Can't log in, except on Firefox

May 14, 2017, 3:34 am

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@jack2 wrote:

I have a development Discourse instance running on a distant server.

I have a web application, which displays Discourse in an iframe.

When I run my web app on a distant server and with a domain name, everything works as expected.

But when I run my web app on localhost, here is what happens when I try to log in to Discourse:

• Firefox: everything works fine.
• Chrome: "Unknown Error" in the Discourse popup, "403 (Forbidden)" in the console.
• IE11: no error displayed, but login fails. However, all credentials are there, because if I open Discourse directly in IE (not through my web app iframe), user is actually logged-in.

Any hint?

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Changing a warning message

May 14, 2017, 4:44 am

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@Seth_Godin wrote:

First off, THANKS to the Discourse team. We moved our system over, and the users in the course are thrilled. It saved the day.

Now, another question, if you don't mind:

This message: WARNING: you reached the limit of 10 daily emails. Further email notifications will be suppressed.

Comes as a result of this feature:

I like this feature, but the message makes it sound like the user did something wrong. It contains the unhappy words: warning, limit and suppressed.

Can an admin change this wording locally? I've searched our settings, but no luck.

If not, can I suggest:

Heads up: We send a maximum of 10 emails a day. Check the site to see the ones that might be held back.

Thanks... go Discourse!

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How To Use Screen To Bootstrap A Development Install (Ubuntu)

May 14, 2017, 5:45 am

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@sulliops wrote:

This tutorial was posted on discourse.sulliops.co on May 14, 2017.

When installing Discourse for development using this tutorial, the last step is to run bundle exec rails server --binding=0.0.0.0 to bootstrap the server. However, once you run this command you cannot do anything without first stopping the server using Ctl + C. But, there is a way to bootstrap the server and be able to return to a prompt (to do something else, I suppose).

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Before starting this step, you should run cd to verify that you are in your root directory. Presuming this is a development installation, you will be using a non-root user account with sudo access. So, run sudo apt-get install screen and allow it to install. Once it has been installed, run screen -R and hit enter.

Then, continue the tutorial as normal, but after bootstrapping is complete (after running bundle exec rails server --binding=0.0.0.0) you can do Ctl + A then D. This will return you to your root directory prompt and you can do something else. If and when you need to return to your screen (where you bootstrapped Discourse), just do screen -R.

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Image chosen for onebox / opengraph on category page is unexpected

May 14, 2017, 6:52 am

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@grahamperrin wrote:

The blackness:

– has anyone encountered that blackness before?

An issue with Twitter, I assume.

If it helps to understand possible causes of the misreprentation above, here's a screenshot of an earlier view of the same tweet (probably taken soon after it was posted):

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In that early shot, Twitter's representation was of the first of the three links. There's the /about text for the forum.

In all later views of the same tweet, in a variety of browsers (including non-extended Firefox 53.0), Twitter's representation is of the third of the links.

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Quoting a post with a link triggers "duplicate link" education message

May 14, 2017, 10:20 am

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@tophee wrote:

It looks like when you quote a post that contains a link this triggers the js.composer.duplicate_link message:

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I suppose links in quotes should be excluded?

Also, there seems to be a typo in the default version of that text content element ("ago" is missing)

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Change Refresh Time For Admin Statistics

May 14, 2017, 12:35 pm

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@sulliops wrote:

I have my forum working perfectly, but I'm going to eventually monetize the forum (basically renting out categories for a lower price than VPS hosting).

My issue is that I need to track page views in real time, but the admin panel seems to update at random (usually taking between 45 minutes to an hour). EDIT: I timed it, and it appears to be 30 minute intervals.

How can I set the interval between each refresh? I really want it to refresh the admin panel every 1-5 minutes or so, if that's at all possible.

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Creating a basic import script, what do I need

May 14, 2017, 12:45 pm

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@kodab wrote:

Hi guys,

I'm currently using a very simple self-made forum that I want to migrate to discourse. Now I can export the data from my current forum and format all the data into a clean .csv file. I wonder now, what do I need at a minimum to import the forumposts to discourse?

I've looked at the importscripts from phpbb, vanilla and others and noticed they are quite "heacy" for the simple .csv that I have. I just want to say hey, I want to import this post in this category from this user row-by-row without the needed for escaping or formatting something.

Is there a simple X / Y importscript to do this job that you guys know of? Thx. love

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How to setup automated new topic based off a Rails model?

