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AlexWebsites got a reaction from G17 Media in Introducing Community Hive
Nice job, looks great! Any thought to additional future categories? Powersports (maybe that is under Cars) as an example and maybe Outdoors (for hunting, fishing, etc).
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AlexWebsites reacted to PPlanet in Is there a way to do "content cloaking"?
Also, by using Nathan's plugin linked above (which has a lot of flexibility per type of content too).
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AlexWebsites reacted to The Old Man in Please add Gallery to list of RSS Import options
Please can you add Gallery to the available RSS Import areas (under AdminCP > RSS Feed Imports)?
We only have Pages and Forums, plus Blogs via the front end.
Example:
Import Nasa's image of the day from their RSS Feed:
https://www.nasa.gov/rss/dyn/lg_image_of_the_day.rss Many thanks!
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AlexWebsites got a reaction from BomAle in Introducing Community Hive
Nice job, looks great! Any thought to additional future categories? Powersports (maybe that is under Cars) as an example and maybe Outdoors (for hunting, fishing, etc).
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AlexWebsites reacted to Charles in Introducing Community Hive
Feel free to post on talk.communityhive.com with any suggestions you have
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AlexWebsites reacted to Ryan Ashbrook in New Spam Prevention Features
Spam has always been an ongoing battle for community owners as spammers find new ways to circumvent existing anti-spam practices.
We have seen an uptick in new ways spammers are breaking through existing defense.
As such, we here at Invision Community continue to look at new ways for community managers to combat against spam. For our September release, we have added several new tools that can prevent spammers from registering in the first place and help combat them even if they register successfully.
Let's take a look at these new tools and settings.
Geolocation based registration filtering
Oftentimes, spam attacks can originate using bots and servers from specific regions. Using our existing Geolocation service, we have now added filters that will allow administrators to hold registrations from specific regions for administrator review, or deny the registration entirely.
Using this, administrators whose communities are under a spam attack from a specific region, can temporarily filter registrations from that region. Multiple regions can be defined at once, and each individual region can either be held for administrator review, or denied completely.
Disposable Email Filtering
We have added an extra option to our spam defense system to filter users registering with throwaway disposable emails, which are often used by spammers to bypass email validation.
During Spam Defense checking, we now also check the domain in use for the registration against a frequently maintained list. If the user passes through the normal spam defense checking, but is found to have a disposable email address, then the administrator can define one of the following actions to be taken.
Allow the registration to proceed Allow the registration, but moderate all posts (which an option to remove moderation after a certain amount) Flag the account for administrator review Register the account but immediately ban it Completely deny the registration For both Geolocation and disposable email filtering, the existing Spam Defense Whitelist is always honored ahead of these filters.
Contact Us Email Verification
A common pain point has been the Contact Us page. While the spam does not go to a user facing location, it does still land in the administrators inbox, or other area defined by the sites Contact Us settings.
To help with this, if a visitor who is not logged in attempts to use the Contact Us page, then in addition to the existing CAPTCHA, the administrator can optionally require the person to verify their email address before the message is ever sent. This applies to all Contact Us behaviors, including any added by third party applications.
Cloud Content Analysis
For our Invision Community Cloud customers, we have also added an additional layer of spam prevention after registration.
After a user registers, or if the account has been dormant, then the first few content submissions will be analyzed using a custom developed algorithm within our platform.
The algorithm takes into factor many different elements of the content, and will rank the post between 1 (not spam) and 5 (definitely spam).
The algorithm can be constantly adjusted and improved based on trends without any intervention from the administrator, and without the need to update to new releases of Invision Community.
The administrator can then decide one of the following actions to take based on the score that was received.
Allow the submission Hold the submission for moderator review Deny the submission completely Of course, specific groups can be made exempt from this and not have their content checked at all, which is useful for sites with subscription based registrations which may not want to have this applied to new subscribers, but do want to have new non-subscribers checked.
Spam can quickly become a headache for most community managers, and these new tools will help further combat it at the source. For our enterprise and Invision Community Cloud customers, being able to check for spam when posting is a new tool which will further filter out more of those annoying topics and posts.
