Black Tiger

For references.

I redirected this to the current login page, the correct one, which has no ads at all.... still Google is complaining about the no content violation.

Very odd.

We're a year further. Any update on this?

I found a way. You can't use url redirects because it needs a query redirect. So that search did not fit.

So I started to search for query redirects. Had to search for that too because I'm not native English.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/index\.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^action=login$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.satellitefun.org/404.shtml? [R=301,L]

At first the ?action=login stayed behind it, but after I put the ? at the url, it's fixed.

(f it were that easy I would have done that already but I can't find one that works.

So I tried that, but can't find a working one. I thought the one I had should do the trick:

RewriteRule ^forum/index\.php$ /? [L,R=301]

Also tried to do this on the beginning:

Redirect ^forum/index.php?action=login https://www.satellitefun.org/login/

which is also not working.

But it's not working, probably it has something to do with the ?action=login.php behind the orignal line,

And only the login page needs to be redirected, the other old forum pages need to be redirected correctly.

I'm having a policy warning from Google Adsense because a page is violating their policy.

The report refers to this page:

 www.satellitefun.org/forum/index.php?action=login

however, that is from my old SMF forum which does not exist anymore since I converted to Invision.

So when visiting this page, it's automatically redirected to the same url, but the Invision forum is giving it's "page not found" notice:

Errorcode: 1S160/2

I asked adsense for a review and they still say it's violating rules. I do not have -any- adds on error pages. So I don't know what they aer referring to or how to fix this.

I have an .htaccess in place which looks like this, can't imagine this is causing it though.

	<IfModule mod_expires.c>
  ExpiresActive On
	  # Images
  ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 day"
  ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/webp "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
	  # Video
  ExpiresByType video/mp4 "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType video/mpeg "access plus 1 year"
	  # CSS, JavaScript
  ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 month"
	  # Others
  ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"
</IfModule>
	<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
	RewriteBase /
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule \.(js|css|jpeg|jpg|gif|png|ico|map)(\?|$) /404error.php [L,NC]
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
	RewriteRule ^forum/index\.php$ /? [L,R=301]
	</IfModule>
	Header set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload"

I thik I might have added that last

RewriteRule ^forum/index\.php$ /? [L,R=301]

myself to prevent this happening, not sure, but it doesn't matter if I take it away or leave it like that.

So how can I fix it so this url is not found anymore and/or adsense won't complaint about it anymore?

Or don't use the forums 404 but the one I have from the hosting? As long as it's a solution.

I'm definately -not- looking for a paid mod for solving this.

Does this mean this is only possible with an addon?

I was hoping it was a default option.

I might have disabled this myself, but I don't remember where.

For example, if I post a link here to another thread, a part of this thread on the same forum/board becomes visible like this:

It automatically embeds with a nice little block with a bit of text of the thread.

However on other forum software I've seen this also working for external links.
On Invision, external links appear as a single url line.

As said, could be I disabled this, but is it possible to get such nice box for external links too? And if yes, where can I enable this?

P.s. the editor bug is back. Editor content is not cleared anymore, not on my own forum, and not here on Invision. I wanted to post something days ago, text is still here. Should normally disappear automatically after about 10 minutes or so.

Agreed, but there are already suggestions about improving the contact form, including one (from me) to add the ip of the user of the contact form.

Also to make the amount of quetions to ask in the question and answer challenge customizable.

They all can have some improvement because when not payed for the license anymore (f.e. version 5 comes out and you want to say at 4 and don't pay license anymore), the build in anti-spam will not work anymore. So the variety of protection possibility's or at least customization of these in IPS is a bit poor imho.

Just bumping this topic to keep this option in mind, since it might be very useful. ;)

So, the impending account deactivation will disable the profile and effectively archive the account. There will be no way to contact the member, even with an admin override (and no such modifications will be allowed in the marketplace) through the software and they will receive no further communication from the site. This will satisfy requests in which the user wants to leave but cannot be forgotten.

That's for the US. For the EU this will not be satisfactory enough. Users (or customers) do have the right to have all their credentials deleted, which is not the same as archived and not visible anymore, because then it's still in some database, still able to get hacked for example.

