Steve Herschbach

I just communicated with staff about the same question, as that pop up made me think the same thing. The direct access to support from the client area went away, and then you get that message. I think it should be changed to include a better explanation, as it left both you and I, and I have no doubt others, feeling like we now don't get support that we used to get. A misperception, true, but perception is reality.

As forum admin I started getting these emails though I did nothing on my end to request them. Just a couple so far, but I’m concerned the update changed this behavior to default and that my members are now getting emails they did not ask for. I’m on latest version and just got one this morning. Where do I just shut this off entirely?

Thank you!!

Is there any way to do this? I can block specific addresses, but I see no way to block everything but an approved list. I am being hit by an army of paid spammers in India. Since they are not bots, they get by the stuff aimed at bots. However, they do tend to use crazy email addresses, like bjack03dec@airlines-number.myftp.biz As a temporary solution I wanted to only allow a short list like gmail.com, yahoo.com, hotmail.com, etc. Yeah, I know I’d be blocking many legit people, but they are a tiny minority using company emails and such. Right now I just need a stop gap to stop this deluge, and this would help a lot.

Yeah. Just from a user perspective, I must say we often get the software folks pointing at the service provider, in my case Pair, not a low rent outfit, but one of the oldest and best in the business. They of course point back at the software vendors, leaving me, the customer, with very little to hang my hat on. It's a communication thing. I do not visit this website unless I have to. I do not read every line or even much about your updates. I just want my site to run, I apply updates when they show up after a few days, just in case. I'm not an "expert", but I've done websites and such since 1998 on a daily basis, so I'm not a complete idiot either. So while I appreciate that from your perspective INNODB is old hat, it's not something that your customer contact messaging made a standout issue, something focused on to the point I took notice of it. All I know is I have a database that is half and half, and I did nothing to make that happen. I'm sure an empty mysql database never corrupts, and that software manipulating the database is part of the package that results in problems. My issue was and is real. I have an old IC installation that has suffered years of use, some mods installed and removed over the years, many updates, and who knows the exact state of the thing. All I know is my website and server run nothing else, and being the customer with two providers, stuck in the middle, with no real answers, gets frustrating. I'm not complaining. I am retired due to running a very successful retail business I founded in high school. You guys do a great job, but do remember loyal customers like me are also people with busy lives, we don't live and breath your software, and simply want to pay for something that works. In my case, I never quibble over money, and am always happy to pay for help if needed. You guys should offer an extra hired gun service for $100 an hour or more to go in and take care of issues for people like me. Make the cost high to keep the workload low, but there for people with deep wallets, and a nice boost to somebodies pay. Just a suggestion. Have a great Thanksgiving! Steve Herschbach

OK, I cleared the cache, and problems fixed. Thanks! Interesting that the cache stays in this state for days on end. Note to self, clear cache after updates. Thanks again for an easy fix to this one Marc. AS far as the database, I've been with Invision for quite a few years now. I ran a handful of mods in the past, but got tired of the dog chasing tail aspect introduced by updats breaking mods, which then needed updates...... so I pared it back to four small mods Stop Shouting in Topic Titles Enabled 1.0.2 Custom By Adriano Faria (TB) Bump Up Topics Enabled 3.0.3 Marketplace By Terabyte Enhanced Joined Date Enabled 13.0.0 Marketplace By All Astronauts Change Post Date Enabled 1.0.4 Marketplace By Adriano Faria Somewhere along the ay you guys decided to shift over to InnoDB and about half of my database was converted to InnoDB via an update I assume (nothing I did directly) but a number of tables are still non-InnoDB, and I get this warning. "InnoDB database tables typically perform more efficiently and reliably than other database engines such as MyISAM on most modern hosts when configured correctly. It is strongly encouraged to ensure all of your database tables are using the InnoDB storage engine, and that your hosting provider has configured MySQL for InnoDB use. The biggie is core-sessions. Now for whatever reason, I have had a half dozen major meltdowns in core_sessions in the last 18 months, resulting in going fully offline. This is not something that was happening earlier and in general my installation has been stable over the years. Then I assume an update changed something, and I get repeated meltdowns. All that got me out of it was repairing core-sessions with phpMyAdmin. This has made me not want to ask my service to convert the rest of the database, as I am unfamiliar with how to repair InnoDB, and it seems it takes that ability out of my hands. I know just enough about this stuff to muddle through - I'm not a wizard by any means. However, I've not had a corruption issue now since July, and maybe it's time for me to take the plunge and have the rest of the database converted over, which I assume my provider can do for me. But at that point, if core-sessions corrupts again, well, I'm not sure what to do but ask for help from my provider or you guys. Steve Herschbach

in chrome and safari, fairly plain vanilla install, worked fine, not in chrome and safari new post in thread notification box solid black quote selection dialog box shows underline symbol - works if I click it? Delete post dialog box no text, but does delete if I click blue box on left Kind of just waiting for an update to the update as I assumed it's not just me, but if it is....? I am not fond of new support area in admin. No more "I'm having problem option". Not happy with forced move to InnoDB removing my ability to use phpAdmin to check database or fix it easily either. Mine is now in mixed state, some Inno, some not, but am afraid to convert the rest as I have had corruption issues since last few updates, and only phpAdmin has saved the day. In general I've always run with updates over time, but kind of thinking I should have stayed put and stable a year ago.

I’ve considered disabling it and may still, which is why I brought it up. I put quite a bit of time into the custom emoji, and they stopped getting used after I enabled the native mode. I had the basics already and it helps enforce cross platform compatibility. Anyway, what I am really hoping is the custom set gets listed first in an update.

I don’t think most of my users ever scroll down far enough to even know there are custom emoji for the forum.

Hmmmm... I have been using this excellent plug in for some time with no problem, but it just came to my attention today that it is breaking the mobile theme. If I view a thread on my forum with the plug in activated I only see other content like ads and such but the posts are not visible on my iPhone. Disable the plug in, everything fine. Same problem with Android. But everything looks fine on my PC and on my iPad. I am not sure when this happened but I did just update to IPB 4.1.18.2

When I look at the Manage tags page I have 5 pages of tags and 90 more empty pages...

OK, I was on 3.1.4 of Advanced tags, and recaching fails with that version. Was not until I came here that I saw 3.1.6 version available. Uploaded 3.1.6, recached (it worked) and got my tags back. But still no two word prefixes. The green prefixes below said "For Sale" before update to 4.1.13.1

4.1.13.1 broke my prefixes. Single word prefixes were ok, two word prefixes - second word became invisible. Tried to recache - and all prefixes and tags disappeared from my forum.