Chippy365

Hi there, I have recently been adding a new dark theme to our community and I noticed that the Twitter Embeds still return the "light" theme for the embed. I can't find anywhere within the theme settings that can be set to designate the theme as a "dark theme", thus returning the dark version of a tweet embed. Essentially it needs the URL to include the parameter "data-theme" with the values either light or dark. Would it be possible to set this in the theme settings? It will save our users having such a contrast between tweets and the dark theme.

Thanks Matt. I appreciate it adds more technical debt and I'm more than happy to see how it goes - it's an ongoing battle we have with an older community who are largely very resistant to change! I'll let you know if we continue to get complaints in a few weeks.

We prevent all members from uploading images. Is it possible to prevent the use of GIPHY? In fairness we've not had an issue with GIPHY misuse so we've not looked into it.

In fairness most users have said that they find this aspect useful, that they can scroll through a page. We've had a lot of mixed reaction though and I can understand both arguments. Unfortunately it makes it very difficult for us to provide a fix and considering that IPS are now by all accounts improving the user customisation for behaviours such as topics, it would be really useful to have the same to determine whether quotes are expanded or not - incorporating @Paul E. idea of a community default as well.

Would it be possible to make the ability to post remote images a group permission in addition to a board-wide setting? We allow our users to post images but we've had a spate of incidents relating to new accounts being created and distasteful images being posted in threads. We don't ban the posting of remote images because this obviously limits what images can be posted at all. A compromise we've come to is that it would be good if we could restrict members with very low content counts from posting images. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be possible to do. We have a lot of traffic so approving new posts from members with low post counts isn't really an option either.

First of all, thanks for the ability to collapse quotes, it is very useful. However, since we rolled out the update, we've had a very mixed response, and it appears to be like marmite, with some users despising it and others loving it. Would it be possible to set the default action for quotes as to whether to expand or collapse them please? Much like preferences for opening topic links is customisable, so should the default action for quotes.

Moderators don't have the ability to move members between groups. Also not all offences require a permanent ban. Some are suspended for a specific time period like a week etc. We don't move those people because trying to track each member's time period would be much more time consuming. With respect, I don't tell you how to moderate your community and you shouldn't tell others how to moderate theirs unless they ask for advice. What works for one community doesn't necessarily work for another. And to be frank, nobody asked for lectures on how to moderate their community so the comments don't really add anything to the discussion other than telling us you moderate your community differently. Great, your moderation style works for your community. It doesn't work for ours. It's almost as though communities are diverse and have different wants and needs 😲 Our community has no need or want for a PM system, can we get that removed and add it as a marketplace plugin instead? I'm being facetious here, but we see this a lot when people post feature requests - there's a subset of people who essentially wade in and say "I have no need for this in my community so maybe it should be a marketplace add-on". It's not productive and puts people off asking for new features. Twitter is a prime example of a major service that labels a user banned when they have been banned or suspended. They even notify you if a user you reported has had action taken against their account. While this would be nice to have - all I am requesting is an extra little icon to be added in the same place where there is an icon for moderators, to denote that the person is currently banned/suspended. For some communities they might not necessarily want the icon to say those words and that's fine, allow it to be translated to inactive or something. If you don't want the icon at all, then allow that to be an option too. There's plenty of features that we deactivate in the forum software because our community doesn't want it. A number of different use cases have been provided for why such a feature would be useful to some communities. It may not be useful to other communities and that's fine. Nobody is forcing you to use it. The good thing about IPB is you can turn off and on features you don't want. As for moderation styles - I didn't realise that using IPB software also required us to subscribe to a certain ideology of community moderation. Maybe users could let other users moderate our communities as we see fit without providing a sermon and then we could have a more productive discussion?

Unfortunately not - moderators are instead editing the post that gets a user banned to say that the user has been banned for the particular post. It's not ideal but at least users are aware the user has been banned so they don't expect a reply anymore.

To put on the record, I don't believe you're a moron at all. Re: GDPR - If you are intending to cater for EU citizens in any capacity, then GDPR has to be followed. It's the reason why I doubt that Invision are going to spend any time developing a way to place cookies on a user device - as I imagine their core userbase are communities that do need to abide by GDPR. I agree that IP addresses are a non-starter though. If you haven't already, take a look at the Mod CP and see if the tool there can assist. We use that tool in conjunction with requiring Admin CP approval - and if that is useful, you'd have a stronger argument in putting forward the case that such tools should be available from the AdminCP. I do however think that if you are insistent on cookie-based checks, then you would be better off either developing something yourself or asking one of the mod developers to create something. Given that the vast majority of Invision's customers are targeting their community to include EU citizens, I very much doubt that Invision will develop a feature that allows GDPR to be effectively bypassed, whether by choice or not.

I suspect they've added code in the textarea parts where the software allows you to, rather than in any template files. The same thing appears in the source code for this community too.

As an administrator of a fairly rowdy old school community I can tell you that such a tool would not help as much as you think. 1. IP Addresses can be avoided by going through a VPN (Or simply using their mobile phone network). 2. Cookies can be deleted and under GDPR users have to accept cookies being placed on their computer which gives the game away a little. The way we approach it is that all new user accounts have to be validated by email address and approved by an administrator. There is a little tool in the Mod CP (which should be more widely publicised) that can let you see if the IP address matches that of anyone else in your community. This is an indicator but of course, not conclusive. While I agree that it would be nice for IPB to notify you if a user has "links" to another user, they would also need to make it clear that it is not conclusive and is more for information than anything. It won't stop anyone who is even remotely technically aware and determined. It would simply be a tool to catch the low hanging fruit.

We've had issues with this too. We migrated from PHPBB which had a true blocking system. I've found the implementation of IPB's ignore system lacking, really. When people look to ignore, they're looking to block them as they expect the feature to be similar to the blocking systems present on social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, but also of other forums such as PHPBB. We've had various forum users on our community say that the ignore feature is bugged, when in actual fact it's the implementation that should be looked at because users are expecting it to work the same as a block feature.

When setting up automod, is it possible to have it perform a Saved Action if it receives a report?

Twitter being a perfect example of one.

Actually this is a good point. We often have users who for whatever reason, want their account suspending so they can focus on something else - a couple of decades ago it used to be members at university wanting to focus on exams, what we have now is usually members going on holiday who don't want to be able to access the forum while on holiday with their family 😂 It doesn't necessarily need to be a "banned" badge, just a badge to say they are unable to reply for a longer period than would be normal. Being able to customise the badges and when they are applied would be really useful and would have a larger use case than the ones that we would use it for.