Improving Discourse Help

[bsmedberg (Benjamin Smedberg)]

I just signed up for Discourse because I saw a note about mozilla.dev.extensions moving to this new forum.

I am having trouble understanding how I’m supposed to use this tool. I looked around for a “support” or “help” link to see if there were instructions or a FAQ, but I couldn’t find anything like that.

Some questions:

• Based on hallway conversations, I’m supposed to be able to subscribe to topics and then use this like a mailing list. But I can’t figure out how to get emails from the topics I’m subscribed to. Also, if I were going to start a new topic, how would I do that from email?
• Why is the login flow so strange? Login creates a popup window, which then opens a second Persona login window. Where would I file bugs about this system, and who is working on it?

[tanner (Tanner Filip)]

Based on hallway conversations, I’m supposed to be able to subscribe to topics and then use this like a mailing list. But I can’t figure out how to get emails from the topics I’m subscribed to. Also, if I were going to start a new topic, how would I do that from email?

Below the content, there are several buttons (“Bookmark”, “Share”, etc.). One of them is a dropdown that will probably say “Regular”. You can select “Watching” from that menu and you’ll get emails for every post in that topic.

• Why is the login flow so strange? Login creates a popup window, which then opens a second Persona login window. Where would I file bugs about this system, and who is working on it?

Our login system is really hacky right now. Discourse used to have Persona built-in, but it was removed because there was nobody maintaining that module. Somebody turned it into a plugin, and that’s what we’re using now. @leo was working on SSO that would fix this, and let us do a lot of other things, like use fxa. I’m not sure what the status of this is right now, though.