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I added the missing description snippet column to the Rss template - <span class='ipsType_light'>{$item['description']}</span> but the column is getting rendered as empty - <span class="ipsType_light"></span> The feed does have the description column. I waited for the cache to expire and also tried adding a new widget with a new feed URL but still the column is rendering as empty. Why is the description column not getting rendered? Is the column not getting cached? How can I make this work?

I guess the custom buttons are for specific purposes (Eg: Stock Replies) and it would be ideal to use built-in functionality instead of cooking our own. CK Editor has most of the buttons that can be provided in the ACP which can be exposed by admins.

Not everyone can have the ability to edit HTML except admins may be temporarily due to security reasons. HR should be a toolbar item. Also since pasted content is enforced as plain text (due to various color themes) losing formatting, TABLE/TR/TD toolbar items are needed too.

Well, Link replacement can be made to work with hostname affiliate links as well to inject our own tag/publisherId. amzn.to/productId => can be reformatted as => amazon.com/dp/prouctId?tag=publisherId Advanced Regexp app does not reformat amzn.to hostname URLs with tag as suggested above. Apparently, IC software has a word index table where every word from all the posted content is indexed for search to work with full words as indexed. Search doesn't work with stemming and synonyms like a full-text search server (I posted another topic on this shortcoming to use a stemming class along with a synonym dictionary).

Correct. Links & Email Addresses should work similar to Word Filters where there is a replacement text specified to replace the objectionable words. Without this, technologically challenged moderators would have no clue what part of the URL to remove/replace before approving the link with the current flaw. Please add the REPLACE logic to Links & Email Addresses where we could replace the spammer's tag (or append if tag doesn't exist) with our own publisher tag value and earn that commission! 😀 (works only with tag parameter and not amzn.to host name) NOTE: It should replace the specified part in both the displayed text and underlying link with the replacement text.

A Tag Cloud widget is highly desired to see the trending tags like the one below - https://www.mobilemusic.us Please confirm if this is added to your Roadmap.

A page listing all the predefined tags could be added under Browse menu to navigate content by tags. Currently, users have no way to know all the available/existing tags or their correct paths. Please confirm if this is added to your Roadmap.

We thought the Help module should come from the single software vendor like any other software app that gets updated as and when new features/changes are added/made (like the neat vBulletin Help module referred above) as opposed to multiple clients creating the help pages for users redundantly. Technically, as a vendor, you know about your software better than your clients do. A help module from IC would be consistent and common to all clients. Anything specific to the site could be added by clients as additional Help pages.

A Help module like this would be very useful to end users - https://www.mobilemusic.us/help You can refer to the Help page we created on our site for help content (but it is one long page and overwhelming). A help module with an accordion navigation menu and multiple pages like above would have a better UX. Training end users is essential and crucial on any software to make them advanced users that will save their time while using the site and a Help module would be very helpful in this regard. Please confirm if this is added to your Roadmap.

Edit Profile still has Birthday This may be removed as it is part of PII and not much of use

We see these are added newly that were not in the cookie page - ips4_guestTermsDismissed ips4_language Are these ones obsolete as they don't have duration mentioned? member_id login_key device_key SessionFront loggedIn hasJS cookie_consent cookie_consent_optional

Please provide the Live Chat module (at least for Cloud clients) by reusing your continual bi-directional communication using NodeJS used in Live Topics, Live Notifications, Who is Typing, Who else is Here?, etc. The AJAX Chat app options are not scaling because they open a new connection for each user, process and continually poll the service and crashing the site frequently making it not look like cloud hosting. Please confirm if this is added to your Roadmap.

If a user posts affiliate links, moderators approving the moderated links won't be savvy enough to know which part of the posted URL is spam. For instance - Host name (explodes into full URL when clicked) - amzn.to/<product> URI - amazon.com/?...tag=<publisher> These are just examples and there are many more spam URLs from other sites with lot of variations. Currently, the only options with Links & Email Addresses is to either Block or Moderate both of which are not adequate. Please provide a 3rd option to REPLACE the spam part of the link (similar to Word Filters) with a replacement text so the affiliate link becomes useless. If we add a Link Filter like amzn.to or tag= these should get replaced with **** so they become ineffective. Word Filters has REPLACE option with a flaw that only the displayed text is replaced but not the underlying link which may be fixed as well. Please confirm if this added to your bug model.

Under Email Settings, both Outgoing and Incoming email addresses are the same (support@...). Contact Us email is set as Incoming-email: I scanned through the SQL backup taken couple of weeks ago and there is no trace of the personal hotmail address in the backup.

When the guest sent a message through Contact form, we got a "Verify your email" message at personal hotmail. After we verified it, the actual spam message got delivered at incoming-email-address. You can add our domain to the beginning of the link and replace "domain" with our-domain-name.com@hotmail.com to derive the full URL (the email is brand new and never used anywhere - how did they know this email address?). The message is spam (prolly a bot). Is it possible to prevent further spam messages using the email that was verified? I tweaked the incoming-email-address address and domain display values before taking the screenshot:

A guest sent a spam message through Contact form using a valid email address (admin's personal hotmail that is not associated with any member) and we receive a "Verify your email" notification at the personal email and after verification, we get the spam message delivered. How is this possible? "Verify your Email" received at admin's valid personal email address (not associated with any user) - you can replace the "domain" with our domain name to derive the email address: /index.php?app=core&module=system&controller=redirect&url=https://domain.com/contact/?do=confirm%26key=3d71bd549c55805525a41ab06374a695%26email=<domain@hotmail.com>&key=76e04b511b33a076abd72f1a33d7e5d166bf11bd855743773be29f7758394a30&email=1&type=contact_verify After clicking on Verify, the spam message is received at "Incoming email address" In essence, I'm verifying my own email address to receive a spam message sent by someone using my personal email address. The spammer doesn't need access to my email account or password - just the email address to spam me as I'm verifying the message as valid because I wanted to see what it is. Did they grab my personal email address somewhere which is brand new and I never used it anywhere? How do I prevent this spam in future now that the user knows a valid email address that I verified already?

