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Feature request: "Ask Question" on /categories page

We quite often have users who never find the "Ask Question" button. I guess they stay on the front page of the forum (the /categories view for us). Would it be possible to have the "Ask Question" button in the place where the forum admin currently ha...

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2020-05-29 12:00:32.293Z

Can Ghost authors receive notifications when a comment is created on a post?

I have integrated TalkYard in my Ghost blog. So far, it's working great. I recently allowed other authors to create posts by creating them accounts under "Staff". When a comment comes on a post of theirs, I still receive an email notification. Is it ...

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2020-05-21 21:57:27.061Z

Configuring OpenAuth login for your own Talkyard

Here's brief info about how to configure Gmail, Facebook, Twitter and GitHub OpenAuth login, for your self hosted Talkyard server. If you try to follow these instructions — mabye you'd like to contribute with images and screenshots that illustrates t...

Topics, recently active first	Category	Users	Replies	Activity
Feature request: "Ask Question" on /categories page We quite often have users who never find the "Ask Question" button. I guess they stay on the front page of the forum (the /categories view for us). Would it be possible to have the "Ask Question" button in the place where the forum admin currently ha...	Ideas	C C	15	2020-05-29 12:00:32.293Z
Can Ghost authors receive notifications when a comment is created on a post? I have integrated TalkYard in my Ghost blog. So far, it's working great. I recently allowed other authors to create posts by creating them accounts under "Staff". When a comment comes on a post of theirs, I still receive an email notification. Is it ...	Ideas	A P	36	2020-05-21 21:57:27.061Z
Configuring OpenAuth login for your own Talkyard Here's brief info about how to configure Gmail, Facebook, Twitter and GitHub OpenAuth login, for your self hosted Talkyard server. If you try to follow these instructions — mabye you'd like to contribute with images and screenshots that illustrates t...	Support	B	3	2020-05-21 09:06:20.032Z
Self-hosted installation - docker containers guidance [Edit by KajMagnus] Now (Mars 2019), I added instructions here about how to integrate Talkyard into one's own Docker-Compose stack, which was what this question was mostly about. [/Edit] Hi, I think I am ready to move from Disqus comments to Talkyard...	Support	D G M H	22	2020-05-15 02:55:25.504Z
Can you customize system notification text? Is it possible to change the text that shows up in notifications like this one?	Support	M	1	2020-05-09 06:23:30.713Z
Request: Allow upload of files with more than one dot in the name Currently, users get an error about that it can't find the extension since the filename has more than one dot. This seems like a weird restriction, since filenames with multiple dots are perfectly valid filenames, and our users often get confused by ...	Issues	C C	2	2020-04-30 10:34:48.770Z
How use Talkyard with Bubble.io @bramscher posted a question about Bubble.io and Talkyard: (here)	Support	B2	4	2020-04-26 19:26:29.530Z
Possibility to import discourse content into talkyard is this possible? it would be an important feature if you want to reach users that are currently already using a system like discourse (like me)	Ideas	W	2	2020-04-20 04:28:34.488Z
Category limit Hi @KajMagnus I'm hitting a limit in creating a new category: I'm trying to set up a category for internal use. Can you lift this limit or do something to make this work for us? This is once again delaying our work since we use the forum for planning...	Support	C	5	2020-04-20 03:57:17.723Z
Feature suggestion: Improve Google mobile scores When I google something on the forum, it says "Your site is not mobile friendly". I bet this must hurt the placement of search results in Google quite much. Perhaps it would make sense to research how to improve this so that Google doesn't penalize b...	Issues	C C	7	2020-04-17 14:35:19.925Z
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Feature request: Disable direct messages for some users Quite often (especially new) users will inadvertently end up writing a question as a Direct Message or even in a chat. While I don't want to eliminate direct messages between regular users, it would be great if there was an option for me to set so th...	Ideas	C C	6	2020-04-16 11:29:04.884Z
Where is favicon.ico? Where are the files served up by the web server hidden?	Support	C	3	2020-04-16 04:37:48.643Z
How Hacker News can be improved, 3 things Hacker News (HN) and Reddit are great, and sometimes a bit annoying? The annoying parts can be fixed: 1. Finding new comments When you read a discussion at Hacker News (HN) or Reddit, and go for a coffee or take a nap, then later how do you find comm...	Ideas	L W A	8	2020-04-14 07:23:23.470Z
Nightmode Hello, i have a Theme on Talkyard with an Nightmode. Is it also possible to add Ngihtmode to Talkyard?	Support	H	1	2020-04-13 19:40:18.108Z
How to delete "Custom HTML Page" Hey, I've creatd a "Custom HTML Page" for testing purpose. But since the Header/Helper is missing I'm not quite sure how to delete it. Thank you very much and kind regards, Andreas	Issues	P P	5	2020-04-09 12:54:23.995Z
Integrate static documentation I have a documentation generated from asciidoc which produces a manual in PDF and in static html page. Talkyard provides the Q&A page for using the product. Most answers will reference the manual again. Basically we just open the manual and the Q&A t...	Support	P C P	4	2020-04-08 21:46:53.181Z
How to show header like your site like Talkyard Community forum Hi Kaj, Is there already a way to show header and logo in Talkyard-Prod. I need to do customization of Talkyard. Can you suggest something for it. Regards Arjun Singh	Support	E C P	5	2020-04-06 11:23:07.474Z
