Randy Calvert

Yes, it removes PMs, profiles, posts, gallery content, files, etc. It’s like they never existed.

If that content was set to 7 days, you can’t retro change it to one day. It would take effect for new deletions.

They used to do this. However this prevents them from doing some cool things with the software to make it more seamless and powerful. IPS is moving in a direction of wanting to create powerful features that literally tie everything together. That becomes almost impossible when you have to build tons of logic around if you have this module but not that module or you only have 3 of the 4 modules, etc. Affordable is a relative term. The initial cost is $499 for the first year. That's literally $1.37 per day. Subsequent years are $199 a year. That means it's $0.55 per day after the first year. Would you work for less than what you feel you are worth? IPS assigns a value to their products that allows them to pay a LOT of people that are continually adding new features and capabilities. Just because the price may not match what you want to pay does not mean it's not fair or affordable. Would you go up to a Ferrari dealership and tell them they should sell you a Portofino for the cost of a Prius because you don't like the price?

This is not a port/protocol issue. IPS is a website... so it would use TCP 80/443. If this was a basic issue like that, you would not even be connecting to the site whatsoever. If you put a WAF in place, you're going to have literally hundreds of rules. These all vary from WAF vendor to WAF vendor. There is not a central "WAF rule database" to say you should specifically override and allow rule 990294 and 100111. This is basically you decided to hire a security guard to sit in front of your website. The website (IPS) is not aware of that guard. Who they allow in depends on what you tell them to. Sometimes out of the box rules don't behave the way you expect them to... this is called a false positive. You would have to either look in your WAF rules to see what is triggering and create an exception, or turn it off. But again, IPS does not even use your WAF to know what rules it has, how it is configured, or what needs to be allowed.

And for the love of everything good in the world… start keeping backups. You’re literally playing with fire by not having good/recent backups. If your website is ANYWHERE near important to you, this should be a priority for you.

It’s not available yet. It’s still in alpha testing. 4.7.17 is the latest version currently available.

I would look if you have something like CSF or mod_security installed. As this is a server configuration issue, IPS can’t help/advise on how your server is configured.

There has not been any changes to video embedding so far in v5. That does not mean it won't ever change, but it's not going to happen most likely soon.

I’m not sure you want IPS to do here. This is a third party resource. They’re not going to change the core software for something developed by someone else. I get you’re wanting to improve SEO, but this is not an IPS problem to solve since it’s not broken in the unmodified software.

I would recommend looking at the permissions of other files comparing them. They should essentially match. Once you set them, I would check again to make sure the change actually took effect. Ultimately file ownership and permissions is a server level function. IPS is a software package, it can't control your server or set these things for you. If your host won't assist with server level issues, I would highly recommend a new host.

This is not in the current 5.x alphas.

This is not something likely to occur. It’s not something talked about previously and IPS does not have teams of non-English speakers on staff to translate. If it is something they include by default, it becomes something they must maintain. Given the lack of resources to do so, it’s unlikely to occur.

I obviously don’t have your numbers and I don’t even know if IPS would. Those numbers are not broken down anywhere. However as I used SES for a long time, I saw my own numbers. If it is all transactional emails such as users registering, PM notifications, etc… that number will be pretty low. My site has 200-400 users at a time with more than 15K total users. We would generate no more than 100-200 in an hour. (Most mail providers don’t look at mails per hour and instead have a limit of mails per second.) But if you’re doing mass mailings to users, that number would be dramatically higher.

This would be a Facebook issue. They're the ones actually doing the authorization and passing back the "valid" token. The issue is not on the IPB side, but instead on the Facebook side. Personally with the way Facebook continually changes its rules all the time, I would suggest migrating users away from it. Eventually down the road, they're going to make it even more difficult for small non-mega sites to leverage the solution and you'll have even more problems later OR... you'll find them change their rules one day without telling you and you find the app does not work without any notice and you're dealing with the fire drill at a time when it's super bad for you.

If you're going to list 20k forums, you're talking about a page that would scroll FOREVER and a bad user experience.

While I don’t know the plan for wiki style editing, Pages itself is not deprecated. In fact, Pages gets a bunch of nice enhancements in 5.x and is not going away anytime soon. Also the official depreciation tracker is here: https://invisioncommunity.com/deprecation-tracker/ It does not mention anything about the wiki style editing being removed, so I would venture a reasonable guess to say it’s not scheduled for removal. In terms of “5 years”, it’s next to impossible to say what will happen in that time. As far as we know, aliens take over the world in 4 years! IPS is focused on releasing 5.0 and not 5.5. So I would not expect them to comment on things that far out and I doubt they have any real plans that far anyway. 🙂

What you’re looking to do is not possible in the base software. htaccess is not aware of a logged in user credential or permission so it would not work. You would need some sort of third party resource to do what you want.

You can block single IPs or blocks of IPs through .htaccess but that’s completely not associated with IPB. Thats a server level function. https://htaccessbook.com/block-ip-address/

While I was still self hosted, I 100 percent set it up outside of IPB. If you’re using a control panel like cpanel, Plesk or DirectAdmin, they’ll do it for you. There is nothing that IPS can do that would make it easier because even if they generated a DKIM private key for you, it could not be installed. If you actually need help generating the private key, instead of having IPB do it … there are tons of generators online. https://powerdmarc.com/dkim-record-generator/ You’re asking IPB to do the equivalent of configuring your mail server. These are the high level steps for setting up DKIM: Generate a key pair: You can use your email service provider or DNS management platform to generate a unique cryptographic key pair for your domain. The tool you use will depend on your operating system. 1. Create a TXT record: Add the public DKIM key as a TXT record in your domain's DNS settings. — This is gone with a generator like above. 2. Configure your email server: Enable DKIM signing in your email server or sending platform. — This is done by your control panel or hosting provider (or via SSH root). 3. Test your setup: Verify that DKIM signing is turned on and that DKIM authentication is working. — This is done by you. There is no step in this process where IPB can be realistically inserted in a valuable way. DKIM is not “inserted” into emails. It’s done by the mail server as a signature from what actually sent it. It’s added by your mail server not the raw sent message. Once DKIM is setup, it applied to ANYTHING sent by the mail server for your domain including other PHP scripts your site. Think of it as an hosting account (or root) level function and not a script level function.

DKIM has nothing to do with the software. It’s a server level / DNS level function. This is technically impossible for IPS to do for self hosted customers.

This did not happen on my upgrades.

When you login to the ACP, is there any activities listed in the background processes section of the dashboard?

I’ve noticed if it’s an account with a lot of posts, merging accounts sometimes show up as guest until the process 100 pct finishes. Have you confirmed the merge activity is actually fully complete. Moving to the new account looks to be the last thing done.

In looking at the IPB API, it looks like you can get the last login date/time from it. https://invisioncommunity.com/developers/rest-api?endpoint=core/members/GETitem You could have a script created that checks members and then uses the same endpoint as a post to change the member group ID.