16 minutes ago, Marco Junior said:

@Matt

Has it been decided internally about the new features?

Will Assigned Topic and Summary be features that are only available for the cloud?

I'm asking because if there is still hope that Assigned Topic will be available for the (Self-hosted) plan, I will wait. If it is officially decided that it will only be available for the cloud, I will seek an alternative solution with one of the experienced developers at IPS.

The new features have been added to the purchase page.

5 minutes ago, Matt said:

The new features have been added to the purchase page.

But I don't want to buy a cloud service, this link is for cloud services, right?

15 minutes ago, Marco Junior said:

But I don't want to buy a cloud service, this link is for cloud services, right?

We see all our products as different packages, not so much "Self hosted versus cloud". If the feature is showing on a tier that is not the self hosted version, then it will not be available in the self hosted version.

549$

3.235,06 reais/month

This is correct. ?

Topic Summaries are available on Creator Pro (currently $149/month), whereas Assign Topics and Topic Summaries would be available on Business (currently at $549/month).

4 hours ago, Gary said:

Topic Summaries are available on Creator Pro (currently $149/month), whereas Assign Topics and Topic Summaries would be available on Business (currently at $549/month).

Ooooh this is very insane !

But thanks for your reply. 😬

I've been with IPB/IPS for about.... 18 years and I want to tell you that version no.5 is really impressive! Keep it up!

I've been with IPB/IPS for about.... 18 years and I want to tell you that version no.5 is really impressive! Keep it up!

Same! I've been with them since 2002! I cannot wait to take my site to v5! Thank you everyone! <3

Could you explain further what you mean when you say this? An example perhaps

For example, is there a theoretical way to remove subforums and rely solely on tags, similar to how the fluid view works now? Or will the current setup remain unchanged?

For another example, when shopping online, you can apply filters (such as color or size), and the product list updates in real time as you make selections. Could this apply with topics?

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If you were doing something like that, you would actually use forums with those names, along with fluid view. If you only wanted to use tags, I guess you could dump everything in one forum if you wanted to do so. But they have to belong somewhere

Just so I understand correctly, are tags only to be used by the admin?
Can mods use them?
Do forum members have the ability to select a tag to use when creating a post?

Thank you. I am just starting to build a brand new community now.

On 6/7/2024 at 7:21 AM, Matt said:

That's why we're here talking about it. We made decisions, and then adjust as needed based on feedback. However, I'm not sure that use of tags is mainstream. It's unusual to have 1000 tags, and the application is niche. But this is an open conversation.

I have 30K+ tags.
I just ran a query of the top 500 most used tags and the first tag is used over 51K times and that last tag is used over 1K times.

I have 13500 that are used at least 5 or more times.

I have loads of functional utility around these tags and my users love them. Not sure what's supposed to happen in my case.

2 hours ago, SJ77 said:

I have 30K+ tags.
I just ran a query of the top 500 most used tags and the first tag is used over 51K times and that last tag is used over 1K times.

I have 13500 that are used at least 5 or more times.

I have loads of functional utility around these tags and my users love them. Not sure what's supposed to happen in my case.

Just curious, when you look at your most used tag, is it actually useful?

One observation I have about tag popularity - especially in large communities such as yours where you're starting to reach audience saturation - is that the top set of popular tags are probably so generic and so broad, it's almost meaningless. It would be akin using the tag "Invision" here in this community. It's the second tier of tags that start to provide meaningful taxonomy.

I am most worried about the thousands of long tail, unique, and niche tags that are highly structured that will be lost in the upgrade. Yes, there are misspellings, variants, and mistakes in there, but the corpus of our tagging will be lost if only the top X tags are retained (whatever that number is).

14 hours ago, SC36DC said:

Just so I understand correctly, are tags only to be used by the admin?
Can mods use them?
Do forum members have the ability to select a tag to use when creating a post?

Thank you. I am just starting to build a brand new community now.

The use of tags can be by anyone who has the permission set within their group. The creation of tags can be done only by admin.

Is this a cloud only feature? It seems like these should be searchable, or a special page for them, but I don't see where to turn that on.

Thanks

No, the menu for Tags is in ACP -> System -> Content Discovery.

You need to have IPS version 5, though.

Are tags now pre-defined? Meaning they can't be created from the front end?? I only seldomly used the tags previously, but I had them set to be allowed by certain users to create new ones, and who could add them.

26 minutes ago, ClawOfWinterfell said:

Are tags now pre-defined? Meaning they can't be created from the front end?? I only seldomly used the tags previously, but I had them set to be allowed by certain users to create new ones, and who could add them.

It is a closed system, yes.

I'm currently experimenting with this tag system, two questions:

• I got two (converted) tags called 'Icecream'. I tried to combine those but can't because both are called the same.🤪 Is there a work around for this?

• I really like the featured content block, - on my front page -. But it also shows up under my forums. I've looked high and low but do not see a way (I found and turned featured in email off), to keep that featured block restricted to just the frontpage. Is there a way to do this, keep things ordened?

On 10/11/2025 at 7:58 AM, riko said:

I'm currently experimenting with this tag system, two questions:

• I got two (converted) tags called 'Icecream'. I tried to combine those but can't because both are called the same.🤪 Is there a work around for this?

• I really like the featured content block, - on my front page -. But it also shows up under my forums. I've looked high and low but do not see a way (I found and turned featured in email off), to keep that featured block restricted to just the frontpage. Is there a way to do this, keep things ordened?

1. Have you tried renaming one of them and then merging? If not, might be worth a try.

2. Where do you have the Featured Content block? If it's in the footer, that could cause it to be persistent across the site.

Hi Mike, thank you for the reply!

8 hours ago, Mike Gitkos said:

1. Have you tried renaming one of them and then merging? If not, might be worth a try.

2. Where do you have the Featured Content block? If it's in the footer, that could cause it to be persistent across the site.

1: That worked. \o/ (headdesk, I did not think of this myself). Thanks!

2: Yup, in the footer it is. I'll move it somewhere else. Again thank you for the this!

I may be a bit late and the answer might already have been given, but I can’t find it. My question is simple: can moderators create tags, and if so, how? Since they don’t have access to the AdminCP.

57 minutes ago, Yous You said:

I may be a bit late and the answer might already have been given, but I can’t find it. My question is simple: can moderators create tags, and if so, how? Since they don’t have access to the AdminCP.

Give them administrator access and limit their abilities. System > Grant access to System > Content Discovery > Can manage tag settings.

38 minutes ago, My Sharona said:

Give them administrator access and limit their abilities. System > Grant access to System > Content Discovery > Can manage tag settings.

Oh, ok i see. Thank you.

Maybe it would be more practical to put the option in the "Moderator CP"

Sorry, but I can’t find this option: System > Grant access to System > Content Discovery > Can manage tag settings