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Just a general shout out to the Discourse team

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@JagWaugh wrote:

The level of thought which has gone into Discourse isn't apparent when you first start working with it, but over time it really is impressive to see how rich the feature set is.

Well done!

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Problem with `details` tag in lists

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@evgeny-k wrote:

details tag doesn't work if it is inside list:

  • Bulleted list item
    Summary

the same for numbered lists

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Punctuation issue with forgot password alert

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@holden wrote:

Super minor but I thought I'd mention it.

There's a small punctuation issue with the forgot password alert:

=> Click Log In
=> Click I forgot password
=> Enter Username (I didn't try email address)
=> The alert says "We found an account that matches the username [user_name}, you should receive an email with instructions on how to reset your password shortly."

It should say something like"
We found an account that matches the username: [user_name}. You should receive an email with instructions on how to reset your password shortly.

Again, sooo small but I thought I'd mention it:-)

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Discourse makes difference when it comes to a very tiny niche market

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@meglio wrote:

As of today, in the beginning of 2017, I've been using Discourse for ~2 years.

The wide range of Discourse tools, as well as its intelligence that comes out of the box, made it possible for our community to thrive — despite the fact that the number of potential users is very limited.

I run an online community of Ukrainian goat keepers.

Not only do few people from Ukrainian villages have good Internet connection — many of them are not good users of computers, and many are just too old to start the learning curve.

Ukraine is struggling in a war now, people are very much stressed and think about where to get enough food and money for living rather than enjoying communities on the Internet.

What is more, keeping a goat is now becoming popular, but it is still not so when compared to focusing on cows for milk production.

In simpler words, an adequate person (not me) would not start such a community and would predict total failure.

Despite all these obstacles, we managed to build a self-maintaining and growing community with the following statistics:

  • 90k messages
  • 3k topics
  • 30 signups / week with zero marketing (!)
  • 200-300 active users daily
  • 500 new messages daily

I DO believe that one of the key factors in achieving our goals was and still is using Discourse.

I'm saying this despite the fact that I (a developer) hate Ruby language (Discourse uses it), I don't have time to write my own plugins and customize the platform to my own needs; and the fact that there is still few good high quality plugins for Discourse.

We literally use a lot of features that Discourse has to offer out of the box, and all of them add a bit to the successful outcome.

There is some magic in what people feel when they get used to the Discourse-way of doing things. It irritates almost everyone when they try it, but then it gradually makes people happy, then extremely happy, then they become addicted to this discussion engine. I know what I'm talking about — I spoke to tens of them, and absolutely all of them, even the most haters, eventually fell in love with our forum, and can't use competitors forums anymore. I realize it might be specific to our mentality or nationality. And I realize we are actually lucky in that in 2 years time, no single competitor decided to try Discourse as well. So we still are alone on this market using Discourse, and it makes big difference in terms of user experience, being part of why we became No.1 in this niche.

I should not discuss great Discourse features in this post — you can find a lot of detail in Discourse blog and here in Meta. What I wanted to do instead is to encourage people to try Discourse for their new or existing communities. When you use a tool that you love, you will actually do more with it and with more pleasure, and thus will achieve more.

Discourse is worth the effort and time you spend on learning its features. Your productivity will boost. You will be able to do much more with fewer team members compared to other discussion engines. JUST USE IT.

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Trust levels requirements

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@wm00 wrote:

In settings there are 3 requirements for each trust level (ex: tl1 requires topics entered; tl1 requires read posts; tl1 requires time spent mins). Does the user have to meet ALL 3 requirements to pass to the next level? Or just one of them is enough?

Also, is it possible to use just the 'topics entered' and disable the other two (read posts and spent mins)?

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Display Like Counts on Home Page Topic List

Personalized posts via username KEYWORD substitution

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@Russ_Ennis wrote:

Is it possible to create a link to a user's Preferences page (for example) that appears to each logged in user as a link to their own preferences? Some way to have something like

https://meta.discourse.org/users/$USERNAME/preferences

and have the current user's USERNAME automatically rewritten so it is the correct link for them to reach their preferences? I'm thinking it would be pretty handy for some howto docs.

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How to undo a Discourse Category?


Testing updated welcome message

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@jsha wrote:

I'm updating my Discourse instance's welcome message, via system_messages.usage_tips.text_body_template, and /admin/customize/email_templates/system_messages.welcome_user. I've made a mistake, such that new users now get

translation missing: en.system_messages.usage_tips.text_body_template

I'd like to fix the issue, but more importantly: How do I test changes to these fields without creating tons of new accounts?

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Embedded topics don't have a title?

