We just noticed something on our site that had escaped our attention after our upgrade. With vB4.x we had a separate admin user set up to publish all the RSS feeds: So in RSS feed manager the feeds were set up to post to different forums, but the 'user' posting was always this feed manager.
Post upgrade I noticed that one of the other admins was posting frequently on one of the forums that we don't often use, but wasn't bothered about it....we just let the other admins do their job.
Today I asked why she was posting and found out that she wasn't. Having investigated I noticed that what was happening was the RSS Feed manager was posting as the wrong admin. I went back to the RSS feeds and they were all configured to post from the right admin user, but the upgrade script had apparently randomly allocated the posts to a variety of different forums.
There was no logical reason why this particular admin id should have been chosen. It wasn't the 'next in line' admin, the permissions weren't different. After I'd gone back and edited all the forums that the feeds were supposed to be going to the problem stopped happening, even though I didn't edit the RSS feed admin user in the RSS feeds manager at all.
So there is a bug here somewhere that can make a mess of things with your RSS feed manager. Whether it will ever be fixed I don't know but I'm posting here to let anybody who is considering upgrading from 4.2.2 to 5.x to check their RSS feed manager immediately post upgrade.
Post upgrade I noticed that one of the other admins was posting frequently on one of the forums that we don't often use, but wasn't bothered about it....we just let the other admins do their job.
Today I asked why she was posting and found out that she wasn't. Having investigated I noticed that what was happening was the RSS Feed manager was posting as the wrong admin. I went back to the RSS feeds and they were all configured to post from the right admin user, but the upgrade script had apparently randomly allocated the posts to a variety of different forums.
There was no logical reason why this particular admin id should have been chosen. It wasn't the 'next in line' admin, the permissions weren't different. After I'd gone back and edited all the forums that the feeds were supposed to be going to the problem stopped happening, even though I didn't edit the RSS feed admin user in the RSS feeds manager at all.
So there is a bug here somewhere that can make a mess of things with your RSS feed manager. Whether it will ever be fixed I don't know but I'm posting here to let anybody who is considering upgrading from 4.2.2 to 5.x to check their RSS feed manager immediately post upgrade.
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