Filip Ćakić wrote:

Using the wp-discourse plugin i rsynced some posts with the wrong username. Precisely the real author didnt enter his discourse username in wp profile, so now i would like to assign the topic to him?

Also when i delete the topic and re-publish the wordpress post, the new discourse topic does not get created.

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James B wrote:

I did not find anything like this so far. This is a feature suggestion to include a new checkbox in the post editor that will prevent the topic from getting bumped after saving the edit.

The thread title could still be highlighted for an edit, but this would let someone choose not to bump their topic for a minor edit if they did not want the topic bumped. This would only show for a post that is being edited, not a new post.

I am still learning Discourse so I might not be looking at this right, I would welcome counterpoints or explanations about why this would work away from the intended use of edit bumps.

The reason that I am suggesting this is because now that I am aware, I now get a slightly guilty feeling when only making minor edits. If it is an important or useful edit, I will still make it. However, this might work to discourage some from editing. On the other hand, it might work to encourage better posting in the first place so that minor edits are not required as often.

I am sorry if this has already been discussed. The next similar thing seemed to be this: https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-posts-of-category-to-show-up-on-main-page/10078

Any thoughts, feedback, clarification greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Watchman Monitoring wrote:

All - I live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, home of not-a-thing-related-to-discourse-besides-me. *

I do speak at all the MacTech Boot Camps though.

I would Love to attend/help coordinate a meetup - perhaps if one could be scheduled the Tuesday night before one of these events, I could make it.

Anyone in any of the following cities up to a meetup?

City | Date

Austin, TX | April 9, 2014
Denver, CO | April 30, 2014
Boston, MA | May 21, 2014
Washington, D.C. | June 25, 2014
Chicago, IL | July 23, 2014
San Francisco, CA | August 27, 2014
Toronto, ON | September 17, 2014
Los Angeles, CA November 5-7, 2014 (Conference)

*If there was a meeting template/schedule available, I'd probably throw one up on meetup.com to see what happened

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Watchman Monitoring wrote:

Continuing the discussion from Discourse meetup near MacTech Boot Camp?:

i wonder what it would take to bring markdown table support to Discourse?

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itlo wrote:

I miss it. It would look more fine if the "cancel" would be a button and not just plain text.

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Sam Saffron wrote:

As we approach 1.0 I feel we need to spend a bit more time focusing on UI polish. I am creating this topic to collate issues I would like to see fixed.

Hopefully some people looking to help out with Discourse can try working on some of these.

Issues I want fixed

• Footer padding gets out of sync: start typing a new topic in the composer ... size it big ... got to random topic ... footer padding is not added so you can not see the last post on topic. (workaround, resize composer once more so footer padding is added). This need to be added everywhere automatically. Including admin screens.

• Expanding user card (click on my avatar ) has a shoddy jarring visual effect, it sizes the window twice. Instead just setting a fixed width and sliding down if it needs extra height.

• When you make a new post it jitters, first render renders without your avatar, then its re-rendered with avatar. Jitter must go, needs to be seamless. Feel free to try on try.discourse.org

• Uneeded "Loading ..." images when clicking between tabs. When you navigate from "latest" to "new" we unconditionally show a "Loading ..." gif, this should only show up if you are waiting longer than say 500ms.

• We unconditionally reload topic page if you click on "title". instead it should scroll you to top if post 0 is already in memory. Same for in between posts navigation (eg quoting and so on)

• Reloading a page with a big draft will often lead to this rendering bug:

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• Mac Chrome. Navigating back using the back button to the latest page is "glitchy" if you have scrolled down a topic. It rerenders the title undocked (as if you are on post 1) and then navigates back, this looks really glitchy

• Synchronized editor, Ghost (open source) has a feature where it ensures the line you are typing in the composer is in view in the preview. This really helps composing longer posts like this or situations where space is tight. Whoever takes this needs to make sure perf does not suffer.

• Mac OSX - Chrome ... while typing stuff in search box search box is half visible.

