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Just wanted to add that the sites do have nearly constant traffic, just not what I'd consider high traffic. So other tasks are running fine and as they should. The Auto Welcome task just never seems to run on its own (despite other tasks running in that same time frame).

Thanks! I'll keep tinkering around and try to figure out what is going on. The setup seems pretty straightforward, it just isn't working, unless I'm overlooking something somewhere.

Not high traffic and not using Redis.

Yep, no issues reported by IPS Support panel. However I am not using cron as the Task Method, I'm using "Run Automatically with Traffic (Default)"

I tried that and have yet to get a notification (reply in the existing topic). I just tried a configuration that creates a new topic but get the following error: TypeError: array_pop(): Argument #1 ($array) must be of type array, int given (0) #0 /home/xxxxxx/public_html/applications/autowelcome/modules/admin/settings/settings.php(158): array_pop() #1 /home/xxxxxx/public_html/system/Dispatcher/Controller.php(118): IPS\autowelcome\modules\admin\settings\_settings->manage() #2 /home/xxxxxx/public_html/applications/autowelcome/modules/admin/settings/settings.php(30): IPS\Dispatcher\_Controller->execute() #3 /home/xxxxxx/public_html/system/Dispatcher/Dispatcher.php(153): IPS\autowelcome\modules\admin\settings\_settings->execute() #4 /home/xxxxxx/public_html/admin/index.php(13): IPS\_Dispatcher->run() #5 {main}

Do you see the same behavior with the General tab in Settings that I described in my previous post?

The other thing I noticed is in the settings, if I have immediate checked, I don't see the other options. With it unchecked, I do. I tried the 1 hour setting, and also tried a manual task run with it set this way but nothing happens.

I'm using instant upon verification to add a reply to an existing topic, but it isn't working on two different sites. @iacas and @Edjazoli, what version of IPS are you using?

I tried to manually run it as well after another member joined and it didn't add anything to the existing topic that was configured. No errors in the task logs either, however it does show it ran.

Running 4.7.8, it seems the welcomeAlerts tasks is not running or recognizing when to run. Had a member sign up and validate 45 minutes before this screenshot was taken.

Ah that may indeed do it as well, thanks @Adriano Faria! @Adriano Faria, I think the one limitation there is it's at a whole group level vs a member level. So I'd have to add each member to their own group if I wanted to throttle the member level, right?

I have a site that is niche specific but has some non-niche related forums (such as Politics). Is there a method for throttling posts in a given forum or set of forums OR perhaps earning/applying a credit system to post in a forum/set of forums? The issue is that these members do post quality site content at times, however they post an unbalanced number of lesser quality/unrelated topics. You may ask why even have the unrelated content, but it creates conversation and engagement that leads to posting site niche related content that is valuable. One marketplace add-on I found that could effectively throttle a set of forums is @DawPi's

So maybe it's newer but not the latest phones and this will slowly go away? Today's case was a Samsung phone but can't recall the model offhand.

It's mainly newer phones defaulting to this format to save space. While not a huge problem, it's an increasingly reported one. No way to gauge how many abandon posting something because their upload fails to embed or is otherwise not an allowed file type extension.

I understand there isn't a native approach to this that IPS offers, I was just wondering if anyone had come up with an alternate solution to support automated conversion (HEIC --> JPG) within IPS (i.e. plugin or some other approach).

Bumping here in 2023, I see per @Stuart Silvester's link above HEIC is still unsupported by browsers. Does anyone have an automated and integrated IPS solution that allows for this versus telling members to update their phones or convert images themselves?

System >> Settings >> General Configuration You'll see a toggle for Site Online.

There is an Offline mode you can set and add a message to display on the screen. It will also allow you as an Admin to log in and see the site as it normally would be seen while others see the Offline message.

FWIW I'm missing images I know weren't deleted by the member who posted them. My guess is something got messed up in the transfer to S3 in my case. In retrospect I should have done image file counts and compared to S3 object counts after the transfer and kept a backup to restore whatever I needed. Now it's too late but fortunately not many instances of missing images.

I will say, the desire from a member to block another member doesn't have limitations. They undoubtedly want to see absolutely nothing from that member (topics, replies, quoted replies, etc). The challenge definitely is topics where you lose context once certain posts are hidden, but there's no avoiding that if you want to hide certain members and see others and there's a topic they are both participating in. In this particular use case, it just seems especially odd to hide the OP's post (topic's first post) but not the topic itself. You have zero context if you hide OP, so why would you want to see any replies to a first post you can't see?

When a member on my ignore list creates a Topic, I still see the Topic, but when I open it, the first post shows a message that the user is being ignore. Should it not just hide the entire topic? Granted you may see others post, but you'll have no context to the OP's initial post if you have them hidden.

OK thanks @Jim M

Hi, just another bump. I emailed as well, but saw this continues to crop up even with posts that aren't hidden. Once someone replies, it often reappears, but may or may not disappear when hidden or when other replies are added. It's pretty hard to reproduce and happens randomly it seems.

I agree with @BHeidenreich66, there is a huge opportunity for better video integration within IPS and it's a massive demand of every niche's user base that could close the gap with social media platforms like FB. I too heavily compete with FB groups, and unfortunately FB dominates the "sharing" aspect. It's not even that IPS needs to host video (most site owners don't want to incur the storage cost), IPS just needs to provide a better workflow for leveraging existing video sites (which can also be monetized/shared/etc). It's what prompted my enhancement request submitted a year ago now to address this very thing.

Just wanted to bump this one, as I run into it a lot now that I've tried to shift date related events to Events instead of a Forum topic. Members are constantly firing up Forum topics, which I then have to lock and ask them to repost in Events. Meanwhile the conversation has already started around the upcoming Event in the Forum topic and there's no way to migrate it to the Event to keep it all together. Just tons of fragmentation in conversation and discourages engagement because members don't want to repost/restart something in a different place just so the site can get it in an Event/Calendar format. Not sure if others are running into it, but if you are, please chime in here so we can get a higher priority on this functionality.