atsaunier Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 I think this feature be cool where u can have it rebuild members numbers, for example, you board might have 567 members but member number 567 might be 634 (if u delelted alot of members/spammers) that way it wont be way off :) any one else like this idea ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 What purpose does it serve, other than to add a lot of unnecessary coding?Nearly every table in IPB gets joined by member id - so after resetting the member ids, you'd have to update nearly every table in the db. And this does not accomplish anything at the end of the day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atsaunier Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 o, i had no clue it be that hard, o well it was an idea :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellawella Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Seriously, I've looked into doing this myself on more occasions than I care to count, and it's not really worth it. Why? Because it's very slow to do (something that is unavoidable) and if you have any member profile pages indexed by search engines, the links will point to the wrong members after all the IDs change.If you're one of those admins who wants to be member 1 and isn't for some reason...reinstall your board :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 As a side note, I'm finding a need for a similar mod where I can change a member's id from a specific # to another specific # (but not rebuild all of them) - I will likely release it at IPS Beyond when complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.KX Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 This would be best served as a modification. There are several that allow you to change member id's on IPB 2.1.7. I am sure some of those modification authours would be willing to upgrade their modification once 2.2 hits final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmanns Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Alot of members link to their profiles, they'd have bad links after :PHow about a name instead of ID after? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 A lot of members change their names, they'd have bad links after :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince G. Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 that mod was already created and available for versions 2.1 and 2.2 over at ize.com and invisionmodding.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmanns Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 A lot of members change their names, they'd have bad links after :PNo just for the profiles otherwise it'd be different - you could use both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Hotdogman Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 It's a number for a reason. It would be a bad idea to make it your name as stated above. And it would also be very confusing to rebuild it. I've hated how the newest member had say a member id of 424 but the board index only says we have like 200 members.For the sake of not messing everything up and confusing everybody though, keep it the way it is :P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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