Randy Calvert

Out of curiosity.... what exactly does "Trending" mean? Is it a topic that has more than X views? The topics with the most views in a time period? Something different?

Can you actually browse to the ads.txt file and see the contents correctly? If so… you can ignore the warning. It will be fine.

If I had to venture a guess, it's displaying them in order of first post into the topic.

Also... you can can set groups like Admins and Moderators to be able to bypass limits on PM quota. ACP > Members > Groups Select a group that needs to be able to bypass the limit (like admins). Choose the "Social" tab and change "Override recipients' storage quota?" to be enabled.

It's on the bottom left of the PM screen. https://invisioncommunity.com/messenger/ Look below your list of messages for "Disable My Messenger" You can also check from the ACP. View the member's account and find: If you click Enable Messenger it will re-enable it.

Have you switched Cloudflare off entirely? (Meaning the orange cloud is grey) Turning on bypass mode will not work as it would still flow through Cloudflare servers but just without caching. Setting the proxy status to Off actually changes the request to 100% go directly to origin without touching CF.

There is more than just the server to consider as well. For example, if you're using Cloudflare (or another cloud security solution), there is a limit on the Max Upload size allowed. If you're using mod_security, it could possibly cause issues if it's configured to look at uploads. Basically you need to evaluate EVERYTHING between you and the server... including your full security stack. That's something that would happen with your host. 🙂

First try rebuilding your system cache from the ACP support area. If that does not work next try uninstalling the marketplace addon to see if it’s an app specific issue.

Absolutely. Check out https://invisioncommunity.com/clientarea/free-trial/ It will let you sign up for a cloud hosted instance that has all of the various applications available for you to kick the tires with.

If it's working for you, feel free to use it. Just realize it's not officially supported. If you run into issues and need official support, you will be asked to switch to 8.0.x to confirm the problem is not related to an 8.1.x compatibility issue.

Just to be VERY clear... IPS has said multiple times that there are literally ZERO plans to remove self hosting options at this time. Any other comment to the contrary is 100% pure speculation by individuals outside of IPS who are not subject to those decisions and are not qualified to say that the self hosted option is disappearing. There is nothing to "begin" as it's not going away. 🙂

Can you post a link to your ads.txt? It should just be www.yourdomain.com/ads.txt. I'm just wanting to check to make sure you've properly disabled the default HTML wrapper.

Yup... new links from the IPB software are showing up as HTTPS. https://www.hoosiersportsnation.com/index.php?/topic/10442-i-promise-that-wasnt-a-crash/ However you can still access that URL via HTTP if someone had pasted a link to it for example, I can manually change that link above to: http://www.hoosiersportsnation.com/index.php?/topic/10442-i-promise-that-wasnt-a-crash/ Any links posted by members or links indexed by Google over HTTP are not being forced to HTTPS. You just need to enforce your site redirecting HTTP requests to HTTPS. If you're using cPanel, you can check out the following blog post: https://blog.cpanel.com/force-https-redirection/ Otherwise you can just modify your .htaccess file in your main website folder to add the HTTPS redirect to it. (See my earlier post.)

I obviously am not calling you a liar or trying to blame you as you're having problems, but that has not happened on any of my sites. It does not happen as part of the default software upgrade process that most customers experience. So there is something either specific in your hosting setup or in your current configuration that is causing those problems. The IPS staff can help if it's something in your software configuration, but won't be able to do much if it's something in your server (apache or mysql) setup.

Could you give us an example? Specifically one where it's good and one where it's not working? My GUESS is your server has both HTTP and HTTPS support enabled. If you had old links posted that had the HTTP version, those would try to go to the non-secure version and could result in a mix-mode issue So you MIGHT need to put in a redirect to send anything directed to HTTP to HTTPS transparently. This can be done via your .htaccess file... Find RewriteEngine On Under it add: RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301,NE] That will tell your server if it receives any connection on port 80 (HTTP) to automatically direct the request to your HTTPS version of your URL and keep the rest of the path/URL in place. (http://www.domain.com/path/to/logo.jpg would redirect automatically to https://www.domain.com/path/to/logo.jpg)

@DawPi would you mind sharing what bot user agents you are detecting? I specifically wanted to check on AdsBot-Google-Mobile (both Android and Web), AdsBot-Google, and Mediapartners-Google. I'm also curious about other Google ones noted at https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/overview-google-crawlers I was wanting to move Google's Adsense and their ad quality checking bots from default Guest to Members group since there is some content that is not available to guests that Google needs to get access to. This sounds like it could work if it detects these bots.

