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Well kudos to IPS support. Looks like one of them jumped on my ACP and fixed it fore me real quick. Greatly appreciated

Thank you for the feedback everyone. Haven't looked at them now for a couple years. Will have to dig in again I suppose and see why they don't work anymore. They've been working for a couple years now. I suppose if no one else is having an issue then perhaps user caching issue for those where Default is not working. Cheers

I'm not sure exactly what has changed on the UI for what appears to be the data-mentionid but some users notice they can no longer see the names due to poor color choice. It has changed it on all my modified themes (I get it, I'm responsible for those) but even the Default Theme does not show it properly for some users. It works for me, but not everyone. @Malwarebytes Forums Here above I can see the white on blue and quite readable On our themes some see it as this on the Default Theme On some darker themes it look like this now. The names are there, you simply cannot see them unless you select and highlight them. Again, I understand that I'm responsible for any modified themes. But for some of our users the Default Theme is producing the same issue. On my system I cannot duplicate it on the Default Theme but based on the screenshots above they provided they are having the issue. Current code as of 3/17/2023 on IPS v4.7.8 a[data-mentionid], .cToken { background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba( var(--theme-mentions), 0.25 ), rgba( var(--theme-mentions), 0.25 )); color: rgb( var(--theme-mentions) ); } a[data-mentionid] { display: inline-block; border-radius: 20px; padding: .1em .8em; font-size: 90%; background: rgb( var(--theme-mentions) ); color: #fff; text-decoration: none !important; } From a 2020 post https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/459107-where-is-the-username-textbackground-color-in-the-theme/ https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/459107-where-is-the-username-textbackground-color-in-the-theme/?do=findComment&comment=2834833 a[data-mentionid] { background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, {hextorgb="mentions" opacity=".15"}, {hextorgb="mentions" opacity=".15"}); color: {hextorgb="mentions" opacity="1"}; } a[data-mentionid]:hover { background-image: linear-gradient({hextorgb="mentions" opacity=".22"}, {hextorgb="mentions" opacity=".22"}); color: {hextorgb="mentions" opacity="1"}; } There is also this post, but doesn't seem to be the same issue https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/471691-theme-color-mentions-not-applied-to-mentions/ Is this a bug or what can be done to correct it so that it does work properly on the Default Theme for all my users? Then I suppose I'll have to figure out what has changed there and see if I can update my modified themes. Thank you for you input on this issue.

I don't know about it being a security issue but it sure can make things difficult in some reports or when searching for certain items. Spammers love it too. We settled on Aa-Zz [0-9] and _ for all names a couple years ago and that alone helped at least on a small scale to cut back on some spammers.

You don't have to send them a password reset request. Also, they have not seemed to take the time to change the email address associated with the account so if you did change the password, I don't think they'll get the reset request. For our purposes, these users have not logged in or posted in years so we're okay flagging them as spammers.

We had 20 accounts that have logged into the forums from the same IP since 1/14/2023 109.107.166.230 The IP address resolves to server-109-107-166-230.vmbox.cloud Moscow, Moscow, 109044, Russian Federation 3/4 were shown compromised on https://haveibeenpwned.com/ We had about 5 that showed no breach found in their database, but assume as others that some other database or underground site has them listed and were used on a fishing expedition. We placed the IP into our Clean Talk to also block that IP At this point we have to assume that all 20 accounts are now compromised and flag them as spammers. In checking, aside from the spam posts these accounts have not posted in years anyways.

Thank you @Davyc I had to investigate further and it turs out that one of the content blockers was blocking the RSS feed icon.

I have created a new RSS Feed for testing and I am not seeing any RSS icon or link on our main forum page as suggested by @Marc Stridgen above. Is there some other setting in the ACP that may also need to be setup?

@skizzerz Does this Anti-Spam plugin actually work to prevent people from signing up for an account, or prevent them from making posts on the forum?

I am not a Web Designing or coding person but with a couple of minor CSS edits from replies by a couple other members here, I was able to pretty easily create a dark theme using the built-in tools. Having a slider to switch could probably also be coded by someone more knowledgeable in Web design but click to change theme is not all that hard either and once set not too many are actually toggling back and forth. Most seem to set it and leave it.

Thanks @bfarber The Downloads meaning Marketplace just not intuitive but thanks for pointing it out.

Unless the Marketplace is referenced differently here on the forums, I don't see an obvious way to restrict my search returns to the Market place. In custom search I don't see an option for Marketplace to restrict my search to that area of the fourms.

We were using CleanTalk to block and prevent spammers and it was working very well for us until IPS upgraded to version 4.5 and the plugin then needed to modified into an Application instead of a Plugin. I'm not sure what all is involved but it looks like CleanTalk is struggling with making it work with IPS 4.5x I don't know about the rest of you but with using CleanTalk we probably got about 2 spammers a week that got through. Now with CleanTalk gone we are slowly creeping back up and at times now get a dozen spammers getting through every day. Last year we also imported a huge email domain not-allowed list that helped a lot but adding CleanTalk made a night and day difference and after a few weeks of training we went from 50 or more spam posts per day to maybe 2 a week or less. What are other using to help prevent Spammers from posting? The IPS Spam Defense just is not cutting it. It does catch some but not many. IPS Spam Defense has blocked just over 20 million threats, spammers. https://invisioncommunity.com/features/spam/ Akismet has blocked over 500 Billion threats, spammers. https://akismet.com/ https://blog.akismet.com/ Has anyone used this plugin below? What are your thoughts about it? Support Anti-Spam 1.0.0 Personally I'd like to see IPS step up their game. If CleanTalk was able to make a huge spam issue almost disappear as a plugin I'd think IPS knowing their code intimately would be able to do the same thing for their own product and thus helping all their customers achieve a much higher success rate at blocking spammers. Suggestions and feedback welcome on what you're using to help prevent Spam posters. Thank you

Actually I would hope that IPS has code to prevent a count up in the case of such a tool as it should be considering the cookie as well. Almost a security issue or close to it if it's allowing that.

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