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Mailgun plugin for Discourse

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@andreabedini wrote:

Hi there,

I have written a very simple plugin to make discourse to accept incoming emails over http rather than by polling an external mailbox. At first I though it would be simple enough that it would work across different mail services but in the end I opted to make it specific to Mailgun. Adapting it to work with Madrill or Sendgrid should be a less than 10 lines change.

Before you deploy this in production please be aware that I'm a total newbie at programming with Rails. Use it at your own risk! Also, I'd appreciate any any feedback you might have.

https://github.com/andreabedini/discourse-mailgun

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Group owners for managing group membership

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@sam wrote:

As part of Discourse 1.5 we now allow you to specify arbitrary users as Group Owners.

Group owners can control membership on a particular group.

To specify a group owners use the /admin/group page:

Group owners can control membership on the public group page at /groups/GROUP_NAME

Group owners may not add or remove other group owners, that must be done from the admin interface.

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Option to insert frequently used text in the post editor

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@jomaxro wrote:

As a moderator of a Discourse instance I find myself typing same (or very similar) posts with some frequency, and would love the ability to have a "permanent clipboard" of sorts that could hold some commonly used text. For example, we frequently ask users to upload a save of their game for debugging purposes via an external file storage site. Right now, I have the text I use to explain that (where to find the game, how to upload, post sharing link in thread) in a bookmarked thread and copy and paste it each time, but a built in UI option to do this would be amazing!

Is this something that we could see added?

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SSO : what is the use of the about_me attribute

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@Nicolas_Blanco wrote:

Hey hi!

I would like to know what is the use of the about_me attribute in SingleSignOn, here:

I've searched on the whole codebase there does not seem to be another reference of this attribute...

Thanks.

Nicolas.

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Search of external embedded content

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@omfg wrote:

I'm not sure if this is a bug, I don't really think it is, but I searched the forum and couldn't find a post about it so I'll put it here just in case.

So:

  • If you search the site (this site) using Google, you can find stuff in embedded content (that's automatically pulled by Discourse from external sites such as Github).
  • If you try the same using this forum's search engine, it won't work - it seems to ignore external embedded content.

Since external content can change, I think the current behavior is okay, as it lessens the load on the system (which I like), otherwise regular checking and potentially re-scanning of external URLs would have to happen to keep the search index up to date.
IMO the only thing that should probably be highlighted is that by default Discourse doesn't seem to index those pages, so that people who hope to find such content need to use Google or another search engine.
(If Discourse were to regularly check external content, I'd like to be able to disable that feature, to save resources.)

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Wall Style View. Is it Possible?

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@george_in_PA wrote:

I am a former publisher of several large forums using VBulletin and am a longtime forum user/ owner. I think most forum operators have seen an erosion of growth as casual users and general conversation migrate to newer social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

In the old days of the web, we sought content. We explored, we surfed. Today, casual users have content delivered to them in a feed or wall. While this can be as complex as a tastemaker algorithm, I envision a simple feed whereby the user chooses forum categories to follow, or topic tags, or users and then has them delivered to in a feed specific to that user. Rather than looking at the latest overall threads as is also available here, or in the specific categories which takes time, a user instead gets a feed of just the things he or she chooses. I see this more like Twitter where I choose what or who to follow rather than like Facebook where they throttle things based on their perceptions of my interests or their own priorities.

Have you considered a wall style view for Discourse? Is anybody else interested in such a thing?

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Adding Signatures to Discourse

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@george_in_PA wrote:

In the past I've published several automotive forums and am looking into use of Discourse to launch a new automotive forum. Using VBulletin previously, we were able to include signatures (sometimes with active links), title lines that were sometimes serious... say for administrators and moderators or commercial/advertiser/company representatives, or humorous for longtime users. I don't see that sort of customization on my Profile here and was wondering if this can be added. Other functionality such as some photo uploading of personal cars that helps them nest a bit and create their own profile/space might also be cool, but am not aware of any of this sort of functionality.

Given the objective I've seen for this platform is to be more of a WordPress model, I'm curious if the Discourse team or any plugin programmers have worked on such functionality.

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Mute all categories at once

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@adopilot wrote:

This is list of my Categories

Most of them are public.
I have users that want to MUTE most of them
Is there any magic to set user's setting to mute ALL categories at once and then delete only these they are interested

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Can I use Discourse in Cpanel PHP Hosting

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@MUHSIN_MOHAMED_PC wrote:

I don't know in which program Discourse was developed. I have a Cpanel Shared Hosting Server. I want to know that, Discourse support on Cpanel Shared Hosting Server or not. If not then, Which type of server support the programming language that Discourse supports.

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Can't mark certain posts as solutions

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@Sharksie wrote:

If you lock a thread and make a post in it while it's locked, there is no option to mark that post as a solution.

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Description for silver share badge is incorrect and uneditable

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@Euflor wrote:

The description for one of the default badges, the silver share badge, is incorrect--it says that users who earn it have shared a post with 1000 unique visitors. The query below it specifies 300. Because this is a default badge, I can't edit the description.

Similarly, the bronze share badge says the requirement is 300, and the query says 25.

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Any chance pre-filled topic via URL will eventually support tags?

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@burke wrote:

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

Creating topics via URL is awesome! Just what the doctor ordered... but, we'd really like to be able to include &tags=foo,bar,baz in the URL. I realize that having tags in a plugin probably makes the solution more complicated.

Is this on anyone's radar?

Thanks!

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RSS feed of all posts in a category?

