# Administration **URL:** https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/c/administration/10.md?page=2 [Latest](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/latest.md) · [Categories](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/categories.md) · [Tags](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/tags.md) **Page:** 3 --- ## [Discourse Updated to 2.8.0.beta7](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/discourse-updated-to-2-8-0-beta7/168)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [21 October 2021 21:59 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/discourse-updated-to-2-8-0-beta7/168 "2021-10-21T21:59:43Z")
The Discourse software that runs this site has been updated to the most recent 2.8.0.beta7 release, containing a security fix and thousands of zowie new features. Here are the 2.8.0beta7 release notes. In addition, the… --- ## [Development Log: 2021-10-17](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2021-10-17/138)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [17 October 2021 22:59 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2021-10-17/138 "2021-10-17T22:59:34Z")
2021 October 17 Added a document explaining how to choose among the options for the home page shown when a user visits the site: https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/setting-a-default-home-page/137/2 Here is documentat… --- ## [Setting a Default Home Page](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/setting-a-default-home-page/137)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [17 October 2021 22:40 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/setting-a-default-home-page/137 "2021-10-17T22:40:31Z")
When you visit the home page of the site, the default view is posts (“Topics” in Discourse terminology) in descending order of recent activity (time of post or most recent comment \[“Reply”\]). Several other views are ava… --- ## [Development Log: 2021-10-16](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2021-10-16/130)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [16 October 2021 22:38 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2021-10-16/130 "2021-10-16T22:38:41Z")
2021 October 16 Since it looks like this thing is going to stay around for a while, I purchased an AWS t3.medium reserved instance with a term of one year so we aren't paying hourly rates to run it. This will result in … --- ## [Development log: 2021-10-02](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2021-10-02/46)
**Author:** [@Fourmilab](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Fourmilab)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [15 October 2021 18:53 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2021-10-02/46 "2021-10-15T18:53:38Z")
2021 October 2 Applied for Maxmind GeoLite2 account at: https://www.maxmind.com/en/geolite2/signup?lang=en and received confirmation. Set up account as follows: E-mail: REDACTED Password: REDACTED A… --- ## [Development Log: 2021-10-13](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2021-10-13/109)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [14 October 2021 15:05 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2021-10-13/109 "2021-10-14T15:05:27Z")
2021 October 13 Changed the Settings/Posting/min title similar length setting to 200 characters in the hope of getting rid of nugatory warnings about "similar content". We'll see if it works. Sent the following messag… --- ## [Discourse User Documentation](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/discourse-user-documentation/91)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [12 October 2021 19:55 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/discourse-user-documentation/91 "2021-10-12T19:55:59Z")
Discourse is the software upon which SCANALYST runs. The software is designed to be intuitive and relatively easy to figure out, sharing many conventions with other discussion board systems. However, as with any comple… --- ## [Development Log: 2021-10-07](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2021-10-07/72)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [8 October 2021 22:06 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2021-10-07/72 "2021-10-08T22:06:05Z")
2021 October 7 Created a new ~/bin/ctwit script to extract the most recent (or nth, specified as the command line argument) SCANALYZER post from the site and compose a tweet with its category, title, and link. It corre… --- ## [Development Log: 2021-10-06](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2021-10-06/66)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [7 October 2021 23:53 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2021-10-06/66 "2021-10-07T23:53:00Z")
2021 October 6 In Admin/Settings, checked "Disable user cards, user profiles and user directory for anonymous users". When you change the user Profile Header image, don't forget to click "Save Changes" at the very bott… --- ## [Development Log: 2021-10-05](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2021-10-05/65)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [7 October 2021 19:42 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2021-10-05/65 "2021-10-07T19:42:55Z")
2021 October 5 Created an Amazon AWS S3 bucket, arn:aws:s3:::scanalyst-backups, in the EU (London) eu-west-2 region. AWS Region: EU (London) eu-west-2 Resource name: arn:aws:s3:::scanalyst-backups Permi… --- ## [Development Log: 2021-10-04](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2021-10-04/56)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [6 October 2021 22:54 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2021-10-04/56 "2021-10-06T22:54:19Z")
2021 October 4 After the most recent entreaty, Amazon SES removed my account from the sandbox and enabled E-mail access. I ran a test with mail-tester.com and it reported a non-spam score of 9.9/10, with many of the ni… --- ## [Development Log: 2021-10-03](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2021-10-03/51)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [6 October 2021 14:23 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2021-10-03/51 "2021-10-06T14:23:21Z")
2021 October 3 Dug into the Let's Encrypt failure and by examining the logs with: cd ~/discourse/image ./launcher logs app | grep -i letsencrypt and was directed to: /var/discourse/shared/standalone/letsencr… [Previous page](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/c/administration/10.md?page=1)