We’re now on Discourse version 2026.1.3, which is not the latest version of it but it opens up a lot of new options for us.
Please let me know here if you spot any issues or have feedback! Some things like the text edit box have changed (markdown isn’t the default, for example, you need to click the M next to the A), but if you see something broken I’d like to make sure we can address it.
Apologies for the short notice, this was intended to go up last week and I failed to confirm with our ITC team.
Tomorrow May 5 the forums will be set to read-only mode from 2026-05-05T06:00:00Z - 2026-05-05T14:00:00Z
This means you will be able to read the forums but will not be allowed to create new posts until the maintenance is completed.
Why?
The forums simply need a Discourse update. This will also help set up the ability to do more modern changes to the forums.
We don’t expect it to take the entire length of time scheduled to update, but are setting expectations just in case it’s needed.
Feel free to chastise me for this late notice - I deserve it.
I don’t think we actually publish these anywhere public, but we should!
This isn’t exactly on topic for this thread, but you’re not wrong. There’s a clear decline happening this year specifically. I’d have to dig further to see if your feelings are on target. The community on these forums in general are often the power users and a lot of the changes we’ve made this year haven’t been for y’all - I suspect you are on the right track, though, in that the posts here are more technical and because of the less technical changes we’ve been doing the post count has been lower.
It’s not a double enter, per se, it’s a paragraph separation in rich text. If you click the M here you’ll get back to markdown and you will be able to double enter again. I dunno how this looks on mobile, though.
