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@Adriano Faria, I'd be interested in a version that worked with subscriptions.

45 minutes ago, Michael Yates said:

I'm also getting this in 4.5.0 Beta 9.

I opened a support request and then figured out a workaround, however I was never able to tie installed plugins/applications with their marketplace equivalents in the onboarding process. You may want to open a request rather than doing the workaround as I was told that the diagnostic information needed was erased when I found a way around it.

I'm waiting for confirmation as to whether or not I should start over, though there has been mention in a bug report here somewhere that part of the process was improved for the next beta release.

Here's the bug report: 

On 7/23/2020 at 9:08 PM, Aiwa said:

It’s a reasonable request, hence why there is a 3rd party app to meet this need. I agree that it is a niche need, though. There are likely tens of thousands of communities out there, not all of which visit the MP. THANK YOU FOR 4.5 ACP MP!! ... How many have purchased the 3rd party app up till now? Likely no more than a few hundred. IMO, those #’s qualify as niche. 

I've got to say that as a user of the third-party add-on available here, while appreciated, leaves much to be desired. There's absolutely room for improvement. Unfortunately, the UI is lacking terribly, making it cludgey to use and integrating poorly with other views that moderators and administrators have. While I use it due the absence of anything else, I don't think I'd recommend it to others on the basis of what's available to interact with and how all of the author's support requests are jammed into a single thread.

Seeing this error as well. On 4.5.0 Beta 9. Exact same error as pictured in the OP.

Remember, tools can be used wisely and unwisely. A hammer can be used to try to fix an electrical wiring problem, bash someone's head in, or set a nail. Just because some people go with the first two options, doesn't mean hammers shouldn't exist.

The particular app in the store mentioned above is a bit lacking in the way it lets you view the individuals with multiple registrations. Its UI is less than desirable to quickly see affected accounts. Things like sorting are broken, and sometimes blanks appear. You need to drill in on the basis of a given user and then see the alts registered. It'd be nice to see some attention on it from @CodingJungle to sort out the interface issues that remain. That said, it does alert when there's a duplicate through a mechanism separate from the built in mechanism IPS has available (so it only shows results for logins and registrations happening post-install).

IPS has a built in feature that shows devices in use by multiple accounts, but again you have to start at a user and drill into the associated devices. When you look at the device, you can see what other users have used that device. What would be nice, in the shipped version IPS makes, is to surface the existing data where you could browse from the shared devices and then see associated users. Basically a "list shared devices" report and associated members.

@Pavel Chernitsky makes some great use cases, that clearly aren't things that are needed or wanted for everyone. I think it's a good exercise to talk about these ideas and connect with other community managers to gauge where there's similar needs and interests.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-database-synchronization.html is a guide to do this with MySQL workbench. There are other MySQL schema comparison tools out there as well.

Very wise! My apologies for not being more clear about the intended humor! ❤️

In thinking about a universally useful implementation across any IPB platform, the option to turn on and off the ability to influence reputation score of an individual is an important use case to remember, and the issue is not liking one's own content, but rather providing an invisible way to brigade with others to advance the score of members in a group in a low-effort way.

On 6/4/2020 at 12:35 AM, breatheheavy said:

Is it possible to set it so members can't react to their own pms? 

Hey, @breatheheavy. I'ma tell you what. I'll PM you and you like my pm, and then you pm me back and I'll like yours, and we'll do this for days, farming high reputation posts in our own little bubble that then gives us access to the secret high reputation club, where all the good gifs live, rather than earn it through public posts in forums where reputation counts.

+1 for the option at least to not have reactions in private messages impact reputation score if this gets added or offered as an extension.

On 6/29/2020 at 1:00 AM, All Astronauts said:

Unfortunately, this is a big hitch for search results. If your search term hit in a result is beyond the first 600 character limit, the snippet in the search result will not have any search terms to highlight. If you get lucky and the search terms are in the first 600 characters you still get the highlight of course, but chances are and so forth and etc.

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All. Of. This.

With a box to say "mark all notifications as read"

It does raise the bar on what is required to create an account. E-mail addresses are easily obtained, yet mobile phone numbers raise the bar. I like the idea of an implementation that forces a unique mobile number per registrant, and think that even though there's a potential for abuse, limiting the number of phone numbers and how and when that validation happens would decrease the ability for the process to be abused.

Even at non-committed pricing, through Twilio, 500 SMS messages would cost $3.75. It's an interesting way to reduce spam registrations.

16 minutes ago, bfarber said:

BBCode has been deprecated in 4.5 so I would recommend moving away from it. We won't be fixing bugs related to BBCode moving forward.

Is there a way to disable parsing of BB Code entered by end-users?

