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  1. Just upgraded from v4.5.3 to 4.5.4 and can't log out of the ACP...no drop down happens when clicking your admin avatar or drop down arrow top right of ACP...plus ACP search doesn't work...since going to v4.5 my site has always been stuffed with one issue after another and fixes just cause other issues. Can't even log a support request within the ACP No one can post or start a thread...site is now stuffed IPS is rapidly becoming a dog of a product...I am furious, I am frustrated, should have stayed with Xenforo 🥵
  2. I am finding many many issues in v4.5 and several of them including permission settings that still allow guests to posts even though you have not given them permission to, that I have advised IPS Support of and for several of those issues they advise they know about and will release a fix in due course. I have memcache, redis and zend opcache all installed but IPS v4.5 only shows that I can use redis. Apparently IPS changed in v4.5 and only allow for redis. I have addons that have css templates but v4.5 is not acknowledging the css templates as there are errors but if I copy the css templates into my custom.css template they work. I have had my server guy disable ALL cacheing but some css is still not being pulled up. I am convinced that v4.5 is extremely buggy and causing a huge amount of issues in my site.
  3. I very much appreciate all your advice...thank you Just to fix one of the issues i.e. Emails going to spam folders, it seems that I could go the route of Amazon SES or GSuite which would add further costs, keep a high performance server possibly with more resources than I need, keep the nginx and CentminMod requiring a professional server admin person which is more costs...OR...go to Centos with DirectAdmin and have a server control panel where I could set up email account within the domain but possibly ??? have a lower performing site and perhaps still have the email issue.
  4. I have php ticked, this is how it was setup for me but perhaps it was just left as default...should I change it to SMTP with smtp-relay.gmail.com? I use Gmail as my mail client and as noted I have the grandfathered rights of GSuite as many years ago I set up GSuite for my jackar... domain when GSuite was free. I use the email address of jackar... domain for everything and I have just kept it that way.
  5. In regards to the Email...my server guy has advised that DKIM and SPF are set up and ok, and he tested it. The Outgoing and Incoming email address I am using in the IPS email settings on my site at the domain recreationalflying is my own email address x@jackarx, the domain jackarx is also on the server, and the email records (MX???) are set to use Gmail, (I have grandfather rights to GSuite from years ago). When I asked the server guy why the site emails are going to spam folders he advised that the emails are not seen as coming from the domain recreationalflying that they originate from but instead from the domain jackarx and thus Google is marking them as spam...or something like that...which is why he said I should use Amazon SES. This is one of the reasons why I am raising the question on whether to drop the whole nginx/no server control panel option and go for something more simplier like being able to have emails being sent from the correct domain...I don't know if even what I am saying is right or not 🙃
  6. Thanks, I am 61 years old so too old to start learning all this again besides it has become more complicated than in my day...but would I end up with more problems with a dog of a site?
  7. I am completely dumb when it comes to server admin however I could do what I needed when I had cPanel/WHM installed on a standard dedicated server running CentOS. Back then I was running Xenforo which is also easy to manage...very much set and forget. I went to IPS and with IPS being more resource hungry I got a new dedicated server and got a Server Admin guy to set it all up for me and he setup CloudFlare, nginx and CentminMod however I now have to completely rely on him as I know nothing about any of this and it costs me dollars every time I need something done. The server guy says that he wont put cPanel or any other server contriol panel on the server nor will he add any email setup/handling on it as well as he says these won't work properly with my setup plus they take resources away form the server. I also note that cPanel has now increased in price and thus priced itself out of my pocket. However, my dedicated server is an extreme overkill for my needs, 2 IPS sites and 1 ecom shopping cart site, as it has Intel Xeon E-2288G, 64GB DDR4 ECC, 1.2TB NVMe, 1Gbps Port, /29 but $150 USD a month ($225 AUD) and if I want, I can get DirectAdmin installed on it by the server provider for free but as I said the server admin guy advises I shouldn't do that as there will be a performance hit. If I was to reduce the spec's of the server to only what I really need I wouldn't really save that much. The server is based in Los Angeles however 90% of my users are in Australia but servers in Australia are extremely expensive. I am plagued with issues with IPS and every time I go to IPS support they ask me questions that I have to go to the server guy to get an answer. Currently I seem to have major issues with things like cacheing. Also email, site emails are ending up in the user's spam folder. When I tried to look into it I went to IPS support and they said it was the fault of the server set up, the server guy says there is nothing wrong with the server setup, IPs are all clean etc etc etc. He advises to pay extra and get Amazon SES and run emails from needs some info to set it up in IPS, IPS support says it is out of their scope and round and round it all goes mean while I have had enough of it all. I have noticed that sometimes when I log out of the IPS ACP I get an error saying Sorry you don't have permission to do that. I lodged an IPS support and they come back with "Do you have any cacheing?"...I don't know, so i have to go to the server guy and wait over night for an answer (different time zones). he helps me with answers to questions but if I wanted to pay a further $30 a month extra I could have full server management (seems the going rate)...aargh. I've had enough!!! I wish it could just be like it use to be...a dedicated server with cPanel that was cheap enough to run my sites comfortable and I could add en email account, add a domain, do this, do that etc etc etc. The server is fast though, but is there a solution that doesn't compromise the performance that much? Like with the server having such high specs could I just go with Centos and DirectAdmin, making life simple again, and be ok for the sites I have and my Australian audience (main site has 500k posts, 11,000 users, about 100 users concurrent). Do any of you learned people have any advice in laymen words for me...it is so much appreciated any help you can give
  8. Is there any more advice on how to fix this because I can't use the addon...thanks
  9. Last time he has posted here was Sept 11 yet he has been here since but not responding to any issues
  10. No, that didn't fix it...I have uninstalled the addon, reinstalled it, emptied the custom.css, and deleted the cache through the support function and still the same
  11. Ok will try but this is the bloody problem with not allowing the download of addon files as I have to try and resolve this on a LIVE site stuffing up my users etc
  12. Not sure why, maybe a setting somewhere, but using in v4.5 the images are not centered or resized:
  13. I have also noticed that when adding a video now it doesn't populate the description field any more...this is a MAJOR need and really the only reason why I like this addon compared to creating a Pages version...PLEASE can you fix!!!
  14. This issue has been reported many times over the years and it hasn't been fixed...You can't move videos by clicking them and selecting Move...when you do it comes up like this:
  15. I am experiencing an issue with the read marks just with Videos. The default stream on my site shows the user everything they have not read which works perfectly for everything except Videos...The stream shows a new comment that I haven't read, I click on it which takes me to the last comment posted for a video, I go back into the stream and it is still showing as unread...this issue is ONLY in Videos
  16. ibaker

