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Logged in as undefined

I'm pretty frustrated. My previously working Talkyard setup has stopped working, for me at least. The JavaScript console says: Error handling GET response [TyEGETCLBK] from: /-/load-my-page-data?pageIds= Talkyard comments: Logged in as undefined in i...

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2021-11-26 04:58:12.477Z

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Does Talkyard support ~~ strikethrough ~~? It doesn't seem to work with ~~: strikethrough Thanks!

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2021-11-23 21:20:52.504Z

Talkyard setting X-Frame-Options to deny always?

Hi all, I'm at my wits end on this one. I'm running talkyard on a digital ocean server using a reverse proxy behind nginx. Everything about accessing talkyard itself works correctly (i.e. I can go to comments.mywifesblog.com fine and interact with ta...

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Logged in as undefined I'm pretty frustrated. My previously working Talkyard setup has stopped working, for me at least. The JavaScript console says: Error handling GET response [TyEGETCLBK] from: /-/load-my-page-data?pageIds= Talkyard comments: Logged in as undefined in i...	Issues	J	9	2021-11-26 04:58:12.477Z
Markdown: strikethrough Does Talkyard support ~~ strikethrough ~~? It doesn't seem to work with ~~: strikethrough Thanks!	Ideas	P	4	2021-11-23 21:20:52.504Z
Talkyard setting X-Frame-Options to deny always? Hi all, I'm at my wits end on this one. I'm running talkyard on a digital ocean server using a reverse proxy behind nginx. Everything about accessing talkyard itself works correctly (i.e. I can go to comments.mywifesblog.com fine and interact with ta...	Support	P	2	2021-11-22 07:28:45.915Z
Talkyard Roadmap 2021 Here's what seems to be next for Talkyard. in no specific order (except for the headings "Sooner", "Later" etc). Feedback is welcome; you can add comments below. Old roadmap: Talkyard Roadmap 2020. Sooner: Blog comments SSO (Single Sign-On) — done, n...	Development		0	2021-11-19 04:24:59.272Z
The dates in forum posts are sometime not displaying correctly See: https://forum.soundflow.org/-6015/the-dates-in-forum-posts-are-sometime-not-displaying-correctly	Issues		0	2021-11-10 22:16:59.297Z
Gain account levels based on number of upvotes & likes received Currently, the forum accounts level-up after a number of interactions (posts, comments). This works fine for controlling spam at the start (accounts at lvl 0 have restrictions). However, from level 1 forward, I would like to instead reward users for ...	Ideas		4	2021-11-10 18:14:10.188Z
Bug: Multiple notification emails for a single post I noticed recently that I've been receiving duplicate email notifications for the same post. At first, I thought maybe the user was deleting their post and re-posting it, but I realized today that this seems to be a TalkYard bug. If a user replies to...	Issues		1	2021-11-04 20:48:54.027Z
Rules for Becoming Full Member? I read in the chat that the Trust Levels are not fully implemented yet, and not documented (which makes sense). I also read that Trust Level Full Member can already be acquired. I noticed that you can edit a wikified Question/Post from Trust Level 3 ... docs-missing	Support	A	2	2021-11-03 14:14:21.474Z
How can i nest categories the same way that Talkyard does for announcements? I would like to duplicate the hierarchy that Talkyard displays for announcements with nested categories as shown below. But i don't know how to do that. Any hints would be greatly appreciated.	Support	J J	8	2021-10-26 17:37:14.450Z
Feature request: User flair I run a forum that offers technical support for my product. Users can offer support to each other, but I'd like for there to be a way for users to visually see the difference between a user offering support to another user and an official representat...	Ideas	L C	26	2021-10-21 19:27:51.827Z
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Installation error - Cannot start service web, address already in use Hello, Running Step 9 of installation, I got an error: ERROR: for talkyard_web_1 Cannot start service web: driver failed programming external connectivity on endpoint talkyard_web_1 (5852cd9052079346c8185603c2d2451ad3d3352e1cb8fceeb691812a9448b561):...	Support	D D	5	2021-10-21 07:41:51.624Z
