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Can I just apply the patch and then apply the upgrade?

I am trying to upgrade as recommended and the automated upgrade process is not working. When I attempt to complete the upgrade it is stuck at the first step and only toggles between 2 screens: Third Party Resource Check and the Large Database Update notice. Any suggestions to get this to work? I disable all plugins before attempting to upgrade.

Thanks. I am sending this to our tech guy right now to have him check it.

One of our communities now has 8 locked tasks and one community has 6 locked tasks.

I have done that, and all should be good. Thank you!

We have the same problem here so far. Nothing is working on either of our communities to resolve this.

We have two communities that were updated today -- same problem with some locked/stuck tasks that cannot be restarted. Our cron is set as usual, and we do have the updated PHP 8. Is there a fix for this?

Thank you SO much! I knew I was missing it. Perfect. I really appreciate this. For anyone else with this problem, here's the spot to fix this: ACP - Members - Member Settings - Ban Settings - option in there for non-registerable names

I've run into a bit of an issue that I'm sure is just some setting, but it's got me stumped. We've got sister forums, both running the latest version IPS and hosted on the same server. The newer/smaller forum (which I'm selecting in the dropdown box above) is set up to allow users to link their sign-in info from the there accounts on the older/larger forum. We have a user who joined the older forum in 2008 with the username "carrabassett". He joined the newer forum in 2018 with a username of "Silverwings". He'd now like his username changed to be "carrabassett" on both forums, but two of us in the Admin CP have worked on this and can't get it. We are not allowed to change the name or create an account with that name. I'm assuming that it's due to the 7-9th letters in the username being a word included in our word filter. So, we even removed it from the word filter but could not create it even then. Any suggestions are most appreciated. Thanks!

Thanks. I'll do that with the hosting company.

We've been contacting members about this, and it's still a problem. I've got two members and the lists of boards that they are following and not receiving notices. They receive the little notification bubble on the bell when they are signed in, but they are not receiving e-mails. User: bldrhouse Following: FS Field & Personal Gear FS Books, Photos, Ephemera, & Research Material FS Medals, Decorations, Ribbons, & Accessories FS Cloth & Metal Insignia FS Knives and Other Weapons & Accessories FS Miscellaneous User: S1991 Following: Discussion forum on Medals & Decorations For Sale forum on Uniforms, Helmets and Medals & Decorations Let me know if you need any other info. Thanks for the help.

I will contact some of the members having issues and find out more. Something definitely changed, so let me see if they can be more specific. Thanks.

Sure. I think. 🙂 Several members have been reporting this in a thread in our forum help board, and one of the Admins has been working on it. Some members are now seeing the notification bubble but no e-mail notifications for followed boards at all. And all other e-mail notifications are working flawlessly. Here's the link to that thread, because a member is outlining what's going wrong: https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/373768-not-getting-any-messages-from-the-fora-that-i-follow/ I've checked for patches, but everything is up to date. The Update went flawlessly as well, so I can't pin-point anything that might have gone wrong.

I've been getting some reports from members that they are no longer receiving notifications for updates to Followed Boards. All other notifications seem to be working fine. This may have happened around the time of the latest update -- but they're not all clear on just when it started happening. Is this a known issue? Thanks so much!

Thanks! I'll find out from our host. Appreciate the fast answer.

We are not hosted on their cloud either . . . it's a hosting company. Should I ask them or would this be more likely to be a feature in the IPS?

This isn't really need for support, but it's a question for the Invision team. 🙂 A member on our forum just asked this, and I realize that none of the Admin team knows the answer. When users upload photos or documents into posts, are they scanned for viruses? Is there any sort of file scanning going on in IPS? Thanks in advance!

Thanks! I'm going to look at this. Might be perfect!! 🙂

Hi! I've been trying some different things here, but I'm missing it. Is there a way to set the "About Me" page as the default when members click on another member's Profile, rather than the Member's Content? Thanks!

Thank you SO much! This is perfect. I really appreciate the help.

Hi! I'd like to use the new Block Submission feature on the Word Filter, but we have quite a few words in there. Is there a way to apply the Block Submission feature to the whole Word Filter without having to edit each word by itself? Thanks!

Some of that may have been happening, though it wasn't the main problem in the end. We do have a crawl delay but have always had. Actually, lines had been added to block certain robots. I'm not the one who handles that part of the website, but it did have certain names blocked. All that was removed and the file put back to the normal lines (which have been in place for over ten years) and after three days everything is going back to normal. Whew!

Thanks so much! Worked perfectly.

Both of our communities have an odd thing happening with the search feature over the past four days or so. There has always been the option of searching "This Forum" and "This Thread" under the "More options" choice on the search bar of both forums. It is still an option when you are viewing a thread -- like this: But if you go out into any Forum/Board area, the option has disappeared, like this: This is a crucial feature for our moderating team. I've had members with all different permissions testing this, and no one has the option on either community. From what everyone can remember, it was working great last week but it seems to have disappeared about four days ago. Any help is most appreciated. Thanks.

Following up on this -- it looks like the site was hit on April 1st with some hacking, which seems to have included an altered robots.txt file. All replaced now and everything seems fine. Thanks for the advice!