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@ebadgley wrote:

I've set up a simple page to test the embedding functionality (using the script @mtrout originally authored and which is available via Admin/Customize/Embedding), and it is going reasonably well except that the title of the resulting topic is blank.

This makes it impossible to navigate to in the Topics page unless the title is edited.

Has anyone else encountered this, and is there a solution allowing us to specify the title ahead of time (such as on the embed page)?

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Paid , PPT uploader and slide show not embeder plugin for discourse

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@geetvemuri wrote:

I am teacher in medical University and i have power point collections That's all my work but now i am struck with this like, In other platforms i should upload them on other places and embed them in wordpress or other cms , so i am fed up with this, I need ppt uploader and it should automaticall play or slide show the presentation and i dont want this embeding system and i want this in discourse Thanks..:slight_smile: @vinothkannans

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Brainstorming-Discourse for each page/item?

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@orionstars wrote:

I've seen several topics of multiple WP sites using 1 Discourse. As well as the "auto new topic for each WP page/blog added".
What I'm wondering is is it possible to:
-Setup a website where each page is a single physical item.
-On that page are different sections including a discussion forum (being Discourse maybe).

I'm not looking at adding a commenting system to each page - in my scenario that is not a plus but rather useless - don't ask me how I figured that one out :frowning:

Larger site needs would be for a user to sign in and then have universal participation on each item forum.
Thanks
Thoughts or questions or suggestions?

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Avatar image path in quoted text

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@Simon_Cossar wrote:

Would it be possible for the avatar image src in quoted text to be changed so that it get's the absolute path to the avatar image instead of the relative path?

Currently, with the wp-discourse plugin, if a comment with quoted text in it is pulled over to WordPress, the avatar image is returning a 404 error.

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Report of another user's credentials preventing login to users.rust-lang.org

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@brson wrote:

Hi there.

I received the following report of weird behavior at https://users.rust-lang.org:

"I'm already learning Rust and excited to find the Rust Hack page https://activate.mozilla.community/rust-hack/ which leads me to https://users.rust-lang.org/ where I try to sign on using Github and another user's details are in there (yours @brson).

This means I can't log in."

I can't quite reproduce this behavior myself, though in a private window when I click "sign up" -> "github" I do see my own avatar, which seems suspicious (I am the admin of this site). I still seem to have the option of logging in as someone else though.

Is it possible the site is misconfigured in a confusing or buggy way?

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Integation with eCommerce / Magento

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@Gareth_Williams wrote:

Hey Guys,

And thanks for all the help so far!

I wanted to know if anyone has any experience of doing something like this before, essentially we have our discourse setup here:

to be migrated to live next week or so.

We have a Magento site here:

www.adorebeauty.com.au

My question is, I would like to give customers the ability when creating posts to "tag" products in their posts. Once tagged, im thinking we could pull through product image, link, price etc to the post. Once I have this 2 way link, I could always show the posts referencing the product on the product page (for a later date)

Anyway, has anyone done anything similar to:

  • Feed products into Discourse or make available via a feed (google merchant feed maybe)
  • Allow customers to say type a # then type the name of the product with a lookahead
  • That product ID being linked to the post

Does this make any sense at all? Has it been done or will I need to make a big investment here.

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Display long search bar on home page above the categories buttons

Missing RSS-Feed on some Pages

Mark as unread or save for later

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@sudhirkhanger wrote:

Hi,

We use Discourse at work. I spend a couple of hours a day on it replying and reading all the posts.

When I read something but I don't have time to reply I would like a way to save the post. There is Bookmarking feature available but I use it to save important posts that I refer from time to time.

This would also be great if I want to read posts on mobile, save them, and then reply when I have access to laptop.

It would be really helpful if there was a feature that would allow me to save posts for later reply that would be great. If this means mark as unread which adds them back to unread or new category or if there is a dedicated read/save for later like Bookmarks that would be awesome.

Does such a feature possible or already exists?

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Where can I find API key?

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@Rajesh_Choudhary wrote:

Hi I am new to Discourse. I want to add this kind of forum in my wordpress site. I have installed the Discourse plugin. Plz help me to get api key. I did not find exactly the url from where i can get api.

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How can I link to the preferences page in a topic?

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@Frank_Meeuwsen wrote:

I am in the process of streamlining the onboarding for new invited users. We use a csv file to invite 90+ users. After they click on the link in the mail they go immediately to a topic in a closed group where we can give some more information. In this topic I want to direct them to their user preferences. Unfortunately, the permalink to this page is {site_url}/users/{username}/preferences.
Would it be possible to link to something like {site_url}/preferences or {site_url}/user/preferences and when you're logged in, you will go to your user preferences? That way I could make a relative URL in the topic post and have new users link to their own preferences page.

Thanks
Frank

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