This PR is a major change to Sass compilation in Discourse.
The new version of sass-ruby moves to dart-sass putting we back on the supported version of Sass. It does so while keeping compatibility with the existing method signatures, so minimal change is needed in Discourse for this change.
This moves us
From:
- sassc 2.0.1 (Feb 2019)
- libsass 3.5.2 (May 2018)
To:
- dart-sass 1.58
This update applies the following breaking changes:
>
> These breaking changes are coming soon or have recently been released:
>
> [Functions are stricter about which units they allow](https://sass-lang.com/documentation/breaking-changes/function-units) beginning in Dart Sass 1.32.0.
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> [Selectors with invalid combinators are invalid](https://sass-lang.com/documentation/breaking-changes/bogus-combinators) beginning in Dart Sass 1.54.0.
>
> [/ is changing from a division operation to a list separator](https://sass-lang.com/documentation/breaking-changes/slash-div) beginning in Dart Sass 1.33.0.
>
> [Parsing the special syntax of @-moz-document will be invalid](https://sass-lang.com/documentation/breaking-changes/moz-document) beginning in Dart Sass 1.7.2.
>
> [Compound selectors could not be extended](https://sass-lang.com/documentation/breaking-changes/extend-compound) in Dart Sass 1.0.0 and Ruby Sass 4.0.0.
SCSS files have been migrated automatically using `sass-migrator division app/assets/stylesheets/**/*.scss`
We recently had a bug which caused auto-bumping to "not work". The problem was that the value had been set to 0.5, which when coerced to an integer turned into 0. So the feature is "working as intended", but there's a possibility of misconfiguration.
When looking into this, I noticed that the inputs on the category settings page doesn't have any particular sanitisation in the front-end, and also one or two validations missing in the back-end.
This change:
- Takes an existing component, NumberField and enhances that by only allowing numeric input, essentially turning it into a managed input using the same approach as our PasswordField.
- Changes the numeric inputs on category settings page to use this component.
- Adds appropriate min constraints to the fields to disallow out-of-range values.
- Adds missing back-end validations to relevant fields.
* FIX: Remove action buttons if post has already been reviewed
* Change the approve to reject test to expect an error
* Adds a controller spec to ensure you can't edit a non-pending review item
* Remove unnessary conditional
When a CUSTOM_SCHEME is missing a color (e.g. 'Dracula' is missing a 'highlight' color), we need to fallback to `ColorScheme.base_colors`. This regressed in 66256c15bd
This commits adds the ability to add a header to the embedded comments
view. One use case for this is to allow `postMessage` communication
between the comments iframe and the parent frame, for example, when
toggling the theme of the parent webpage.
We caught it in logs, race condition led to this error:
ActiveRecord::RecordNotUnique
(PG::UniqueViolation: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "user_statuses_pkey"
DETAIL: Key (user_id)=(15) already exists.)
The reason the problem happened was that we were checking if a user has status and if not inserting status:
if user_status
...
else
self.user_status = UserStatus.create!(status)
end
The problem is that it's possible that another request will insert status just after we check if status exists and just before our request call `UserStatus.create!(status)`. Using `upsert` fixes the problem because under the hood `upsert` generates the only SQL request that uses "INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE". So we do everything in one SQL query, and that query takes care of resolving possible conflicts.
The algorithm failed to find the correct category by slug when there are multiple sub-sub-categories with the same child-category name and the first child doesn't have the correct grandchild.
So, searching for "child / grandchild" worked in the following case, it found (3):
- (1) parent 1
- (2) child
- (3) grandchild
- (4) parent 2
- (5) child
- (6) grandchild
But it failed to find the grandchild in the following case:
- (1) parent 1
- (2) child
- (4) parent 2
- (5) child
- (6) grandchild
And this also fixes a flaky spec by forcing categories to always order by by `parent_category_id` and `id`.
This makes it possible to partly revert 60990aab55
Allows users to configure their own custom sidebar sections with links withing Discourse instance. Links can be passed as relative path, for example "/tags" or full URL.
Only path is saved in DB, so when Discourse domain is changed, links will be still valid.
Feature is hidden behind SiteSetting.enable_custom_sidebar_sections. This hidden setting determines the group which members have access to this new feature.
Currently, when doing `@mention` for users we have 0 tolerance for typos and misspellings.
With this patch, if a user search doesn't return enough results we go and use `pg_trgm` features to try and find more matches based on trigrams of usernames and names.
It also introduces GiST indexes on those fields in order to improve performance of this search, going from 130ms down to 15ms in my tests.
This is all gated in a feature flag and can be enabled by running `SiteSetting.user_search_similar_results = true` in the rails console.
`--d-hover` is calculated to be equivalent to primary-100 in light mode, or primary-low in dark mode
`--d-selected` is calculated to be equivalent to primary-low in light mode, or primary-100 in dark mode
`lib/color_math` is introduced to provide some utilities for making these calculations.
## Why do we need this change?
When loading the ember app, [MessageBus does not start polling immediately](f31f0b70f8/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/initializers/message-bus.js (L71-L81)) and instead waits for `document.readyState` to be `complete`. What this means is that if there are new messages being created while we have yet to start polling, those messages will not be received by the client.
With sidebar being the default navigation menu, the counts derived from `topic-tracking-state.js` on the client side is prominently displayed on every page. Therefore, we want to ensure that we are not dropping any messages on the channels that `topic-tracking-state.js` subscribes to.
## What does this change do?
This includes the `MessageBus.last_id`s for the MessageBus channels which `topic-tracking-state.js` subscribes to as part of the preloaded data when loading a page. The last ids are then used when we subscribe the MessageBus channels so that messages which are published before MessageBus starts polling will not be missed.
## Review Notes
1. See https://github.com/discourse/message_bus#client-support for documentation about subscribing from a given message id.
This commits adds a database migration to limit the user status to 100
characters, limits the user status in the UI and makes sure that the
emoji is valid.
Follow up to commit b6f75e231c.
When the `tags_listed_by_group` site setting is disable, we were seeing
the N+1 queries problem when multiple `CategoryTag` records are listed.
This commit fixes that by ensuring that we are not filtering through the
category `tags` association after the association has been eager loaded.
This will allow us more granular control over changing a topic status.
For example you can now force the scope to only allow closing topics in
a specific category. This means that the same scope can't be used to
re-open topics, or close topics in a different category.
