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How to run a Talkyard for embedded comments only (disable forum features)

Hi, I want to set up a Talkyard instance for handling embedded comments for my websites only. There is a feature flag in Admin -> Settings -> Features -> Enable discussion forum which can't be disabled once activated. I would like to disable this for...

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How to run a Talkyard for embedded comments only (disable forum features) Hi, I want to set up a Talkyard instance for handling embedded comments for my websites only. There is a feature flag in Admin -> Settings -> Features -> Enable discussion forum which can't be disabled once activated. I would like to disable this for...	Support	M	3	2021-02-18 15:21:15.151Z
Has anyone a docker compose file installation Has anyone a docker compose file installation	Support		1	2021-02-18 15:13:28.532Z
Feature consideration: Backlinks We often have people link to other topics on the forum. It would be helpful that those links would appear on the page of the topic being linked to as well - like, automatic backlinks, ie. "This topic was referenced in XYZ"	Ideas	C G	11	2021-02-14 14:10:33.959Z
Feature request: Polls How do we feel about polls? Reddit and Discourse support them, so...they might be a useful feature here. Personally I'd like to run a simple single-choice poll that closes after a fixed amount of time that registered users can vote on and discuss.	Ideas	N	1	2021-02-14 11:06:47.382Z
Talkyard Roadmap 2020 Go here instead: Talkyard Roadmap 2021 Old roadmap, from 2020, below: Here's what's next for Talkyard, in no specific order (except for "Sooner" and "Later"). Feedback is welcome; you can add comments below. Old roadmap, from 2018: Talkyard Roadmap 2...	Development	J O E	17	2021-02-14 10:40:20.396Z
Images are not protected by login I have a deployment of Talkyard that is using Single-Sign-On and requires users to be logged in to view content. I noticed that images that are uploaded are not protected by login. For example, I can access this without being logged in: https://mytal...	Issues		1	2021-02-12 16:34:19.340Z
K8s, Swarm, Traefik and Talkyard It'd be good if Talkyard was simple to configure together with Kubernetes and Docker Swarm. And Traefik or Caddyserver (proxy servers with automatic HTTPS). Maybe these could be the first steps: (or "all" that's needed?) Provide a sample Docker-Compo...	Development	H G C	28	2021-02-10 23:30:01.667Z
Bulk import from Disqus I'm migrating over from Disqus to Talkyard, and I have a lot of old comments in Disqus. Fortunately Disqus allow you to export comments, so I'm wondering what the best way to import them into Talkyard would be. Just to be clear on what I'm asking, I ...	Ideas	D H M	51	2021-02-10 13:49:21.990Z
How do I create new categories? How can I make categories?	Support	L	1	2021-02-10 11:57:24.563Z
Topics pinned to all categories not shown in other categories If I pin a topic and mark it as pin in The whole forum, all categories, I'd expect it to appear pinned even if I drill down into a particular category. For example, I have a Rules topic I want pinned in every category. Instead, it only appears if I'm...	Issues	N	1	2021-02-10 11:53:31.662Z
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API request: export-site-json for a single category Hi @KajMagnus Happy new year :) We are starting to integrate Talkyard with Clickup (we switched to Clickup for project management instead of using Monday). We've now successfully used the export-site-json function in Talkyard to export all of our exi...	Ideas	C	7	2021-02-09 18:44:53.186Z
Talkyard with Nginx as reverse proxy and Letsencrypt for https [Mini tutorial] Hello. I finally made work my Talkyard instance with nginx as reverse proxy and letsencrypt for ssl, and it took me several hours so I thought I might leave this over here so others can do it in just minutes. Environment is a VPS with Ubuntu 18.04. 1...	Documentation	L	5	2021-02-08 09:39:35.547Z
