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That's an amazing feature and will be one of my favorites! For sure!

That's an amazing feature and will be one of my favorites! For sure!

Long ago, back in the dark ages, forums used the number of posts a member made and how long ago they joined to demonstrate trust and experience.
Is simply posting a lot and being a member for a long time the best way to know which community members are experts?
And is there a better way?
We think so.
 
 
What makes an expert, and why are they important?
Community experts are the keystones to any thriving community. You probably recognise a handful in your community. They tend to be active regularly, are often the first to try and help others with their questions and help set a positive example within the community.
Wouldn't it be great if newer community members could discover who these super users were a little easier? These members trying to find their feet in a new community could follow trustworthy individuals, absorb the positive tone of the community, and even get help a little quicker.
In the past, forums have shown trust and experience through basic metrics like post count and the years since they joined. However, these metrics only show that the individual has been around a long time and posts a lot. It doesn't show that they are potential role models or helpful and trustworthy.
Community Experts with Invision Community 5
Invision Community 5 identifies these experts through metrics such as the number of solutions they have, the volume of 'helpful' votes on their replies, the speed of answers and more.
Each forum will have its own experts, so if you have a very broad community, someone who is very helpful in a particular area will show as an expert in that area only.
When a member has been picked as an expert, they'll receive an email thanking them, and they can then opt-in to be shown as an expert along with a regular notification or email with any unanswered questions in forums they are experts in.

I'm absolutely killing it in the Test Forum
Every few months, the experts are recalculated to reflect the organic way communities grow and change. After all, there's little point in showing that a non-active member is an expert. It might even encourage new community experts to keep up the great work and remain active longer.

Community experts have a badge shown with their posts, along with the option to follow them. Encouraging new members to follow trusted community members should be a core part of any community strategy.
Settings and control
Of course, not everyone should be labelled as a community expert, and perhaps, in very rare circumstances, an existing community expert could have a bad day and not represent the community well.
Invision Community 5 gives you the ability to set which groups experts can be picked from and offers you the opportunity to block existing experts, ensuring they won't be selected again in the future.

Over to you
All communities have to be purposeful and provide value. That value may be in close friendships, or it may be in getting answers for problems you have. Either way, locating the most helpful members will help develop trust, provide guidance and increase knowledge within your community.
For transactional communities such as support-based communities, experts are vital in providing timely answers and demonstrating credibility and expertise to others.
As always, we'd love to hear your thoughts. Please let us know in the comments.
 

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We will miss you, marketplace 😢

Some language keys are empty on purpose. They're needed because the framework expects them to exist and would throw errors while developing otherwise.
If you find an empty string just ignore it. 🙂

I suggest start digging there. Maybe there are some '.htaccess' glitches which need to be checked again?

Despite I've addressed one in my first post, I'll go over the other possibilities.
Add a phone number as a recovery. Add recovery email address. Add security questions / answers. This is why I said in many situations this method is more involved and requires more time.
You may be correct, however on the majority of forums these days, IPS prohibits inactive clients from starting new threads or leaving comments.

I can help you. Just PM me.

I can upgrade it for you guys to the latest IPS4. Just PM me.

I can upgrade it for you guys to the latest IPS4. Just PM me.

Just FYI...and I can't say for sure that the upgrade mentioned above caused this issue, but the evidence I see points that way. Due to this causing, in my case, thousands of 404 not found links throughout my site (Google recorded 15K and counting, and it was going up daily since 7/21), which is just terrible for SEO and google ranking, I had @DawPi create a plugin that fixes the issue. 
I hope that IPB can look into this to determine if this might have been caused by the update mentioned. Sorry I could not wait for the ticket process, but others with the same issue may find this thread and offer some more support for this possibility. 

It's really easy to understand Jim. 🙂
URL pointing into forums_Topic item type. It's fine, but as it's archived item then  it should look for \IPS\forums\Topic\ArchivedPost here:
$commentClass = $class::$commentClass; Instead of \IPS\forums\Post

Have to remember not everyone is a programmer 😉 .
I have tagged one for assistance. 

It's really easy to understand Jim. 🙂
URL pointing into forums_Topic item type. It's fine, but as it's archived item then  it should look for \IPS\forums\Topic\ArchivedPost here:
$commentClass = $class::$commentClass; Instead of \IPS\forums\Post

Great work!
There's always more one could add, but this is ideal for the average site owner.
I've found a similar device layout switch so useful in my WP builder, it's so convenient to instantly toggle between desktop, tablet and mobile when you're working.
For more advanced themes, I am concerned because Matt hinted that the AdminCP theme editing is gone completely so I'm still worried sick about how I will be able to add custom theme settings in IC5. Have they gone completely or is there still an interface where we can add select lists and image uploads fields?
Example:

 
Down the road it would be nice to see support for:
color opacity (HSLA), gradients, spacing (margin and padding), borders, background header images and positioning, cover, contain etc, background video upload fields (mp4 and webm) overlays CSS blend filters but there is always the custom CSS sheet and I think again with the exception of background header images, they are for the more advanced users. Still, we could perhaps see those added later and this is a great start! I think it's also natural to one day even see some of this eventually make its way into the CMS page-builder!
 

Ok I think I know what probably happened. I must have copied the HTML from an older article into a newer one and deleted the older article. Rookie mistake. Thank you @Jim M!

There is no specific link on how to convert from 3.4 to 4.7 hooks, no. Its an entirely different platform, so it wouldnt be so much 'conversion' as rewriting them entirely

You can use any of mine mods:
https://forum.invisionize.pl/files/file/877-dp45-no-index-topics/ https://forum.invisionize.pl/files/file/897-dp45-disable-indexing/

Several developers have opted in to the Providers designation, which provides a reasonable level of trust within the IPS ecosystem.  You'll recognize many of the same names who have been around for years.  
When you do buy third party mods or themes, one of the easiest things you can do is check that they're a Provider.  
https://www.invisioneer.org/marketplace/

Hello,
https://invisioncommunity.com/buy/self-hosted/

 
I don't need all these applications, how can I buy it with my choosen apps only as it was before?
 

@Adriano Faria  @teraßyte (Tks for checking already) @DawPi

The reason why it crashed I don't know - I think it must be something related to ekforum's board installation, but I've removed particular hook file and recreated it. Works.

OK, I think I've did it. Thanks for everyone.
 
P.s. I'll confirm it later.

Adriano, I know which plugin is causing it but we don't know WHY it doesn't work well on ekforum's board, but works fine on any of mine boards.

In file:
/admin/applications/core/modules_admin/mycp/dashboard.php Find:
$online = $this->DB->buildAndFetch( array( 'select' => 'count(*) as rows', 'from' => 'sessions', 'where' => "running_time > {$time}" ) ); Change to:
$online = $this->DB->buildAndFetch( array( 'select' => 'count(*) as `rows`', 'from' => 'sessions', 'where' => "running_time > {$time}" ) ); Save and upload.