This TODO is irrelevant -- in reality this has not been a
perf issue, and there is not actually an N1 here. Furthermore,
this is only used in a single plugin, not in core.
The check used to be necessary because we validated the referrer too and
this bypass was a workaround a bug that is present in some browsers that
do not send the correct referrer.
When creating a group membership request, there is no character
limit on the 'reason' field. This can be potentially be used by
an attacker to create enormous amount of data in the database.
Co-authored-by: Ted Johansson <ted@discourse.org>
Currently we don’t have an association between reviewables and posts.
This sometimes leads to inconsistencies in the DB as a post can have
been deleted but an associated reviewable is still present.
This patch addresses this issue simply by adding a new association to
the `Post` model and by using the `dependent: :destroy` option.
This is just cleaning up a TODO I had to add more specs
to this controller -- there are more thorough tests on the
actual HashtagService class and the type-specific hashtag
classes.
We've had the UploadReference table for some time now in core,
but it was added after ChatUpload was and chat was just never
moved over to this new system.
This commit changes all chat code dealing with uploads to create/
update/delete/query UploadReference records instead of ChatUpload
records for consistency. At a later date we will drop the ChatUpload
table, but for now keeping it for data backup.
The migration + post migration are the same, we need both in case
any chat uploads are added/removed during deploy.
When EmbeddableHost is configured for a specific category and that category is deleted, then EmbeddableHost should be deleted as well.
In addition, migration was added to fix existing data.
Currently, `Tag#topic_count` is a count of all regular topics regardless of whether the topic is in a read restricted category or not. As a result, any users can technically poll a sensitive tag to determine if a new topic is created in a category which the user has not excess to. We classify this as a minor leak in sensitive information.
The following changes are introduced in this commit:
1. Introduce `Tag#public_topic_count` which only count topics which have been tagged with a given tag in public categories.
2. Rename `Tag#topic_count` to `Tag#staff_topic_count` which counts the same way as `Tag#topic_count`. In other words, it counts all topics tagged with a given tag regardless of the category the topic is in. The rename is also done so that we indicate that this column contains sensitive information.
3. Change all previous spots which relied on `Topic#topic_count` to rely on `Tag.topic_column_count(guardian)` which will return the right "topic count" column to use based on the current scope.
4. Introduce `SiteSetting.include_secure_categories_in_tag_counts` site setting to allow site administrators to always display the tag topics count using `Tag#staff_topic_count` instead.
When the `tags_listed_by_group` site setting is enabled, we were seeing
the N+1 queries problem when multiple `TagGroup` records are listed.
This commit fixes that by ensuring that we are not filtering through the
`tags` association after the association has been eager loaded.
The `enable_new_notifications_menu` site setting allows sites that have
`navigation_menu` set to `legacy` to use the redesigned notifications
menu before switching to the new sidebar navigation menu.
0403cda1d1 introduced a regression where
topics in non read-restricted categories have its TopicTrackingState
MessageBus messages published with the `group_ids: [nil]` option. This
essentially means that no one would be able to view the message.
* Firefox now finally returns PerformanceMeasure from performance.measure
* Some TODOs were really more NOTE or FIXME material or no longer relevant
* retain_hours is not needed in ExternalUploadsManager, it doesn't seem like anywhere in the UI sends this as a param for uploads
* https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/18413 was merged so we can remove JS test workaround for settings
When a topic belongs to category that is read restricted but permission
has not been granted to any groups, publishing ceratin topic tracking state
updates for the topic will result in the `MessageBus::InvalidMessageTarget` error being raised
because we're passing `nil` to `group_ids` which is not support by
MessageBus.
This commit ensures that for said category above, we will publish the
updates to the admin groups.
This change adds `target` to the set of attributes allowed by the
HTML sanitizer which is applied to the description of a user_field.
The rationale for this change:
* If one puts a link (<a>...</a>) in the description of a user_field
that is present and/or required at sign-up, the expectation is that
a prospective new user will click on that link during sign-up.
* Without an appropriate `target` attribute on the link, the new page
will be loaded in the same window/tab as the sign-up form, but this
will obliterate any fields that the user had already filled-out on
the form. (E.g., hitting the back-button will return to an
empty form.)
* Such UX behavior is incredibly aggravating to new users.
This change allows an admin to add a `target` attribute to links, to
instruct the browser to open them in a different window/tab, leaving
a sign-up form intact.
We previously used post creator's guardian permissions which will raise an error if the reviewer added a staff-only (restricted) tag.
Co-authored-by: Natalie Tay <natalie.tay@discourse.org>
When sending emails out via group SMTP, if we
are sending them to non-staged users we want
to mask those emails with BCC, just so we don't
expose them to anyone we shouldn't. Staged users
are ones that have likely only interacted with
support via email, and will likely include other
people who were CC'd on the original email to the
group.
Co-authored-by: Martin Brennan <martin@discourse.org>
Using a shared channel means that every user receives an update to the 'last_id' when *any* other user is logged out. If many users are being programmatically logged out at the same time, this can cause a very large number of message-bus polls.
This commit switches to use a user-specific channel, which means that each user has its own 'last id' which will only increment when they are logged out
When loading posts in a topic, the topic level guardian
checks are run multiple times even though all the posts belong to the
same topic. Profiling in production revealed that this accounted for a
significant amount of request time for a user that is not staff or anon.
Therefore, we're optimizing this by adding memoizing the topic level
calls in `PostGuardian`. Speficifally, the result of
`TopicGuardian#can_see_topic?` and `PostGuardian#can_create_post?`
method calls are memoized per topic.
Locally profiling shows a significant improvement for normal users
loading a topic with 100 posts.
Benchmark script command: `ruby script/bench.rb --unicorn --skip-bundle-assets --iterations 100`
Before:
```
topic user:
50: 114
75: 117
90: 122
99: 209
topic.json user:
50: 67
75: 69
90: 72
99: 162
```
After:
```
topic user:
50: 101
75: 104
90: 107
99: 184
topic.json user:
50: 53
75: 53
90: 56
99: 138
```
Instead of relying on the `ILIKE` operator to filter out image links, we
can instead rely on the `TopicLink#extension` column which allows us to
more efficiently filter out image links.
This optimization mainly affects topics that are link heavy which is
common in topics with alot of replies. When profiling a production
instance for a topic with 10K replies and 2.5K `topic_links`, this
optimization reduces the query time from ~18ms to around ~4ms.
Featured topics are eventually serialized by `ListableTopicSerializer`
which calls `Topic#image_url` which requires us to preload
`Topic#topic_thumbnails`.
* DEV: Remove enable_whispers site setting
Whispers are enabled as long as there is at least one group allowed to
whisper, see whispers_allowed_groups site setting.
* DEV: Always enable whispers for admins if at least one group is allowed.
This commit adds a new notification that gets sent to admins when the site gets new features after an upgrade/deploy. Clicking on the notification takes the admin to the admin dashboard at `/admin` where they can see the new features under the "New Features" section.
Internal topic: t/87166.
When user is watching category or tag (watching or watching first post) notifications are moved to other tab.
To achieve that and distinguish between post create to directly watched topics and indirectly watched topics, new notification type called `watching_category_or_tag` was introduced.
The guardian is useful for plugins to determine if the callback should
do anything. A common use case is to not do anything in the callback if
the user is anonymous.
* FIX: Use Category.secured(guardian) for hashtag datasource
Follow up to comments in #19219, changing the category
hashtag datasource to use Category.secured(guardian) instead
of Site.new(guardian).categories here since the latter does
more work for not much benefit, and the query time is the
same. Also eliminates some Hash -> Model back and forth
busywork. Add some more specs too.
* FIX: Server-side hashtag lookup cooking user loading
When we were using the PrettyText.options.currentUser
and parsing back and forth with JSON for the hashtag
lookups server-side, we had a bug where the user's
secure categories were not loaded since we never actually
loaded a User model from the database, only parsed it
from JSON.
This commit fixes the issue by instead using the
PretyText.options.userId and looking up the user directly
from the database when calling hashtag_lookup via the
PrettyText::Helpers code when cooking server-side. Added
the missing spec to check for this as well.
This new site setting replaces the
`enable_experimental_sidebar_hamburger` and `enable_sidebar` site
settings as the sidebar feature exits the experimental phase.
Note that we're replacing this without depreciation since the previous
site setting was considered experimental.
Internal Ref: /t/86563
In this PR, we introduced an option, that when all authenticators are disabled, but backup codes still exists, user can authenticate with those backup codes. This was reverted as this is not expected behavior.
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/18982
Instead, when the last authenticator is deleted, backup codes should be deleted as well. Because this disables 2fa, user is asked to confirm that action by typing text.
In addition, UI for 2fa preferences was refreshed.
When finding the candidates for `Topic.similar_to`, we will now ignore
topics in categories where `Category#search_priority` has been set to
ignore and also topics in categories which the user has specifically
muted.
Internal Ref: /t/87132
Note that we don't have a database table and a model for post mentions yet, and I decided to implement it without adding one to avoid heavy data migrations. Still, we may want to add such a model later, that would be convenient, we have such a model for mentions in chat.
Note that status appears on all mentions on all posts in a topic except of the case when you just posted a new post, and it appeared on the bottom of the topic. On such posts, status won't be shown immediately for now (you'll need to reload the page to see the status). I'll take care of it in one of the following PRs.
When a screened IP address is matched because it is either blocked or
allowed it should update match_count. This did not work because it
tried to validate the IP address and it failed as it matched with
itself.
Follow-up to 6357a3ce33
where we allowed a general API key scope for user status
GET/PUT/DELETE, this commit allows the same for the
UserApiKey system.
Previously we would trigger the event before the `Topic#deleted_at`
column has been updated making it hard for plugins to correctly work
with the model when its new state has not been persisted in the
database.
* FIX: Only modify secured sidebar links on user promotion/demotion
If a user is created populate their sidebar with the default
categories/tags that they have access to.
If a user is promoted to admin populate any new categories/tags that
they now have access to.
If an admin is demoted remove any categories/tags that they no longer
have access to.
This will only apply for "secured" categories. For example if these are
the default sitebar categories:
- general
- site feedback
- staff
and a user only has these sidebar categories:
- general
when they are promoted to admin they will only receive the "staff"
category. As this is a default category they didn't previously have
access to.
* Add spec, remove tag logic on update
Change it so that if a user becomes unstaged it used the "add" method
instead of the "update" method because it is essentially following the
on_create path.
On admin promotion/demotion remove the logic for updating sidebar tags because
we don't currently have the tag equivalent like we do for User.secure_categories.
Added the test case for when a user is promoted to admin it should
receive *only* the new sidebar categories they didn't previously have
access to. Same for admin demotion.
* Add spec for suppress_secured_categories_from_admin site setting
* Update tags as well on admin promotion/demotion
* only update tags when they are enabled
* Use new SidebarSectionLinkUpdater
We now have a SidebarSectionLinkUpdater
that was introduced in: fb2507c6ce
* remove empty line
The centralization helps in reducing code duplication in our code base
and more importantly, centralizing logic for guardian checks into a
single spot.
Users who can access the review queue can claim a pending reviewable(s) which means that the claimed reviewable(s) can only be handled by the user who claimed it. Currently, we show claimed reviewables in the user menu, but this can be annoying for other reviewers because they can't do anything about a reviewable claimed by someone. So this PR makes sure that we only show in the user menu reviewables that are claimed by nobody or claimed by the current user.
Internal topic: t/77235.
This PR adds separate notification indicators for PMs and reviewables that have arrived since the last time the user opened the notifications menu.
The PM indicator is the strongest one of all three indicators followed by the reviewable indicator and then finally the blue indicator. This means that if there's a new PM and a new reviewable, then the PM indicator will be shown.
Meta topic: https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-green-or-red-notification-bubbles/242783?u=osama.
Internal topic: t/82995.
While load testing our user creation code path in production, we
identified that executing the DB statement to update the `Group#user_count` column within a
transaction is creating a bottleneck for us. This is because the
creation of a user and addition of the user to the relevant groups are
done in a transaction. When we execute the DB statement to update
`Group#user_count` for the relevant group, a row level lock is held
until the transaction completes. This row level lock acts like a global
lock when the server is creating users that will be added to the same
group in quick succession.
Instead of updating the counter cache within a transaction which the
default ActiveRecord `counter_cache` option does, we simply update the
counter cache outside of the committing transaction.
Co-authored-by: Rafael dos Santos Silva <xfalcox@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Rafael dos Santos Silva <xfalcox@gmail.com>
Adds stats for API and user API requests similar to regular page views.
