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I'm sure once we didn't have to create a Giphy account and it was a case of just switching it active in admin? Either way, it looks like they are going the SDK route with ads now (I haven't looked yet if this will code into the theme, etc) OR going premium via the usual API billed annually at an amazing price of just $120 per month! Will these end the whole Giphy integration with IPB?
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Hello. I have a Invision Community forum that is hosed on Invision Community's platform. I am planning on migrating the whole forum to another domain. Is it possible to have a 1:1 301 redirect from the old URLs to the new URLs, so that Google and other crawlers can notice that the forum has changed domain? example: forum.old.com/ > forum.new.com/ forum.old.com/thread-3/ > forum.new.com/thread-3/ forum.old.com/post-1231231231/ > forum.new.com/post-1231231231/
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Hey Invision Team -- Is there a way I can create new badges for users that are automatic? E.g. "Congratulations, your blog just earned 100, 1k, 10k views" or "Congratulations, you just reached 10 followers" or "We miss you -- it's been 7 days since you logged in" etc? I can see manual ones but I'm probably missing something? Also is there a comprehensive list of all default notifications a user might get from the system in terms of badges, points, etc? Thanks! Eric
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I have users getting a "you are banned" message when their blog post is put into the moderation queue and they then try to access it. At least I think that's why it is happening. Can you tell me more about how that message results? And if I can change it somewhere/how I change it? Thanks! Eric
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Currently, anyone following a user is displayed in our forum profiles. Is there an option to display who the user is following themselves -- that would possibly just show to them? It doesn't help users find members they're following when there's no list shown. Thanks!
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i have noticed after using permissions and disabling guest access to different parts of the website when if they have a old like that used to work for guest and visit they see the opps image below and it makes a log every time with OutOfRangeException::0 also if a logged in user visits a page that dont exist anyone or post that dont exist . it also generates OutOfRangeException::0 in the logs .
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Hello, as the title states, Active User Count and Page Views are set to zero, currently. How do I get this fixed?
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I've just enabled Google Maps, and now Events: Overview displays a Happening Near You block at the top of the page. All our events are in a small area, so this is useless and occupies the prime space on the page. How can we disable this block? If we can't, will we be able to in v5?
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Hi all, I'm surely missing something, but I am trying to set up subscriptions, but restricted to certain usergroups. I wish to do this initially for testing purposes. When launching proper, subscriptions should be unavailable to guests. I also need to a way to remove access to subscription services for some members (those banned from their use). The purpose of the subscription scheme is to assign a secondary group to allow access to a community add-on feature. (Two levels of subscription, actually.) I also wish to add an unconnected subscription option, again, with the ability to disallow access for those within a specific 'banned' usergroup. Both…
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Was wondering how comments within the blogs here are tied into the forum sections and not separated from each blog entry. Tried searching but, my search-fu is quite weak. Is this a custom-coded thing or am I missing a setting somewhere in the admin side of things?
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I saw a brief mention of "daily digest" email in the email report in ACP but it doesn't appear to go out to more than 1 person. What is the daily digest email? Is this something I could enable for all users? Eric
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Tags make other topics appear in Similar Content widget that use the same tags and tags are also used in <meta name="keywords" content="tag">. What would be the purpose of Subforums other than grouping topics compared to predefined Tags? Predefined Tags could be made to function like Subforums if implemented properly. The Fluid View widget could use predefined Tags with multi-select checkboxes. If using both, we end up selecting a subforum and assigning a tag (or two) to new topics. Most often, the tag name is the exact same as the subforum (duplication of data). This results in too many data points that may degrade performance due to table joins. …
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How can we change the Default Page for a Guest Only . I have the members defaulting to the forum .. how can i change the Guest Group to a specific page ?
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Hello -- If I wanted to have all new signups hit a page as part of registering where they either pick the default "free" member level or one of a couple paid subscription levels, is there a way to do so? How do I create a free subscription? Just create a new subscription and set prices at zero? What happens to existing "free" members? Thanks! Eric
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Hello, I would like to know if I can with my license key in the same website create two forums? Thank you for your answer.
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So a member required Account Deletion via the (Account Settings > Privacy and Security tab), which I accepted. However, although the user name is gone from posts he has made, an edit he made to one of these posts still shows "Edited x hours ago by..." and his name. Is this intentional? If user data are deleted, why not the edit info?
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Does the site map that is automatically generated include user/member profiles? What about tags? It seems like it doesn't but maybe I'm missing something. If the answer is no, can you please help me understand the rationale? Also, if no, are you marking all those pages "no index" or just not producing a site map for them? Thank you for all your help! Eric
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Is there a way to import blog entries for a user?
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I could not find a setting for these in ACP. I intend to allow these only for logged-in users. (saw such restrictions on other IC sites)
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I've got a massive amount of system log errors which I would assume are slowing down my site. How do I deal with them? Is there a way to delete these logs? I don't think its that serious as all the errors are the same surrounding guest or something. Or do I need to fix whatever is triggering this log entry and how do I do that when I'm not a coder.
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I would like to display a list view of upcoming events instead of just for the current month. The Help Guide shows an option for the Calendar default layout that includes 'Stream of upcoming events.' Yet in the ACP, that option is gone and instead there are radio buttons for Overview, Current Month, Current Week and Current Day. What happened to the stream of upcoming events? Was it replaced by the sidebar block 'Upcoming Events' which looks as elegant as lima beans mixed with cottage cheese?
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Where is the best place to put Google Adsense in for the auto ad feature to work? Is it the header? Do I just use it an advertiser block and it will work all over? Thanks.
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I have a members group that is free and the default when someone registers. And I have a paid "premium" members group at $9/month. If I want to move a user manually via the ACP into the paid members group so they get those benefits, will they get notifications that they need to pay? Or will they just basically be in the paid group for free forever?
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I'm about to send my monthly newsletter. Log Statistics in AdminCP/Email Settings are deactivated. Just sent a test e-mail only to me, and all links in it are click.pstmrk.it-links. Has anything changed here, are e-mails send with Postmark now and clicks analyzed? I haven't seen any announcement for this, also in the Release notes, and it is also important because of GDPR. Do you have any information about this for me? Thanks, Markus
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I've just migrated my site to Invision cloud and I have a significant number of 301s that will need to be implemented. What's the best format to submit those to support in so that it is easy for you to simple import into the backend for me? Thanks!
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