https://meta.discourse.org/latestLatest topicsenWed, 28 Oct 2026 19:35:07 +0000Product Support How can I create a copy of the Foundation theme so I can customize it to add ad-related codes to the header, body, and footer? Or is that the wrong approach? 3 posts - 3 participants Read full topic ...https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-a-copy-of-the-foundation-theme/416019Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:35:07 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-416019How to create a copy of the Foundation theme?Announcements We’ve landed a few improvements to Discourse Events recently, covering a few different aspects of the events lifecycle. Let’s dig in! Livestream recordings and chat transcripts After a livestream event ends, organizers can now click Add recording link to attach a recording link directly from the event topic. The event’s live chat is also automatically saved and posted to the topic as a transcript when the livestream ends. For one-off events, the transcript is appended to the...https://meta.discourse.org/t/updates-to-events-recordings-transcripts-filtering-and-event-preview-improvements/416018Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:28:27 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-416018Updates to Events: Recordings, transcripts, filtering, and event preview improvementsBug In a manner nigh identical to what t/392035 describes, when I duplicate: &gt; `blockQuote` …into my clipboard, from the previewer, when I paste it into the editor, it becomes pre &gt; code, using CommonMark indentation syntax: `blockQuote` Context My use case is working around the undermentioned: Open issue Automattic/harper Replace `U+0022` with `U\+201(C|D)`. opened 04:06PM - 19...https://meta.discourse.org/t/copy-a-blockquote-paste-it-into-new-topic-s-text-plain-textarea-switch-to-the-previewer-becomes-pre-code/416016Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:41:14 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-416016Copy a `blockQuote` → paste it into `/new-topic`’s `text/plain` `textarea` → switch to the previewer → becomes `pre > code`Feature &lt;del&gt; This is content. &lt;/del&gt; …becomes: This is content. (click for more details) …whereas I would prefer it to equivalate: &lt;del&gt;This is content.&lt;/del&gt; …which renders as: This is content. (click for more details) I do not know why certain aspects of its CSS do not always apply. Is that desirable? (click for more details) 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic ...https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-del-elements-css-should-be-consistent-irrespective-of-whether-it-is-acting-as-a-block-level-or-inline-element/416000Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:43:07 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-416000The `del` element's CSS should be consistent, irrespective of whether it is acting as a block-level or inline elementProduct Support Is this due to something on SE’s end? I ask per: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/420226/external-websites-have-recently-become-unable-to-generate-hyperlink-previews-for#comment1391493_420226 (click for more details) 2 posts - 2 participants Read full topic ...https://meta.discourse.org/t/uri-previews-for-stack-exchange-have-failed-across-all-discourse-instances/415999Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:41:26 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415999URI previews for Stack Exchange have failed across all Discourse instancesProduct Support How do I edit the key %{respond_instructions} ? Is it possible? 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic ...https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-interpolation-key/415979Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:15:46 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415979Edit interpolation keyGeneral 这个插件能够实现显示用户的信任级别进度，我是在迁移至 Discourse 几天后上传至 GitHub。 已经用了好几个月了，用下来比较稳定，升级 Discourse 没有出现这个插件的报错。 2 posts - 2 participants Read full topic ...https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-agent/415965Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:28:58 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415965我用 AI Agent 开发了信任级别进度插件Development Two open PRs introduce different approaches to editing BBCode attributes in post raw: #43187 — Add recurring Event successor topic mode introduces BbcodeRewriter, which identifies a rendered Event and safely rewrites its corresponding BBCode opening tag during automatic rollover. #42932 — Add Event actions to workflows introduces PrettyText.update_bbcode_attributes, which locates a parsed BBCode block and updates its attributes when a workflow opens or closes an...https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-discourses-two-bbcode-rewriting-approaches-share-a-core-api/415964Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:50:45 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415964Should Discourse's two BBCode rewriting approaches share a core API?General 这个解决方案是我与 DeepSeek 聊天的时候发现的，解决方法如下： 在 DeepSeek 开放平台 创建一个 API Key； 在 Discourse 创建 AI 模型； 在提供商选择 VLLM； 将推理解析器（Reasoning parser）指定为 deepseek_v4； 测试并保存。 希望我的方法能够帮助到你们，DeepSeek 聊天记录：https://chat.deepseek.com/share/egrylxjiubaxmm8rkh 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic ...https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-deepseek-vllm/415947Wed, 28 Oct 2026 01:50:17 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415947想让 Discourse 接入 DeepSeek 开放平台，需要使用 VLLM 提供商Product Support Hello, I’m trying to find information / logs about unlisted topics. I’ve been looking through the Data Explorer: in topics, there’s visibility_reason_id, but there isn’t a key I can find to know what the id relates to. i’ve looked in user_histories and user_actions, nothing comes up (i tested unlisting a topic and then queried my user histories) It’s not in the moderation review that I could see, nor is it coming up in Admin &gt; Logs &gt; Logs &amp; Screening. Is...https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-for-topic-visibility-id-logs/415929Tue, 27 Oct 2026 21:03:33 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415929Searching for topic visibility id + logsTheme component Summary Discourse Pele renders Mermaid diagrams with Pele: 6x smaller, up to 500x faster, no dependencies, theme-able with CSS variables. Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-pele-theme-component New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component As this is an official theme component maintained by the Discourse team, Product Support, Bug, UX, and Feature requests can be made in the...https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-pele/415914Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:05:25 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415914Discourse PeleAnnouncements We’ve swapped the mermaid theme component for pele here on meta, for testing purposes pele is 6x smaller, up to 500x faster, has no dependencies, theme-able with css variables, MIT licensed, and developed by obsidian’s team. same ```mermaid syntax, so nothing to change in your posts. here’s the theme component if you want to give it a try on your own site. View diagram if you spot any visual bug, please reply here with a link to the post (or the diagram source) a...https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-pele-as-a-replacement-for-mermaid/415913Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:00:29 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415913Testing pele as a replacement for mermaidPraise We have just moved from Proboards on our server. This is so nice - good job, Discourse. I am sharing links to your tutorials. I do hope that is okay. Will reach out when things get confusing. 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic ...https://meta.discourse.org/t/thank-you/415908Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:02:01 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415908Thank you -Product Support What are all these *_bot accounts on my Discourse that are all TL4, please? 2 posts - 2 participants Read full topic ...https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-tl4-bots/415876Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:43:05 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415876New TL4 bots?Product Support I have two sites : Exiges.com Deployed quite some time back and had a phpbb3 site migrated to it TurboRenault.co.uk Deployed in late July and has a Xenforo site migrated to it. I have noted that in the composer I have two different icons for uploads. Exiges.com mirrors here with the composer : TurboRenault looks different : Note the image icon instead of upload icon? Both are on identical builds What have I changed to cause this? Its causing no issue but I like consistency. ...https://meta.discourse.org/t/composer-icon-variations/415874Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:24:27 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415874Composer icon variationsAnnouncements For more information on all the changes released in 2026.10, check out: releases.discourse.org v2026.10.0 Changelog | Discourse Releases Featured changes and detailed commit history for Discourse 'v2026.10.0'. 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic ...https://meta.discourse.org/t/october-2026-monthly-release/415867Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:26:51 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415867October 2026 monthly releaseBug Summary Tag pages with percent-encoded Persian slugs can enter an infinite HTTP redirect loop when Discourse is configured with slug_generation_method = encoded. The tag’s stored slug and generated URL appear consistent, but requesting the canonical URL results in a 301 Moved Permanently redirect to the exact same URL. Environment Discourse: self-hosted installation Slug generation method: encoded Language: Persian (Farsi), using non-ASCII characters Affected route:...https://meta.discourse.org/t/infinite-redirect-on-percent-encoded-persian-tag-urls-with-slug-generation-method-encoded/415865Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:22:10 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415865Infinite Redirect on Percent-Encoded Persian Tag URLs with `slug_generation_method = encoded`Bug Summary FAO: @Falco AI disclosure: This bug was investigated agentically and the cause and remedy were suggested by Opus 5.5. In Brave Browser, turning on background blur in a Live room always shows an error toast: “Background blur couldn’t be started, so it was turned off.” The same user, forum and room work fine in Google Chrome on the same machine. The cause is the hidden &lt;video&gt; that BackgroundBlurManager#setup() creates but never inserts into the document. Brave...https://meta.discourse.org/t/live-background-blur-always-fails-in-brave-browser-background-blur-couldnt-be-started-detached-video-play-is-aborted/415845Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:20:45 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415845Live: background blur always fails in Brave Browser ("Background blur couldn't be started") - detached `<video>`.play() is abortedBug Hello, we’re hosting a Discourse ( https://forum.commown.coop/ ) instance with manually translated articles between French and German, with French as the default language and German as the supplementary language. One of the features, which seems to be available on this instance of Discourse, is being able to search an article from the translated title, such as the following exemple underneath, looking up the "Install: (the original article for reference) ...https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-for-translated-title-not-working-on-local-instance/415844Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:16:09 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415844Searching for translated title not working on local instanceProduct Support Hi everyone, I just created a forum on the free hosted plan: https://socalsaltwater.discourse.group When someone visits the forum and clicks Sign Up or Log In, they get this message: “No login methods are configured. Administrators can visit /u/admin-login to reconfigure the site.” I’m able to get into my administrator account using /u/admin-login, but regular visitors still can’t sign up or log in. Here’s what I’ve found in the admin settings: Under Login &amp;...https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-users-unable-to-login-or-sign-up/415825Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:54:07 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415825New users unable to login or sign upBug I’m opening a new topic because the previous bug report about unreadable quotes in dark mode has been closed. Unfortunately, the issue still exists with Thunderbird 158.0.1 on Windows 11, even with an up-to-date Discourse installation that already includes the earlier fix. How to reproduce I’m using Thunderbird’s dark theme with “Use dark mode for message text” unchecked in the message appearance settings. These are my settings: With this configuration, quotes in...https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoted-text-unreadable-in-thunderbird-dark-theme-despite-previous-email-fix/415811Mon, 26 Oct 2026 22:53:57 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415811Quoted text unreadable in Thunderbird dark theme despite previous email