This comes with a new report to visualize API requests per day like the
consolidated page views one.
This commit introduce a new API for registering callbacks, which we'll execute when a user gets destroyed, and the `delete_posts` opt is true. The chat plugin registers one callback and queues a job to destroy every message from that user in batches.
Follow up to 40e8912395
In this previous commit I introduced a bug that prevented
a legitimate case for an existing user to redeem an invite,
where the email/domain were both blank and the invite was
still redeemable by the user. Fixes the issue and adds more
specs for that case.
This adds API scope for the user status. This also adds a get method to the user status controller. We didn't need a dedicated method that returns status before because the server returns status with user objects, but I think we need to provide this method for API clients.
Update `release_notes_link` to current version
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This commit fleshes out and adds functionality for the new `#hashtag` search and
lookup system, still hidden behind the `enable_experimental_hashtag_autocomplete`
feature flag.
**Serverside**
We have two plugin API registration methods that are used to define data sources
(`register_hashtag_data_source`) and hashtag result type priorities depending on
the context (`register_hashtag_type_in_context`). Reading the comments in plugin.rb
should make it clear what these are doing. Reading the `HashtagAutocompleteService`
in full will likely help a lot as well.
Each data source is responsible for providing its own **lookup** and **search**
method that returns hashtag results based on the arguments provided. For example,
the category hashtag data source has to take into account parent categories and
how they relate, and each data source has to define their own icon to use for the
hashtag, and so on.
The `Site` serializer has two new attributes that source data from `HashtagAutocompleteService`.
There is `hashtag_icons` that is just a simple array of all the different icons that
can be used for allowlisting in our markdown pipeline, and there is `hashtag_context_configurations`
that is used to store the type priority orders for each registered context.
When sending emails, we cannot render the SVG icons for hashtags, so
we need to change the HTML hashtags to the normal `#hashtag` text.
**Markdown**
The `hashtag-autocomplete.js` file is where I have added the new `hashtag-autocomplete`
markdown rule, and like all of our rules this is used to cook the raw text on both the clientside
and on the serverside using MiniRacer. Only on the server side do we actually reach out to
the database with the `hashtagLookup` function, on the clientside we just render a plainer
version of the hashtag HTML. Only in the composer preview do we do further lookups based
on this.
This rule is the first one (that I can find) that uses the `currentUser` based on a passed
in `user_id` for guardian checks in markdown rendering code. This is the `last_editor_id`
for both the post and chat message. In some cases we need to cook without a user present,
so the `Discourse.system_user` is used in this case.
**Chat Channels**
This also contains the changes required for chat so that chat channels can be used
as a data source for hashtag searches and lookups. This data source will only be
used when `enable_experimental_hashtag_autocomplete` is `true`, so we don't have
to worry about channel results suddenly turning up.
------
**Known Rough Edges**
- Onebox excerpts will not render the icon svg/use tags, I plan to address that in a follow up PR
- Selecting a hashtag + pressing the Quote button will result in weird behaviour, I plan to address that in a follow up PR
- Mixed hashtag contexts for hashtags without a type suffix will not work correctly, e.g. #ux which is both a category and a channel slug will resolve to a category when used inside a post or within a [chat] transcript in that post. Users can get around this manually by adding the correct suffix, for example ::channel. We may get to this at some point in future
- Icons will not show for the hashtags in emails since SVG support is so terrible in email (this is not likely to be resolved, but still noting for posterity)
- Additional refinements and review fixes wil
The hidden site setting `suppress_secured_categories_from_admin` will
suppress visibility of categories without explicit access from admins
in a few key areas (category drop downs and topic lists)
It is not intended to be a security wall since admins can amend any site
setting. Instead it is feature that allows hiding the categories from the
UI.
Admins will still be able to see topics in categories without explicit
access using direct URLs or flags.
Co-authored-by: Alan Guo Xiang Tan <gxtan1990@gmail.com>
When opening the invite acceptance page when the user
was already logged in, we were still showing the Accept
Invitation prompt even if the user had already redeemed
the invitation and was present in the `InvitedUser` table.
This would lead to errors when the user clicked on the button.
This commit fixes the issue by hiding the Accept Invitation
button and showing an error message instead indicating that
the user had already redeemed the invitation. This only applies
to multi-use invite links.
When this report in the admin dashboard has lots of data ( > 75 days of activity), the dates were ordered incorrectly. This is apparently expected behaviour; when using GROUP BY without specifying the ordering, PG decides to order, and it so happens that it works under some conditions but not others. Explicit ordering fixes the problem.
However, because this works in some conditions but not others, we can't really add a useful test.
* DEV: Add utility to hide all user tips
* DEV: Add UserTip Glimmer component
* DEV: Add tests for existing user tips
* FEATURE: Add user tip for post menu
* FEATURE: Add user tip for topic notification level
* FEATURE: Add user tip for suggested topics
* FEATURE: Hide new popups for existing users
We were doing get on Redis two times for each emoji while building the custom/standard/all lists which where resulting in ~3710 Redis calls. Given the emoji DB file is loaded in memory while we build/cache the emojis list this is unnecessary and slow.
As a simplification in pseudo code here is an explanation of what we were doing:
```ruby
emojis.each |emoji_name|
aliases = get_aliases_from_redis_cache(emoji_name)
is_tonable = get_is_tonable_from_redis_cache(emoji_name)
build_emoji(emoji_name, aliases, is_tonable)
end
```
The two redis calls are now simplified to a simple hash access: `@db[emoji_name]`
This commit adds some protections in InviteRedeemer to ensure that email
can never be nil, which could cause issues with inviting the invited
person to private topics since there was an incorrect inner join.
If the email is nil and the invite is scoped to an email, we just use
that invite.email unconditionally. If a redeeming_user (an existing
user) is passed in when redeeming an email, we use their email to
override the passed in email. Otherwise we just use the passed in
email. We now raise an error after all this if the email is still nil.
This commit also adds some tests to catch the private topic fix, and
some general improvements and comments around the invite code.
This commit also includes a migration to delete TopicAllowedUser records
for users who were mistakenly added to topics as part of the invite
redemption process.
Currently, we have available three 2fa methods:
- Token-Based Authenticators
- Physical Security Keys
- Two-Factor Backup Codes
If the first two are deleted, user lose visibility of their backup codes, which suggests that 2fa is disabled.
However, when they try to authenticate, the account is locked, and they have to ask admin to fix that problem.
