# General Feedback and Site Announcements **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [June 5, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238 "2018-06-05T15:18:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![dtraleigh](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/dtraleigh/32/32735_2.png) [@dtraleigh](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/dtraleigh)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2024, 1:30pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238/344 "2024-06-03T13:30:39Z")
This is way late as I completely forgot it but we turned 6 years old about two weeks ago! It’s time for the yearly ask and I only do it once a year so read on. 💰 We’ve definitely formed a little group of regulars, all with sparkling personalities. We do seem to have one thing in common and that is unconditional love for this city. (or maybe people are bored at work) I’m happy with how things are going, generally, and thank god for open source as the retort plugin stayed around last year. It certainly adds to the character of the place. The usual contribution methods are still in place. I accept Venmo (@dtraleigh) and I’ve always had the [Paypal page](https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9KK9DK6PMZ6J8) set up. I appreciate anything you can throw my way and hope to see people at the next [meetup](https://www.meetup.com/DTRaleigh-Community/). 😄 ---
**Author:** ![OakCityDylan](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/oakcitydylan/32/169_2.png) [@OakCityDylan](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/OakCityDylan)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238/345 "2024-06-03T13:52:26Z")
Congrats, Leo!! What an asset to the city and thank you so much for your persistence and patience with all of us! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/jake/32/34692_2.png) [@Jake](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2024, 1:30pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238/346 "2024-06-04T13:30:05Z")
> [@dtraleigh](#): > > We do seem to have one thing in common and that is unconditional love for this city. (or maybe people are bored at work) ![image](https://d3tmycllq5yp1y.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/7/c7f5a203814ecc85b93043619c3413c69499af41.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![GucciLittlePig](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/guccilittlepig/32/25831_2.png) [@GucciLittlePig](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/GucciLittlePig)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238/347 "2025-01-20T23:21:45Z")
@dtraleigh what happened to the emoji reactions? 😢 ---
**Author:** ![dtraleigh](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/dtraleigh/32/32735_2.png) [@dtraleigh](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/dtraleigh)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238/348 "2025-01-21T00:12:11Z")
Yyyeeeaahh. Discourse changed a thing and the reactions plugin is now incompatible again. I’m looking into it. (sort of) ---
**Author:** ![svp](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/svp/32/18832_2.png) [@svp](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/svp)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238/349 "2025-01-21T16:22:11Z")
Yeah I’ve been sad about that ---
**Author:** ![dtraleigh](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/dtraleigh/32/32735_2.png) [@dtraleigh](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/dtraleigh)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238/350 "2025-01-23T15:19:32Z")
If any technical folks on here, ie those that know javascript, could maybe take a look at the issue with this plugin, I’ve started a discussion on Discourse’s forum. I’m up for fixing it but need some guidance and advice. ChatGPT can only do so much for me. 😕 > **[Discourse Retort](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-retort/35903/495?u=dtraleigh)** > > Hi all. We’re big fans of Retort over on my Community. The latest discourse versions are making the plugin incompatible. See here. I’m trying, slowly, to make proper updates to the plugin but javascript is not my strongest area so am struggling to... ---
**Author:** ![grant](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/grant/32/15300_2.png) [@grant](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/grant)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238/351 "2025-01-23T20:31:39Z")
That doesn’t look great – seems like they’ve completely changed rendering frameworks, so the plugin will probably need a complete rewrite. That said, it doesn’t seem like a particularly complicated thing to build, even from scratch. I wish I had a bit more time to take a stab at it. Edit: this looks a little thornier than I figured. Seems like they’re moving to Glimmer but Glimmer is… already deprecated and merged back into Ember? Discourse is great as a user but their technical side seems a little scary lol. ---
**Author:** ![dtraleigh](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/dtraleigh/32/32735_2.png) [@dtraleigh](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/dtraleigh)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 12:11pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238/352 "2025-01-30T12:11:38Z")
Should we start a GoFundMe? I’d chip in some to pay a developer to fix this thing for us. ---
