Morrigan

Use Youtube?

I recently came to the conclusion that we are too dependent on Youtube and other social networks. At some point, I used Youtube so much that I psychologically stopped noticing other sites. And so, I stopped using Youtube, started running my own website, started writing plugins for the game. But beyond that, I learned about many cool, incredibly useful sites and communities.
Stop using Youtube as a source of content, it stops your self-development.

Use Youtube?

Yes, it’s my assessment that this layout is well-thought-out. (The one I commented, which was from Pages)
I work as professional web designer for more than 20 years and I customize these Pages templates all the time—inspecting every little detail, checking the flow of content in many situations and at every CSS breakpoint. 
Of course if you can’t have an open discussion and need to laugh at people just because they say something you don’t agree with, this discussion ends right here. If all you guys can do is judge a web layout in one desktop view, you know very little of web design and have a lot to learn, but with reactions like the one I quoted you are apparently not willing to. I am out. 

I'm really sorry you're taking this so personally @Malwarebytes Forums - the intent wasn't to vilify or offend you and I apologize for coming off snippy. I also apologize for misunderstanding the second component to the feedback - placing the actual post ID number from the database in the post.
I can understand, from your perspective, you're simplifying things for yourself and staff. Fair enough if you're able to remember ID numbers (I'm impressed to be honest.) From our perspective, it's far more end-user friendly (and if end-users aren't happy, none of us succeed) to provide a link (and you can prevent that from embedding if you'd like) to content, so a user can bookmark the content, re-share it for peer-to-peer based purposes (which is often a strong point of support communities), etc. The references to Twitter and the "rest of the web" were simply to illustrate a sense of familiarity to end users. Nothing I'm familiar with outside of legacy forums handles or references public facing content in such a manner - blogs, social media or otherwise.
I certainly did not refer to you (or anyone else) as inconsequential. I was clearly referring to the number itself. I realize now you personally were not talking about arbitrary in-line numbers that are in fact subject to change, but while the number is no longer arbitrary, it's still nonetheless not user-friendly if you have a 30 page topic and are told "see post 390."
I digress and am happy to concede that we simply disagree and that's ok. To address others' point "let us choose" - we'd love to accommodate every request vs an on/off setting, I'm unsure why there's a limited perception that we strip things out just to alienate folks. The reality is, everyone has their own "thing" and unfortunately, accommodating them all leads to a bloated management interface, increased development time via implementation, maintenance, etc. -- a "simple" setting doesn't seem like much on an individualized basis, but cumulatively it adds up, so we have to prioritize and we don't do so based on our own personal preference, but based on the demand of the majority. As I've said, our majority prefer moving forward and thus, software real estate is reserved - so-to-speak - for that purpose. Fortunately, the Marketplace is intended to accommodate things like this and to alleviate concern in that regard, no, we would not reject a resource that put this back. There's no performance overhead or functional backend issues. Mere cosmetic re-introductions are permitted.
As noted in line number 1 of this post (post number TBD after submission) in topic ID 457939 (I kid, I kid! Too soon?) - I do apologize for the seeming hostility. You're right in that we needn't agree on subject, but I don't want you to feel disrespected personally.

Sometimes you want to reply to specific text, you highlight, you quote but you may want to do that multiple times or over multiple pages and at the moment that is basically impossible. It would be nice to be able to multiquote specific text.

I think you should view the out of box experience as a starting point for your own personal preferences. We’ve not even launched yet and already have 12 nested scss includes, covering everything from button placement to injecting section  descriptions (selector:after etc ) when for example, core doesn’t offer the facility to add them in ACP  

We’ve also replaced the native menu system with our own custom implementation resembling the sliding menu in FB groups.
We are now working on cleaning up the native mobile experience. 

With a little perseverance you can create a very tight, functional and dare I say it, class leading experience.  
 
It would be a surprise if anybody who needed Invision’s multi app coverage chose either Discord or XF. They are chalk and cheese. 

So, this plugin existed in 4.4 and I sorely doubt that they will deny it in 4.5. Its a cosmetic change that doesn't affect performance. When they speak of "removed functionality" they are talking about things that are detrimental to the health of a site and thus why it was removed (Re: the topic title of the next unread post at the bottom of a thread:

which was removed due to major performance issues on large communities)
As for the link on time.... that's been a feature since IPS was in version 1.x. Honestly most platforms have the feature to click or copy the link from the time as its been a building block of forums for as long as I can remember for over the past 20 years.
 
IPS isn't depriving you of choice. YOU have the choice to add it yourself. All IPS did was remove the fact that they offer it as default functionality. I personally removed post numbers even in the 2.x days and find softwares that use post number a little archaic and aged. Yes. Even Xenforo is getting a little behind in the UI times.
 
