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PinnedThreadwell 4.2 is out: sidebar sections, faster search and a new composerRelease notesrelease · official

Threadwell 4.2 is available today for every hosted site, and as a tagged release for self-hosters. The new sidebar sections editor Highlights Custom sidebar sections. Admins can add sections of links to the sidebar for everybody; members can add their own. Search is 3× faster on large sites, thanks

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PinnedMonthly community call — October 2026Announcementsevents · official

Our monthly community call is on Thursday 22 October, 17:00 UTC. We'll demo the dark admin panel work in progress and answer questions from this topic. Post your questions below, and like the ones you want answered first.

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PinnedWelcome to Threadwell Meta — start hereAnnouncementsofficial

Welcome! This is where the people who build Threadwell and the people who run Threadwell communities talk to each other. What goes where Support — something isn't working on your site and you want help. Feature — you want Threadwell to do something it doesn't yet. Bug — it does something wrong, and

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Should LLM-written themes and plugins carry a label?Featuremarketplace · ai · policy698 views ·
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Upgrade from 4.1 to 4.2 fails at "bundle install" on ARMSelf-hostingupgrade · arm64455 views ·
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How do you keep a small community from going quiet in month three?Community Buildinggrowth · engagement313 views ·
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Topic list jumps when new replies load on Safari 18Bugsafari · topic-list508 views ·
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Dark scheme for the admin panelFeaturedark-mode · admin548 views ·
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SSO with an OpenID Connect provider: users get logged out every hourIntegrationssso · oidc530 views ·
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Hello from a new forum for urban beekeepersGeneralintroductions215 views ·
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Adding a banner above the topic list with a theme componentDocumentationtheme-guide · how-to472 views ·
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Composer keeps switching back to markdown modeSupportcomposer295 views ·
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Automatic daily backups to S3-compatible storageSelf-hostingbackups · s3452 views ·
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Showing a user’s local time on their profile cardTheme componentuser-card · time471 views ·
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Search returns nothing for two-letter words like "UX" and "CI"Bugsearch357 views ·
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Category moderators can’t see the review queueSupportmoderation · permissions314 views ·
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Sidebar: let members collapse the Tags section by defaultUXsidebar275 views ·
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Running two Threadwell sites on one serverSelf-hostingmultisite · docker516 views ·
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Translations: help finish Portuguese (Brazil) before 4.3Contributetranslations397 views ·
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Hiring: help migrating 80k posts from an old phpBB forumMarketplacemigration · paid98 views ·
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A quieter "new topic" indicatorUXtopic-list · design423 views ·
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Reaction counts look wrong after merging two topicsBugreactions · merge117 views ·
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What’s the best way to run a weekly AMA?Community Buildingevents · ama438 views ·
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Plugin: weekly digest of unanswered questions for moderatorsPluginmoderation · email453 views ·
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Theme: "Paperback" — a calm, bookish themeThemetheme · serif293 views ·
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Email notifications arrive 20 minutes lateSupportemail · sidekiq594 views ·
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Is there a way to export one category as markdown?Generalexport340 views ·
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