Recent content by Evan B PNW

In any case, it was more the perception to the average user in this case. They saw it as having put their content onto a forum owned by one of their peers, only to have it sold to a large corporation who wanted to use their content and their data to generate ad revenue. This particular forum...

When VerticalScope takes over a forum, their Terms of Service generally state that user-submitted content becomes licensed to VerticalScope (not personally owned by the poster anymore). That means they have the rights to host, display, and even republish the material across their network. Users...

I think that there's some delusion in the upper ranks that their AI bot, ForaFrank, is somehow going to save them.

Owner was not part of the migration whatsoever. I'm sure he laughed about it, but we definitely made sure this was all community-driven.

The forum I own was a result of a VS takeover. A site with a strong community dating all the way back to the late 90s got sold by the original owner very suddenly. Basically, we all found out after the deal was done. Community was pretty shocked to say the least. Literally that morning...

Yeah I also noticed the email thing. Another friend of mine who hasn't been on a particular forum in over 10yrs (long before the VS takeover) just got one of these update emails.

Anyone know what's going on with VS? While I run my own forum, I'm a member of and monitor a few similar VS forums. Moderation and updates on them have completely stopped. It's wild west. Members posting all kinds of "against the rules" content with no action whatsoever from moderators...

Don't buy this. It's no longer supported. I'm currently looking for a good way to replace it because it hasn't been updated in 2yrs and finally broke with XF 2.3.

Just installed, thank you! Where do I find the toggle for on/off?

Is there a... "how to automate this for dummies" version of this somewhere? Would this be something I'd add to an htaccess file or something along those lines?

So it turns out it was an issue with the Litespeed license. By upgrading the license, it all works again.

While we're waiting on our ticket with the host: I restored the root htaccess file (or rather, the public_html one) to its original state and I've got the WordPress site to load again (no more server error). Still nothing in /forum though.

yeah going to our host was going to be the next move. I appreciate you taking the time to assist either way.

Think that made it worse:

Ok tried that and got this: here's the htaccess as it currently is: