No longer getting email notifications
Hello, Did something change last week regarding emails? I seem to have stopped getting email notifications on 8th March. I seem to remember turning on the “mailing list mode”, but I can’t see that...
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Emailed posts having links and spacing stripped
Hi, I like to post summaries of the Fedora Design Team live sessions when they are posted every other week. I post them to the team list and have been posting them manually to the topic here on...
View ArticleChange to Libravatar for default user avatars?
By default, the DIscourse software that powers this site uses Gravatar as a source for user pictures (getting the one linked to your email address as provided in the Fedora Account System. Gravatar is...
View ArticleImportant shruggy feature!
I noticed that someone attempted to use the text-based “shruggy” in a message recently, and that because Discourse uses markdown, that poor shruggy lost an arm. I’ve added this to the auto-replace...
View ArticleOpen Draft Instead of New Topic?
I don’t have a new topic (or whatever the button was called) any board. Instead it is open draft which adds “Article Proposal:” to the title and puts it in the magazine category. Is this a mistake? Am...
View ArticleNew logo for this site
There is a new Fedora logo, this site should use it. 5 posts - 3 participants Read full topic
View ArticleHow can I change my username?
Hello maintainers of this forum, My question is: How can I change my username? I see that I used my real name instead of a fictitious name. Because of my privacy I would like to change it. 1 post - 1...
View ArticleRequest for ability to move topics between two categories
Hi there, We sometimes get posts about Kinoite in the Silverblue category (which is understandable as users might be confused) and I would like to be able to move them from this category to the...
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OMG we have more reaction icons now!
Hey wow! I missed the announcement, but it looks like Discourse has enabled the Reactions Beyond Likes plugin for our hosting plan. I’ve turned it on and added a set that makes sense to me. Hover over...
View ArticleI changed the fonts -- and some colors
You may notice some lovely new logos — thanks Máirín Duffy (@duffy)! We’re still planning on a comprehensive theme from the Design Team, but in the meantime, I: Changed the body and header fonts to...
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FYI: nifty new site feature, "fast edit"
Now you can select part of a post (your own, or someone else’s if you have moderator privileges or are a trust level 4 user), and edit it from a pop-up. Great for quick typo fixes! See Introducing...
View ArticleProposal for site norm: editing is cool
So, this is a little bit inspired by FYI: nifty new site feature, “fast edit”, and by me noticing a typo in someone else’s post, which I just went ahead and edited. In Discourse, you can edit your own...
View ArticleIs the "Top" link on the top menu useful?
See Does anyone find the "Active" menu item (formerly "Top") useful? - Site Feedback - Ask Fedora, where we decided “no, it’s not”. But that site also has voting enabled, which makes the menu more...
View ArticleConsidering a general reorganization of this site!
The category layout we have now for Fedora Discussions isn’t horrible, but it’s also basically unchanged from what we came up with completely arbitrarily as “sure, sounds good” when we were first...
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Site tip: create linked topics for deep dives or tangents
Long threads are a difficult problem for any online conversation. This site uses Discourse, which keeps track of which posts are replies to others, but presents them in a flat model rather than with...
View ArticleCreate a CentOS category on the fedora discourse for CentOS Stream
Originally filed here: https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/519 Please create a centos category on the fedora discourse and let it handle CentOS Stream-related topics. This will leave the current...
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Switch to using the Discourse Calendar plugin for Fedora Magazine?
Continuing the discussion from Considering a general reorganization of this site!: Considering a general reorganization of this site! … we could turn off the fedocal email and experiment with using...
View ArticleHoliday Calendar Test topic
Test vacation calendar! 8 posts - 3 participants Read full topic
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Special area for Join Fedora / Newbies?
Continuing the discussion from Considering a general reorganization of this site!: Considering a general reorganization of this site! What’s Newbie Safe Zone? Idea I just made up when thinking about...
View ArticleDiscourse Badges — should we or shouldn't we?
The discourse forum software has its own badges feature — see Fedora Discussion: Badges. This is, unsurprisingly, focused entirely on use of the forum itself. Of course, Fedora has our own Fedora...
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Calendars which auto-update based on incoming mail?
Considering a general reorganization of this site! … and we could make announce-list (or even devel-announce and test-announce!) automatic mirrors under Announcements … Not that we necessarily should,...
View ArticleDiscourse2fedmsg test thread
hi test hi hi test hi hi test hihi test hihi test hihi test hihi test hi 2 posts - 2 participants Read full topic
View ArticleMagical Experimental Fedora Badges Topic!
I have hooked up this topic with some bailing wire and string so that if you reply to it, and if you have badges on https://badges.fedoraproject.org, those badges will be created here if they don’t...
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Task list for site reorganization
This is my plan for implementing the site reorganization. I’m posting it here mostly for myself, but also if anyone has feedback (or really wants to help execute!), I’m all for it! Items with are for...
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Fedora Discussion Site Reorganization is happening
Fedora Discussion Site Reorg When we first set up this site two and a half years ago, we picked some categories kind of at random and got started. It wasn’t really planned — it was an experiment. The...
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