fixProduct Support I have a custom user field with a very long list of dropdown options. For reasons, users are not allowed to enter their own value in this field, and this field must exist as a dropdown, and it is a required field for all users. From time to time, I need to add or remove items to the list. Because it’s such a long list, I have it alphabetized. The pain here is that new items are added to the bottom, and i need to manually click the up arrow for each new item in order to...https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorting-custom-user-field-dropdown-items/415810Mon, 26 Oct 2026 22:42:40 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415810Sorting custom user field dropdown itemsBug When creating a scoped token for the REST API, I want to be able to access a user by their unique ID, for which the API currently only provides /admin/users/:id.json. So I want to permit this route on a granular API token. However, this URL is not included in the permitted URLs when I check the help popup for the users:show permission. I could also not find any other permission which would permit this URL. It seems that generally admin routes are included for other scopes, e.g....https://meta.discourse.org/t/scope-users-show-does-not-include-admin-routes/415809Mon, 26 Oct 2026 22:40:39 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415809Scope "users:show" does not include admin routesFeature This would allow filtering for topics that have an Event attached via the Events plugin, using the /filter route and the Custom Topic Lists plugin. The problem The Discourse Events plugin creates rich event topics, but there’s currently no way to isolate them from non-event topics using the topic filter query language. The existing workarounds all have downsides: The /upcoming-events route shows events as a calendar, not a filterable topic list - although it perhaps...https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-event-filter-to-the-topic-filter-query-language-discourse-events-plugin-extension/415803Mon, 26 Oct 2026 21:08:54 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415803Add event: filter to the topic filter query language (Discourse Events plugin extension)Extras Hey everyone! Just want to share a chrome extension I built for any Discourse forum I am a heavy user of discourse forums, and sometimes it’s quite hard to catch up on long discourse topics. I often end up scrolling through hundreds of replies. So I built a Chrome extension for myself, and figured people here might find it useful too. It sits in Chrome’s side panel while you browse a forum. One click summarizes the topic you’re on. It reads the whole thread, not just a...https://meta.discourse.org/t/discoursecopilot-a-fully-private-chrome-extension-that-lets-you-chat-with-ai-on-the-whole-thread/415798Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:10:06 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415798DiscourseCopilot - a fully private Chrome extension that lets you chat with AI on the whole threadTheme component Summary Preview and explore topics without losing your reading position Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator Repository GitHub - keegangeorge/discourse-conversation-map: A hover-expanding conversation minimap for the Discourse topic timeline · GitHub Install Guide How to install a theme or theme component New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component Conversation map adds a mini-map to...https://meta.discourse.org/t/conversation-map-a-mini-map-on-discourse-timeline/415792Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:03:41 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415792Conversation Map (A mini-map on Discourse timeline)Bug I just added this awesome looking webinar to my Google calendar using the inbuilt functionality. I love the slick new UI. However, there seems to be a regression in that a link to the Event Topic is no longer included in the description. This was added 2 years ago: Include link and description when adding to google calendar and ical Feature The interface for adding an event to the calendar has a space for a URL–and it shows up very nicely...https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-calendar-no-longer-includes-topic-url-in-the-description/415791Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:03:33 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415791Add to Calendar no longer includes topic URL in the descriptionEvents Webinar: Building High-Impact Communities with Lean Teams Public · Created by Danielle November 12, 2026 11:00 AM (America/New_York) → November 12, 2026 12:00 PM (America/New_York) zoom.us/j/95332228937 3 going Community professionals are being asked to think more strategically, demonstrate measurable business value, support increasingly complex initiatives, and often accomplish it all with fewer resources. But running a lean community team...https://meta.discourse.org/t/webinar-building-high-impact-communities-with-lean-teams/415745Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:43:45 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415745Webinar: Building High-Impact Communities with Lean TeamsBug What’s happening We have a group whose Full name is set to “Utah - St. George”. On the group page itself, the name displays correctly. But when the group link is pasted into Slack, the preview shows “Utah - st. george”, with everything after the first letter in lowercase. Looking at the page source, the `og:title` and `twitter:title` tags already contain the lowercase version, so this comes from Discourse and not from Slack. What I expected The preview should show the...https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-page-og-title-lowercases-everything-after-the-first-letter-of-the-full-name/415723Mon, 26 Oct 2026 11:34:14 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415723Group page `og:title` lowercases everything after the first letter of the Full nameProduct Support For the admins here running the Perspective plugin: with the Dec 31 shutdown approaching, I looked at how the plugin handles responses without attributeScores, and it defaults them to 0.0 — silently treated as clean. That’s the error-body shape, not a connection failure (those raise a visible error). I’m trying to figure out a sane plan before December, and the part I can’t get past is thresholds. Every migration guide gives a mapping table, but the scores don’t map one...https://meta.discourse.org/t/perspective-shutdown-dec-31-what-happens-to-scores-when-the-api-returns-an-error/415698Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:49:45 +0000meta.discourse.org-topic-415698Perspective shutdown Dec 31: what happens to scores when the API returns an error?