Propose to show names in the private message list
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Sync Discourse with NNTP
@sman591 wrote:
In migrating to Discourse, we had a pre-existing discussion platform on NNTP. To keep the two working side-by-side, I wrote a small plugin that syncs them!
NNTP newsgroups get assigned to pre-existing Discourse categories. Posts from Discourse go to NNTP, and posts from NNTP go to Discourse.
It also attempts to match email addresses with existing Discourse users, so as long as you have your NNTP users in Discourse, posts synced from NNTP look identical to any other discourse-created post.
There are some limitations, such as support for cross-posting and canceled messages, however in my testing this covers 95% of our use.
Contributions & feedback welcome! https://github.com/sman591/discourse-nntp-bridge/issues
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Issue installing on subdomain
@chagara wrote:
hello,
I just tried a new install of discourse on digital ocean. I'm trying to use a subdomain and I believe lestencrypt is putting errors out.
[emerg] 5618#5618: PEM_read_bio_X509_AUX("/shared/ssl/ask.sysadminonlinux.org.cer") failed (SSL: error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:Expecting: TRUSTED CERTIFICATE)DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME: ask.sysadminonlinux.org
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Wordpress plugin receives avatar URL with HTTP protocol if site uses HTTPS and no CDN
@fortasse wrote:
Hello! I have a Discourse installation that should only be used over HTTPS. However, since we also serve that forum on a Tor hidden service, we cannot use the "force HTTPS" checkbox in the options menu.
This is normally all well and good, except the Wordpress plugin gets an
httpurl for the "avatar_template" value. I believe this is becausediscourse/app/serializers/post_wordpress_serializer.rb(and the other wordpress-related serializers) useUrlHelper.absolute object.user.avatar_template. This callsDiscourse.base_url_no_prefixif a CDN is not configured (which is not on our site.) As such, the Wordpress plugin attempts to fetch (and embeds) the avatars over HTTP, which is less than ideal. I'm not terribly well versed in Ruby, so if this is completely incorrect I apologize. I can say for certain, however, that the API response from wordpress.json has a value of"avatar_template":"http://forums.whonix.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/m/d2c977/{size}.png"even though we have theDiscourse URLvalue in the Wordpress plugin settings as "https://forums.whonix.org"I'm not sure if this is a bug in Discourse or the Wordpress plugin (or perhaps both) but I thought I would post it here. Please redirect me to the appropriate location if this is not it.
If you need additional details, please let me know.
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How to structure my forum?
@ukankal wrote:
Hi All,
Below is how I am planning to implement my forum. Could someone please guide me how to structure it?
- There are X no of states in my country. Each state is divided into Y number of subdivisions. So, I am thinking of having X large groups divided into Y no. of subdivisions each.
- During registration user will enter his state and subdivision. As per this he will be added to his respective groups(state and subdivision).
- Every state and subdivision has it's own set of categories. Only users from the respective state can work on those.
- Users from all the states can work on few categories hosting wiki topics.
- When a user logs in, he should be able to see only categories that are related to his region i.e his state and subdivision.
My doubts:
1. Maximum no. of users a group can host.
2. Maximum no. of groups and categories we can have?
3. Maximum no. of sub-categories and sub-groups?Could someone please point me if I am thinking straight?
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Update to latest version is not active
@11145 wrote:
Update to latest version is not active. What could be the reason?
https://site/admin/upgrade
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How long usually it took you to build your forum to a sustainable level
@xiaosube wrote:
This question is to experienced and successful forum owners on the community. I am an ambitious forum owner who have been facinated after seen discourse. I throw away my plans to use invisionpower and vbulletine at the very moment I saw discourse and its demo on try.discourse.org
Now I have a forum which I use discourse as platform and I found it is mobile friendly and users friendly.
It has been three weeks now, still search engine traffic is not coming. I generate content by seeding three users and adding questions and answers myself. I do it in a natural way, but still no search engine traffic.
I would like to learn from your experience, how to grow a forum to a sustainable level, how to get users to forum and make them to contribute ... etc.
More importantly, how long it took you to achive a sustainable growth level.
If anyone want to see my forum before repling (I blured it not to be a spam)
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Discourse Narrative Bot Beta Feedback
@codinghorror wrote:
Discourse traditionally sends a PM to all new users which does the following:
- welcomes them to the site
- offers tips and tricks for those new to Discourse
- briefly explains trust levels and new user limits
- mentions our rules of civilized discourse
Unfortunately, it was a bit of a .. wall o' text. I'm not sure how many people actually read it, or cared. But we sure as heck sent it out to everyone that ever signed up for any Discourse... ever.
