@barryparr wrote:

My site's in beta and there has been one post this week.

My site just sent out two digests on Saturday and five on Sunday.

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@evgeny-k wrote:

is it possible to add numbers (unread & total messages) to message panel?
like

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@petter wrote:

Until now I've simply clicked on the "click here to upgrade" link in the Dashboard, and that's worked find. Now however I'm told...

You are running an old version of the Discourse image.
Upgrades via the web UI are disabled until you run the latest image.
To do so log in to your server using SSH and run:
cd /var/discourse
git pull
./launcher rebuild app
More info on our support site

Can anyone provide advice on how to do this? How do I "log into my server using SSH" etc
We're hosting at digitalocean.

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@Sander78 wrote:

(this is plugin territory, but I couldn't select that category)

Can't create it myself, but just to suggest the idea:

Some communities might work on invitation only. But in a members only community it would be nice to have an invitation only be valid after a certain amount of people have invited that person.

I don't know what happens if multiple people invite the same mail address. If you track it, you could enforce the above idea. If someone clicks the invitation link before reaching the amount of people needed, he would see how many more he needs before allowed entrance.

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@carmalonso wrote:

I recently started using Safari (9.1) on OS X 10.11 on a MacBook Air (with magic trackpad), and have been experiencing some UX issues with switching pages using gestures (namely swiping back to go to previous page). Experienced on the Infinite Flight community and here on Discourse Meta.
Being an issue that only affects Safari, I've posted this in the #bug category - please let me know if it would be better suited in #ux, I'll gladly move it :)

Entering a topic from the main "All Categories" page (home page for the Infinite Flight community) presents the indeterminate loader whilst the content loads, before posts being shown - everything works well up to this point.

After checking out the topic, I swipe back (using the native two finger gesture) - this moves the topic page over as a layer on top of the home page, as shown in this pic:

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After swiping back fully, the standard page back action is performed, which involves a reload as in the pic below (with the indeterminate loader).

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As there is this fancy animation whilst swiping (with the previous home page already rendered in the background), the expected behaviour for me would be that the content remains loaded, without the indeterminate. However, the data reloads as it would on a browser without this animation.
This isn't a critical issue, but it is a minor UX annoyance.

Quick video comparing back action via swipe (first back action) and by pressing the back button:

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@Paul_Schlacter wrote:

Hey guys,

Can somebody help me with this, i don't know why.

root@mahanavo:/var/discourse# ./launcher start app

• /usr/bin/docker run -d --restart=always -e LANG=en_US.UTF-8 -e RAILS_ENV=production -e UNICORN_WORKERS=4 -e UNICORN_SIDEKIQS=1 -e RUBY_GC_MALLOC_LIMIT=40000000 -e RUBY_HEAP_MIN_SLOTS=800000 -e DISCOURSE_DB_SOCKET=/var/run/postgresql -e DISCOURSE_DB_HOST= -e DISCOURSE_DB_PORT= -e DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS=dev@dhammanussati.com -e DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME=discourse.dhammanussati.com -e DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS=smtp.dhammanussati.com -h mahanavo-app -e DOCKER_HOST_IP=172.17.0.1 --name app -t -p 80:80 -v /var/discourse/shared/standalone:/shared -v /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/var-log:/var/log local_discourse/app /sbin/boot 8c5ec12248e919279dac33060fe4337f2efc8a8d53623b13739d21aa925cba4a
  docker: Error response from daemon: failed to create endpoint app on network bridge: Error starting userland proxy: listen tcp 0.0.0.0:80: bind: address already in use.

Thank You

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@eviltrout wrote:

How was your January guys? I spent mine building a new branch of Discourse which replaces our post rendering with a hand-tuned virtual-dom implementation, to get around some pathological performance issues in Ember.

What does that mean? Well it means that viewing a topic should be faster here on meta. note: this branch is only on meta, not master! you will not deploy it to your installs unless you go out of your way to do so!

How much faster? Our latest benchmarks show:

• 5x faster on Desktop
• 5x faster on high end Android devices such as Nexus 6P
• 7-8x faster on older Android devices such as the Nexus 7 mini tablet.

Of course, we don't get all this performance for nothing. The code had to be re-written mostly from scratch (hence it taking over a month) and right now plugins affecting posts don't work.

When you re-write so much code from scratch you are bound to introduce many regressions, so I apologize in advance for the bugs we need to hunt down. The good news is I also added over a hundred new tests in the process, so we are much better covered than we were before against regressions in this code.

How can you help:

1. Please report bugs ASAP that you see on Meta, including steps to reproduce them. I will be fixing them as fast as I can.

2. Don't report plugins such as polls not working. We know and will be fixing them shortly before introducing a plugin upgrade path.

3. Offer feedback: is it faster / slower on your device than before? Does it feel good or glitchy in any way?

Thanks in advance! You guys are always awesome at helping with this kind of thing.

