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Strange Error with Firefox Extension

This may be very specific, but I use this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ultrawidey/ for YouTube. When this extension is enabled, I get errors in the console and Talkyard won't load anything after the custom header HTML. re...

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Strange Error with Firefox Extension This may be very specific, but I use this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ultrawidey/ for YouTube. When this extension is enabled, I get errors in the console and Talkyard won't load anything after the custom header HTML. re...	Support	C	3	2018-10-03 14:23:21.597Z
Content Security Policy error within GatsbyJS Hello. I've tried to add the section below of my blog post template. but I met this error in chrome developer Tool. Then I can't figure out any appearance of Talkyard. How can I modify Content Security Policy to 'self' from 'none'? It seems all will ...	Support	O H	4	2018-10-01 07:00:03.743Z
iframes Do iframes not work? Trying to share a YouTube video in my forum.	Support	C	5	2018-10-01 05:39:33.452Z
Subcategories / Parent Topics It would be nice to be able to structure categories so that a Talkyard site can be more specifically organized. For my case I would like to be able to make an 'Operating Systems' Category and then contain Subcategories like 'Windows', 'OS X', 'Linux'...	Ideas	C C	2	2018-09-24 17:20:30.770Z
Database connection error and a question Hello, I want to ask if I need to create the Postgres database "talkyard" and user "talkyard" myself or is automatically created on the host machine ? And the POSTGRES_PASSWORD from ".env" should be the password for global access to Postgres database...	Support	R	1	2018-09-22 01:39:54.732Z
RSS feed for the most recent comments @someburneraccount wrote: "... planning to put the embeddable rss feed of the most recent comments in our forum to our sidebar, so that users see that and hopefully join the forum ..." — ok so there'll be an RSS (Atom) feed with the most recent comme...	Ideas		3	2018-09-20 01:18:50.740Z
Support file uploads to Amazon S3 buckets It would be really useful to have the ability to upload files directly into AWS S3 buckets. One can currently mount an S3 bucket to a Talkyard instance and direct the uploads there but I am not sure how reliable that would be. Supporting this in the ...	Ideas	M M	2	2018-09-17 17:32:01.740Z
Ability to hold hosted forum on a stable branch to force it to not update with new, untested features? Given the big number of errors we've had in the Talkyard forum these last days, I'm wondering if it would be possible on a hosted talkyard forum to force it to stay on a stable branch/version and not receive any updates until they have been tested to...	Issues	C C	3	2018-09-09 05:07:17.895Z
Hamburger top nav dropdown, for mobiles @someburneraccount wrote: "[we'd like to have a] three stripes menu icon for the mobile page and then just click on it to have the all the menu text appear" — agree with this, I want this too. And, often people don't bother to click the hamburger / t...	Ideas	C	2	2018-09-01 17:34:33.714Z
Add a Change Password button Currently one can only change one's password, by clicking "Did you forget your password?" in the login dialog, when logged out. There should also be a "Change password" button on one's user profile page, the Account section probably. (Thanks Cody for...	Issues		0	2018-08-31 08:05:01.564Z
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Keep attached file name intact while downloading When a user downloads an attachment, the file name seen in the post is replaced with some generated (hashed?) name which forces user to rename the file. It would be desirable to keep the original file name intact during download. Thank you!	Ideas	M M	6	2018-08-27 20:49:49.265Z
Error when Deleting an Account onCloseOk/<@https://beta.cpce.group/-/assets/266/more-bundle.min.js:10:460569 r/<@https://beta.cpce.group/-/assets/266/slim-bundle.min.js:10:268399 See Dev Tools for details: usually Ctrl + Shift + C, here in the browser, then click Console.	Issues	C C	3	2018-08-24 23:47:07.617Z
