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Rename "Profile" to "My Posts" on the menu

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@tobiaseigen wrote:

I propose changing "Profile" to "My Posts" on the menu. What you get when you click on it is, yes, your profile info across the top but also a feed of your posts. I use it this way all the time.

Meanwhile on our custom navigation menu across the top we have another link to a dashboard on the mother ship website. Over there, on the mother ship member profile page, we also provide a link to the member's discourse posts (profile).

I know I can hack this using CSS along these lines but I'd prefer this to be localizable and also generally see it as a good idea for discourse, which wants to be widely used to add civilized discussion to communities that also have a main website.

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Reset button should not appear in the same location as confirm/cancel buttons

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@rewphus wrote:

Excuse me if there is an existing post for this, but I couldn't find one.

I don't believe that the reset button in the Admin Settings panel should appear in the same location as the confirm/cancel buttons as it could easily cause you to lose your setting with a simple double click brought on by loading times, twitchy fingers, etc...

Let me demonstrate:

This just happened to me for that exact scenario. I had a long list of whitelisted onebox domains, and lost them all because of a funky loading issue/impatient fingers. I actually don't remember reset auto-confirming either, meaning that when you click reset, even though it flashes the confirm/cancel buttons it doesn't actually allow you to choose one. I can't say I have used it enough to remember how it always performed, however. If it's always been that way, I'm not sure that it should be.

It's not a top priority, but I would recommend simply moving the reset button to a slightly different location to avoid this potential issue, and maybe not auto-confirming on reset?

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Moderators Abilities!

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@BBJMAX wrote:

Hi! I was just wondering a few things...It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could tell me...

  1. Can a Moderator Ban or temporarily suspend users?

  2. If so, what is the minimum and maximum time a user can be suspended!

  3. How exactly does a Moderator warning work? I have seen a screenshot i
    of one and all I could notice was that The mail icon was a different colour? Is it just a standard PM?

  4. What does the Mod UI look like?

@codinghorror @sam @riking Do you guys know this?

Thanks smile wink

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Why is Database so Large? Simple Compression Tool/Incorporated?

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@BCHK wrote:

We have about 250,000 posts from 25,000 topics - and our database / backup is about 4.5 backups (I have it set up for 2 backups - so I think the post database is about 2.25 Gig.

That seems really large for what are essentially short, simple text files.

Is there anyway that can be made smaller? How about a simple compression algorithm included so that we can save space on our backups?

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Building a plugin to add Stack Exchange features

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@BIBI wrote:

I currently run both a forum and Q&A website (stack exchange clone). Both our forum and Q&A have questions on that are answers by a team of moderators. We considering rebuilding and consolidating the software we use, so i am looking into Discourse as a possible alternative, given its strong credentials.

I have read the existing topics on comparison between SE and discourse so appreciate that discourse is different and that its try to be a SE clone. See below.

I am therefore looking for help scoping out the plugin and how it would allow us a more structure Q&A topics within discourse. Suggestions please!

Here's my top features to start with:-

  • Topic types or new post type/category, so discussion is distinguished from a Q&A.
  • Allow users/admin to sort replies by votes.
  • Control how/when users can reply to certain topics or questions (e.g. question topics can only be answer by users with x trust points (or some other algorithm)

Here are the previous topics on thsi subject if you haven't already read them:

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Suspend Indefinitely

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@AdamCapriola wrote:

Maybe I'm overlooking something, but is there a reason why an indefinite suspension isn't a feature? Typically if I'm suspending a user, it's either going to be for a short amount of time as a cool-off period (maybe a week, a month, whatever) or an indefinite suspension (this user might not be coming back).

For now I've been entering 9999 for indefinite suspensions, but then I have other community members look at penalized user's profile and see the expiration date and think "WOW this user is banned until 2042? They must have REALLY done something wrong!" It creates unnecessary hoopla.

Should I be handling users differently? Or is an indefinite suspension option something that makes sense?

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LazyYT like lazy loading for soundcloud

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@mr8 wrote:

Hello, we've been running discourse for a couple of months and love the oneboxing feature.

The only problem we've had so far has been with soundcloud links. A few music related threads will slow down significantly if they have multiple links as they all try to load at the same time.

Would it be possible to incorporate some lazy loading feature like the core LazyYT plugin so that oneboxed soundcloud links don't automatically load?

Thanks!

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Pre-filled REPLY to an existing topic via URL

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@mr8 wrote:

Continuing the discussion from Compose a new pre-filled topic via URL:

Would it be possible to extend this feature to add a an existing topic id so as to pre-fill a reply to an already existing topic?

Some possible uses:

  • URL that creates a form to enter a contest/giveaway in a specific thread.
  • Standardized bug/error reporting in a single specific thread.