NHS Costs Good Afternoon. We're keen to review using talkyard, however being an NHS organisation in the UK, it is unlikely that we would be able to secure any funding for such functionality. I was therefore wondering what plans were available to us as one Orga...	Support	A	1	2021-02-03 16:29:10.515Z
Embedding Talkyard / Custom Template I am looking for a replacement for discourse and talkyard seems like a top contender, but I would like the design of the forum to be fully integrated into my website. So I have a couple questions: Is it possible to embed talkyard on another page, lik...	Support	A A	4	2021-01-25 11:04:23.224Z
log in pop up options i'm setting up blog comments for the first time. viewers have told me they don't want to create a new account. in settings, i clicked - allow to post with name or as guest. the log in button at the top of the comment frame opens the standard create a...	Support	K K	12	2021-01-20 03:53:02.038Z
Questions regarding this forum I have had an educational group for late stage cancer and Lyme patients on Facebook for about a year. The group is truly non-profit and designed to help people improve their quality of life and give them hope of new and unknown treatments that may ex...	Support	P	2	2021-01-18 09:03:29.883Z
CORS error while loading Blog Comments I have my blog running at https://everythingcrm.in and I'm trying to use Talkyard for the first time. The moment page loads, console is bombarded with multiple CORS error upon trying to load the fonts. Is there any setting that I may have missed whic...	Issues	P	4	2021-01-11 21:47:32.794Z
Feature request: Keyboard shortcuts It would be great if we could do things we do often via keyboard shortcuts. For example: Cmd+Enter: Post question. C: Compose new question R: Reply E: Archive (mark closed for example) J/K: Next/previous (between threads or between posts in pages) N:...	Ideas	C C	31	2021-01-02 22:33:17.697Z
Access to talkyard directly as non admin for embedded blog comments only Can someone who's not an admin access the forum and see all comments when logged in? As they can see on the website? Because I want some parts of the blog to be exclusive to sustain members. Or could I do such a thing through Talkyard using it's memb...	Support		5	2021-01-02 22:00:16.457Z
Bug report: Keyboard shortcut dialog error Hi @KajMagnus I just received this when I pressed: c, n, h talkyard-service-worker.min.js:10 SW: Service worker v0.2020.33-f2077676b loading [TyMSWVLDNG] talkyard-service-worker.min.js:10 SW: Already a WebSocket for user 100, need do nothing. [TyMSWA...	Issues	C	2	2021-01-02 21:56:31.245Z
Forum link embeds always show the title of the page, not the linked-to post If for example I want to link a user directly to a post inside a page, then the embed still shows the name and summary of the page, not the post. See example: https://forum.soundflow.org/-3232#post-4	Issues	C C	3	2021-01-02 13:26:48.255Z
Feature request: Mark problem solutions Right now, our users post "Problems" in our "Support" category, and "Questions" in our "How to" section. This mostly works. However, quite often, a user has posted a problem for which we find a solution. Currently, a problem can just be marked Closed...	Support	C	9	2021-01-02 12:57:35.856Z
Displaying multiple links causes bad formatting I think it should be possible to list links on multiple lines like this and have it formatted slightly better :)	Issues	C	2	2021-01-02 12:54:18.403Z
Translate to Dutch Hi, I would like to translate Talkyard to Dutch. I am on GitHub. But how does it work? How can I contribute? I suppose to copy a directory and put a new file with the translation? How to do that? I try to figure out GitHub, ... Many thanks, Rudi	Support		12	2021-01-02 11:37:05.480Z
Are other languages than English supported? Original title: А есть ли поддержка другого языка? проверка поддержки нескольких языков (не обращайте внимание ) — That means sth like: "check for multi-language support (ignore)" Edited by KajMagnus: I renamed the title to English, and added the abo...	Support	V	7	2020-12-17 17:38:00.824Z
Sample OpenConnectID(ODIC) JSON script to enable SSO via Azure AD Hi, I was trying to enable SSO using an option 'Custom OIDC or OAuth2'. It requires us to write a JSON config script to enable SSO via Azure AD. Can someone please share a sample script we can use to enable SSO via Azure AD? I am trying a json script...	Support	B	5	2020-12-15 16:33:19.403Z
