Firefox: Middle-click triggers pop-up blocker

June 8, 2013, 11:35 am

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ComputerDruid wrote:

Middle clicking (to open in a new tab) on a topic triggers Firefox's pop-up blocker.

This doesn't make sense to me, given that middle clicking on an ordinary link opens in a new tab without this. Is discourse intercepting middle-clicks somehow?

Right-clicking on the link (if you aim VERY carefully), and selecting "Open in new tab" works as expected, but this is a pain compared to the much-easier-to-execute middle click.

Edit: You don't actually have to aim carefully to right-click on the link, you have to right-click twice. The first right-click acts as if you'd right-clicked on the page, and the second one as if you'd right-clicked a link. Right-clicking before middle-clicking also works. This is really weird.

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Validation emails still say example.com

February 28, 2014, 8:32 pm

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Jake wrote:

I followed the instructions at https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-discourse-on-a-centos-6-4-x64-vps to set up discourse and everything turned out swell except the validation emails and reset password emails have example.com links instead of my domain.

I probably missed it and can't find it. Where is this setting?

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Syncing the editor viewport scroll

February 28, 2014, 4:03 pm

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Jeff Atwood wrote:

I've checked how they do synced scrolling in Ghost and it turns out that it is extremely simple - they just keep the relative position of both panes in sync, i.e. if the source pane is scrolled to 30% of its height, preview pane is also automatically scrolled to 30% of its height.

In most typical cases both source and and preview contain almost only text, so their height is more or less proportional and this approach works quite well. This method also seems to be very performant and scalable, as it chceks only the pane height and scroll position, without parsing the text etc. so it shouldn't be dependent on the amount of content in the pane.

However in cases when the content between panes is very disproportional (e.g. if you embed a link to a tall image, that in the source pane is just a single line of text and in the preview pane is an actual image, several hundreds of pixels high or if you put 30 newlines in the source that get squashed into a single newline in the preview) scrolling in Ghost can go out of sync.

@sam What do You think? Should we give similar simple approach a try? Or do you want to have something exactly accurate?

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How does Discourse compare and contrast with Vanilla Forums?

February 6, 2013, 1:38 pm

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Montana Harkin wrote:

I had never heard of http://vanillaforums.org/ until today, but it also looks to solve a lot of the same issues that Discourse aims to solve.

What are the main differences between the two? Why would I choose Discourse vs Vanilla Forums?

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Not able to clear javascript cache

March 1, 2014, 12:27 am

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Gauri Singh wrote:

Hi,

I updated some code in assets directory in application-0859ae81bfde88c51df582fb95986591.js file but its not reflecting..

I tryied to clear cache with this command - rake assets: precompile --trace RAILS_ENV=production

but still not working..pls help

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What are Discourse's main competitors and what are their relative pros and cons?

February 12, 2013, 3:59 am

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Helder Ribeiro wrote:

To me the main one would be Facebook Groups. Most new communities I've become part of in the past year have been FB groups, and for less advanced uses it seems to fit pretty well (there's even a group for expats in Chile that beats any yellow pages or other online resources for finding where to buy products and services hands down).

Pros:

• It's familiar software. People have been using FB since forever, the interface elements used for Groups are the same, and when you use one group you know how to use all others.
• The people are already there. It's stupid simple to invite friends, there's more trust because of "real identities" and, perhaps even more importantly, it ties into your regular FB notifications, so it's a lot harder to forget that the group exists.

Cons:

• It's a walled garden. You can't find content in groups from a Google search. And I think you can't find individual posts from a FB search either, only from the specific group's search.
• It's not your content. There's no import/export AFAIK, and there's probably some ToS clause saying that the content belongs to them in more ways than you would like.
• It's shallow. The post&comments format isn't conducive to long-form conversation, so most groups tend to be for short interactions and link sharing.

What are other important contenders?

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Backup strategy for production instance

August 20, 2013, 6:40 pm

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German Viscuso wrote:

Maybe this would be a good topic for the howto category. What backup strategy should I use to back up a Discourse instance that has been set up for a production environment as in the official installation guide? Is it enough to backup the database and the Discourse base directory? How about the home directory for the discourse user. I'm running the instance not as root but under a discourse user. I need to create the backup strategy.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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"Use Markdown or BBCode to Format"

February 28, 2014, 5:45 pm

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Jaimie wrote:

In the editor it shows the subject text above. For some users they are thinking to use BBcode for images that does not work. I know that it has copy for images but some users did not find this clear as they just do old habits.

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Moving only part of a post

March 1, 2014, 4:20 am

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probus wrote:

I've run into this problem a couple of times. Often people write posts that contain many parts: replies to multiple other posts, an answer to one question and a question of their own or basically anything that could just as well be split into two or three separate posts. What do you do when one part of the message is on topic and another off topic? Or when you would like to branch out a discussion that has been developing inside another topic, but most of the posts contain stuff for the original topic as well?

I suggest a feature to move only part of a message, in effect splitting up posts.

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OneBoxes for PubMed are here

March 1, 2014, 10:07 am

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Erick Matsen wrote:

My fork for oneboxes for PubMed, the definitive index of medical/biological literature in the US and many other places has been merged. Here are some examples:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7288891

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24497547

I'd be happy to hear any suggestions.

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Traditional Chinese locale missing translations

March 1, 2014, 11:22 am

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Leung Aaron wrote:

There are quite many places that aren't translated or having errors.

