Posts by Jupiter

IPS has recently launched a beta version for native android and iOS apps:

iOS & Android Apps: Open Beta

Thanks Yactie. I'm double checking, but you can stop the user giving reactions and seeing them, but not stop receiving them.

Thanks, but that doesn't prevent the user receiving reactions himself.

I would love to revoke the permissions but their aren't any, either for a individual or a whole user-group.

He tolerated the like system, but seems to hate the reactions more.

A member has asked me if the reactions can be disabled for him, but I can see no way to do this for one individual, so can I request this as a possible future feature?

thanks

Quote from jacboy

Get a better hosting provider

Who would you recommend?

I've just switched back to my old host which is Siteground (on their growbig plan) after some problems with my new host and Siteground say that they place a limit on the size of my database to 750mb.

I've just had a look on the database after reading a quick help-guide about how to find out sizes of tables in databases and these are the largest tables I have after the one I've just mentioned:

wcf1_tmdb_movie - 121.2mb

wcf1_tmdb_person - 105.7mb

wbb1_post - 84.7mb

wbb1_post_search_index - 78.9mb

wcf1_tmdb_movie_genre - 23.5mb

wbb1_thread - 22mb

Does this look normal to you?

thanks

My hosting company has just told me that my database size is too large at just over 1GB and I need to reduce its size within seven days or my website will malfunction.

My forum has 75,530 posts and 43,074 threads and the forum is now almost three years old. There are around 200 pictures on the site too.

If it's the case of deleting old posts, then I'm prepared to do that, but it's not my preference. One thing the hosting company did say was that one of the tables was over 400mb and I think that's related to a plugin by Batarjal , see here:

wcf1_tmdb_movie_person

I'm just wondering if the size of my database is normal for the amount of posts in my forum?

thanks

Jupiter

I would like to have some more polls on my site, but keep the discussion of the polls in separate threads. Is there a way to create a poll in the forum in which every member can participate in, but prevent all other other posts? A poll only thread.

thanks

Currently, I've got several Google crawlers on my site all within the IP range and misidentified as guests:

Here's a few of their IPs:

66.249.93.30

66.249.93.2

66.249.93.31

66.249.93.26

Just gets confusing trying to identity genuine guests on my site.

Can there be a better way for the software to identity bots rather than keep misidentifying them as guests all of the time.

At any one time, the software correctly identifies one of the Google's bots on my site and marks them as such, but ignores all the other instances of Google. Google use the same IP ranges, so how hard can it be for the software to correctly identity all instances of Google and the other bots?

thanks

What did your plug-in actually do?

Thanks Splinter, never considered that, but is there a easier way to retain the details of the spammer while at the same time removing their from my member's list which is getting cluttered by all these spammers?

Hi all,

I want to clean up my member's list and delete all the spammers on the list so that only genuine members are shown on the list. If I delete the accounts of all the spammers, will that also delete all their IPs and email addresses' from the software too? If it does, does anyone know how I can just have a list of genuine members on my site, a "clean" list as it were? Is there a way to hide spammers from the member's list?

How do others here deal with spammers and their details?

Many thanks

Jupiters

It's been reported to me that some URLs which contain commas are not displaying as proper links on my site. I've just done a test on this site and received the same result. Here's an example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary's_Church,_Broadwater

If I create a link using the toolbar, then this URL works fine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary's_Church,_Broadwater

The issue is not consistent. Only some pages with commas don't work, not all. Here's one that does work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diners,_Drive-Ins_and_Dives

So far, the only reports I've received are about wikipedia pages. Could there be a conflict in links that have both apostrophes and commas?

thanks

Jupiter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary's_Church,_Broadwater

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_mother_of_Jesus

Interesting. I'll wait for it.

I would like to remove spammers from my list of members, so it only shows genuine members. I don't want to delete the spammer's IP, email and other details, in case they seek to rejoin my forum, just remove them from my list of members. Is this possible?

Many thanks