We hope these new features give you additional tools in the fight against spam.
The features and changes presented here are available in the following packages:
Geolocation based registration filtering, Disposable Email Filtering, Contact Us Email Verification: Beginner, Creator, Creator Pro, Team, Business, Enterprise, Invision Community Classic (Self Hosted).
Content Analysis: Beginner, Creator, Creator Pro, Team, Business, Enterprise.
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AlexWebsites reacted to Matt in New Spam Prevention Features
Ryan and the team have done a fantastic job with these new tools and I'm really keen to see how they help in the current spam wave we're all experiencing.
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AlexWebsites reacted to DawPi in Ads for mobile
And those url/image ads exists in the source code but are hidden.
The same situation would be with js code - will be executed but wrapped by ipsHide (or something else to hide).
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AlexWebsites got a reaction from David N. in Submitting replies takes an unusually long time
I just saw this happen with replying to a topic on this forum. Just FYI
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AlexWebsites reacted to Jim M in Ads for mobile
This would not suffice most ad handler requirements as this will execute it 3 times.
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AlexWebsites reacted to Nathan Explosion in (NE) Hide content
v4.3.0 is currently pending approval
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AlexWebsites got a reaction from Gabriel Torres in Why aren't posts numbered within a thread?
Is post numbering still in this?
Is anyone running a plugin or custom edit now they can share? Looking to add post numbering for easier reference.
This seems to work with v4.7.12 so far..
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AlexWebsites reacted to Matt in v5 news coming soon...
Code clean up ✅
Import over FQN ✅
Better use of traits ✅
Search code clean up ✅
Happy PHPStorm without hacks/class_alias ✅
More recent PHP versions needed ✅
Better use of newer PHP functions ✅
More to follow, but I think you’ll be content with the changes to be announced.
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AlexWebsites reacted to nodle in v5 news coming soon...
A new UI, hopefully from @Ehren. Cleaned up code (if needed). More SEO (if needed). Faster rendering time (if needed). Maybe some fun new features like when Ranks were introduced.
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AlexWebsites reacted to Ocean West in getting page after page of russian based member login that are never validated...
You could also use CloudFlair to combat intense attacks.
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AlexWebsites reacted to TDBF in Widgets Extensions (Support)
I will have a look into this for you.
For the time being, if you need any JS, just add this in the theme header or footer options.
I will add this ability in a future version.
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AlexWebsites got a reaction from SeNioR- in SEO Essentials - Support Topic
The question I have with this screenshot is what happened in August of last year on that site to cause the drop.
When I look at my sites, they have all been pretty steady for 12 mo, no major dips. I'm tempted to try this app but wondering if it will actually make an improvement. Its a steep price if it doesn't.
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AlexWebsites reacted to Matt in Suggestion: Allow SQL engine to be specified in conf_global.
Imagine a world where you no longer have to fight hosts, databases and server admin. A world where you can focus purely on building your community instead of hours of your life managing a server.
https://invisioncommunity.com/services/switch-to-invision/
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AlexWebsites got a reaction from SeNioR- in Clicking on a page number in a lengthy thread apparently does not trigger a page view/refresh
Shut off ajax pagination in theme settings
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AlexWebsites got a reaction from Nathan Explosion in Clicking on a page number in a lengthy thread apparently does not trigger a page view/refresh
Shut off ajax pagination in theme settings
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AlexWebsites got a reaction from Thomas Surgent in Clicking on a page number in a lengthy thread apparently does not trigger a page view/refresh
Shut off ajax pagination in theme settings
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AlexWebsites reacted to opentype in Forum Defined Tags - Open System
They are just shown in a highlighted way when you type something.
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AlexWebsites reacted to Adriano Faria in Follow Tags
It’s a sidebar block but I can show in a grid format (columns) in horizontal mode.
Depending on how it goes on marketplace, I can male it better later. Right now it has 0 purchases. Even if you purchase it, doesn’t worth the time I will spend on it.
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AlexWebsites reacted to Adriano Faria in Follow Tags
I'm creating a block with random (existing) tags:
I'll come back to this during the weekend, probably.
Sure. Whatever you have set: inline, e-mail, or push.