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We just released a feature that lets you define usage quotas for Discourse AI Hopefully, this helps you all experiment more widely with AI features, given that you can restrict the actual cost you will end up incurring. Read more at: Configuring LLM Usage Quotas in Discourse AI Site Management This guide explains how to configure and manage usage quotas for Large Language Models (LLMs) in Discourse AI. Required user level: Administrator Summary LLM Usage Quotas allow administrators to control and monitor AI resource consumption by setting limits on token usage and interactions for different user groups. This helps maintain cost effi…
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When is a forum community not a community? Let us know what you think would cause a forum to turn into something else besides a community. Is it bad if it transforms to something different?
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Welcome to Current Projects, a monthly newsletter about what we’re currently working on at Discourse. Your questions and feedback are welcome! Kicking off Admin config pages for site appearance We’re just about to shift from design to development on some of the improvements we’ve been designing in areas related to site appearance to make it easier for admins to configure the look and feel of their sites. Our current plans include adding support for dark mode and light mode into individual color palettes, having each theme own its own color palette, and update pages for choosing and configuring themes and components. We’re also working on a new branding page focused on a…
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I have several xenforo licenses for sale. Most have 6+ months of support and upgrades left. Most have 1 or more of the official addons included. Here is what I have and prices. Expires September 29Th 2025. Enhanced Search included. Purchased new $265. Price $185. Expires September 8TH 2025. Forum only. Purchased new $195. Price $125. Expires August 24TH 2025. Gallery, Resource Manager and Enhanced Search included. Purchased new $395. Price $285. Expires August 23RD 2025. Resource Manager included. Purchased new $265. Price $180. Expires August 16TH 2025. Enhanced Search included. Purchased new $255. Price $175. Expires July 6TH 2…
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I moved this site along with most of the other sites to a new VM. The new VM is running Ubuntu 24.04. I've had Windows Server for over 20 years so this is a big change for me. While I originally had my sites on Redhat many years ago moving back is very different. It is slowly coming back to me. Installing the necessary software at the command line was different for sure. There was some trial and error. I did get everything working fairly fast. Things don't seem much different except for the paths. In any case we are now on Linux. If you experience any bugs please let me know. I am still configuring things and fixing permission issues as they come up.
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We’ve added a new administrative feature that allows staff to bulk select and delete multiple user accounts directly from the admin users list. We saw communities undergo large spam waves, so we implemented this feature to make handling those spam waves easier. This feature works in a very similar fashion to bulk actions in topic lists. We’ve published a dedicated document that explains how to use it: Bulk-delete multiple users as a staff user Site Management Discourse offers the ability to delete multiple users directly from the admin users list. This feature is useful in situations where unwanted user accounts are created, such as during a …
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I'd like to wish everyone a very healthy and Happy New Year.
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We recently launched a new feature for Helper called Smart dates, which helps you turn any text related to time and date into Discourse-friendly timezone-supported dates. Give it a try and let us know what you think! 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic
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Do you keep a close eye on the content being posted on competing forums? If yes, how has it helped you? If no, why not?
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you. Here's to the new year being filled with new members and lots of posts on your communities.
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Hey all Hulk here. This is a very interesting looking forum I love the way the forum list has been done. I look forward to enjoying my time here.
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What would I need to do today to get a forum started? I am thinking about getting back in the forum world. What would I need to do to get a forum started and bring in users? Are post exchanges still good way to bring in users? What about board wars? Those worked very well in the past. Help me out. I'm ready to start again.
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I want to upgrade my server, the issue is I need a hosting with ddos protection option I run a gaming community and people are dicks Current host just suspends the service when a ddos attack happens. some one recommended me about server about VPB.com, dose anyone hear about it? any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
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Hi I've got three posts (This is my fourth) but it still won't let me post in favorite forums. I saw a post in there that said two posts were needed but I've got more than two.
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We all got them. What are yours?
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What do have planned for the holiday season? Visiting family. Staying home. I am staying home with my wife. We plan to go to some of the festivities in the neighborhood. Nothing fancy.
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When it comes to operating or launching a forum, what confuses you the most about it? What is stopping you from embracing full-throttle success? Let's help each other work through these things.
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I am a surfer. Forums used to be my passion. Both running them and visiting them. I think this is a fine idea for a forum. I'll have some of my favs posted when I get time.