Experiments needed

• Page transitions: nodebb and stripe use a technique that fades out the page you are leaving and in the page you are going to. see: http://community.nodebb.org/category/3/nodebb-development and click on a topic. This can either be over-the-top or help usability - it is worth an experiment, if done in a subtle way it can look pretty good (probably a default off thing for now)

Am I missing any other polish issues here?

If you are helping out with Discourse and would like to take any of these on, reply here.

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Craig Oda wrote:

Continuing the discussion from Discourse blog - blog.discourse.org:

I am curious as to why you moved to Ghost for your blog. Is it free?

When you say that your blog will be moved to Discourse, do you mean that the blog comments for Ghost will be driven by Discourse, similar to the Evil Trout blog?

What about using Discourse as the blog platform itself, not as the comment engine at the end of blog? I'm not suggesting that this is advisable, I'm just curious to see what you have in mind.

This interesting to me since I was just talking to a client about what blog and forum platform to use. My main requirement is to get as tight as integration between the blog and the forum as possible. The three things that I am looking for are:

1. comments on the blog will go into the forum or somehow be connected
2. forum content can be selected to be pushed to the blog
3. tracking analytics within the forum so that I can see how many times links to external content have been clicked from within the forum (different views, including aggregate, by date, by person, by topic tag)

I have pretty much free control over the blog software. I am also thinking of moving my own hobby blog on teaching children to program to another blog platform to gain better management of questions, discussions, answers. I moved a corporate blog over to Jekyll and that is going fine so far. I am thinking of moving my own blog over to Jekyll or now Ghost since that is what you're using.

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Logan Rosen wrote:

Continuing the discussion from Discourse Meetup in NYC:

At Mozilla Community IT, we set up an instance of Discourse that we're dogfooding, along with a number of other Mozilla teams. Our eventual goal is to replace all other communication methods within Mozilla with Discourse, and a number of us would love to meet up in Toronto in the near future to see what other people have done.

Could I get a general headcount of people who would be interested in this so that we can figure out if it's feasible to schedule a meetup? We'd love for @eviltrout to join us, but anyone in the general area would obviously be welcome to come and spread ideas/knowledge about Discourse.

In terms of logistics, we could probably use the MozSpace in Toronto if there's enough interest in a meetup.

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Erlend Sogge Heggen wrote:

I'd like unregistered (i.e. all new) users to have the Top page as their default index, while registered users would have Latest as their default.

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Craig Oda wrote:

I'm a bit of the odd man here since I'm a marketer. I've been using Discourse here and at Ubuntu to gain experience with the features. I am quite excited that this is open source as it should leave the door open for more cool features for marketers in the future.

Is there a central document or place with information that would be of interest to marketers?

Many of the topics have been addressed, but it's dispersed:

• google analytics and other analytics integration. Is this the strategy to provide web analytics?
• SEO analytics
• usage analytics, per topic, per person, per time, different slices of the data
• referral traffic to other sites
• incoming referral traffic
• auto highlighting of hot topic of the week, most active person
• marketing box highlight for top "thing" such as a cool hardware hack that a member submitted
• survey, voting plugins
• social media distribution plugins

In the past year, the community groups have been placed under digital marketing at many corporations. This is a superset of social media, community relations, and digital.

Another source of budget to fund community development appears to be the product marketing groups.

An interesting twist is that since product marketing at tech companies is becoming more technical, the product marketing groups are starting to report into engineering, which is often closer to product development.

Well, my main point is that it would be great to have a stream of input from corporate marketers about the feature set so that it can be taken into consideration in the early development of Discourse.

If this type of central document for marketers doesn't exist, maybe we can use this forum to create one? It would help me to get more practice with the software.

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Kane York wrote:

Gmail has this cool thing where when you get a new email, a notification will pop up on your screen.

The Javascript API is documented in multiple places:

The W3C spec:
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/notifications/raw-file/tip/Overview.html
What's actually implemented in Chrome:
http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/desktop-notifications/api-specification

Also, I found this 'experimental' Firefox addon to add support for them:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/android-desktop-notif/
It is supported in Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/Using_Web_Notifications

I think it would be cool if one of these happened whenever the number on the notification icon changes - i.e. before the email notification gets sent out. This lets me get notified 'more instantly' and even avoid the notification email if I want to go check out what it was.

