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Tech Tuesday: Forum Update 4.3.3

Myr

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As we roll ever closer to Armeggedon... er.. the go date for GDPR, Invision, the software company for the forum software is releasing another update to specifically address the ongoing concerns of pretty much anyone running anything on the Internet.   We will be rolling the update ASAP.  It is set to release Tuesday (Today). 

Some features in it:

  • Downloading personal data.  One of the requirements of GDPR is to be able to provide what personal data is tracked.  They've added a feature to create an export file of personal data.
  • Deleting Members.  We now have the option to anonymize data when we delete a member.  As a reminder, in most cases where users have content posted, we delete your account and leave the content per the Terms of Service you Agreed to upon joining and re-agreed to if you are logged in and reading this.  As a general rule, deleting content causes community disruption and we avoid that wherever possible.  But we can now easily strip said content of anything the EU considers to be personal data.
  • The Privacy Policy page gets more updates as well.  Currently, there are a lot of third-party services that integrate with the forum software and any of them that are used, have their own privacy policy.  The system will now automatically display said policies and thus allow us to simplify our own.

 

We are also working through the bugs on the new story update as well.  This is the update that will put all the sorting and filtering right at your fingertips.  I leave you with a current image:

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As you can see, we have the theme working on the test server.  This shows Stories I follow sorted by word count (most)

 

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Daddydavek

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"As we roll ever closer to Armeggedon... er.. the go date for GDPR,...."

 

I sense a little trepidation in our fearless leader....

 

As a trusting user, I expect that what works will be fine and what takes some massaging will be deconstructed, tweaked and reconstructed...eventually so all will be in fine working order.  Thanks in advance for all the preparation, planning and work you and your team does.

 

 

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Myr

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@Daddydavek

I'm more at this point...

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Valkyrie

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24 minutes ago, Myr said:

@Daddydavek

I'm more at this point...

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*backs away slowly*  Nice Myr... good Myr... *pushes a box of pizza and a six pack toward our frazzled leader*  :unsure: 

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MacGreg

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Thanks for all the time and energy you put into this site, Myr. I will avoid using the G word around you. 

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