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@Mytee wrote:

As a start, I come from Engineering background, but not web development unfortunately. Now let's begin.

Am about to start a new platform for our brand community, where they can talk, discuss and share photos (Gallery). I just joined recently, and soon we'll have a discussion about which platform to use.

Developers already made some progress with the forum development, unfortunately, they used phpBB. Which i didn't like, luckily it's not launched yet, so i need an answer to the following questions to be able to convince them (Especially developers).

1- Is it as easy to customize Discourse as phpBB? I need reasons to convince them to use Discourse instead of phpBB
2- About the license, I'm not sure the company would like to share the code. Is it ok to do the customization to discourse without contributing to the core?
3- What languages are needed for development? Front and back end.
4- We're going to develop an app as well. I guess i might find a way to let the company make it open source if possible. Any recommendations here?

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December 1, 2015, 4:54 am

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@docforyou wrote:

Hello, first post here.

I'm trying to bootstrap discourse but i have this error :

(): did not find expected key while parsing a block mapping at line 32 column 3 -e LANG=en_US.UTF-8
YAML syntax error. Please check your /var/discourse/containers/*.yml config files.

What should i do ?

Thanks

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December 1, 2015, 5:16 am

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@meglio wrote:

My users discovered an endless source of emojis...

They're just clicking the "copy insert code for forums" button on various emoji collection websites and inserting the code in our forum. The code looks like this:

[url=http://www.topglobus.ru/besplatno-smajliki-forum-blog-web]>
[img]/uploads/default/original/2X/6/61b284bfd48d9fa5a1b60f750aa94fca1d37ffe0.gif[/img]
[/url]

Not only does Discourse skip downloading such an image for local storage, it also keeps an undesired link. i.e. the image is clickable.

I think this behaviour is not desirable. But if that was the intention, may we have an option to automatically convert such IMG insider URL combinations into a simple static image, which is them downloaded and stored locally, just like any other images in topic replies?

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December 1, 2015, 5:35 am

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@omfg wrote:

This is on v1.5.0.beta4 +8. I have the flag icon, but there's nothing in the queue. I tried to refresh and restart the browser, although I didn't expect that would change anything (and it didn't).

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December 1, 2015, 5:51 am

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@Tia wrote:

Hi guys,
Could anyone please clarify to me what are the benefits of using the hosting options featured here
vs. hosting with https://www.discoursehosting.com/ ?

Thanks <3

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December 1, 2015, 6:04 am

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@darix wrote:

on 5a78312 my discourse instance works fine. but with 5b95942 I get an for Discourse.Composer.serializeOnCreate.

 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'serializeOnCreate' of undefined

Currently i downgraded to get a working instance again. but i can upgrade the copy to the broken code in case a dev wants to have a look.

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December 1, 2015, 6:32 am

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@wesnolte wrote:

Is there a way control whether or not to skip sending emails?

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December 1, 2015, 6:54 am

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@yyhmsg wrote:

This may very well be something that I'm doing wrong, but I have a dev setup of discourse on vagrant (that is running fine). I'm now trying to use the disqus.rb import script to bring in my disqus xml comments dump.

Here is what I get:

ruby disqus.rb --file=/vagrant/disqus-forumfixes.xml --post_as=eviltrout --dry_run

disqus.rb:155:in `block in normalize': undefined method `strip!' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
	from disqus.rb:148:in `each'
	from disqus.rb:148:in `normalize'
	from disqus.rb:13:in `initialize'
	from disqus.rb:198:in `new'
	from disqus.rb:198:in `<main>'

Thinking that the error could be sidestepped by adding something for --strip, I tried the following and got:

ruby disqus.rb --file=/vagrant/disqus-forumfixes.xml --post_as=eviltrout --dry_run --strip='juxtapose'

disqus.rb:154:in `block in normalize': undefined method `gsub!' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
	from disqus.rb:148:in `each'
	from disqus.rb:148:in `normalize'
	from disqus.rb:13:in `initialize'
	from disqus.rb:198:in `new'
	from disqus.rb:198:in `<main>'

Is there something obvious I'm missing? Any guidance on getting this script to run would be greatly appreciated.

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December 1, 2015, 7:12 am

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@wesnolte wrote:

The suggested 3rd party email services are excellent and I would like to use their templating capabilities. This requires sending email through their APIs or by setting header values in the SMTP message. I'm guessing that there isn't a configurable way to do this within Discourse and I was wondering what the preferred approach might be?

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December 1, 2015, 7:49 am

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@Rod_James wrote:

I enabled reply via email and this morning my sent box contains a TON of the following email:

locl.ca forums admin@locl.ca

5:17 PM (17 hours ago)

to me

We're sorry, but your email message to ["admin@locl.ca"] (titled [locl.ca forums] Email issue -- Unknown To: Address) didn't work.

