Intersect

There is now a Discourse forum at talk.nottinghack.org.uk

Intersect was a temporary VM running Discourse. This is to test the software as a possible replacement for Google Groups Discourse Discourse has been installed as per these instructions. Currently it is relaying outgoing emails through Holly Notes Needs to support mailing list functionality. Seems to support send of the messages posted via email, if a little slow. Still need to investigate the following: Reply by email Start topic by email Using Amazon S3 for uploads and backups. Keeps space used on the server to a minimum. Everything runs in the container. Changes to container will be destroyed when it is rebuilt. enter container (for logs, etc) using root@server: /var/docker# ./launcher ssh app logs are at (in the container) /var/www/discourse/log/ Rebuild To rebuild the app, use these commands: root@server: /var/docker# ./launcher rebuild app root@server: /var/docker# ssh-keygen -f "/root/.ssh/known_hosts" -R [0.0.0.0]:2222 Admin Changes This section details the changes made from the default install for each of the admin area sections. Required title: Nottinghack Discussions site description: Testing version of Nottinghack's possible future contact email: newsletter@nottinghack.org.uk this should probably be info@, but is that checked? notification email: group@nottinghack.org.uk Not sure about this. On one hand I want to call the entire thing Intersect, on the other hand, that's a bit geeky! site contact username: geeksareforlife logo url: default logo size 122x33 logo small url: default logo size 33x33 favicon url: favicon from nottinghack.org.uk apple touch icon url: apple touch from nottinghack.org.uk company full name: Nottingham Hackspace Limited company short name: Nottingham Hackspace company domain: www.nottinghack.org.uk Basic Setup ga universal tracking code: Tracking code for Google Analytics. saved in info@ google account category_colors: Add some more colours in Specifically #663399 - beccapurple Users max username length: 30 enable google oauth2 logins: true google oauth2 client id: Client ID google oauth2 client secret: Client Secret See https://meta.discourse.org/t/configuring-google-oauth2-login-for-discourse/15858 for more details Posting min post length: 1 min private message post length: 1 body min entropy: 1 min topic title length: 1 title min entropy: 1 title sanitize: ticked min private message title length: 1 newuser max images: 1 may also want to look at the other newuser maxes. this is all related to the trust levels Things not changed, but of interest: allow uncategorized topics Currently true, but setting to false (with decent categories) would be forum-like How would this affect email-in topics? Emails email time window mins: 1 default digest email frequency: daily reply by email enabled: true reply by email address: group+%{reply_key}@nottinghack.org.uk pop3s polling enabled: true pop3s polling period mins: 1 pop3s polling host: mail.mjhosting.co.uk pop3s polling username: group.nottinghack pop3s polling password: ********** email prefix: Nottinghack This is what is shown on email subject lines: [Nottinghack] Files enable s3 uploads: true s3 access key id: key id from S3, should be a restricted user s3 secret access key: key from S3, should be a restricted user s3 region: region of the bucket we want to use for uploads s3 upload bucket: intersect-testing-nottinghack Trust Levels Security Onebox Spam There are some interesting settings here that need further investigation and thought Rate Limits Developer Embedding Legal Backups backup daily: true enable s3 backups: true s3 backup bucket: bucket for backups. Must be accessible by the above user and in the same region as the above bucket Uncategorized show create topics notice: false User Changes This section details any changes made to user settings to allow Discourse to run as a mailing list (if any) Other stuff to think about If we decide to change “It’s too complicated” complain the users. How did you find the user migration (Discourse forum)