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it can be some lags on db and connection between site and db. Had it sometimes.
 

https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly

False. You cannot register an account with the same display name. Each display name must be unique 👍 The username is created based on display name and cannot be changed.

Agree 100%. I hope that V5 will be able to boast a high PageSpeed. A friend transferred a very large forum from free phpBB to IPS and users complain that the forum loads much longer 3-4s, and earlier on the free script 1-2s.

Nope, no one was interested in that. I have no idea how IPS will solve issues with speed improvements.

Here is the provider answer
This is an update about your database issue.
B quota showing in our system is accurate based on the quota checked in the MySQL server. PHPMyAdmin delivers wrong values for database size if used with innodb tables. PHPMyAdmin ignores data_free for innodb tables, even though innodb is the only storage engine which delivers realistic values for this value . The phpmyadmin developers consider that everybody uses innodb with file_per_table = 0 . If this would be the case all innodb files would be located within the ibdata1 file and no space could be reclaimed. In this case it would kind of make sense to report 0 as value for data_free. To fix this issue, database table needs to be optimize. 

I updated the server to php8.1 and then updated the software to 4.78.
Now the post counts, replies and read/unread on the forum page are not getting updated.
there's also a bunch of these errors in the logs:
TypeError: array_filter(): Argument #1 ($array) must be of type array, null given (0) #0 /www/site/web/forum/system/Content/Content.php(2523): array_filter() #1 [internal function]: IPS\_Content->_sendQuoteAndMentionNotifications() #2 /www/site/web/forum/init.php(927) : eval()'d code(23): call_user_func_array() #3 /www/site/web/forum/system/Content/Content.php(2466): IPS\groupmention_hook_groupmentionContentContent->_sendQuoteAndMentionNotifications() #4 /www/site/web/forum/system/Content/Content.php(2261): IPS\_Content->sendQuoteAndMentionNotifications() #5 /www/site/web/forum/system/Content/Comment.php(242): IPS\_Content->sendNotifications() #6 /www/site/web/forum/applications/forums/sources/Topic/Post.php(145): IPS\Content\_Comment::create() #7 /www/site/web/forum/system/Content/Item.php(4959): IPS\forums\Topic\_Post::create() #8 /www/site/web/forum/system/Content/Item.php(4645): IPS\Content\_Item->processCommentForm() #9 /www/site/web/forum/applications/forums/modules/front/forums/topic.php(141): IPS\Content\_Item->commentForm() #10 /www/site/web/forum/system/Dispatcher/Controller.php(118): IPS\forums\modules\front\forums\_topic->manage() #11 /www/site/web/forum/system/Content/Controller.php(50): IPS\Dispatcher\_Controller->execute() #12 /www/site/web/forum/applications/forums/modules/front/forums/topic.php(39): IPS\Content\_Controller->execute() #13 /www/site/web/forum/system/Dispatcher/Dispatcher.php(153): IPS\forums\modules\front\forums\_topic->execute() #14 /www/site/web/forum/index.php(13): IPS\_Dispatcher->run() #15 {main} and these
TypeError: array_filter(): Argument #1 ($array) must be of type array, null given (0) #0 /www/site/web/forum/system/Content/Content.php(2717): array_filter() #1 [internal function]: IPS\_Content->_sendQuoteAndMentionNotifications() #2 /www/site/web/forum/init.php(935) : eval()'d code(23): call_user_func_array() #3 /www/site/web/forum/system/Content/Content.php(2660): IPS\groupmention_hook_groupmentionContentContent->_sendQuoteAndMentionNotifications() #4 /www/site/web/forum/system/Content/Content.php(2455): IPS\_Content->sendQuoteAndMentionNotifications() #5 /www/site/web/forum/system/Content/Comment.php(242): IPS\_Content->sendNotifications() #6 /www/site/web/forum/applications/forums/sources/Topic/Post.php(140): IPS\Content\_Comment::create() #7 /www/site/web/forum/system/Content/Item.php(5122): IPS\forums\Topic\_Post::create() #8 /www/site/web/forum/system/Content/Item.php(4808): IPS\Content\_Item->processCommentForm() #9 /www/site/web/forum/applications/forums/modules/front/forums/topic.php(141): IPS\Content\_Item->commentForm() #10 /www/site/web/forum/system/Dispatcher/Controller.php(118): IPS\forums\modules\front\forums\_topic->manage() #11 /www/site/web/forum/system/Content/Controller.php(50): IPS\Dispatcher\_Controller->execute() #12 /www/site/web/forum/applications/forums/modules/front/forums/topic.php(39): IPS\Content\_Controller->execute() #13 /www/site/web/forum/system/Dispatcher/Dispatcher.php(153): IPS\forums\modules\front\forums\_topic->execute() #14 /www/site/web/forum/index.php(13): IPS\_Dispatcher->run() #15 {main} any ideas on how to fix?