However GPDR/AVG do not require automatic deletion, so admins still can delete them manually. However, if such "account deactivation" will be implemented like described, it would be good to have it as a choice to disable this function as it will not obide the GPDR for EU based forums, especially not hobby forums.

partly because it doesn't fit in with the worldwide Internet culture of preview button positioning.

Exactly the same reasone that my users (and I) did not find it at first either. Had to ask here for it. A very small magnifying glass with the editor buttons for several users points to what a magnifying glass would do, zoom in to see better, some would not expect a preview option on it either.

So even when left at it's current position, maybe another icon then a magnifying glass (like maybe an eye).

Anyway, it's probably something internal from the editor, but it would be nice to have a choice for a preview button on/off which then can appear next to the reply button where it's expected.

Thank you very much. I was just wondering. I would like to have this a bit more visible for my users.

But it seems by default (without hovering) to have the same color as the ip address and the share icon which makes it almost invisible.

Is it possible to make the color of this number darker and if yes, where and how can I do that? I don't know any css (if it can't be done via visual editor) so any help is welcome.

Seems it's apples fault it isn't supported in ios based browsers, Macos and Safari.

2 hours ago, Matt said:

Xenforo supports push notifications for Android devices only.

No it's not. It's also for PC. It uses push notifications in my browser.

Xenforo also has push notifications. No idea how they done it, but you need a small php extension enabled for it. Which should be supported by your hoster then.

However that should not be a big issue if you have a bit of a good hoster.

Personally I don't like them, I also disable them, but some of the users would like them, so therefore a +1 for this request.

Have you already tried to put your language on top?

I'm not sure if this works with other languages but we have Dutch and English language. And English was the default, also for guest.

This was not as intended, so I installed the Dutch language and set it to "set as members language. However, for guest the default was still English which was not my intention.

So I changed the order of the languages and put Dutch as first language in the AdminCP (system->languages). Since then, the Dutch is also the default language for guests/visitors.

Since I was also told that Invision would check the OS language used and use that automatically I can't guarantee that this will work for you too. But at least it work on our forums. 🙂

You can always give it a try if you already didn't yet.

That's great, but you still need the ip to use this option then. 😉 At this point only possible for (former) members then.

@Sonya*True but that's a choice. In my case 99,9% spammers are comming from certain country's which I block and from dedicated servers, from which normally no users login, like servers from OVH for example.

I almost never see IP's that real users can use and ofcourse then I don't block them. But as said, that is a choice and implemeting the ip with the form can be done in half a minute.

Even if you ban it, they’ll be now to access the contact form

Sorry, this is not quite English (neither am I) and I don't understand the meaning of this sentence.

The point is that I can decide myself to add ip ranges to a blacklist. They can't access it anymore then.

All nice idea's, but adding the abuser's ip is just a little feature question, should be easy to do too.

On my board itself I also almost never got spam. It's mostly via the contact forum which is open to guest. I can close it ofcourse, and since I use Invision forum the number decreased a lot. But I still would like an ip mentioned in the contact form.

As for ads, I hate them too but sometimes it's necessary, I my case I only use 1 adblock in the sidebar and 1 totally below the forums. Totally not disturbing but it helps paying the costs.

In that case your argument could be used for all spam. 🙂

It's not such a big deal but it's annoying and at a certain point one gets fed up with it.

Just upping this topic, because it still would be nice if the ip address of the one using the contact forum would be send with it.

It could allow us, for those who want to do this, block ip addresses or ranges.

I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough with my question. I do know what localhost means.

But I got confused as to why to use the term localhost domains here and subdirectory's of localhost was mentioned. Why not just call it local computer installations? Or just call it localhost, because "localhost domains" creates a confusion because in fact localhost is already a domain. User's could think he I create a domain, point it to my pc and my pc is localhost so I have a localhost domain. Which is in fact not true then.

And localhost/test1 localhost/test2 ???? You really lost me there according to what localhost means.

Localhost is the pc correct? Not a directory localhost with subdirectory's like /test1 /test2, hence my confustion to the answer too.

I don't understand this "localhost" part. What exactly is ment by that.

Is that something for cloud users? Or does this mean an installation on a Windows lamp or Linux lamp server at home or something?