Invision Community 4: SEO, prepare for v5 and dormant account notifications Matt November 11, 2024Nov 11
October 12, 20231 yr Hi @Matt Are we okay to run v4 (until EOL) and v5 on the same licensed domain/sub-domain? Asking from a provider perspective, we need to continue supplying v4 themes for a while yet. Many thanks.
October 12, 20231 yr You would need to run within your license agreement. So this would be only 1 live install, and a non-accessible test install if needed.
October 12, 20231 yr 34 minutes ago, Matt said: Not a lot off the top of my head, @Daniel F? There were few changes which will affect own REST API endpoints.🫢 We'll cover this in an upcoming dev blog entry 🙂
October 12, 20231 yr 55 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said: You would need to run within your license agreement. So this would be only 1 live install, and a non-accessible test install if needed. Ouch! Providers should definitely get significant discounts on multiple licences then. By choosing to retain 2 versions at the same time, we have to decide whether to support either solely the newest version or buy/re-use a second license. We'll have people with existing theme/app purchases expecting to be able to stay on IPS4 but of course, a second group wanting to upgrade to IC5 on the day of release!
October 12, 20231 yr Not sure how you're stopped from doing the above, unless you're using your test installation to do your development instead of a localhost installation?
October 12, 20231 yr 36 minutes ago, The Old Man said: By choosing to retain 2 versions at the same time, we have to decide whether to support either solely the newest version or buy/re-use a second license. This isnt the case. As mentioned by Nathan above, you can do this on a localhost install. What you cant do is have 2 online sites running. One with your v4 and one with your v5, which is what I thought you were referring to there
October 12, 20231 yr 1 hour ago, Nathan Explosion said: Not sure how you're stopped from doing the above, unless you're using your test installation to do your development instead of a localhost installation? 58 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said: This isnt the case. As mentioned by Nathan above, you can do this on a localhost install. What you cant do is have 2 online sites running. One with your v4 and one with your v5, which is what I thought you were referring to there Yes, Marc was right in that I was referring to providing both an IPS4 and 5 demo/marketplace. I currently have 4 licences and localhost for dev.
October 12, 20231 yr Just now, The Old Man said: Yes, Marc was right in that I was referring to providing both an IPS4 and 5 demo/marketplace In order to do that, you would indeed need to licenses for the 2 public facing sites
October 12, 20231 yr Thanks for clarifying Marc. That's expensive. Only having 1 demo/marketplace site makes a 99% loss at the moment!
October 19, 20231 yr Could you give a hint of timeframe for support for version 4? I have two sites and might consider shutting both down for good when version 4 is unsecure with red banner.
October 19, 20231 yr 3 minutes ago, Kjell Iver Johansen said: Could you give a hint of timeframe for support for version 4? I have two sites and might consider shutting both down for good when version 4 is unsecure with red banner. The timeframe is available in the Deprecation Tracker: 2025/2026
October 23, 20231 yr Sadly, IPS management does not allow inactive clients to reply on most of the forums on this community, and they don't see any value to people who have been with them decades. Now days they see only the green color of the $. @Ehren the new theme editor looks really really great. Thank you for the great work you've been doing to take IPS theme to a next level. I do have a few suggestions that would make it easier on all IPS users and communities. It would nice if we could give members access to have their own style not everything of course and add that under Account Settings. For examples, "Look and Feel" or "User Interface" Under this setting we will have Default color scheme. Many members would like to have their theme looks Light or Dark all the time whenever they are signing from any device. Easier especially if you set your browser to delete cookies automatically every day. Layouts Pages Layout Forum Index Topic List Topic View It just will be nice to give members some options on how they want to see the community.
October 23, 20231 yr 4 minutes ago, Ehren said: That's exactly how it currently works @Afrodude 🤝 I knew it. I was going to edit to my post and add "unless you guys have it done already" Great work mate. I will wait for more exciting news about V5.
October 27, 20231 yr On 10/12/2023 at 4:14 AM, Daniel F said: There were few changes which will affect own REST API endpoints.🫢 We'll cover this in an upcoming dev blog entry 🙂 Love to see the attribute use! Can’t tell you how many times I’ve screwed up the docblock formatting for my API docs and not realized it. Game changer! Hopefully this applies to the apiOutput method as well or something similar has been created!
