Randy Calvert

Do guests have permission to see posts in that forum? Are you self hosted or cloud hosted?

The subject line and body text can be edited by editing your language pack. Search for the phrase and change it to whatever you want it to be instead. The "From" address has always been the same as every other email from the board at least for me.

Time flies when you’re having fun!

I just commented in today’s announcement that it would be handy to have the data able to be exported as a widget. Then we could just use it anywhere we wanted… either in a sidebar somewhere or on a dedicated page.

It is not available on self hosted. Matt… this looks great! Super helpful info and a great way to understand our communities more. It would be helpful to consider a way of feeding some of this data into widgets that we can include on the front end. Our members love when I post summaries from this data. For example the number and types of reactions, guests v members, etc. I would love to take a Saved Report and use it as a widget that I could drop into a side bar or a dedicated “stats” page.

This is known as BIMI… Brand Indicators for Message Identification. You can read more about it at: Valimail -How to add your email logo or brand mark to your emails -...Learn everything you need to know to implement BIMI and add your email logo (or brand mark) to your emails in the inbox.Most of the requirements are not too hard to meet (SPF/DKIM/DMARC setup) but the VMC/CMC is going to be the tough part. Those certs are not cheap… like $1000 per year for the privilege of having your logo show up. You would also have to get the site approved/verified by the cert provider who will have their own requirements in terms of if they require a business license, trademark proof, etc. Basically if you try to do this, you’ll jump through a TON of hoops and pay a bunch of money for the cert itself that makes this possible. For 99% of sites, this is too much effort for the small amount of return.

Not sure what this topic has to do with the subject line? I think you already posted this in:

I believe it only runs that task to check for updates every so often. Like every few days.

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.

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 "101 type" 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!

No, it's not possible. IPS is not hosting your media for them to be able to scan. As noted elsewhere in this topic, you can look at leveraging Cloudflare to do something similar on your own if you wish. It's not part of the AI scanning. It's done for all cloud hosted accounts automatically.

Contact Us is not being removed. What is removed is the ability to route support requests into a support ticket as there is no longer a commerce ticket system. You can choose to route those requests to an email account and respond via email. For logged in members, you can have a forum where members can only see topics they create to have private discussions with staff/moderators.

Yes, you need to change the license terms to access v5. Once you do that, you can go through the upgrade process. (Downloading the v5 files, uploading them, and then running the upgrader.)

Redis does not have a built-in memory limit by default and the IPB software cannot control how much is used/available. Redis will continue using RAM as long as there is data to store. However, you can configure a maximum memory limit in the Redis configuration file by setting the 'maxmemory' directive.

Congrats to the entire team for something that has been a long time coming. I know how much blood, sweat, and tears went into this. The end result is truly stunning and sets the foundation for some really cool stuff. I’m super excited to see what’s next and what you can do before the end of 2025.

Do you have mod_security enabled? I’ve seen that cause a similar issue. The same if PHP memory runs out. To troubleshoot you might change your PHP configuration not to suppress errors or check the PHP error log (different than the Apache error log).

That's cheap for good software development. There are not that many people using it. (Nowhere near as many as you might think.) The time and cost to maintain/support is real. IPB app developers are not bringing home huge profits from the third party resources.

If you're going to compare versions, you are better off having multiple installations. Remember... Google frequenly changes how it measures stuff. Sometimes even daily. Saying "nothing changed" ignores the fact that Google can and does change.

The one thing I’ve learned over the years is that Google is not always right and many times breaks or does not even follow its own guidance.

This would not change anything. It would mean IPS would automatically have it disabled for any cloud customer that had been moved over. It does not magically fix any past feature compatibility issues. IPS is moving to CF for security, not for the rocketloader feature.

That and I assume the savings vs AWS would be HUGE. As someone who has paid a few AWS bills before, I know how it can be a left arm, right leg, kidney, and first born. Most likely able to hire a few more people with the savings alone. 🤣