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What's missing in Talkyard — missing features relatively many ask for.
~~New:~~ Old: Roadmap year 2021 — what's planned?

There's a support chat, e.g. for quick questions. ~~But it has reached a temporary max chat user limit, so you cannot join the chat.~~ Update 2022-01-18: Now this should have been fixed.

We usually reply within three days. Or maybe three weeks if it's nothing urgent — could you remind us if we're too slow?

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support-chat

Chat about Talkyard and related things. E.g. ask quick questions.

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K A D

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2022-05-25 19:16:07.368Z

Can not move post to another thread

Hi. I am unable to move a post from one thread to another. It gives error. Any help is appreciated.

Issues

2022-07-01 04:48:03.830Z

Threading for email notifications

I'd love it if TalkYard would make it possible for email clients to create email threads that matched the forum threads. So if I had email notifications enabled, and there were 5 posts in topic A, and 3 posts in topic B, and 6 posts in Topic C, I'd h...

Topics, recently active first	Category	Users	Replies	Activity
support-chat Chat about Talkyard and related things. E.g. ask quick questions.	Support	K A D	666	2022-05-25 19:16:07.368Z
Can not move post to another thread Hi. I am unable to move a post from one thread to another. It gives error. Any help is appreciated.	Issues	D	2	2022-07-01 04:48:03.830Z
Threading for email notifications I'd love it if TalkYard would make it possible for email clients to create email threads that matched the forum threads. So if I had email notifications enabled, and there were 5 posts in topic A, and 3 posts in topic B, and 6 posts in Topic C, I'd h...	Ideas	C	3	2022-06-22 12:40:03.339Z
Couple of bugs when deleting posts Hi @KajMagnus I'm seeing this error when trying to delete this post: https://forum.soundflow.org/-7903#post-2 Something went wrong: [DwE500REX] java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: requirement failed: Fail: 0 <= -1 [EsE0GY42B] page id: '7903', ext id...	Issues	C	3	2022-06-22 12:30:53.475Z
How can I set categories / all questions to be publicly viewable? I've set up an account and changed the "admin" section here to make sure it doesn't require login to view questions. Then I set up a test-question with this URL: https://impact-stack.talkyard.net/-9 But when I try to access the page without an open u...	Issues	M J S	6	2022-06-21 14:24:02.537Z
Limit ability to tag/mention certain users Hi @KajMagnus Being the admin of our forum and at the same time the Founder & CEO of my company makes my time extremely limited. Many of our users have figured out that they can tag me in various posts to give them a little more attention. Going forw...	Ideas	C	8	2022-06-20 21:24:06.538Z
Consider making likes more visible 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...	Ideas	C J C	9	2022-06-20 18:38:26.970Z
Translation to French Hi, I've installed Talkyard on our servers (in a LXD container, with Caddy as Reverse) , and integrated to Comments on our brand new Hugo Blog. It's been rather smooth... How can we give back and translate to French ?	Ideas	C J	7	2022-06-14 14:57:27.149Z
Better error messages 001 Better error messages save time for everyone :- ) Here're some possible improvements: If Ty's app server fails to connect to PostgreSQL, show an admin friendly error about that, instead of a long stack trace and hundreds of "too many client" errors (...	Issues		0	2022-06-14 12:50:13.179Z
[install error] - PGSQL: too many clients already Dear all ! I'm trying to install talkyard by using docker-compose. So I used this example: https://github.com/debiki/talkyard-prod-one/blob/main/docker-compose.yml I set a password to my pgsql db, changed some settings in the file: At the end, when I...	Support	J	12	2022-06-14 12:43:36.112Z
Explain icons...
Add a border to images Most screenshots have white background, like the forum, which makes it hard to see where a screenshot starts and ends. This can be confusing when screenshotting text. Could you add the "shadow class" to images by default? https://about.gitlab.com/han...	Ideas		3	2022-05-19 15:35:36.272Z