reported here 3 weeks ago
 

Just upgraded from 4.7.8 to 4.7.9 and got the same error.

I would keep it 256MB or less. Even 256MB is higher than I like for most uses.  High limits can make it easy for a server to succumb to very small denial of service attacks.  If you're bumping 256MB limits, don't just willy-nilly increase the limits.  Find out why it's bumping past it because under normal circumstances it should not.
1024 MB is way too high unless there is a special need for it.

so settings would be like 10 processes of PHP and max_memory_limit like 1024 MB 
10*1gb = 10 GB + system and other stuff.
 

I've seen this happen before on another site, and it was caused by a <DIV> element not being closed properly in one of the blocks' content.
As Jim mentioned above, remove all your blocks, re-add them 1-by-1, and refresh the page each time to double-check that the sidebar is still in its correct place.

I suggest doing the opposite, adding a list of only trusted email addresses to get rid of the temporary ones.
The following query will count the most used domains:
SELECT substring_index(email, '@', -1) domain, COUNT(*) email_count FROM core_members GROUP BY substring_index(email, '@', -1) ORDER BY email_count DESC, domain;

Like always improved clubs plugin crash someone forums 🙂 Had it like 5 times and not waiting for update just fixing it by my self for faster response. 

The message is clear. You need at least PHP 8. Which IPS version?

I did, hence why I linked it here. Maybe more interest in the suggestion will help nudge it along. Besides, I think I made it pretty clear what I was linking when I said "get IPS to implement this".

So in recent weeks my forum has had a wave of spammers who have been able to freely post blatantly obvious spam on the site. Word filtering is absolutely ineffective to preempt them, and in the most recent case, isn't stopping them at all despite the terms being added to the post filter. In the support thread I filed, it was made clear your current anti-spam system only deals with user accounts, NOT with the content of the things they're posting. I'd say that's proven to be more or less useless. What IPS needs is preemptive/proactive spam defense, not reactive flagging and content deletion.
To that end, I'd like to very strongly suggest that IPB set up a partnership with the Akismet anti-spam service that's widely used by Wordpress blogs and a number of other sites and applications. Their system works by analyzing the actual content being posted and will return a yes/no type of response as to whether they think it's spam or not. From my own experience, they're rarely wrong about that. I'm using it on a bug tracking site I wrote myself, along with an obsolete forum package I still keep online for an old MUD.
A properly implemented Akismet setup will flag spam and store it in a temporary place for moderator review. From there, the content can be checked. If it's not spam, the moderators can click a button to indicate this, and a false positive is sent to Akismet for the system to learn from it. If it is spam, you can either delete it on the spot or let it sit in the pool until a specified expiry time (on my other 2 sites, I use the suggested 30 days). If a post actually does manage to hit the forum, the moderators can click a button there to have it reported as spam and their system learns from that as well. So it's very adaptable. What's even cooler, is the content scanning is done in real time so there's no having things sitting in some queue for days before it's evaluated by their servers.
There's a great deal more useful information to be found at https://akismet.com/ such as developer support and API documentation etc. I'm sure they could explain the gory details a lot better than I can. In the end though, this would be a wildly more effective way of dealing with spam than what we currently have.

Better yet - get IPS to implement this:
There should be no good reason to have to spend additional money at the price the IPS package sells for. Especially when a solid working anti-spam system exists that's easily implemented into the package.

