Forum Changelog

In this topic, I’ll post minor updates and changes to the forum that aren’t important enough to deserve an announcement in Announcements.

  • Updated Discourse to version 3.4.0.beta3-dev (after not being updated for several months)
  • Set up @DeletedAccount to own certain posts by deleted (not anonymized) accounts instead of @system
  • Created this Forum Meta category
  • Created the Lounge category for regulars and leaders
  • Increase maximum message limit in PMs from 500 to 10000
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  • Updated the groups, including adding more cosmetic options and allowing PMs to Category Moderators
  • Enabled automatic bumping of old, open, and unsolved topics in Support. This should help prevent questions from being forgotten!
  • Enabled the Discourse Chat plugin for synchronous messaging (basically Discord-style group DMs). I’ve set it to only be available for members at trust level 2 and above to prevent abuse.
  • Made a few minor cosmetic changes
  • Removed the post-editing time limit for TL2+ and increased it for TL0/TL1
  • Enabled watching first posts in Announcements by default for everyone
  • Enabled a couple experimental Discourse features: the topics filter (learn more about it here) and the new topics view (learn more about it here)
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  • Updated the text in some automated messages from @system to explain that messages sent to @system are not monitored and how to contact the moderators
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  • Enabled the default badges for the solved plugin, so you can now show off how many support requests you’ve solved!
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  • Added moderator and developer groups to the about page
  • Added new display option to the users page
  • Added gifs

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