Millipede

OK, just got a few more, they are really making me angry at this point. 
Let's say I visit a site regularly and I post a question, someone answers it and I only get half of the response in the email.
Now I'm frustrated and don't even want to visit the site.
I am very happy this is an option and not required.
Replying by email would have been a great addition.

I just got my first truncated email from here.  I agree with what the intent was, to lure me to the site, but it actually made me frustrated.
I won't use that feature.

Truncating is an excellent idea, of course – but I hope that we will be able to choose which groups receive truncated emails.

For busy site team, it is extremely convenient to be able to read the entire content in the email rather than have to go to the particular topic.

I hate the gif thing, I really do. Call me old with my 36 years, I don't care. I am definitely not enabling this on my community and I do hope the gif fest thats been here for the last few days will eventually be subdued. 

#3 I didn't know.
In a perfect IPS world there shouldn't be "secret" tips. They should be known by all. It is really great to have many features but if the users are not aware of them something is wrong with the UI.
There should be an inbuilt interactive help/tipp system that explains all features and functions.
Nevertheless, thanks for this article, I highly appreciate it.

I find animated GIFs are uniformly irritating. Fortunately the wonderful IPS software allows us not to host them. I actually cannot bear to read some of Invision Community's own blog posts/articles because of the animated GIFs included in them.
Simply terrible.
- but hey, if it floats your boat...