FabioPaz

For some reason Im not a candidate for the beta update, since I have an iphone 7.
 
 
 
(Yeah, I was sincerely intrigued before searching and seeing an iphone 14).

Since "android owners have enjoyed for a while", is there a tutorial how to send notifications to android users?
If this is enough "topic hijacking", please remove my comment.

Hi, 
The reputation system is still "alive", it is just not displayed anymore in the author's pane (left side of a post). We've restored it back by modifying the template in the theme. It is a little "tricky" because there is three places where you need to do it in your theme forums/front/topics/postContainer template file : 
. to restore reputation badges/levels, around original line 110, add the following code after the </li> :
{{if $comment->author()->reputationImage()}} <li data-role='reputation-image' class='ipsPadding:half'> <img src='{file="$comment->author()->reputationImage()" extension="core_Theme"}' title='{{if $comment->author()->reputation()}}{$comment->author()->reputation()}{{endif}}' alt=''> </li> {{endif}} so you'll obtain something that looks like this, considering surrounding code :
</ul> </li> {{if $comment->author()->reputationImage()}} <li data-role='reputation-image' class='ipsPadding:half'> <img src='{file="$comment->author()->reputationImage()" extension="core_Theme"}' title='{{if $comment->author()->reputation()}}{$comment->author()->reputation()}{{endif}}' alt=''> </li> {{endif}} {{endif}} {{if $comment->author()->member_id}} so, it is important to place the new code after both </ul> and </li> ending the counters line.
 
. To restore the reputation counter, add the following code around original line 96, just after the <ul class="ipsList_reset ipsType_light ipsFlex ipsFlex-ai:center ipsFlex-jc:center ipsGap_row:2 cAuthorPane_stats"> :
<li data-role='reputation-badge'> {template="reputationBadge" group="global" app="core" params="$comment->author()"} </li> so you'll obtain something that looks like (considering surrounding code) :
<ul class="ipsList_reset ipsType_light ipsFlex ipsFlex-ai:center ipsFlex-jc:center ipsGap_row:2 cAuthorPane_stats"> <li data-role='reputation-badge'> {template="reputationBadge" group="global" app="core" params="$comment->author()"} </li> {{if isset( $comment->author_solved_count )}} <li>  
Edit for mobile display (add back reputation counter on mobile devices display) :
. To restore the reputation counter in mobiles display, add the following code around original line 57, inside the <h3> just after the {template="userLink" group="global" app="core" params="$comment->author(), $comment->warningRef(), TRUE, $comment->isAnonymous()"} and before the </h3>
&nbsp; <span class="ipsType_medium">{template="reputationBadge" group="global" app="core" params="$comment->author()"}</span> so you'll obtain something that looks like (considering surrounding code) : 
<h3 class='ipsType_sectionHead cAuthorPane_author ipsType_break ipsType_blendLinks ipsFlex ipsFlex-ai:center'> {template="userLink" group="global" app="core" params="$comment->author(), $comment->warningRef(), TRUE, $comment->isAnonymous()"} &nbsp; <span class="ipsType_medium">{template="reputationBadge" group="global" app="core" params="$comment->author()"}</span> </h3>  
Save your template file, reload your topic : job done !

Does anyone know if there's a way to test this on a Mac, so that I can take screenshots for my users? My iPhone 7 is too old, and Safari's Developer menu only goes to iOS 14 on my Mac. 

Would it be possible to have a notification in mobile safari telling folks they can save the site to their home screen for a better user experience? I think most folks won't know that they can save the page to their home screen to have an app experience.
Example like what a real app does.

