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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...

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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...

Topics, recently active first	Category	Users	Replies	Activity
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 P 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	P	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	P P	6	2020-11-11 19:43:28.323Z
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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
Server error when trying to get zxcvbn.js I'm setting up Talkyard in Azure. So far, only http to test it. When I click continue I get: Has the server stopped? Or did you just get disconnected from the Internet? Or is the hostname or port number wrong, cross-origin request blocked? [TyE0SRVR]...	Issues	P P	5	2020-11-02 16:33:41.509Z
Styling login and wrapper; payment details Hey, it's me again. I have managed to style almost everything that I wanted to style with the exception of the comments-wrapper, which appears grey: It seems this div has its style set inline and I was not able to change its style so I wanted to ask ...	Support	B B	4	2020-11-02 15:38:35.404Z
Staff badge (and potentially other badges) Would it be possible to consider a feature in which Staff members could have badges / icons next to them? In our case, so far I've been using our company logo as my profile picture on the forum. But now we're starting to add more Staff members, so we...	Ideas	C C	3	2020-10-31 11:41:00.702Z
Notification settings for threads Hi @KajMagnus Apologies, I can't seem to find the thread we were discussing this in. The default notification setting for threads in which only direct replies will give a notification is causing me to miss an increasing amount of important replies fr...	Issues	C C	6	2020-10-27 12:28:20.505Z
Possible to have rules around closed/solved threads? As our community is growing, I've had to disable getting notifications on all posts to existing threads. There's a problem though with the way notifications work on structured threads, in that I'll only receive a notification if the user tags me or r...	Ideas	C C	6	2020-10-26 15:24:34.291Z
User reputation? What is the status of the user reputation system? Do user earn reputation like on Stack Exchange? I've been looking around for a few minutes and I don't see anything that would indicate a full reputation system is implemented, although I saw some dis...	Support	D M K	15	2020-10-26 08:42:54.368Z
Embedding Facebook live links causes error See this post for an example where the embedding doesn't work: https://forum.soundflow.org/-3193#post-4 In this case, it would be better if the error message was not displayed (and obviously, even better if the embedding worked to show a thumbnail)	Issues	C	1	2020-10-25 12:19:46.750Z
Dark mode fix? Hey, it's me again. So I setup TalkYard on my Website and it works really well. I added the dark style-css you posted here: Changing the colors How to edit CSS to change the colors, to match your main website / your top header / your blog. Later, the...	Issues	B	6	2020-10-22 11:04:27.582Z
How to grant "Staff" permission so users can make Info pages I've granted the user Kitch (in the SoundFlow forum) moderator role, because that feels like how I would make him a Staff member. But when he clicks the "More" button to try to make an info page, it just disappears, the ability to make an Info page d...	Issues	C C	6	2020-10-11 16:05:22.447Z
Export to native WordPress comments Hello, Is there a way to export the comments to the native WordPress comments?	Support	H H	4	2020-10-09 06:38:31.493Z
Trying to rename category gives error. Tried to rename a sub category (Counter Offset) and got this: Something went wrong: [DwE500REX] java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot save 2 permissions, would result in 308 permissions in total, but 200 is max [TyEMNYPERMS] at com.debiki.core.Prelude...	Issues	C C	6	2020-10-07 18:11:55.435Z
Email notifications / threads I used to just have a single thread in my Gmail with the new stuff that had happened in Talkyard. Now I have 5. This is definitely not an improvement, it creates much more noise that isn't useful. Can it maybe be an option so that we can select/elect...	Issues	C C	3	2020-09-27 16:51:13.763Z
Add categories and default chat channel in sidebar Coming from Slack, the left-hand sidebar seems very under-used and makes Talkyard hard to navigate in comparison. I think two changes would really help: List categories in sidebar. This would make it easy to see what categories there are and also mak...	Ideas	H	1	2020-09-26 08:49:01.835Z
Posts that are either liked, marked as solution, or replied to by a Core Member should automatically skip review Right now, if an admin / core member interacts with a post by a new user, we have to both interact with them and review the content. I would think it makes sense to automatically skip the review task once an interaction has been recorded. Would cut o...	Ideas	C	5	2020-09-26 08:41:14.677Z
Request Entity is Too Large We still have quite a few users who can't share screenshots on our forum. It makes a lot of bug hunting incredibly difficult. I guess it's because they have retina screens or something like that, which makes the images big. Would it be possible to: H...	Issues	C C	3	2020-09-25 20:57:33.301Z
Bug in Dropbox video embedding See the post here: https://forum.soundflow.org/-2534#post-3 The user has posted a Dropbox link, which gets turned into a video element that is unplayable. In that case, having just the raw link would make it easier to see the video.	Issues	C N C	8	2020-09-15 10:17:23.536Z
Drafts are lost when clicking Resume editing I finally had a draft I actually wanted to edit... But then I clicked Resume editing and it was lost. It was in this thread: https://forum.soundflow.org/-2825/track-output-window-follow-track-selection#post-3	Issues	C	0	2020-09-09 17:05:47.658Z
Centos compatibility Excuse my ignorance, but I am new to Linux and am wanting to install talkyard in an old machine I found to play around with the setup. Is it compatible with centos 5? I can probably upgrade to 6 as a side project, but want to make sure what I’m getti...	Support	D	1	2020-09-04 06:31:16.805Z
In Hugo demo, comment count increases even when cancel a post Hi, I'm playing with Talkyard using the Hugo instructions at https://hugo-demo.talkyard.io/posts/demo-and-instructions. I'm using localhost to view my blog posts. When I click Reply to a post, the displayed count of comments is incremented; if I canc...	Issues	G	1	2020-09-02 05:59:59.423Z
How to fix sameSite cookie issue On my gatsby static site, the comments iframe appears in my local environment but when deployed I get the error: "Refused to frame 'https://discussions.yarcenter.talkyard.net/' because an ancestor violates the following Content Security Policy direct...	Support	M	1	2020-09-01 02:33:38.374Z
Pointing Talkyard to a GitLab oauth 2 authentication provider Hi, I've been trying to set up an on-prem, airgapped Talkyard instance, and wanted to leverage the oauth2 provider feature on our on-prem GitLab instance. I tried to read through this documentation as a reference: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/integrati...	Support	B B	8	2020-08-24 17:32:21.044Z
Center the Talkyard Commentbox Hello, is it possible to center the Commentbox on Ghost CMS. on Mobileview it looks good, but on Desktop is it on the left Site at the Page. https://dasnetzundich.de/iptables-mit-ipset-futtern/	Support	H H	2	2020-08-22 11:16:35.057Z
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