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@Trash wrote:

I have some css issue in my custom mentions about categories and tags.

We use a few line of css to custom all mentions, so users and groups look like this:

• users:

• groups:

I'd like to do the same thing for categories and tags but the results are strange, some categories and tags remain still in black:

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Surely it is something stupid that I forgot to change but any help is much appreciated.

Here the Css I'm using

USERS

/*Menzioni User*/
a.mention {
    color: #337AB7;
    background: rgba(51, 121, 182, 0.1) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;
    border-radius: 4px;
    border: 1px solid #337AB7;
    padding-top: 1px;
    padding-right: 6px;
    padding-bottom: 1px;
    padding-left: 6px;
    font-weight: bold
}
a.mention:hover {
    color: #001A8E;
    border: 1px solid #001A8E;
    font-weight: bold
}

GROUPS

/*Menzioni gruppi*/
a.mention-group {
    color: #FC5D00;
    background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;
    border-radius: 4px;
    border: 1px solid #FC5D00;
    padding-top: 1px;
    padding-right: 6px;
    padding-bottom: 1px;
    padding-left: 6px;
    font-weight: bold
}
a.mention-group:hover {
    color: #BE0303;
    border: 1px solid #BE0303;
    font-weight: bold
}

CATEGORIES AND TAGS

/*Menzioni Categorie e Tags*/
a.hashtag {
    color: #29BF00;
    background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;
    border-radius: 4px;
    border: 1px solid #29BF00;
    padding-top: 1px;
    padding-right: 6px;
    padding-bottom: 1px;
    padding-left: 6px;
    font-weight: bold
}
a.hashtag:hover span {
    text-decoration: none;
}
a.hashtag:hover {
    color: #1E8C00;
    border: 1px solid #1E8C00;
    font-weight: bold
}

Plus, it would be great if tags mention would use a different class from categories mention so that you can customize them easily

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@PeteB wrote:

Hi

Is it possible to / has anyone previously tried to, disable the User Profile and User List functionality in Discourse and instead linked users back to their own profile pages in a separate website?

I'm looking for some guidance of whether this has been done before and issues we can expect. From reading this forum I have seen we can integrate our oAuth authentication in and add or remove some fields from the profile, but haven't seen anyone going as far as to remove / hide the profile pages.

As some background, we are investigating integrating Discourse into our existing Customer Portal site, in which we have existing user registration functions, user profiles and user profile listing, community links etc, the site is only available to registered users. These are all linked to other fuctionality unrelated to the discussions / forum, therefore we don't want to use the Discourse user profile functionality. The existing site is based on Ember.js, Node & Loopback.

We're intending to use Discourse to provide forum and discussion functionality for the registered users, and are planning to use a number of the plugins that already exist for Discourse and add discussions to various features like the blog and landing page.

We are a JavaScript development team and have some Ruby experience in the team.

Thanks for your help.

Pete

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@Ad_Huikeshoven wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for the tool. Though I'm an admin on https://discourse.wmflabs.org/ I do not have access to the server to run a command line tool. Could the tool be made accessible to the admin page?

The current installation is a pilot to test an alternative to existing mailing lists like wikimedia-l and wikisource-l. Someone would like to have access to dumps or exports of all posts.Your tool provides access to all posts of a category. Said user would also like to have access to all meta data. Would that be possible?

I had already found the way to export or download all posts of a single user. But I haven't found a way to export or download all posts of all users, not even as an admin.

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@michaeld wrote:

Some posts have been deleted from this topic

The # of replies has been updated to reflect this, however the information in the users column in the topic list has not.

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@smitty wrote:

Does reassigning a category send a new email out to the group watching the new category? Sometimes people categorize topics incorrectly, probably like this and need to be re-assigned by a moderator. Once that is done, will the new set of people monitoring the category get notified?

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@jhosein wrote:

I've got this going based on permissions, but I cant figure out how to get it to work based on a specific username.

span.moderator i:after {
  content: "MOD";
  display: inline;
  background-color: #AA00AA;
  border-radius: 3px;
  font-size: 0.9em;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-style: normal;
  padding: 2px 4px;
  color: #fff;
  line-height:1;
  margin:0 0 0 5px;
}

I'd rather do this via CSS and avoid doing this via user groups.

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@AstonJ wrote:

I have create style, and made a bunch of CSS changes. Now I'd like to explore an alternative but still keep all my existing modifications as a separate style that we can flick between them before deciding which one to use.

Is this possible?

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@joshfrank wrote:

On my forum, I've gotten an increasing number of requests for the ability to create a topic that only an exact list of people can see, and these people don't belong to any convenient group, and one that no one else belongs to. For instance, a bunch of people need to work together on a project and they don't want other people to be able to see what they're doing. These users aren't admins or special in any way, except that they're doing this one thing together. These projects are ad hoc and I keep getting requests for them.

