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I don’t need them to hide it. I need it to behave @Joel R

 
My daughter attempted to take her life in December and unfortunately that plus my boyfriend getting COVID in January where I now have it? I’m not going to lie, the fact that I CANNOT update because I don’t have the money to do it but am so incessantly reminded of it with an expired license is hot garbage. 
If my license was active that’s on me and I am making an active decision to ignore it. When my license is inactive that is not the case. I don’t see why a “if license inactive no reminders” statement can’t be added to them.
@Charles @Lindy is it really necessary to be this insistent to remind me of what a hard time I’m having? It was hard enough dealing (and still dealing) with my life issues. This feels just like an extra kick in the teeth in my opinion. These last two months have quite literally been the worst of my life, I don’t know why IPS had to rub it in my face every 24-48 hours when it decided to remind me again that my site wasn’t up to date on my expired license that I legit just couldn’t pay for.

Yes, absolutely adversely affected traffic when we transitioned from vBulletin to IPS. We were going from a very optimized vBulletin SEO strategy that we had developed over many years to default IPS, and there was a definite hit across all measures, similar to what you're describing. We took a number of steps (many many rewrite rules) beyond the out of the box IPS URL conversion strategy to ensure that previous URLs ended up, as much as possible, to the new path in IPS. We did our conversion in 2018, and did not have the factor of pandemic. Our research at the time indicated that this was the report of a number of communities making the switch to IPS, and we tried to address as many of the issues as possible in advance.
I think, overall, SEO is a large opportunity for IPS, and hopefully the IPS team is actively working on addressing those opportunities. There are lots of improvements to be made from the default, out of the box functionality, starting with optimizations in rendering speed, lazy loading, improvements in the ability to customize the FURL system at the root application/plugin level (i.e. change "forums" to "whateveryouwant" for both built in applications and third-party applications), and other things.
Pageviews are likely not a fair measure, especially if you're using ajax loading to navigate between pages--as long as your ad performance is good, and your organic search rankings aren't dropping. Our significant measures were unique sessions and ranking in search.

May I ask why this step is not part of the standard suite? From my point of view it should be.
I also have thousands of CLS errors in Search Console. But I assume they also come from lazy load being enabled.

@Gabriel Torres  are you already seeing Google Analytics benefits of these improvements? I mean, how are the several optimizations you are making impacting your search engine traffic?
I believe that IPS should implement these improvements built in. Having successful communities is of their best interest, and SEO effectiveness should be a top priority.

@xtechSo far, I am not seeing any improvement, as the main issue, which is the LCP, is still present. As mentioned in my original post, Google made a major change in its algorithm in the beginning of december, which is really hurting us. We used to get around 140k users per day from Google, since then we are getting around 115k. This is hurting our revenue tremendously. I am still working on this, though. Every couple of days I fix something here or there. I am very persistent and I will get to the bottom of this and will eventually fix this LCP issue! 🙂
In any case, this has been a good opportunity to fix a lot of other things that could be improved anyway! 🙂
 

@Gabriel Torres  are you already seeing Google Analytics benefits of these improvements? I mean, how are the several optimizations you are making impacting your search engine traffic?
I believe that IPS should implement these improvements built in. Having successful communities is of their best interest, and SEO effectiveness should be a top priority.

In important rule of (cyber) security is: don't expose more than what is strictly needed.
I would deny the access to that file.
What's the point of letting anyone to know what is the version you use? To know if a certain exploit can be used or that a vulnerability is present? You certainly don't want to provide rogue actors that valuable information.
 

Hi, please consider add audio player support to ips core features. As content manager tools, we can embed youtube and videos displayed in our topics or records, but missing audio player, we need upload audio files have it show to members as player...I think this is not so much as a content suite platform.

In important rule of (cyber) security is: don't expose more than what is strictly needed.
I would deny the access to that file.
What's the point of letting anyone to know what is the version you use? To know if a certain exploit can be used or that a vulnerability is present? You certainly don't want to provide rogue actors that valuable information.
 

Application which allows you to apply random 'annoyances' to your annoying users. Options are:
Show a blank page Show site as offline Show page not found error Delay page loading Redirect to another url Each of the above has a % chance of happening, configured by you - and you can configure different behaviour on a per-user basis.

boardurl.com/applications/core/data/versions.json  

I see it pretty simple now.

For years, we've asked for some sort of Wordpress like feature, drag and drop, auto update within acp, plugins within acp. We now have it and realise we don't like it much after being used to IP.Board/IPB/IPS for years. But, we're now stuck with it.

If you want addons without being tied to ACP, then ask the developer for the files, so you can keep a copy. This is what IPS suggest doing, and they have no intension of taking that feature away from us.

Happy New Year by the way!!

