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403 Forbidden Attempting to use a *one*-time login secret 2 times

Good day, a problem occur while using "v0/login-with-secret?oneTimeSecret=" now. working just fine yesterday. this is the error message "403 Forbidden Attempting to use a one-time login secret 2 times"

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2020-08-13 15:20:50.859Z

Feature request: Statistics

It would be nice to have a central place (I imagine the Admin dashboard) where we could see some simple site-wide statistics, like total number of threads, total number of posts (per month maybe, as a graph, eventually). Here and now just the total n...

Topics, recently active first	Category	Users	Replies	Activity
403 Forbidden Attempting to use a one-time login secret 2 times Good day, a problem occur while using "v0/login-with-secret?oneTimeSecret=" now. working just fine yesterday. this is the error message "403 Forbidden Attempting to use a one-time login secret 2 times"	Issues	D	2	2020-08-13 15:20:50.859Z
Feature request: Statistics It would be nice to have a central place (I imagine the Admin dashboard) where we could see some simple site-wide statistics, like total number of threads, total number of posts (per month maybe, as a graph, eventually). Here and now just the total n...	Support	C	1	2020-08-12 19:47:53.752Z
Deleted posts can appear in search How often does the search engine update? I'm asking since we had a user whose posts I had to delete, and subsequently, I also deleted my own posts that answered his. Some of these posts, while deleted, still appear in searches. Is this just because t...	Support	C	1	2020-08-12 19:29:37.278Z
Feature request: Disable all email notifications temporarily / scheduled I often end up receiving 50-100 emails from Talkyard every day (or at least it feels that way). This is great because I get an email notification on my phone as soon as a user has sent a reply somewhere that I need to check. However, due to the sheer...	Ideas	C C	15	2020-08-10 14:30:26.343Z
Bug in Permissions? I'm not quite sure if it's a bug or a if I'm misunderstanding something: There's a permission for "Edit other people's topics" and one for "Edit wiki posts". In my opinion it makes sense that if someone has the "Edit wiki posts" he can edit ALL wikif...	Issues	P	6	2020-08-09 18:33:07.294Z
Core members shouldn't be reviewed We have some core members of the team who will routinely go back and edit older posts. This right now causes them to appear as something an admin then needs to review. This is just busy-work. A core member should be trusted enough so that even edits ...	Issues	C C	5	2020-08-02 20:06:52.077Z
Support SAML login via Keycloak It seems that via Keycloak, you can "add" SAML to Talkyard: (Talkyard probably will not support SAML natively the nearest many years, today is July 2020.) In Talkyard, configure OIDC login with Keycloak as the OIDC identity provider: https://www.keyc...	Ideas		0	2020-07-29 09:13:13.457Z
Change Owner/Moderator Is it possible to change the owner/moderator of an account which is serving comments for a blog? We realized that it would be better to have the moderation be done by another individual. Thanks!	Support	D2 D2	2	2020-07-17 11:02:02.739Z
Questions about this software Hello. I found this app and it looks it could meet my needs. I have a news community, and I discovered dev.lemmy.ml, which is software inspired in the old reddit, however, thought promissing it is still lacking in many aspects. My other choice was di...	Support	B C	9	2020-07-16 01:44:11.068Z
French people can get weird usernames See here for an example: https://forum.soundflow.org/-/admin/users/id/933	Issues	C C	4	2020-07-11 11:45:44.444Z
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Formatting code in upsert API changes ">" to HTML escaped version thereof ">" See the script here: https://forum.soundflow.org/-2384/the-below-function-still-gets-stuck-with-the-memory-location-windo-popup-menu-held-open-no-error-mes#post-1	Support	C C	2	2020-07-11 11:43:43.776Z
Email login handling has problem with "." in it Say I signed up with "example.user@example.com", it seems that I can't log in with "exampleuser@example.com", despite they are essentially the same.	Support	I	1	2020-07-09 08:19:51.171Z
Add a rich text editor Maybe use ProseMirror to build one? It supports both rich text and Markdown, and collaborative editing. Here Atlassian has published an open source editor built on ProseMirror: http://atlaskit.atlassian.com/packages/editor/editor-core (found out abou...	Ideas	J	2	2020-07-08 06:38:45.651Z
CSS (presumably) issue w/ embedded comments (probably just my mistake, will update if not) The just the docs theme for jekyll (popular with docs, as I gather) seems to have a css issue with the comments snippet. Exact code at the time: https://github.com/XertroV/fi/blob/7e50da3748805610563d864eac041125902824fd/docs/_layouts/default.html#L8...	Support	X X	3	2020-06-29 04:10:28.174Z