This PR is fixing the issue. User still sees backup codes in their panel and can use them to authenticate.
In next PR, I will improve UI to clearly notify the user when 2fa is fully disabled and when it is still active.
This commit automatically ensures that category channels
have slugs when they are created or updated based on the
channel name, category name, or existing slug. The behaviour
has been copied from the Category model.
We also include a backfill here with a simplified version
of Slug.for with deduplication to fill the slugs for already
created Category chat channels.
The channel slug is also now used for chat notifications,
and for the UI and navigation for chat. `slugifyChannel`
is still used, but now does the following fallback:
* Uses channel.slug if it is present
* Uses channel.escapedTitle if it is present
* Uses channel.title if it is present
In future we may want to remove this altogether
and always rely on the slug being present, but this
is currently not possible because we are not generating
slugs for DM channels at this point.
* Remove old bookmark column ignores to follow up b22450c7a8
* Change some group site setting checks to use the _map helper
* Remove old secure_media helper stub for chat
* Change attr_accessor to attr_reader for preloaded_custom_fields to follow up 70af45055a
It is likely that a new admin user was created as just a regular user
before being promoted to admin so this change will update the sidebar
link records for any users that are promoted to admin. This way if any
of the default side bar categories or tags are restricted to admins
these new admins will have those added to their sidebar as well.
You can easily replicate this issue locally (prior to this fix) by using
`rails admin:create` where it creates a user first, then it is promoted
to admin. This means it would receive the default categories of regular
user, but never receive the ones they should have access to as an admin.
As part of this change I did drop the `!` from
`SidebarSectionLink.insert_all` so that it would add any new records
that were missing, but not throw a unique constraint error trying to add
any existing records.
Follow up to: 1b56a55f50
And: e320bbe513
Previously, we didn't have a site-wide setting to set the default behavior for user profile visibility and user presence features. But we already have a user preference for that.
This commit fixes a regression introduced in 8979adc where under certain conditions the groups syncing logic in Discourse Connect would try to add users to groups they're already members of and cause errors when users try to sign in using Discourse Connect.
The previous sidebar default tags and categories implementation did not
allow for a user to configure their sidebar to have no categories or
tags. This commit changes how the defaults are applied. When a user is being created,
we create the SidebarSectionLink records based on the `default_sidebar_categories` and
`default_sidebar_tags` site settings. SidebarSectionLink records are
only created for categories and tags which the user has visibility on at
the point of user creation.
With this change, we're also adding the ability for admins to apply
changes to the `default_sidebar_categories` and `default_sidebar_tags`
site settings historically when changing their site setting. When a new
category/tag has been added to the default, the new category/tag will be
added to the sidebar for all users if the admin elects to apply the changes historically.
Like wise when a tag/category is removed, the tag/category will be
removed from the sidebar for all users if the admin elects to apply the
changes historically.
Internal Ref: /t/73500
Before this commit, there was no way for us to efficiently check an
array of topics for which a user can see. Therefore, this commit
introduces the `TopicGuardian#can_see_topic_ids` method which accepts an
array of `Topic#id`s and filters out the ids which the user is not
allowed to see. The `TopicGuardian#can_see_topic_ids` method is meant to
maintain feature parity with `TopicGuardian#can_see_topic?` at all
times so a consistency check has been added in our tests to ensure that
`TopicGuardian#can_see_topic_ids` returns the same result as
`TopicGuardian#can_see_topic?`. In the near future, the plan is for us
to switch to `TopicGuardian#can_see_topic_ids` completely but I'm not
doing that in this commit as we have to be careful with the performance
impact of such a change.
This method is currently not being used in the current commit but will
be relied on in a subsequent commit.
Discourse Connect can be used to manage group memberships of users by including a `add_groups`, `remove_groups` or `groups` attribute in the Discourse Connect payload. However, additions/deletions of users from groups aren't logged to the groups logs (available at `/g/<group>/manage/logs`) which can cause confusions to admins they try to figure out when/how users were added or removed from a group. This commit makes Discourse Connect add entries to the groups logs when it makes changes to users' group memberships.
Our theme system injects a magical `settings` object at the top of themes JS modules to allow theme authors to access the settings as configured by admins in the UI. Within this `settings` object, there are a couple of special objects `theme_uploads` and `theme_uploads_local` that contain URLs for all the assets/uploads that the theme has.
For test modules/files, the theme system also injects a `settings` object at the top of tests modules, but it's not the same object as the object that's injected in non-test files. The difference is that in tests we want the settings to have their default values as opposed to any custom values that may exist in the site's database. This ensures that test results are consistent no matter the site that runs them.
However, the `settings` object in tests files currently doesn't have the special objects `theme_uploads` and `theme_uploads_local` which means that if a theme includes an asset that's lazy-loaded, it's not possible to write tests for anything that depends on the lazy-loaded asset because the theme will not be able to load the asset during the tests since `theme_uploads_local` and `theme_uploads` don't exist. This PR adds these special objects inside the `settings` object for test files.
Internal topic: t/71825/52.
Theme javascript is now minified using Terser, just like our core/plugin JS bundles. This reduces the amount of data sent over the network.
This commit also introduces sourcemaps for theme JS. Browser developer tools will now be able show each source file separately when browsing, and also in backtraces.
For theme test JS, the sourcemap is inlined for simplicity. Network load is not a concern for tests.
Previously, compiling theme 'extra_js' was done with a number of steps. Each theme_field would be compiled into its own value_baked column, and then the JavascriptCache content would be built by concatenating all of those compiled values.
This commit streamlines things by removing the value_baked step. The raw value of all extra_js theme_fields are passed directly to the ThemeJavascriptCompiler, and then the result is stored in the JavascriptCache.
In itself, this commit should not cause any behavior change. It is designed to open the door to more advanced compilation features which have interdependencies between different source files (e.g. template colocation, sourcemaps).
This commit fixes an issue where we had a typo in the
UserAction.stream query which meant that action_code_path
was not loaded correctly. Once that was fixed, we were also
not actually using the action_code_path in the user-stream-item,
so that has been fixed here too.
The bug this caused was that, when the link for the action was
clicked within the user-stream-item, the user would be redirected
to a URL ending with `[missing%20%%7Bpath%7D%20value]` because
the I18n call did not have the path present.
* FIX: Reset related site settings on general category delete
If the new seeded General category is deleted we also need to delete the
corresponding site setting for it so that we don't try and reference it.
