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Pros and cons of installing Discourse on a NON-virtual machine?

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Dave Howell wrote:

The installation guide is pretty clear that one of the downsides of using a Virtual Machine to host Discourse is the potential performance hit. Lots of ram and multiple drives are recommended to help alleviate this. I assume the upsides are mostly that you can build/install a known environment, and that if it goes kerblooey, it doesn't take other stuff down with it.

Now, I already have an Ubuntu server with hardware RAID drives, Postgres 9.1 and Ruby. Instead of installing a VM on my server, why not just install Discourse on the 'real' server?
Or, I have a spare server that isn't even running right now. It would appear that running on a non-virtual machine means instead of steps 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, I have just step 3, and that's it. I'm just not sure what hidden downsides of non-virtuality might be.

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Special "Leaderboards" for Discourse Forums?

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Briancguy wrote:

You have to be careful with this idea because you don't want to promote just "volume" of postings - but it would be very interesting to see experimentation (perhaps via plugin) with leaderboards to help encourage quality participation in the forums.

I'm thinking of things like multiple leaderboards - for people with the highest number of "likes", or perhaps likes per month (so it doesn't just bias towards people who have been at the site the longest), or perhaps some calculated leaderboard with weighting towards different things like likes, regularity of participation, etc..

It seems like this could be very beneficial in encouraging quality participation. Any other thoughts on this topic?

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Newrelic plugin

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Sam Saffron wrote:

New Relic support

Author: Sam Saffron

Support for http://newrelic.com

plugins/newrelic/plugin.rb

# name: enable New Relic rpm
# about: New Relic support
# version: 0.1
# authors: Sam Saffron

ENV["NRCONFIG"] = File.expand_path('../newrelic.yml', __FILE__)
gem "newrelic_rpm", "3.6.7.152"

NewRelic::Control.instance.init_plugin :config => Rails.configuration

after_initialize do
  ForumsController.newrelic_ignore :only => [:status]
end

plugins/newrelic/newrelic.yml

The file you got from newrelic

TODO: move this to git

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How do you remove a bookmark?

Advertising Specifications - List / Plugin Request

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Briancguy wrote:

Here is a list of the type of advertising options I would like in Discourse. Perhaps others can add to this list. I'm not a software engineer so I don't know how difficult these are - but perhaps they could be implemented via a Plugin.

Banner Ads Options

  • Horizonal Banner ads placed between messages at the "list" view (Admin can specify how frequently ads show up)
  • Horizonal Banner ads placed between messages in the Message view when there are multiple postings (Admin can specify how frequently ads show up)
  • Horizonal Banner ad placed below the horizontal line (and above the "Invite Friends to Reply" button, when in Message view
  • Vertical banner ads on right of screen when in Message view. Some people have expressed the desire to have a floating 300 by 250 ad. Another approach might be periodically placed ads down the right side (repeats of the same or different ads every second or third message or so). It would be nice to be able to vary the frequency of the ads on the pages from 100% of pages to 1% of pages (see research below).
  • Support for Amazon affiliate ads - I'm thinking specifically of books, in the small text or small image type of ads. These could go either on the right side of the messages, or between messages and topics as per above specifications.

Email Ads

  • Banner or Text / adwords ads at the top and/or bottom of outgoing emails to users (digest or notification emails)
  • Bulk email ad send to mailing list/subscriber list - with field to paste HTML into, to send. Periodically it would be nice to be able to send out special notifications and/or advertisements to users - directly from Discourse. With reporting on "opens", etc. similar to mailchimp, etc.

If Discourse does get some standard integration of advertising options (i.e. banner or text ads) - it would be very nice if it reflected the current research in this area:

http://www.bps-research-digest.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/are-we-really-blind-to-internet-banners.html10

The lessons for web advertisers are clear: don't advertise on every page, vary ad location, and make sure the ad topic is congruent with the web-site content.

ResearchBlogging.orgHervet, G., Guérard, K., Tremblay, S., & Chtourou, M. (2011). Is banner blindness genuine? Eye tracking internet text advertising. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25 (5), 708-716 DOI: 10.1002/acp.1742

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Mandrill or Mailgun?

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Luke Larris wrote:

Was reading the Beginners Guide topic, and I saw some email providers mentioned and now I'm curious as to what the pros and cons of Mandrill vs. Mailgun are.

Currently I'm leaning more towards Mailgun because it looks great and I see some companies I like use them, but Mandrill lets you send 2k more emails for free a month, but to be honest, I don't think I will ever break more than 200 emails a month on a few small forums.

Thoughts?

