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@Nathan Explosion I know this is a really old discussion, however even after all these years I just wanted to say thank you 🤗 I have an XML dump with around 2.3 million lines of text I was trying to work out how to import to a new Pages database, your response above has helped 🙂

It would be great to see IPS implement something like UserVoice/Feature Upvote or similar as a way for the community to discuss and vote on what matters the most to the community in terms of development. A platform like UserVoice/Feature Upvote would make it clearer what the community would like to see developed, in situations where IPS chooses not to develop an idea it would provide 3rd party developers greater clarity on more common requests leading to a healthier marketplace. IE: https://ideas.digitalocean.com/ideas

True, and I was just drawing your attention to the fact that it has been out for nearly a decade 🙂 Perhaps it'll make the roadmap before 2030? 😜

+1 curious about this as well. Is anyone currently using it on 4.5 and have you experienced any issues?

SES has been around sine 2011 😉 Here's the snafu with SendGrid that I've encountered. When trying to move an existing community to SendGrid there's a 100/day initially then 40,000/month email limit, that's not a lot of emails and SendGrid won't allow immediate upgrading of the account and in some cases make you wait the full month out. Once you hit that limit you can forget about emails going out to existing members, and new members can't signup. For people converting to IPS with existing large communities this can put a real dent in continuity.

Appreciate that, thank you I'll take a look.

If you're going to go underlining things at least have a basic understanding of what it is that you actually own before going all out aggressive on others 🙂 A lack of updates does not indicate a good security record. In fact it can quite often indicate the exact opposite as it's a direct result of a lack of testing. This is you pushing your arbitrary view forward on what is the 'right way' and what isn't. There's many successful phpBB forums out there, and in fact that free platform has outlasted many commercial variants over the years due to the very nature of its ecosystem and how it's supported. Portraying that using a platform like phpBB is not the 'right way' is not only disingenuous, it's insulting the the thousands of people in that community and the developers that have maintained the software for two decades. You may not like what IPS is doing, that's fine and you're entitled to that opinion but making stuff up doesn't really encourage anyone outside your echo chamber to agree with you.

@Paul E. thanks for the guidance, looks like I have nutted it out 😄 I've been doing all this in a test environment using the testinstall license, as this community is being merged in to an existing live community. This wasn't an issue with the conversion script, the posts were actually hidden. The previous site owners had set it up that you would signup and post, however to unhide those posts and be able to engage in the community they charged a fee. Many would post, and clearly didn't feel value in paying to release their posts and would just leave. Racked up quite a few posts 🙂 forums_topic topic_hiddenposts These contain the count for how many posts in the topic are hidden, set to 0. forums_topic approved These control if the topic is hidden or not, set to 1 for approved. forums_posts queued These control if individual posts are hidden or not, set to 0. All posts are now shown and seem to be working. Now to just see if it breaks anywhere else 😂 Thank you again for all your help.

My intention is to unhide the whole lot in one swoop 🙂 They're not in the Mod CP Approval queue, if they were it would be far easier 🙂 Mod CP > Hidden Content > All Content. 6500 pages, 160,000+ posts. The only way to unhide these via Invision is to open the discussion they're in one by one and press 'Unhide.' That's a few months of human effort, or at a rate of 1 every 10 seconds 7.4days non-stop 😄 Thanks. Absolutely, and great pic 🤣

So glad you're open to the opinions of others. Personally I think it's too cheap, and should be increased 🙂

After a conversion Hidden Content -> All Content has some 6000+ pages of hidden posts. Is there a quick way to unhide all of these? I came across this post however it was per user.

60K Emails/Month on SendGrid $359.40 annually 60K Emails/Month on SES $72 annually @Charles @Lindy there's a business case here for you to get it done 🙂 Undoubtedly a percentage of those savings for smaller communities on a tighter budget would lead to more plugins and community enhancement purchases. So come on, which one of you is mates or shares a yacht with someone at SendGrid that you chose it over SES? 🤣

If your community is going to go the distance and like ours enter its third decade then it's critical you choose a developer that's there for the long term. Esther has been updating and maintaining a plugin critical to the function of our community since 2015. Having worked with Esther we don't need to be concerned that plugins developed by her for us aren't going to work between revisions, as she's incredibly quick to test and update. I am incredibly grateful for having started working with Esther years ago.

Hi, anyone have any advice for mass assigning tags to topics and setting them as prefixes? For example: Sub-Forum discussing the topic Red. Move all topics to a parent forum called 'Colours' and any topic that was in the sub-forum to be tagged as 'Red.'

Genuinely thankful to everyone for the advice. Managed to convert from the old vB 1,700,000 posts, 160,000 discussions and 30,000 members. It did take a while 😂 Something i'm trying to work out. Communicating via social channels etc and on the existing community is easy, ideally I want to mail blast the whole community to let them know however I'm also aware the consequences of receiving a heap of bounce back emails etc due to the age of the accounts. This is something that may have to be done on a throwaway VPS acting as a mail relay vs getting a sendgrid account suspended so I can initially clean up the userbase. I reached out to the previous owners to acquire it so I could bring back 20 years of content and history as it had been offline for months. So hoarder is an understatement 😂

From @Miss_B's link above it seems 3.8 is supported, it's currently on 3.6 so I'll upgrade to 3.8 and then import to the test site.

Thanks Rhett, appreciated. Thanks, I'll see what the import generates as both communities are just shy of 20 years old so preserving some of the inbound links is valuable. The import is going to consist of around 2M posts and 30,000 members so testing will be essential 🙂 Thanks, looks like I'll need to upgrade the version of vBulletin first as it's still on an earlier version of 3. Appreciate the replies, thank you to all.

Looking for some ideas... I would like to bring over an old vBulletin 3.x forum and merge all the members and content in to an existing Invision Community. Essentially bringing over the existing forums, posts and members. There will be cases where members on the target website already exist as they were members of both sites. How would you suggest I approach this?

@newbie LAC nice extension, couple of questions. Do you have a link to a demo site running the plugin? When no topic cover is uploaded what does the header of the page look like?

Really nice plugin, works out of the box. It's one of those essential plugins that helps bring new content to the attention of new members. Feedback: the ability to Auto-Follow Categories within a Pages Database instead of just Pages Articles would be awsome. We have multiple Pages Databases making up some really content-heavy driven sections of our website, this would put that new content right in the Alerts and Emails of our new users.

Hi Mike, I'm up for testing for you. We have a 10+ year old community and would love to have the auto-welcome working with Facebook signups which I think account for about 8 out of every 10 new signups to our website. Is this offer for testing still available?

So does this work or not work if the user signs up using facebook login for example?

I'm seeing the following error now under System -> Support and it won't fix itself using "fix automatically." Any advice @Kevin Carwile on how to resolve it? I've tried running the query manually as well.

Well ignore my above solution, that's incorrect. Error EX0 returns on reload. Is there a way to see what's causing this error? It happens on a fresh template when I add : {{if count($articles)}} <div class='ipsGrid ipsGrid_collapsePhone'> {{foreach $articles as $id => $record}} <div class='ipsGrid_span6'> {template="entry" app="cms" location="database" group="article_grid" params="$record, $database"} </div> {{endforeach}} </div> {{endif}}If I remove the above line and revert it to the original the page works again.

I can confirm I experience the same error. *fixed* make sure you select correct template type when creating. I applied it to my existing template which was not created using Featured Records.