To run a stand alone forum or not

April 12, 2016, 11:15 pm

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@HammerOz wrote:

I have been pondering launching / running a forum for some time. The forum concept is for a broad sector and not to support my own product or software.

So I was hoping to get ad revenue plus other ideas down the track. I am an intermediate wordpress user and I am learning javascript. Most importantly I have a lot of experience in a non tech industry where there simply are not many forums. I use forums every day to find solutions and collaborate around technology and software I use.

• I wonder how niche my market needs to be for success or does it not matter? For example could I run a forum on Frogs or would it need to be frogs of the americas ? I guess this is all subjective.
• Will running a forum be a nightmare? Could I run it on my own? How much time ?
• Provided I get traffic, can you make a return that matches the time put in?
• Do I need other website content ?
• What other questions should I be asking?

I guess I am just looking for warnings and tips! If you are a renowned sceptic please state as such !

Cheers

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April 13, 2016, 12:35 am

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@Paul_Huang wrote:

hi,

I am wondering whether it is possible to remove "Have you tried the 'like' button" wording as in screen shot:

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April 13, 2016, 12:53 am

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@Rodelio_Lagahit wrote:

Normally , users just upload big files and they get this prompt or notification;

What I want to happen is to expand this notification that say's e.g

"why not use dropbox , google drive etc., and come back to share the link?"

I want to know where /what file do I need to bring up to edit and expand the notification.

nb. increasing the upload limit is not an option

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April 13, 2016, 1:53 am

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@keith1 wrote:

I'm looking for ways to make the various topics in the lists stand out at a glance for a discourse that frequently involves multiple media types. While the Topic Preview Images Plugin is nice, it's currently only supporting uploaded media, as opposed to featured thumbnails from youtube, vimeo, links, etc, and as a few of you have noted, runs the risk of becoming extremely visually noisy/consuming.

I've been pondering over a cleaner solution for my community, and wanted to see if this would be easily possible:

The idea being that Font Awesome Icons can be used at the front of topics to either highlight the type of content within the topic's opening post. Automated (i.e. youtube/vimeo links get a video, polls get check box, etc) or user selected? I'm not sure what's easiest, or best - would love to get the thoughts of the community.

Thanks!
Keith

Ps. I can't tell if I threw this into the wrong category or not.

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April 13, 2016, 2:07 am

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@precessor wrote:

I've imported a mybb forum and I would like to allow access to a couple of colleagues only, to test and check the result.
As far as I can see, the only way is to put these users in a group and change all the category permissions so only that group can view. Is this right?

I saw an old post about a nice-looking "restrict access" parameter which looks like it would do the job nicely, but I can't see it any more in v1.6.

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April 13, 2016, 2:14 am

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@keith1 wrote:

Is it possible to use the WP-Discourse plugin to open a topic in a sub-category, rather than top level category? I'm currently only seeing top-level categories propagated in the wordpress drop down menu.

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April 13, 2016, 7:23 am

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@Alankrit_Choudh wrote:

According to this post the spoiler based on YouTube URL are not showing the one box just plain links(text), Currently using stable 1.5.1

Posted format for the spoilers are below

[spoiler]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nftxDrStny8
[/spoiler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nftxDrStny8

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How to embed JavaScript as a customisation?

April 13, 2016, 7:31 am

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@Philip_Colmer wrote:

Continuing the discussion from How to restrict account changes when authenticating with Google?:

I want to try and embed some JavaScript into the Discourse pages so that if the page contains the "Create New Account" panel, the text fields are all disabled. However, I'm struggling to even get my script to appear in the page source code.

I've tried Header and Top in turn to embed:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<script>
    document.getElementById('input#new-account-name').setAttribute('disabled');
</script>

but I cannot see it being added to the page. I've included the DOCTYPE part because the customization page puts up a warning indicator otherwise. However, the HEADER code in Sam’s personal “minimal” topic list design doesn't have that. Instead, it has:

<script type='text/x-handlebars' data-template-name='list/topic-list-item.raw'>

Where can I find out how the customisations page works and what is possible with it?