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Invite by email not working with SSO

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@HAWK wrote:

I can't seem to either invite someone to a topic by email (can't find an option to do so) and sharing a link by email calls up a blank non-responsive window. Am I doing something wrong or is this a regression?

Thanks.

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Links will spawn a new web-page setting?

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@Rick_Leckrone wrote:

Hi Discourse folks. Is there a way through admin tools to tell the app to create a new web-page when a hyperlink is clicked on instead of just jumping to the linked content and losing the Discourse page? We reference a lot of images for our users to take a look at. Would be a lot easier if new web-pages were spawned when links were clicked within forums.

Sorry for not having the technical jargon right. Hopefully my question makes sense.

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Mobile site css issue after beta6 update

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@boomer196 wrote:

After upgrading to beta 6 the mobile site version of discourse covers the filter and new topic buttons. If you turn the phone sideways to go to landscape it works again. Is this something that I need to change or was it an update to the CSS? Thanks in advance!

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Get user data remotely (API, database, cURL)

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@IMjay wrote:

Hello!

Please disregard any stupid questions here, I'm learning and I'm a little stuck on searching.

I'm just wondering if there is a way I can get some data (through the database (preferred), API or even cURL request).
I'm looking to grab usernames, lastips and groups from within a Java application.

For the database option, I could expose it (and protect with a firewall) and grab the data like usual through PostgreSQL?

Thanks for any help, and thank you discourse gods (creators).

EDIT, the case:
I need to get the users last ip and group by username, and then compare it to data they have provided (cross checking auth).
Not too sure about this:
curl http://DOMAIN.net/users/USER-I-WANT.json?api_key=12345567&api_username=APIUSER

I get some data and could pull the group from "custom_groups", but there has to be a neater way.

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Youtube embeds appear very small

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@Chili wrote:

Just updated to the latest tests-passed version but have a problem with Youtube embeds.

They all appear as if they are a fraction of the size they should be. The physical size of the post looks okay, but it is as if half (or more) of the video is missing:

When you click play the video loads but remains in a small window:

It doesn't seem to be a problem here on Meta though! Have tried with the default stylesheet, multiple browsers (IE and Chrome) and same issue. Can't think of anything else in our settings that could cause this? Video appears fine in the Preview window, only once the post is submitted does it appear this size.

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Initial minimum topics/replies notification copy enhancement request

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@aral wrote:

On new boards, staff see the following message:

 Create at least 5 public topics and 30 public replies to get discussion started. New users cannot earn trust levels unless there's content for them to read. This message appears only to staff.

This tells me what I need to do (gives me a goal) but doesn’t give me a convenient way to find out how close I am to achieving my goal.

Possible enhancements:

  • Tell me how close I am. e..g, “Create at least 5 public topics (you have 3) and 30 public replies (you have 12) to get discussion started…”
  • Give me a link to where I can find out how close I am. e.g., at the end of the copy, in a style that signifies secondary importance to the main copy: [link]View statistics on topics and replies.[/link].

Also, I’m not sure whether the message goes away automatically when you reach the goal (it should).

I just checked the admin interface and we apparently have 42 topics and 74 posts. Are posts synonymous with replies? (If so, the copy should be updated to mention posts and not replies). Does this mean we have passed the goal? In which case the message should automatically disappear (or, even better, give me some positive feedback for reaching the goal: “Congratulations… etc. (x)"

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Spread out Digest emails to mitigate sudden traffic?

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@jesselperry wrote:

I notice that Digests are sent in batches together to a lot of users at once. I'm curious if it would be possible to have those spread out more so that you're not causing a big sudden spike of traffic from the Digests being sent. I notice from my MailChimp stats from campaigns that go out, people seem to open/click emails by a huge margin in those first few hours after an email goes out, if they're going to at all. So spreading out the Digest emails in Discourse could help. I have over-provisioned with the DigitalOcean droplet I have, so it's not a big deal for me - but might be helpful for those that are just on the edges of hardware for their Discourse.

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Does anyone know of an awesome community focused on A.I.?

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@cawas wrote:

Very recently I've decided to dedicate my free time into researching about and developing towards A.S.I..

And I'm looking for people like-minded. It would specially awesome if there was a group already formed with discourse, slack, blogs, podcasts, etc. stuck_out_tongue

I've found a few out there, but none using such great communication tools. Anyone here happens to know one?

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Automatically add/remove users based on badge id?

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@mr8 wrote:

Would it be possible to somehow automatically add/remove a user from a group based on a certain badge ID ( or IDs)?

e.g. - add users to X Group if they have have badge_id 12 (50 liked posts in past 60 days)?

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Wrong date on email notification?

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@mr8 wrote:

Not sure if this is a bug or I just have the wrong config, but the user post date on some of our email notifications seem to be set to UTC(?) instead of our server time (EDT), so some of our email notifications will show a future post date in the evening.

Is there a way to change the timezone that is used for the email notifications?

Thanks!

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