Change locations to help in dock menu

February 3, 2014, 4:56 am

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probus wrote:

I wonder if something could/should be done to the locations drop down menu in the dock. I think it's quite ugly and messy.

Was the idea to have some kind of short list for most used ui controls? The tool tip says 'go to another topic list or category'.

The way I see it, link to 'Latest' is completely redundant and 'Categories' sub menu is not only ugly and different from how categories are presented elsewhere on the site but also quite out of place here. There are multiple better ways to navigate categories.

The needed items are links to FAQ and Keyboard short cuts which are user help and documentation. There is also a link to mobile view, which is a bit of an odd ball, but close enough to fit into the same category. We could add more stuff like terms of service and privacy policy and change the icon to question mark. A clean look and great usability improvement with pretty much zero negative effects.

A quick mockup:

If you are logged in as admin, you also see the links to flags and admin console, which are both useful but don't quite fit into that idea. Flags could/should be moved to notifications. Admin console link would cause a tiny usability hit either way you do it (leave it or remove it).

What do you think?

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February 3, 2014, 6:28 am

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Francis Brunelle wrote:

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Search does not work if category is pre-selected in "Latest" Tab

February 3, 2014, 5:03 am

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Hrishikesh Thakre wrote:

1. Select any Category in "Latest" tab
2. Enter the text for search.
3. No results are shown, "searching" icon keep spinning.

I found this problem on http://discuss.howtogeek.com/ and also here.

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Meta Topics for Forum's Usage and Features

February 3, 2014, 4:55 am

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Hrishikesh Thakre wrote:

New users who who will be visiting/using discourse based forum's will be new to it's features and functionality.
Can we have a set of topics pre-built into "meta" group available as a part of installation?

Example:

"meta" group can have few topics like:

Except the HTG specific content the other part is applicable to all discourse based forums.

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Activation email click failure

February 3, 2014, 12:13 pm

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Erwin NH wrote:

I've finished installing discourse via the official guide. It went very smoothly including the test email, so for that, a big thank you! When I logged into the site to create the admin account, I got the activation email but the click brought me back to the main page and did nothing. I'm guessing I've missed something with the database. An old topic said to check the database.yml but that no longer has production in it. I didn't understand what I was looking at in applications.rb in reference to this issue so does this ring a bell with anyone?

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First-run users - Configure what they see?

February 3, 2014, 12:03 pm

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Jordan Hofker wrote:

We have a fair number of people signing up for a new discourse site internally. One of the most repeated initial reactions to the site is "what is going on here - I'm so lost" the first time they sign in.

Is there a way to configure what a new user would see? Maybe default them to the Categories view instead of the Latest tab? What are the options to prevent users from getting turned off by the initial noise and how can that be improved for Discourse?

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"Hide" a user from another user?

February 3, 2014, 3:53 pm

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Briancguy wrote:

I seem to recall a discussion on this topic earlier, but I can't find it.

A user has asked that he be able to "hide" another user who's posts he finds upsetting. I think he's coming from a facebook perspective where you can hide (or "don't show me this person' posts any more).

Is this on the list of features in the not too distant future? (or not). This would be a "nice to have" feature - but obviously not highest priority.

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CAS sso auth plugin

October 9, 2013, 2:01 pm

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eriko wrote:

Here you go @sam
https://github.com/eriko/cas_sso

This is a first pass at replacing the current implementation that is built into the core. It is not perfect as I will explain.

Good things

• It uses the extra attributes that a CAS server can optionally supply.
• The names of the attributes are configurable.
• The attributes that it currently attempts to get are email address and (display) name.

Annoying things

• After logging in for the first time you still need to hit login when you first create your account
• If you set must_approve_users to false they will be left on the /login page but logged it. They should be redirected to the front page / .

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February 3, 2014, 1:29 pm

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Shobhit Shrivastava wrote:

I am trying to edit this string in client.en.yml 'Unfortunately, your browser is too old to work on this Discourse forum. Please upgrade your browser.' but any changes in this string are not reflected in my discourse instance. I tried editing some other values and those changes are reflected correctly. No matter what i try i cannot tailor the browser update message . I also tried cleaning up and recompiling assets multiple times and it didnt help. Any pointers ?

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'Watched' category on user page changes to 'undefined' after delete. Locks all user edits

February 3, 2014, 3:58 pm

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Michael Jonker wrote:

I have an 'undefined' category stuck in users preferences:

When i try to delete it, it just scrolls to the top of the page. This is also locking any other changes on the user. eg. changing their long name after hitting save, the page just loads forever and the changes do not apply.

This would appear to have happened after the category which was previously watched was deleted. I tried re-creating the topic to no avail.

On user accounts who had not 'watched' this topic, everything is working fine.

Any suggestions?

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When logged out, columns don't match up

February 3, 2014, 3:58 pm

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Shiv Kumar wrote:

This seems to have just happened on a recent deploy:

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Select-to-quote works outside the post bodies

February 5, 2013, 6:03 pm

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Brad Westness wrote:

So, I mentioned this over on try.discourse.org, but I thought it was worth restating here. The select-to-quote functionality is a neat idea, but the selection is not constrained to the post content, making it very easy to select (and thereby quote) entire portions of the page including UI elements and other posts.

@supermathie indicated that this was a deliberate decision, but I'm curious, what is the possible use case for allowing the selection to expand outside a given post?

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Ability to block or mute another user

April 18, 2013, 12:08 pm

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mtndewforbreakfast wrote:

Feature request: Say I am an everyday user with no administrative or moderation privileges on a public forum, such as here at Meta, and there is another user whom I think is unpleasant for whatever reason. I'd love a way to block or mute that user so that his/her posts appear collapsed or otherwise hidden by default when reading a thread they participated in, but with a way to still optionally view that post after all if it's important for that particular context.