Where can a user find the talkyard version number in the UI? I was unable to find the version number in the talkyard UI. I thought that it might be useful when reporting bugs or requesting new features. Is it there somewhere but i was just too lame to find it?	Support	J	2	2021-10-20 04:22:48.724Z
TalkYard mentioned on Running in Production podcast I was a guest of a podcast recently, and they asked me about which services help me run my business, so I talked for a few minutes about how much I love TalkYard: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/105-tinypilotkvm-lets-you-remote-control-your-s...	Support		2	2021-10-19 15:50:16.768Z
Questions about student groups and categories Hi @vivanov, I'm copying this from the chat — here in this topic there's no 400 limit. Hi All, I'm sorry, kindly ask you to explain me or get direct link to description. Use case: I'm going to use TalkYard as collobaration place for students. I sent ...	Support		1	2021-10-19 14:34:47.112Z
How can I add topics via API? I'd like to move over some posts from my existing forum via the API. I checked the documentation regarding creating pages and post replies, but couldn't really find what I was looking for. Is this the endpoint for adding a new topic? (I wasn't sure i... api	Support	A	10	2021-10-19 14:14:08.211Z
How to Import Discussions to Talkyard If you have an already existing discussion forum, you can import it to Talkyad, by generating JSON for the users, discussion pages and categories there. Do as follows: Somehow generate JSON with the structure Import Format v0.2021 shown below. This i... import-export	How To		0	2021-10-19 12:58:00.439Z
Getting "No xsrf token" error when trying to contact search endpoint I'm trying to implement forum search into our macOS app. We need to call the search endpoint from either Javascript running locally in Electron (so there's no user signed in) or via C#. Both methods complain that there's no XSRF token which I can und...	Issues	C C	15	2021-10-18 14:58:08.276Z
On some posts I can't see who liked my post any longer Is this a known issue? For example, got a notification that somebody liked this post: https://forum.soundflow.org/-3102#post-19 But the likes no longer show up:	Support	C C	5	2021-10-18 14:56:34.284Z
Azure AD B2C, no UserInfo URL Hello, we're trying to integrate Talkyard OIDC with our backend B2C tenant and B2C doesn't support the UserInfo URL. I've noticed in some other OIDC integrations, there is a property to not require the UserInfo URL during OIDC authentication. I don't...	Support	K	2	2021-10-11 18:06:17.723Z
Turn a category into an Idea tracker: Sort the category by likes and display them in the list view. Ability to sort a category by likes/votes, so that it can be used as a "feature request / ideas" tracker. It would be great if we could let users vote on their ideas by liking the specific thread in our Ideas category here. On the category list page,...	Ideas	C C	24	2021-10-08 12:15:42.145Z
IE 11 not working I'm not sure if IE11 is not supported by purpose, or if it's just an accident? It's just a pity that many of our users are working in predefined environments and cannot choose to upgrade the environment.	Issues	P	5	2021-10-06 03:49:39.832Z
Add moderator for specific category or subcategory Is it possible to add moderator for specific category or subcategory? moderation	Ideas	S	1	2021-09-24 12:33:00.673Z
How to upgrade from a trial to paid account? I created the "free trial version" of my forum, but now can't seem to find any place to upgrade to a paid account. @KajMagnus could you add some info on how to upgrade to a paid account? Thanks :)	Support		1	2021-09-21 19:09:52.831Z
Banning spammers? Is there a way to ban accounts or IP addresses? It seems like the only options are to suspend accounts temporarily, but if a user posts spam, I'd like to force them to do a little more work and create a new account. If I just delete their messages, t... moderation	Support	C	20	2021-09-21 19:07:09.701Z
Questions about changing the embedded comments address? If you have any questions or thoughts about why / how change the address to your Talkyard comments site (if any), you can write here. (Background: For talkyard.net blog comments sites with auto generated names, there's an admin message about changing...	Support		0	2021-09-21 05:52:29.931Z