RTL Support Is there any support for right-to-left languages?	Support	F	13	2020-04-03 12:25:05.467Z
File upload limits? Are there any per file upload limits? How can I configure it? How are the defaults in the hosted version (depending on the plan)?	Support	M	1	2020-04-01 15:31:27.096Z
API request: Extend page creation to private threads + Notification API Hi @KajMagnus We are strongly considering extending SoundFlow with some new features related to sharing of content on the platform. Today users can already share content publicly - this is when a forum category gets automatically created for the cont...	Ideas	C C	26	2020-03-31 12:28:32.875Z
End impersonation mode I've tried the impersonate mode but can no longer exit it. Is there some hidden trick? Thank you very much and kind regards, Andreas	Support	P	3	2020-03-31 07:48:44.626Z
I have an issue in creation of test site	Issues	I	2	2020-03-31 04:02:06.465Z
Features that support discussing student solutions of exercises in talkyard Recently (because of the corona crisis) I tried using talkyard for discussing student solutions with other students of a course. A student posts his solution as "idea" and other students and the teacher/lecturer can comment as well. However it would ...	Ideas	M	1	2020-03-28 22:08:11.707Z
Potential UX improvements With the growing success of our product, and since we use Talkyard for (almost) all customer support, I find myself spending more and more time on the forum. Often, my task will be: Check my new/unread notifications. Open tabs for each new notificati...	Issues	C	11	2020-03-27 16:11:06.788Z
What are the largest sites using Talkyard's blog commenting system? Hey would be great to see some examples in our evaluation process for implementing a commenting system on a top 5k site in the world.	Support	S	1	2020-03-23 07:05:41.333Z
Bleve - Alternative to Elastic? Hi, I was reading through some of the docs and was already aware of the runtime requirements of the JVM; I saw that Toshi was mentioned as an alternative to Elasticsearch which is using much of the resources, but I see it's not regarded as production...	Development	S F	6	2020-03-20 15:00:49.461Z
Sort answers by activity How can I sort answers by activity (newest first or oldest first) (as for example in stackexchange)?	Support	M	1	2020-03-17 12:00:12.949Z
Make mathjax work in abstracts of questions I activated mathjax for questions and answers by adding the following lines to the Scripts HTML Section in the Admin Panel: <script type="text/x-mathjax-config"> MathJax.Hub.Config({ tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$','$'], ["\\(","\\)"] ], ...	Support	M M	2	2020-03-14 23:43:44.681Z
Private Sites How can I make a complete site visible only to members?	Support	M	1	2020-03-14 22:54:00.980Z
Add OAUTH Provider - SQRL Run by Jose C Gomez - https://github.com/josegomez - is an OAUTH provider based on the SQRL protocol: https://sqrloauth.com/ Other sites that have used this service include https://www.twit.community/ More about SQRL - https://grc.com/sqrl SQRL help ...	Ideas	M	1	2020-03-10 08:42:26.095Z
Error 404 Profile Page Hello, Just updated to the latest Version. When I go the Profile Page I get an 404 Error. {"severity":"DEBUG","message":"API request result exception [EsE4K2J2]: Status 404: 404 Not Found\nUser not found [EsEZ6F0U], site SiteBrief(1,3xdn8p4r8j,Some(c...	Support	H H	7	2020-03-03 16:59:41.276Z
Multilanguage support: lead language & automatic translation Hi @KajMagnus, I know that this is somewhat over the top at the moment. But I am wondering if you ever thought about merging different languages on one platform via automatic translation. DeepL does an amazing job ... unfortunatly the API is not avai... multi-langs	Ideas	M	4	2020-03-01 20:51:08.411Z
Export from hosted version to self-hosted version? I'm considering installing and hosting Talkyard on my own server so I can have a more user-friendly email when people interact with Talkyard. I'm using the hosted version now, and would want to export all of my current data so I could move it to a lo...	Support	H	21	2020-03-01 19:58:17.353Z
Talkyard Roadmap 2018-11-26 New roadmap, year 2020, here: https://www.talkyard.io/-339/talkyard-roadmap-2020 OLD roadmap below: Here's what's what Was next for Talkyard. Feedback & change suggestions are welcome; you can add a comment below. If you compare with the previous roa...	Development	D I S	10	2020-03-01 08:10:09.726Z
Improvements for Teachers and Students Here're things schools and teachers have asked about and that I have in mind to implement: "create invite links [not emails, but URL links] that already have the group memberships defined. That way a student just uses the link and auto-enrolled into ...	Ideas		0	2020-03-01 07:42:08.097Z
How to grant access to comments only from paid members? I have an static Website and I want to charge a fee to those who want to comment on pages (as most newspaper are doing). How can I do this with Talkyard? Example: You enter to a page and you see the comments from other people, if you want to comment,...	Support	A	5	2020-02-27 08:31:57.224Z
How to install talkyard locally on windows device? How to install talkyard locally on windows device?	Support	S2	1	2020-02-26 15:33:07.530Z
Mailer test address logic broken This logic in Mailer.scala is broken: - val isTestAddress = emailToSend.sentTo.endsWith("example.com") \|\| emailToSend.sentTo.endsWith("ex.com") \|\| emailToSend.sentTo.endsWith("x.co")` This will mean emails won't be sent to a ton of domains, e....	Issues	G	3	2020-02-25 13:59:03.244Z
Custom login form Is there a way to customize the sign-up form (e.g. Custom questions/challenges that the user must answer correctly to be accepted) ? Use: a forum seeking to attract people with specific skills or interest might want to make sure a user is suitable be...	Support	F F	4	2020-02-24 04:15:40.337Z