 
 

Turn this off

Your server serves the locale that your browser prefers. So check what your browser is asking for:
https://manytools.org/http-html-text/browser-language/
 

Maybe I'm a cheap bastard, but if you insist in using ses, I would still use the SES smtp instead of paying for a plugin for an API.
The whole reason I don't use sendgrid or other services is to decrease costs, in the case of ses api you will be stuck with a third party app and still have to pay for ses.
Now it might not make any difference, but depending of your needs, I would be cautious about scalability in the future.
In my case, If would have to use a plugin to use ses api:
U$20 plugin U$5 every 6 months for renew U$0,10 for every 1000 emails from SES (60.000 free if you send then by a EC2 instance, not my case) I send almost 10.000 emails per day (notifications, etc), so lets cut it to HALF just to generate a simple example: 5.000 emails per day x 30 days = 150.000 * 0,10USD = U$15/month
The end result in the first year: U$210, U$190 everyother year.
Now, using google workspaces every year: U$64 (more than 3 times less).
If the quantity of emails you particulary send is small and this comparison don't make a lot of sense, you have a lot of great options too.
Just for example: without having to deal with any setup, sendgrid (that IPB fully support their api), allow you to send 100 emails per day FOR FREE, and for U$15 bucks you can send up to 50.000 (this is 1600+ emails per day).
TL:DR: in the end of the day, google workspaces trumps everything if you send less than 10.000 emails per day.

Maybe I'm a cheap bastard, but if you insist in using ses, I would still use the SES smtp instead of paying for a plugin for an API.
The whole reason I don't use sendgrid or other services is to decrease costs, in the case of ses api you will be stuck with a third party app and still have to pay for ses.
Now it might not make any difference, but depending of your needs, I would be cautious about scalability in the future.
In my case, If would have to use a plugin to use ses api:
U$20 plugin U$5 every 6 months for renew U$0,10 for every 1000 emails from SES (60.000 free if you send then by a EC2 instance, not my case) I send almost 10.000 emails per day (notifications, etc), so lets cut it to HALF just to generate a simple example: 5.000 emails per day x 30 days = 150.000 * 0,10USD = U$15/month
The end result in the first year: U$210, U$190 everyother year.
Now, using google workspaces every year: U$64 (more than 3 times less).
If the quantity of emails you particulary send is small and this comparison don't make a lot of sense, you have a lot of great options too.
Just for example: without having to deal with any setup, sendgrid (that IPB fully support their api), allow you to send 100 emails per day FOR FREE, and for U$15 bucks you can send up to 50.000 (this is 1600+ emails per day).
TL:DR: in the end of the day, google workspaces trumps everything if you send less than 10.000 emails per day.

The first result in google for "how to config smtp with gsuite" is from google itself teaching how to config (it's VERY easy).
In short you have to add the DKIM, SPF records to your domain, allow your workspace users to send email with smtp (this is done on google workspaces) and you must allow "less secure apps" on your account, otherwise google wont allow IPB to use the smtp.
For people wanting to use SES, you can config SES as a SMTP server and use it with IPB without any third party pluging or "tweaks". Better yet, amazon itself have a great tutorial on how to do this.

75% of sessions on my forum are from non serious users.
Damn kids with those new things called smartphones, right?
Reading text using a small screen?? ABSURD! 
Believe me, It wont take long until they start reading books that aren't made from paper. What kindle of world is that?
 

75% of sessions on my forum are from non serious users.
Damn kids with those new things called smartphones, right?
Reading text using a small screen?? ABSURD! 
Believe me, It wont take long until they start reading books that aren't made from paper. What kindle of world is that?
 

75% of sessions on my forum are from non serious users.
Damn kids with those new things called smartphones, right?
Reading text using a small screen?? ABSURD! 
Believe me, It wont take long until they start reading books that aren't made from paper. What kindle of world is that?
 

75% of sessions on my forum are from non serious users.
Damn kids with those new things called smartphones, right?
Reading text using a small screen?? ABSURD! 
Believe me, It wont take long until they start reading books that aren't made from paper. What kindle of world is that?
 