Talkyard Single Sign-On API Talkyard has a Single Sign-On (SSO) API. To use it, you'll write some code, and edit Talkyard settings. This page is about SSO when accessing the Talkyard site directly, but you can also add SSO to embedded comments at your website, if any, see: How ...	Documentation	T F C	68	2021-09-15 15:29:08.107Z
How to Like and Subscribe to Pages via the API You can let your users Like vote a Talkyard page, and subscribe to it via the API. But first, read about the Talkyard API authentication, including about how to enable the API. Now. Let your backend server, with an API secret, do as follows: Send a P...	API		0	2021-09-15 15:27:09.043Z
Can I remove the "@someone deleted this topic n seconds ago" message? I tested out the comments on a local instance of my site. I ended up with: A new topic (comments for page at ...) Comments on this new topic So I deleted the comments, and then (to see what happens) I deleted the topic. Now I have a seemingly permane...	Support	D S	5	2021-09-14 12:56:44.799Z
The sender on Talkyard notification emails is scrambled	Issues	C C	25	2021-09-09 16:45:32.313Z
Update "Comments for https://blog-post-address" if changing the Link To URL Currently, if going to /-/admin/contents (visible if experimental features are enabled), and one changes the Link To URL for an blog post embedded-comments page, then, thereafter, URLs in email notifications will point to the new Link-To-URL, but [th...	Issues		0	2021-09-01 07:46:30.317Z
Make it possible to translate emails Currently Talkyard's user interface can be translated to other languages — need to make email translatable too (incl email subject line I suppose).	Issues	S	15	2021-08-29 20:07:34.783Z
Allow "bot"/app posts on pages for linking to other services We're moving from ClickUp as the backend for managing bugs, roadmap items etc. to Linear.app. Just take a look at this beautiful UI to see why: One of the big benefits of Linear is that it can integrate directly into Intercom, our support system, and...	Ideas	C C	10	2021-08-27 20:29:46.975Z
Is there Sitemap.xml and is it needed? Related to Google SEO: does taptalk offer a forum sitemap.xml? And if not, is it required for good Google indexing of the forum? What is the recommended approach?	Issues		4	2021-08-27 15:28:12.474Z
TypeError: e is null Hi, is there an issue with Talkyard if nobody had a comment? For example, on https://horstmann.com/unblog/2021-08-02/index.html I get TypeError: e is null but on https://horstmann.com/unblog/2020-05-20/index.html with what seems to be the same invoca...	Issues	C	9	2021-08-27 13:26:03.489Z
Fix the "jumpy" header Starting at a certain width, the forum starts jumping around every time the header pops in/out. This is a bit annoying, would be nice if you could change it so it works the same way as when the forum is not expanded. Video to show both cases: first t...	Issues		1	2021-08-27 05:58:06.748Z
Full text search should look in sub categories Talkyard currently full text searches only in exactly the categories specified (or the whole forum, if none specified), but not any of their sub categories. Probably sub categories should be searched too (unless explicitly excluded).	Issues		0	2021-08-26 05:12:07.608Z
Talkyard v0.2021.23 New Talkyard version, new features and fixes: Idea tracking / Feature upvoting categories, check out: the Ideas category here in the forum — when you switch to that category, the topics get sorted by popular-first, and you see how many Likes the Orig...	Releases	C	2	2021-08-25 19:47:12.682Z
Google Analytics Tracking code not working as expected (workaround fix) Google analytics only started tracking the page once I put the code into: [look and feel] -> [html] -> [Styles HTML] It did not work in: [look and feel] -> [html] -> [Header HTML] and also not in : [settings]->[site]->[google universal analytics trac...	Support		1	2021-08-24 16:48:39.532Z
[Forum main view: categories] is ignored by the [home] button When clicking on the [home] link at the top-left of a topic, it goes back to the url/latest view, even if the default view has been set to url/categories in the admin settings -> [Look and feel] -> [Basic] -> [Forum main view].	Issues		2	2021-08-22 18:21:41.952Z