iForum

iForum functionalities - how does your dream forum module looks like?

Hi, 

iForum is long overdue for some technical overhaul, and while doing so, I would like to remove functionality that is not widely used, or not considered really necessary. If it appears that that functionality is useful after all, it can be added later. I'm thinking about the digest functionality, which I've never used until now for example.

What does your perfect forum look like? Please be as specific as possible, 'it works smoothly' is very dependent from your point of  view, and almost certainly will differ from what I consider smooth or easy to use

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Hosting providers

There are many hosting providers, so what hosting are you using and what is your experience running ImpressCMS on that host? Does the hosting option provide easy install options (like Softaculous)? I will update this list with the information that comes in.

Date Hosting Company Country

ImpressCMS Specific Setup?

 Easy Install Type
28/07/2021 Versio.nl Belgium/Netherlands No Softaculous Shared Hosting
28/07/2021 Siteground.com Worldwide No Not anymore Shared Hosting

 

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Hosting options

Currently our site is hosted on Siteground hosting, but unfortunately they did  major upgrade recently which removed their support for Softaculous. As you may know, ImpressCMS is available on softaculous for (even yèt) easier installation and upgrades, and so we needed to upload all files ourselves and short-circuit our Softaculous installation.

My other hosting provider also has Softaculous, but due to a misconfiguration on their part, I need to intervene manually in order to get a first install working. Bummer.

I would love to have DigitalOcean, AWS or Azure (or other services) easy to install available but I'm not using any of those at the moment so I don't now what would be the best to focus on to get working. Vanilla Docker Compose perhaps?



Re: Should we offer a way to disable FLoC

Looks like Google was taken aback by the many and strong negative comments they received. Introduction is now delayed until 2023 (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/google-delays-floc-rollout-until-2023/). And in internet time, 2 years is an eternity.

It is a fact that the internet has become a privacy nightmare (and the ever-present cookie-banners in Europe aren't really helping, just annoying the users), but a proposal by the largest ad vendor will always be regarded with a dose of suspicion. I'm curious to see what will come next.



Re: Should we offer a way to disable FLoC

A privacy concern, for sure. With GDPR and other privacy laws, I am curious how Google intends to maintain compliance.

Steve Twitter: @skenow Facebook: Steve Kenow



Should we offer a way to disable FLoC

Google will phase out third-party cookies in their Chrome browser, which is used by the majority of web users. Google is and remains a advertisement company, so they offered to put in place an alternative that they consider better for privacy, but would still give advertisers information about the current users, they call it FLoC. I won't go too much into detail here, but instead of having your profile stored on the servers of Ad providers, you create your own profile locally, and that profile can be queries with a specific API. So potentially (depending on the implementation) the browsers harvests user data from the sites you visit, independently from the services that might be used on those websites.

Backlash has started now on the internet, with several browsers saying they will not support FLoC, but also Wordpress has entered in the mix, stating that they consider FLoC a security risk, and that Wordpress will contain code that will tell the browser the do not want FLoC data : Proposal: Treat FLoC like a security concern – Make WordPress Core

ImpressCMS aims to be as secure as possible, do you think this would be an option we should have somewhere in the ACP?



Re: New installation page for ImpressCMS v2

A new version of the page is live, with the fast installation rewritten. We now do everything using composer.



Ideas for Swag requested

We have a program running on HackerOne, and one of the recurring questions is if the hackers there can be compensated for their efforts. As an open source project without a company financially backing us, I don't think offering payment is an option. I was thinking more about t-shirts or other funny/nice gadgets with ImpressCMS branding.

The hackers at hackerone have done a great job, and certainly in the beginning stage, I would like to thank them all with a little something.

The problem I have encountered is that the costs could become astronomically high if we would handle the sending around the world by ourselves. I made a quick check : sending a t-shirt (worth 8-10€) to India for example, would cost me 56€.

Talking with @Mekdrop we discussed drop-shipping services, because those services would take the sending of the items on their account (which would be less of a headache to handle for us as well). However, not all of those services allow for your own things to be printed or created.

I would like to hear experience with drop-shipping services, and also other options we migh not have thought about.



Re: ImpressCMS 1.4.2 is released!

And the Softaculous build has been updated to 1.4.2 as well here. No easier way to give ImpressCMS 1.4.2 a spin if your hosting provider offers Softaculous support!



Re: ImpressCMS 1.4.2 Release Candidate is released

The RC has become a final release - see the news and download!

Steve Twitter: @skenow Facebook: Steve Kenow



ImpressCMS 1.4.2 Release Candidate is released

Hi,

I just released ImpressCMS 1.4.2 RC. Lots of small bugfixes, most of them security-related. Please have a look and see if it works on your system in your situation. Any bugs? post them on Github, or you can add them here in this forum post as well

Release 1.4.2 Release Candidate · ImpressCMS/impresscms (github.com)



Re: Reporting issues

Just to make it abundantly clear : from now on, all security-related reports should be logged on Hackerone. The other form will be deactivated.



Happy Thanksgiving, 2020!

This year has been challenging, to say the least. People all around the world are having their predictable lives become very unpredictable. Things change every day. Health care systems and workers are being stretched thin to provide care to a growing number of people. Families are being isolated and separated.

In the past year, we've released 1.4.0 and 1.4.1, along with 1.3.12 and 3 more test releases of 2.0.

Thank you all! Stay safe!

Steve Twitter: @skenow Facebook: Steve Kenow



New installation page for ImpressCMS v2

Hi,

I started an installation page for ImpressCMS v2 to help you out if you want to test the current v2.0 alpha builds. I received feedback that the installation is not that clear, so here is a page that should help out. Feel free to add/adapt where needed : Installing ImpressCMS 2 - Wiki : ImpressCMS



Re: Can't access "Edit Users" (And other functionality)

could it be that the file is too large? I admit that 100K is small



Re: Can't access "Edit Users" (And other functionality)

I upload the image on : https://github.com/ImpressCMS/impresscms/issues/807 (I can't upload the file here..)



Re: Can't access "Edit Users" (And other functionality)

Hi,

ImpressCMS definitely has multiple editors at its disposal. They can be configured in the 'General Settings' page, more info in the wiki here.

We currently have CKEditor, TinyMCE and an old-skool simple text editor available. At the moment, new editors need to be installed manually on your site, but a PR on Github is waiting for ImpressCMS 2.0 to manage the editors just like the modules and the translations, using Composer.

I can confirm the issues that you have found. I already filed a bug report for the editor administration page, in fact.

When you talk about a database error, do you mean the one on the user page, or is it another one?



Can't access "Edit Users" (And other functionality)

https://github.com/ImpressCMS/impresscms/issues/807

Composer version 1.10.17 2020-10-30 22:31:58

PHP 7.4.11 (cli) (built: Sep 29 2020 13:18:06) ( ZTS Visual C++ 2017 x64 )

After successful installation I can't access different functionality,different editors?(I am not sure if impressCMS have a editor). I also receive a database error message.

For functionality that I can't access (see images)

no editors ? :

autotask
symlink
 



Re: Error while installing

Great, thanks for confirming that the issue was fixed on your side as well. No problem with slow replies, normal life has its necessities too

I can not even spend a fraction of the time I would like to on ImpressCMS, I sympathize.



Re: Reporting issues

Hi,

yes, we are using the h1 platform, and as of a few minutes ago, we are a public project at https://hackerone.com/impresscms

Feel free to post any security related issues there so we can monitor them more easily.




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