Failed to Bootstrap very old beta Discourse install

July 23, 2015, 11:40 am

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@vicatcu wrote:

Hi all,

I've got a stand-alone discourse installation currently down for the count. Tried doing ./launcher rebuild app when I couldn't update through the admin interface and that's when things stopped working for me.

Here's the last stuff the rebuild prints to the console:

FAILED
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RuntimeError: cd /var/www/discourse && sudo -E -u discourse bundle exec rake assets:precompile failed with return #<Process::Status: pid 25048 exit 1>
Location of failure: /pups/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:105:in `spawn'
exec failed with the params {"cd"=>"$home", "hook"=>"web", "cmd"=>["gem update bundler", "chown -R discourse $home", "sudo -E -u discourse bundle install --deployment --verbose --without test --without development", "sudo -E -u discourse bundle exec rake db:migrate", "sudo -E -u discourse bundle exec rake assets:precompile"]}
8f71335887c10b71bad44387a7821c21ea47d07ecff0b461244c36ecd7c52c8e
FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP

Help would be much appreciated... i don't know what to do next.

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How to edit category list order in create new topic window

July 23, 2015, 12:19 pm

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@gingerling wrote:

Hi, would like to set the order of the category list in create new topic area, as it insists on "uncategorised" first, but 99% of our posts are for support. I ordered categories on the categories page (which is by the way an overly laboursome task) but it didn't solve the issue.

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My discourse is blank

July 23, 2015, 1:49 pm

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@BerryBlue wrote:

My discourse is coming up with a blank page today. I'm not sure what to do as far as trouble shooting goes.

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Latest topics RSS feed for private site?

July 23, 2015, 2:45 pm

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@barryparr wrote:

I see that Meta has an rss feed at meta.discourse.org/latest.rss, but I don't see one at on my site at /latest.rss

I've searched around and read past threads, and I can't find any information on whether Discourse provides an RSS feed out of the box, or how to generate one.

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Can't send test email with Amazon SES

July 23, 2015, 4:52 pm

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@codinghorror wrote:

Hello!

I've got some issues on receiving the email. Checked all instructions but it isn't work.
I'm using next configs:

config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
   address: 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com',
   authentication: :login,
   password: 'PWD',
   user_name: 'USRNAME',
   enable_starttls_auto: true,
   port: 587
 }

Got this error when trying to test it.
"There was a problem sending the test email. Please double-check your mail settings, verify that your host is not blocking mail connections, and try again."

My app.yml discourse's configs:

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July 23, 2015, 5:14 pm

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@natedalliard wrote:

I just saw in the topic Can't send test email with Amazon SES from @Blackening999, that @codinghorror edited the first post and that overwrote the created timestamp:

I thinks that is not intented like this or am I wrong? I mean, that doesn't bother me at all, just wanted to mention it.

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How to hide click counter on internal anchor links in the same post?

July 23, 2015, 9:41 pm

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@tobiaseigen wrote:

There's probably not much can be done about this and it might not matter to anyone else, but I see it as a bug - it's odd to me that when I create a table of contents for a long wiki post that it then shows the click count next to each link. This could get pretty crazy and doesn't really bring anything.

As exemplified on a wiki page I created on my site:

Continuing the discussion from HTML anchors should be added:

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PHPBB3 Importer - Postgresql

July 23, 2015, 10:39 pm

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@michael2 wrote:

I see in the comments of the new PHPBB importer that other database systems are coming soon. Just wondering if there's any progress on this, or if it's waiting for someone to start coding?

I am migrating a big, old, phpbb3 forum for a local community org. to Discourse. However, their PHPBB install was originally setup on Postgres. An unusual combo for phpbb I know.

I've already tested exporting the database from postgres, importing to mysql, then running the importer. However, if nobody is actively working on the postgres support then maybe this is something I can look at.

Anybody in the know?

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"Dancing" topic progress indicator

July 24, 2015, 1:44 am

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@Tom_Newsom wrote:

At certain window sizes, the topic progress indicator "dances" up and down, which at best causes scroll bars to appear and disappear, and at worst causes the entire composer to jump up and down.

In Chrome dev tools, I can see the element alternating between class="ember-view" and "ember-view-docked" which have different CSS.

To reproduce the bug, go to any topic and scroll so that the footer buttons (Invite, Bookmark etc.) are just at the bottom of the window, then shrink the window to <903px wide.

You can do the same thing while composing a message, if you scroll the footer buttons so they're just above the composer.

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I can reproduce the bug in Chrome43 and IE11

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Embedded comments iframe is missing height attribute

July 24, 2015, 1:59 am

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@probus wrote:

I'm embedding Discourse comments in a blog and for some reason the iframe is missing height attribute. Everything else seems to be working.

The problem was that I was using http instead of https.

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Links of emails and images don't show the site name, show the ip number

July 24, 2015, 2:39 am

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@Zonork wrote:

Hi, the emails and notifications sended from my discourse don't show the site name, the mails sended are showing for example:

this is a email test from

http://i.p.num.ber

and not

this is a email test from

mydiscourse.host.com

the same situation are with some image and media.

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HTML not escaped in topic titles on /my/activity/posts

July 24, 2015, 2:43 am

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@PJH wrote:

Continuing the discussion from Code-fence and <pre> formatting require preceding blank lines to render correctly in cooked:

Had reason to go to my activity page, and the above topic has the HTML rendered rather than being escaped...

