Brian Garcia

That's not how Facebook does it though.

I was always convinced internet @Charles was an AI bot.

I think you have it backwards, seems like your site is still running PHP version 7.3. Can you ask your host and confirm you are on PHP 8.0? I thought you were running PHP 8.0, but I could be wrong and best for your host to check. That's why I am confused on your error.

I tend to try and transfer one folder at a time to Filezilla. So upload admin first, and then api, then applications. If I do it all at once the server times out and I get incomplete uploads. That could be the case.

These errors are because you haven't finished the /admin/upgrade/ I believe. We are still trying to figure out the blank page you are getting when you run it. Ignore what you see until you finish the upgrade. Can you pull that error log that terabyte suggested again?

That's good you meet the server requirements at least. Just wanted to get the obvious out of the way. Can you check your error logs again for new errors? Once we get passed that we can re-run the upgrade script to see if it'll proceed.

Can you post the error logs again please? Did you ever restore the backup from the first try and disabled any third party plugins? Did you make sure your server was good before trying to upgrade?

Looks like you need to continue the upgrade. What happens when you go to /admin/upgrade, can you continue it or is there an error?

Looking forward to testing this out!

Haha. True, that! I was trying to be nice. I never really thought Xenforo was cool either!

I wouldn't jump ship just yet, Invision has a lot of cool things they are working on. XenForo is like an old Prius, it was cool when it first came out, but now it lost the appeal but still serves a purpose. You need to think long term for your community. Invision has remained the most consistent community platform provider out there.

I think as technology grows there are more points of failure. Reddit was down for me last week and I think Facebook had an outage not too long ago as well. Your 20 year old community was probably running a basic LAMP stack. Outages happen and they suck, but I am looking forward to some of the cool new features that a self-hosting wouldn't be able to do easily. Here's to uptime!

Is there somewhere in the terms of the cloud service that states 100% uptime? Do you call your internet provider and ask for compensation when it goes down as well? If this was a consistent pattern of downtime, I would be upset. However, this is the first time my community has gone down and I understand it happens. The way I see it, I am paying for a service and if it continues to go down I have the option to look else where. For my internet provider, I don't have any other option 🥲. Hard to foresee unexpected downtime...

Great! There are some hosts that provide automatic conversion service to .webp, it's server side. Some CDNs, too like Cloudflare can do this. Would love to see that as an added perk for a cloud user. Would love to see .SVG support for the site logo next.

A good opportunity to educate your users then.

Thanks for the update. Kayak season is upon us... hope though that Olivia let's me out to play once in a while :).

Glad you resolved it, thanks for providing an update on how you fixed it.

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Beautiful! I will explain to you why. I have a Facebook group of almost 7k members. They make it very difficult for me / almost impossible for me to mass message all of my members. I make an organic post and still the reach is barely 10%. Facebook a few months ago introduced the @ everyone tag. At first the reach was about 60-80%, but they have throttled it back down again and I am only get about a 30% reach. Tagging everyone just creates a notification in the Facebook app along with 50 other distracting notifications. A big reason why I am trying to funnel my members into my Invision Community is that I can get a better engagement rate with them. Having native iOS notifications outside of the noise is huge. Facebook group members need to realize they don't own any of the data in their group, you're just an admin in Facebook's toy box. Invision actually lets you own the data which is important to me.

@Charles Does this integrate with Clubs? A lot of online courses will have a special Facebook group for after taking the course. That could either be a private forum or a private club.

It's probably asking for too much. But, a way to generate a certificate of some sorts could be cool. Think LinkedIn Learning, a way to share it too across social channels.

Thanks for the update, @Olivia Clark. We appreciate you handling Charles & crew, I mean doing what you do!

I really appreciate the "your data is your data". I moved away from Facebook because simply I did not own the data, nor do they give admins much control... I have a group of 7k members and only a few months ago did they allow the @ everyone tag to actually reach your members. Which still only comes out to about 10% of my audience.

Heard nice things about the theme designer.

Perhaps this is more of an Events function. Paid courses would just have an event associated with it. I could also go into the Calendar find a beginner course and purchase it. That would add me to the RSVP list and also give me access to the online material. It's almost a full-circle.