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.htaccess redirect

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Cyry wrote:

Hello,
can i use an .htaccess for redirect the http to https always ?
If yes, where can i upload the .htaccess ?

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German Translation Sync between GH and Transifex

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blang wrote:

Just want to let you guys know that i'm working on a sync between the gh and transifex version of the german translation files as announced in another topic.

In case of dups i prefer the transifex translation in comparison to gh.
I will publish the used script if someone needs them for other translations (handwork will be needed since i don't want to write a parser myself and using yaml parsers).

Greetz

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POST to /admin/users/:user_id/generate_api_key.json says route does not exist

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Stephen Birarda wrote:

I want to be able to create an API key for the user to pass down to our application so that they can create posts from the application. I've figured out how to add users via the REST api (using the honeypot values) but can't seem to use the generate_api_key method in the Admin::UsersController.

It's telling me the route doesn't exist, but I've verified that it definitely does by looking at the request made from chrome when clicking on "Generate API key" for that user - although that request uses the CSRF token.

Is it possible to POST to the same API via JSON with a master API key?

Started POST "/admin/users/8/generate_api_key.json?api_key=a246e85e1334501c7dcd0ef731162466eea0ad1d11733690c5a36a21c3c21377" for 127.0.0.1 at 2014-02-27 14:40:16 -0800
ApiKey Load (1.1ms) SELECT "api_keys".* FROM "api_keys" WHERE "api_keys"."key" = 'a246e85e1334501c7dcd0ef731162466eea0ad1d11733690c5a36a21c3c21377' ORDER BY "api_keys"."id" ASC LIMIT 1

ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [POST] "/admin/users/8/generate_api_key.json"):
config/initializers/quiet_logger.rb:10:in call_with_quiet_assets'
config/initializers/silence_logger.rb:19:incall'
lib/middleware/missing_avatars.rb:21:in call'
lib/middleware/turbo_dev.rb:32:incall'

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Is there a user manual or list of features?

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Christopher Wells wrote:

Is there a user manual, or a list of (all) features?

  • For new users (especially new wannabe power users) who want to know what they can do with the software
  • For potential users (before they've decided to use/choose Discourse), who want to evaluate the product

I found no in-site "Help" pages. The closest I've found is the home page at [http] discourse.org/ and the FAQ page at [http] discourse.org/faq/

Topics for post-sale users could include things like:

  • How to search
  • How to moderate
  • How to categorize topics
  • ...?

Something for pre-sale evaluation could be a list of features. Some products do a competitive evaluation matrix, for example like this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software#Features

The matrix of features is where you can say, "Other products support some of these features (although sometimes not as well), but look at us: we support all them!" (or, "we're different!")

You needn't research the features of competing products for me, but I'd like you to document the list of your own features / own functionality.

There's a partial list of features at [http] blog.discourse.org/2014/01/the-road-to-discourse-1-0-2/ but that doesn't tell me what the 'base' features are that were implemented in the February 2013 'launch',

The Git commit log/history isn't a plausible/convenient way to reverse-engineer the functional specification.

I also haven't seen a road-map (list of unimplemented, planned, possible future features).

The About page at http://www.discourse.org/about/ says ...

  • Other forums have an old-fashioned UI
  • StackExchange is for Q+A not conversations

... but doesn't explain how Discourse is better or different. It claims ...

  • All the sociological and technical lessons of 10+ year old forum communities baked into the design of the software.
  • Sane, safe out of the box defaults, but a million dials and knobs to tweak.

Where or what are the details:

  • What is the design of the software, which demonstrates/implements these baked-in lessons?
  • What are the 'million' dials and knobs to tweak (and the defaults)?

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Topic List design experiments

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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)

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

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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RSS support for categories/topics?

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Simon wrote:

As there already is some discussion about NNTP support?, what about RSS feeds for categories or single topics? As far as I know it is currently not supported.

It would be nice to subscribe to some category, especially when categories are used like here on meta. So for example a dev could subscribe to the "bug" category and can use his/her own reader to get notified of any activity.

It could also be used to integrate forum discussions into other websites without needing a special Discourse integration "plugin" in the CMS/Blog/whatever (most platforms have an RSS plugin already available).

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Plain text e-mail notifications

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almereyda wrote:

Dear community,

as I've just garbled (Does such a word exist in the English language?) with a forwarded notification e-mail that has been full of HTML.
As I'm not a friend of HTML e-mail at all, I'd like to have all notification mails in plain text.

Would it make sense to try to provide a little plugin? Or could someone of the core team provide a little hack as a setting?

Just curious; greetings from Berlin.

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What's the secret for getting ssh to work into a container?

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Dave Howell wrote:

Okay, I'm totally baffled. I can't get Discourse to deliver my mail, so I figured maybe I could find the undelivered file and extract the link or whatever I need from it. But, I can't get into the container at all. I have tried the instructions under "Troubleshooting" multiple times; everything I do results in SSH asking for my password. Usually it asks for "root's" password. I don't think root HAS a password.

(1) Am I running as root or as a regular user? I have no idea.

(2) When pasting the "contents of ...id_rsa.pub" into container/app.yml, am I supposed to include the "ssh-rsa" at the beginning and/or the "my unprotected key" at the end?

(3) I managed to guess that it should be possible to access the system by using "ssh -p 2222 -l a-user-name localhost" rather than "./launcher ssh app", which would at least let me add parameters to ssh. What I don't know is, what ought to happen? I'm guessing that it's supposed to use the keys and not ask me for a password, but since I've never done that with SSH, I don't know. Since none of the steps state what the positive outcome looks like, I have no way to confirm that the previous steps actually worked correctly.