As of Discourse 1.7 we pared that PM down to a much simpler, shorter text with a link to a blog entry that contains the tips and tricks part which was the bulk of the message. That at least fixed the wall of text problem...
... but there's another problem.
If you think about how real people approach learning a new communication tool, they certainly don't clink links or read FAQs or read anything really. No, they jump in and use the tool, that is, they talk to real people using the tool, even if it's only a friend or a number of colleagues they recruited to help them test it out.
For Discourse 1.8 we're building something better than a boring old PM telling you stuff. We're building a robot buddy that will greet all new users, a synthetic person that will reply to you and teach you stuff .. so new users have a comfy, safe place after they arrive, where they can use Discourse to learn about Discourse!
We've been working on the Discourse Narrative Bot in alpha form since October 2016.
- This will be a bundled feature that is on by default and replaces the static welcome PM.
- If you prefer the old Discourse 1.7 and earlier behavior, the first bot message can replicate the "old" PM and ignore all replies. Just tick the "disable bot replies" preference.
- Users can completely ignore the bot and nothing is lost. In that sense it is identical to the new user welcome PM, which we've sent since Discourse 1.0.
What does the Discourse Narrative Bot teach new users? What we believe to be the essentials of using Discourse:
- Bookmarking
- Oneboxing links (linking)
- Emoji
![:slight_smile:]( ":slight_smile:")
@namementions- Very simple bold and italic formatting
- Quoting replies
- Adding a picture to a reply
- Flagging
- Searching
(Replying is implied, as reply to the private message is required to do anything with the bot. It also indirectly teaches users about private messaging, of course.)
This bot has been live on try.discourse.org for several months and we're fairly comfortable we've sanded away the rough edges by now. But more feedback is always welcome. If you'd like to try out the Discourse Narrative Bot right now, please go to https://try.discourse.org and sign up.
The primary focus of the bot is the new user experience, and that narrative is more or less complete. However, we are also building out a few other narratives:
- advanced user
- new moderator
- new admin
We'll be enabling this bot here on meta.discourse.org in the next week, and we'd like your feedback as we continue to integrate the narrative bot as a bundled feature of Discourse from 1.8 onward.
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Off by one error in latest.json page 1
@michaeld wrote:
latest.json page 0 ,
topic_list.topics[29]is the same item as page 1topic_list.topics[0]This only seems to happen between pages 0 and 1.
I can't find the code that is causing this.
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Feature proposal: improved badge granting workflow
@ChrisBeach wrote:
On my forum we're starting to have moderators grant custom badges for exceptional behaviour on the forum. For example, a "Community Spirit" badge is awarded to members who freely offer time or resources to local community projects via the forum.
The workflow to grant badges in this instance is very fiddly and I think this puts mods off using it:
Current Workflow ("Community Spirit" badge)
- Click sharing button on post
- Right-click link
- Click "copy"
- Click user's avatar
- Click user's avatar on user card to open profile page
- Click "Admin"
- Click "Edit badges"
- Search for "Community Spirit" Badge (fiddly as not ordered by recently used)
- Paste the previously-copied URL into the "Reason" box
- Click "Grant"
Proposed Workflow ("Community Spirit" badge)
- Click "..." on post
- Click spanner icon
- Click "Grant Community Spirit Badge"
Proposed Workflow (Other Badges)
- Click "..." on post
- Click spanner icon
- Click "Grant Other Badge" (this opens the existing "Grant badge" UI, with the "Reason" field pre-populated)
- Select badge (badges listed in popularity order)
- Click "Grant"
Notes
In the proposed solution, the post "spanner menu" would show two options: "Grant [most commonly-awarded badge]" and "Grant Other Badge"
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Muted category still sends mails to users with mailing_list preference
@modius wrote:
I created and muted a category for testing some inbound mail config. I also suppressed the category for the email summary. However, it looks like Discourse has been sending emails out to users via email type mailing_list.
Is this expected behaviour?
If so, how would I go about suppressing all email notifications for a specific category beyond making it private to a specific group?
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Google bot assumes main page as /top
@bitsw wrote:
Just posted several topics and tested in google search console how google bot sees forum ("fetch as google"). I'v discovered that mobile view of forum which google bots sees is several days behind normal user view. Is seems /top section is default (main page) for google bot. Is there any way to switch it to /latest ?
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404 header on every post published after wp-discourse installation
@Denki wrote:
I noticed all the new posts published in the blog after the installation and activation of wp-discourse plugin, have a 404 header.