Better Markdown support: Built-in LaTeX, syntax highlighting, header IDs, etc It'd be nice with built-in support for all this: (and maybe simpler to fix these things at the same time) CommonMark syntax inline help, see: Inline CommonMark formatting help Maths (LaTeX via KaTeX), and preferably disable CommonMark's handling of u...	Ideas		0	2022-05-19 15:34:46.702Z
"Votes" column doesn't show on "All categories" On my forum, all of the categories have votes enabled, but on "All categories", there's no votes column. I feel like people are unlikely to choose a specific category since I have so few, but that pretty much means that they'll never see the amount o...	Issues	B	5	2022-05-09 14:04:15.971Z
Log in to any forum with the same account and email privacy (for hosted-plans) Sometimes it bothers me that I can see every user's email. I think that nowadays with all of the privacy issues, users often don't want to register and 'give away' their private information. It would be nice if the hosting-plans allowed users to log-...	Ideas		2	2022-05-04 15:26:53.437Z
Email invites get accepted instantly by click happy email servers Apparently email servers in some organizations follow ("click") all links, to verify that the linked website (Talkyard, in this case) is safe. But that means they auto accept the one-click invite links in invite emails from Talkyard. So, Ty needs to ...	Issues		0	2022-04-29 14:25:13.384Z
Limit embedded comments to only certain domains I just set up a Talkyard server and I'm going to use it for blog comments on my website. In the "Embedded Comments" section of the Admin Area, I have a couple domains added. However, I still seem to be able to show embedded comments when running it o...	Support	B	3	2022-04-22 13:31:58.640Z
How to enable OIDC login Talkyard supports login with OpenID Connect (OIDC), including via Keycloak and Microsoft Azure AD. — Not yet well tested though, and the UI is a bit coarse; feedback is welcome. This ought to work with Microsoft AD FS 2016 and later, which support OI...	How To		1	2022-04-22 12:06:02.781Z
How to Rollback a Software-Only Upgrade If you're hosting Talkyard on-premise, and need to rollback a software-only upgrade to the Talkyard version running before the upgrade, then follow the below steps. What's a software-only upgrade? That's when the Talkyard software, like the applicati... on-premise	How To		0	2022-04-22 08:18:01.119Z
How to login as SuperAdmin If you have installed Talkyard on-premise, you can log in as superadmin, which is good to be able to do, because a few settings are editable by superadmins only. To log in as superadmin: Edit /opt/talkyard/conf/play-framework.conf; add these config v...	How To	C	2	2022-04-22 07:04:21.067Z
How to add Syntax Highlighting (Some time in the future, this'll be a built-in feature so you can just tick a checkbox (assuming you're admin).) To add syntax highlighting of source code, you can use Prism.js: Go to Prism.js' website and configure what languages you'd like to add ...	How To		0	2022-04-21 13:38:58.925Z
Filter posts by type I would like to be able to filter posts by type: problem/question/discussion/idea. This way we would not need a separate category for each of those. Often users post in the wrong category anyway, and I think it is confusing to select the same thing t...	Ideas		1	2022-04-21 09:39:12.014Z
Allow multiple replies to be selected as "good answers" Often a post ends up with multiple good replies which all need an answer. Example: How can this feature be implemented? - We need a solution for the code. - - Code Solution - And a solution for the UI. - - UI Solution In these cases it would be nice...	Ideas		0	2022-04-21 09:33:29.757Z
connect-posts for duplicates and and multi-language content It would be really nice if users could “link” one post to another, which would add a link to the “main” post on the duplicate, and would add a link to all duplicates on the main post. It would then also sum all the votes/likes from all child-posts on... multi-langs	Ideas		2	2022-04-21 08:37:06.883Z
Option to change the category that embedded comments go to I want my default category on my forum to be General, but I also want a separate category for all the blog comments.	Ideas	B	5	2022-04-20 16:21:55.452Z
Sorting by Votes issue and clicking on headers to sort ...the topics get sorted by popular-first It does not seem like the posts are being sorted by most votes. Posts with 2 votes staying under posts with 1 vote: Also: I think it would feel very intuitive if the user could sort the posts by clicking on t...	Issues		4	2022-04-20 15:26:49.014Z