None of the destination addresses are recognized. Please make sure that the site address is in the To: line (not Cc: or Bcc:), and that you are sending to the correct email address provided by staff.

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December 1, 2015, 8:25 am

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@steve_pd wrote:

Looking at /admin/upgrade today I noticed that all of the git repositories were stuck on 'Checking for new version...'

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As per similar advice from other threads I've done a git pull/rebuild since, and everything is still checking, and in addition a new discourse-details has appeared:

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December 1, 2015, 8:40 am

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@SafaAlfulaij wrote:

Hello!

There are some strings in Transifex that I couldn't look up in the source code (to know the context).
For example (in server.en.yml):

• "%{username} via %{site_name}" with key "via"
• "is reserved" with key "is_reserved"
• "%{attribute} %{message}" with key "errors.format"
• Many strings with keys starting with "errors.messages"

I hope that I'm mistaken, but leaving many strings like that isn't really good

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December 1, 2015, 9:31 am

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@mei wrote:

Instead of showing daily and weekly counts of topics in each category (in the /categories view), is it possible to show the total topics AND replies? I feel like this is the standard with most other forum software (although I know Discourse is pretty special )

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December 1, 2015, 10:20 am

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@jomaxro wrote:

Continuing the discussion from What advanced search filters should exist?:

Can't seem to find an answer for this here yet...can you search for pinned topics?

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December 1, 2015, 1:31 pm

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@techAPJ wrote:

discourse-topic-group-button

This plugin adds a custom button at the bottom of a topic, visible only to staff or members of a specific group.

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Configuration

From Admin > Site Settings > Plugin, modify

• topic_group_button_url
• topic_group_button_title
• topic_group_button_label
• topic_group_button_allowed_group

Installation

• Add the plugin's repo url to your container's app.yml file

hooks:
  after_code:
    - exec:
        cd: $home/plugins
        cmd:
          - mkdir -p plugins
          - git clone https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git
          - git clone https://github.com/techAPJ/discourse-topic-group-button.git

• Rebuild the container

cd /var/discourse
git pull
./launcher rebuild app

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December 1, 2015, 1:36 pm

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@techAPJ wrote:

discourse-custom-topic-button

This plugin adds a custom button at the bottom of a topic, visible to everyone (who is looged in).

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Configuration

From Admin > Site Settings > Plugin, modify

• custom_topic_button_url
• custom_topic_button_title
• custom_topic_button_label

Installation

• Add the plugin's repo url to your container's app.yml file

hooks:
  after_code:
    - exec:
        cd: $home/plugins
        cmd:
          - mkdir -p plugins
          - git clone https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git
          - git clone https://github.com/techAPJ/discourse-custom-topic-button.git

• Rebuild the container

cd /var/discourse
git pull
./launcher rebuild app

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December 1, 2015, 4:41 pm

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@steelmaiden wrote:

Screenshot:

Link to article: http://webmajstori.geek.hr/facebook-power-editor-neizbjezan-alat-za-preciznije-oglasavanje/

Any idea what needs to be changed in code to get this working properly?

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December 1, 2015, 5:16 pm

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@cregox wrote:

Does Discourse use / need PAM?

I do realize we can make it work with ssh, and that's probably a better idea than disabling it. But some people might still not want to set it up and still remove password auth from ssh.

Also, I couldn't make PermitRootLogin without-password work even after deactivating PAM and killing sshd.

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December 1, 2015, 6:51 pm

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@Drew_Warwick wrote:

I had been getting the "X new / updated topics" notification when there hadn't actually been a new topic occasionally, but as it turns out there were new topics -- they were just muted. They didn't appear in Latest because they were muted, but they still set off the notification. This probably shouldn't happen.

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December 1, 2015, 9:09 pm

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@sam wrote:

As part of Discourse 1.5 we have built support for "first class" group mentions and messaging.

Out-of-the-box nobody can send messages to groups or trigger mention notifications.

On the admin group page at site.com/admin/groups you can select "Who can message and @mention this group?"

Additionally you may select which groups are visible to user using the "Group is visible to all users" checkbox.

Mentioning groups

When users perform "autocomplete" using the @ key all visible groups will show up. This means that out-of-the-box you can talk about groups like @trust_level_0 and so on, Discourse will perform automatic linking.

If you enable @mentions on the group for the particular user, all the members of the group will be notified when the user mentions the group.

As a safeguard a site setting was added "max users notified per group mention" which is defaulted to 100. Even if you enable mentions on a group with 101 users, no notifications at all will be generated when they are mentioned.

Sending messages to a group

The composer was extended to allow you to use a group name as target for a message (provided the group allow messaging)

This now correctly links to the group from the message page:

Improved group pages

All group mentions (going forward) are now tracked in the database, this allows us to display them in the group page.

For example @trust_level_0 will make this post show up in the mentions list for the trust_level_0 group

Additionally we split out topics as a new top level filter.

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