Afrodude

Using MariaDB v11.4.4, and everything running fine.

Since IPS v4 does not support PHP 8.3, you have to switch to PHP 8.1 and then try again to see whether the problem persists.

Yes. It's the default IPS theme.

Just go to ACP > Appearance >Themes and then press on create new green button.

I edited a member's article record, and I found this bug on the listing page where it shows the listing articles: The left side shows author username and the title of the article. The right side shows the number of reviews, number of comments, last comment made by avatar along with the member's username and the time that comment was posted. Example: Article The listing articles As you see we have an article with one comment, and it was made by Max. Now whenever any staff member edits this article, The listing article comment by changed to the username of the staff who edited it. The staff member never commented anything nor left a comment and deleted it. How to reproduce: Create a new article by any member. Comment on the same article you created. Visit the listing articles page to confirm. Login as staff and edit the article. Visit the listing articles page again to confirm that "Comment by" has changed to the staff username who edited it instead of the last member who really left a comment.

Have you tried to reupload the same file by itself?

I would pick Alma 9 or CentOS 9 Steam.

IPS staff team won't be able to help you with that, and you will need to do exactly what the red notice says. Contact your hosting to adjust your PHP session configuration in order to finish the upgrade unless you have unmanaged VPS. The issue is the PHP session path is not writable, and only your hosting can be able to fix it for you.

@Marc Stridgen I understand that this the only option to do so, but as most of platforms such as Facebook, Google, and Microsoft you don't use contact us to restore your account email address. Moreover, consider how much time the staff members who are monitoring and confirming claims made by users that they are the owner of the account would save when you have an automated system in place to do so.

Despite I've addressed one in my first post, I'll go over the other possibilities. Add a phone number as a recovery. Add recovery email address. Add security questions / answers. This is why I said in many situations this method is more involved and requires more time. You may be correct, however on the majority of forums these days, IPS prohibits inactive clients from starting new threads or leaving comments.

@Randy Calvert Yes, exactly. However, I usually check that email to see who has submitted anything using the "contact us" link. For members who have forgotten their email address, I also provide an alternative way that involves making a new account and sending a private message to a staff member so they can verify their claim. However, this method is more involved and requires more time. Nevertheless, to make things go more quickly and smoothly, an automated system is required.

I have noticed that the IPS system is missing very important information and option whenever you set the Standard login "Authentication Type" to "Email Address" only. There's no option in case a member forgot his email address, and this is very import point especially IPS will be removing Display name login in v5. But still this option is needed in v4 whenever the community set to email address only to login. Perhaps force members to add security questions / answers in order to view their email address.

@InvisionHQ I left some suggestions and a bug with search engine "Elasticsearch (Advanced)", but you've never responded back. Now, there's no option to restore purchases on your website https://bbcode.it/.

Then, I'm certain now that this is the cause of the problem.

@DzUser have you disabled all third-party plugins and apps before the update? You are coming from PHP 7 and not all of them are compatible with PHP 8 and they will give the same error, so you've to disable all of them. If you successfully accessed your site, do NOT enable them back. Check first if they have a new update and then update them, and after the update, you can enable them one by one and check again if you are running into the same issue.