VaBeach_Guy

My board is still fairly new, though it began its life with basically a 'built in' membership of about 1,000 people. An NFL team decided to close their 20+ year old forum and my board was born from that. They gave a 2 week notice of the closure, so that gave the new board 2 weeks to inform members of the new location. Right now, traffic between about 8 AM (Eastern US) and 11 PM never dips below about 75 members online at any given period. So it's not massively active, but it's the NFL's offseason with very little going on, so I wouldn't expect to see a whole lot of traffic right now. During the NFL Draft, at the end of April, traffic peaked at around 400 online and from past experience, I would expect at least that much during games.

I'm sure the numbers are different for everyone, but for my board, the ACP number is about 4.3 times higher than the Adsense number. Now, the ACP is around 27,000 with Adsense at about 6,200. My board is NFL related, so I'd expect those numbers to increase as NFL training camps and the season gets closer (assuming there will be a season).

I figured that it was along these lines but wanted to be sure. It would be nice if the ACP had a way of filtering out the bots from that number, to give a more accurate figure, but I guess it's not critical since you can get the number from Adsense.

How accurate is the 'impressions' that are displayed in the ACP? I enabled Adsense on the 18th of this month, it's showing me that there's been almost 18,000 impressions (according to the ACP). But on Adsense, they're only showing 3,800 impressions.

I hate upgrading...

I just got the same error after trying to upgrade an old board (version 4.something), and submitted a ticket. I'll try the above mentioned solution and see how that goes.

No, nothing was installed or changed in the ACP at all. It seems to be intermittent though, because now it's not doing it. Very odd.

I've just started getting this message, as have my members. Members can edit their own content and the time limit in the ACP is set to unlimited. I just tried to edit one of my posts, immediately after posting it, and I got the message. Before today, this wasn't a problem. Not sure what's changed. Looking through the Admin logs, nothing was done in there to cause this. "This comment can no longer be edited. It may have been moved or deleted, or too much time may have passed since it was posted for it to be edited." Anyone else have this happen?

This actually brings up a question that I was going to bring up, I have a board that's running 4.1.19.1, would it be best to upgrade to the current available board then upgrade to 4.5 or just wait and upgrade it right to 4.5?

Will doing this cause uploaded images to no longer display properly or will that have to be re-built? I ask because I don't want the member list to have to be re-built, which I believe I did once on another board several years ago, and it screwed up the post counts. This new board is actually a sort of 'replacement' board for an official NFL team board that the team did away with. As part of building the replacement board, I had everyone archive their old profiles (on the discontinued, official board), and once they joined the new board, I manually set their post count and reputation score to what it had been on the official board. That just kind of gave a smooth transition for everyone, but was a good bit of work for me. But the majority of members didn't want to lose 10 to 20 years worth of post count (the highest of which is around 130,000 posts). I really don't want to have to do that all over again lol. I actually don't even know if 'rebuilding' is still a thing in the ACP, to be honest lol.

As they are now, it looks like this (just a random example): https://www.eaglesmessageboard.com/index.php?/topic/115-survivor-season-40-winners-at-war/ That URL would be less desirable than if 'index.php?' wasn't there? I don't mind having the board rewrite the URLs, I just don't want to 'break' the board by doing it. I wish I'd done it before going live, but it's just one of those things that I didn't do and now there's about 50,000 posts. I really don't want rewriting the URLs to cause a mess. I guess I could clone the board and install it in a test forum, then rewrite and see how it reacts. I could then use that test forum for the 4.5 upgrade test forum when it gets released.

I'm the only Admin that makes changes like this in the ACP, so there's no worry there with anyone else adding things. I haven't made any changes yet, I'll dig into that tomorrow afternoon when I have time to sit down with it.

An example where I was blocked is when I was in the ACP and went to change the Advertisement settings, where I have my Adsense code set. Once I tried to submit the changes, I got the "You're Blocked!! You're a Hacker!!" page from GoDaddy ... ok, it didn't call me a hacker, but it did say that I was blocked for trying to cross script. One of the members on my site was posting a news article, which didn't contain any pictures or other things of that sort, just text, and he got the same 'You're blocked!' screen. So I have to wonder if there's people trying to access the site who can't, or people who are trying to register and can't.

The board that I'm referencing in this post is fairly new (1 month live as of the 20th). I have Friendly URL's enabled, but index.php?/ is still part of the URL. Is there a good reason to rewrite the URL's to eliminate that? Is there an even better reason NOT to rewrite, such as major problems that it may cause? Like I said, the board is new, but there's around 50,000 posts at this point. I don't want to do something that's going to screw things up if the current setup is just fine.

I just implemented GoDaddy's firewall service on my site back on the 13th. Since then, there have been a few issues. One of which I just discovered yesterday and it was that all of the visitors (guests and members) were being assigned the same IP addresses. I found the "Trust IP addresses provided by proxies" setting and set it to be on, and now that's resolved. But some members have told me that they're getting error messages saying that GoDaddy's firewall is blocking them due to cross scripting, when they're only trying to post as normal. I've even had it block me when I'm in the ACP doing normal admin stuff. I had to go and whitelist my IP to prevent that from happening. But trying to whitelist any and everyone isn't a reasonable thing to do. That's why I sought out anything (here), about GoDaddy's firewall service. I want the protection, but not if it does more 'harm' (for lack of a better word), than it does help. Is the firewall service just a superfluous service for an IP board or is it a genuinely beneficial thing to have? When I had them implement it, my belief was the latter. But I'm curious to know some other opinions/experiences.

Thanks. I'm sure it's stated somewhere, but any idea of when 4.5 will be ready to download and test?

They did away with chat a few years ago, so I'd be surprised to see it come back.

My first board was started way back in 2003 and I did a ton of customizing on that, both with addons and the skin. It seemed like every few months, there was an upgrade and that would break a lot of my addons and my skin. After a few rounds of that, I just stopped upgrading. This new board has no addons, and the skin is customized, but only slightly. Is this new upgrade worth upgrading to, feature wise? I really don't want to get caught up in that vicious upgrade cycle again.

I just created my board in mid-April, well, my second board. Will there be significant changes in the new version from the most recent version?

Is there a way to get the stats in raw numbers as opposed to getting the graphs? I'd like to more easily track how many 'guests' are visiting the board and seeing the raw numbers would be easier.

Is there an easy way of hiding the 'Support' tab? Also, is there a simple way to rename the 'store'?

Thanks, I'd have sworn I'd tried that and it didn't work but doing it now works, so I must not have.

I want to enable posting HTML for the Admin group, I've enabled it in the group permissions but HTML is still not posting properly. Am I missing a step that needs to be completed?

Thanks, I just have to decide if it will be a useful module for me to add.

I'm thinking of adding Pages to my forum, but I don't want the Pages installation to become the 'home page', I'd want the forum to be the home page with Pages as an additional section. If I purchase and install Pages, will that automatically become the Home Page or would I have the option of designating that?