Sorry, @annadaa, but you will be talking to the wall about this in here.
After 10-12 years using IPB, the focus of the app is still the same.
All I can think about this is that:
The staff behind the development might be the same from 10+ years ago and are stuck in the 2000s, or... IPB is a niche product to attract a certain profile of community owners, that like the "forum style from 2000s" to compete with other similar options in the same market. It's 2021, while plataforms like reddit (open-source by the way), have a simple UI with a app that works, IPB have.... clubs, calendar...
It's like IPB exists in a separate world where wordpress, social media, file sharing like google drive don't exist, so they invest in stuff like cms, pages, file sharing system, blogs, etc...
A lot - if not all - of that features worked very well in 2007-2014, because the options were very limited.
Just for example: TODAY, I would never, in a million years, pay U$100 for ipb ecommerce or blog (U$175 for both), with wordpress and woocommerce being free, with a bigger community and, actually, better. If you don't like wordpress, there's a lot of other free options that fit the category as well, this is just an example.
By the way, I use several different apps in my projects. Can you bet which is the only one of them that have problems with performance and needs a lot of server side tweaks or/and will crash my server/generate downtime in almost every new major upgrade? Tip: ipb
I'm an unhappy costumer and, as of right now, I feel stuck with IPB.
I already tried changing plataforms in the past, but it was a SEO disaster. Right now, I'm learning django and flutter, to make my own solution (just for my own projects, not to sell for others).
I simply can't see myself still using IPB in the future.
The only good thing I notice was an improvement in support. Five (or so) years ago, even paying for updates, staff would treat you as if they were doing a favor (in several occasions my hosting company support at the time fixed problems caused by IPB major upgrades). Now IPB support is MUCH better.
Please, I'm not trying to win any arguments, this is my experience with IPB in respect with my particular needs, just that...
 

75% of sessions on my forum are from non serious users.
Damn kids with those new things called smartphones, right?
Reading text using a small screen?? ABSURD! 
Believe me, It wont take long until they start reading books that aren't made from paper. What kindle of world is that?
 

For a while, the sites could be full of colors, lots of menus, lots of different sections. This posed no problem for Internet users.
This is over today. Internet users no longer have the time and want direct access to what they need.
If a page is too heavy, too many widgets, too bulky, and you get lost between the categories, that scares people away and doesn't make you want to stay and read
IPS is FORUMS, ECOMMERCE, CMS, FILE SHARING, CALENDARS, GALLERIES, BLOGS and CLUBS
Do you think that today Internet users (with the distractions of social networks and others) find the mental strength to navigate between all this?
Will you tell me, that in part there are notifications, no need to navigate to know the news, but that makes the site heavy and scares people.
It is a subject which deserves I think a long work of reflection to know how one will easily offer a quality article (which is sought after today) with at hand what goes with it as a downloadable file uploder on downloads, available and associated directly in the article, the same for the discussion, etc.
Another example here:
 

You have to click on additional information, then on support topic to finally find yourself in the discussion.
Is it not easier to make the discussion topic directly visible in the tab.
we can no longer afford to want to force the member to go to the forum to access the discussion of the file.
I hope that one day, it will be easily possible to associate an article, with a file on downloads, a discussion on a forum, a physical article sold on ecommerce without having to complicate the task with lots of widgets etc.
as said that surely requires a work of thought to find the best thing to do, but nothing that to see under the title for example of the clickable links of all that is associated would be good:
1 discussion - 1 image - 1 product ....
There to do something like that, we play a long time with the tags, or a widget to go to the article, another to the discussion etc.
When you are the creator of the site everything is easy, simple to understand, to navigate, but take the advice of potential newcomers
I'm almost certain that there will be a lot more reading, downloading, contributing by avoiding navigating the site if things are linked together
 

Is there any way you can leave the theme selector in the footer available? Or the option to hide it or not?  I'd rather have both options.

I totally agree ! 🙂

The path to this setting is in the Community tab, second tab from top to bottom. Forums > Settings > Default topic list view
By the way, thank you. The performance of the forum was horrible, until I disabled it.

The path to this setting is in the Community tab, second tab from top to bottom. Forums > Settings > Default topic list view
By the way, thank you. The performance of the forum was horrible, until I disabled it.

You can use Cloudflare that will help a lot your forums as a CDN and has also some nice one click optimizations and they offer a free plan or you can use it only for the DNS records.
Dns records changes are getting active in seconds.

Set the TTL on your domains A record to ~5 minutes now and give it 48-72 hours to propagate that change to clients before you migrate.
This will help minimize the amount of time it takes for your users to see the change once you flip the switch over to the new server.

Yep. It worked. Thank you anyway.
ALTER TABLE ibf_core_pfields_content DROP COLUMN sfsMemInfo;

Any before/after test with Google Page Insights ?