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This is an intended change designed to help boost income for sites using free trials. A lot of users will provide a credit card when offered a free trial, and then allow their subscription to continue without cancelling it, but may never come back to provide their credit card if not required to up front. It's a pretty common sales tactic.
Ultimately, as mentioned, this is intended, but I could see a desire for a setting perhaps to control the behavior. Either way, I'm not sure this is really an ideal topic for the development gateway forum here. Would you like me to move this to the feedback forum instead?

I've been experimenting with some options that should help improve the behavior in an upcoming release. 👍

"Source" probably comes from the feed itself.
You can shut off "Read full article" by editing the RSS feed in the AdminCP and disabling adding the link (it's a per-feed setting).

We support Microsoft Edge, the browser that Microsoft currently supports.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer
Internet Explorer stopped receiving material updates in 2016. It no longer works with Microsoft Teams as of Nov 2020, and will not work with Microsoft 365 as of 2021. In other words, Microsoft doesn't even support this browser for their own major web-based products.
Frankly...we can't move forward with technology if we continue to support the past forever and ever. Specifically in this case, we migrated to using CSS variables which is a major major overhaul of our design system allowing for easier theming, more flexibility, better cohesiveness across the entire site and many more features, but is a feature which Internet Explorer doesn't support (because, again, it hasn't received material updates in 4 years).
We don't support any other browsers released 4+ years ago either for the record.

The news section here is done with Pages, not Blogs.

Your best course of action is to develop (or have developed for you) a plugin or application that does precisely what you want it to do. The plugin you're referring too has long been abandoned, and you'd be in a far better security and maintainability posture by moving that logic into a proper extension and getting on 4.5.
Alternatively, I think there may be some classified type applications in the Marketplace to consider. You might take a look at one of those.

If you enable the record image field, you can edit the permissions for the field on the Fields page for that database, including which groups are allowed to upload an image when submitting a new record.

I've been experimenting with some options that should help improve the behavior in an upcoming release. 👍

It's on our radar

I've been experimenting with some options that should help improve the behavior in an upcoming release. 👍

I've been experimenting with some options that should help improve the behavior in an upcoming release. 👍

I've been experimenting with some options that should help improve the behavior in an upcoming release. 👍

I've been experimenting with some options that should help improve the behavior in an upcoming release. 👍

We have to do a pseudo-random ordering for sites with large galleries, because MySQL's "ORDER BY RAND()" is extremely expensive from a performance angle. That said, it is possible we can improve our pseudo-random selections a bit - I'll take a look.

Our support system was migrated yesterday to a new provider

This is incorrect or something is not quite right with your permissions you've set. If a member group does not have access to a forum, they cannot access attachments or the topics in that forum. (NOTE: embedded images will be available, however, as these are handled differently but sounds like this is not your case.)
If you've previously had the forum open to the public, bots may have stored those URLs and be attempting to access them. However, they will receive permission denied messages.
If you would like to submit a ticket, we're happy to give your permissions a once over for you.

It's on our radar

It's on our radar

Suggestion for making the UX experience more cohesive. 
On most sites where you use text editors (like the one I'm typing in here)...
You can hit "command + K" (on a mac) to add a hyperlink. 
In invision, the only way to add a link to text is to click the little linky icon in the editing menu. 
Would be great to have this shortcut! 

It's on our radar

Try changing
<?php $bg = array('0_header2a.jpg', '0_IMG_20200928_120515.jpg?_cb=1611148998', '0_m_vengeance_lpx_ddr4_2400_2x8gb-1610717649-743-e.jpg?_cb=1611148998' ); // array of filenames $i = rand(0, count($bg)-1); // generate random number size of the array $selectedBg = "$bg[$i]"; // set variable equal to which random filename was chosen ?> <li class="ipsWidget ipsWidget_horizontal ipsBox ipsResponsive_block"> <div class="SuperBlocks_thumbImage SuperBlocks_thumbImage_low SuperBlocks_shadowContainer" style="background-image:url('//www.xyxcx.com/pages_media/<?php echo $selectedBg; ?>) no-repeat;"> to
<?php $bg = array('0_header2a.jpg', '0_IMG_20200928_120515.jpg?_cb=1611148998', '0_m_vengeance_lpx_ddr4_2400_2x8gb-1610717649-743-e.jpg?_cb=1611148998' ); // array of filenames $i = rand(0, count($bg)-1); // generate random number size of the array $selectedBg = $bg[ $i ]; // set variable equal to which random filename was chosen ?> <li class="ipsWidget ipsWidget_horizontal ipsBox ipsResponsive_block"> <div class="SuperBlocks_thumbImage SuperBlocks_thumbImage_low SuperBlocks_shadowContainer" style="background-image:url('//www.xyxcx.com/uploads/pages_media/{$selectedBg}') no-repeat;">  

It sounds like something is corrupted somehow. I would redownload all of the files from the client area and reupload everything, ensuring that your FTP program is transmitting via binary instead of ASCII text.

Have you checked that the version of PHP you are upgrading to, also has the PHP Redis extension installed and enabled?

Are you talking about shipment orders? If so, they do not have multiple separate statuses. You can adjust from pending to shipped to cancelled, but cannot define custom statuses like "in progress". That's not a bad suggestion though, so you may wish to post in our Feedback forum requesting this change be added in a future release.

It's on our radar