The.Reaper Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Just wondering if anyone has successfully converted back to 3.4 from 4.1? Ive spent to many sleepless nights fixing problems with plugins and the general lack of plugins is starting to get quite frustrating, upgrading to the latest version is seriously a massive regret for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahmad E. Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 There is no downgrader nor support for such so most likely no one has done this. Only way would be to restore an old backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The.Reaper Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 That's a shame, my oldest 3.4 backup is just to far back now that it wouldn't be possible, maybe i'll have to just start looking for a new forum software as i am really lacking faith in the direction ipb4 is going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahmad E. Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Might be easier to just request plugins Alot of things can be done out of the box without the need for plugins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackflash Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 What plugins are you missing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSonic Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 There is no "downgrader" for whatever Software i know You may try to convert to another Software (maybe MyBB) and Reimport to IPB3.x. That said, i don't think it's a good idea, because 3.x will get EOLed, also the plugindevs will focus on IPS4 - and IPS4 is a really modern and nice Plattform Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rheddy Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 I don't know where @Fredss got this idea from but it's impossible to downgrade. I've been installing, upgrading and troubleshooting hardware and software for more than 20 years and I can tell you that it's impossible to downgrade. Unless you saved an old backup from the previous version, you're SOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kotaco Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 7 minutes ago, TheSonic said: There is no "downgrader" for whatever Software i know You may try to convert to another Software (maybe MyBB) and Reimport to IPB3.x. That said, i don't think it's a good idea, because 3.x will get EOLed, also the plugindevs will focus on IPS4 - and IPS4 is a really modern and nice Plattform This is how you do it, saves yours members and forum content, you may lose stuff like followers and stuff. I've used that work around more than once in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The.Reaper Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 Sorry if i'm sounding negative and frustrated, i have been using IPS4 since the first stable release and have tried my hardest to integrate my community into it, i have been explaining to all of my members the benefits of upgrading but i have received no positive feedback from anything, the forum software just really doesn't cater for the type of community i am running which is a quite closed clan community. Security is our main concern as we have people trying to infiltrate our community for information on our events daily, the openness of the forum has really limited us in this respect but obviously i have made many work around's to achieve goals. I can't remember the exact names of the plugins but to list a few, Colours in topic titles, Arcade, A working plugin that makes users view a certain topic, Users that have read a topic, Members online today, Global forum message, Status updates that don't force you to go to a users profile, IRC Chat application, Posts/Topic count seperated, About me page on user profile, Can't post on other topics until posted on a specified topic. This is just a few i can think of from the top of my head but there is many more missing. 16 minutes ago, Morisato said: I don't know where @Fredss got this idea from but it's impossible to downgrade. I've been installing, upgrading and troubleshooting hardware and software for more than 20 years and I can tell you that it's impossible to downgrade. Unless you saved an old backup from the previous version, you're SOL. I'm glad i humoured you, downgrading is not normally an option due to updates normally bettering software in my opinion this is not the case with IPS4, thanks for the advice i will look into other forums which i can use as a middleman in converting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hexsplosions Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 2 minutes ago, Fredss said: Security is our main concern as we have people trying to infiltrate our community for information on our events daily, the openness of the forum has really limited us in this respect but obviously i have made many work around's to achieve goals. I run a popular gaming clan on IPS4 and have found no issues with security, what exactly is wrong with it from your point of view? We're often the targets of attacks, against both the suite itself and the machine we're hosted on, because we have zero tolerances on certain questionable behaviours... We attract all the wrong attention from all the wrong people. We've never suffered a security breach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The.Reaper Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 Just now, Evil Edwina said: I run a popular gaming clan on IPS4 and have found no issues with security, what exactly is wrong with it from your point of view? We're often the targets of attacks, against both the suite itself and the machine we're hosted on, because we have zero tolerances on certain questionable behaviours... We attract all the wrong attention from all the wrong people. We've never suffered a security breach. The main issues we are having with security is not really associated with Ddos attacks although we do receive a lot of them! The main concern was availability of peoples information to potential doxing, when we first installed the board email addresses we available to everyone which was a disaster and i had to manually edit the code of all of my skins to remove the emails from profiles, there have been a few other smaller issues as far as permissions changing by themselves and plugin errors changing the chmod of folders on the server (which even support were stuck at). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilihead Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 5 hours ago, Fredss said: The main concern was availability of peoples information to potential doxing, when we first installed the board email addresses we available to everyone which was a disaster and i had to manually edit the code of all of my skins to remove the emails from profiles, there have been a few other smaller issues as far as permissions changing by themselves and plugin errors changing the chmod of folders on the server (which even support were stuck at). Are you sure this was a bug? As, mods and admins can see email addresses on the public side but nobody else can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The.Reaper Posted February 10, 2016 Author Share Posted February 10, 2016 35 minutes ago, chilihead said: Are you sure this was a bug? As, mods and admins can see email addresses on the public side but nobody else can. Yes, the second i updated the forum i was pmed by many furious members wondering why their emails were public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilihead Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 Stick it out, trying to downgrade will cause even more issues. If you have issues impacting your site, launch a report. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elena-Viorica Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 7 hours ago, TheSonic said: IPS4 is a really modern and nice Plattform That might be true, but we're getting close to one year since its release and there are still a lot of bugs, many of which seem to confuse even the tech support team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomer12 Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 I am using this sice a few hours (got my license yesterday) and even expecting one big bug which makes the software unusbale. It's a good plattform, well documentated with a great REST API <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kotaco Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 12 hours ago, Fredss said: Yes, the second i updated the forum i was pmed by many furious members wondering why their emails were public. I have been using 4.1 since the RC and have not had this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahmad E. Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 19 hours ago, Fredss said: Colours in topic titles, Arcade, A working plugin that makes users view a certain topic, Users that have read a topic, Members online today, Global forum message, Status updates that don't force you to go to a users profile, IRC Chat application, Posts/Topic count seperated, About me page on user profile, Can't post on other topics until posted on a specified topic Most of these are already there. The only one that I wouldn't expect anytime soon is arcade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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