Last post with a normal 200 header -> https://denki.es/136/mercedes-benz-prueba-sus-camiones-electricos-dejandoselos-gratis-a-20-clientes-durante-un-ano
Next post, already has a 404 header -> https://denki.es/155/el-primer-coche-electrico-que-participo-en-un-rally-dakar-lo-condujo-un-espanol (you can also check the header information here: https://securityheaders.io/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fdenki.es%2F217%2Fcomo-abrir-el-maletero-de-un-tesla-model-s-o-model-x-sin-tener-la-llave&followRedirects=on )
If you check, the 404 header post is the first one using Discourse - hence the normal wordpress comments code is not being used.
I tried de-activating the wp-discourse plugin, the posts still use 404 header. Tried de-activating all plugins, the new posts still have a 404 header (even newly published test posts). Tried using Wordpress default theme, with all plugins de-activated or activated... in both situations, all new posts have 404 header. Previous posts keep 200 header. Also tried to use default options for permalinks, same result. Swtiched back to my fancy permalinks, again same result... all new posts use 404 header.
I publish this here because the only cue I have on this issue, is the date; all the 404 header posts started being published exactly the moment after the wp-discourse plugin was installed. It might not be related but it'd be too much of a coincidence. I didn't install anything else. Please note I'm using the beta version compatible with php 5.3.3.
any ideas... ?
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Automation based on user sign ups
@charchar wrote:
Hi there,
I'm curious if there's any sort of API in Discourse to automate an event when a user signs up. We'd like to add all of our sign ups to Salesforce so we can track their actions more easily. After looking through the API documentation, there didn't seem to be a way to initiate something when a new user is added - only to pull a list of recently added users. Thought I would ask just in case.
Thanks!
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Plugin idea: Twitter customer service
@vinothkannans wrote:
Many products and services using Discourse as their support forum. Also there are many companies using Twitter as their additional customer service portal. So I guess it will be useful to implement Twitter service in Discourse to achieve this?
For example (as per above image), if someone tweeted by mentioning
@GitHubHelpor like@GitHub #helpthen a topic should be created automatically with that tweet content. It can be in private staff category. When a staff reply to the topic corresponding reply tweet must be posted as@GitHubHelptwitter handle. So both the Twitter conversation and Discourse topic should be in sync for all replies.Advantages
- Staff team can support both Discourse and Twitter customers in one place.
- Existing Discourse users can introduce Twitter customer service support easily.
- Support topics can be moved to public category when it useful for other forum users
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Ban hammer forever?
@Aylin wrote:
I'm a moderator of one of Discourse forum.
So I was banning some naughty users today and I have been suprised that ban hammer is forever. Last time (before February) I could give a ban for a short period of time, but now it doesn't work that way. There isn't even any information of a ban on user site/account for others to see. Was this function trimmed somwhere inbetween Feb-March? Or it was moved to suspension option?
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Users link from Admin menu doesn't work
@kyler wrote:
Good morning!
I've installed a new discourse forum and it's working great, but there's one bug I haven't seen before. Brief facts: normally I've paid the discourse team to install it for me at Digitial Ocean. But I like Linode, so this time I finally just installed myself following the instructions at Github.
It's on a 1GB VPS with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Discourse v1.8.0.beta6.
Discourse is the only thing running on the VPS.
When I click on the admin menu, and then 'Users' the page comes up and shows nobody. If I click on 'Settings' and from there click on 'Users' they display correctly.
Also, what's the proper way to shut down Discourse for a server reboot? I had to issue a 'reboot' command last night in Linux, but didn't know how to gracefully shut down Discourse first. Hopefully I didn't screw anything up.
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How to upload google webmasters verify file?
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Android "Desktop App Button"
@Slind wrote:
Hi there,
when visiting a Discourse site with Android, an info box is shown at the bottom, asking the user if he would like to add the site to the desktop.
When I click on this, how is that being saved. From what I understand it is not possible to see if the user already has it has a desktop shortcut or not. I also don't see it reappearing after some time.So I'm wondering, does it set a cookie or local storage entry which stays there forever/a long time?
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Put a link to mute user on user page
@pfaffman wrote:
If you want to mute a user, you have to go to your settings and find your way to the mute user thing and then remember the user's name to type it in. I think it would be nice if when you visited a user's page there was an option to mute that user and, if the user is muted, a way to un-mute the user right there as well.
It might also be nice to be able to mute/unmute topics from a topic page as well.
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