Miss_B

Have you sonsidered Cloud? These kind of issues will be a thing of the past there.
https://invisioncommunity.com/buy

@Miss_B, @SoloInter, @Drewfus
Perfect, thanks for all the information guys, very much appreciated!

Have a look here on how to download the Ipb 5 Beta:
https://invisioncommunity.com/clubs/page/3-beta-information/
Regarding on how to upgrade to beta it's the same upgrade procedure as before. FOr more on the subject check out the Upgrade section at the following link:
 

First of all, make a backup of your forums_posts table, then run the following sql query at the SQL box of your phpmyadmin for the database that you have used to install your forum.
UPDATE forums_posts SET queued = 0 WHERE author_id = x; Replace x with the actual id of the member whose posts you want to make visible/unhide again. 
I hope it helps.  Please let me know if you will have any additional questions. 

For the past month or so, we've been working with a small number of alpha testers to get some initial feedback and to fine-tune some of the new features.
We are now ready for more feedback, so today, we take the next step in testing!
We've opened up a new Invision Community 5 preview site for everyone to use, find bugs and offer feedback. The new preview site has a feedback area and a bug report area, so please use those areas on the preview site, rather than post your thoughts here.
👉 https://preview.invisionalpha5.com/
There are two themes currently available. The first is the more 'classic' look that you will find instantly familiar. The second theme has the newer views enabled, such as the sidebar and feed mode for forums. You are welcome to switch between the two, and you can also change the layout options via your account settings. All this information is contained in the welcome topic over there.
Have fun, and please let us know what you think!
 

On the other hand, why release new apps if people don’t purchase them? 
 

I did a little research, I guess you mean the plugin by @TDBF
There is also a version 2.0, but the DL site is down too ...
https://zaquria.com/public/d/7-website-footer-200

Looking at their profile it says: Last visited February 3, 2003, so I doubt that they are the author of that plugin.
Where did you download it from? 

Have a look at this link:
 

On the support page in your AdminCP, please follow the instructions to convert your database to utf8mb4. MySQL removed utf8_ and aliased it to utf8mb3_ which can cause issues with checking the database structure since the collation is not what is expected.

Auto-upgrade can fail if you are on PHP 8.2 or higher. Check your PHP version and downgrade to 8.1, if it is not.

Is that custom theme compatible with your forum version? if not it needs to be upgraded or uninstalled. 

I've developed a mod that will log and records all guests visits and the admin can look at the app's settinsg what guests viewed, when they viewed it and the ip addresses used by guests. You can pm me if you are interested in having the app.

If you have access to phpmyadmin, you can try to open table "ipb_core_themes"  and change
to make ips theme the default theme. Change value of your theme to 0 and ips theme to 1 in column
"set_is_default"

One thing that I wanted to add is to make a backup of the database beforehand. 

New blog: IC5 Commerce
 
 

Looks like the OG folder doesn't have the correct permissions for Invision Community to write the file.
Create an empty file with that name yourself, set the proper permissions (from the screenshot), and then try running again the installer.

The info provided there is about PHPMyAdmin and PHP, not your Invision Community installation.
It is worth nothing that the latest release in our software is 4.7.15. We do not have a 4.8 (yet).

Yeah. As I mentioned a few times already, the check script should flag the 8.2 version as not compatible rather than checking only for 8.0+ versions... 😅

Reproducible - the error isn't seen at the time of the deletion, but instead later when the queue task runs.

 
 

How did you reupload the files? Maybe trying a different FTP app (or even cPanel file manager or similar) might have different results.

Can you run the following sql query at the SQL box of the phpmyadmin for the database that you have used to install your Ipb forum?
SELECT * FROM `core_spam_service_log` WHERE ip_address = 'xyzetc'; This query will check if your real ip address has been marked as spam.
I also don't think that your ip is banned based on the error message you posted, but to make real sure you can run this query.
SELECT * FROM `core_banfilters` WHERE ban_content = 'xyzetc'; Replace xyzetc with your actual ip address in both queries. That is if you have a static ip. And if you are using a custom prefix for your database tables append it to the table names in the above queries.