The Old Man

4 hours ago, Mike John said:

I'm not sure I understand, if the "enable status bar" setting is enabled. It should constantly show the status bar in the widget to all users then. Is that what you mean?

Hi Mike, 

It was enabled but I just realised that my Current Donations Total in AdminCP was 0 out of 1000. I changed it to 5 and it displayed the bar saying 0%. So if you haven't received a donation it doesn't show the bar. So my suggestion would be could it be set to still display if the current donation is at 0 as this might encourage someone to make the first donation.

4 hours ago, Mike John said:

This should actually be quite easy to include via the "Paypal Override Code" setting. Just enter any custom html you have for Stripe or BuyMeACoffee and it will display that code rather then the Paypal form.

Aha, that's awesome, thank you! Adds a whole new level!

Thanks for the explanation, much appreciated.

Personally, for me, we liked members online today (from midnight). Once I removed it and my community went nuts, as they like to see if their friends have been online today. Also moderators liked to instantly see if a troublesome member had signed-in yet, that day. That said, I currently have this mod reinstalled and set to 1440 minutes, but only visible to staff for now.

I still think if it's possible it would be great to have a choice of 4 options:

• Online Today (aka since Midnight - in users time zone if poss, or server time if not).
• Online during the last 24hrs.
• Online during the last X hours.
• Online during the last X minutes.

Okay, thanks for confirming. I wasn't sure if I'd missed something.

Hi @opentype

Very happy with Supergrid, it looks great. I noticed I have a page showing all categories which is still using the default template, but I wasn't sure if it's my site or not, as the url isn't the usual seo friendly style url.

However I just looked on your demo site and it's the same there.

https://www.opentype.space/supergrid/?show=categories

Do you think it's possible to the Supergrid templates there, too?

Many thanks.

I'm sure I must be getting too old, or thinking of some similar named mod, as I'm sure it used to be configurable to either today or last 24hrs. There is a default widget that mention last x minutes. Did this plug-in used to be called Members Online Today or something similar and then it switched to minutes? 

As DonPetru mentioned, hopefully it will allow a choice of

• Today (since midnight in users time zone)
• Last 24hrs
• Hours
• Minutes

Then it would cover every angle?

Hi Mike,

Donate Sidebar is great, I've looked at the full version but it's a bit overkill for me.

However I haven't had a single donation this year via the Donate Sidebar, everything is configured okay but I wondered if the 'total raised progress bar thingy' could perhaps be displayed all the time on the widget, even if it was an option to do so? This might encourage more donations if members and visitors could see if donations are low. Perhaps some members assume others are donating so they don't need to.

Also do you have any plans to support Stripe as I understand it's better than PayPal, or even options for donation themed providers like BuyMeACoffee or crowdfunding sites?

Many thanks.

Thank you! 

Hi,

Thanks for the update! I know it's free but a few suggestions below...

The photos only option look great but a bit small, perhaps add a size option for small/medium size photos?

Also just another suggestion, perhaps you could have an option to show their name next to or underneath photo as well?

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This has now been made show member x mins not by hours, also option in Admin CP show user photo on/off.

I'm a bit confused, why has it switched from hours to minutes? I set it to 1440 minutes to list all members who have been online today realising 24hrs can cover yesterday also!), it makes sense for under an hour or two, but it looks really weird saying 1440 minutes on the front end instead of 24 hours or today. If a member doesn't know there are 1440 minutes in 24hrs, it would be confusing for them.

The widget title becomes too long if you enable Show Stat:

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WHO WAS ONLINE  5 USERS WERE ONLINE IN THE LAST 1440 MINS   (MOST MEMBERS EVER ONLINE WAS 6, LAST ACCOMPLISHED ON 9 HOURS AGO.)

which got me thinking, perhaps an option to show the stat inside a matching widget footer?

Anyway, nice plug-in!

18 hours ago, Subdreamer said:

I bought this great app but never got around to use it. Is it still being developed? I would like to renew my download, but I want to make sure it is still being supported. Thanks!

Sadly in my case, I had to remove it, it was just too buggy.

Thanks Adriano! 

Does this still work on current v4.3.x Gallery, please?

Yes, that could be it. I don't understand why it plays up for me though!

14 hours ago, Joel R said:

You probably have a lot of trophies that are assigned t oa lot of people

Thanks Joel, maybe, I'm not sure. I checked the tables in phpMyAdmin as I've disabled it again to prevent more calamity.

I have 4012 members, usually around 10 a day online. Bear in mind only Admin group could use the app as I've never launched it in my community, it's only ever been at the set up stage despite members getting trophy notifications and guests being able to see trophies in members profiles (I think the latter was a bug fixed at some point).

I had set up:

• 7 trophy categories holding 35 different trophies
• 1 medal category with only 1 medal set up.

This doesn't seem like much but I don't know how it all functions, plus only the trophies are automated, the medals are only issued manually.

This is interesting though, there is a table which is the 8th largest in the DB at 6.5MB, which is ib_trophies_members. It has 39200 rows.

I've exported the gripped sql tables if anyone or the dev wants to play.

export_of_all_5_tables.gz

seperate-exported-tables.zip

I updated to v1.4.3 and renabled the app. This is what happened next...