From https://meta.discourse.org/my/activity/posts:

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July 24, 2015, 2:43 am

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@codinghorror wrote:

Here's a novel tactic I haven't seen discussed here on Meta yet:

With regards to spam, I am fortunate enough to run a forum where Google indexes posts in a matter of minutes. This does have its own issues though in that it attracts spammers who realise they can get links on Google within minutes!

What I've had to do on this forum is make it so that for non-registered users (and therefore Google bots), posts from user accounts less than 24 hours old are hidden with the message "to prevent spam, this post will be invisible for 24 hours" or something like that. It could use some work as ideally you would hide a whole thread for 24 hours if the user was <24 hours old, but it has effectively cut spam right down (spammers must have realised they're fighting a losing battle there) and gives moderators a little time to deal with spam.

Strangely, when I suggested this idea to the popular forum developer concerned, they weren't interested - I'm not entirely sure they understood how effective it was but I would highly recommend it as a simple, effective tool in the anti-spam arsenal! Plus, to my knowledge, none of the other forum developers have tried this approach, so it's still unique at the moment

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July 24, 2015, 3:05 am

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@tgxworld wrote:

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Detailed understanding of the dashboard statistics and data

July 24, 2015, 5:19 am

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@gingerling wrote:

Hi

I am a community manager and am doing my first annual community report since we moved to discourse. I am delighted there is so much data compared to our old forums, however, I need to understand what I am seeing in some detail.

First of all,

if I add up the numbers in Users per Trust Level
163,38, 5, 0, 0 I get 206.

Is this the total of how many forum users we have? How is this number decided upon? My guess is something like "number of people who have ever logged on to the forums"

We are using the WP plugin with SSO, so this confuses things a little. The total of new accounts on WordPress since the site launch is 372.... does that therefore mean that 166 of our WordPress sign ups have never visited the forums?

This will probably be the first of many questions about these numbers

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July 24, 2015, 5:27 am

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@gingerling wrote:

Continuing the discussion from Detailed understanding of the dashboard statistics and data:

If you are a community manager, good data, preferable exportable, is vital.

I have noticed that the "drilldown" for visitors per day or posts per day etc, does not list the day if there is zero. This means that when I am adding all the data into a single spreadsheet, I can't easily make Column 1, date, column 2, visitors, 3, posts, 4, likes etc.

If zero were listed, that would be easy to do as dates would match up.

Even better would be a way to export all the data as a csv

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July 24, 2015, 5:31 am

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@laurakalbag wrote:

We’ve customised our Discourse with some custom images and fonts that I’ve loaded in the Assets topic. But these assets keep disappearing and reappearing at different times in different browsers. Sometimes it leaves us with no web fonts (not the end of the world) but often it leaves us with no logo, and without vital images in our custom navigation.

It seems like a caching issue, and occurs more frequently when we’re doing customisations (though this may just be because we’re more likely to notice when we’re doing these!)

Has anyone else had similar issues? We want to make our Discourse public, but are wary that it might just appear broken!

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July 24, 2015, 5:32 am

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@MiguelAngelLV wrote:

I have a site and I use Discourse to embed comments and create a new post in the forum from RSS.

However, Discourse don't put all HTML from the article in the post. I use

but no embed all content of the tag.

I create the site with Jekyll. If I put all content in md file, it works great, but if I put a few content in the layout, these html is not copied.

How Discourse select the content to copy to post?

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July 24, 2015, 6:35 am

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@mcwumbly wrote:

Continuing the discussion from A call for removal of a:visited on topic list:

I think the reason why this change is so great is that it helps answer the most important question when deciding whether to open a topic.

I got this feeling somewhat as a hunch, but tried to work through why and I think it has to do with the hierarchy of the decision tree when determining whether to read a topic or not, which I've attempted to outline below.

How I decide whether to read a topic.

• Wait, have I read this whole thing already?
  • yes:
    ok, well you probably don't need to open it
  • no:
    Is it a topic I'm tracking?
    • yes:
      ok, then I probably want to read it
    • no:
      Is it currently active or popular (near the top of latest)?
      • no:
        probably won't read it unless its linked to or in a search result
      • yes:
        have I ever opened the topic before?
        • yes
          was it interesting?
          • no
            skip it.
          • yes
            ok, let's check it out again
        • no
          is the title interesting?
          • yes
            check it out
          • no
            was it created in the last two days?
            • yes
              well, it's likely to be relevant anyway, so if you've got nothing else to do...
            • no
              old and uninteresting.... but if you've really got nothing better to do...

So it seems that rather than an indicator to show 'newness' I actually just want a more sublte indicator to highlight topics I have never opened. I can already set my preference for the new indicator to behave this way, but if I do so, I'd like to tone it down along the lines in the mockup linked.

Something along these lines:

And I would argue to make this the new default preference for the indicator...

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Read topics tracking

July 24, 2015, 6:44 am

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@AstonJ wrote:

Love it

However just a quick note - by greying things out you are saying 'this is not that important', but by highlighting things (such as by bold) you are saying this is more important or requires your attention.

Some might argue it is a trivial distinction. Personally I think I'd prefer saying threads with unread posts are something that require your attention (though happy to live with this for a while to see how it feels). Either way, I am VERY happy you have decided to add this

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