I know that I could make a one off group and call it "Feb 2016 Foo Project", and make a category of the same name, and make sure that everyone in the group knows to use only that category, but this seems like an admin and maintenance nightmare.

It would be much more desirable to be able to have a category like "Area 51", off limits to everyone but admins, and then be able to create a topic called "Feb 2016 Foo Project", and then grant individual users access to exactly that one topic. Is this possible, or is there another workaround with similar functionality?

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@uglydawg wrote:

I sent out invites which allowed people to create usernames. Some of them have now forgotten their usernames.

Is it possible to allow a user to login with their email or username?

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@Swang007 wrote:

Hey Discourse gurus!

We are considering to make some changes to our instance. We have one category just for events, and right now this category lists topics just like it always would: by topic activity. If someone posts, the thread gets bumped to the top.

Is there a way to make topics order themselves in a different way? It would be great if event topics in a certain category could be ordered by date & time of the actual event.

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@meglio wrote:

key: js.filters.with_category
value: %{filter} %{category} topics

May someone provide a few examples on how it is used?
Which transifex keys are used to be placed in the one above?

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@omfg wrote:

I wonder what's the best place to disable indexing (set noindex) on the entire site, and I mean across the board.
Is it enough to simply insert NOINDEX in Discourse header (I wonder if that would apply to all pages/URLs generated by the site)?

P.S. And for misbehaving crawlers such as some search engines, where's the best place to block countries, is it before Docker NAT or after, inside of Docker? I'd like to block entire countries. It seems it's cheapest to drop connections with iptables before they hit the container, but I am not sure if that's a good practice.

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@meglio wrote:

English is an international language.
Everyone who is willing to participating an international discource should speak English at least little.

In the same time, a community launched in a non-English speaking country, has a different language, local to the territory.

This makes me think that bilingual forums are a special case and deserve special attention when compared to multilingual forums (3 and more languages).

... this also fits perfectly my case

We have recently discovered that English-speaking goat farmers have great interest in how Ukrainian goat farmers make cheeses. In the same time, our farmers are interested in professional breeding that English-speaking farmers are good at.

We are now faced with a challenge: keep our forum comfortable for Ukrainian goat farmers (as it always has been), and in the same time make it easy for English people to participate in some bilingual topics for knowledge and experience exchange.

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So let me share my thoughts on a possible implementation.

An important note is that this is a professional community, so Google / Bing translations will not work. I experimented auto-translating some topics and it was a disaster. Not only some slang was an issue, but also grammatical errors in key words. This lead us to the idea that we would rather spend some resources on manual translation on the topics of interest only, and keep other topics Ukrainian/Russian only.

We've launched an experimental Q/A Session where both sides can ask questions and give answers.

People can write using their own language, while we translate their messages, so every message in this topic is bilingual:

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These translations are curated / assisted, give it any name, but the point is that we do not translate automatically. There are some delays, but the quality goes up and the topic promises to be quite interesting. I invited some other users from English-speaking communities to participate, and some of them already expressed real interest in some topics in PMs and wish to participate.

This seems to be an interesting attempt, to start with. But now we need the UI to be improved just a little!

1. Collapsable sections per language

Discourse does already have a plugin to hide/show sections in posts. It would be great if there was a way to optionally assign some locale per section (an attribute in Markdown markup).

• If no locale assigned, it is always collapsed (the current default behaviour).
• If locale is assigned but is the only one section with locale in the message, it is expanded by default.
• If a few sections with locale are present, than only one is expanded by default - the one with the current user locale.
• In anonymous mode, all sections with locale are expanded by default.
• If no one section has the same locale as the current user's one, the one with default website's locale is expanded only by default.
• If no user locale matches, nor global setting locale matches, all sections with locales are expanded by default.

2. Add locale class to collapsable sections

.section-locale-ru {...}
.section-locale-en {...}

While on this, add locale class to the body element as well

<body class="user-locale-ru">...</body>

This will allow to apply styles to sections that match current user locale only:

body.user-locale-ru .section-locale-ru {...}

3. Add language switcher in the header

This language switcher would allow to switch to English quickly before even trying to find Signup button. It would also assign the selected default language to user profile. As a workaround, we created a how-to topic to which we link from the original Q/A session topic. However, upon signup, new users receive Ukrainian welcome message, which is not good experience.

4. Make categories and topic names translatable by mods

This is more advanced feature.
As a workaround, we just named the topic in both languages:

(en) Q/A with Ukrainian goat farmers. (рус) Вопрос-ответ с англоязычными козоводами

Result

As a result:

• users can switch languages easily before registering
• users will see only sections in their languages expanded, while others collapsed
• if no translation available, the original section is expanded

The only thing I'm not sure about is how it will affect SEO.

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Anyone keen on implementing such a functionality?
I would make it with pleasure on my own, but I'm nowhere near being a ruby programmer.

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