Importing from a legacy forum

May 8, 2015, 8:18 am

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@Kristen wrote:

I am wanting to transfer Users and Posts from an antique forum. It uses SQL Server and Snitz [forum software] (which has been dead for many years ...)

I've had a bit of a look at the import solutions offered here, and it looks like they rely on mounting a local restored database - MySQL or similar, e.g. based on phpBB - and then a Ruby script pulling the data from that DB. I've little familiarity with Ruby etc. but I suspect the easiest solution with my skill set would be to export existing database to something like XML / JSON etc. I could take care of converting local links into something generic that an import into Discourse was able to parse and sort out. Current forum has no attachments, so I'm just looking at Threads (with Title and Forum/Category), Original Message and Replies (nothing threaded, just chronological messages) each with a Date, Time and User.

Is this sounding doable with import tools that already exist?

Many thanks

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Discourse SSO Logout

May 8, 2015, 9:13 am

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@bboyle1234 wrote:

Discourse SSO works great for login:

• The discourse login button directs to main site's sso page.
• The main site can link to myforum.com/session/sso, helping the forum start an sso login if the user's not already logged in.

Great! But what about logout:

• When the user clicks the discourse logout button, it should be able to redirect to the main site's sso logout url
• When the user clicks logout on the main site, the main site should be able to make the browser temporarily navigate to myforum.com/session/sso_logout or similar

What do you think? Are these features already available but I don't know how to use them?

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Empty page with strange entries in logs

May 8, 2015, 10:11 am

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@staticinvocation wrote:

Hi,

I've had a Discourse forum running for about a month now, but today I woke up with the forum returning a completely blank page. Restarting the docker instance did not fix the issue.

I tried running ./launcher rebuild which appeared to have worked, but when navigating to the page it works once, and then returns an empty page for every request thereafter.

I took a look in the log files and they are completely spammed up with entries like this:

2015-05-08 17:06:51 UTC [65-1] LOG:  could not open temporary statistics file "/var/run/postgresql/9.3-main.pg_stat_tmp/global.tmp": No such file or directory
Missing privilege separation directory: /var/run/sshd

Anyone know what's up? I tried entering the instance already and touching the postgre file with no result.

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Ability to change tracking level from topic summary

May 8, 2015, 10:25 am

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@abarker wrote:

As some of our users have pointed out, it is frustrating to only be able to change the topic tracking at the bottom of a topic. The problem scenario was outlined as follows:

1. Set auto track rules to something like 4 minutes in topic.
2. Browse from a touch device, such as a tablet.
3. See a new long topic that piques your interest. get 10 or so posts in and realize that, while you are interested in the topic, you aren't interested enough to devote the time in the topic now.
4. You haven't yet spent 4 minutes in the topic, so it hasn't auto-tracked. Being on a touch device, you can't use the keyboard shortcuts. Down to the bottom of the topic you go to set the tracking-status manually.
5. Now that you've been at the bottom of the topic, your furthest read position is the last post. The topic does not show in the Unread list. Your position in the topic is lost.

To combat this, the idea of adding the ability to change the tracking status from the top of the topic was suggested (thank you @boomzilla). Adding the selector to the topic summary area would seem a logical place to double this control, and would resolve the above scenario fairly easily.

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Poll height on mobile with image content

May 8, 2015, 12:50 pm

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@DeanMarkTaylor wrote:

Continuing the discussion from Polls don't fit on mobile:

I've just reproduced this issue on try.discourse.org (obviously it's likely to be reset soon):
http://try.discourse.org/t/poll-test-looking-into-images-in-polls/323

Screen grab:

Pasted image321x881 93.2 KB

Here is the relevant post raw code I used:

[poll name=with_content]
- My first image <img src="https://meta-discourse.global.ssl.fastly.net/uploads/default/41751/aa207d68bf8ab060.png" height="100">
- Emoji: :smile:
[/poll]

[poll name=with_content2]
- My first image <img src="https://meta-discourse.global.ssl.fastly.net/uploads/default/41751/aa207d68bf8ab060.png" height="150">
- Emoji: :smile:
[/poll]
[poll name=with_content3]
- My first image <img src="https://meta-discourse.global.ssl.fastly.net/uploads/default/41751/aa207d68bf8ab060.png">
- Emoji: :smile:
[/poll]

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Onebox support for multiple audio files in folder on archive.org

May 8, 2015, 3:36 pm

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@sujato wrote:

Archive.org supports folders that contain multiple audio files (probably other kinds of files, I guess). When I paste the URL in Discourse, it gives me an audio player for just the first file. There doesn't seem to be any simple way on archive.org to get individual URLs for the various files. So it'd be lovely if Discourse would add via onebox the whole set of audio players. Any ideas?

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Can't download backups

May 10, 2015, 11:09 am

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@Alex_Flom wrote:

When I click on download backup I get the following error:
The page you requested doesn't exist or is private.

What can it be?

Thanks

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How do I recover true user IPs?

May 10, 2015, 11:44 am

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@KazWolfe wrote:

I am using a Discourse container that is using Cloudflare for performance and security. However, I am encountering a problem: User IPs are not what they really are.

This is most likely Cloudflare's fault, but there are solutions to this issue. What is the "official" tutorial for fixing this problem?

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Don't claim support for Ruby 2.0

May 10, 2015, 12:26 pm

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@palant wrote:

Install document currently says:

Ruby 2.0+ (we recommend 2.0.0-p353 or higher)

Actually, Ruby 2.0.0 won't work. When I tried I got an error from the Sidekiq gem:

uninitialized constant Sidekiq::Sinatra

This was coming from sidekiq.web.rb:

module Sidekiq
  class Web < Sinatra::Base
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sinatra/base is required above. While I don't know Ruby, I guessed that this is a language incompatibility. And indeed, the error went away after switching to Ruby 2.1.2.