May 14, 2017, 5:36 pm

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@railsnoob wrote:

So I have my Rails app that has a model such as Article with attributes { :photo, :title, :url }

I want to create a background job that uses this model to come and post these articles onto my Discourse message board (hosted by digital ocean on a separate server and accessed by sub-domain) as new topics... besides using a web crawler... is there some kind of way to hookup my App's model to Discourse API to automate creating new topics based off the model data?

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Vagrant up problem with host ip while setting up development environment

May 15, 2017, 12:52 am

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@Linh_Vo wrote:

Hi,
I try to run vagrant up but I encounter this error

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How I can fix this problem ???

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Can I copy or adapt the FAQ for another site?

May 15, 2017, 12:59 am

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@feugen wrote:

Hi,

I would like to copy the rules of conduct for another "forum". Is that ok, if yes under what conditions?

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May 15, 2017, 3:22 am

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@goindeep wrote:

Here is the email snapshot:

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But as you can see my site uses thumbs up button instead:

Any solution to this?

Cheers

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Unanswered questions filter + ignore user

May 15, 2017, 3:39 am

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@renem wrote:

Hi all,

I'd like to get an overview of all unanswered topics but somehow ignore those from a certain user. I'm using this filter:

We use the Wordpress plugin to automatically create a new topic for each new blog post. With the ?max_posts=1 filter, I get an overview of all topics that have 0 replies but there are a lot of topics from the system account that I'm not interested in. I want to use this to see topics that were created by users that didn't get a reply:

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Looking at this post:

I see there's no option to filter a single user but is it possible to achieve this any other way?

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Bootsnap not compiling on branch main ( FreeBSD 10.0 ) [ fatal error: sys/xattr.h: No such file or directory #include ]

May 15, 2017, 4:17 am

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@HugeSpider wrote:

branch: master
OS: 10.3-STABLE FreeBSD

since bootsnap was added on May 11 when i try to

env GYP_DEFINES="make_clang_dir=" CXX=/usr/bin/clang++ CC=/usr/bin/clang bundle install --without development test

I get error

(...)
Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

current directory: /usr/home/spider/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/bootsnap-0.2.14/ext/bootsnap
/home/spider/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.3/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20170515-61851-u8spxp.rb extconf.rb
creating Makefile

current directory: /usr/home/spider/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/bootsnap-0.2.14/ext/bootsnap
make "DESTDIR=" clean

current directory: /usr/home/spider/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/bootsnap-0.2.14/ext/bootsnap
make "DESTDIR="
compiling bootsnap.c
bootsnap.c:3:23: fatal error: sys/xattr.h: No such file or directory
 #include <sys/xattr.h>
                       ^
compilation terminated.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/home/spider/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/bootsnap-0.2.14/ext/bootsnap

make failed, exit code 1

Gem files will remain installed in /home/spider/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/bootsnap-0.2.14 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/spider/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/extensions/x86_64-freebsd-10/2.3.0/bootsnap-0.2.14/gem_make.out

An error occurred while installing bootsnap (0.2.14), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install bootsnap -v '0.2.14'` succeeds before bundling.

I assume that it's something similar to issue with platform triplet as mentioned in https://github.com/cowboyd/libv8/issues/236

Before bootsnap was added I had no issues.

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Setting an incoming e-mail address for the staff group

May 15, 2017, 5:47 am

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@totte wrote:

I'd like for people to be able to reach the staff group of my Discourse installation via e-mail without the need to sign up first. A helpdesk solution seems a bit excessive, but a shared inbox in the way that group messages work should be just enough. However, the option to set a custom incoming e-mail address is only available for custom groups, not the automatic ones. When searching here on meta for "staff incoming e-mail address" the only result is this:

Is there a reason for as to why this option is omitted for the staff, admins, and moderators automatic groups?

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Activity Summary occasionally not sending

May 15, 2017, 10:12 am

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@pelcami wrote:

Occasionally, the Activity Summary is not sent out. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Details below:

My version is up to date.

On this account (Student_Community), I have Mailing List Mode enabled, and the "Send Daily Updates" setting configured.

I do not think delivery has to do with any other parts of our mail system, as the Forum's mail log says the mail was not sent out (in this example, you see there is no send entry two days ago from the Student_Community account). We see it sent out approximately 92% of the time. The Forum is quite active, so we don't think it is because of a shortage of news.