Sharing to Social Media Currently when sharing any forum post to a social media site like Facebook, no opengraph info is shown or pulled. Is this by design? Can we force meta info?	Ideas	C C	2	2018-08-24 23:46:12.315Z
Cannot read Terms of Use if 'require authentication to read content' enabled This admin setting: [x] Login required Require authentication to read content also requires users to be authenticated before they can access & read the terms-of-use, so, with login-required enabled, then, when signing up, no one can read the terms-of...	Issues		0	2018-08-22 15:13:36.324Z
Make MaxBytesPerDayMember and MaxBytesPerWeekMember configurable Hi, I see that the values for MaxBytesPerDayMember, MaxBytesPerWeekMember, MaxBytesPerDayStaff and MaxBytesPerWeekStaff are currently hard coded. It would be desirable to expose these variables and make them configurable, either in app conf or in the...	Ideas	M M	4	2018-08-20 19:06:46.252Z
Syntax highlighting like on Github On Github I can choose a language formatter by typing the language identifier after the first ``` 3 backticks, like this: ```js my javascript code here `` ` The extra space should be disregarded, only there to bypass the formatting end tag. Would th...	Ideas	C C	4	2018-08-20 15:22:54.409Z
Open External Links in a New Tab Currently all links open in the current tab/window. I think links that don't contain the domain Talkyard resides on/in should open in a new tab with the _blank attribute in the Markdown/HTML links that are made.	Ideas	C	3	2018-08-19 05:37:15.383Z
Shall a trust level group mention include higher trust levels or not? If mentioning a built-in trust level group, like @basic_members — does that include higher trust levels or not? To me,@basic_members, sounds as if higher trust levels are not included. However, if someone types @full_members, then that sounds as if h...	Support		2	2018-08-14 07:57:10.167Z
Group mentions broken If mentioning a built-in group, like @core_members, then there's this error: "Got a group when trying to load member $groupId [EdE2SBA4J7]" because currently only individual people (but not groups) can be mentioned. Instead, either there should be a ...	Issues		1	2018-08-14 07:50:13.498Z
Avoid unnecessary closed + reopened messages Don't show messages like: X closed this topic 15 hours ago. X reopened this topic 15 hours ago. Because that's not interesting; nothing really happened. Instead, when someone clicks Close and then Reopen soon again, show no messages about that. The s...	Issues		0	2018-08-14 07:48:47.325Z
configure https on prod-one Hello, I would like to configure https access for my webserver using Talkyard. I suppose I have to obtain a let's encrypt certificate and then install it somewhere in the project, enabling some configuration files. Anybody can help me with a small tu...	Support	B B	8	2018-08-13 13:25:59.744Z
Clicking attachment would result nginx 500 Internal Server Error Hi @KajMagnus, after the last deployment (on premise, v0.6.9-WIP-3-75eef8fa4), we are no longer able to open/save attachments. Following the attachment link would throw an internal server error. Here's what I see in the console (domain name edited) E...	Issues	M	2	2018-08-10 16:59:13.095Z
Profile pictures not shown @KajMagnus, profile pictures (user uploaded) are broken in v0.6.9-WIP-3-75eef8fa4 (on premise installation). XML Parsing Error: no root element found Location: https://domain.com-/pubsub/subscribe/1-100?reqNr=3 Line Number 1, Column 1: 1-100:1:1 Err...	Issues	M	1	2018-08-09 23:44:09.949Z
Hosting requirements Do you we need a VPS to run Talkyard ? Will it work on normal shared hosting ?	Support	M G	16	2018-08-06 17:21:21.737Z
Blog comments: The editor can hide the comment one replies to When adding Talkyard comments to a blog, and clicking Reply: if the blog uses position: absolute for the <div> with the blog post and comments, then Talkyard's editor can appear above the comment one replies to, and one needs to close the editor, to ...	Issues		0	2018-08-05 11:32:49.380Z
Notifications generated for topics one may not access If someone mentions a non-staff member, say @jane_doe, in a staff-only chat — then a notification about the mention is sent to that person (i.e. to Jane Doe). Then, when s/he clicks the notification, s/he gets an access denied error. (Thanks Burak fo...	Issues		0	2018-08-03 07:26:19.121Z