SSO/AzureAD & require verified email We have SSO working with Azure AD. We disable Require verified email, but new users still get the message dialog that they will need to click an email verification link. Users are still able to login and use without a verification email (e.g., disabl...	Issues	P2	4	2020-12-15 16:16:02.272Z
Feature request: Webhooks We'd love to be able to make automations that react to actions the users take on our forum. For example, we'd like to create items on a board in Monday.com or Trello whenever a new page/thread is made in certain categories of the forum. We'd also lik...	Ideas	C C	2	2020-12-07 10:00:02.622Z
Restrict allowed upload file types, default to images only Talkyard by default shouldn't let people upload anything else than images — most other file types are a bit risky, e.g. some PDF readers can ececute embedded Javascript. Seems this will be fixed in the next or next-next version. I'm making allowed up...	Issues		2	2020-12-05 11:46:09.590Z
Air gapped Talkyard It'd be nice if Talkyard could just work, in an air gapped network. Maybe problems: Talkyard currently might want to download a font from https://fonts.googleapis.com. Talkyard also does a request to polyfill.io. Did I add the config value to prevent...	Ideas	I	4	2020-12-03 19:24:04.888Z
Paste to Upload Currently a user must save/upload an image into Talkyard for it to be displayed. In things like DokuWiki and Bookstack there is the option to paste the contents of the clipboard and upload it immediately. Can this be implemented or a similar solution...	Ideas	C J P2 C	17	2020-12-03 12:33:36.153Z
Getting mail notifications with junk mail format (sdfsdfdfs@gmail.com) Hi Magnus, When there is a notification from talkyard we get email notification as some junk_chars@gmail.com ex: dGFsa3lhcmQ@gmail.com, is there any way to configure as somevalid_name@talkyard.com . Sometime emails are of kind dGFsa3lhcmQ@gmail.com g...	Support	B	3	2020-12-01 16:40:24.661Z
Possible to group notifications by page/thread? Hi Magnus. My notification drop down is starting to look more and more like this :) While it's nice that I'm now getting notified as soon as I've joined a page/thread, it would be great if multiple notifications from the same page/thread would be col...	Ideas	C C	4	2020-11-27 03:23:36.297Z
Users unable to sign in Hi, For some reason, new users are unable to sign in this morning. They get this error: Error 403 Forbidden Participant 118 may not see page 39 [TyE305KDJW2] When I look at the app logs, this is what occurs: app_1 \| DEBUG API request exception: Resul...	Issues	P2	6	2020-11-26 22:07:13.140Z
Look and feel as code Is there any mechanism to specify the Talkyard look and feel (specifically the custom CSS and JS) through code/configuration? For reference, I am deploying Talkyard to AWS through Terraform and Ansible and would like to capture our syntax highlightin...	Support	J	3	2020-11-21 12:40:27.362Z
Where to add custom CSS Hello, first of all, I want to say thank you. I have searched all day for a comment system that can be integrated with Gatsby, that is not as bloated as something like Disqus, looks decent, has nested comment functionality, and does not start at 10€+...	Support	B F	6	2020-11-18 19:03:28.763Z
Server recommendation for 100 users What server configuration would you recommend for 100 users?	Support	P2 P2	6	2020-11-11 19:43:28.323Z
Notification drop down - reduce clicks? Hi Magnus, Now that we have global preferences for notifications for topics we have participated in - YAY!!! - I find myself wanting to often quickly switch off notifications from a thread. This may sound like the opposite of before - in fact, it's t...	Support	C C	4	2020-11-10 10:21:22.305Z
SSL Certificate generation on hosted version Hello ! We just subscribed to hosted plan. We add a CNAME to our hosted talkyard, but the certificate is not up to date. I read you are using Let's Encrypt to generate a certificate, so maybe it takes some time ? Current custom domain: https://commun...	Support	I I	2	2020-11-03 21:49:52.535Z