Randy Calvert

I would suggest looking at:

Here’s a stupid question… why not simply make a modal popup yourself and link it into the existing signup with Google workflow? This would not show the user’s existing Google accounts but would be that “in your face” prompt. Otherwise you might need to engage a 3rd party resource developer to create a new login method for you.

The API creates a local account instead tieing to Google. So that won’t work.

There is no pre set option to do this, but you could certainly look at editing your theme to add the code. You’ll most likely need to wrap it in template logic to only show it to guests.

127.0.0.1 is not a real IP address. It’s a local loopback address. If you converted from another forum that did not keep IP information, it would show 127.0.0.1. Either way, IP banning is not effect in modern days. For example, VPNs allow users to switch IPs instantly. Being on a mobile device as you wander around town would change your address. Anyone who has dynamically assigned IP addresses from their ISP would also get new addresses from time to time. Regarding dealing with spam, have you setup hCaptcha and increased the challenge difficulty? Have you setup registration question/answer challenges with questions that are relevant to your community but not to general spammers? (For a Star Trek site, something like “Who was Captain Kirk’s first officer?”) You should also check out the third party resource CleanTalk which can help filter out spam registrations… https://cleantalk.org/help/install-ipboard4

The first time is always the hardest! Glad you got it squared away!!

Also check if mod_pagespeed is installed by your host. If it is, it creates a server-side version of cached files which can cause problems for IPB as it does not expect the server to rewrite various JS, etc.

The forums here are not the place to ask that however. Jim and Mark in support can’t make that decision and it’s not related to support. While Matt and members of management may browse the topics, it’s not the correct place to make the request. If you want to actually ask, there is a contact us link at the bottom footer that will allow you to submit a request to the accounts department. Just don’t be upset if the answer is “no”. 🙂 Like you’re free to make the ask, they’re free to choose if the ask is accommodated or not.

There is not a big huge benefit. It's more OCD when viewing the member list. 😄 The benefits I can think about would be having more usernames available for reuse if deleted, etc. Personally I see it as a bad thing as you lose the logs of bad emails that could try again. It also has basically any record completely gone, etc.

I’ve been looking at houses lately… there are quite a few that I would like, but I can’t afford $10M USD. Those owners could be much more reasonable and sell it to me for $1M USD. In fact some of them bought their house for under $500K so since I can’t afford $10M, I should get it for what I want it to be? (That seller could still make money!) 😄 I personally don’t find value in the price IPS has assigned to Copyright removal. But it’s their price to assign and that price was known before purchase. They don’t want to be selling copyright removals. It’s not how they build their business model around. It’s intentionally priced to prevent people from doing it. And it looks like it’s doing its job. (It’s not gotten a price raise when the core platform cost went up… just be glad they’re not scaling it up as well!)

As a hobbyist site, how is a single line, four word copyright line going to change anything for your site? In over 30 years of running sites, I’ve never seen an end user say something like “well I just can’t use this site because they’re using <INSERT SOME NAME> platform instead of writing their own from scratch even though they have great content.” It’s purely a vanity play. IPS has clearly is not wanting the copyright removal option to be a big revenue stream. And why should they? Instead of simply saying “it must stay”, they give you an option to pay to remove it. If it’s too much for a hobbyist site… you honestly don’t need it in the first place. Would you rather IPS raise the renewal rate $100 per year and remove the branding? How much more discrete do you honestly want it to be? It is literally four words at the end of the footer in the smallest font. It would be different if there was a big popup that must be clicked by users acknowledging the site was powered by IPB or if it required you to put a big banner ad pointing to them at the top of your site. If you’re asking for being able to style the font color to your background color or to make the font 1px size… you’re intentionally asking for the ability to remove it. If you don’t want it… buy the option. If the price is too much, it obviously is not that big of a deal. It’s been there for over 25 years and not changed so it’s not like this is some brand new thing to come up.

Matt did not say that self-hosted customers won't be able to test IPB5. It said that those who test it will be testing from a cloud-hosted instance. This means you won't be able to upgrade your live site to v5, but you should not be doing that PERIOD right now. It does means anyone testing would get a brand new, fresh instance cloud hosted instance to login to the ACP and play with settings, etc. Later in the development process the self-hosted download version would come out... but that does not mean you could not test the hosted version in the mean time.

Would it be possible to choose to receive on-site notifications as well (aka "the bell")? This looks really interesting and is going to challenge me to think about how I organize content now. I can absolutely see potentially consolidating a few forums... I can also see being able to have a page that has images, files, and topics on a single subject as being a great way to start building documentation, etc.

The defined site name is not used in the spot. The translation of the word “Forums” is. So even though you made that variable your site name, it does not change the variable itself to use the same one you noted above. You’ll need to remember to translate the language. (You can cheat going forward and just search for “The Virtual Networking” to find the translated value as well instead of which forum language key.)

Is that file in the same folder as your conf_global.php? Someone recently was putting that file in the wrong location a day or so ago, thus why I’m mentioning.

You can still see and manage any 3rd party resource you installed from your ACP. Have you contacted the resource author directly? Most have their own site and still offering their resources there that you can upload/install. Otherwise if the author has given up on the resource… maybe you can hire another to troubleshoot/fix it. The marketplace being gone does not force third party developers to no longer offer their services. If they were quitting or already gone, marketplace would not have changed it. 🙂

Inside of the conf_global.php file, the most important thing to check is that the MySQL database info is correct. (Database name, database user, and database user password.) If the main site is loading and you can access the ACP and main page of the site, this will be fine as you would be erroring out if it could not connect to the DB. After the site migrated, I would suggest going to your ACP’s support section and clearing the system cache. It’s possible one of the template cache files was corrupted in the migration. Clearing the cache will rebuild those various files. I PERSONALLY would also try clearing my browser cache as well, but that may not be necessary. (I like to eliminate as many potential issues as possible in my troubleshooting!)

If your server is migrated, hopefully the host is copying everything for you including the files and database. If not, you’ll want to make sure they get copied and the database restored. I would also recommend running the compatibility checker script to make sure the new server you are migrated to has all of the necessary modules etc. Finally you also want to make sure you are only running PHP 8.0 or 8.1. (There are known issues with 8.2/8.3.)

You would need to find a 3rd party resource developer and ask them. IPS does not offer this service. https://invisioncommunity.com/third-party/providers-directory/

Many moons ago, IPB had an image proxy to handle situations where users would try to link to HTTP images on a HTTPS site. It did something similar but was removed a long time back. As this does not exist today, don’t forget to post the ask in the feedback forum so it’s not lost in the Support Sea. 🙂

This is not possible in the default software. I had a third party resource author do something similar for gallery app, so it should be possible with custom development. I’m not aware of anything prebuilt for it however.

Misread post. There is a separate thread regarding mysql8…. It might be worth looking at it even though you’re not on 8.

Typically this is either a problem with the ZIP module or a problem with file ownership issues.

To build on this, how would this impact reviews?

Because it was not a “real” fix. Turning the forum offline basically disallows anything from happening. Serving that offline page takes very little resources. It’s like saying you fixed a problem with your car by turning it off. Sure its no longer making the sound… but its not what caused it to happen. 🙂