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    VIDEO/CAM/CHAT APP for IPS Community

    in Feedback

    Posted

    What would stop anyone from putting Zoom meeting links in posts? I don't see why something like video chat (which needs most if not all of the screen) needs to be embedded. Video chat by nature isn't like a text-based chat room where it is just 'on' waiting for someone to join (because that eats up resources and bandwidth)...

    SVG Favicon Support

    in Feedback

    Posted · Edited by Joy Rex

    I came across this neat article on how to have an SVG favicon that will honour a user's browser/OS light/dark mode using CSS: https://codyhouse.co/nuggets/svg-favicon-dark-mode

    As you can see, modern browser support is pretty good: https://caniuse.com/#feat=link-icon-svg

    I notice that one of the allowed file types for favicons isn't SVG - would that be something we can add in ourselves (it would be better if IPS officially supported it though)?

    Enabling LiveChat.com Javascript

    in General Questions

    Posted

    29 minutes ago, Bryon_S said:

    I'm trying to get a LiveChat widget/popup working on my Invision site.  We have it working on our normal company website, but the java snippet provided by LiveChat doesn't seem to work.

    There documentation says to paste it right before </body> so I tried this in globalTemplate and it does not work.  I tried it also right before </head> as per some suggestions for Java scripts here in the forum.  It just doesn't seem to do anything.  Am I missing something?  Is there something I need to enable?

    The code provided is:

    <!-- Start of LiveChat (www.livechatinc.com) code -->
    <script>
        window.__lc = window.__lc || {};
        window.__lc.license = XXXXXXX;
        ;(function(n,t,c){function i(n){return e._h?e._h.apply(null,n):e._q.push(n)}var e={_q:[],_h:null,_v:"2.0",on:function(){i(["on",c.call(arguments)])},once:function(){i(["once",c.call(arguments)])},off:function(){i(["off",c.call(arguments)])},get:function(){if(!e._h)throw new Error("[LiveChatWidget] You can't use getters before load.");return i(["get",c.call(arguments)])},call:function(){i(["call",c.call(arguments)])},init:function(){var n=t.createElement("script");n.async=!0,n.type="text/javascript",n.src="https://cdn.livechatinc.com/tracking.js",t.head.appendChild(n)}};!n.__lc.asyncInit&&e.init(),n.LiveChatWidget=n.LiveChatWidget||e}(window,document,[].slice))
    </script>
    <noscript><a href="https://www.livechatinc.com/chat-with/XXXXXXX/" rel="nofollow">Chat with us</a>, powered by <a href="https://www.livechatinc.com/?welcome" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">LiveChat</a></noscript>
    <!-- End of LiveChat code -->

    XXXXXX is where our license code goes....I took it out to post here.

    Any help is appreciated.

     

    Is your forum domain registered to use LiveChat?

    Site Title and Logo

    in Feedback

    Posted

    Don't you mean "customize my logo"?

    Have you considered creating a logo that would work on any theme (e.g., a treatment of your logo that generally works against both light and dark themes)?

    The biggest issue with what you're asking is lining up (presumably) HTML text with a graphic - maybe what they should do (or an addon creator) is create an editable area (using the CKEditor) for the logo, and that way people can use the controls in the editor to position their logo graphic (if they have one) and/or text of the site name (possibly as a variable so it changes as the site name changes).

    Embed Apple Music

    in Feedback

    Posted

    That being said, I've wanted a proper Bandcamp and Apple Music embed, and as @Nathan Explosion says, it's due to iFramely charging to do the embed work to get around their lack of oEmbed support.

    I've created a Bandcamp embed button, and it requires my users to paste in the AlbumID from the WordPress code Bandcamp's embed feature offers. They've gotten used to it, and they can't embed single tracks since the button only takes one input parameter, but it's better than nothing.

    I tried an Apple embed button but gave up after a bit - can't recall exactly why though. If I remember, I'll follow up on this.

    Font Awesome 6

    in Feedback

    Posted

    Just now, Meddysong said:

    Yes, I'm sure Matt or Charles dropped a line at the time explaining that it would cost IPS a fortune to license FA5.

    Well, there you go (if that's the case) - perhaps it's time to look to another icon library (Bootstrap's new icon library is starting to look pretty good), or perhaps this is a good opprotunity to branch out for IPS and offer their own icon library as a separate product and integrated with the IPS.

    So... if that is the case, how are some of these skin designers offering FA5 in their skins?

    chat for ips 4.5 app?

    in Feedback

    Posted

    On 5/13/2020 at 6:41 PM, kmk said:

    Thinking in better integration with the new mobile app...

    Unless you are running a plain vanilla IPS install, you are going to be disappointed by the native app - your users are not going to have the same look/feel your forum has, features (if you have anything other than the standard Suite), etc. The only thing you're gaining with the native app will be push notifications, which I understand for some is very important, but depending on the needs of your community, the tradeoffs may not outweigh the benefits.

    If Apple ever decides to allow push notifications from websites, then that benefit becomes even less valuable.

    That being said, the beta of the IPS app is really, really good, and miles better than Tapatalk, so there's that positive aspect.

    How to embed MOV files?

    in Technical Problems

    Posted

    On 5/17/2020 at 8:03 AM, Clover13 said:

    Still the same download links for MOV, as others have stated with the reasoning as to why.  Video is obviously an important element of forum posting nowadays, unfortunately this is a caveat for users and discourages them from posting movies when they don't get the auto-embedding.

    Has anyone figured out how to auto-upload to your site's YouTube channel when a video file is uploaded, then replacing/embedding that YouTube link instead?  Would be nice from a lot of perspectives:  comprehensive video processing, externalized storage (not tanking your host storage or S3, etc).

    The only way that would work is if there was an account on the YouTube Channel that IPS could use as a service account to handle uploads to YouTube through - I don't think YouTube has an API to upload videos to a channel.

    Barring the above, the other concern (non-technical) is if a user uploads something that violates their TOS and creates issues for the YT channel...

    How are you preparing to upgrade to 4.5?

    in Technical Problems

    Posted

    Another thing to do in the interim while waiting for any updates to your addons is review what addons you have any if you still need them, or if 4.5's functionality has replaced it (a good example is an addon I use that truncates nested quoted replies so it isn't as long - that's now built into 4.5 by default. I won't likely need that addon anymore.

    Post Attachments to Gallery - Is It Possible?

    in Technical Problems

    Posted

    I've got a bit of a quandary with my users - I provide them storage space based on their memberships so they can upload content to posts, etc.. Works great, except for when somebody runs out of space - I have to increase the space allowed for their group, or consider enabling the ability to delete their attachments, which will in turn create broken links in content they uploaded.

    Is there any way to move attachments from a user or possibly a thread into a Gallery? That might be a better solution than having broken content on the site - that is if Gallery uploads do not count against a user's attachment limits (if defined).

    Any ideas or solutions I'm not seeing are greatly appreciated.

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