AlexJ

3 hours ago, Stuart Silvester said:

I suspect you were experiencing something else related to the license server because you do not have any failed connections logged.

Thanks - refreshing license key just resolved the issue. Practically no change on my friends end. Thanks for your note. It helped not to go on another route. 

Same issue on my friends site.. they are having same issue. 

I learned from Twitter -> Never believe in this logins.. if user is not interested in spending 2 mins on creating account, then my observation is user is not going to come back often. 

I also use Google Auth on other sites, where I have no intention to use often. 

But to contradict my above thoughts, we have more Discord logins because it's just easier for use to sync their details with Brilliant Discord integration app as their is additional benefit besides just login. 

On 5/19/2023 at 2:31 PM, Jim M said:

That is why you should also be adding decent Q&A challenges, ones that are in your niche and not easily Googled. hCAPTCHA and that will put a good dent in preventing spam. 

Q&A is most useless and waste of time for humans creating account and then handing to spam bot automation. 

My logic is make it easier for real users and worse for spambots. I don't want to 10 hops for real user in creating account.

hcaptcha is useless, when you have humans creating account and then spambots taking over. 

Easy way to block spam bots:

1. Restrict spam bot content, as they use same content across all sites. 

2. Block their human IP's i.e. datacenter, proxies, etc. 

However, I wish, IPS would make it easier to delete spam bot account. That one by one account deletion is pain in the butt. 

2 minutes ago, Jim M said:

Storage through FTP is currently not a feature for this, I'm afraid. 

Thanks! Can you please move to feedback section? I wish even relative path was supported. Uploading high MB images through FTP is much faster then gallery UI. 

Plus it can sync auto i.e. if new images, it can load up on descending order or ascending order based on time stamp. 

Hello, 

Can i have album, which can pull images through SFTP or FTP? OR even within some relative folder path?  Thanks.

Is it possible to add support for account de-activation i.e. user can de-activate account and no notification gets sent. If user gets interested again, they can re-activate account. 

Yes you can do. See my upgrade experience here: 

https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/471614-upgrade-from-ipb-34x/

As long as you correct Env set up not an issue. Don't expect any  IPS support. 

IPS 4.x. should be smooth overall but from IPS 3.x - you will have to go from IPS 3.4.x latest version to IPS 4.7.3 and then to latest. 

IPS doesn't provide older versions even though they will have in their archives. So you will have to rely on someone from here helping you OR use copy available in 'Google search'. 

I shouldn't say above but if you need to upgrade from IPS 3.4.x their is no easy way... and I don't know how else to say. 

Good luck. 

I hardly get spammers with active IPS subscription - it does good enough job for me. 

For other boards  - i use captcha, ban temp email address and spam bot - ASN's or Subnet if from datacenter or proxy location. 

13 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said:

As mentioned, you can switch them on and off with the new settings also

1 hour ago, opentype said:

You can check out the new settings for the gallery homepage:

Sorry not following.. I want to make it look like how it's working IPS site and how it used to work in past. 

i.e. comment on right side. Currently Comment box is taking full width. 

Update: I found the issue. It seems like when their is no 'featured image' - it does that. It doesn't move the category update when no featured image is available. 

So for now, if anyone facing the issue, can use other option: Show latest image instead of featured one. 

39 minutes ago, Charles said:

Sorry about that. We weren't ignoring you 🙂 

No worries, all good. I was curious because, I got notification and URL throw's error message. 

anh, I was wondering what happened when I posted the question. - Thanks for the update. 

After upgrading to latest version, comments are show on top rather on side. I am seeing same issue on Default theme and all @Ehren theme. Can someone please help.

PS Tried browser clear cache, ACP clear cache and CF clear cache. Nothing worked so far. 

Gallery - Fearless Assassins (fearless-assassins.com)

Thanks for the table info. Will come handy. Wrote the macro, to delete it in 100 batches. 

I wish, their was multi-select option based on 'search'. 

Any query through which i can delete all the IP bans? Thanks

3 hours ago, Makoto said:

I've been using Debian for the last 10+ years on all of my production servers and have never had any OS or distribution related issues.

 

+1. 

6 hours ago, Tracy Perry said:

Is there a reason you are stuck on Debian/Ubuntu. 

As Makoto said, no issues for me on any of my dedicated servers since 2007.  Each upgrade has been smooth and I prefer Debian because I always get security patches quick plus 3rd party repo support is very good, except centmin.

8 hours ago, SJ77 said:

and doing many more things, it makes sense.

Sorry it doesn't make sense to me and may be because of my rookie experience. Did IPS team confirm that new version is supposed to cause more CPU consumption then previous versions? if not, then something might wrong. 

I am just curious to understand what's causing higher load for your site. 

On 2/25/2023 at 5:31 AM, Tracy Perry said:

Late to this topic (by about 2 years) but if wanting to set up nginx with IPS, I'd STRONGLY recommend looking at CentMin Mod and CentMin  7 (not 8).  There is also a new BETA version being worked on for AlmaLinux since CentOS is reaching EOL in the near future.

The only major thing you have to change is the "try_files) for IPS... and it is an easy edit.

 

CentMin equivalent for Debian? Installing this stuff is not an issue.. but setting up correct way in nginx is little bit challenge, as I am not familiar with nginx or php fpm. 

Something like Apache / php -> Nginx / php fpm - default configuration would be helpful, if any experienced admin can help. 

4 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

Sorry, I have already removed that feature and uploaded a new version. Not necessary anymore. 

Thank you.

No worries, i shared info, will delete PM to be on safe side 🙂 Tks! 

On 2/23/2023 at 10:17 AM, Adriano Faria said:

@AlexJ @Afrodude

Can you provide ACP account so I  can test new version? I won't update marketplace until it's tested in your boards, the only ones who can reproduce the issue.

Hello -

Yes, I will send you PM. Thanks. 

Thanks @Afrodude for checking. I am going to skip installing then 🙂 

@Randy Calvert I think you misunderstood my suggestion. I am not discounting the work required by IPS and no one is contesting that. 

Suggestion is can IPS create a framework, so that they can do heavy lifting and addons are using IPS end-points/functions VS CKE4. This way third party developers can avoid the work which IPS is doing. Now some addon developers would like to use CKE5 in their code, then it's fine, they have to do the change. 

From what I understand, currently IPS and addons dev's - both need to upgrade their apps. Suggestion is to minimize later if possible. If not possible because of abc technical limitation, then suggestion can be ignored.

7 hours ago, Jim M said:

Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention! I can confirm this should be further reviewed and I have logged an internal bug report for our development team to investigate and address as necessary, in a future maintenance release.

 

Thank you!

9 hours ago, Marc Stridgen said:

Payments>Settings>Checkout. You can set it so the account needed to be validated, therefore meaning there is no way to purchase without an account. Alternatively you can block access to the checkout module

Actually, while doing that, I found an error: 

In Amount for Gift card - it allows you to enter, ABC for value and when you do add to cart, it throws below error message. Is their any way to allow only numbers in Amount field? This way, user doesn't get below error. Thanks