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These issues will be discussed and prioritised in regular meetings between site admins and moderators.
Currently known issues
New user onboarding process
5 minute read time required before posting is harder for non-English speakers
I am not sure about this at all. Most of the time if I see new topics from Spanish or Catalan speakers, then @wgarcia usually handles them fairly quickly.
I looked in the Admin section but did not find any statistics on where new users are coming from, not even a broad location like North America etc.
Is this really something we need?
There are other issues on your tracker that I think are more important.
For example, the new user onboarding process or site stylesheets though I think these may have also been discussed elsewhere.
For the more technical issues can we ping the admins like Aaron about getting them resolved?
For what it’s worth, I have a user with 19 minutes read time, and they still can’t start threads. I am not requesting that the user be given rights to start threads. I’m pointing out that I am unconvinced the “5 minute” threshold is even working.
At last night’s meeting we discussed the following regarding the tracker:
@aaronprisk will try and expedite the following issues:
CDN and images
Discobot
Site stylesheets
As far as the other points, there seems to be a consensus that more/improved onboarding measures are not really needed.
The number of new users asking about how to post has decreased significantly and as far as foreign languages are concerned, @aaronprisk will look to see if we can add statistics for where new users are coming from. Probably only broadly, for example North America, Europe, Asia etc.
I will try and update the tracker as issues are resolved/closed.
Huh… this is so odd. I just double checked the thresholds and it’s 5 minutes and 5 topic reads.
There must be some setting or requirement that didn’t get triggered to initiate the tl1 bump.
So I just looked at that profile and the trust level was locked at 0 for some reason. I don’t know why or who would have locked it. I just removed the lock on it now.
Alan, if you sign out and sign back in (or maybe just a page refresh), can you see if you have Tl1 access now?
So, does the site still exist or not? Should ubuntu.com still refer to it or not? If the site has been shut down, why 504 error? Why not a 301 redirect to Ubuntu Forums explaining it was shut down?
New user onboarding process 
Bug: Site stylesheets are missing colo(u)red pre-formatted text 
First page shown to brand new users is Top Posts which does not surface Start here or If you cannot post, see this topic!, which would be good to show people. Perhaps show Categories, or Start here first.
