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Not out of the box, no. I'd guess that most customers wouldn't ask for content to be deleted automatically over time, and I'm not sure I've seen any software that does this natively. Not that it isn't a valid thing that may work for your community, yet you'd have to develop or commission a custom modification to do this.

I like the idea, on principle, of having the ability to turn off registration for a given handler, yet continue to allow login via that handler.

There's probably certain types of content that can't be streamed on YouTube or other mainstream content, and for that it would be nice to have some sort of integration with other platforms. There may be plugins on the Marketplace. Cloudflare has a streaming solution, though not sure what policies one must follow regarding the content of those streams.

Ok, then we can rule out a backup/restore that didn't factor in utf8mb4, and that this is not something introduced from a backup/restore operation that stripped out emoji characters. The other possibility is that your community uses native emoji characters instead of the Twitter emojis. If you're doing this, and you're browsing on a device that doesn't have newer emojis available, you will see oddness. You can switch to the Twitter emojis and see if those posts begin displaying correctly for you (assuming the new characters have been adopted by Twitter and not in your native platform's supported fonts). See: https://blog.emojipedia.org/first-look-217-new-emojis-in-ios-14-5/

9 GB is a whole lot of logs!

You can archive threads, but that doesn't delete them. If you want them permanently erased or hidden, you'd have to do this with a custom plugin.

I think is this built in functionality, except for the part where you ask the member to supply their own payment processor. This is how the Marketplace (Downloads) works here. You've seen other examples online where a person selling something provides API credentials for a payments processor account as a condition of selling things? Can you provide some here? With the built in option, my understanding is that the full purchase price is handled by the processor(s) chosen by the site administrator, and then payouts for the earnings that aren't the site's commission are made via a separate payouts transaction. I'd be concerned about the risk of dealing with an unknown number of payment processor accounts. Maybe certain payment systems support something like this though?

No worries! Self-hosted sites and CIC sites are going to have completely different troubleshooting paths when dealing with issues outside of the IPS software itself (or sometimes in extending or integrating things). It'd be nice if when posting here, there were a prompt to select what is applicable to the question or issue being asked. @Jordan Invision

Oh! This is for CIC. Maybe it'd be nice if we had tagging for CIC related things here when creating threads.

There is a lovely plugin in the Marketplace that does this, yet its author has not yet upgraded to 4.5: cough cough @stoo2000 cough cough

Something like this might help narrow down what and where space is being taken up: https://superuser.com/questions/9847/linux-utility-for-finding-the-largest-files-directories

I've not seen a pattern here where someone's ideas were cast aside because of what organization or community a person was from. I am not discounting your ideas simply because your community is in its infancy. It may serve you well to find value in the input of others even when that input is contrary to what you might like to hear. Maybe you're appealing to probability, or using kettle logic, or falling prey to a false dilemmas or dichotomies. I don't think things are quite as black and white as you perceive them to be, and I think your abrasive approach is creating unnecessary friction. That's the nerve you've hit. I've taken a look at your community. You have published over 50 individually numbered rules/edicts for your membership. That's more ten more rules than the number of posts your community members posted yesterday. Who knows how many of those rules I've broken in this reply. You're applying these rules which we'll all assume serve your community well to the replies we offer here, where you find yourself in the presence of peers who are all responsible for managing communities large and small, and who all have their own philosophies and thoughts on community management. This is not about others having not thought of the idea, and therefore finding value in yours. You've failed to read the room. Rule number 4 on your community is "do not assert a position of authority." I really want to help you craft your idea into something that works for you and might work for others, and will regularly and ferociously champion the good ideas of others. There are nuggets of value in your proposition, yet you'll need to do some work to denigrate less, listen more, and be a bit more respectful in your approach if you want to be heard.

Maybe things have changed, yet:

Do you fully control your database server? Are you certain your web host did not make a change, such as replace the underlying hardware?

