On the Categories page, something similar may be appropriate. Currently, the description is shown when the mouse hover's over the label, but I know there is a desire to make everything work without hovers since tablets are a first class citizen.

So I think a simple 'what is this forum about' line above the list of topics could be a good way to address this in all cases. I've attached a mockup of what the meta.discourse.org FAQ category page may look like after doing this.

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Or perhaps the description line belongs above the row of Filter tabs and Create button...

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January 30, 2014, 7:41 am

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Dan Friedman wrote:

Every so often, I'll come to the site on a new computer/browser. I'll look for the icon to like or reply but they aren't there. "Oh, that's right, I haven't logged in yet". So I find the person icon and do so.

Why not always have the icons there? That way when an icon is clicked, it prompts the user to log in and then, at a minimum, brings the user back to where they were, but ideally, performs the action after log in is complete and brings the user back to where they were.

This is useful not only for old users on new browsers, but for new users who don't know where to click just yet. It just takes one step out of becoming a participant.

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Multiple languages on single Discourse site

July 10, 2013, 7:43 am

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Ted Strauss wrote:

I would like to host a Discourse site for a bilingual context (en/fr) where users
give their prefered language during registration. Both languages will get mixed
together in the forum.
Is this doable?

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LDAP login into Discourse

July 26, 2013, 4:30 am

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Roni Baby wrote:

Can you possible to integrate LDAP login into Discourse? If possible let me know the steps
We are using Discourse in Ubuntu 12.04LTS server

Thanks
Roni

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Text detection for right/left alignment

January 30, 2014, 1:55 pm

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Amit Friedmann wrote:

RTL support was discussed before, but not much progress has been made (me to blame too).
As any language is supported as an input, there are JS libraries that support text detection which sets the correct alignment to the control.
My forum is mostly for the hebrew readers (right to left), and I struggled through CSS to do those changes. This is where I think it will benefit the most:
1. Text area for new/edit post
2. Emails
3. Displaying the posts
4. User profile history

As an alternative, adding a site setting to define the alignment as a global property will be good enough for most forums.

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Why does Discourse need 1 GB of RAM?

January 30, 2014, 11:42 am

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printec wrote:

Most forum software don't need any where as much RAM as this. I was wondering what Discourse uses this RAM for? Is it doing a powerful amount of caching or what?

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Permanently Delete Posts/Topics

June 13, 2013, 2:26 am

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Andrew Hunn wrote:

I am a firm believer that some sort of functionality for admins to be able to permanently nuke a post from the DB needs to exist in a 1.0 Discourse release. The current functionality is very good for 99% of the use cases and I like how it's baked into versioning.

However, there are definitely some extreme circumstances where the content of a post needs to be completely expunged from view by anyone. Sometimes even long-time posters will go too far and post something that they don't want exposed online, even if to a handful of people (i.e. the admin team).

I realize implementing this has ramifications for all sorts of counters and data in the backend, but I think it's a pretty critical safeguard for the forum owner to have in their toolset.

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August 4, 2013, 7:42 pm

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Srikanth wrote:

Any suggestions for a good vps provider to host discourse? Any feedback for Liniode vs Digital ocean?
Digital Ocean's $20 plan seems to be good. It has 2GB RAM and 2 cores. Not sure if 2GB RAM is sufficient though? Please advice.

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JSON requests don't exclude categories from filters

January 26, 2014, 12:26 am

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Vikhyat Korrapati wrote:

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to http://forums.hummingbird.me/. The "forum games" category, which is excluded from the "latest" filter in our site settings isn't shown as expected.
2. Click on "Community" in the header, which triggers a request to /latest.json. Topics from the "forum games" category are now visible.

This is the problem line:

github.com

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/models/top_menu_item.rb#L47

  def has_specific_category?
    name.split('/')[0] == 'category'
  end

  def specific_category
    name.split('/')[1]
  end

  def query_should_exclude_category?(action_name, format)
    if format.blank? || format == "html"
      matches_action?(action_name) && has_filter?
    else
      false
    end
  end

  def matches_action?(action_name)
    return true if action_name == "index" && name == SiteSetting.homepage
    return true if action_name.start_with?(name)
    false
  end

Not sure why the format is checked at all.

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How should we implement polls?

January 12, 2014, 6:48 pm

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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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Flagged, hidden content is sent in email notifications for subsequent replies

January 29, 2014, 11:42 am

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Bill Ayakatubby wrote:

Just as the title says. I received an email notification about a reply to one of my posts. A flagged post—which had appeared between my post and the reply, and the content of which was hidden—was included in the email:

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