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April 13, 2016, 7:34 am

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@ichy-wayland wrote:

Hey! Im trying to setup a little Discourse forum. Im using SparkPost for SMTP, and as far as i can see i've setuped it correctly. I can send emails from the SparkPost site with my API key & domain, but when i try to send the Discourse test email it just displays the default email error message. I've already contacted my host (DigitalOcean) and email traffic is free on my server. So, how would i troubleshoot this? Is there any known problems with Sparkpost or anything like that?

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April 13, 2016, 9:37 am

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@BCHK wrote:

Folks,

During the past year my user base on my forum has gone from 1,000 to about 4,000 total users. During that same time the average number of messages per day has gone from about 250 to 600 messages per day.

What has been strange and disappointing is that the number of user logins per day has remained basically flat at about 200 people per day. This actually concerns me a lot I've heard that the average facebook user returns 1 time a day to the site - so our participation rate is really anemic compared to typical social media it seems, and actually getting worse over time.

Obviously the email reminders are not working too well and I'm posting here to see if we can brainstorm on some other ideas to encourage user engagement.

Some ideas I'm throwing out are the following - comments, and add-on ideas welcome. These ideas are both to increase conversions (from visitors to logged in users), and also increase the revisits and participation / engagement in the forum.

1. Slightly Random (e.g. bounded in time or triggered by usage conditions), pop-up messages/overlays to non-logged in users. Eg. If a new visitor reads more than 5 topics over a 10 or 15 minute time period they get a pop-up invite to join the forum and post their own topic - and briefly summarize the compelling reasons (customized by the admin of the group to make it specific to his / her forum) to get more involved than just reading / lurking.

2. Periodic reminders for people to like or reply to messages - for logged in users, to get them to participate more in the conversations and become more engaged - which I think might be more likely to result in more visits (the more involved users are, the more likely they are to return to the site). This would be targeted at users who have logged in more than X times over a given time period (e.g. 2 times in the past week, and who haven't replied or liked anything more than 2 times).

3. Automatically Customized "feeds" (e.g. message topics shown to the user) based on what topics they like the most, and obviously temporal (most recent on top). The goal here is to make the message feed more relevant to each user, so they are more likely to be more engaged and to participate.

4. Mobile App Wrapper/webview app for our forums - lots has been discussed on this topic so I'll leave it at that. I'm working on my own mobile wrapper for my forums, but it would be nice if the web version were somehow optimized to make it easier for these wrappers to do push notifications.

Other ideas - please add. No need to criticise these ideas yet - please just add to them and modify the ideas as fit. The goal here initially is to brainstorm.. Thanks for your postings.

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Slack is introducing threaded messaging later this year

April 13, 2016, 9:41 am

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@BCHK wrote:

I find this announcement interesting and wonder if its becoming more like Discourse?... Your thoughts? Any opinions whether this is relevant at all to Discourse?

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11418594/slack-threaded-messaging-chat-app-feature

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Hot topics this quarter/month/week/today

April 13, 2016, 12:07 pm

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@commonpawn wrote:

It would be great to have a the ability to have a 'Hot topic / Popular topic/ filter on the front page in addition to the existing Top Topics filter.

What
Right now there are only two ways to discover content on a Discourse Forum:

• Where there has been activity recently
• Topics created within X timeframe that are popular

we need a 3rd potential way to organize the topic list

• Topics that were most popular within X timeframe

Why

Top topics is great, but what about topics created over, say a week ago, but are the 'hottest' topics of the week? They don't show up in the top views and since the 'latest' view changes 10x a day they don't get a prominent spot there.

On our site, we have a lot of once-a-week visitors and we would love to have a default view on the homepage on 'Hot topics this week' so people can follow where the most activity has been going on this week (views, likes, comments, clicking on links, etc).

