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I am currently in Asia. I made a post 6 mins ago, gave the link to that direct post (edit, now checked 10mins later and still not showing on their side). The person in the UK are unable to see the post yet. Surely there should not be that much of a delay in posts? I have noticed this before also. I also have screenshot evidence of this This could create a lot of issues, specifically in timed auction topics.
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Hey guys, I am currently testing the referral system on my platform. One user now bought a product using the test referral link and I got a comission. Where can I view the amount of commissions in my user account ? and the 2nd question is - do some of you guys made some experience with the referral system - do user really use that feature or is the a too high possibiliy of fraud when you open the referral system up to all users ? Thanks for the help 🙂
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Just wondering if there is a native solution (or 3rd party plugin/app) for showing the unread notification count as a badge number for PWAs. Check example (with #10): I currently make it work using JS to fetch the member notifications endpoint (/api/core/members/{id}/notifications) and extract the unread count from the fetched result and set it with setAppBadge PWAs function. But this is a long polling that consumes too many resources. -- If there is no native solution, my next idea is to extend the endpoint to retrieve just the count of unread notifications (no looping fetched rows in the result, like my current workaround). So, can you point me out …
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When configured, it is cross-posting the entire new article content as a new forum topic. Or is it just displaying the same article content inside topics? Does it not result as "duplicate" content (negatively) for search engines when same content is shown in more than one place? Maybe just post a topic with a link to the original article instead of repeating the entire article body?
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Hi. Is there a simple method to add Blocks/Pages using standard theme blocks, with header, title, border and background colours so that they match other elements on my sight? Of course, I can do this using HTML/CSS, but this seems like overkill and a lot of unnecessary work (and is not a practical solution for other admins who nothing about HTML and CSS). It seems like I am missing something.
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Hi guys, I run a self-hosted instance at https://forum.bjbikers.com. For a couple of days now we are seeing that bots are able to log in as existing forum members and then post their spam as new topics. My forum was on the previous v4.7.14, but today I've upgraded it to the latest v4.7.15. This has happened 4-5 times with different accounts. Here's the activity log for such an account: Does this happen to anyone else? Do you have any advices on what should I do to prevent this from happening in the future? Thanks!
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I thought events would send reminder emails but I have been trying to test it and can't make it work. I am not getting any notifications or emails. Might be fat-fingering something but can't see what it is.
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Is it possible to add internal anchors within a webpage using the text editor? I'd like to have an index at the top of a very long page (it would be occasionally useful for posts too, hence why I need it to work with the editor). Thanks.
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I've been reading through some of the documentation and they mention and link to a 3rd Part Marketplace, but the links don't appear to take me to any type of marketplace. Is there a centralized place for mods or addons for Invision Community forums?
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https://example.com/robots.txt Where is robots.txt physically located when crawl management is set to 'Invision Community optimized'? There is no such file in the root directory. Or is it dynamically generated each time?
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Hi, I installed the forum as shown here: https://invisioncommunity.com/4guides/advanced-options/server-management/install-and-upgrade-r259/ Everything went very well. But I have a question, is it normal that the /admin/install directory is not deleted? Does leaving it represent no risk? Thank you in advance for your answers.
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Hi Is it possible to block profile pages been seen by non members? Need to be logged in to view? thanks
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What in my setup have I done wrong when I get extremely many Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender, such as the below? I understand why they arrive, but I don't want them. And I have tried to write a mail rule that delete them asap, but they tend to end up in the spam folder instead. And I want to keep my spam folder clean, meaning I spend a lot of time to delete these… Any suggestions? Oh my heavens! how much I hate spammers!!!
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Hey guys, So I have stumbled on what looks to be a limitation of the current commerce implementation. I currently offer multiple different subscription packages. These packages are separated into two groups. We have our Premium subscriptions which give you additional perks on the site & we have our Recurring Donation subscription for those who would like to also donate monthly. Originally the Recurring Donations used to be setup as "Products" in the store section. However as IPS is deprecating that, I have had to move the Recurring Donations into the Subscriptions. The issue is, our members want to be able to note only have an active subscripti…
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Hello, how can I do this, the posts from my forum are also visible on the reddit platform?
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I'm trying to create dynamic pages as shown at: https://invisioncommunity.com/features/pages/ I just can't find this on my dashboard, can anyone help me?
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Can I create a group based on the completion of a specific profile field? And/Or could I create a group for users who have filled out all profile fields?
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I saw the Unban privilege but no Ban privilege to mods. Is Ban privilege default true for mods to ban members? Moderator is able to ban members. Moderator is not privileged to ban Admins and other Moderators (ok). But a Restricted Moderator is able to ban a Moderator in ACP. Is there a way to config this properly so a Restricted Moderator should not be allowed to ban a Moderator?
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Hi, Is there an add-on that lets you insert code in a specific location? For instance, in this case, I use a chat option that wants the code inserted before the </body> tag. It's a pain to update 6 different themes, then each time I update the theme, I need to remember to re-inset that code. Thanks
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I am currently setting up the site for French doing the translations etc, but noticed that the language switcher is placed automatically in the footer. Is there a way to also add this in the main menu or somewhere else on the site? widget etc?
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Hello, i want to create a blog like a wordpress... where it's possible to create a filter by two or more fields. example: i want to post a tricks about games, this game run on PC, Nintendo and Xbox. I want to set this 3 options. When my visitor filter by Nintendo... will display all content inside the blog with this tag. I don't want to use the default tag system, because if i click... show all content... like topics, downloads etc.
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Dear all, is there any way how to exclude specific forums/subforums from appearing in activity stream? I have a couple of RSS feeds which automatically creates new topics. Especially those I'd like to hide from regular community member created content. Would be great if someone could assist with a solution. Thanks in advance E11
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Is there any chance to get license for free? 🙂 For example, for poor homeless people who spends their lives drinking vodka and searching for food but has broadband access to Internet. Or for cancer patients at the latest stage to have little happiness from running own community...
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Hey guys, Possible that I am being blind but I cannot seem to locate the tool that would allow and admin/mod to duplicate a topic? Is this even a feature on IPS ? Many thanks, P
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What are the risks if connecting both a live forum and a developer testforum to the same database? Same invision software version. I have a huge forum database, so it would be easiest to connect both to same database. If not advisable, please explain why? Thanks in advance!
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