Unfortunately, that's not how time works and using referencial time makes what you're looking for impossible but its cute. If you find the time clutter then remove it. I find the time a good reference for me to know how long ago something was posted. Its my best reference IMHO.
 
Overall, I've seen this come up a few times since it was removed in the 4.x days and its a circular conversation.
"I want it because I think its useful"
People provide "reasons why its not useful"
"BUT I WANT IT BECAUSE I LIKE IT!"
"Okay but its not useful... here are more reasons."
"But I think I deserve to be able to keep it despite your reasons."
"Well then use a plugin. Its not coming back to core."
"BUT I WANT IT because...." return to step one.
 
 
This whole conversation so far has been that and if you go back through it, it really exemplifies what I just put into laymens terms. I understand that you feel its useful for your community but really it would be more "useful" overall if you taught your users how to use the newer more advanced features then asking for the more basic archaic features back.
Education is king in a community environment, don't teach your users that this is a bad thing, teach them that it both helps THEM as its faster and it helps the end user because its easier.
Hell.... teach them how to use quotes. Quotes link to the original post.

So, this plugin existed in 4.4 and I sorely doubt that they will deny it in 4.5. Its a cosmetic change that doesn't affect performance. When they speak of "removed functionality" they are talking about things that are detrimental to the health of a site and thus why it was removed (Re: the topic title of the next unread post at the bottom of a thread:

which was removed due to major performance issues on large communities)
As for the link on time.... that's been a feature since IPS was in version 1.x. Honestly most platforms have the feature to click or copy the link from the time as its been a building block of forums for as long as I can remember for over the past 20 years.
 
IPS isn't depriving you of choice. YOU have the choice to add it yourself. All IPS did was remove the fact that they offer it as default functionality. I personally removed post numbers even in the 2.x days and find softwares that use post number a little archaic and aged. Yes. Even Xenforo is getting a little behind in the UI times.
 
Unfortunately, that's not how time works and using referencial time makes what you're looking for impossible but its cute. If you find the time clutter then remove it. I find the time a good reference for me to know how long ago something was posted. Its my best reference IMHO.
 
Overall, I've seen this come up a few times since it was removed in the 4.x days and its a circular conversation.
"I want it because I think its useful"
People provide "reasons why its not useful"
"BUT I WANT IT BECAUSE I LIKE IT!"
"Okay but its not useful... here are more reasons."
"But I think I deserve to be able to keep it despite your reasons."
"Well then use a plugin. Its not coming back to core."
"BUT I WANT IT because...." return to step one.
 
 
This whole conversation so far has been that and if you go back through it, it really exemplifies what I just put into laymens terms. I understand that you feel its useful for your community but really it would be more "useful" overall if you taught your users how to use the newer more advanced features then asking for the more basic archaic features back.
Education is king in a community environment, don't teach your users that this is a bad thing, teach them that it both helps THEM as its faster and it helps the end user because its easier.
Hell.... teach them how to use quotes. Quotes link to the original post.

as a developer myself, I wouldn't call it a choice or "diversity of needs", but a redundancy. it also creates inconsistency imho. as you would have people offering up the perma links/link embeds, others referring to post number/id. as a long time member of a rather large tech board out there, the guides and threads that use perma links/embeds over referencing a post in a thread by a number, are far more popular and easier to consume than they use to be when the standard fair was to do reference the post number/id. 
also there is another huge advantage that you are denying your community by wading in the waters of days gone by, link juice.
https://moz.com/learn/seo/what-is-link-equity

I'm sorry it's felt that we were dismissive and it's never our intent to insult anyone who are trying to provide us heartfelt feedback. Admittedly, I think our frustration with demands for legacy functionality does bleed through on occasion, for which I apologize. It is taxing at times when you are moving forward, the vast majority of your clients are happy, but there's the occasional desire to pull us backwards and believe me, cluttering up the interface with inconsequential numbers, is by ALL modern web standards - a step backwards.
I know it sometimes feels like we make decisions in a vacuum and without regard to clients, because you are the client that feels passionately about a given issue - it IS an issue to you and we get and expect that. Nonetheless, I sometimes wish some of you had the vantage point of being in our office and on our internal systems in which we gather collective feedback from various avenues, technician notes, sales notes and see the exhaustive vetting that goes into something. You would see that this, for example, was removed because:
1) It's 2020 - post 390 right now, may not be 390 5 minutes from now or may not even be 390 right now to another user.

