Randy Calvert

You trust you moderators to do things like edit, hide/delete content, etc but not profiles? Personally if they can’t be trusted to mess with profiles, they should not be trusted with the other tools.

ACP - System - Content Discovery - Streams Edit the default stream.

If you are worried about the activity stream only you could edit the various streams to filter out clubs also.

With open clubs, anyone can see the content in it. That I believe includes discoverability. You might need to make it a closed or private club if you don’t want its content seen by non-club members.

What are the privacy settings of the club that people are seeing content from? Some club settings allow seeing content even if they are not a member. And have you checked if it’s a closed club that a leader has not set a section to allow anyone to participate?

I’m using IPS now. Before that, I managed my own AWS instances and before that, I had a VPS from KnownHost. I moved my site to IPS as I was tired of worrying about managing servers, etc. It was also part of ensuring the site survival. Most of the people in my site’s community know nothing about hosting accounts or servers or what it takes to keep a site online. By having IPS take care of software and hosting, if something happens to me, one of the other admins can take over the bill and just keep running the site as it is today without needing to learn a bunch of new stuff.

Those are absolutely server issues then as IPB has nothing to do with accessing those services! Good luck.

This is not done within the IPB software. This is done though DNS with things like SPF and DKIMM. Unless you have a registered trademark on your logo (this is supposed to be changing) and are prepared to spend north of $1000 a year for the BIMI VMC certificate, this can’t be done. https://support.google.com/a/answer/10911028?hl=en Each email provider decides what certificate companies they will accept. Google only supports Entrust and DigiCert currently.

It will exist through the 4.x series but it will not exist in the 5.0 series. So it’s up to you to decide if you want to use it for whatever time you remain in the 4.x versions. If you add it, just realize it will be gone later and you’ll have to figure out something else at that time. When you deal with the pain is up to you.

Remember there are multiple servers and components involved. You’re thinking in terms of single servers where it’s binary… up or down and there is nothing in between. In enterprise architectures, there might be an outage that affects a percentage of users. It could literally be somewhere between 0 and 100. Users in a geographic location might only have problems or users that happened to connect to one portion of their network might be impacted. Most monitoring services (if they’re worth anything) check from multiple locations and report a failure when enough reporting stations agree there is a problem. So it might not catch isolated or regional issues that does not have widespread impact.

There is no risk from SEARCHING the term. There is a risk if the server processes it, which it does not. IPB safely will not EXECUTE any code entered into the search form. But there is nothing wrong or unsafe searching it.

He’s good at that sorta thing! 🤩

This can be done with overall online status. For example on this site: https://invisioncommunity.com/settings/account-security/ There is an option to hide online status.

It should not, but you have to manage permissions etc. If it does not run as a privileged user, you’ll have to deal with file ownership etc. It all depends on exactly how it’s setup and managed.

The easiest solution is not to use cron. You could also swap your merchant API keys to use a dev API key on your API site.

When you switched your site to PHP 8.1 did you make sure it has all of the necessary system requirements? It’s not uncommon for different versions of PHP on the server to not match modules and for people to be missing a required module when switching versions.

I’m glad you were able to get to the bottom of the issue!

For your first issue… have the host disable the old shared hosting version. Basically the only place your data should be “active” is the new server. Next… make sure your conf_global.php reflects the correct URL that you want (including http vs https prefix). After that is correct, make sure you clear your system cache in ACP support section. For your second issue, that path mentioned does not look like a default IPB setup. Are you using a 3rd party mail service like Sendgrid? If so, you might need to fix your setup there. If you’re using the default phpmail, you might have some sort of third party resource that is acting up.

You’re thinking in very static terms here. There is not “one cache”. Each physical point of presence in the CDN network has its own cache. This means if a user in Washington DC accesses the content at 12:01 a user in Chicago accessing the same page at 12:09 would not get that cached version as it came from different edge servers. There are over 300 unique physical locations around the world for the CDN that IPS uses. So in reality… most “real” users are not getting old versions of content. And this kind of action is done because a MAJORITY of users don’t gain anything by having shorter periods of time. Even a site with hundreds of users online at a time are not accessing the same page/content AND also coming from the same physical location. You’re paying IPS to manage the infrastructure and to make users get a good experience. Let them do that. Caching is a good thing. For example it helps SEO as Google (a guest) gets a super fast version of the site. It reduces the risk and impact of DDoS attacks as cached content does not generate server load and allows the network to scale more effectively. It also allows IPS to control infrastructure costs and not need to charge you as much to deliver cached content to what in a majority of cases is not even a real human viewing content as a guest. (Did you know that basically 50 percent of ALL web traffic comes from bots?!) The value derived from serving that “live” is even further minimized.

It’s honestly gotten to the point where it’s not worth the effort to try and maintain.

You can put the full IPB system into maintenance mode from ACP - System - Settings - General Configuration. The second option is “Site Online”… set that option as off. You can even control the message users get during the time the site is marked as offline.

There is no sort of workflow management outside of simply selecting Going, Maybe, or Decline (at least that I can find after using it awhile). It would require some sort of customization to add the described functionality.

When you opened the topic did you go to the last page (or the one with the newest posts)?