In fact, as I was writing this, the number went from 0 to 1. It really would be nice to have these popups with their short descriptions of what it is

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Leung Aaron wrote:

I would like discourse to have this feature :

On the left hand side of each post , there is a thumbnail showing the 1st uploaded / linked picture.

The thumbnail doesn't need to be large, for example Reddit is just using a 70px size thumbnail.

This can let readers get more interested by have a sneak preview of what's inside the thread by attractive graphics.

( Of course, this should be set as an option, so any admin who doesn't like this function can enable / disable at will )

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Erlend Sogge Heggen wrote:

Continuing the discussion from Brand new wide categories page

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Things I think a Categories page should have:

• Recognizable name of category (ties in with how the category is shown elsewhere on the site).
• Number of new posts in the category since your last visit.
• Latest activity
• Category description
• Subcategories

What I don't think is necessary:

• (Latest) participants - This is only useful to me per thread. All you're telling me here is "these people have posted something "
• Most recent topics - If there are more than 4 new topics you're gonna want to enter the category anyhow.
• Basic topic stats - I guess I am a little interested, but these numbers are hard to process. I want a simpler indicator.

Inspiration:
http://convoe.com/ (click "Explore")
https://github.com/discourse (the simple stats overview)
http://www.viewbook.com/portfolio-examples/

Some mockups, from newest to oldest

Mockup #3

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Mockup #1

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I'm quite fond of the idea of stealing GitHub's first-glance activity indicator.

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Kane York wrote:

Continuing the discussion from Discourse General Polish:

I would actually appreciate if the usercard was wider most of the time, actually.

Here, I've set the max-width to 465px with Stylish, and it seems to be just the right width to get all 3 buttons on one line:

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Here's what it looks like for someone with text:

Ping @fantasticfears

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itlo wrote:

I don't understand why, but so far this site loads really slow. And not just in android (ok there is a mess with at least 12sec to load) but with every device, browser and OS I tried, it is slow. Takes twice more time to load than every other site I visit.
The board index is very slow, the topics not that much - but they are still slow. Maybe all that information that it loads on board index is too much? (active users avatars, number of likes, views, activity, for every single post is way to much).
If you look at twitter it don't give you every single info on the index for every tweat, you have to click to view those extra infos.

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Arpit Jalan wrote:

The Discourse Docker Image makes it easy to set up Discourse on a cloud server. We will use Digital Ocean, although these steps will work on other similar services.

This guide assumes that you have no knowledge of Ruby/Rails or Linux shell. Feel free to skip steps you are comfortable with.

Create New Digital Ocean Droplet

Discourse requires a minimum of 1 GB RAM, however 2 GB RAM is strongly recommended. We'll use "discourse" as the Hostname.

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Install Discourse on Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS x64. We always recommend using the current LTS distribution.

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You will receive a mail from Digital Ocean with the root password to your Droplet. (However, if you use SSH keys, you may not need a password to log in.)

Access Your Droplet

Connect to your Droplet via SSH:

ssh root@192.168.1.1

(Alternately, use Putty on Windows)

Replace 192.168.1.1 with the IP address of your Droplet.

You will be asked for permission to connect, type yes, then the root password, which is in the email Digital Ocean sent you when the Droplet was set up. Enter it.

Install Git

apt-get install git

Generate SSH Key

We strongly recommend setting a SSH key because you may need to access the Rails console for debugging purposes. This cannot be done after bootstrapping the app.

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@example.com"

(We want the default settings, so when asked to enter a file in which to save the key, just press enter. Via GitHub's SSH guide.)

