James25

Hello, Right now, with Word Filters, you can reject on a keyword. I do this, but it tells the spammer the keyword, so if they are any good at their corrupt line of work, they avoid the word and post again. Hiding posts doesn't do the job because then I get thousands of spam messages, hidden from users, but deleting them all is still a lot of effort. What I'd like to do is ban the user immediately based on the words they post. My forum is technical, so for example, if you post "Expedia" or "QuickBooks", the odds you are a spammer is nearly 100%. If, when they type these keywords and submit the post, it would ban them completely and say something to the effect of "Based on the content of your post, you have been banned. If you believe this is in error, please contact support.", my life would be easier. Alternatively, is there a way to achieve this already? Thanks! God bless. James

Hello, Right now I have it set up that until a poster has 1 post (so, an approved post), that poster's messages are hidden waiting approval. It's just a simple way to ensure that first post is not spam. However, spammers can still post a thousand messages which end up waiting approval. I'd like to reject all second messages until that first message is approved. Is there any way to do this? Thanks! God bless. James

Hello, What would cause Spam Defense to prevent my registering on my own, brand new forum? When testing OAuth2 login/account creation, I kept getting "You are not permitted to register on this forum." I tried anything and everything, until I discovered that turning off Spam Defense fixed it. Looking at my logs, the Response was "4". What does this mean? Thanks! God bless. James

It'd be nice to be able to show a custom number of Top Downloads, say 10, instead of only 5. Thanks James

We have some international users, and our Downloads consist mostly of themes. It would be nice if there was a way to have a language-specific (or country specific via GeoIP?) Top Downloads. People with non-English themes have a hard time getting them seen as it stands... p.s. Would you mind adding a column to the downloads_downloads table called 'exclude'? This column would exclude the download from all counting. Right now I am having to delete records when people spam downloading to get to the top of the list. It'd be nice to keep a record of these shenanigans. Thanks!

It'd be nice to be able to customize the number of files in the "Most Downloaded", "Best Rated", etc. lists. It'd discourage people from constantly trying to rig their way onto the (fairly short) list, and I think our customers would be interested in scrolling a bit further as well. Thank you! James

We have some folks who are trying to get their files to our Top Downloads. (They are themes, so it's a form of advertising for them...) They are downloading the same file over and over to do it. Would you please make it so it only counts a download from a single IP once (for each revision)? That'd fix this almost entirely. (Right now I'm using a cron script to update the count daily, but having this built in would be handy, to me and others.) Thank you! James

It's actually useful in cases you might not expect. Take a look: https://themes.evolvapor.com/ When a new .ecigtheme is uploaded, I have a background task that checks for new uploads, generates preview images using our software, and inserts the new images in the database. If I were doing this with the filesystem, I'd need to give this task write permission, and the ability to reach, the directory on the server hosting IPB. Regarding S3... Being in the vaping industry -- and really, this is true for anyone in an industry entrenched, wealthy interests would like to be rid of -- we try to be self-reliant where we can. You never know that you won't wake up the next day and be disconnected for some reason invented the day before. For us, and many others, "better solutions like S3" effectively do /not/ exist today. If I were able to cache these, the hit rate would be 99%+.

Hello, It would be very helpful if database-stored files could be assigned a caching URL. Right now, they are at /index.php?file=xyz I am using a CDN for file-based storage, which covers JavaScript, CSS and emoticons, but there are still database-stored files such as user profile pictures etc. At this point I'd say this is the bulk of my data transfer. They don't seem to cache for very long in the user's browser either, despite barely ever changing. I do recognize this would require the user's setup to support friendly URLs. Most do, though. Thank you! James

Would you please make it possible to renew every year instead of every 6 months? There's literally no case I can think of where we'd want our forum subscription to expire any time soon, and making it every 6 months just adds extra work for us and for you. Thanks, James

I do not use Elasticsearch, and I no longer use any plugins. I do indeed use SMTP, and the server is indeed on the slow side - each message runs through an antivirus and a spam filter before allowing send, and the server could use a bit more RAM. I've added this to constants.php and will let yall know if things improve: \define( 'NOTIFICATIONS_PER_BATCH', 5 ); Thanks! By the way... Instead of basing it purely on the number of messages, wouldn't it be better to also have a NOTIFICATION_TIME_PER_BATCH, and if after sending each message, it checked if the total time had been exceeded, and if so, queue the remaining messages? That way if it's a slow server, if it takes over 3 seconds (for example), it will automatically batch without any user configuration?

What can be done about saving posts being slow? There are a large number of people following some threads, and I'm thinking that may be related. What can be done to speed it up? I have IPB set to use cron, if that matters. Thanks! James

Not really. In the United States, its Alexa ranking is 314. DeviantArt is listed and that's 414.

Would you please consider adding Gab to the Social Profiles section of General Configuration? Thank you.