Unable to re-purchase Forum Subscription

Princess Luna · January 4, 2023

I used to have Bronze Subscription but I cancelled it after taking a hiatus from the Forum, considering subscribing to it once more but I actually can't x)

Instead of giving me the "add to cart" option it I get a view purchase that leads me to the expire sub and that's about it, I looked around but really couldn't get around it

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LinusTech · January 4, 2023

I actually have no idea if we have any active development going into new featurea for the forum.

I know we are maintaining it, and our team of volunteers is amazing, but it's truthfully just not a money maker and the subscriptions barely scratched the surface of what it cost us to run anyway...

I just think it's important to keep it going. I'll check in with Luke about your question tho.

colonel_mortis · January 8, 2023

We used to have a workaround for this, but it seems that it was broken by an IPS change a couple of years ago, and the new code is harder to work around.

I think we can fix this by switching it over to a different type of subscription on the backend (IPS now has a first-class contributor subscription feature, but didn't when we started), but I'm hesitant about making that switch because if stuff goes wrong it will be pretty painful to clean up.