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Dismissable text / image banner (new customer "experience")

May 15, 2017, 11:51 am

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@jmsachs wrote:

This topic has been discussed before but I can't seem to figure out how to make it work.

Essentially I need some text that is displayed prominently so that new users can be less disoriented, but that can be dismissed by experienced users if it takes up useful screen space. I guess there is a feature in Discourse to enable this, but I can't find out how to tweak it on a site running Discourse 1.8.0 on which I am an admin.

Some examples:

Here's what a new user sees on meta.discourse.org:

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If someone refers this site to me, I don't really know what I'm looking at... it says "Discourse" at the top, there's a logo, there's a big blank space and Sign Up and Log In, and if I read down further, it says "Welcome to meta, our official discussion site for Discourse. You'll find topics on features, bugs, hosting, development, and general support here." Okay.

Now if I log in, that post is still there and it takes up screen space. I figured out that I could unpin it for me, but clicking on the "pin" icon, but that wasn't obvious for me. Also the text isn't very large and it kind of blends into the other content unless you start reading.

I would much rather be able to create a very visible text message at the top of the page with an obvious "X" area to close it. Below is what our corporate intranet Confluence page looks like; the content of the message itself is poorly written, but the form is exactly what I am looking for:

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Is there any way to add a dismissable text banner like this? Or even a very short text title after the site logo, in the blank space, so that I could say "Discourse forum" with a smaller text below it like "Click here for instructions" and a link to how to use Discourse.

If you don't have something like this, you get dumped into a new environment and it's confusing what's going on. Here's an example (I don't frequent this site, but @codinghorror mentioned it as an example of a banner, and unfortunately it seems to be no longer in use; if I were referred to the site I would have no idea what's going on and I'd have to figure it out myself.

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Now, I personally am a good problem solver, the kind of person who figures out software without any instructions, and it doesn't present much of a barrier to me. But I work with people who aren't as adept, and if they get to any kind of psychological barrier, even one as simple as visual disorientation, it represents a risk that I will lose their interest, and/or one of my team leaders will have to take time to push them towards using the Discourse forum. (You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.)

Edit: It looks like the birmingham.io site does have this:

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May 15, 2017, 12:19 pm

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@Bluer wrote:

Is it possible to customize already existing theme so that it is more wide horizontally and gets rid of unnecessary space vertically so that the comments and posts are as compact as possible like in this website? Likes, reply, etc. should be relocated to the same line with username but in the right corner?

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Style Embeds in Multiple Hosts

May 15, 2017, 12:57 pm

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@Patrick_David wrote:

A while back styling for embedded discourse was added, where we could specify CSS for the embeds. The only problem was when we got the ability to embed in multiple allowed hosts. There was still only the single styling available across all of the hosts (which is painful if one host is on a light background and the other is dark).

After some back-and-forth I was finally able to submit the ability to define a Class Name that could be added to the embedded page (per host) to target CSS better.

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In a nutshell, adding a Class Name to a domain (at /admin/customize/embedding):

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Will add that value to the <html> tag of the embedded page. At that point, if you go to admin/custome/themes and Edit CSS/HTML → Embedded CSS, you can target any of the defined Class Names for the specific host:

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Precede your style with the class selector on the <html> tag. As in my example above, if I want to change the text color for my embed globally:

html.digikam {
    color: #9e9e9e;
}

but use a different color on a different embedded site:

html.pixls {
    color: #333333;
}

Or I can modify the button color:

html.digikam footer .button {
    background-color: #0068c6;
}

Rinse and repeat for all of the allowed hosts that you define a Class Name for...
Thank you x1000 to @eviltrout for being patient with me, and especially to @darix who guided me through actually doing it.

More in-depth writeup on my personal blog:

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Unicode emoji are not normalised in preview pane

May 15, 2017, 1:02 pm

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@David_Taylor wrote:

Continuing the discussion from Emoji in Title is not normalized :

I mentioned it in the other topic, but probably better to have this in its own thread. The root cause may well be the same.

If I put a unicode emoji in a post, it doesn't get normalised in the preview pane. When it's cooked server-side, the normalisation happens properly. For example:

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How does the option advertizing for the app looks like?

May 15, 2017, 1:46 pm

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@ashledombos wrote:

Hello,

I've seen this option in settings panel, unchecked by default, but don't see what it changes when it's checked (maybe because I already installed the app to use it with my instance?)

So I'm just curious, do you have a picture showing how it looks like? Does it appear only in mobile display?

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