As many of you know, the RStudio Community site uses discourse along with a number of custom plugins. These plugins just got a significant update, and we've been overdue for an update to our discourse version. Many of you have also noticed the two-week old no tag-editing bug, which we were hoping to resolve as well.
These updates went into effect late Sunday, early Monday morning. I did quite a bit of testing before pushing these live, but missed a few issues.
- Homepage, Category, & Tags Pages Cannot Load More than 20 Topics - caused by a conflict with a custom plugin, but here's where it was hopefully resolved.
- Some issues with loading of text and images on our sidebar.
- The update forced logged-outs (often several times if you had multiple tabs open) and confusing redirects.
- Several 500 and 504 errors for the first 9 hours. I haven't seen this reported in over 24-hours though.
Sorting on homepages
In a recent new custom plugin, we added the ability to sort by latest topic. Discourse's default behavior for "Latest" is to sort by activity, and some were asking for sorting by latest Topic, and other short-cuts.
I'm nearly certain that "Latest" is showing topic-threads in order of activity.
It seemed to be conflicting with our other plugins and so needed to be updated.
This sorting plugin should be back soon.
Thanks for reporting all these, by the way! It was really helpful to detecting issues I would not have seen otherwise.