I make super heavy use of Mute filters on Tweetbot for iOS/OSX, which was my inspiration for this idea.

On a somewhat related note, after a cursory search I couldn't find any existing functionality relating to blocking another user anywhere. Is there currently no way to protect oneself from harassment, spam that made it past the filters, etc. for PMs?

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Discourse Observations fr a Programmer & Auto Enthusiast

January 21, 2014, 1:47 pm

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Ray wrote:

Hey Discourse Team,

I have a slight concern. Right now, I have these 2 forums I've setup http://idxclub.co/ and http://gt4stinger.co. Each forum singularly focuses on a model of an automotive make, in this case Nissan and Kia. Maybe this is me looking far ahead, but at some point, I'd like to include other models of cars (Kia -- Soul, Optima, etc. // Nissan -- 350z, 370z, etc.) for every make (Kia, Nissan, Toyota, Ford, etc.) but I'm concerned that this near flat organization of category may 'confuse' users. This is expected, we know, but how does the Discourse team combat many categories with many more sub-categories? Will Discourse forums resemble more like Stack Overflow at some point... ?

Since it seems that majority of Discourse users thus far are programmers, we can presume that we're adept and understanding leading/bleeding edge tech and we can visually figure things out relatively quickly. Though, my concern lays with non-technical automotive enthusiast forum users or any non-technical user in this case. We understand that there's undoubtedly a learning curve using Discourse but there will be folks who are will be hardened by folder/directory forum structure and heavy deviation may turn-off some/many non-technical people. What do you guys think?

I'd love to hear your thoughts Discourse team. Thank you for a wonderful product/service!

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What is /posted supposed to be?

February 3, 2014, 5:12 pm

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Kane York wrote:

Continuing the discussion from Discourse Observations fr a Programmer & Auto Enthusiast:

https://meta.discourse.org/posted

Appears to be no different than /latest.

Was something else intended for this?

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February 2, 2014, 11:54 pm

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Michael wrote:

One of our customers managed to completely hang his forum in a reproducible manner.
We have isolated a minimum amount of markup that will reproduce this behavior.

On try.discourse.org, making a post containing this code gives a server error or gateway timeout (sometimes one, sometimes the other, even seems to alternate). On our servers and one external host we tried, thin completely locks up and does not come available again.

Error message in the log

Processing by PostsController#create as */*
  Parameters: {"raw"=>"  offending raw data removed ", "reply_to_post_number"=>"", "archetype"=>"regular", "title"=>"combination of markup and link", "auto_close_time"=>""}
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 79ms

V8::Error (Cannot call method 'shift' of undefined):
  lib/pretty_text.rb:147:in `block in markdown'
  lib/pretty_text.rb:128:in `synchronize'
  lib/pretty_text.rb:128:in `markdown'
  lib/pretty_text.rb:169:in `cook'
  app/models/post_analyzer.rb:10:in `cook'
  app/models/post_analyzer.rb:111:in `cooked_document'
  app/models/post_analyzer.rb:56:in `raw_mentions'
  app/models/post.rb:128:in `block (2 levels) in <class:Post>'
  lib/validators/post_validator.rb:38:in `max_mention_validator'
  lib/validators/post_validator.rb:9:in `validate'
  lib/post_creator.rb:232:in `save_post'
  lib/post_creator.rb:60:in `block in create'
  lib/post_creator.rb:56:in `create'
  app/controllers/posts_controller.rb:36:in `block in create'
  lib/distributed_memoizer.rb:28:in `memoize'
  app/controllers/posts_controller.rb:34:in `create'
  lib/middleware/anonymous_cache.rb:104:in `call'
  config/initializers/quiet_logger.rb:10:in `call_with_quiet_assets'
  config/initializers/silence_logger.rb:19:in `call'

Since these few lines can effectively DoS a forum, I will not be posting the markup here. Where can they be sent to?

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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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Should we have auto-replace rules in titles?

April 7, 2013, 9:29 am

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Lowell Heddings wrote:

I don't know exactly how this would work, or whether it is even a good idea. But here's the idea:

Allow some auto-replace rules for titles, to prevent people from leaving stupid titles.

For instance:

• Replace ?????? with a single ?
• Replace !!!!!! with a slap in the face.
• Replace all-caps titles with regular case letters. (SCREAMING TOPIC TITLE becomes Screaming Topic Title).
• Capitalize first letter in the title.
• Remove an unnecessary period at the end of the title.

I'm not sure it's somewhere we even want to go - after all, the title of a forum post can accurately predict the intelligence of the user and whether the discussion is worth clicking on. So there's some benefit to stupid titles as well.

I've been editing a lot of titles to make them less annoying, which made me think it might be worth automating some of it.

Edit: Alternatively, these rules could be tied to user trust level. If somebody leaves posts in all caps with a ton of exclamation points in the title, they clearly should not be a highly trusted user.

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February 3, 2014, 6:48 pm

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Michael Jonker wrote:

Unless I missed a setting somewhere, I can't find a way to do this.

Sure would be handy.

And then let the user decide where they default too, but the admin can decide where the default system landing page is.

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Allow authentication via multiple services on one account

April 29, 2013, 3:51 pm

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davidcelis wrote:

If you have all six authentication services enabled as well as username/password and you're a fairly forgetful person (like me), it's possible you'll repeatedly forget what service you used to authenticate with a Discourse installation. It would be nice if, after my initial signup, I could go into my preferences and create more *userinfo associations with my account so that I can choose any old service to login to my existing account.

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