Miss_B

Indeed. The site looks really great, very modern. It is very pleasing to the eye. Well done and congratulations to everyone involved. 😊

Indeed. The site looks really great, very modern. It is very pleasing to the eye. Well done and congratulations to everyone involved. 😊

Indeed. The site looks really great, very modern. It is very pleasing to the eye. Well done and congratulations to everyone involved. 😊

Site looks Excellent, I heard @Ehren helped out. His work is always awesome. So much more clean and modern looking. 

It’s a community forum. Official IPS support is only guaranteed through support tickets. So all answers here are purely voluntary and a favour of other Invision Community users. We will decide if it’s worth our time to answer and we also might consider HOW the questions is asked. The tone on of certain people here might not be all that motivating to give helpful answers. 
But anyway: In the end, all of these functions are possible attack vectors. For potential attackers (just like potential burglars) its usually a case of “once you’re in, you’re in”. There is nothing specific that happens, when you leave your backdoor open and there is nothing specific that happens to have these commands active. But IF they are being used in a malicious way, then the results are potentially very serious. Essentially, your server can be taken over and used for all kinds of bad things. So if your site doesn’t need those functions anyway, it’s best to have them disabled. It’s highly appreciated that IPS has a warning function for that. 

Just wanted to chime in and give a big shout out to @Stuart Silvester. With his help I was able to successfully do a transfer. (Give this man a raise 😄). Also thanks to @Charles. It's customer service like this that a lot of forum software companies are missing these days. Glad to be back and be part of the IPS family once again. 

 
 

Trust me, no one missed that point. You just seem to brush over the fact that there can be reasons to force a person to register DESPITE them “likely not returning”. 
So? Because others do it, it must be the right approach? Are you really not seeing the objective logical flaw in that reasoning?
And should we point you to a few of the hundreds of thousands of websites that DO require a registration? Do THOSE sites then equally prove that it is the right decision to force a registration? See how this type of reasoning doesn’t work?
Good for you. Others have different goals. Yet, you want to paint it as if their approach must be based on “bad decisions”. And you assert questionable reasons like “inflating registration numbers”. Who said that was a reason? No one. So why do you assert it and put it out there? It’s dishonest! You ignore the reasons that people are actually giving you and make up your own reason for them, which you can then dismiss as bad. And you assert that forcing a registration cannot “serve a purpose”. Sorry, but that is either arrogance or ignorance. You assert that your approach and your opinion must be the only valid one – despite the millions of websites and apps requiring registrations who’s owners all apparently do not see what you see. 
Oh, that is simple: Because you might want the file.
It’s just another trade offer. For commercial offers, it’s product traded for money. In the freemium field on the internet, it can also be file or service traded for registration. You decide if it’s worth it to you. If not, just move on. 
Just because the offer doesn’t work for you, doesn’t mean that the one making the offer has made a mistake. It just means you are not the right “customer” for their offer. If I walk through a mall, there are thousands of offers that don’t work for me. Yet, I don’t approach the store owners telling them they are doing it wrong, because their offers don’t match what the products would be worth it to me. That would be kind of ridiculous. Yet, it’s exactly what you are doing here. 
 

There are many reasons as to why a developer uploads files to his/her website. Drawing traffic might be one of them. You say it as it is a bad thing, but it is not bad at all. The file in question is free and the dev put some time and effort in coding it and if they draw some traffic from it, then that is their reward for their hard work.  If you want to download it, then you will have to register at the dev 's site. Otherwise you can either a) request one to be developed for you, or b) learn how to code and code it yourself.
I am sorry to say this, but the way you are complaining about this, it is very irritating.  You can get something for free, but you do not want to lift a finger. Perhaps the developer can come to your home and install the plugin for you as well while he is at it? 😄

Like @Miss_B already said there are many reasons. Distributing files via the Markerplace has it's pros and cons - for developers AND users.
I prefer not to offer all files in the MP, only themes. That's my decision and you have to respect that. In the end it's simple, If you don't like that just don't use the addons, I don't want to sell anything.
Funfact: On my old XenForo site you can instant download all my addons and translations without signing up. The difference is they are abandoned after I left XF. They are no longer developed and no longer receive updates. If anyone still wants some of the old stuff he can get it, but on his own risk because I don't support them anymore.

