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Switched to Invisible reCAPTCHA. Status updates enabled by default. Fixed an issue with the registration template. Further template compatibility tweaks. Upgraded several of our apps/plugins. View full release

You can find this table, here: https://webflake.sx/donate Features Newbie Member Adv. Member Elite Member Legendary Frost Snow +Blizzard Priority Support No No No No No No Soon™ Yes Name Change No No No No No 1x per 60 days 1x per 30 days Unlimited Search Flood 30 seconds 30 seconds 30 seconds 30 seconds 20 seconds 15 seconds 5 seconds Unlimited Animated Profile Photo No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Signature No No No No No Yes Yes Yes Cover Photo No No No No No Yes Yes Yes Profile Songs No No No No No Yes Yes Yes Conversations per day 5 5 5 10 15 25 50 Unlimited Message Storage 50 50 50 100 150 250 500 Unlimited Notification Storage 50 50 50 100 150 250 500 Unlimited Max Rep per day 5 (only +) 5 10 15 20 25 50 Unlimited Can view who gave rep No No No No No Yes Yes Yes Can hide own content No No No No No No Yes Yes Max Download Speed 25 kbps 50 kbps 75 kbps 150 kbps 200 kbps 250 kbps Unlimited Unlimited Download Wait Time 90 seconds 75 seconds 60 seconds 45 seconds 30 seconds 10 seconds Instant Instant Max Downloads/Day 3 downloads 5 downloads 6 downloads 7 downloads 10 downloads 12 downloads 20 downloads 50 downloads

Yeah, we had a small error with our popup templates. Fixed that earlier this morning. Apologies for not seeing this sooner. Thanks for the heads-up though!

Welcome to IPS Community Suite 4.3! WebFlake's system is now upgraded to the latest copy of IPS. Fixed Other Files section on file view. Made a number of template tweaks to address theme compatibility. Removed the default IPS theme as an option. Set WebFlake Lite as the default theme for all members. If you were previously using WebFlake Dark, you just need to switch back. DISCORD: Upgraded and reconfigured Discord Integration to function properly with our site upgrade. Profile photos cannot be synced (temporary). Discord accounts cannot be dissociated (temporary). View full release

Maintenance has been postponed until further notice. Apologies for any confusion.

It's not that difficult. You have access to post new threads and/or responses in at least twenty-one (21) forums. Participate in forum mini-games Provide an answer in Support forums Provide feedback on the site Post an introduction Share a tutorial There are countless options to make those five posts in a way that is constructive and actually worthwhile to read.

It is with a heavy heart that we must bid @GradientWizzard a temporary adieu as life has gotten in the way of his availability. Gradient has informed me of his hiatus. I've already spoken with him and assured him that his spot on the team will still be here when he returns and he in turn has assured me that he'll be stopping by from time to time to say "hello" to the team and the community. I want to take this opportunity to thank you, P, for your friendship and your dedication to this site. I genuinely wish you all of the best and hope you get things sorted.

WebFlake will have scheduled downtime from approximately 8pm-9pm EST tomorrow, June 22nd, for site upgrade and maintenance.

Inactive Members will now see a large notice on the site index alerting them to their current account status with a reminder that they need to create five (5) non-spam posts to be automatically moved back to their original usergroup. This is just a placeholder until we design something more aesthetically pleasing. Updated our terms for the Delete My Account feature. Per GDPR Article 6(1)(f), WebFlake is lawfully permitted to dismiss account deletion requests to protect the legitimate interests of our community by thwarting ban evasions and/or circumvention of our permissions system(s). With a future update of the DMA application, we will begin requiring users to enter a reason for why they are requesting their account be deleted. In the meantime, users that do not offer a reason will have their request denied, no exceptions. View full release

StopForumSpam, CleanTalk, etc. Default IPS Spam requires an active license to use.

500 errors are typically a timeout issue. You'll either need to increase your upload_max_filesize in your ini file (set post_max_size to the same value) or it may be an issue with your host.

