discourse integration - Change Whonix forum software to discourse

Patrick · January 5, 2023, 7:08pm

Going to use this forum thread for general forum related updates.

Forums software has been updated just now.

Patrick · January 13, 2023, 7:44pm

Forums software has been updated just now.

Patrick · January 30, 2023, 10:52am

Forums software has been updated.

Patrick · February 23, 2023, 9:12am

Patrick · February 23, 2023, 9:14am

github.com

Whonix/discourse-whonix-onion-host-support/blob/master/plugin.rb#L6


      
          # name: discourse-whonix-onion-host-support
          # about: load Whonix site on onion if used
          # version: 0.1
          # authors: Miguel Jacq
          
          
::ONION_HOST = "forums.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onion"
          ::CLEAR_HOST = "forums.whonix.org"
          
          
after_initialize do
          
          
  # got to patch this class to allow more hostnames
            class ::Middleware::EnforceHostname
              def call(env)
                hostname = env[Rack::Request::HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST].presence || env[Rack::HTTP_HOST]
          
          
      env[Rack::Request::HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST] = nil

Patrick · February 23, 2023, 10:08am

force_https has been enabled. Hopefully this does not break this forums’s .onion.

Patrick · February 23, 2023, 10:31am

Due to potential flakyness of this 2FA method, let’s consider (2FA) account recovery.

If someone is a known person or pseudonym, having a usually used e-mail address and OpenPGP (or signify or otherwise) signing key, should I trust that signing key in if there ever is a request to disable 2FA?

Patrick · March 7, 2023, 9:48pm

Done.

Eldricht · August 6, 2023, 10:34am

Qubes OS forum works fine without JavaScript enabled, it is possible to search, browse and read threads.

Whonix forum is broken without JavaScript, the site doesn’t load properly at random, and threads don’t load all replies.

Both use Discourse. is it possible to make it so that the Whonix forum is usable without JavaScript? I am not asking for posting, signing up etc, but to read.

Mycobee · August 7, 2023, 8:52pm

Seems like something you could research and report back your contribution

Patrick · August 8, 2023, 2:35pm

This was caused by the custom skin for the forums we were using. This has now been reverted. Forums now functional for me without JavaScript.

related:
@webmaster Your discourse instance can be read without JavaScript, how did you do that?

Eldricht · August 9, 2023, 7:49am

Yes the experience seems to line up now. Strangely it doesn’t load the same way every time, giving the impression that it’s broken at first.

nurmagoz · August 9, 2023, 12:36pm

Old:

New:

Still buggy

Patrick · August 9, 2023, 2:01pm

The header/footer overlap issue reported by @nurmagoz has been fixed.

Patrick · August 9, 2023, 2:02pm

For other bugs:

Please try to reproduce these on upstream, https://meta.discourse.org/
If reproducible there, please report these directly to upstream, not here.
Posting links to upstream bug reports here is welcome.

Only bugs only happening here should be reported here.

nurmagoz · August 9, 2023, 3:04pm

Fixed for clearnet, but the onion version e.g section “News” only showing upper topics (no scrollbar).

Eldricht · August 9, 2023, 3:19pm

It’s buggy for me too, but refreshing the page makes it load correctly at times.

Patrick · August 10, 2023, 5:35pm

Are you sure there’s a difference onion vs clearnet?

There is a discourse upstream bug however which prevents a proper header / footer for noJS. Reported here:

Patrick · August 10, 2023, 5:37pm

I can reproduce this on https://meta.discourse.org/. If you wish to see this fixed, please reproduce and report that upstream.

nurmagoz · August 11, 2023, 6:24pm