Todd R

Thanks for the response @Marc Stridgen.  I'm not positive if you are responding to the followers falling off the list issue, or that nothing is getting logged in the activity panel. 

Sorry for continuing this topic as I don't really see how to message the support team directly or provide feedback.

Another issue that I discovered is the "recent activity" panel is not very accurate (discovered while testing this).  If, in fact, it was the system that pruned these users as followers, there is not a trace of it anywhere that I can find.  That would be very useful information to have!

I'm wondering the same thing.  Since it's a members only forum, and anyone who is no longer a member is removed, I might just change the setting now and see if that solves the issue.  Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something else!

But the forum is only about 90 days old.  Don't those settings say that the system should only prune after someone hasn't logged in for 365 days?

Having 30 out of 47 remove themselves within a week doesn't seem possible.  Plus, none of them have logged in, which is required to update their preferences.

I set up a new forum (self-hosted) for a client at the start of 2023.  Using the Bulk Followers plugin, they are adding people as followers of certain forums so they get notifications to new posts, rather than relying on them to do it (this is a members only forum so they aren't intentionally spamming people.)

On several occasions they have had several people "drop" from following a forum.  Today was an example - there should have been 47 people following a forum, but when they checked before a post (which they are doing because they don't trust things at this point), there were 17.  So they added those people back as followers so they would be notified of an important announcement.

I compared the list of the people who remained on the list to those who had dropped and had to be added back.  The main difference I could see is that those who had been dropped from following have never logged into the site yet.  Those who hadn't been dropped from following had all logged in.

I checked the prune settings for Notifications and it shows the "Remove Follows" as 365 days, with the "never" not checked (see attachment).  So this tells me it's not the culprit.  But could it be?  Should this be set to "never" to make sure it never does?  It's the only thing that makes sense to why this is happening.

Thanks for your thoughts!

Todd

Actually, a post in another area got me what I needed.  The following 

[{$content->containerWrapper()?->_title} Forum] {$content->mapped("title")|raw}

produces just what I needed.  This will give me (for example) "[My Test Forum] Test Post"

Thank you so much @Daniel F - this worked perfectly!!

We have a lot of forums that our users subscribe to for email updates and as of now, the only way to tell what forum the message came from is a small grey line that says "Posted in xxx" within the body of the message.

I'd like to see the ability to either choose how you want the subject to appear (Board name, forum name, topic, poster, etc), or to fully customize the subject line.  Right now I can edit the value for the mailsub__core_notification_new_content setting to show the name of the board in the subject by using the following:

[{setting="board_name"}] {$content->mapped("title")|raw}

But apparently there isn't an equal variable that I can pass to show the name of the forum.  This is my goal for my emails:

• [Forum Name 1] Here is my topic
• [Forum Name 2] Here is another topic

Shoot.  OK - thanks!

We have a number of forums on our site, and would like to have the forum name added to the subject line so it's easier to identify when an email comes in.  Is this possible?  So something like this "[The Forum Name] - The new topic that I just posted".

I've been using and recommending IP Forum for several years.  I just went to set up another installation for a different client and see that you can store your attachments in AWS.  Is it worth hosting the attachments for the forum on AWS?  Pros / Cons?

OK, turns out that the "Options -MultiViews"  line in the .htaccess file was the culprit.  Once I removed this, the login on the front-end started working, and no more error messages in the CP!

Thanks!

So I had Friendly URLs enabled.  When I upload the .htaccess file, I get a 500 error and can't get see the home page or the CP.  When I rename the .htaccess file (so it doesn't exist), then I can get into the CP.  Strange.

Also, when clicking around the CP, a lot of links aren't working.  For instance, I get an error message trying to access the log files.

I feel like there is something simple that is missing.

10 hours ago, Daniel F said:

Did you just change the URL of an existing instance?

• Did you truncate the data store?
• Have you also also changed the base url in the confit file? 

This was a new installation.  So I believe the URL was set for me in conf_global.php (the value for "base_url" is correct anyway).  I only changed the CP URL ("CP_DIRECTORY") in the constant.php file.  Nothing else is in there.

I did not do anything to the data store.  Is there some place i can go to purge that?