Hal Whitcombe
@halw
Member · Member since Oct 2026
Security engineer. Reads diffs for fun.
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- Should LLM-written themes and plugins carry a label?
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- Search returns nothing for two-letter words like "UX" and "CI"
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- Hiring: help migrating 80k posts from an old phpBB forum
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- Should LLM-written themes and plugins carry a label?
More and more of the components showing up in Customization were clearly written mostly by a language model. That's not a problem by itself, but people installi
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- Search returns nothing for two-letter words like "UX" and "CI"
Searching for UX or CI returns zero results even though both appear in hundreds of topic titles.
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- How do you keep a small community from going quiet in month three?
Stop posting announcements as the first thing people see. Pin one welcome topic and let the latest list be members.
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- Should LLM-written themes and plugins carry a label?
Fair, but a label doesn't stop anybody installing anything. It just gives one more signal next to the install count and the last-updated date.
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- Search returns nothing for two-letter words like "UX" and "CI"
That'd be much better. Lowering the setting to 2 works for us in the meantime.
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- Email notifications arrive 20 minutes late
Usually it's the image optimisation jobs after a big upload. Raise the worker count: env: THREADWELL_WORKERS: 4 And rebuild. Mail goes in its own queue, but i
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Email notifications arrive 20 minutes late
Check the job queue in Admin › Jobs. If the default queue has a backlog, something is hogging the workers.
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Theme: "Paperback" — a calm, bookish theme
There's a "compact list" setting in the theme options for exactly that.
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Theme: "Paperback" — a calm, bookish theme
Gorgeous. Trying it on our book club forum tonight.
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Theme: "Paperback" — a calm, bookish theme
Paperback is a calm theme for reading-heavy communities: serif body text, generous line height, muted colours and a narrow topic column. It supports light and d
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Plugin: weekly digest of unanswered questions for moderators
A small plugin that emails moderators a weekly list of questions in Support with no replies after 72 hours, oldest first. every :monday, at: "08:00" do stale
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Plugin: weekly digest of unanswered questions for moderators
A small plugin that emails moderators a weekly list of questions in Support with no replies after 72 hours, oldest first. every :monday, at: "08:00" do stale
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- What’s the best way to run a weekly AMA?
One per week. Titles like "AMA: Queen rearing with ..." are searchable later, and each one gets its own moment at the top of Latest.
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Reaction counts look wrong after merging two topics
After merging two topics, the merged posts kept their likes but the topic's total in the list is the old topic's count only. Rebuilding stats fixes it, so it's
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- A quieter "new topic" indicator
The blue dot for new topics is great, but on a busy site half the list has one and it stops meaning anything. Could unread-since-last-visit be visually differen
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Hiring: help migrating 80k posts from an old phpBB forum
Liked by Ines Carvalho
We're a hobby community with roughly 80,000 posts on a phpBB 3.0 forum. Looking for someone experienced to migrate us, keeping old URLs working. Budget is flexi
Likes received · 10/12/2026
- Hiring: help migrating 80k posts from an old phpBB forum
Liked by Jonas Lindqvist
We're a hobby community with roughly 80,000 posts on a phpBB 3.0 forum. Looking for someone experienced to migrate us, keeping old URLs working. Budget is flexi
Likes received · 10/12/2026
- Translations: help finish Portuguese (Brazil) before 4.3
Portuguese (Brazil) is at 91% — the last strings are mostly in the admin panel. If you speak it, the translation platform link is in the docs. Every string help
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Running two Threadwell sites on one server
Yes — use multisite. One container, two databases, routed by hostname. In your container definition: hooks: after_postgres: - exec: sudo -u postgres creat
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Sidebar: let members collapse the Tags section by default
It does remember the last state for me, per device.
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Sidebar: let members collapse the Tags section by default
Most of our members never use the Tags section in the sidebar, but it pushes Categories down. A per-user "collapsed by default" setting would help — or remember
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Sidebar: let members collapse the Tags section by default
Most of our members never use the Tags section in the sidebar, but it pushes Categories down. A per-user "collapsed by default" setting would help — or remember
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Monthly community call — October 2026
Question: any chance of a lighter image for small servers? 2 GB feels like the floor right now.
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Monthly community call — October 2026
Question: is there a plan for theme components to declare which version of Threadwell they support?
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Monthly community call — October 2026
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 you
Likes given · 10/12/2026