1. You should try this: https://github.com/major/MySQLTuner-perl  - Once you have DB uptime for 2-3 days. Change/tune and monitor. May be share the output of above. Do note: For joins it will ask you to increase join_buffer_size but you can skip that suggestion. Sharing my sample output:
-------- InnoDB Metrics ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [--] InnoDB is enabled. [--] InnoDB Thread Concurrency: 0 [OK] InnoDB File per table is activated [OK] InnoDB buffer pool / data size: 8.0G/5.3G [OK] Ratio InnoDB log file size / InnoDB Buffer pool size: 1.0G * 2/8.0G should be equal to 25% [OK] InnoDB buffer pool instances: 8 [--] Number of InnoDB Buffer Pool Chunk : 64 for 8 Buffer Pool Instance(s) [OK] Innodb_buffer_pool_size aligned with Innodb_buffer_pool_chunk_size & Innodb_buffer_pool_instances [OK] InnoDB Read buffer efficiency: 100.00% (13346625516 hits/ 13346863880 total) [OK] InnoDB Write log efficiency: 91.10% (11968155 hits/ 13136819 total) [OK] InnoDB log waits: 0.00% (0 waits / 1168664 writes) 2. InnoDB - Yes. 
3. Install netdata. It's free and will help you with further details. 
https://www.netdata.cloud/
Example .. to monitor locks, Innodb stats, etc. 

4. Enable slow query logs - This way you can monitor which queries are taking longer.
 
 

You need someone to code this as customization. Plain and simple. 
(And if you do, I am not sure it really needs to be this complicated. Why go through the additional numbers? You could just as well set up a system to check the user’s actual member ID or email or display name and see if they are currently subscribed or let the system print out a list with all subscribers.)

In last 4 days we also received many of failed registers in our forum. 
Spam defense score 4 auto ban that users and we also have that a lot in past days. 
( User registered. Spam Defense checked and returned score 4 - account banned. )
Only today banned ip:
31.173.82.121
37.46.115.44
37.46.115.51
37.139.53.90
45.87.104.125
84.239.40.254
142.54.173.138
145.255.9.153
152.58.123.243
176.124.205.34
176.59.56.243
178.176.76.117
178.176.79.62
185.245.85.231
208.110.81.170
212.129.45.48
90% of that is from russian federation ....

Feel free to add that to ur filter or firewall. 
 
 
 

You can use a test site which must not be available to public (so protect it with htaccess or something similar). You have to set the domain here in the client area. Then you can test your upgrade as often as you want to.
 

Yes, it’s absolutely possible to upgrade. Make a full backup before you do anything.

If you have any third party plugins, make sure they’re updated and confirm they work with PHP8. I would disable ALL third party resources and then switch to a default theme. 

Upgrade your server to PHP8 (required for the 4.7 releases).  Use the compatibility checker once on PHP8 to make sure it meets all of the system requirements.  
Download the latest release from the client area (you can only download the latest version… old releases are not available).

Upload the files to your site and overwrite the old ones. Go to domain.com/admin/upgrade and follow the prompts.
Once the upgrade completes, go to the support section of ACP and clear the system cache for good measure. Fix your theme and add resources one at a time to make sure you know if any one specific is not compatible with 4.7 or PHP8. 

In last 4 days we also received many of failed registers in our forum. 
Spam defense score 4 auto ban that users and we also have that a lot in past days. 
( User registered. Spam Defense checked and returned score 4 - account banned. )
Only today banned ip:
31.173.82.121
37.46.115.44
37.46.115.51
37.139.53.90
45.87.104.125
84.239.40.254
142.54.173.138
145.255.9.153
152.58.123.243
176.124.205.34
176.59.56.243
178.176.76.117
178.176.79.62
185.245.85.231
208.110.81.170
212.129.45.48
90% of that is from russian federation ....

Feel free to add that to ur filter or firewall. 
 
 
 

@My Sharona Yes and no. WebP is supported, but there's a bug in 4.7.0 preventing it from being allowed in several places (basically any forms with upload fields that allow images).