Randy Calvert

It sounds like you're trying to do password reset activities through screen scraping. It might be better to look at doing this through the REST API. It would not be subject to CAPTCHA requests, etc. It's also designed to be interacted with in a programmatic way.

If everything is working on your site for now, I would just keep going. You might want to consider sharing the error logs with the respective app authors so they can investigate and possibly provide an update.

Are you a self hosted customer or cloud hosted? If self hosted, download a copy of your MySQL database and also download a copy of all of your site files. Your host might be able to generate a full backup of your account as well. So check with them too for guidance!

Check out https://invisioncommunity.com/online Just add /online to your board address. There is also an online member widget to add this info to the homepage in the sidebar!

It sounds like you don’t have a full upgrade package. Not being able to reply to posts sounds like a JS might be missing. Try downloading a full copy from the client area and uploading them. If the updater did. It run, hit yourdomain.com/admin/upgrade and see if it wants to do anything extra. Once that completes, clear your system cache from the support section of the ACP.

Look at creating a stream. One of the default out of the box streams is just unread content. On this site an example is: https://invisioncommunity.com/discover/unread/ You can customize this to show only specific forums, show all content, content you started, content you participated in, etc. There are lots of ways to slice and dice the data. You can define new default streams in your AdminCP.

Just make sure to keep up with the updates and they should be relatively painless. Your biggest risk is that with plugins breaking things. Make sure you’re familiar with recovery mode to disable plugins and you’ll be able to recover pretty quickly in the event you run into problems you did not see in a testing environment.

The minor point upgrade will be SUPER easy. It literally took all of 2-3 minutes. These sub releases are generally pretty safe. Just to make sure to take a snapshot first in case you have to roll back. I literally have not had to roll back once in any of the point updates. By the way... upgrading from 3-4 is a BEAST. Once on 4 though, it's been super easy. As long as you keep up with the upgrades, it generally is smooth. It's when you get years out of date and versions of php/mysql change, etc that you encounter difficulty.

Don't you love those moments of looking at the release notes and saying to yourself "yup... that was me!!"

4.6.10’s beta release notes don’t make any references to Zapier itself but it did add new web hooks which look like can be integrated with Zapier. From the screenshot posted by Daniel in the first post, there looks to be a lot of remove calls added.

They should already be “friendly”. It should be: yourdomain.com/clubs/ID-NAME This is replacing the “real” path of index.php?app=core&module=clubs&controller=view IPS will tell you to not change it and leave it alone as customizing it is outside of their support. This is because you can break stuff super easy if you don’t know what you’re doing. With that said… In the Customize Friendly URLs section of the ACP, you’ll find the mapping and could technically change it. However you would still need the ID included. If you don’t include a sub folder and try to make it just yourdomain.com/club1 you run the risk of someone breaking your site if they create a club with a special name that’s already used such as messenger, topics, etc. You could MANUALLY define a single club to have a friendly name like that safely but it’s super risky to just let it get auto created. So the long answer here it’s possible but highly unrecommended.

Before rushing to judgement, could it simply be their license is expired at the moment and they have not renewed it yet?

The CleanTalk anti spam plugin in the marketplace is 8 bucks a year, but has been very good at helping prevent spam registrations AND contact us spam messages. It’s not perfect but has reduced spam by around 90% for my community.

Pixabay works by having metadata keywords for each image. The challenge with IPB is that attachments can be more than just images. It also means for every object added the author would have to add keywords to describe it. If they don’t add keywords or don’t add the right keywords, it becomes useless. Similar to using tags.

By any chance have you tried creating a new default theme and testing if it’s happening there as well? I’m wondering if it’s a theme issue with the new version. You’re still seeing 404s after uploading files so it’s possible your theme is calling something not used anymore.

Remember… IPB does have background activities going on. For example the worker that checks for new private messages, or updates of new posts while reading a thread. These are not high resource activities, but if you combine that with a person having 50 other tabs open and other programs running … it could contribute to a lack of resources.

This happens to me across MANY different sites… Facebook, Twitter, etc. I tend to see it more on sites that use AJAX calls to load additional content.

This is a known issue. It’s been fixed for the next beta release.

To give an example... when I was first moving a live site from Xenforo to IPB... I needed to do a "mock conversion" to make sure I could get through a conversion without having my site offline for a day and nothing to show for it. As a result, I had to install my IPB installation in a different hostname. Because of SSL issues, I had to change it again. IPS staff helped waive this for me so that I could get the conversion actually done and then moved to the final live domain once ready. Generally it's a system designed to prevent abuse. If they see you're not abusing it, they're pretty flexible working with you to make sure you don't get impacted.

To build on finding reports… a couple of really helpful features that I could think of include: - Add a search box in the in the report list to search for specific keywords etc. - In the filter list, add ability to search for the name of the person who submitted and/or the person reported - In the AdminCP under the user profile, add a section that shows links to reports. You can see warnings, but there is no way to see reports about the member.

Are you talking about on the emails? ACP - Commerce - Support - Settings - Outgoing Emails Change “The name of the staff member replying” to “The department name”.

A client does not “enter” their IP. It’s set by the ISP typically via DHCP. If the ISP changes what IP is assigned, then IF another member of your site also has the same ISP AND gets that same IP… one of two scenarios occurs based on what you configure: Most likely you would want to use the second option if you are concerned about legitimate users overlapping IP usage.

Awesome!! Glad to know you got it squared away!!

As noted above, disabling copying is very easily bypassed by someone who wants to copy data. They could grab it from the browser developer tools, taking screenshots, or another dozen methods. Anything you do will simply make things more difficult for legitimate users without stopping determined bad actors.