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I am happy to announce a new spam detection module in Discourse AI Over the past few months, we have sadly noticed that Akismet’s performance has been quite uneven. AI-based spam detection allows you to better control how spam scanning works in your community. We have seen very good results on a few forums now. Please share your experience here. For those self-hosting or generally looking for a “free” way of using these tools, have a look at OpenRouter. There are quite a few free LLMs out there that can do a reasonable job scanning for spam. Read all about it at: Configuring and managing AI-powered spam detection in Discourse Site Management …
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New features in 3.4.0.beta3 Check for updates on What’s New page In the What’s New page within the admin settings there is a new Check for updates button. This allows admins to check for any new updates to this page immediately. Filter by user in the review queue Admins can now use the filter Reviewed By in the review queue to see all the flagged content a user raised. Threading in Chat DMs and group chats Enable Threading in Chat settings for DMs and group chats so any reply to a message will create a separate conversation thread Mention counts in Chat threads With this change new messages within a Chat thread will appear as a mention count on the thread i…
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Invision Community 5.0.4 Beta 1 is now available Please celebrate responsibly. A whole two weeks has passed since our last release. The extra week allowed us to fully review a few larger updates that we've held back and require a beta or two to fully test before we're happy to include in a full release. Things to test There have been some areas that have received a lot of attention and need extra special testing, these include: Page Editor (now works correctly for right-to-left languages but needs some testing in LTR) Custom badges (lots of work to make them more efficient and store a built version in SVG format) Editor bug fixes (lots of complex fixes, so please test the editor thoroughly) If you want a full list of changes, you can see that here. The release notes also have some changes which may impact third party developers. Using Betas If you do not see an upgrade, it means that you do not have betas enabled. Invision Community Cloud Cloud customers can opt-in to betas in the client area. Invision Community Classic Self-hosting customers can either download the release from the client area, or add the following line to constants.php define( 'USE_DEVELOPMENT_BUILDS', TRUE );If you do not have this file, create it in a text editor, so the contents looks like: <?php define( 'USE_DEVELOPMENT_BUILDS', TRUE );Let me know how you get on! -
We have been working on a new rich text editor mode for our composer so that it’s easier to write on Discourse. We’re now ready to start testing this mode out on Meta to get more feedback from our community on this feature! This topic will serve as both a guide to testing the new composer and a hub for tracking feedback. Thanks in advance for all your help! Getting to know the new composer The new composer is a rich text editor that simplifies the writing experience, particularly for non-technical users who are not comfortable with Markdown. This editor still supports Markdown, but formatting is rendered immediately for a WYSIWYG (“what you see is what you get”) experience that feels similar to other modern web composition tools (like Notion or Google Docs). To access the new composer, click the toggle in the toolbar. This will let you switch from the current Markdown-only mode to the new rich text editor. You can click the toggle again to switch back, if needed. What you’re testing today is the first version of the new composer. It is not yet intended to be a complete replacement for the current Markdown-only composer. We have focused on the basics first, which should cover most users’ needs. Please review the sections below to understand what is currently possible and what’s not yet ready in the new composer. We will update these areas over time as support expands! Supported features The following features are supported in the new composer: Ability to add title and set categories and tags Single-pane editor when in rich text editor mode (i.e. no preview pane) Toggle to switch between Markdown-only and rich text editor modes Basic formatting [1] supported in Markdown, keyboard shortcuts, and toolbar icons Emoji support Auto-converting Markdown to rich text when pasting plain text (e.g., **bold** → bold) Auto-convert emoticons (e.g., :) → ) Table builder UI Poll builder UI Support for mentions and hashtags Inline HTML <tags> [2] Typographer replacements (e.g., , → , ± ) Image uploads File attachments Topic quotes Hide Details Blur Spoiler (with limitations, see Missing Features section) Oneboxes Missing features The following features that we know are currently missing or not yet fully supported in the new composer: Link UI to visit, edit, copy, or remove added links and change their titles Image UI to resize, caption, or grid added images Table UI to add or remove columns and rows after creating the table Poll UI to edit previously created polls Footnotes Horizontal rule autoconversion (i.e. --- converting to the rule; you can add a horizontal rule now with CMD + Shift + -) Chat quotes Tight list support (all lists are currently “loose”, meaning there’s extra padding between list items) Improved Blur Spoiler support to add blur to existing text, support inline blur, and make it easier to remove blur. Anything else not explicitly noted in the supported features section Testing and sharing your feedback As you test, you may run into issues where the composer does not behave as you expect. When that happens, please let us know! Your feedback is an invaluable asset to help us improve the new composer so that it’s ready to make available in your community. Please provide specific reproduction steps, information about your browser / device, and any relevant screenshots or recordings! You can also review our known issue tracker below to see if someone has already reported what you’re seeing. We