UncrownedGuard

I would love to see this. Just turn it off by default and let admins turn it on and figure out how it works right on their own.

You might want to check the log for Uncrowned Addiction as it happened today. I know it is abnormal, but I would never expect a perfect system and this mitigation seems pretty simple.

I just logged onto my Cloud site here and found the entire news database and all my "pro" features were missing. Basically, all the content of my site was MIA. I logged into my admin panel and just needed to refresh the license key and everything worked perfectly fine. However, the problem is that this just seemed to be a simple connection issue that I normally would not find as odd by any means, but the outcome is devastating to a site as it basically means all traffic and even all of our AdSense grinds to a stop as soon as the connection issue occurs. Not to mention all the errors it will create in Google for the content's indexing. How about a simple 24-hour warning "Hey, your key is expired or missing and your features will soon be disabled". This would allow any admin to log in and see what the problem is. A delay seems like a practical solution that would safeguard my site from IPS Cloud issues that I cannot prevent on my end and would still pull features from people who simply didn't pay. I highly doubt the number of users that would abuse it to get a free 24hrs is any reasonable number compared to the potential to damage all cloud customers.

Don't want to bring up an old topic, but this is the exact issue I am now having on both of my cloud communities. Guest's have no posting permissions, but I do have "Post Before Registering" allowed. Guests are currently able to post replies to topics and send them for approval. Guests are shown this message "You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.", but when they add an email and submit the reply, it pops up that the post was sent for moderation approval and no registration form appears. Recording 2024-02-13 150035.mp4

If we could just take that little catcha box and place it in the site offline wrapper, it would likely be an acceptable integration for most sites. Give us the site name and a style of box that matches IPS's layout and it would improve multitudes times better.

Well I'm not seeing it anymore, so that seems better. But if you are talking about the look of it, then I don't know how to force it to pop up.

@Marc Stridgen yes, the change seems to fix some problems. But even as the admin I had to sit and wonder if I had some sort of malware when it popped up. A solution that can pull the page wrapper or at least some branding/formatting would be a huge step to improve this.

That is a very likely answer. It does have a terrible Amazon design look to it.

I just got an update from my monitors that my sites are reporting degraded service and long response times in numerous areas. I'd guess IPS is having server instability at this time and likely a DDOS given the catcha prompts. But of course, this is just with information I can pull from my own sites and no official notice from IPS. This is probably an automated system they have on play, but a automated notice for us would be an amazing feature.

On a side note, if it is a DDOS attack or something, they are doing a good job of keeping the sites up compared to the last few DDOS issues, but we really need communication or a notice system as just guessing is not a great experience for anyone. I'm okay with a system like this if it helps (granted, it really needs a redesign), but we need info as customers to when things are being turned on and turned off.

Ya, it does not appear to have a memory or anything of who is using it as I need to enter it multiple times in the same session now.

I have gotten it on my sites and here, so I would assume that it has been deployed to everyone. I have no news or information to share about it, but the design looks like a Google spam ad and that is pretty bad IMO. Hopefully, it is just temporary due to a DDOS attack, but we never get that kind of information.

Ya, I remember IPS.Chat. I loved it, but the per-user plan thing was kind of strange. I do feel like being able to pull features from live topics to use in other ways would greatly improve the product as I personally have little use for the package as is.

Would love a chat box like the one used in Live Topics, but just as an independent block we can place on a page. Otherwise is looks like a lot of nice changes!

Ya, I can second that today has been a poor day for the servers.