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3 hours ago, Jelly Belly™ said:

I've had 10 or more signups over the last few days using that IP and all using either @kmaill.xyz or *@hmaill.xyz

That's the one, same email address on mine. Added a wildcard block *@*.xyz

Looks like they are targeting IPS sites

Hoping this isn't against forum rules as it's one of the IP's, however it's definitely spam, but also known to have tried SQL injections and brute force attempts. Been multiple registrations, each time the same IP with different last digits. Now done a wild card ban for 37.139.53.*

https://cleantalk.org/blacklists/37.139.53.17#reviewanchor

Wasn't sure if it was something you wanted to add maybe server level. Just sharing the info with you to do as you please. But yeah, the GeoLocation wasn't preventing that one.

I'm still getting registrations from St Petersburg, St.-Petersburg, Russian Federation despite adding the country to GeoLocation

Already running hCaptcha, been running that for a long time now.

Wasn’t aware geolocation was a thing, will set that up now

Not a major issue as I approve accounts manually, it’s just the past couple weeks we have had a shed load of spam registrations from Russia, Holland and Finland.

Hosted at IPS community in the Cloud, not made any changes to captcha or security, but we’re getting maybe 5+ a day, sometimes 10.

Is there something wonky going on, my first obvious step is to change up the Q&A.

Just wasn’t sure if there was a known issue at all?

On 12/3/2023 at 8:12 AM, abobader said:

IPS like a woman, you do not maybe love or hate, but they are no escape.

Exactly.

They won't always be Randy, but once you know what you're doing and how to push the right buttons, you will receive lots of positive reactions.

I think the management team also offer courses now, but don't quote me on this. 

Just don't let them treat you like a door Matt, plenty more available on the Marketplace......wait, forget that, just don't be afraid to reach out for support when you need it.

These theme updates are making me extremely horny, not gonna lie. 😍

Thanks for the reply. Whilst disappointing, it's understandable.

17 hours ago, Charles said:

Nothing is cached for members. Caching is only for guests/search bots.

Having spoken with Mark privately as we run similar forums (both Football, not Soccer, Football!), he is speaking about guests viewing the forum not members.

On his setup, only guests are shown ads, his concern is that if guests are not shown up to date posts say during the game they will choose to follow the game elsewhere, say X for example.

This would obviously have a negative impact on his ad revenue which pays the bills.

I do share his concern somewhat and would be nice to reduce the time, I personally ran with 5 minutes when using Cloudflare on a Self Host setup prior to moving to IPS Cloud.

For me this was a nice balance between not annoying guests too much whilst encouraging them to also signup and login.

I guess the feedback here would be, it would be nice to control the cache time per site if possible rather than a blanket uncontrollable 15 minutes which maybe fine for say a gaming forum, just not for one that has live events.

On 8/21/2023 at 11:40 AM, Matt said:

If it was to change, I'd change it so the red bubble goes the second you click on the icon to see the notifications, but they would stay bold until you read the source item. However, we'd need to make a decision about what to do with pure notifications like "Rank X achieved!" which has no linked item.

Meanwhile, myself and fellow Cloud users watching all this pricing confusion unfold 😛

Was always a long shot this one, but if it triggers a discussion on alternative methods great.

Our forum and I would imagine most football sites rely heavily on the sharing of tweets by journalists and media outlets.

Frustrating but the way it is.

More of a future request this one to have on your radar as it wouldn't be possible at this time.

With Elon tanking Twitter, sorry X, when it is, if it ever is possible, could we get Threads embedded the same way as we have Tweets or whatever he calls them now.

Maybe being a little optimistic with this one though with Meta changing the api goalposts and not even having Instagram embeds.

8 hours ago, Marc Stridgen said:

I have gone ahead and checked that, however you're not showing to be blocked at present. Could you please check this with your email provider first of all?

Also, I have created a ticket on this so we can check in other areas

It's running through iCloud, absolutely no problems receiving emails from anyone else or through my own forum, it's just this one. Weird 

On 6/1/2023 at 11:37 AM, Marc Stridgen said:

Please could you take a look at your emails and see if you have the one I just sent?

Sorry for the late reply, no I didn't.

I also didn't receive any auto reply when emailing support the other day, when I moved to the cloud, my emails went down for a few days, I suspect my email address has been blocked on your system.

All work fine on my own forum (in the cloud), however I'm not receiving email notifications to private messages on this forum.

Would be nice to exclude categories from the search drop down.

Products and Pages for example:

I have subscriptions active, no products to sell.

I use pages for one page only, ads.txt

No reason for me to have these show up in the search drop down.

Also whilst I'm here, Live Topics, something I haven't turned on, yet shows in notification settings, was asked by a member what they were. 

Think I have 2 email addresses which are blocked as I would have been receiving emails whilst I was waiting for my DNS to update, I have sent a support ticket but it’s from one of the email addresses which is blocked, not sure if you will have it. Ooops.

1 hour ago, Marc Stridgen said:

Sorry to hear that. Hope the new upcoming features help with that  🙂 

Hopefully yeah, I’m starting to feel like those self hosted lot are prioritised more with their fancy servers that can run Elasticsearch.

Us cloud users should not be left to feel like second class citizens! 😜

2 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said:

There is no elasticsearch on the cloud based platform, so no values I can give you to enter there. There will be changes to the way in which search works internally on cloud at points in the future, on some levels, but that isnt there at present

Thanks Marc, think this is the first time you have let me down, I will get over it in time I guess. 😭

Hello and good morning to one and all, any chance one of you kind developers could tell me what I should whack into the Elasticsearch server field for that superior searching experience on my cloud based forum with you.

Thank you muchly.

ignore me.

Basically doesn't appear to be working, had one uploaded for a long time, figured I would remove and upload again. It threw this error:

2S119/1 The CSRF protection key did not match. This may indicate a plugin or theme is out of date. Please contact technical support for more information.

On returning to the manifest page the image was there so not sure what that's about.

When force closing the web app, re opening, still no launch image, just a white screen for a second or two before the forum loads in.

Not a major issue, but would be nice if it could be looked into as these little touches make me feel a tiny bit happier about things.

Is the addon something you can add on for say a month then remove?

Just thinking that when v5 comes out, something I didn’t completely slipped my mind when moving to the cloud, was not having that dev site to build a theme ready to go. 😬

I don’t stray too much from the default theme in general, easier on the regular upgrades. A staging site though would be helpful, however it’s something that I would only really find useful for say a week or two at most post v5 launch.

For myself, there isn’t anything else in this addon that I would use to be honest which kind of expensive, unless I can just do a month, a one off I could stomach the cost.