Configure password strength? (set minLength to 8) By default it minLength is 10. I would like it to be 8. Didn't find any option for that. Would be nice if it where possible to use a configured from e.g. conf/web/create-password.conf.	Support	D	3	2018-07-20 15:21:05.594Z
No. of users and no.of domains for hosted services Sorry if these are simple questions to which I should know the answer. For a business user purchasing your hosting services, are there any restrictions on: (1) whether all users need to be from the same domain (that is, could some users be "xxxx@doma...	Support	A	2	2018-07-15 16:46:07.781Z
Bugs: Invites = broken. Cannot have many identities 1. There's a problem with invites: invided users cannot choose a password, so they cannot really login. I've fixed it an will deploy the fix maybe tomorrow morning. ( & will add end-to-end tests for this) (What's an invite? It's when you click the In...	Issues		1	2018-07-13 05:44:39.302Z
Disable/Enable global categories like ideas While going through the initial setup you get asked if you want to have questions, ideas, problems, discussions, ... As I wanted to see how all of them look I said yes to all of them. My primary use case would be questions so when sending I out initi...	Support	D D	2	2018-07-08 07:10:08.839Z
How can I connect external Postgresql Database to Talkyard-Prod I am trying to connect my own PostgreSQL database to Talkyard-Prod after editing play.conf. Is it possible to connect external postgreSQL database ?	Support	E	3	2018-07-02 15:05:48.352Z
New line displayed as "âŠ" in Prism.js New lines in Prism.js box are displayed as "âŠ", don't know why and how to hide that. Screenshot shows the problem. It is probably Talkyard related, because "âŠ" shows only here. For example Prism.js works completly fine when loaded from the same .cs...	Support	V	5	2018-06-29 21:15:53.293Z
Strange problem with Prism.js syntax highlighting Hey, since talkyard doesn't support native syntax highlighting I'm trying to set it up with Prism.js. However it works only partially, some code has syntax highlighting, some don't. Attached screenshot shows the problem. I used "Look and feel"/"CSS a...	Support	V V	2	2018-06-25 04:20:24.586Z
Displaying, sorting, filtering by tags in the topic lists Would it or is it possible to implement filtering by tag, assignee, milestone etc. in the topic list? Also it would be great to be able to set a default view, for instance by default show only the Waiting items in a Problem category. tag-ideas	Ideas	C C	2	2018-06-18 16:07:39.235Z
How can I edit a tag? I’d like to change the displayed name of a tag I created – while keeping it attached to posts where it’s attached. How can I do that?	Support	P T	2	2018-06-18 13:48:09.248Z
Error after installation ran successfully Hello there, I followed all the instructions to the T on this page: https://github.com/debiki/talkyard-prod-one The only deviation is that I used a 1 GB droplet (on DigitalOcean) instead of 2 GB. Still, the steps ran smoothly without any issues. But ...	Support	X	2	2018-06-10 11:49:23.521Z
Can Chat be turned off on the self-hosted version? We currently have Slack & Hangouts Chat, so we're not interested in the Chat functionality and would like to turn it off. Is it possible to do this easily? I suppose I'd say this is a feature request to make that a setting if I didn't miss it :) Plea...	Ideas	D D D	10	2018-05-31 13:51:11.749Z
Can I test Talkyard on a local static site before deploying? I like to preview my statically generated site (Octopress/Jekyll) on my local machine or an internal server before deploying to the public server. Is it possible to test talkyard.net hosted comments in such a setup?	Support	D2	7	2018-05-01 06:32:38.359Z
Is there a level between "account required" and "totally anonymous"? I'm using Talkyard for embedded comments, and it looks like any commenter will need to create a new account just to be able to comment. I can see people accepting this with eg. Disqus because one account will work for many sites. But for a per-site s...	Support	D2	7	2018-05-01 06:07:53.451Z