This fixes a bug in the category dropdown composer.
This change creates the `clear_related_site_settings` after destroy
hook that could also be used by other features in the future, like maybe
when we have a `default_category_id` site_setting.
Looks like if `nil` out a site setting it is set to `0`?
```
[9] pry(main)> SiteSetting.general_category_id = nil
SiteSetting Load (0.4ms) SELECT "site_settings".* FROM "site_settings" WHERE "site_settings"."name" = 'general_category_id' LIMIT 1
=> nil
[10] pry(main)> SiteSetting.general_category_id
=> 0
```
That is why the tests check if the value is `< 1` and not `nil`.
* Use -1 instead of nil because it is the default
This commit introduces a new framework for building user tutorials as
popups using the Tippy JS library. Currently, the new framework is used
to replace the old notification spotlight and tips and show a new one
related to the topic timeline.
All popups follow the same structure and have a title, a description and
two buttons for either dismissing just the current tip or all of them
at once.
The state of all seen popups is stored in a user option. Updating
skip_new_user_tips will automatically update the list of seen popups
accordingly.
The previous fix in e83d35d6 was incorrect, and the stub in the test was never actually hit. This commit moves the error handling to the right place and updates the specs to ensure the stub is always used.
This can no longer be used from the user interface and could be used to
generate useless topic invites notifications. This commit adds site
setting max_topic_invitations_per_minute to prevent invite spam.
Adds a new upload field for a second dark mode category logo.
This alternative will be used when the browser is in dark mode (similar to the global site setting for a dark logo).
These errors tend to indicate that the upload is missing on the remote store. This is bad, but we don't want it to block the dominant-color calculation process. This commit catches errors when there is an HTTP error, and fixes the `base_store.rb` implementation when `FileHelper.download` returns nil.
Previously, when categories were not muted by default, we were sending message about unmuted topics (topics which user explicitly set notification level to watching)
The same mechanism can be used to fix a bug. When the user was explicitly watching topic, but category was muted, then the user was not informed about new reply.
This commit makes pending reviewables show up in the main tab (a.k.a. "all notifications" tab). Pending reviewables along with unread notifications are always shown first and they're sorted based on their creation date (most recent comes first).
The dismiss button currently only shows up if there are unread notifications and it doesn't dismiss pending reviewables. We may follow up with another change soon that allows makes the dismiss button work with reviewables and remove them from the list without taking any action on them.
Follow-up to 079450c9e4.
This commit adds non-archived group messages and `group_message_summary` notifications in the messages tab in the user menu. With this change, the messages tab in the user menu now includes 3 types of items:
1. Unread `private_message` notifications (notifications when you receive a reply in a PM)
2. Unread and read `group_message_summary` notifications (notifications when there's a new message in a group inbox that you track)
3. Non-archived personal and group messages
Unread `private_message` notifications are always shown first, followed by unread `group_message_summary` notifications, and then everything else (messages and read `group_message_summary` notifications) sorted by recency (most recent first).
Internal topic: t/72976.
Currently, the reviewables tab in the user menu shows pending reviewables at the top of the menu and fills the remaining space in the menu with old/handled reviewables. This PR makes the revieables tab show only pending reviewables and hides the tab altogether from the menu if there are no pending reviewables. We're going to follow-up with another change soon that will show pending reviewables in the main tab of the user menu.
Internal topic: t/73220.
This commit renames all secure_media related settings to secure_uploads_* along with the associated functionality.
This is being done because "media" does not really cover it, we aren't just doing this for images and videos etc. but for all uploads in the site.
Additionally, in future we want to secure more types of uploads, and enable a kind of "mixed mode" where some uploads are secure and some are not, so keeping media in the name is just confusing.
This also keeps compatibility with the `secure-media-uploads` path, and changes new
secure URLs to be `secure-uploads`.
Deprecated settings:
* secure_media -> secure_uploads
* secure_media_allow_embed_images_in_emails -> secure_uploads_allow_embed_images_in_emails
* secure_media_max_email_embed_image_size_kb -> secure_uploads_max_email_embed_image_size_kb
In the past, CategoryFeaturedTopic.feature_topics raised an exception
sometimes because it tried to create multiple CategoryFeaturedTopic
records for the same topic.
This code should not raise any exceptions as long as the list of new
topic IDs is unique because all previous records are deleted first,
then recreated and everything happens inside a transaction. The previous
rescue block was dead code anyway because it tried to catch
PG::UniqueViolation instead of ActiveRecord::RecordNotUnique. This
commit includes a fix to ensure that the topic IDs are unique.
This will replace `enable_personal_messages` and
`min_trust_to_send_messages`, this commit introduces
the setting `personal_message_enabled_groups`
and uses it in all places that `enable_personal_messages`
and `min_trust_to_send_messages` currently apply.
A migration is included to set `personal_message_enabled_groups`
based on the following rules:
* If `enable_personal_messages` was false, then set
`personal_message_enabled_groups` to `3`, which is
the staff auto group
* If `min_trust_to_send_messages` is not default (1)
and the above condition is false, then set the
`personal_message_enabled_groups` setting to
the appropriate auto group based on the trust level
* Otherwise just set `personal_message_enabled_groups` to
11 which is the TL1 auto group
After follow-up PRs to plugins using these old settings, we will be
able to drop the old settings from core, in the meantime I've added
DEPRECATED notices to their descriptions and added them
to the deprecated site settings list.
This commit also introduces a `_map` shortcut method definition
for all `group_list` site settings, e.g. `SiteSetting.personal_message_enabled_groups`
also has `SiteSetting.personal_message_enabled_groups_map` available,
which automatically splits the setting by `|` and converts it into
an array of integers.
See https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-email-messages-are-incorrectly-threaded/233499
for thorough reasoning.
This commit changes how we generate Message-IDs and do email
threading for emails sent from Discourse. The main changes are
as follows:
* Introduce an outbound_message_id column on Post that
is either a) filled with a Discourse-generated Message-ID
the first time that post is used for an outbound email
or b) filled with an original Message-ID from an external
mail client or service if the post was created from an
incoming email.
* Change Discourse-generated Message-IDs to be more consistent
and static, in the format `discourse/post/:post_id@:host`
* Do not send References or In-Reply-To headers for emails sent
for the OP of topics.