Updated: 6 hours later and it's still running 100's of tasks. I also still have permissions set for just admin and yet one of my members has just asked about receiving a trophy. I took another screen capture to demonstrate.

I'm so sorry @Fosters, but this app is really buggy. Perhaps I need to remove all trophies and restart from scratch, or it needs a complete rewrite or just isn't compatible with IPS4.3.5?

I have disabled the app again.

On 7/19/2018 at 2:44 PM, Matt said:

If we get 20 useable quotes, I'll post an exclusive picture of Charles and Lindy holding a hotdog from 2008

Damn, I'd sell my left kidney on EBay just to see that photo. Come on, people!

Thank you Brandon, appreciate the reply. I've never experienced a genuine user being blocked by the Spam service having to make contact but I'm sure it happens. Personally I'd be willing to risk it.

What about utilising the Q&A option, ban filters and language/word filters?

Font Awesome via its CDN is so popular and widely used that I honestly think most visitors have probably never downloaded it or will ever need to download it via your community's website. Their browsers will have downloaded and therefore cached it way before from elsewhere. Even for those minimal few who say, just got online and visited your site as their first ever website, would only have to download it once anyway. Then it's done. It's like complaining about having to download Bootstrap or JQuery. Sure if your benchmarking it will increase your download time, but real world users will normally come across it way before. Obviously chances are a little less so with the Pro version.

If you take the Bootstrap analogy for a second, surely it's better to use Bootstrap per se, rather than sticking a prefix before every class selector name. Then you do have to download that JavaScript and CSS because you've customised it.

Its free (so really what's to complain about?!), it's cool (remember how dull IPB looked before snazzy modern Font Awesome?!), FA5 has better, updated, larger icons (not based on 14px anymore, just like Bootstrap 4 isn't). 

I felt so warm and fuzzy around my nether regions after watching THAT funny video that I bought the Pro version albeit at the early adopter rate, something I've never done before.

I'd love to be able to make better use of FA5 and get the benefits of the Pro even nicer icons, icon packs and CDN If possible in IPS for example as nicer trophies and awards. I'd love to just settle for FA5 standard before the next decade starts though!

Thanks, you're quite correct. I wouldn't have guessed as so much of this junk is so blatant, you could spot it from another galaxy with the naked eye!

Hi IPS,

Any news on adding spam protection features to the Contact Us facility?

My clients and I are currently being spammed senseless with the most blatant, clear as crystal offers of illegal drugs, degrading filth and other vile spam through the wide open portcullis that is Contact Us, into my otherwise fairly spam-free fortress that is IPS community. I've had about 21 since Monday!

Generals @Lindy @Charles , it's time for a Call to Arms!

Gather ye brave fighting men and women coders of IPS and rage war on this unnecessary evil: 

• Add existing IPS Spam Prevention facility to Contact Us
• Add existing Q&A to Contact Us
• Extend existing swearing/IP/email filters to cover Contact Us
• Add existing Recapcha options to Contact Us

Post-haste and godspeed, thank you, gentlemen!

Blimey. That sucks. What a shame, but thanks for letting us know, all the same.  

Thanks Mike, much appreciated as always.

On 4/15/2018 at 12:04 AM, Mike John said:

v3.3.1 will fix several bugs from the new version except for the furl issue you had. Still working on that and shouldn't be too far behind.

On 4/15/2018 at 1:27 AM, The Old Man said:

I'm definitely better waiting for the next release then! My community would probably not be too happy with me, if we brought that issue back! Thanks again. 

 

On 4/17/2018 at 12:30 AM, Mike John said:

Thank you. ?

If you can just remind me in a few days, it shouldn't be much longer.

On 4/27/2018 at 12:10 PM, The Old Man said:

Polite reminder! Thanks Mike! ?

Mike, 

It's been a long time and I've sent a few reminders, and although you did warn me in early April against updating to avoid breaking your temporary patch after beta testing for you, in a moment of madness I reactivated the Videos app again. I'd lost a lot of links in Google and was getting all these 403's on my server, so I upgraded Videos for better 4.3 compatibility to the current version and of course, it's now broken my All Activity Stream again (as the 'discover' furl is being used by Videos). I know you're so busy with so many mods and life, and I recently extended my subscription for Videos at your site again (no biggie).

Amazing service over the years, you were always my favourite Marketplace dev and continue to be, you've never had the ego issues that a lot of devs sadly display, but unfortunately I'm going to have to disable and ditch Videos for good.

All the best my friend.

Just about to tell you this, but I had to remind myself!

First place I'd look is Videos - Settings - Thumbnails and Uploads! 

On 4/17/2018 at 12:30 AM, Mike John said:

If you can just remind me in a few days, it shouldn't be much longer.

Polite reminder! Thanks Mike! ?

1 hour ago, Mike John said:

v3.3.1 will fix several bugs from the new version except for the furl issue you had. Still working on that and shouldn't be too far behind.

I'm definitely better waiting for the next release then! My community would probably not be too happy with me, if we brought that issue back! Thanks again.