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Please give us a native feature to delete private messages and other content created by a known spammer.
 

This seems to have been missed in the back and forth. You should really not use MyISAM. That is not an appropriate solution for this recommendation. 
Instead, as @bfarber pointed out, ignore the recommendation or change to dynamic row format with InnoDB.
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/choosing-the-right-storage-engine/

You can have multiple servers to send mail. You can only have one solution that receives mail per domain level. You need to take care to setup your domain's SPF and DKIM records, however you can have one service used by IPS to send outbound mail and an entirely different service to receive mail.
Your MX records (mail exchange) will point to the configuration used by your inbound service. This will be supplied by your web host, a mail provider (Google Workspace, Amazon Workmail, Office 365, etc), and your IPS instance will point to whatever provider you want to be using for outbound mail generated by the community software. example.com can have one set of MX records, while forum.example.com can have another set, but you likely do not have a need for more MX records than whatever you'd like to use to receive e-mails to support@example.com, etc.
You will configure IPS to use the mail provider for your bulk mail activities, and separately setup e-mail for inbound mail.
The only slight complication is if you use the Commerce Support tool to process inbound e-mail. If so, you will need to provide for a way for IPS to receive that inbound mail. You can setup IPS to check via POP3/IMAP in that instance, or use forwarding to route to another domain/subdomain for processing.

And now we have a need for this, you carrot danglers.

There are two places to look:
ACP > Members > Member Settings > Ban Settings
What do you have in the non-registerable names tab?
 
And:
What do you have in ACP > Members > Member Settings > Profiles > Profile Settings under allowed characters in display names?
 
 

Hi Bob,
I think you're asking how to forward mail sent to bob@home2000.com to a Gmail account (just for illustrative purposes, I'll pretend your Gmail address is bobsnow@gmail.com).
In order to do this, you'll need to first determine what your MX (mail exchange) DNS records are set to. Looking at your domain records, it appears that your domain is currently set to use SiteGround as your mail provider. You'll need to work with them to set a forwarding address that will take received e-mail and forward it to your Gmail account.
Alternatively, if SiteGround provides you a way to access e-mail via POP3 or IMAP, you may be able to connect to your SiteGround account via Gmail's built in email checker. For instructions on how to set that up, see: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/21289?hl=en
All of this would happen outside of the context of your IPB installation. Your best bet is to reach out to SiteGround for assistance on accessing your mail via IMAP or POP3. You can then use those instructions to set up your Gmail account per the link above.

Yes, please. This plugin appears to be no longer available, and it'd be better if it happened upon submission and not on load.

Yes, find reputable and recognized places for knowledge, just as you'd search for any other product or service online. 🙂
Depending on your learning style, seek out paid or free training/courses from reputable providers (consider looking into MOOCs) or go straight to the source for documentation:
PHP: https://www.php.net/docs.php MySQL: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/ Javascript: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript HTML/CSS: https://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/htmlcss

Understood @Jordan Invision.
This could be interpreted many different ways.
"I disabled the poop emoji, but my members are still posting it! BUG! HELP!!!!! I PAID MONEY FOR THIS!!!!! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM??!?!??!?1!?!1111one one one 💩"

What happens in this instance? If you turn off the emoji selector, are emojis stripped out of mobile input? What's the expected outcome here?
I can see at least four possible user stories:
As a community manager, I want to be able to add my custom emojis into preexisting categories or new categories, and select the order in which those categories appear in the emoji picker. As a community manager, I don't want my members to be able to insert emojis in the text of their content. As a community manager, I want the emojis available to my members to be limited to a set of pre-approved emojis and disallow the inclusion of anything not on my pre-approved list. As a community manager, I want the list of emojis in the emoji picker to be limited to a select group of pre-approved emojis, still allowing a member to insert emojis using their native keyboard.