1st : "starred" in the main page

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I guess it is due to "starred" is still considered as "favourite"

2nd "flag" "starred" button inside a topic

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3rd "Messages" in the personal icon slide down menu

4th "Categories" inside personal profile page

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5th "Backup" inside back-end admin panel

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6th "There are X topics remaining " not translated yet

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Traditional Chinese search issues

March 1, 2014, 7:12 am

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Leung Aaron wrote:

Now the Chinese search function fails to work completely. I had tested from a previous built from Bitnami, and the search works well, but now in the 0.9.8.5 and even the 0.9.8.7 version, it is completely broken , and I could just only search by english keywords.

There is also one issue that I am very concerned about : Will there be compatibility problems if I backup from an older version, than restore to a newer version? I tried to restore from a 0.9.8.5 backup file after upgraded to 0.9.8.7 , but it seems to fail to restore successfully.

Please have a look in these matters, thanks!

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Cross-origin resource sharing for API access in JavaScript

April 21, 2013, 3:41 pm

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Nicolas_Blanco wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to develop a JavaScript plugin to retrieve the latest topics of my Discourse instance and display them dynamically in the user's browser.

I am using AngularJS to do this.

Unfortunately, CORS (Cross-origin resource sharing) is not supported in Discourse (or I didn't see a configuration option ).

Temporarily, I've added the gem rack-cors (https://github.com/cyu/rack-cors) to my Discourse instance, and added the middleware. It works perfectly and I was able to request the Discourse API from my external website.

Would you accept a pull request adding this gem and maybe some configuration settings for it ?

Thanks,

Nicolas.

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Topic progress arrows should jump between posts

February 18, 2013, 9:21 am

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Ronny Orbach wrote:

When I first saw the topic progress I thought "neat, a quick way to skip to next/previous posts inside a topic".
Then I understood that even though the numbers reflect topic progress, the arrows are just shortcuts to top and bottom of page. Not consistent with my expectations and itself, but ok.

This use of the up/down buttons to fast-forward the entire page renders them useless in a couple of cases:

1. Right now I'm on desktop and the unit is always near the last post, so the down button is disabled.
2. On short pages I can be at the top and bottom of page at the same time, so both arrows are redundant.

As you can tell, my suggestion is to change the behaviour to jump between posts - Much more useful and consistent, IMHO. What do you think?

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February 28, 2014, 5:45 pm

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Jaimie wrote:

For some users they are thinking to use BBcode for images that does not work if they are uppercase. I know that it has copy for images but some users did not find this clear as they just do old habits.

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Psych::SyntaxError when installing Discourse

March 1, 2014, 8:05 am

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Ritesh Mehandiratta wrote:

i am trying to use Discourse using DIgital ocean.in morning i follow the link and used discourse successfully.but now when i am using same procedure i am getting error :

 mkdir -p plugins - git clone https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git #<Psych::SyntaxError: (<unknown>): did not find expected key while parsing a block mapping at line 25 column 3>
Unable to find image '# this is the base templates used, you can cut it down to include less functionality per container' locally
2014/03/01 10:59:27 Invalid repository name (# this is the base templates used, you can cut it down to include less functionality per container), only [a-z0-9-_.] are allowed
cat: cids/app_boostrap.cid: No such file or directory

Usage: docker rm [OPTIONS] CONTAINER [CONTAINER...]

Remove one or more containers

  -l, --link=false: Remove the specified link and not the underlying container
  -v, --volumes=false: Remove the volumes associated to the container
FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP

How to remove this error Please guideline.

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How should we implement polls?

January 12, 2014, 6:48 pm

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Sam Saffron wrote:

Continuing the discussion from So, you want to help out with Discourse:

Almost all forum software out there supports "polls". They can be quite fun and allow you to easily gauge what people like / dislike.

@Hunter was asking for some sort of spec of how I would see this work, so here I go.

• Polls should be designed as a standalone plugin. This important cause it ensures our extensibility story is solid and allows us, further down the line, to upgrade poll functionality outside of core releases.

• I think polls should simple be an extension of markdown that only applies on the first post in a topic. Eg:

  <poll>
  - This is the first option
  - This is the second option
  - This is the third option
  </poll>

• Initial implementation should only allow one vote per option.

• Initial implementation should not allow for anonymous voting.

• Choices must be locked in after 5 minutes

• On initial render it should not display the results, you must either vote or click on "show results" to see them.

• Initial implementation does not need to worry about randomising options on first view

• Data for the polls should be stored in Topic or Post meta_data (an hstore column) or in PluginStore, a custom migration in a plugin is a major work to undertake which we can skip for now.

• Controller to receive voting should be registered by the plugin using a rails engine, example is my blog https://github.com/samsaffron/blog

Questions / ideas?

I would like to keep the first go at this rather simple with minimal features.

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Cannot see reply as new topic

March 1, 2014, 2:49 pm

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Hunterboerner wrote:

I can't see the reply as new topic button. Am I missing something?

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Where to change the email subject prefix

January 15, 2014, 10:03 pm

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Watchman Monitoring wrote:

Our site is very close to going live - I'm excited!

The emails that are being sent have a Very long prefix- the very long name of our group.

Where could we define an alternate, shorter email subject line prefix?

Thanks so much!

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Sharing links on facebook: original post vs replies?

March 1, 2014, 7:44 pm

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Kamal Patel wrote:

When I copy a thread link to facebook, the correct thread title and excerpt show up.

However when I scroll down and then copy the link (with the response # appended), and then paste that in facebook, nothing shows up.

Maybe this isn't a bug or is intended, but in my old forum users would often directly copy and paste links from the address bar to facebook (as would I). Actually, the same thing happens when clicking the link icon on replies -- no excerpt or title comes up on facebook.

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