    Books

    Thanks @penguinstyles Incidentally, I also have @Adriano Faria Movies addon installed which is a real good brother to Books
  17. ibaker

    Books

    I have it installed and doesn't have any customisations for you have a look at if you like at: https://www.recreationalflying.com/books/
  18. I am glad you know where it is @Daniel F because I can't find it...used the search settings in the ACP, looked in the Administrators group, looked in the registration settings, looked in my own user settings but nope, it is well and truly hidden
  19. Thanks @Adriano Faria so it looks like there is no way to get an email when a new user registers on your site
  20. Interesting issue I just experienced @Adriano Faria I entered a movie and then deleted it...it no longer shows up in the addon. I changed my mind and tried to re add it, I enter the title and it comes up in the list but doesn't have an add this movie button. So I check the database and it is still in the movies table...not deleted but not shown on my site
  21. I have around 3,800 user Albums in the Gallery with half of them empty and very old. Can anyone advise of a quick way that I can delete ALL Albums with 0 images in them...thanks
  22. This is a GREAT addon, thanks Adriano. Just a comment if I may, when you select a category as being "TV Show" only, the category listing on the index page shows the word Movies...just a thought but could the code say: <IF> category=TV Show, TV Shows <else> Movies <endif> Although the issue would be those categories that are set as both Movies and TV Shows...just a thought
  23. Just curious...If you add a link to a YouTube video in Videos and a user plays it, I know the data streaming counts towards the user's ISP data capacity but does it also count to your server's download data capacity or is it YouTube's data capacity? The reason I ask is If I add many say 45min long (i.e. large) YouTube videos in the addon, and many of my 11,000 users watch them, could I potentially run out of outgoing server data that I get with my site hosting?
  24. I have a Club that is set to Open and in the ACP Clubs Settings I have set: this is so any content that is posted in a Club remains just within the Club and not elsewhere on the site. However, Images that are added to the Club are shown in the gallery...is this right or is there a bug in the "Only within Clubs" setting? (Note: I have changed the language in my install from Club to Group in the above screen shot)
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