* Make sure that In-Reply-To is filled with either a) the OP's
Message-ID if the post is not a direct reply or b) the parent
post's Message-ID
* Make sure that In-Reply-To has all referenced post's Message-IDs
* Make sure that References is filled with a chain of Message-IDs
from the OP down to the parent post of the new post.
We also are keeping X-Discourse-Post-Id and X-Discourse-Topic-Id,
headers that we previously removed, for easier visual debugging
of outbound emails.
Finally, we backfill the `outbound_message_id` for posts that have
a linked `IncomingEmail` record, using the `message_id` of that record.
We do not need to do that for posts that don't have an incoming email
since they are backfilled at runtime if `outbound_message_id` is missing.
The `add_column` `limit` parameter has no effect on a postgres `text` column. Instead we can perform the check in ActiveRecord.
We never expect this condition to be hit - users cannot control this value. It's just a safety net.
Adds limits to location and website fields at model and DB level
to match the bio_raw field limits. A limit cannot be added at the
DB level for bio_raw because it is a postgres text field.
Co-authored-by: Alan Guo Xiang Tan <gxtan1990@gmail.com>
We previously had a system which would generate a 10x10px preview of images and add their URLs in a data-small-upload attribute. The client would then use that as the background-image of the `<img>` element. This works reasonably well on fast connections, but on slower connections it can take a few seconds for the placeholders to appear. The act of loading the placeholders can also break or delay the loading of the 'real' images.
This commit replaces the placeholder logic with a new approach. Instead of a 10x10px preview, we use imagemagick to calculate the average color of an image and store it in the database. The hex color value then added as a `data-dominant-color` attribute on the `<img>` element, and the client can use this as a `background-color` on the element while the real image is loading. That means no extra HTTP request is required, and so the placeholder color can appear instantly.
Dominant color will be calculated:
1. When a new upload is created
2. During a post rebake, if the dominant color is missing from an upload, it will be calculated and stored
3. Every 15 minutes, 25 old upload records are fetched and their dominant color calculated and stored. (part of the existing PeriodicalUpdates job)
Existing posts will continue to use the old 10x10px placeholder system until they are next rebaked
Right now the experimental user menu sorts notifications the same way that the old menu does: unread high-priority notifications are shown first in reverse-chronological order followed by everything else also in reverse-chronological order. However, since the experimental user menu has dedicated tabs for some notification types and each tab displays a badge with the count of unread notifications in the tab, we feel like it makes sense to change how notifications are sorted in the experimental user menu to this:
1. unread high-priority notifications
2. unread regular notifications
3. all read notifications (both high-priority and regular)
4. within each group, notifications are sorted in reverse-chronological order (i.e. newest is shown first).
This new sorting logic applies to all tabs in the experimental user menu, however it doesn't change anything in the old menu. With this change, if a tab in the experimental user menu shows an unread notification badge for a really old notification, it will be surfaced to the top and prevents confusing scenarios where a user sees an unread notification badge on a tab, but the tab doesn't show the unread notification because it's too old to make it to the list.
Internal topic: t72199.
Previously we were relying on a highly-customized version of the unmaintained Barber gem for theme template compilation. This commit switches us to use our own DiscourseJsProcessor, which makes use of more modern patterns and will be easier to maintain going forward.
In summary:
- Refactors DiscourseJsProcessor to move multiline JS heredocs into a companion `discourse-js-processor.js` file
- Use MiniRacer's `.call` method to avoid manually escaping JS strings
- Move Theme template AST transformers into DiscourseJsProcessor, and formalise interface for extending RawHandlebars AST transformations
- Update Ember template compilation to use a babel-based approach, just like Ember CLI. This gives each template its own ES6 module rather than directly assigning `Ember.TEMPLATES` values
- Improve testing of template compilation (and move some tests from `theme_javascript_compiler_spec.rb` to `discourse_js_processor_spec.rb`
It used to return the next URL anyway which lead to an additional
request. On the frontend, if the result set was empty, it kept retrying
until at least one result was returned. This bug is fixed in this commit
too.
* FIX: hide welcome topic banner as soon as the welcome topic is edited
This commit adds a message bus listener on client to hide the welcome
topic banner as soon as the welcome topic is edited.
* update test
* only subscribe when show_welcome_topic_banner is true
* Do not lookup for messageBus service if it's not required
* Remove unneeded code
* Cache result for Site.show_welcome_topic_banner
* Update tests per latest changes
* Changes per PR review
Each new user menu notifications should have their own count. Therefore, we need to include all types to serializer and not only `grouped_unread_high_priority_notifications`
Additional PR will be created for chat and assign plugin, as they will have to switch to `grouped_unread_notifications` as well.
The source-of-truth for our ember version is now the installed node_module. The `ember_source` gem carries an old version of Ember and so the constant is no longer useful. We'll be dropping the gem soon.
This commit makes a number of improvements to the DiscourseJsProcessor:
1. Remove dependence on the out-of-date Ember template compiler from the ember-rails gem; switch to modern template compiler
2. Refactor to make use of a proper module system with `define`/`require`
3. Introduce `babel-plugin-ember-template-compilation` to enable inline hbs compilation
The `mini-loader` is upgraded to support relative lookup and `require.has`, so that these new JS packages work correctly.
If a topic is converted to a private message, all posters were invited
to the new private message. This included users who only whispered or
posted small actions.
Topic allowed user records were created for small actions, which lead to
the system user being invited in many private topics when the user
removed themselves or if a group was invited but some members already
had access.
This commits skips creating topic allowed user. They are already skipped
for the whisper posts.
If a user was granted a trust level, joined a group that granted a trust
level and left the group, the trust level was reset. This commit tries
to restore the last known trust level before joining the group by
looking into staff logs.
This commit also migrates old :change_trust_level user history records
to use previous_value and new_value fields.
When preloading topic_list data we were giving it a 'preload key' which was loosely based on the parameters of the list. However, it did not include all parameters, and mismatches between client/server-side logic would cause the preloaded data to be ignored.
This commit simplifies things by using a single key for all topic_list preloading. This works on the assumption that "The first topic_list the JS app will load is the one which was preloaded". That assumption also existed to some extent in the old design, so we don't expect any regressions here.
Default sidebar tags for not authenticated users can be defined in admin panel. Otherwise, top 5 categories and tags are taken.
Optionally, if categories are set up in permanent order, then the first 5 categories are taken.