Install Docker

apt-get update
apt-get install linux-image-generic-lts-raring linux-headers-generic-lts-raring

Reboot the server:

reboot

This will log you out from your SSH session, so reconnect:

ssh root@192.168.1.1

Finish installing Docker:

wget -qO- https://get.docker.io/ | sh

Install Discourse

Create a /var/docker folder where all the Docker related stuff will reside:

mkdir /var/docker

Clone the Official Discourse Docker Image into this /var/docker folder:

git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker.git /var/docker

Switch to your Docker folder:

cd /var/docker

Copy the samples/standalone.yml file into the containers folder as app.yml, so the path becomes containers/app.yml:

cp samples/standalone.yml containers/app.yml

Edit app.yml:

nano containers/app.yml

(We recommend Nano because it works like a typical GUI text editor, just use your arrow keys. Hit CtrlO then Enter to save and CtrlX to exit. However, feel free to choose whatever text editor you like. In the below screenshot we use Vim.)

Edit as desired, but at minimum set DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS and DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME.

We renamed DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME to discourse.techapj.com, this means that we want to host our instance of Discourse on http://discourse.techapj.com/. You'll need to modify your DNS records to reflect the IP address and preferred URL address of your server.

Mail Setup

Email is critical to Discourse. We strongly recommend configuring mail settings before bootstrapping.

• If you already have a mail server, put your existing mail server credentials in the app.yml file.

• Otherwise, create a free account on Mandrill (or Mailgun, or Mailjet), and put your mail credentials (available via the Mandrill dashboard) in the app.yml file. The settings you want to change are DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS, DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT, DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME, DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD.

• Be sure you remove the comment character # from the beginning of these mail configuration lines!

Add Your SSH Key

If you successfully generated the SSH key as described earlier, get it:

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Copy the entire output and paste it into the ssh_key setting in the app.yml file.

Bootstrap Discourse

Be sure to save the app.yml file, and begin bootstrapping Discourse:

./launcher bootstrap app

This command may take some time, so be prepared to wait. It is automagically configuring your Discourse environment.

After that completes, start Discourse:

./launcher start app

Congratulations! You now have your own instance of Discourse, accessible via the domain name you entered in app.yml earlier.

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You can also access it by visiting the server IP address directly, e.g. http://192.168.1.1.

Log In and Become Admin

Sign into your Discourse instance. If you configured DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS and your email matches, your account will be made Admin by default.

If your account was not made admin, try SSH'ing into your container (assuming you entered your SSH key in the app.yml file):

./launcher ssh app
sudo -iu discourse
cd /var/www/discourse
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails c
u = User.last
u.admin = true
u.save

This will manually make the first user an admin.

If anything needs to be improved in this guide, feel free to ask on meta.discourse.org, or even better, submit a pull request.

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Siddharth Venkatesan wrote:

I am trying to install discourse on OpenShift platform. I used the discourse-quickstart git to initialize the project. Redis and Postgres 9.2 were installed, as suggested in the quick-start guide.

When I try to start the instance, I get a passenger error page. The page can be seen in the below given link :

http://discourse-neotamizhan.rhcloud.com/

Help please.

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Jaimie wrote:

I was just looking at the group management in the latest build.
When I select "New" I'm shown a "Delete" button but since this item is not created yet this should not show up I think.

I then created a new test group and was not able to delete it. The msg box comes up and I select "Yes" but nothing happens. The modal stays open. It is almost like the button click does nothing.

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Jaimie wrote:

For our forum (watch based) images are a key content feature and it would be ideal if in the listing page that you could see if the thread contained images. I know that this might be a very specific request but would be a key feature for sure.

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awesome robot wrote:

I've been looking into ways to make Discourse look a little cleaner if I have a few spare minutes here and there, so I figured I'd document it and see if anything stands out to anyone...

Tried a few things here... changed the new asterisk to "new" text, giving each topic a few more px of vertical padding, making categories a consistent width (dictated by the longest category)

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Does the header need a box-shadow? Do the user buttons need outlines? Do topic titles have to be blue?

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I've seen some reference to NodeBB as looking more "modern" in this thread... is there anything specific (visually) that makes you feel that way as a user?

I've been looking at Discourse for over a year now, so some fresh opinions can be nice.

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