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Should word censoring's site setting show ■ or #9632?

May 10, 2015, 1:52 pm

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@watchmanmonitor wrote:

Continuing the discussion from How is word censoring supposed to work?:

I'm digging through settings, looking for how to enable moderation, and found that the censored words shows ■ in the UI.

I would expect it to be shown as ■

If I were going to create a PR for it should I make the change in all the languages?

I'd change the english to

censored_words: "Words that will be automatically replaced with ■■■■ (■)"

to show what it would really look like, and then the unicode character it's supposed to be.

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Average 'payload' size per pageview (to calculate bandwidth needs)

May 10, 2015, 3:16 pm

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@purldator wrote:

I, in my constant yak shaving, have mentally conjured a hypothetical formula to ballpark a possible bandwidth figure. This is so I can anticipate bandwidth costs. For me, it's better to get some idea of what I may be up against than nothing at all.

To use the formula, one needs to find the median of a single Discourse instance's average payload size. Then use it to divide the bandwidth one is allowed each month by one's VPS provider. The solution shows how many pageloads/payloads would have to happen to reach the bandwidth cap.

x = bandwidth cap
y = average view/payload size
z = average number of views/payloads to reach the bandwidth cap

x/y = z

(I am absolutely terrible at math but I can write these out since it's basic problem solving for me. If I'm wrong with the stuff above then please correct.)

My question is how would one go about determining the average size of a payload? Furthermore, what determines a payload for Discourse?

I know the JavaScript framework needs to be loaded first. After that it's only calling things from the database then serve onto the JavaScript.

I also have tried finding through google ways to determine bandwidth size needs. I haven't found much; this is my concrete way of getting a solid ballpark figure so I have a simple idea of what to possibly expect.

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Confused by users counts on Users page vs. About page

May 10, 2015, 3:18 pm

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@DeanMarkTaylor wrote:

As of right now the user counts on both these pages say something different...

... what is the technical difference between these?
... should they be different?

"About" Page

https://meta.discourse.org/about

"Users" page

https://meta.discourse.org/users?period=all

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Dismiss Topics/Replies per Category

May 10, 2015, 3:32 pm

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@purldator wrote:

Sometimes I wish for a more focused view per category, in terms of the New/Unread tabs.

@cpradio already made a PR that was merged in October of last year.

I am unsure if that was suppose to fix what I am looking for/missing. Because as of right now there's no dismiss buttons at least for the new tab per category.

I also am wondering if it's possible for the category drop down to remember that I was looking at the new/unread tabs. Instead of jumping to the latest for that category it would keep inside the new/unread tabs.

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Custom ordering of threads and posts

May 10, 2015, 6:28 pm

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@rubydoob wrote:

If I wanted to use discourse as a semi-CMS, I would want to do the following:

1. Customize the order in which the threads are ordered.
2. When viewing a thread, customize the order of the posts/replies.
3. Have control on what posts show up in the related posts section

To satisfy #1, I guess I could just pin all the posts, and control the ordering with that correct?

Is #2 possible? What I am looking for is, say I have 3 replies, and I want to be able to move them around to any order I want.

Suggestions from anyone doing something similiar would be great.

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A code metric gem may help: rails_best_practices

May 10, 2015, 7:29 pm

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@fantasticfears wrote:

https://github.com/railsbp/rails_best_practices

rails_best_practices is a gem can be used to check the code quality by complain about code patterns.

It can complain a lot of things. We can also add additional check.

Last time, it complains about 200 more warnings. Most are trivial things. Anyway, hope it helps.

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Admin Quick Start Guide links broken

May 10, 2015, 8:09 pm

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@ChristopherMcEwan wrote:

in the ADMIN-QUICK-START-GUIDE found at https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/ADMIN-QUICK-START-GUIDE.md some of the links appear to be broken. The ones that i was specifically looking for were:

• assets for the site design
• Customize, Colors.
• Customize, CSS/HTML
• the admin email settings,

Can anyone advise where I would find?

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Love the "Anonymize User" feature - thanks!

May 10, 2015, 8:15 pm

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@BCHK wrote:

Great feature guys.. Extremely helpful with healthcare oriented web sites!

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Anonymous User Can't Be Created

May 10, 2015, 10:26 pm

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@KazWolfe wrote:

Our Discourse install has the anonymous user feature enabled, but clicking it does nothing.

Looking in the logs, I can see:

ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid (Validation failed: Email is not allowed from that email provider. Please use another email address., Name can't be blank)

Now, this error would be okay if it weren't for the anonymous user. We're blocking all e-mails not from a specific domain and we're requiring names.

Could it be possible to implement some sort of code that allows the Anonymous user to bypass e-mail and name checks?

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The homepage overview - how to make it look more clean

May 11, 2015, 2:32 am

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@christianjohnsen wrote:

Hey guys

I've a question for you. I just came across this site: http://community.sitepoint.com and I really like the way they've chosen to set up the overview. Can someone tell me how to do this in the settings? I can't really find a way to make it look like that.

-Best
Christian

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Removal of users from groups

May 11, 2015, 2:41 am

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@Daniel_Pett wrote:

Hi all,
We've had a look through support topics and cannot find this referenced anywhere. At the British Museum, we're running v1.3.0.beta7 +52 on the supported Docker install and have found that we cannot remove users from groups. You click the cross button and the dialogue steps run through as normal. However, the user is not removed from the group. We have tried in Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox on Windows 7 (not tried under another OS).
Any ideas?
Dan

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