Would appreciate if someone confirms that these issues have been added to your bug model; otherwise, all that testing, recording issues and reporting issues would be for nothing.

Cannot update right now as your team is currently doing some debugging on our site and asked not to update. Will let you know once done

Will it fix wrong old blog URLs retroactively? When is the next release? (I need to send out blog URLs to others and don't want to send wrong URLs or dead links)

Not sure why it should work with a vague URL like /blogs/blog/5-x The correct URL is /blogs/blog/5-cricket Does the vague -x add any SEO value? That was my point 😀

URL by ID "blogs/blog/5" does not work but strangely vague/partial URL like "blogs/blog/5-z" works and resolves to full URL during page load. Content should load by ID in the URL and the remaining title/text should be optional in the slug (eg: /blogs/blog/5 that would resolve to the full URL during page load) but partial URL is weird. When we configure the blogs page to display as cards, it lists recent entries as cards on /blogs page but there is no unique collection of blogs in cards layout and no way to locate a blog if there are many blog entries giving a bad and clueless UX (this is similar to YouTube where they lack a unique list of our subscribed channels). This may be ok for sites with just one or two blogs like ic.com where you don’t allow members to create their own blogs and you have just Invision Community, Community Management and Recent Entries rendered on 3 separate tabs (custom page). But on general purpose forums where users can create their own blogs, this would be a challenge to locate and navigate specific blogs unless they know the precise URL to a blog because URLs by ID do not work in IC software. Currently, the unique list of blogs is available only when the blogs page is rendered as a list and when clicked on a blog, it goes to the entries page of that blog which are rendered as cards. If we look at vBulletin, blogs page displays a unique collection of cards and after clicking on a blog card, it takes us to that blog with a collection of its entries which can be rendered again as cards or list. When configured to render as cards, /blogs should render master-detail drill-down of unique collection of blogs in cards layout > collection of entries in cards layout when clicked on a blog. /blogs page should render a collection of "blogs" (not: entries) consistently and as expected - regardless of if the layout is configured as list or cards. You can render Member Blogs (unique collection of blogs), Subscribed Blogs, Recent Entries as separate tabs but unique collection of Blogs as cards should be the first/primary tab (or configurable). The unique collection of Blogs as cards should be sortable by name ascending/descending or by latest activity. Clicking on the cover photo on /blogs page rendered as cards/list should take us to the Blog page (not just clicking Blog title in the card). Most users are not tech-savvy to figure out to click on blog title in the card. Slideshow should accommodate at least 10 blog entries (configurable) for general purpose sites where members could create their own blogs and entries. How to sequence the slideshow of featured entries in a particular order like the "Welcome" entry to appear as 1st entry in the slideshow? How do we know which featured blog entries are going to be listed in the slideshow when more than allowed number of blog entries are featured? There should also be links to entry slides (1-10) to be able to click to randomly jump to any slide as expected behavior for a better UX instead of navigating through them one at a time using the left/right arrow icons (arrow icons and clickable links to each slide is the standard UI on any slideshow). Slideshow should always start from slide 1 or use the pinned entry as the 1st slide but it continues with last displayed slide from last blogs page exit (may be made configurable). Pinned blog entries are not showing on the top as pinned. For blog/event cover/card photos, it should accept URLs like YouTube thumbnails so we don’t have to upload image files separately to save on storage. Similar to - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SABYbyofWQ https://youtube-thumbnail-grabber.com https://www.youtubethumbnaildownloader.com We should be able to use this URL in cover photos - https://img.youtube.com/vi/4SABYbyofWQ/maxresdefault.jpg Tags and view counts are not displayed on the blog entry cards (view counts are shown on blog entry detail pages). Tagged blog entries are not featured in Similar Content widget and they cannot be discovered. Tags make content listed in Similar Content widget but tags don't work for blog entries to make them appear in Similar Content. Optionally use signatures on blogs and articles (configurable).

On our site, the "community" blog is having the URL "/blogs/blog/5-cricket/". Apparently, after renaming the blog, the URL did not sync with the new name. The url by ID alone "/blogs/blog/5" does not work but strangely partial url "/blogs/blog/5-x" works as it does with topics, etc. Please change the URL to "/blogs/blog/5-community" as there is no way to edit its URL in the frontend or ACP.

Okay, completed the patch. But found - Logs 224 kB log table Repeated log entries On clicking Fix This - (maybe this one got resolved too already) Reoccurring system log entries may be indicative of a problem that should be addressed. A summary of the top reoccurring recent log entries are shown below. Review the system log for further details. Message Count badly formed input 46 Error: Attempt to assign property "timezone" on null (0) #0 /var/www/html/107732/system/Dispatcher/Standard.php(129): IPS\_Member::loggedIn() #1 /var/www/html/107732/system/Dispatcher/Front.php(106): IPS\Dispatcher\_Standard->init() #2 /var/www/html/107732/system/Dispatcher/Dispatcher.php(110): IPS\Dispatcher\_Front->init() #3 /var/www/html/107732/index.php(13): IPS\_Dispatcher::i() #4 {main}

Nothing in the ACP shows as pending updates yet. Did "Check for Updates" - still no pending updates.

We understand it is not expected to work. Just wondering why it is working for a few weeks/months and stop working and if there is there something changing on the cloud.