will keep these sections up to date as we identify and fix issues. Remember, you can always switch back to Markdown-only mode using the toggle if you’re running into an issue using the new composer. Bugs Autocomplete and inputrules are converting mentions, hashtags, and emoji within inline code On mobile Safari, problem with container positioning when keyboard is open and you tap out of and then back into the editor On Firefox, can’t position cursor ahead of mention when it starts the post When an emoji isn’t found in the emoji autofill (:), clicking more doesn’t work. it should open the full emoji picker, but it doesn’t. (desktop, chromium) On Safari, the content after a bullet / number drops to a new row for the first few characters while typing UX issues When focused in the composer, CMD+K should open Link UI instead of chat search Increase the size of standalone emojis (i.e. emoji not surrounded by text) Prevent underline on links Apply expected visual rendering to valid category / tag hashtags Improved handling of composer tips (or removal from rich text editor mode) to avoid overlapping with the composer pane Mentions and hashtags don’t validate content Toolbar tweaks for accessibility, indicating which formatting button is in an active state Cursor is focused inside the quote (instead of the line below) when beginning a post with a quote or when copying / pasting quotes Composer isn’t auto-focused if the first time it’s opened is for a Reply If you leave and return to content in inline code formatting, you can’t escape the formatting (i.e. the new content you type will also be in inline code) Caret (i.e. cursor) positioning after creating a full or inline onebox needs adjustment to improve writing flow Dev improvements Improve inline HTML parsing Bold, italic, underline (no toolbar support), strikethrough (Markdown-only via ~~ ), links, blockquotes, code, checkbox (Markdown-only via []; toolbar support coming soon), bullet lists, number lists ↩︎ Some convert to closest Markdown (e.g., s, strike, strong, b, em, i, code; u is specifically unsupported because it does not cook to an actual underline); others will be allowed as “html_inline” nodes (e.g., kbd, sup, sub, small, big, del, ins, mark) ↩︎ 8 posts - 5 participants Read full topic
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Starting today, we will be removing the Discourse Akismet plugin and will instead enable Discourse AI - Spam detection by default for hosted customers on Starter and Standard plans. Why are we making this change? Over the past few weeks, we’ve found our AI spam detector to deliver a superior performance over Akismet. We’ve had over 126 sites extensively using it and within Meta, we’ve personally seen over 96% success rate in detecting spam. On top of the performance, the setup would now be a default experience with customization and flexible options, should you need it. What do I need to do? If you are on our Starter or Standard hosting, nothing at all! The change would happen automatically in the background. You will no longer see Akismet within the plugins. You will now see the AI spam detector turned on in the AI plugin setting using a Discourse-hosted open-weights LLM If you have the AI plugin disabled, then you would manually need to turn on AI spam detector and select an LLM I already have AI spam detection enabled! If you already have AI spam detector enabled via What's New experiments, then you can safely ignore this announcement since you already have it! Why is this change only for Starter and Standard? As usual, the rollout of changes in our hosting begin with the starting tiers and are gradually expanded to cover all tiers. 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic
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Introducing Advanced Sentiment Analysis: Powerful New Insights for Your Discourse Community We’re excited to announce a significant enhancement to Discourse AI with our new Sentiment Analysis Report feature. Building on last year’s Sentiment overview, this powerful tool gives administrators deeper insights into community sentiment across your forum. Where to Find It Navigate to your admin dashboard and look under the Reports section in the sidebar. You’ll find the new Sentiment analysis option alongside the existing Sentiment overview report. Flexible Analysis Options This comprehensive report empowers you to: Filter by specific parent categories Group results by categories or tags Customize time periods for targeted analysis Easily export data for further processing Actionable Community Insights The true power of this feature lies in its ability to help you identify trends and potential issues before they escalate. With a single click, you can drill down into any category to examine specific posts that are driving sentiment in your community. Availability and Implementation This feature is now available to all customers on our official hosting at no additional cost. Self-hosted Discourse instances can enable this functionality by following our existing setup guides for Discourse AI. Get Started Today We encourage all community managers to explore this powerful new tool and discover valuable insights about your forum’s emotional landscape. Share your experiences with us as you put sentiment analysis to work! 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic
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For licensing reasons, we had to change the emoji sets. The following existing sets have been migrated automatically to a new set: apple → twemoji facebook_messenger → unicode google → noto google_classic → noto win10 → fluentui emoji_one → twemoji twitter → twemoji On top of fluent ui, noto, twemoji, and unicode, we also added the openmoji set. Admins can change the set at /admin/site_settings/category/all_results?filter=Emoji%20set If there’s an existing open-source set you would like to see available in Discourse, please let us know. We understand that changing emojis can be a very visible change, but we didn’t have any other way around it. We prefer to lay a good foundation for the future by only supporting fully open-source sets. 3 posts - 2 participants Read full topic
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