2) There are legacy forum platforms that have grown to be quite successful in maintaining legacy functions for a niche demographic and that's great for them, but we our goal is not at all to compete with legacy forum platforms. Consider us the FedEx of Communities: Moving Foward. 😉 We are a modern community platform and very respectfully, there isn't anything modern social related that uses arbitrary, visual IDs. I can't imagine you would tell a colleague "Hey Bob, check out tweet 9832441068311 on Tim's twitter feed" - nobody does that, right? 🙂 You send a link to the tweet and save Bob 10 minutes of needing to energize the flux capacitor to find content. Same with Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and other platforms the majority of customers and their end users are going to be familiar with.
3) Because, as noted in #2, it's inconsistent with literally the rest of the Internet, it caused confusion. "How do I remove this?" "Why is this here?" etc. It all prompted the question "why IS this here? it serves no functional purpose beyond familiarity and personally speaking, I would be extremely annoyed if someone sent me an arbitrary ID number for content I'm suppose to find myself when they could literally click the date of the post and send me the link to it.
I realize it used to exist and at one point, it was a good idea. Hand cranking an old Model A was also a good idea too before electric starters. I think we can mostly agree ehhh, maybe we'd rather just jump in and turn a key and/or push a button. Likewise, most agree they don't need an arbitrary number as a visual cue or as directions to a post - that's not how the 2020 Internet works. Simply click, copy and paste the link. Bob thanks you in advance.
@BankFodder I could see how that number could be misleading. I just looked, as I was curious too, but there are folks who have downloaded i 10+ times and it counts each one. This is the number of reporting installations that have ever had the plugin:

The new admin CP, especially with the dark theme looks really good. The whole thing feels "fun" to navigate. Browsing marketplace items looks really good, especially with the dark admin panel theme. Very nice.

The last rule in the list that applies to the member will apply to them. So you put your inactive one after your post count one and it will apply. When they become active the post count one will apply to them again and it will move them back immediately.

There's a lot of misinformation in this topic, or maybe people simply misunderstand the question?
@Pavel Chernitsky: The badges you've marked with a red square in your first post is a feature called "Highlight replies", and you can enable or disable this per group under Groups > [Group] > Content. Enabling this feature for a group will highlight posts made by members of this group with a border defined in your theme, and add a small badge in the upper right corner displaying the name of the group.
The background and border color of the badge is defined by the Highlighted Post Background and Highlighted Post Border colors of your theme. To change the border color added to the post itself, you'll have to edit the theme and overwrite the --ipsComment_highlighted—boxShadow variable.
The author badge is something different, and will be shown regardless of the setting mentioned above.

@LoPoSt The "free space" that you speak of has stuff that shows up in it. The top box that you indicate is where the description goes when/if you have one for the category/section. The place that you want to move the "how many articles in this category" to is where the pagination shows up when you have more than 1 page of items in them.
@Interferon The box you are indicating to is where the description goes (as I noted in the above paragraph). This is something that you can edit in your own theme if you don't intend to put descriptions on your forums.
It may "seem" like dead space but a lot of that dead space is because you don't have content. The specific things you want changed can be done on the theme level for your site specifically.

The last rule in the list that applies to the member will apply to them. So you put your inactive one after your post count one and it will apply. When they become active the post count one will apply to them again and it will move them back immediately.

All seems very unwieldy this messing about with numbers
Would it not be quicker/effective if you as an admin just simply sent them a link to the comment/post, rather than asking an average forum user to scan thru what could be up to say 50 posts, looking for what may be an unconnected number, say 23781896.
What happens when there's more than one page of topics, and how easy would it be finding this number on mobile/tablets.
All a bit unwieldy to me, and so the return of this feature is not really something that I would like to see invision deploy development resources on, maybe better suited for a plug-in request?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I use the neutral reaction for disagree. It gives people the ability to voice their opinion without making the end user feel like the world is ending because someone didn't agree with them.

@breatheheavy Two possible solutions:
1.  One immediate fix is to change the reputation score per each reaction to only positive or neutral.  
For example, if you have a Downvote or Dislike reaction, mark the reputation as Neutral.  This way it won't count against the actual reputation score of each member, even if users go downvoting.  

2.  A longer-term solution, and perhaps more beneficial to the overall health of the community, is to only offer positive sentiment reactions to begin with.   The biggest platforms in the world, from Reddit or Facebook to MeWe to Amino Apps, only offer positive sentiment reactions.

We removed post numbers about 5 years ago and although we get the odd request here and there, it’s not something that is raised very often.

Thank you so much for removing admin session IDs from URIs.
This change brings tears to my eyes.

We have no problem with choices - that's why we have thousands of choices in the AdminCP. But every choice, no matter how small it may seem, has a cost in terms of development time, future maintenance, documentation, UI complexity and so on. And that's not even counting the problems with the feature that we've already outlined, specifically that they aren't the same for all users and therefore cannot be relied upon in the way you want them to be.