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Many of you are going to have some questions while others are likely to be upset with some of these changes so allow me to address what I expect to be the most popular responses. Why the new groups? A better question would be: why not? We currently have nearly 500 members with 50 posts or more and roughly 125 users with 100+ posts. These new groups afford more access and better perks for being invested in our community. Why did you change the permissions for existing groups? Permissions were previously patterned around the three main user groups: Newbie, Member, and Advanced Member. To make room for these two new groups, we had to readjust some permissions in a way that not only made sense but made it a worthwhile endeavor to earn a promotion to these new groups. But why did you reduce the daily download cap for Newbies? Three downloads alone is quite generous given that you're not required to make a post, add a profile photo, or do, well, anything on our site. It may even be reduced further in the future because I want to reward users who make an effort to improve the community by contributing to discussion, support, or feedback. I already have X number of posts, why haven't I been upgraded yet? As soon as you make your next post, the system will automatically promote you to the appropriate user group. Why do these restrictions exist at all? To encourage activity and/or donations to improve your level of access. Sure, there are ways to circumvent these restrictions if you're savvy enough but when caught (and in most cases you will be), you'll be banned from the community. It's about respect, more than anything. Why such a big increase in posts required to make a file request? This is a trade-off. Rather than increasing the number of posts required to reach Member, I simply upped the requirement for file requests to 50 posts (ala Advanced Member). In theory, this should help protect the users who are willing to assume the risk to fulfill these requests. An individual with 50 posts in our community is much less likely to be someone who spammed their way to 15 posts and are also much less likely to be a trap account. Will there be more groups in the future? We currently have five with the two new groups: Newbies, Members, Advanced Members, Elite Members, and Legendary. That's sufficient for the foreseeable future. I'll answer any additional questions as they are presented.

Reduced initial volume of profile songs. Added Elite Member and Legendary user groups. Elite Member requires 150 posts. 30-second search flood (same as Adv Member and below) Can use animated profile photos Can create 10 conversations per day (up from 5 for Adv Member) Can give 15 rep per day (up from 10 for Adv Member) Download speed capped at 150 kbps 45-second wait time for downloads (down from 60s for Adv Member) 7 downloads per day (up from 6 for Adv Member) Legendary requires 500 posts. 20-second search flood (10s improvement from Elite and below) Can use animated profile photos Can create 15 conversations per day (up from 10 for Elite) Can give 20 rep per day (up from 15 for Elite) Download speed capped at 200 kbps (up from 150 for Elite) 30-second wait time for downloads (down from 45s for Elite) 10 downloads per day (up from 7 for Elite) Adjusted permissions for various groups. Newbies Download speed halved to 25 kbps Daily downloads cap reduced to 3 per day Members Download speed halved to 50 kbps Download wait time increased to 75 seconds Advanced Members Download speed halved to 150 kbps Download wait time increased to 60 seconds Animated profile photos have been restricted to Elite Members and above. File requests are now restricted to Advanced Members and above. This means to submit a file request, you'll need at least 50 posts. Elite and Legendary members are exempt from our Inactivity Policy. This means you'll never be moved to the Inactive Members group. New icons for Group Icons. Administrator Moderator Junior Moderator View full release

You just need Pages installed. ReadMe file details the installation process.

Custom errors now display for certain areas of the site. Updated our Privacy Policy and Registration Terms. Community Guidelines has been moved to /guidelines (from /guidelines-webflake). You can still use either link, however. Changed the ipsMessage form on the registration modal to make it more uniform. Added Account Support as department to our Support page. Minor CSS tweaks to specialty pages. View full release

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What you are seeing is just best-practice security advice. Your forum will continue to operate normally. There is no guarantee that you are at any risk because of these functions being enabled. Many hosting environments have these functions enabled by default. Different hosting environments allow for different levels of flexibility with PHP functions. Yours, it seems, is a bit limited and that's okay. If you truly feel uncomfortable, then your best course of action is to find a new host. The problem is not with IPS or our release.

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Your answer is already a sticky at the top of this forum:

Head Moderator has been renamed to Senior Moderator. Each Staff group now has a custom FA4 icon prefix. Fixed a bug with the Discord widget not displaying properly. Users may now request their account be deleted by accessing their Account Settings and selecting the Delete My Account tab. All groups, with the exception of Staff, Support Team, and Uploader, may request their account be deleted. View full release

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It works. You're not doing it right, clearly. Group Formatting should be blank (as noted by the red x). Group Name should contain formatting.

Group settings. Downloads tab. Disable Guest permissions for each Downloads category.

Your theme is out of date or incompatible with your version of IPS.