Implemented A better approach to user promotions

[JoyFreak]

On our forums, when we get new registrations, the new registered user can make as many posts and threads but they’ll go into approval queue.

After the first post or thread is approved, the user will be promoted to another user group that allows them to post without approval.

The current system makes you wait an hour, I believe the cron runs at :20 of every hour which can be frustrating for us mods and the user. Say they register at :21 and the cron has already run, they will have to wait the full hour.

I think this needs to be handled better so the promotion is instant.

 

[beerForo]

I set the cron to one minute.

 

[JoyFreak]

I set the cron to one minute.

In the past I set it to run every 20 minutes but last time I checked, my changes were gone!

Won’t every minute cause performance issue? Seems a bit of an overkill if you’re not getting user promotions every minute, it that makes sense? It should be made to run the cron only when a user promotion is applied.

 

[Ozzy47]

Your changes will be reset on every upgrade of XF. You can overcome that by disabling the default cron and recreate your own.

 

[beerForo]

Right. Disable, create new, enable. Set 1 min.

 

[JoyFreak]

Your changes will be reset on every upgrade of XF. You can overcome that by disabling the default cron and recreate your own.

Will it cause performance issues if it's run every minute as beerForo suggested?

 

[Ozzy47]

I doubt it, but that’s a bit OTT IMO.