I agree it's better to lead than follow. And that's what I think IPS is doing. Rather than simply trying to stay a software company that makes a web-based application, they're reinventing themselves to be a company that enables communities... both as a turnkey solution and as a self-hosted service. I disagree with your statement that it's better to sell more products at a cheaper price. Sometimes it's better to focus on quality than quantity. If you have a premium product, you can get a premium price for it. Apple is a great example of this... it makes more from its hardware AND its services than others that just churn out cheap devices. If a company simply focuses on being cheap, it becomes an effort to simply cut corners and not necessarily do the "cool" thing or work on other things simply because it's not going to drive new revenue. That's a rather presumptuous statement that self-hosted customers should not be made to feel disappointed. That literally queues a thousand Karen videos about people who felt disappointed for things they should not. Instead I would make the argument that companies should try to do right by their customers... ALL of their customers. Sometimes it's not possible to give everyone what they want... especially at the price they want. (Heck, I want a Tesla Model X Plaid and I want to pay only 60K for it.... since I have a Model 3, they should give it to me cheaper right?!) But the question becomes then what's right? IPS has already said that the self hosted model will continue and that there are no plans to end it. Customers are not being forced to move to cloud hosted plans. They've even changed the "upgrade" to cloud button to change the text and make it dismissible. (Again, I never had a problem with it since end-users never saw it and it's not in the way.) They listened to those who felt it was a horrible slight and changed it. In addition there are new features in the works that will apply to all licenses as well. Just because a few features are only available to cloud instances (because they require advanced features and do not work in all standard LAMP stack environments) does not mean the company is trying to screw over self hosted customers. IPS is trying to do right by its customers and listens to feedback. Just because they can't do everything that every customer asks does not mean they don't care. And could it mean that a customer gets disappointed as a result? Absolutely... and that would be fair for them to feel that way. But at the same time, IPS can still do right by their customers by listening to that feedback and where it makes sense implementing it.

I'm only giving a couple of the "big names" that are showcased on the IPS homepage. There are many more that have been linked over the years. With that being said... if it did not have sites actually using it, they would not be heavily investing in it. It makes sense for them to follow the math in terms of where the majority of their users are. If they don't... they would not survive as a company. If you want a few more... hit Google. For example in the paste above, you can see some hostnames contain SOMETHING.invisionservice.com. https://www.google.com/search?q=site:*.invisionservice.com That returns several thousand results. That also does not include sites that don't use that specific domain, etc. So while it's not all inclusive, it's certainly proves there are a heck of a lot more than just 3 sites on CiC. 😉

Take a look at some of the brands listed on IPS' homepage... For example: [ec2-user@hooboy ~]$ dig discussion.evernote.com ; <<>> DiG 9.11.4-P2-RedHat-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.5.2 <<>> discussion.evernote.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 17018 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 6, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;discussion.evernote.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: discussion.evernote.com. 283 IN CNAME evernote.ipsdns.com. evernote.ipsdns.com. 283 IN CNAME evernote.invisionmanaged.net. evernote.invisionmanaged.net. 43 IN A 52.85.151.126 evernote.invisionmanaged.net. 43 IN A 52.85.151.26 evernote.invisionmanaged.net. 43 IN A 52.85.151.29 evernote.invisionmanaged.net. 43 IN A 52.85.151.70 ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 10.0.0.2#53(10.0.0.2) ;; WHEN: Tue May 24 19:26:11 EDT 2022 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 191 [ec2-user@hooboy ~]$ dig community.creations.mattel.com ; <<>> DiG 9.11.4-P2-RedHat-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.5.2 <<>> community.creations.mattel.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41972 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;community.creations.mattel.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: community.creations.mattel.com. 300 IN CNAME x311865.invisionservice.com. x311865.invisionservice.com. 60 IN A 99.84.208.42 x311865.invisionservice.com. 60 IN A 99.84.208.2 x311865.invisionservice.com. 60 IN A 99.84.208.9 x311865.invisionservice.com. 60 IN A 99.84.208.120 ;; Query time: 6 msec ;; SERVER: 10.0.0.2#53(10.0.0.2) ;; WHEN: Tue May 24 19:26:45 EDT 2022 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 161 [ec2-user@hooboy ~]$ dig community.jennycraig.com ; <<>> DiG 9.11.4-P2-RedHat-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.5.2 <<>> community.jennycraig.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31713 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;community.jennycraig.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: community.jennycraig.com. 300 IN CNAME jennycraig.invisionmanaged.net. jennycraig.invisionmanaged.net. 60 IN A 52.85.151.20 jennycraig.invisionmanaged.net. 60 IN A 52.85.151.18 jennycraig.invisionmanaged.net. 60 IN A 52.85.151.123 jennycraig.invisionmanaged.net. 60 IN A 52.85.151.15 There are three right there. 🙂

Is this a self-hosted forum or a IPS cloud forum? If it's self hosted... Make a full backup of your data (just in case!) Remove all of the IPS related files from your website Remove the mySQL database and database user associated with your IPB instance If you're not keeping your license, submit a ticket asking for your license to be set to not be automatically renewed. https://invisioncommunity.com/contact-us/. If it's IPS hosted... Submit a ticket and ask for the service to be ended. (You might also ask for a copy of the data just in case!)

Hi Matt! Are you planning to build in additional support for event tracking such as making a commerce purchase, or tracking signups, etc?

Exactly. I just confirmed it on my own board as well! 😀 Hopefully that was able to get you squared away.

Correct... from the screenshot you posted above, Brand Discussion cannot have an image. However Ashton Martin and BMW Group can. You can even assign them to sub forums such as under General Motors. I have done something similar with my own site. In my example, I have images for Movies, Music, Opera, etc. The only thing that does not have a card specified is the master Media and Entertainment category itself.

ACP > Community > Forums > Forums Edit the forum you want... in the "Forum Settings" tab, find the "Grid Card Image" option and choose an image.

Try having mod_security disabled. See if that fixes your problem. If so, you can then further troubleshoot how to actually fix mod_security (or decide to leave it disabled).