How to install Talkyard prod in a subdirectory? We have an AWS Ubuntu 18.04 2GB RAM server running LAMP and another script in public_html. We need to install TalkYard at: Domain.com/subfolder Using the Github instructions, (https://github.com/debiki/talkyard-prod-one) is it an Apache virtualhosts ...	Support	N	3	2020-06-22 13:34:05.796Z
Potential bug: Pasting code gives error about having too many links Hi @KajMagnus See Jon's input here: https://forum.soundflow.org/-1463#post-4 He can't paste code to our forum. Do you have any idea why it would think that these are links? He also tried pasting the code inside ``` lines to no avail.	Support	C C	6	2020-06-20 20:18:38.796Z
Help choosing a path for shibboleth integration Talkyard is an amazing piece of software. I'm hoping to use it to help researchers at my university share best practices and help each other with data analysis. You can see an example version of the site at https://www.mit.edu/~realdata/help/ . I'm t...	Support	E E	2	2020-06-09 13:36:17.365Z
Feature request: Search API I don't remember if we've discussed this elsewhere. As I do remember, we talked about it quite a bit, but it's a very long time ago. We're doing various integrations now, where we try to make it easier for users to find the forum and to use it more. ...	Ideas	C C	34	2020-06-09 12:07:37.737Z
Issue with formatting of code when using the upsert API Hi @KajMagnus We're implementing our "Get Script Help" help panel inside SoundFlow, where a user can click a button to get help with the current script, and it will ask them a few questions before then auto-generating a forum entry for them. You can ...	Issues	C C	7	2020-06-09 09:22:33.881Z
Feature request: New topic type: Article We've changed the design a bit on our forum and I think we'd like to consider using Talkyard for our documentation (in a way you could say our "How to" category is already documentation-by-support) Here's an example: https://forum.soundflow.org/-1842...	Ideas	C C	4	2020-06-08 17:43:51.923Z
Topic type 'Link' I was looking at the topic type function here and I think this is a great feature, but I miss the 'link type' topic. Users sometimes like to share just links, and this type of topic could come very handy. Reddit is built around this feature! [Edit] R...	Ideas	I U	2	2020-06-08 17:43:17.825Z
blog comments: configure to require approval before being public I see this in group-chat: yacax98 @yacax9819 days ago Hello! Could I configure talkyard for accept or not comments before be public? KajMagnus @KajMagnus19 days ago @yacax98 — yes, go here: https:// talkyard site /-/admin/settings/moderation and type...	Ideas	S	3	2020-06-05 06:02:38.221Z
Talkyard Roadmap 2018-06-24 Here's what's next for Talkyard — the items are not ordered, except for "soon" and "later". Feedback & change suggestions are welcome; add a comment below. Edit: This roadmap is old. There's a new roadmap here, from 2018-11-26. Now soon Theming. User...	Development	M D	5	2020-06-05 05:55:01.672Z
Talkyard List API There's a search API: POST /-/v0/search for full text search, and also an API at: POST /-/v0/list for listing for example the X most popular pages in a category, or the Y most recent posts across the whole forum. This topic is about the List API — wh...	Ideas	P	7	2020-06-01 08:39:12.990Z
New language: es_CL Hello. I have made a spanish translation of Talkyard. I made some choices that you may or may not agree with. For instance "topic" is literally translated "tema", which actually means "subject". This is the most standard translation in other forum ap...	Support	L	6	2020-05-30 20:43:07.372Z
Disable blog comments votes Hi! I have self-hosted Talkyard. I am using as a comment system in mi blog. I want to disable votes for the comments. In admin area > Look and feel I see options for BLOG COMMENTS: One of that is: Blog post votes May blog readers Like or Disagree vot...	Support	S S	2	2020-05-30 09:50:02.841Z
How to reset admin password? I forgot my admin password. Is there a way for me to reset it via Postgres or something? I had not configured the email server so the forgot password doesn't work.	Support	N	4	2020-05-30 07:52:10.742Z
Make it possible to re-configure Talkyard to be for blog comment only [Edit by admin] I changed the title from "How can I configure and use as blog comment system only?", and changed topic type to Idea, instead of a question. Original question below. [/Edit] Is there any documentation? I dont know where is de developer...	Ideas	S B S	8	2020-05-29 17:41:47.436Z
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	D2 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
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