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@hmelman wrote:

Forgive me, I'm just a user of a site that uses Discourse and have a question that my site administrators don't seem able to answer. The site offers RSS feeds of Latest Topics and Latest Posts for the whole site and also Latest Topic Of A Category, but no feed for Latest Posts Of A Category. Is this possible? It's a restaurant talk site and uses categories as cities, so Latest Post of everything is too much volume, and Latest Topic of City shows a question, but not a conversation (which might be very long lived).

I saw that Discourse 1.4 added "Latest posts RSS feed" so I'm guessing a global one was added but not a per category one. Any chance this could happen? I'm a programmer, but not a ruby/rails one but might take a crack at it if given a little direction. Thanks.

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Want to hire someone to make a simple discourse plugin for me

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@Adrian_D_Atri_Guiran wrote:

Hello,

I would like a plugin that works almost identical to the way the search page works, but slightly different. The plugin should do a search for the query, and then do a 301 redirect to the top search result. For example:
http://bassmusic.io/redirect?q=ableton+device+presets
would give the user a 301 redirect to:

Because that is the top result for:
http://bassmusic.io/search?q=ableton+device+presets

If anyone is interested in working on this please contact me with the amount of compensation you require and the timeline in which you could provide it. I can pay with paypal, and i will take the fee on my end so you get the full amount.

Thanks!

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Discourse Team Grows by 50%

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@codinghorror wrote:

The Discourse team has grown slowly: Jeff, Robin, Sam, Neil launch team (Feb 2013) Régis joins (Sep 2013) Arpit joins (May 2015) Look at any successful open source project, and you’ll see that it takes a while. And we’re OK with that. We’ve said from the beginning we are on a 10 year mission. In…


This topic is for comments on the original blog entry at: http://blog.discourse.org/2015/12/discourse-team-grows-by-50/

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Auto-update issue - "Ensure sidekiq is running."

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@scottpruett wrote:

My entire site was down, no idea why. I rebooted the server (on DO), everything seemed to kick back into gear, but I just logged into the Discourse dashboard and am getting this error:

A check for updates has not been performed lately. Ensure sidekiq is running.

Everything else seems fine. Running v1.5.0beta6+66.

I did a little digging, but didn't find a solution. I tried a rebuild per this post, no dice.

Is there an easy fix?

Thanks...

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Toning down Message format

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@sam wrote:

Messages we email users share much of the same formatting general notifications get, we are building support for staged account messaging (messaging by users with no active accounts on Discourse) and I feel the the general formatting of messages needs toning down

  1. The routing information would be generally confusing ("[Discourse] [PM]") especially for messages that originated from outside emails. I wonder if "[Discourse] [PM]" adds much even for "personal messages" that originate from Discourse. I feel like title is enough and feels much more personal.

  2. The user card at the top with avatar and day ("December 2") is burying the lede. Traditionally, in email, if you must a signature is added at the bottom. I think we should strip it from messages.

  3. We are giving users 2 different ways to "stop getting the emails" it is very confusing, one of the links is a 404 for anon which is extra bad, instead the link should take you to a jump screen where you can be presented with your option, jump screen should work if you are logged in or not

  4. In a staged account scenario "visit" is no longer applicable as you can not visit the topic.

  5. The url is kind of gigantic, visit https://meta.discourse.org/t/222 would be enough and takes up much less space

  6. We still show "email context" for messages, I don't think it makes sense at all from messages you can trip it so a message you made shows up in context which gets super confusing.

Thoughts?

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Bug Reporter Badge and 'Discourse Team' broken

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@jomaxro wrote:

It appears that as of 8:43 PM EST, the bug reporter badge is broken. When loading the page https://meta.discourse.org/badges/114/bug-reporter I see that 0 people have earned the badge, yet I know that I have previously earned the badge (as had hundreds of others). Additionally, attempting to open the link to 'Discourse Team' results in an access denied error. https://meta.discourse.org/groups/discourse

My feeling is that the actual bug is in the group permissions settings which affects the badge as it requires likes by a group that is no longer visible. Could this be related to the recent changes by @sam for the Group mentions and messages overhaul?

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New Topic URL - Lost if not logged in

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@yyhmsg wrote:

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

@techAPJ I was just exploring the new topic url and just tried clicking on a new topic url when not logged in - it then asks you to login which is great, however, after you are logged in you just go to front page - not to the new content window. So I don't think this is fixed yet. As something else changed that makes the session variable not hold?

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Seeking advice for homepage

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@charleswalter wrote:

Hi everyone. I thought I'd present this to the group to see if anyone wants to make some suggestions. We've been live for several months and are seeing a good deal of activity...
http://www.helloforos.com/
http://www.helloforos.com/latest

I saw a recent topic on using latest vs. categories for homepage, so I thought I'd ask the community for some advice.

From my viewpoint, I would use the latest page if it could do a few things...

  • Provide a more intuitive call out to browse categories and perhaps allow me to place a promotion for featured categories at the top. (It would only appear on this page, and we'd style it minimally for mobile)
  • Allow us to suppress topics from certain categories that were not of general interest to the community or perhaps could be considered adult it nature.
  • If the search had an auto-suggest to jump to a matched category, that might help with the switch. I think this could be important for communities with a large number of categories.

Personally, I love using the latest page on mobile, it gives a real live feel to the community. I almost want to see if there's a way in custom JS to force mobile to default to latest, but don't know if there's a way to do that. Currently, from Google Analytics, I know very few users have discovered the latest page.

Anyhow, I hope it's okay using this category for discussion like this. I understand that every community has different needs, but perhaps we can find some common ground that would make sense to request for a future iteration of the homepage options.

Suggestions? Ideas for the future?

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