13.

Restricting registration by location is the worst thing you can think of. I say this as someone who travels frequently and is often faced with such ill-conceived restrictions. This causes many more problems for ordinary users than for spammers. There are many other more suitable methods to protect against spam (Cloudflare, for example).

@SeNioR- check the value of this setting in Cloudflare:

5 hours ago, Day_ said:

Default dark mode for IP board with a more intuitive switch than the theme drop down.

iPad app for Whatsapp.

iPad app for Instagram.

Becoming a millionaire.

Marry Margot Robbie

5 things I have accepted will never happen in my lifetime. 

The last four don't seem so impossible 😉

7 hours ago, Randy Calvert said:

They’ve already said it’s on their radar.

How many years ago, could you remind me please?

Imagine if clients could make pull/merge requests with such fixes directly to the IPS repository, without wasting time posting it on the forums, waiting for the manual work of the IPS developers, etc... A lot of little but useful fixes/improvements could be implemented and shipped in hours rather than years (as it now, at best).

Oh dreams.

18 hours ago, Randy Calvert said:

IPS would have to develop some sort of native app for it to authenticate a user

No. Everything needed for this can be done in PWA.

• Why and How: https://web.dev/aspect-ratio/#example-preventing-layout-shift
• MDN Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/aspect-ratio
• Works everywhere: https://caniuse.com/?search=aspect-ratio

This topic is not about that. This topic is about defaults (of editor's link insertion tool) that are more secure and relevant to current and future times. And not all sites use HSTS, btw. And most of them never will.

7 minutes ago, Randy Calvert said:

When you insert it without a protocol, it passes it to the browser without a protocol.  Your browser by default sets to HTTP instead of HTTPS.  If the destination site properly sets HSTS headers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security), the browser will transparently use HTTPS even if HTTP is specified.  

This is not an IPS configuration issue but instead a default way links are handled.  

Wrong. It is not related to HSTS or the browser at all. IPS's editor forces HTTP protocol if a protocol is not specified. Just try to do exactly what is shown on the screenshot and see the resulting HTML.

Result: koreanrandom.com (http://koreanrandom.com)

If you insert a link without protocol, it will appear with HTTP in the editor.

In 2022 (even in 2015, to be honest), it would be better to use HTTPS as the default protocol. Those who need HTTP must define it explicitly.

Example:

Result: example.com

JFYI: according to google, almost all websites are using HTTPS: https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/overview

So forcing the HTTP protocol where there is no need is harmful.

7 hours ago, Sirmadsen said:

and introduce a scroll list

And search-filter (see datalist / js example).

+1 😢

31 minutes ago, Stuart Silvester said:

Forcing passwords to expire is generally considered a bad security practise now. Enforcing it may actually reduce the security of your member accounts instead of increasing it.

There are other use cases where this feature can be useful. Not just for resetting "old" passwords. Sometimes it can be useful to reset a user's password if it has been leaked and the user used the same password on your site as he did on the source of the leak.

14 minutes ago, Dreadknux said:

To be honest, I quite like the fact that all notifications are 'read' when you click the bell icon...

But that's mostly because I get a LOT of unnecessary/outdated notifications

Then you might have a "Mark All as Read" button ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yes, the current behavior of the notification reading status is extremely inconvenient.
This problem has plagued users for many years. There are a lot of topics about this in the feedback section, and it has been discussed for years.

Oh man... There are a million other ways to find out your IPS version without that number you're talking about.

It sounds like a bug that should be reported to IPS, because if it is, it has consequences for the GDPR.

It's already there and enabled by default. Works exactly the same as with forum posts.

1 hour ago, Jordan Miller said:

Cool gif, I'll save it for the moment when IPS will officially support the dark theme for the frontend 😉

From my experience, I would recommend a tree view because a flat list would be unreadable with long names. I implemented it myself a long time ago for one of my websites (though not on IPS), and the tree view was much more practical.

Also, a very annoying thing about this dropdown menu is the lack of a search (filter). When you have a bunch of categories in it, it's almost impossible to use it at all. IMHO, all these dropdowns in IPS should have a search (filter) function.

Translation APIs for multilingual communities.

If you're worried about performance, then I would say that using custom fonts is the main mistake.
Also, when fonts are loaded, jumping texts always look terrible and greatly spoil the impression of the site.

It would be much better if the editor asked the user what to do with such URLs when pasting instead of embedding immediately. A simple dialog box with two options: embed or paste as a link.

By the way, it looks much better if you limit the max-width to around 400px.

On 4/30/2022 at 12:58 PM, Sonya* said:

Why? Are there any advantages of using OpenSearch? 

From a technical point of view, there are no significant advantages yet.
In terms of licensing, the benefits are huge, so adoption of OpenSearch is growing rapidly.
It has much more potential for long-term sustainability than ElasticSearch.