Forum Activity for @strumelia

Badges?

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Isleander, I got that older module working from "Developer Networks" years ago. It still works on my site, but two things about it:
1) I had to make my own images for the badges- really they are simply little 'labels' that appear under a member's name ONLY on their profile page. Thus, they wouldn't show up anyway in the member page you screenshot.
2) it was a big pain in the butt to get it working in my skin. If i had to do it again I would not... too much trouble!
I imagine that you, like me, were hoping for a little badge that would show in the corner of a member's avatar, wherever they appear on the site. That's what Ning used to have and I think you came over from ning as well, right?
I have not looked into the ultrajam module, since i did get the older module to work well enough to just leave it in place.

(Michael, that jr 'openbadges' link is not working.)

email from Soundcloud... anything to worry about?

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i need to remove my members' ability to see the SC option when adding an audio file. BUT!- i need to keep the currently existing SC clips up and running on my site.
I can go to my soundcloud module and go to quota config and then uncheck the "allowed on profile" box, ...BUT!- I don't want to accidentally remove all those members' already uploaded and functioning SC clips. If i uncheck that box and 'save'- will it simply remove member's ability to see a SC option when adding an audio clip?
I don't want to delete or remove all the existing SC clips from my site!- I just want to stop members from trying (and failing) to upload new SC clips.
Is that little checkbox the way to do this correctly?

certificate?/connection not secure...

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Hi, a member forwarded this screenshot to me today when trying to get to my site of fotmd.com (see screenshot)
I wouldn't think too much of it except that yesterday I got the same google chrome message myself when trying to get to my own site. Since then I have not had a problem, and it's working fine now again, for me anyway.
Looks like in the screenshot says something about CERT_DATE_INVALID.... is my site certificate ok or do I need something updated? Thanks-


updated by @strumelia: 01/04/22 05:23:44AM

Adjusting forum/activity page?

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Ok I will turn on that template name in source on Sunday morning (tomorrow morning) then.
This stuff is so far beyond me but i will try!

(Edit- i removed some stuff about adjusting font size on my one site- found out it was just a browser magnifying adjustment issue...sorry)

Will do the template name thing tomorrow and report back here. Thanks.
updated by @strumelia: 10/02/21 06:17:20PM

email from Soundcloud... anything to worry about?

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Thanks Michael.
I'm guessing my members will simply revert to how things were on Ning- which was that they simply uploaded their sound clips to my site as MP3 or other sound files. Unfortunately over time that will eventually take up more of my server space than simply referencing SC clips.
It's not a 'lot' but it was real nice to have the SC integration for the audio side, much like having the YT and Vimeo integration for the video side. (Long ago when i moved from Ning to JR I was thrilled to be able to disable the 'upload video' option!) Having media clips not uploading directly to my server year after year is a huge advantage.

My members are mostly older and most of them lack the wherewithal to add their audio files to youtube, and then put images to their resulting 'video'... even a static image. Especially if they are still currently adding their audio clips to their SC accounts. So when they go to 'add audio' on my site they will see only the upload option... and that's exactly what they'll do- point the JR page to the audio clip on their computer.... it would not even occur to them to instead create a new YT 'video' out of their audio clip, and it'd be too much fussing to do anyway for them.

I realize this is not the problem of you JR developers to 'solve'... since these problems are being created by SC, on purpose.
All I ask is that maybe you can keep an ear out for if SC changes its policy -if it becomes feasable for JR to utilize your great SC module again in the future.
I'm obviously hoping that the 377 soundcloud clips currently on my site continue to play when clicked on, and i realize that depends on future SC changes. Some of these clips have been very popular ...referred to, discussed, and played regularly on my site over the past 6 years.

Meanwhile, I guess i need to remove my members' ability to see the SC option when adding an audio file. BUT!- i need to keep the currently existing SC clips up and running on my site. I assume that means I do NOT want to simply deactivate the whole SC module, right? I looked around but can't quite remember where to go to just only remove the sc option from view when adding a clip. Can you remind me where that would be please?
Thank you so much for your help about all this.

