Randy Calvert

By any chance are you using Cloudflare? I’ve seen this get caught up in CF caching before and was wondering if that might be the culprit.

Because an admin is different than a user. If you don't like the behavior, feel free to make a suggestion that it be changed in the feedback forum. Given this it is working as intended currently, there is not much more that can be done.

I would suggest using a different browser and login as a normal user for the course instead of trying to mix end user/admin.

Take a gander over at: https://invisioncommunity.com/clientarea/free-trial/

This is the manual solution to recounting the items. There is no way to have this done automatically. If you would like to see that sort of functionality in the future, you should suggest it in the feedback forum.

I don't think this is possible in the default software. It would require some sort of customization as far as I'm aware of. Marc is typing, so he can confirm if I'm crazy. :)

Nothing unless you run a rebuild of the post count or rebuild achievements, etc.

The biggest change is if you let your license expire for more than X time it can’t be renewed anymore and needs to be bought again. This is to stop those that might say wait 3 years to renew and expect to keep the same price. The software is meant to be a subscription renewed regularly not at random intervals whenever someone decides they want to.

You're not accounting for things such as SSL setup, or setting up the CDN, configuration of mail delivery and a bunch of other things that are required as part of the process. That also does not include the time to test or handle DNS setup, etc. But that's the value of having IPS handle everything... you don't have to worry about all of that. That cost you're paying covers them doing all of the things that need done. And the size itself of the database itself does not really change the time it takes. The database import time is basically wall time, but the majority of tasks are things that have to be done regardless if the site has 1 post or 1 billion posts.

As someone who has done a migration to cloud, I know first hand the time and effort is much more than “15 minutes” of work. All in on migration day itself was around 4-5 hours of work by Marc and the planning part was another 2-3 hours with Olivia. Any migration fee is not a profit center by any means. At the end of the day, you have to look at the TCO of the service including the migration costs. If it’s not worth it for you, stay self hosted. IPS has committed to having that option for v5. I found the service to be well worth it overall.

How about for 210 EUR? You don't need the business level package to access courses. The enhanced courses and lessons package is available with the "Team" level package. That's almost 60% less than you're quoting. :) If that's still too much, there is the "Creator Pro" which includes the basic version of courses for 136 EUR a month. So there are absolutely cheaper ways of getting access to Courses for less than 500 EUR a month. But again, if you're simply saying you want a $5 marketplace app, this is not likely to happen.

This code looks like someone ATTEMPTING to use SQL injections through account registrations. It looks like they're trying to register the usernames 1=1 and a few other basic attack vectors that would allow execution of unintended SQL commands. These don't work in Invision Community and is not a valid attack vector. Honestly this looks like a script kiddie who does not know what the scripts actually do or how to use them.

I’m going to get @Olivia Clark a new whip for Christmas this year. She clearly needs it with all the efforts to keep everyone in line and on time!

If specific users are having login issues, try having them clear their cache/cookies. That’s caught a few folks. :)

This looks like what happened here:

Check the logs in the ACP for Spam Defense. If the user had a bad reputation score and your settings are set to block those, this could explain what is going on.

If they were trying to do that specific action, yes. In terms of “is this something actually impacting the vast majority of customers”, most likely not. Courses is nowhere near the most popular app, and those that are using it most likely had it setup before this bug was introduced. So yes, the problem exists but it’s not breaking tons of sites if the feature is even used at all.

I'm glad it worked. This is one of those situations where "been there, done that" applies. :) The great thing about this being an open community is that we can all share experiences!

If there was an issue with the cookie domain or with the data it used to write the cookie values, this absolutely can cause a problem. Do with the info what you want. It does not hurt me in any way. But I'm not sure why you would not try something that literally would take two seconds to test. If it does not work, that's fine... you lost a few moments out of your day.

Moved to Github means the bug is in IPS' internal bug tracker. (This is where the developers work day-to-day.) And no, the public does not have access to it.

The only time I've seen this happen was when the cookies on the device got corrupted. I fixed it by deleting the cookies, restarting the browser, and logging in again. At that point, it was "sticky" again.

V4 vs V5 did not change any available features for cloud vs not cloud. The modern cloud offerings have always had certain restrictions depending on the plan. For example the most basic cloud offering is basically forums only. The next level does not include access to databases. That existed in both 4 and 5.

This is not possible to do currently. It would require custom code to do.

It sounds like Google was just smoking crack at the time then with the warning. :) Glad you got the issue resolved though!

Google would be viewing the page source code seeing HTTP instead of HTTPS. If you are forcing this at Cloudflare, be sure your conf_global.php says the board URL has HTTPS. That will prevent situations in which the software generates HTTP as the URL which would then need to redirect via the proxy.