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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"

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 ...

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

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...

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...

When I like something myself, it's very visible thanks to the red heart. But if somebody else likes my post, 99% of the time I don't realize it, since I don't get notified about it and it visually is pretty dimmed. Perhaps once the notification syste...

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.

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...

In the hosted version the storage is limited depending on the plan. How can I see how much storage is used in the hosted version?

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...

How can I sort answers by activity (newest first or oldest first) (as for example in stackexchange)?

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: [ ['$','$'], ["\\(","\\)"] ], ...

How can I make a complete site visible only to members?

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 ...

Hey, as title says. I have seen this: https://www.talkyard.io/-68/is-there-a-level-between-account-required-and-totally-anonymous but it seems like it is talking about the comments part of Talkyard. I am looking at hosting Talkyard for a company inte...

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...

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...

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...

Is there any support for right-to-left languages?

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: https://www.talkyard.io/-171/talkyard-roadmap-2018-11-26 Sooner: Improvements for School...

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...

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 ...

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,...

How to edit CSS to change the colors, to match your main website / your top header / your blog. Later, there'll be a user interface for this, so you won't need to edit any CSS code. Also, currently, the arrow background is white so if you change the ...

How to install talkyard locally on windows device?

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....

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...

This is weird... https://forum.soundflow.org/test/categories

Tried searching this but didn't find a topic about it. Is there a way to hide revision history? [e.g. a social forum where someone writes something embarrassing, or accidentally posts private information, but he doesnt wan't to lose the upvotes etc. ...

I get this error sometimes when trying to insert pages - but I'm not specifying the slug - Talkyard is producing it. "Invalid values, or combinations of values, in the uploaded json: Slug too long, length: 183, max: 100"

Sorry for all the questions in one shot... I'm seriously considering talkyard since it literally combines neatly the best features from all the other forum platforms. Is there any way to add user badges next to the username, e.g. near the admin, for ...

I am not allowed to like this post: https://www.talkyard.io/-317#post-5 I noticed this in other places too, recently.

I'm seeing more instances lately of drafts that shouldn't be there. I think the issue is that they were probably always incorrectly saved when actually they shouldn't have (since I had sent that message). But now that the drafts are more visual, it b...

Here are things relatively many ask about, and that have not yet been implemented: Custom groups — now available, June 2019. You can add people to a group, and configure security permision and notification settings for everyone in the group at once. ...

The ability to answer to threads in the sequential "progress" format at the end is not working very well with our user base. I think it works well when people posting are mostly educated to use the forum but in our case it just causes a lot of confus...

Idea/suggestion: Allow integration with third party storage services such as Azure Blobstorage, AWS or GCP. Or, have tiers we can opt into that allows customers to upload larger files. Right now we're having issues with customers who cannot upload sc...

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Hi! I work in a very closed intranet enviroment and I have just a one server avaliable to use I don't use AWS or anything like and unfortally I can't ask for more server to just only one small aplicattion. :( So here I use Nginx with multi applicatio...