Adjusting forum/activity page?

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As you can see from this sample page (flagged by google for not being mobile friendly):
https://fotmd.com/forum/activity/250/dusty-turtle/%3Cdiv%20id=/%3Ca%20href=/%3Cdiv%20id=/p=14
...I currently have things showing all the way back to god knows what date (note that the paginator does not work, there at the bottom)

I'd like to limit this forum discussion activity page to perhaps show only the past two years' worth of a member's forum discussion activity. Am I not understanding how this page works?- is it possible to limit what the page shows while not removing the actual forum discussions it references? I know it's not a 'page' that members would typically be looking at, but google certainly sees it.
It seems excessive to show a member's forum activity going back many years. But maybe it just shows it all because the discussions exist, thus no way to set time or post number limits of what shows on the particular member's forum/activity page? Does it actually NEED to show all existing data going waaaaay back in time?

I'm using a ninja custom clone skin, if that helps.
Not sure where I can adjust the setting for this, much less if it's even do-able.
Thanks!
updated by @strumelia: 01/02/22 09:17:56AM

email from Soundcloud... anything to worry about?

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Thank you Michael for this response and for looking into it!

So what's the bottom line then?
1) Are you saying my site members will no longer be able to add new SC videos anymore starting now?
2) Will the SC videos i currently have on my site (377 of them, and they are quite popular and still function) likely continue to play/function unless SC changes something else in the future?
3) Will anyone be keeping an eye out occasionally to see if SC makes things easier in the future- i.e. will be able to once again add SC vids and thus consider bringing back the JR SC module?
4) What are folk musicians now using as a substitute for SC and is that a possibility in the future?

--- I hate the idea of having to go back to my members all uploading their MP3s onto my server for me to store for them. Accumulates server space and so many of my members can't figure out how to upload proper sound files.

email from Soundcloud... anything to worry about?

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The latest email from Soundcloud today, I guess it has something to do with this:
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"In our continual efforts to uphold the highest security standards possible to protect our customers, starting November 1, 2021, we will no longer return a value for the `smtp_password` parameter in GET /domains and /domains/ API calls.

Why we’re doing this
As a security best practice, we are moving towards hashing SMTP passwords, just as we do with all other passwords on our platform. Due to this new standard, we will be unable to show the passwords in plain text once they are hashed and stored in our secure database.

How this impacts you
After this change, you will no longer be able to view the SMTP password in plain text and must store the password on your end – ideally using a secure password manager. Depending on your configuration, any applications reliant on the `smtp_password` parameter could throw errors.

What you need to do
After securely storing your SMTP password, you will need to update any reliant systems. Applications that are expecting the plain text password in the API response will need to be updated to no longer rely on the password in order to function correctly. We’ve created an FAQ to help you make the change."

email from Soundcloud... anything to worry about?

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Michael, thank you so much for putting in this effort! SC is quite popular on our site.

email from Soundcloud... anything to worry about?

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Hi, I got the below email from Soundcloud (I only use SC for my JR sites).
Is this anything I need to do something about?:
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"Dear partner / API user,
If you are not calling `api.soundcloud.com` you can stop reading right here. Otherwise, there are a number of updates that might require actions from your side.

At the beginning of July, we announced security updates to our API, mainly how we deal with auth. Please read a blog post to know more about the changes.
We understand that it’s a lot and might require some time on your side to update the systems. We would appreciate it if you could start working on it ASAP, as some of the changes are live already.

Deprecation of `client_id` and the requirement to provide an `Authorization` header for each request is the biggest update. We are planning to start slowly rolling it out in September. Meaning that some percentage of requests will start failing if the header is not present.
If you have no capacity to update your systems in the following 1-2 months please let us know. We will try to find a solution. We definitely do not want to create a bad experience for users.

For any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us. You can comment on this thread, or create a new ticket.
Best,
Soundcloud Team"
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updated by @strumelia: 01/03/22 02:59:49PM