(4) The instructions say I'm supposed to paste the public key into "[my] templates (see placeholder YOUR_SSH_KEY in samples.)" But the templates don't have a place for an ssh key. That's in containers/app.yml. I don't understand the (over?)use of the term 'template' in this context.

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Is it possible to have an Invite URL?

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Ted Pearlman wrote:

Maybe I missed this, but is there an option to send someone an invite URL, rather than using the invite friend function? I seem to be having a problem with the invite emails being marked as spam.

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Discourse versus Oracle RightNow

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Craig Oda wrote:

More stories from the trenches today. There I was at a well-known financial transactions company, advising them on community strategy, which includes social. As most of you know that sell community implementations to corporations, there are some pretty humongous problems with attempting to use social for marketing, especially Twitter.

Anyway, I don't want to rock the boat and am trying to figure out how to blend Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn into a cohesive marketing strategy. Once again, it's starting to look like they're going to need a type of forum.

I've already been pushing Discourse to a large semi-conductor company and my business partner thinks I've drank the kool-aid, so I back off and start with the easy questions about what they're already using. I'm relieved that they're not using Jive. yes! Hey, they're not using Lithium! Yes! They show me this forum that actually looks pretty decent. I think, OK, we'll just use this for the campaign.

Then, all of a sudden, the client mentions they've got some licenses from Oracle. Oh no, I think, the cost will kill the campaign. I then ask the obvious cost question and realize that the system costs money per 15 minutes of use per user.

I'm starting to think that this will be problematic and set up a meeting with their web and analytics guy. I find out that they're using Drupal as the CMS, the open source free version. OK, I think this should be an easy matter to use the Drupal forum module. After 15 minutes, I realize that this isn't moving forward because of lack of IT resources.

So, I'm back to Oracle RightNow. I'm interested in comparing Discourse to Oracle RightNow, the forum piece. The feature set looks pretty similar at first glance. RightNow is a big software platform. The piece I'm looking at is only the forum functionality. Does anyone have experience with RightNow?

I find it interesting in corporations that engineering handles the support forums and marketing often handles the forums that deal with usage.

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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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Activation email not sending

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vetrivel wrote:

I have created user registration but email verification and activation mail not send.I used production mode. How to rectify the problem

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Show favorite star only on hover?

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Jeff Atwood wrote:

Very much like the original suggestions. On a related note, could we please start showing the favorite star only on-demand? As in, star will only show if:

  • Your mouse is hovering over that thread
  • You've favorited that thread

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Why 2 buttons for liking?

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Johan wrote:

Currently, 2 buttons(well, one link) exists for doing the exact same thing: Liking a post.

The heart is the more obvious one, and the "Like it too" is more subtle and almost alittle confusing (because it seems like the line "1 person liked this. Like it too" is just ONE link instead of TWO).

Wouldn't it be easier just to drop the part behind "X people liked this", and have the heart only for liking/unliking?

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Reply button while logged out

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Anthony wrote:

There should be a reply button while logged out. Most users will create an account only when want to say something. Right now, if someone lands on a discourse thread from Google and there no clear way to reply or what to do next. There should be a reply button that brings up the sign up or log in lightbox. Making answering as easy as possible was one of the big wins of Stack Overflow.

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Undid flags stack up in the admin panel

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Kane York wrote:

Test Account 1 (green gravatar) flagged the post as inappropriate, clicked Undo Flag, flagged as spam, undid, then flagged as inappropriate. It shows up in the admin panel as three consecutive flags by the same person (it is not considered that way for the purposes of auto-hiding posts, but they still show up).

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Topics still marked 'new' after visits (ignoring preferences)

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Sander Datema wrote:

In my peferences I have Discourse (Meta) set to only display a topic as new if it was posted since my last visit. However, since a few days these topics start piling up. The oldest 'new' topic is 5 days old now.

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Collapse deleted posts

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Nathan Rijksen wrote:

Currently when a post is deleted it is only soft-deleted and admins/mods can still see it. This is a nice functionality which I very much like, however what I like less is that these posts still take up as much space as they did before and they get "highlighted" on top of that. This seems odd to me, deleted posts should be made less visible (to those who can still see them), not more. It'd make sense if it showed a very short notice saying "Post deleted by xxx" or something along those lines, then when you click on that expand it to show the original post.

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Add a "max replies across topics in first day" setting

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Nathan Rijksen wrote:

Currently the max_replies_in_first_day counts on all of your posts (even PM's it seems), which can cause a lot of false-positives in that honest community members get blocked from posting in the name of anti-spam. To combat this I'd like a setting that would allow users to respond far more frequently in the "same topic", and only starts blocking if the user posted many times across various topics. So if someone is reporting an issue and has a lot of follow-up questions in the same topic they do not get punished for it.

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Nested quotes will never parse correctly

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Kane York wrote:

Reply to the something
[/quote]

[quote="codinghorror, post:13, topic:13923"]
[quote="Naatan, post:12, topic:13923"]
Something something
[/quote]
Reply to the something
[/quote]

Nested quotes are sometimes necessary, and it would be nice to have them supported: http://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/please-read-the-comments/1393/81?u=riking

( that post currently uses <blockquote> to make it look at least passable: http://discourse.codinghorror.com/raw/1393/81 )

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