Display registered accounts in Postbit/Signature

[TheRealso0sick]

Hello.

I'm looking for a modification
which displays all registered accounts (IP check) that a user made
in their postbits/signatures for VB 3.8.x

Screenshot in Attachements

Is anyone able to do this?
I've searched the whole forum, but
couldn't find anything similar to this.
So i'm requesting it here.

Regards,
HSB.

[BirdOPrey5]

I really can't see what you're pointing to in the attached image, it's too small.

But are you saying you want on each post to list the other accounts the same user has on your forum based on IP address?

That would be a tremendous strain on the server to search for every IP address a user may have used and find everyone else who may have used the same, for each post.

[TheRealso0sick]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

I really can't see what you're pointing to in the attached image, it's too small.

But are you saying you want on each post to list the other accounts the same user has on your forum based on IP address?

That would be a tremendous strain on the server to search for every IP address a user may have used and find everyone else who may have used the same, for each post.

Yes, thats exactly what i'm looking for.

But what if this IP check doesn't update automatically everytime you load a page/Post.
Like, you would run a recount once a week
and it would only display the previous accounts,
not actually search for them every single time.

If it's impossbile, just tell me :<

[BirdOPrey5]

Caching it like you explain would be required as a minimum but still if we're talking thousands of users and millions of posts I just don't know if the math will work. As is when I search for an IP address it strains my server and I only have 1000 users and 1 million posts.

Very few thing are impossible but I'd imagine this world require a new more efficient way of storing IPs... Probably extra data when each new post is made...

[TheRealso0sick]

Well then how about not in the post but in the profile,is that more feasible? profile tabs like "about me" "statistics" etc...

[BirdOPrey5]

The problem is searching every post for every IP for every user... where it would be displayed isn't really the issue, it would need to be cached anyway. Hopefully someone else has a better way of doing it. I was just chiming it this wasn't going to be a simple mod.

[kh99]

You could make new columns in the user table to save one or more ips, then fill them in whenever someone posts (like keep the last 5 ips posted from or something like that). Then you could do a one-time processing step to fill them in with past posts, or just forget that and start filling them in for new posts.

You'd still have to search all users for matching ips for a postbit (or in the profile), so you'd probably need some kind of an index on the ip address cols for that, and I'm not sure what effect that would have.

[TheRealso0sick]

Maybe not Ip Check on every users Post IP, but on every registration IP?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by HeartShapedBox

Maybe not Ip Check on every users Post IP, but on every registration IP?

That would be orders of magnitude more practical... however... now you run into how useful that might be... Who really keeps their same IP address over the course of months or years? 90% of the people out there have dynamic IP's that change every hour/day/week/month maybe... And even people with static IPs usually are from a job or university or such that will also change in time since life moves on.

The data from that would be pretty much worthless unfortunately.

Why not just set your forum not to allow multiple registrations (like everyone else does) and use the "AE Detector" mod to deal with multiple accounts on the admin side of things?

[TheRealso0sick]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

That would be orders of magnitude more practical... however... now you run into how useful that might be... Who really keeps their same IP address over the course of months or years? 90% of the people out there have dynamic IP's that change every hour/day/week/month maybe... And even people with static IPs usually are from a job or university or such that will also change in time since life moves on.

The data from that would be pretty much worthless unfortunately.

Why not just set your forum not to allow multiple registrations (like everyone else does) and use the "AE Detector" mod to deal with multiple accounts on the admin side of things?

If it wouldn't be usefull for me and the forum, i wouldn't request it here.

I did use the AE detector for quite some time and had around 300 bans, everyday.
That's why i turned it off and thought about this option.

Still requesting this modification and i'd be glad if someone could try it.