Hi there,
It would be great if it was possible to use a 24h clock in the calendar application, a 24 hour clock is pretty much the written standard for most non-english writing countries and makes proper lokalisation a bit harder.

You would need more advanced processing inside the template.
Remember: article content is in field $record->_content. This field is a String that contains the HTML code that by its turn, contain your article text, images, etc.
As an example, if you want to set an ad after the first paragraph and before the second paragraph, then you need to edit the record display template as follows:
find the first paragraph end tag (</p>). You can do it with string functions or regex. Split the the string at that position (so you will have one string with the first paragraph, (let's call it $content1), and one with the remaining content ($content2). Create a new string $adsensecode and set it as: "<p>with_your_adsense_code_</p>" Conconcatenate $content1 . $adsensecode . $content2  Instead of using $record->_content to display article content, use $yourconcatenatedcontent Enjoy.

AqWhat's wrong with centOS? I also use it and i prefer it over Ubuntu. It is amazingly stable, reliable, and doesn't give me any headache. Enough to be my #1 choice...

Eghhh. 
I told you - why you are using my app as a register page to redirect? Leave default.
P.S. my 1-3hrs are slow? Hope you didnt bought someone else apps with one week - month replies!

AqWhat's wrong with centOS? I also use it and i prefer it over Ubuntu. It is amazingly stable, reliable, and doesn't give me any headache. Enough to be my #1 choice...

I think the concept is moderately interesting but I certainly wouldn't want to "accept a terms of service" every time I submit something, at least not personally.

This would be lovely and satisfying but the issue is it is behaving like a standard update notification. In this case returning regularly across many platforms to poke me about this update I can’t install.
My suggestion is, no matter how important IPS is making it, even if it’s a security patch, if I can’t install it with my lapsed license, the notification shouldn’t come up. The priority in this case should be whether I can download it or not.
At the moment a 105 dollar renewal is impossible for me regardless of how important it is.

Try to understand what the error message is trying to tell you: the string "attachment_file_missing - /home/halu/public_html/Yabbse/attachments/32318_t1_ashx_attach1idRgAAAADmmEv9PKKvQ4oBqRQNZomPBwDC2fzi22fpGYTZtymL8wbDrEAADR2fin7AABdHAnbM02eT5ABpTWls3feAAAEk4LJAAAJattid0EADy2fJG2FKMNRrXCQhwtWxz3attcnt15feb5c740bb9f0b99780181b69294c07" is too long to be inserted into the column log_message.
This is because... it is too long, really. I mean the column "log_message" data type is probably configured to accept smaller strings, so you have two choices: trim the string to fit the maximum allowed data type length, or modify the data type to accept longer strings. I would personally prefer the second option to avoid losing any particular useful log info.
Execute this SQL query:
Describe convert_logs And see what is the output. Probably the type of the log_message field is Varchar(somenumber). If it is, execute this query:
Alter Table convert_logs Modify column log_message LONGTEXT And run the conversion again.
 
From another perspective in what concerns to the conversion process: mind what the log is also saying: there is an attachment that was not found. If you end up having many logs like this, your newly converted forum will have "void" attachments. If it is just a couple of these logs, you should be fine.
 

Try to understand what the error message is trying to tell you: the string "attachment_file_missing - /home/halu/public_html/Yabbse/attachments/32318_t1_ashx_attach1idRgAAAADmmEv9PKKvQ4oBqRQNZomPBwDC2fzi22fpGYTZtymL8wbDrEAADR2fin7AABdHAnbM02eT5ABpTWls3feAAAEk4LJAAAJattid0EADy2fJG2FKMNRrXCQhwtWxz3attcnt15feb5c740bb9f0b99780181b69294c07" is too long to be inserted into the column log_message.
This is because... it is too long, really. I mean the column "log_message" data type is probably configured to accept smaller strings, so you have two choices: trim the string to fit the maximum allowed data type length, or modify the data type to accept longer strings. I would personally prefer the second option to avoid losing any particular useful log info.
Execute this SQL query:
Describe convert_logs And see what is the output. Probably the type of the log_message field is Varchar(somenumber). If it is, execute this query:
Alter Table convert_logs Modify column log_message LONGTEXT And run the conversion again.
 
From another perspective in what concerns to the conversion process: mind what the log is also saying: there is an attachment that was not found. If you end up having many logs like this, your newly converted forum will have "void" attachments. If it is just a couple of these logs, you should be fine.
 

I can't reproduce the problem. Try to disable Cache Image (in settings) and test it.
You need to select an image instead of clicking save button. Anyway, I will update the missing language bit, it should be "Please select one image to set as topic thumbnail".

NP ❤️
 

Yup, the title field takes HTML quite well...just try it....

 

OK, I will test it.