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I just noticed in version 5 (noticed first in 5.0.3, but still in 5.0.5) that you can use any photo in the gallery section and make it your profile photo, even though it’s not your photo. Is that by design or a bug?

I would never be able to verify on my phone! I tried 3 times and died every time 😂 Hey! Hey! Hey! No game playing for you! There’s bugs to squash and another beta waiting to be released! 😂

Well I would like to put in a request for there be an option to use the View Categories as the default instead of the Overview with the Carousel because, like with my site, the Gallery area is strictly images, so being able to display all of the different categories at one time is important.

It looks horrible with it cutting off part of the category images when they could be wrapped to the next line.

Is there a way to set the default gallery layout to View Categories instead of Overview? The above layout looks much better than

I could certainly see uses for having sidebars on each side, so hopefully yall will take it into consideration

Maybe slightly reduce the size of the follower profile photos and that should prevent followers from wrapping the s to the next line?

I would like to add an body background image for my site. What do I need to add for the CSS? I know for the header it is .ipsHeader__primary { background-image: url(https://www.mysitename.com/images/header.jpg); width: 100%; height: 100px; background-position: center top; background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat; } Also, I would like to suggest maybe making it a little easier for people to be able to do so rather than having to add custom CSS

Thanks to both of you. For some reason when I was trying, the choices were not showing, but when I went back they did appear. As far as expansion, basically allowing everything for everything. I know that doesn't make much sense, but for one, there needs to be more options to choose from, and then be able to use secondary options from different areas. For example, under an old awards system, I used to have an award called "Stalker" where it would be automatically be awarded to someone who had been a member for 7 days, but had never posted anything. They didn't have to sign in to be awarded. Currently I can't create this because for one, a trigger is a sign-in instead of days registered, and secondly it would require triggers from the post count as well, and you can't do that either. Another idea might be one called "Camera Shy", where the person has been a member for X number of days, and they have never posted a photo in the gallery section. Or say you want to award someone who has posted X number of times in both the forums and the gallery sections, but right now it is based on the total post count. These are just some simple ideas. Ideally it could be something like what @Kevin Carwile used to have, which was amazingly powerful, even though I know what he had made went far beyond badges, but maybe it could create a post when there is a trigger, such as when ever someone registers, it will create a new welcome post for them in the Introductions, or a congratulations post when someone reaches a certain milestone, such as 1000th or 10,000th post.

Thank you! I would have never figured that out!

Correct me if I am wrong, but in v4, doesn't the gallery images widget shows images in a horizontal format if you place it in the same column as your forum (and makes it a carousel if you have more images included than can be displayed)? When I try in v5, if I put them over the forums, like I recall being able to do in v4, they show up vertically and are massive in size. They look ok in the sidebar, as they are so MUCH smaller and it fits the narrow format, but it looks horrible in the forums column! Also, why the change in how the Topic Feed displays in v5 vs how it did in v4? Rather than just the topic title, like in v4, it also includes a snippet of the post, which causes it to take up way too much space on the sidebar.

First off... Are photos uploaded in the gallery supposed to count as a content item posted, as far as achievement rules, or do these only apply to items posted in the forums? Secondly, are the Achievement Rules going to be expanded? They have so much potential with gamifying the site, and increasing participation, but right now it is so limited on what types of things you can do/

I'm going to post this here, because I had posted it under the Blog about tags in v5, but it hasn't been approved or responded to in a few days, and tags are probably going to be an important part of a new site I just put online. So, I am a little late to the tags game, but I am starting a new community for my wife, and I believe tags will be an important part of helping people find the information they need quickly. I am starting the site with v5, and since I never used tags on a v4 site, I'm not sure how they were implemented. With her site, there is the potential for there to be a large number of tags, but many are specific to certain categories. I am not seeing it currently, but will there be a way to be more granular with them and make it so some tag will only be available for certain topics, rather than universal tags? For example, if you have two categories: Dogs and Cats, and the tags: Chihuahua, Bulldog, German Shepard, Siamese, British Shorthair, and Ragdoll, obviously the tags related to Cats do not need to be available for the Dogs forums, galleries, etc. Otherwise, the more off topic options you give users, the bigger chance there is for them to mess up using them, and in the long run, make it harder for the other users to quickly or accurately find what they are looking for. The only other option would put the responsibility on admins and moderators to go back and properly tag posts, and on a busy site, that could be a lot of work!

Thanks! Totally would not have looked there!

I might be missing it (or even the option to enable it), but isn't the new editor have to have the spoiler option?