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You can do this on a specific forum, as you have seen there, but its not possible to do on a specific topic only.

You will want to review your database backups because it would not be possible to run areas of the software with these tables missing on 4.7.0.
Just to comment on this segment here, in case you didn't know, IPB_Firewall means that your hosting has been compromised as this is not an Invision product but rather virus/backdoor of sorts. You will want to remove it ASAP and change all credentials to your hosting (hosting panel, FTP/SFTP, SSH, etc...)

☀️ Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! ☀️
Thank you for checking out our weekly, round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week.
 
This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 
 
Current Happenings

New Version
Our newest beta is ready! Upgrade to the official September release in a few weeks. 
As with all beta releases, upgrading your community is at your own risk. Please make sure you backup before upgrading! 
Here is what is slated for the September release, version 4.7.13. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/
New Spam Prevention Features Introducing Community Hive  
Introducing Community Hive
We are proud to introduce our new free-to-use service in beta! We would love to hear your thoughts as we continue to bring this to life. 
 
Marketplace Closure
Our Marketplace Closure announcement was last week. We will follow up with more information. Announcements will be added to the AdminCP with the September release. 
 
 
Changelog
Changes for version 4 are limited as we prepare version 5. For those that like to see what we are up to line by line, here is the changelog for the week for version 4. 
 

I can only provide you with my last comment. There was a bug and it was resolved. If you're still seeing this on the latest release, you will want to check your theme 😉 .

It's a useful metric for those monitoring performance of the community but agree that I never look at it and decide to open a topic or not based on that info.

If you have 100% completed those, upload a fresh set of files from your client area, then run the upgrader from /admin/upgrade

There is no such option build in the software a.f.a.i.k. This will require a custom application.

Something is in the works! 
Should have something to announce in October. 

I couldn't like this post enough and I completely agree 100% with the above.
Personally, I truly appreciate the way that Ips management keeps their customers in the loop, listens to us and interacts with us. 
You don't see this at other community platforms, where there is only silence from the management, and indeed, bad and barely support. 
Ips is and will remain the best and leading community platform in the market.

Hello, I was able to update and everything works. great! Good Job.  Best regards.

It looks like it is a file permission issue. 

Webhost finally solved server resources issue.  I manually uploaded ALL of the latest versions files into the same location and ran the upgrader without any issue. No further assistance needed at this time.  THANK YOU for your quick replies.  Until next time 😃
 

I would suggest solving the problem that's causing the logs to begin with. A 'large' table won't slow things down but a plugin causing something to get logged a lot could.
The table is automatically pruned, you don't need to manually clear it.
You should probably disable the 'MVN; (or similar name) plugin until it's fixed.

What logs would those be? If you click the Fix This button, what do you see?

From now on the app will be supported only at my own forum. 
https://www.yourforumservices.com/index.php?/topic/14-who-read-this-thread/
I apologise for any inconvenience caused. Thank you for your understanding.

We did that three years ago in a genuine attempt to increase sales and viability. It helped for a short while but the trend didn’t hold. 

I hear you 100% but we are not the arbiters of human habits, we just respond to them.
There are loads of old forums still busy but the bulk of those members and that content was generated a decade ago and they are kept alive by an older member base and probably good authority with Google bringing people in for short transactional exchanges.
We have a responsibility to you and our other customers to keep driving forward, it is pretty relentless. The worst thing we could do is just continue doing the same things and we lose marketshare and your community stagnates and goes into a slow decline.
Communities are more complex than a basic forum and very few have the patience to click loads of links in the hopes of having good content to read.
v5 will help with transactional content (I need an answer to this problem) and more social content (Lets discuss Thing) as well as content discovery.

Very well said. Another reason imo to always keep up to date with the latest versions of whatever scripts one is running on their server, is formost security and bug fixes. 

v5 is a significant step forward for UI, discovery, noise versus signal and brand matching. Change is hard but it is kind of inevitable.
If nothing changed, then we'd still be using this:

And while you could absolutely run a successful community on that product even now, the chances of attracting new members would be low given the expectations modern audiences have for UI and ease of use.

☀️ Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! ☀️
Thank you for checking out our weekly, round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week. Below are a few announcements to bring to your attention. 
 
Current Happenings
For our Cloud customers, I did want to draw your attention to our post: Changes to traffic control. Please ask any questions that you have there. 
 
Our Marketplace Closure announcement was posted this week. We will follow up with more information.
 
On Deck
We have postponed our next release a bit which now makes it our September Release. Spam Improvements and bug fixes are to be expected. You can check out our Spam Improvements Blog for more information. 
Changelog
With that said, changes for version 4 are limited for now but for those that like to see what we are up to line by line, here is the changelog for the week for version 4. 
 
 

Yes, the design will not only look different but the way you do themes will be very different. We're pretty close to starting our public v5 blogs/teasers.

I feel you may want to re-read the above. There are no claims anyone has done such as thing that I have read in this topic. Someone has asked about what security precautions they can use on their site when using items that are developed by someone other than Invision.  I'm sure as a developer yourself, you appreciate the importance of someone thinking about the security of their site?

Done, thanks.
 

That is something that will require custom coding/manual file edits as it can't be done with the builtd in options a.f.a.i.k.

No. Just because a feature request is popular, it doesn't mean that it's right for the product, will enhance the community experience for community members and move the product forward.

It is also unfair to have the product guided by a small number of customers that visit the forums and take time to comment on feature requests. The forum does not record the hundreds of conversations we have with other clients over email, regular meetings and so on.

We try and account for most things but more often than not what is suggested in feedback is generally minor tinkering around the edges when more bold action is often needed. That is not to say that we do not read every topic and discuss most of them. Quite often a popular request that we hear over and over makes its way into the software but perhaps not in the way that the topic author described.
I completely understand this feeling. The last six months or so have been a pretty dark timeline of mostly negative news, especially for self-hosted customers. The introduction of cloud exclusive features, talks of falling profitability for self hosted license sales, a long list of deprecated features people use, v5 dev tools overhaul, the marketplace closing - it's been a lot and we recognise that.
Now that the bad stuff is out of the way, we can start talking about v5 and there is a lot of fun stuff to get into. Invision Community 5 is a new chapter for the product and us as a company. A more streamlined and focused operation fit for the next decade of community building.