1 hour ago, braymond64 said:

When I contacted support, they said that this is just how it works... that even though they only have rights to moderate within their forum, they will see moderation requests for all of the forums.

What do you mean by moderation requests?

This seems rather obvious an addition.... What's up @Matt?

I'd like to see the ability to create an activity stream based off of the number of replies, and whether or not an item is "repliable." In other words, show threads with X replies (zero as an example), yet only if a reply can be made.

This would help surface threads that no one has received a response to.

This would be a nice feature to put on the roadmap. I have the same issue. It's hard to imagine how to do this from a programming perspective and to support all of the legacy things, yet here's a +1 for the challenge. Perhaps how @mentions work?

@PA-Woodchuck, you probably want to change the  primary group.  Open the profile in the administrator control panel by searching for the member's username, clicking into the member, and clicking the edit button in the group section:

From there, select administrators to give full administrative access to your site, and click save (assuming you're using the built in names for your administrator group):

This will have the effect of changing the title you see under a person's name on the public facing areas of the site from "Members" to "Administrators."

I believe the way you did it will still grant the person administrative permissions, yet they will not display as an administrator as only the primary usergroup title is shown.

I'd suggest if you go this route to make it 24 hours from the time of one of the posts. Use the time the first or fifth post, etc. is made and stop displaying for 24 hours from that point, rather than resetting things at midnight (unless you have an audience that is in entirely in the same timezone).

From what is visible in the URLs in your screenshot, it looks like an attempt to find or use an exploit.

18 minutes ago, Lindy said:

I'm not aware of any social media platform that indicates a user has been banned or disciplined.

As an aside, all of the major social media platforms I've ever seen will show that a particular account has been suspended upon navigating to a profile page. I can't think of an instance where this is not the case.

2 hours ago, Morgin said:

As a bit of an aside, @Adriano Faria developed this plugin for me to handle sending PMs to members who reported messages to let them know action had been taken.

For us, we considered this plugin, and it sounds like we have a similar userbase to @Chippy365. We also restrict private messages and instead use the commerce support system, which offers the benefit of being visible to any moderator in the queue.

In an ideal world, we'd respond to reported posts via a support queue ticket.

3 minutes ago, Lindy said:

No where else that I'm aware of, other than "old school" forums, are those that have been subjected to disciplined paraded in front of the public with a naughty tag. I'm not aware of any social media platform that indicates a user has been banned or disciplined. Imagine getting a sticker placed on your car after getting a speeding ticket to let the world know you had your hand slapped. We are not likely to incorporate any feature that promotes public humiliation of members. 

This would not be our use case. Instead, we'd use language to notate that the member did not have an active account. The purpose would not be for shaming, nor to show that they had been disciplined, but rather to indicate the account is currently, for whatever reason, not active. This is something I think that should be visible, optionally, at the profile level and post bit level.

In fact, in our install, we remove the word "banned" entirely, along with "warning" and other out-of-the-box language that is suggestive of someone doing something "bad." What I agree with @Chippy365 on is that having the ability to show that an account is not able to create new posts at present would be a feature we'd use. This is clearly not something that would fit every community, but for ours it would be.

2 hours ago, Morrigan said:

I disagree.

I suppose we can agree to disagree? @Chippy365 has a use case for this and so may others, I'm sure. I know that this feature has gone away after converting from a competitor's product and that the membership on my community would like it back. At least with Xenforo, there's two modifications that are available for this behavior:

• Show ban information on postbit: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/ozzmodz-show-banned.7701/
• Show list of banned members: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/andrew-banned-users-list.7572/

With other platforms, the functionality is built in (vBulletin).

I love the workaround for moving usergroups, yet that's not practical when there's a need for cool off periods through the warning system, and where moderators may be limited to not have the ability to adjust usergroups. I don't believe there's a permission to only allow a moderator to move into a banned usergroup and no others. I suppose if there were a way to do group promotions that used warning data as a trigger, then yes. And maybe this is as simple as a template change or similar. Not sure.

There are plenty of features that IPS has that my particular community doesn't have a need for and that I have turned off or don't use, and there will always be edge cases that are impractical for all but a few. As we talk about features and ideas that fellow administrators share, I find it interesting to hear more from those that have a perceived need to determine if it's something that would benefit the greater community of IPS license holders over those that wouldn't take advantage of a newly introduced option.

15 hours ago, Morrigan said:

I prefer the shadow ban status. My members don't need to know if I've banned someone. Its none of their business. I don't need them nosing in on someone elses' business either.

I agree that this is ideal in some communities, yet there are others where it is not. I would propose that any change be configurable, yet there is a clear need in some communities to be more transparent about who and what is restricted.