I don't believe this is accessible in the ACP, yet after making backups of your backups and running this entirely at your own risk, you could use something like the following SQL query to return the results you're looking for:
SELECT substring_index(clm.`login_classname`,'\\', -1) AS LoginMethod ,count(1) AS NumberOfMembersLinked FROM `core_login_links` cll INNER JOIN `core_login_methods` clm ON clm.`login_id` = cll.`token_login_method` WHERE cll.`token_linked` = 1 /* Only those who have successfully linked */ GROUP BY substring_index(clm.`login_classname`,'\\', -1)  

I had separately noticed an issue where a member in a user group that forces anonymous login is in fact not logging in invisibly.

Wordpress is at a level of saturation that on a completely different plane of existence than IPS.
I've been involved with very large online learning platforms in the past, and were I thinking about an LMS today that needed a community component outside of the classroom, I'd be looking at an established option and focusing my energies on integration of the sign-on/session process and theming with IPS.
I'm not sure what you're creating your course content with, but there are a few standards (SCORM, AICC, etc.) and serious commercial and open-source players in the LMS market that are best-in-class experiences and used at for-profit and not-for-profit institutions globally. Any one of them likely has a larger userbase than IPS. This is a wheel I would need serious motivation to try and reinvent. If you have a need for this, it's very likely you have a dependency on this working, and putting this into the fateful hands of a single third-party developer would be an organizational decision I would not want to have to admit responsibility for.
Spanner's LMS application had a total of 9 purchases in Marketplace. LMS may mean different things for different people, yet if you're wanting something of the likes of Sakai, Moodle, Canvas, during a time when the need for distance learning is skyrocketing, and all attention and resources are focused on these specialized tools, I just don't see how that would fit into IPS' business model this late in the game.

Consider adjusting the rebuild constants. See:
 

It makes sense that there'd be use cases where one would like non-perpetual subscriptions. Seems like a straightforward ask to me.

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.

Now, with lay-a-way!

Arne,
I agree, you don't need to be a conspiracy enthusiast or tin foil hat wearing website owner to see it's grossly invasive of privacy and quite unjustifiable in the days of GDPR. We can't restrict it to commerce or checkout related pages only and Stripe bless 'em, surely can't detect card fraud by 100's if not 1000's of updates about individuals reading topics about say favourite pizza toppings, looking after tropical fish etc.
When you factor in more or highly sensitive content, perhaps medical conditions or preferences, thats really not good, off the scale not good!
Site visitors can't opt out of it, certainly before it starts tracking them, as far as I can see, which isn't right.
There have been numerous topics here about it in the past. Its only a recommendation but certainly not a requirement, so I wish IPS (as established corporate advocates of anonymous posting and pride etc) would step up and take some ownership on improving this, and provide us with AdminCP options either for sidewide, commerce or checkout Stripe integration only.

Granted you are talking about OpenSearch as a service add-on - I assume for CIC stuff (or a generalized service add-on for anyone) - but flipping the search internals from the existing ES over to OpenSearch in general would probably be fine for self-hosters as well.  Just don't, you know, remove ES and make OpenSearch a paid upgrade/service for everyone 🙂

Yes. I didn’t see any alternative to be honest. 
 
You may be able to get away with editing content/search/elastic/index and dropping the min version constant but there are inconsistencies on elastic search indexes between major versions. 
 
I felt it better to focus on the stable branch. 

Sorry, just looked at your profile, @AlienOrigins. I realized I forgot a third, equally plausible factor that may be resulting in the error you're seeing.
Yeti in the server.

Busted.

I'm sorry to tell you that @Spanner passed away unexpectedly a bit ago. You may find that another developer may be able to help you with a replacement resource. Check out the Providers listing:
https://invisioncommunity.com/third-party/providers/
@Jordan Invision: maybe a note on Spanner's support threads and/or Marketplace entries might be useful.

Please give us a native feature to delete private messages and other content created by a known spammer.
 

This. Don't do it. Use 6 until they fix the problem.