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Should the order of categories in every place being the same?

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nXqd wrote:

I was hesitate to make this feature request. So I try to use the categories in every place [ top left corner, in category list and category dropdown] and really look into how i use. I find that it'd be nice if we have the categories dropdown on top left and the one we choose when creating post if they share the same order in categories page.

And further more, should we make the category on top left to be select2 instead of normal dropdown. I find select2 is really awesome and convenience.

Cheers !

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Advice on an easy landing page template to run with Discourse? On the same server?

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Matt wrote:

I just set up an instance on Digital Ocean using the Beginner's Docker guide. I want to set up a landing page as well, and I'm wondering what the best way to do this is.

Would a 1core/1GB droplet be overloaded running both a landing page and a discourse instance? If so, should I have the same nginx serving the landing page as well?

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Automatic submission of content to a Discourse forum?

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Matt wrote:

Could I email/sms/tweet to a Discourse forum?

It would be cool to use Discourse as my single communication platform that would display all communications directed at me.

Are there existing Discourse API features that do this sort of thing?

I know the Twitter API could support it, and I assume something like that could would be doable with email.

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Ability to Follow and Friend other users

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Brandon Rampersad wrote:

Following a user will notify you of any posts they made, their liked content etc. This could help relationships to development between both the users and their content instead of just their content alone.

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Vietnamese titles topic and category can't saving properly in database

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Hung Hoang wrote:

When i try creating topic in vietnamese the topic title not saving correctly. In the topic i created http://try.discourse.org/t/nha-cung-c-p-khac-nhau/519. The title "nhà cung cấp khác nhau" i want saving in database is "nha-cung-cap-khac-nhau" but it came with "nha-cung-c-p-khac-nhau" in the url. Because of tern to work with SEO.
How can i support this?, If possible to write a plugin that support saving vietnamese like mention to support SEO ?

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Installing plugins on Docker install

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Jacob wrote:

Loving the new Docker install, setting it up and migrating from the old Ubuntu setup was a breeze. I really enjoy the new setup.

One question I have is how I can install plugins that will survive the destroy/bootstrap process. I'm still kinda confused on how that actually works. I really want to get the spoiler plugin back on my site.

Thanks!

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Shared Edit: share the permission to edit your post with other users

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Benjamin Kampmann wrote:

Heyah,

I'm proud to announce another plugin of mine. Inspired by wanting to be able to use my Checklist plugin collaboratively with other people, I created the Shared Edit Plugin. Once installed and enabled (see installation section of the readme), another action appears on ones posts allowing to share the permission to edit the post with other users:

users

Once saved, those other users will be able to edit that post, too. Also allowing to check the check boxes of the checklist plugin. Of course their changes will show up in the normal history.

Enjoy.

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I can't insert end tag < /script> on HTML Head

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oSiNaReF wrote:

When I access to http://******/admin/site_contents/head to insert HTML head code on it, I push on save button but it does'nt save.

This problem only occurs with a specific TAG:

If I insert (I put a blank space between < and /script to show here)

< script type="text/javascript">
any code
< /script>

Can't save. The problem is produced by end tag script.

Beware to try this bug. If you don't close < script> tag your website would be broken

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Quick question on upgrading through Docker

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Kieran Tracy wrote:

I've just upgraded to v0.9.8.10 using the docker upgrade procedure (/admin/docker)

It went well, as far as I can tell. However, my question is: does the base docker image get updated, or are the updates only stored in the container? So if I have a need to destroy, bootstrap and start my container again, will it roll back to the old version?

Anyhoo, thanks for the great software!

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Change full name in profile

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Leo Bergnéhr wrote:

In the user profile it's possible to edit the username and the email address. I can't seem to find how, if possible, to edit the full name though. Is that possible, and if not, for what reasons?

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Will Discourse ever gain ignore user functionality?

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Grandy Peace wrote:

The ability to put users on an ignore list has always been a hot button topic at the "third places" I have frequented over the years, from BBS software up to current-day web forums.

Are there plans to add ignore functionality to Discourse?

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Invite friends functionality

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John_Lee wrote:

I see that that there is a invites tab but is there also a invite functionality? invite friends by email, facebook, twitter, linked in etc.

Its 2013 and i think every script should be as social as possible and its great to see that discourse has social login/signup functionality from several services smile

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Polls can't be altered (even by Moderators) after 5 minutes?

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cpradio wrote:

Is this a setting somewhere? As I think moderators/staff should be able to alter a poll regardless of the time limit.

What if a regular user creates a poll that is "unfitting" or one of the options isn't permitted by forum rules?

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