**Author:** ![svp](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/svp/32/18832_2.png) [@svp](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/svp)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238/353 "2025-01-30T14:24:29Z")
I too would be willing to pony up to see my beloved 🖤 emojis again. But I guess that’s a greater group decision ---
**Author:** ![paytonc](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/paytonc/32/8502_2.png) [@paytonc](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/paytonc)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238/354 "2025-01-30T14:36:07Z")
> [@dtraleigh](#): > > pay a developer to fix this thing I read “this thing” as the Kmart, but I guess the emojis are also a thing ---
**Author:** ![pBeez](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/pbeez/32/2461_2.png) [@pBeez](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/pBeez)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238/355 "2025-01-30T15:01:25Z")
What would be a guesstimation of the costs? I am torn, I only just learned to really use them _a la Guicci_ \*\* so while I don’t miss using to much, I miss seeing others use of them. I do miss the K-Mart, and really I am shocked to my foundations that lot doesn’t have a serious redevelopment plan considering its location. ---
**Author:** ![svp](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/svp/32/18832_2.png) [@svp](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/svp)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238/356 "2025-01-30T16:07:27Z")
While I may never really miss the Kmart, I do miss using multiple emojis in line and of various sorts to make my point without words. It was so satisfying… ---
**Author:** ![dtraleigh](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/dtraleigh/32/32735_2.png) [@dtraleigh](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/dtraleigh)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238/357 "2025-01-30T17:58:07Z")
I’m not sure. We’d need a freelance software dev to spend some time on it so maybe a few hundred dollars? ---
**Author:** ![pBeez](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/pbeez/32/2461_2.png) [@pBeez](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/pBeez)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238/358 "2025-01-30T18:03:01Z")
I am not privy to, and don’t ask to be, how funding goes here, but a few hundred seems a doable fundraising target. I suspect that you would need a better feel for how many folks really miss them enough to chip in. ---
**Author:** ![GucciLittlePig](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/guccilittlepig/32/25831_2.png) [@GucciLittlePig](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/GucciLittlePig)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238/359 "2025-01-30T18:07:15Z")
![image](https://d3tmycllq5yp1y.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/7/472d37c354183b3411c59bf9b88c5e2cf32eaf1c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![dtraleigh](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/dtraleigh/32/32735_2.png) [@dtraleigh](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/dtraleigh)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238/360 "2025-01-30T18:37:28Z")
I’ll look into it. My current approach is to just wait until someone else fixes it. 🙂 @grant I wonder if you could speculate on how many hours someone would have to spend on fixing that plugin? Any ballpark? ---
**Author:** ![grant](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/grant/32/15300_2.png) [@grant](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/grant)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238/361 "2025-01-30T18:49:37Z")
It’s kinda hard to say, this is a _very_ niche tech stack it seems. I’ve got over a decade in web development but I have no clue where to start and their documentation seems sparse. I might see if I can get your branch running in a local dev environment and survey the scene. ---
**Author:** ![RobertSanderlin](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/robertsanderlin/32/59_2.png) [@RobertSanderlin](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/RobertSanderlin)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238/362 "2025-01-30T19:17:57Z")
@dtraleigh Please go ahead and create/share a Go Fund Me and provide the link if you are able? Or if you feel you need to do a Vote, do one of those yea or nay requesting feedback? Either way, thank you so very much! ---
**Author:** ![grant](https://community.dtraleigh.com/user_avatar/community.dtraleigh.com/grant/32/15300_2.png) [@grant](https://community.dtraleigh.com/u/grant)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238/363 "2025-01-30T21:25:25Z")
I have a local development setup running now. Since this plugin seems quite simple, I think I’ll go through their ‘first plugin’ tutorial and decide how hard it would be to adapt their example into something like retort from scratch. Sometimes migrating legacy code is more complicated than starting fresh, especially if that code has been around for a while or wasn’t maintained. As a member of the forum who liked to use the plugin before, I’m not particularly looking for compensation if I go through with this. Maybe a beer at the next meetup I make it to. But let’s see if I stick with it first lol. [Previous page](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238.md?page=17) [Next page](https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/general-feedback-and-site-announcements/238.md?page=19)