Well, unfortunately this conflicts with Rule 47.3(b) on my forum, and I once won a very prestigious award for best avatar in the category of subtle dig for cartoon based staff heads, for which I was the sole entrant and judge. Apologies. I'm sure you understand. Number one, and all. I think the approach you're suggesting is interesting and I think you could do it with minimal effort depending on how you'd engineer it. Yet it's difficult to get behind championing a cause when the rationale is based on who you are and what your Alexa rank is instead of helping us understand the benefits such a system would have for a significant enough number of IPS customers, who are using this platform in a way that is different from the design and purpose of Disqus. There are many customers here with equally laudable successes and far greater ones. We're here learning from each other, bouncing ideas and suggestions around, and typically we all get farther along and more easily heard when we leave the grandstanding and humble bragging aside. You may consider engaging as an enterprise-level customer if your requirements and business are such that such a contract makes sense for you, and I'm sure IPS would work with you to build out a statement of work, and this may fit into the Disqus like offering they have at the enterprise-level.

Also, if you use SendGrid, there is a separate setting with them.

This is probably best achieved with the current IPS (what's available today) by requiring posts to be approved by moderators. That will work exactly as you describe, without having the need to preassign moderators to a given post. Moderators work the queue and will decide whether to approve/hide/delete/edit a post in sequential order for all posts that haven't been touched yet. The other things you've described seem like unnecessary overhead, and if you have people at the ready on a schedule to review things as they come in, this is the approach I'd recommend. They can just decide on the content in front of them and not have to worry about the rest, and offensive stuff never makes it on your site without having been checked by one of your moderators. While there is a per member activity stream, there's also the ability to set activity streams at a global level. These can be customized globally through the ACP, or set on a per moderator account level. See this link for an example of it here: https://invisioncommunity.com/discover/ Notably, IPS does not offer a way to moderate directly from this view, however you can click through to the content and take action at that point. This is a point of improvement that is needed: the ability to moderate content from wherever it is displayed.

In short, you either update the configuration of your web server (apache? maybe?) to point to the version of PHP that exists in /usr/local (and ensure execute permissions are good), or put a newer version of php in /etc. You may be able to address this with a symlink, and simply replace the PHP in /etc with a symlink to the one you upgraded. Again, this is entirely speculation without access to the system. You may consider not messing with your production site since you're at a place where you don't know how things are working and perform the upgrade on a VM or something similar. There will be more downtime for your end users, but you'll know what's going on and if things go wrong, you aren't risking something you don't understand.

No, it won't magically change the outcome. You need to review your phpinfo to see where exactly PHP resides on your hard disk and upgrade it at that location. You need to investigate how PHP is running (is it mod_php? Is it running as cgi? Is it php-fpm? etc.) and determine how you'd upgrade on MacOS (presumably). How do you handle PHP security upgrades? Without having access to your system, none of us will be able to tell you the steps you'll need to take. You'll need to understand how your setup is working and what steps you'll need to take to upgrade the PHP that matters for your site.

So this is MacOS presumably? Some Google Fu: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41872645/updating-php-version-on-mac/56942162

That entirely depends on your server configuration, OS, and/or distribution. PHP can be running in a number of different forms, and the integration with your web server can be happening a number of different ways. You can use the information in phpinfo to help guide your searches and figure out what the next steps are. If you're using some sort of control panel/system admin type tool like cPanel, etc. there's probably some sort of process that's unique to that type of setup.

At the moment, yes, @jair101. Though we have been monitoring load and usage to see if the pricing makes sense to offload additionally from Compute Engine.

Why did you switch away from your previously working system with Wordpress and Disqus? I'm not sure your requirements are clear enough. What exactly is IPS lacking?

It is not possible to override the template in the Admin CP as of 4.5. Instead, you'd need to explore making changes via plugin or application instead.

This means that the actual clock on your server appears to have drifted (in other words, it's 5:01 pm UTC right now, but your server's clock may be set to 5:45 pm or 4:30 pm, etc.). Make sure you are running something like NTP on your server. This message is not regarding your timezone.