```
1) CurrentUserSerializer#sidebar_category_ids includes visible default sidebar categories
Failure/Error: expect(json[:sidebar_category_ids]).to eq([category.id, category_2.id])
expected: [378, 379]
got: [379, 378]
```
Note that in the Ruby doc it says "The order is preserved from the original array". In this case, we want to preserve the order of the site setting.
Handles edge-case when a user is an admin and has an associated reviewable. Hitting this exception should be rare since we clear the reviewable when
granting staff to the user.
A public key must be added to GitHub when installing private themes.
When the process happens asynchronously (for example if the admin does
not have admin permissions to the GitHub repository), installing
private themes becomes very difficult.
In this case, the Discourse admin can partially install the theme by
letting Discourse save the private key, create a placeholder theme and
give the admin a public key to be used as a deploy key. After the key
is installed, the admin can finish theme installation by pressing a
button on the theme page.
Hard deleting topics that contained soft deleted posts or small actions
used to create orphan posts because only the first post was hard
deleted. This commit adds an error message if there are still posts left
in the topic that must be hard deleted first or hard deletes all small
actions too immediately (there is no other way of hard deleting a small
action because there is no wrench menu).
Some of the changes in this PR are extracted from https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/17379.
Similar to the bookmarks tab in the new user menu, the messages tab also displays a mix of notifications and messages. When there are unread message notifications, the tab displays all of these notifications at the top and fills the remaining space in the menu with a list of the user's messages. The bubble/badge count on the messages tab indicates how many unread message notifications there are.
This is a much better description of its function. It performs idempotent normalization of a URL. If consumers truly need to `encode` a URL (including double-encoding of existing encoded entities), they can use the existing `.encode` method.
Some of the changes in this commit are extracted from https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/17379.
The bookmarks tab in the new user menu is different from the other tabs in that it can display a mixture of notifications and bookmarks. When there are unread bookmark reminder notifications, the tab displays all of these notifications at the top and fills the remaining space in the menu with the rest of the bookmarks. The bubble/badge count on the bookmarks tab indicates how many unread bookmark reminder notifications there are.
On the technical aspect, since this commit introduces a new `bookmark-item` component, we've done some refactoring so that all 3 "item" components (`notification-item`, `reviewable-item` and the new `bookmark-item`) inherit from a base component and get identical HTML structure so they all look consistent.
Internal tickets: t70584 and t65045.
Currently we can’t add a case-sensitive watched word if another one
exists with a different case. For example, the existing watched word
`Meta` has been created and is case-sensitive. Now an admin tries to add
`metA` while marking it as case-sensitive too, this won’t work and the
word won’t be added.
This patch changes this behavior by allowing to add same words that have
different cases, so the example above will now work as expected.
We still check for uniqueness but case-sensitivy is now taken
into account. It means that if the watched word `meta` already exists
and is not case-sensitive then it will not be possible to add `Meta`
(case-sensitive or not) as `meta` already matches every possible
variations of this word.
Follow-up to ce9eec8606.
I did a last-minute refactoring before merging the commit above where I extracted the Message Bus publish call into a new method, but forgot to delete the publish call after adding a call to the new method.
The content from the remote site and the footer get cached for 10 minutes, so Discourse should use the default locale instead of the user locale for the footer. Otherwise Discourse might cache the message in a different language.
* FEATURE: Add case-sensitivity flag to watched_words
Currently, all watched words are matched case-insensitively. This flag
allows a watched word to be flagged for case-sensitive matching.
To allow allow for backwards compatibility the flag is set to false by
default.
* FEATURE: Support case-sensitive creation of Watched Words via API
Extend admin creation and upload of Watched Words to support case
sensitive flag. This lays the ground work for supporting
case-insensitive matching of Watched Words.
Support for an extra column has also been introduced for the Watched
Words upload CSV file. The new column structure is as follows:
word,replacement,case_sentive
* FEATURE: Enable case-sensitive matching of Watched Words
WordWatcher's word_matcher_regexp now returns a list of regular
expressions instead of one case-insensitive regular expression.
With the ability to flag a Watched Word as case-sensitive, an action
can have words of both sensitivities.This makes the use of the global
Regexp::IGNORECASE flag added to all words problematic.
To get around platform limitations around the use of subexpression level
switches/flags, a list of regular expressions is returned instead, one for each
case sensitivity.
Word matching has also been updated to use this list of regular expressions
instead of one.
* FEATURE: Use case-sensitive regular expressions for Watched Words
Update Watched Words regular expressions matching and processing to handle
the extra metadata which comes along with the introduction of
case-sensitive Watched Words.
This allows case-sensitive Watched Words to matched as such.
* DEV: Simplify type casting of case-sensitive flag from uploads
Use builtin semantics instead of a custom method for converting
string case flags in uploaded Watched Words to boolean.
* UX: Add case-sensitivity details to Admin Watched Words UI
Update Watched Word form to include a toggle for case-sensitivity.
This also adds support for, case-sensitive testing and matching of Watched Word
in the admin UI.
* DEV: Code improvements from review feedback
- Extract watched word regex creation out to a utility function
- Make JS array presence check more explicit and readable
* DEV: Extract Watched Word regex creation to utility function
Clean-up work from review feedback. Reduce code duplication.
* DEV: Rename word_matcher_regexp to word_matcher_regexp_list
Since a list is returned now instead of a single regular expression,
change `word_matcher_regexp` to `word_matcher_regexp_list` to better communicate
this change.
* DEV: Incorporate WordWatcher updates from upstream
Resolve conflicts and ensure apply_to_text does not remove non-word characters in matches
that aren't at the beginning of the line.
Relative URLs will work just fine for Web Workers, which were the original reason for introducing the `theme_uploads_local` feature
Making them relative will mean that `loadScript()` automatically uses the CDN (when enabled), which is doubly important because our CSP doesn't allow loading theme-javascripts from the host domain when the CDN is enabled.
When viewing a topic, we execute two queries to fetch the topic's
public topic timer and slow mode timer. The former query happens to be
able to use a unique index but the latter has to do a seq scan which is
slow. The query itself is not expensive but since viewing a topic is a
hot path, the little cuts add up overtime and the query itself
contributes significantly to the load of the database.
This commit removes the ability to enable/disable the Sidebar on a per
user basis and introduces a site wide setting. For testing purposes, sidebar can be enabled/disabled via the `enable_sidebar=1` or `enable_sidebar=0` query param.