Imagine you visit meta.discourse.com on a weekly or bi-weekly basis - the last few weeks, the "Discourse Feature Voting" topic has been one of the most active topics on this forum. However, it will not show up if i click top posts this week. I might even miss it on the"Latest" view if i am lucky and visit on a time when other topics just received comments.

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April 13, 2016, 1:10 pm

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@laktak wrote:

I finally upgraded our discourse server (including OS & Docker).

I had to destroy and bootstrap again because of problems. It's running v1.6.0.beta1 +178 now but I still see only this image:

root@disc:~# docker images
REPOSITORY             TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
local_discourse/app    latest              370fea60556d        36 minutes ago      1.635 GB
samsaffron/discourse   1.0.8               76762729d2a1        13 months ago       1.143 GB

Is this correct?

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April 13, 2016, 1:48 pm

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@Andygmb wrote:

Hi all,

I have an existing Ruby on Rails application that I would like to integrate with discourse - Users would sign up through my Ruby on Rails application and a forum alias would be created for them.

Is such a thing possible with Discourse?

Thanks,

Andy

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Emails from both Watching & Digest - about the same post

April 13, 2016, 3:59 pm

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@watchmanmonitor wrote:

I'm looking to allow all my forum users to receive each email from key categories, and digests from others.

I would use the normal mailing list mode, but that's too blunt a hammer for my use.

I had settled on Watching a category as the mailing list mode, but see that users are getting double emails.

Users who are Watching the announcement topics get emails about posts & replies. However, they are also getting digests which contain nothing but those same topics.

Could/should Watching a category count as seeing it, and prevent any of those posts from being included in digests?

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April 13, 2016, 6:02 pm

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@Rodelio_Lagahit wrote:

Recently, i've invited other users to participate in the topic, but I can't see their profile photos or can't even recall who I invited to join the topic.

Is there a way to show this? or plans of showing this in the near future?

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April 13, 2016, 8:50 pm

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@JP_ wrote:

I went to >Pin Topic>Banner Topic and it put the entire post as the banner. It's a pretty big paragraph (enough for a scroll bar...) so I'd like to just have a summary up there with a link to read more. Based on examples, it seems possible to cut the text and have it say "Read More" so they can click for the entire post but I can't figure out how to do that. This example even has a nice image and different text than the post. Thought maybe they just used html in the emergency banner in Settings, but that one doesn't have an X for people to close.

When I got to "edit this banner" it just brings me to the post - if I edit that post, it just looks like a normal post edit. As far as I can tell, I can't edit the banner independently of the post. Feel like I'm going crazy here.

edit: oh, do you just make a new thread specficially for banner, style it there, and unlist it? Kind of counter-intuitive.

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April 13, 2016, 11:12 pm

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@dmitry_fedyuk wrote:

For now a tag's links become broken after the tag has been renamed.

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April 14, 2016, 12:40 am

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@probus wrote:

I'd like to utilize the category description and colors a bit better on our next design iteration and have been playing around with a couple of ideas.

I'd like to move the category logo&description above the "latest/new/unread.." navigation and make it 100% screen width. You can see Flarum doing similar thing and to me it looks much better than what we have out of the box.

Has anyone done anything like that for Discourse? What would be the best way, a new plugin outlet perhaps?

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April 14, 2016, 2:40 am

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@daath wrote:

Continuing the discussion from S3 Upload with Vanity Domains:

I have some questions!

1: I am running out of space on my droplet because of uploads, so I want to use S3 for my uploads.

I might have missed something, but in the S3 documentation:

Because Amazon S3 sees only the original host name www.example.com and is unaware of the CNAME mapping used to resolve the request, the CNAME and the bucket name must be the same.

But in the discourse settings in "s3 upload bucket" it says "must be lowercase, no periods, no underscores." - and it won't let you save the bucket name. I can see that there is an "s3 cdn url" to put the vanity name - but I don't get how I am supposed to set it up.

2: When I get it to work - will Discourse move all my existing images to S3 or do I have to do something?

Thanks in advance!

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