There are many reasons as to why a developer uploads files to his/her website. Drawing traffic might be one of them. You say it as it is a bad thing, but it is not bad at all. The file in question is free and the dev put some time and effort in coding it and if they draw some traffic from it, then that is their reward for their hard work.  If you want to download it, then you will have to register at the dev 's site. Otherwise you can either a) request one to be developed for you, or b) learn how to code and code it yourself.
I am sorry to say this, but the way you are complaining about this, it is very irritating.  You can get something for free, but you do not want to lift a finger. Perhaps the developer can come to your home and install the plugin for you as well while he is at it? 😄

There are many reasons as to why a developer uploads files to his/her website. Drawing traffic might be one of them. You say it as it is a bad thing, but it is not bad at all. The file in question is free and the dev put some time and effort in coding it and if they draw some traffic from it, then that is their reward for their hard work.  If you want to download it, then you will have to register at the dev 's site. Otherwise you can either a) request one to be developed for you, or b) learn how to code and code it yourself.
I am sorry to say this, but the way you are complaining about this, it is very irritating.  You can get something for free, but you do not want to lift a finger. Perhaps the developer can come to your home and install the plugin for you as well while he is at it? 😄

There are many reasons as to why a developer uploads files to his/her website. Drawing traffic might be one of them. You say it as it is a bad thing, but it is not bad at all. The file in question is free and the dev put some time and effort in coding it and if they draw some traffic from it, then that is their reward for their hard work.  If you want to download it, then you will have to register at the dev 's site. Otherwise you can either a) request one to be developed for you, or b) learn how to code and code it yourself.
I am sorry to say this, but the way you are complaining about this, it is very irritating.  You can get something for free, but you do not want to lift a finger. Perhaps the developer can come to your home and install the plugin for you as well while he is at it? 😄

You can't compare this to those download portals. Every dev here that runs his own site and offers software and support (free or paid) does this for members only.
That's exactly the same as you are writing only one line above that. The only difference is, you don't even have to pay 

Indeed. It can be set up for specific forums @Michael R.

I think so....

Exclude group option? Include groups option?

Remember to rebuild your search index after doing this as well. 
You can find this option in the AdminCP by searching for "search", then [System] Search, and the "Rebuild search index" option is at the top right

As mentioned above, this is something that is outside of IPS' standard support scope. Anyways, run this sql query to replace the urls of old domain.
UPDATE forums_posts SET post = REPLACE(post,'old_text','new_text'); Replace old_text and new_text accordingly.  And do not forget to make a backup of your database first before you run the (any) sql query. Hope it helps.

As mentioned above, this is something that is outside of IPS' standard support scope. Anyways, run this sql query to replace the urls of old domain.
UPDATE forums_posts SET post = REPLACE(post,'old_text','new_text'); Replace old_text and new_text accordingly.  And do not forget to make a backup of your database first before you run the (any) sql query. Hope it helps.

Have a look at my app. It looks like it could be what you are asking for.
 

I see what you mean. I was able to reproduce this as well, and I have just uploaded a new version in the MP  that fixes it. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

Well cleantalk admins already fixed my problem, thank you so much guys for help
cleantalk staff reply very quickly about this matter.

As mentioned above, you will have to contact its developer as he can help you best with this. 
Do you have access to phpmyadmin? If you do, you can disable the plugin in question from the database seeing the fact that you can not access your admin panel.
P.s. Did you check your server error log btw?
 

You'll need to contact the developer of the application, in that case.
Before doing so, disable the application to get your site back up.

Not out of the box. That will require a custom plugin.