Getting error: Too many categories: There are already 500 categories; importing 1 more, would result in more than 500 categories (the upper limit as of now) Hi @KajMagnus Yet another error in the forum where we're hitting an arbitrary limit with no notice which causes our services to fail. This is getting extremely frustrating.	Support	C	3	2022-04-20 07:03:58.009Z
How to migrate from the Talkyard-hosted server to a self-hosted one? We need a way to be in more control over the uptime of the forum. As an example, search has been broken for several hours now, and other systems are affected too, and there doesn't appear to be any way to get a hold of @KajMagnus. Please note, we're ...	Support	C	10	2022-04-19 06:23:11.015Z
Rate limiting on search endpoint Hi @KajMagnus, We have integrated search in our app that searches the forum, but some users are hitting rate limits. What's the rate limits right now? Perhaps we need to alter our code to ensure this doesn't happen, or maybe the limits are too tight....	Support	C	3	2022-04-19 06:12:33.128Z
Users seeing HTTP 500 failures with java.lang.NullPointerException Hi Magnus, A user in my forums reports that they're seeing HTTP 500 errors in popup windows when they try to use TY. Here's the stacktrace: Error 500 Internal Server Error Something went wrong: [DwE500REX] java.lang.NullPointerException at com.debi...	Issues		3	2022-04-18 18:52:03.237Z
URGENT: Talkyard production server search broken (!!) Hi @KajMagnus, I'm seeing reports that searches on our forum has started to fail:	Support	C	11	2022-04-18 12:01:10.385Z
If I try deleting a page where a post has been added via the API, I get an error Error 500 Internal Server Error Something went wrong: [DwE500REX] java.lang.RuntimeException: pageMeta.numPostsTotal is 3 but should be = postNr + 1 = 4 [EdE3PFK2W0] at com.debiki.core.Prelude$.die(Prelude.scala:254) at com.debiki.core.Prelude$.di...	Issues	C	1	2022-04-14 16:49:25.957Z
Webhooks – last piece of the puzzle for full service integration Hi @KajMagnus, I just wanted to sync up with you to see if getting webhooks support for certain events would be possible in the (near) future? Right now we can only download the entire json structure of the forum to allow support posts made in the fo... api	Ideas	C C	98	2022-04-14 16:15:47.410Z
Making backups of large forums crashes Talkyard When running /-/export-site-json on our forum, after several minutes of waiting, we receive this: 502 Bad Gateway [TyE502BGW] Talkyard's Nginx server cannot connect to Talkyard's application server. Is the application server not running, or is there...	Issues	C	7	2022-04-09 12:51:31.134Z
Permanently delete items I noticed that in my own instance content deleted is hidden but not actually deleted off the server. This would raise issues if a user where to post illegal material as the website owner would still be liable if an investigator found it in the databa...	Ideas	H B	3	2022-04-09 01:03:38.991Z
The chat doesn't automatically fetch new messages Hello there, I got my Talkyard installation running (more or less) and tested the chat together with a friend but unfortunately new messages only arrive after reloading the page. I checked the network log in Firefox and it doesn't show any attempts t...	Issues	N B	4	2022-04-06 14:54:21.579Z
Good way to have custom CSS on only the embedded comments? I want to spend less time on the CSS for Talkyard by only theming the embedded comments widget so it matches my site and then leaving the main forum with its default theme. Is there a good way to do this?	Support	B	0	2022-04-04 16:32:12.899Z
Keyboard shortcut: Cmd+Enter to post? It would be awesome if I could tab Cmd+Enter (on my Mac) to "commit" the editor, that is, to create the post or to send off the reply I'm currently editing. This shortcut is used in most of our other web-based apps, so it would be great to get to TY....	Ideas	C	0	2022-03-30 07:07:01.933Z
Patreon Member Exclusive Commenting I'd like to restrict members of our comment section to Patreon supporters. Is that possible, and how might one approach it?	Support	F	1	2022-03-30 06:59:20.460Z
Installing Talkyard without Docker Hello there, I'm looking for a open-source replacement for my outdated XenForo install and Talkyard seems to fit best. Unfortunately,all tries to get it running without Docker have failed so far. I know that this is not officially supported and that ...	Support	N	2	2022-03-30 06:44:09.812Z