Randy Calvert

Given there has not even been a closed preview or open preview and that we are a third of the way through March… I would be highly surprised if there will be something available in download form this month.

I can’t wait for the new bumpin’ music track!

I'm still playing with this, but what I'm expecting to happen would be that the permissions would be honored from the database. If the user has the ability to add records to the database... it would work. Will try to play around later this weekend to confirm.

If they waited till they had everything fully ready, you would not have anything until super close to completion. They’re sharing info as they can… but like anything you don’t want to promise something you can’t deliver. If they THOUGHT they could do a super cool new thing and shared it but it turned out it could not made to be worked fully well, people would blame IPS for the next 20 years about it. (Yes, it really has happened.) They talk about features once they are comfortable that they’re going to actually happen and that they can deliver on them as promised instead of promising vaporware.

They have said they hope to have a sneak peak by end of the year so they still have a month. You might need to wait a little longer.🙂

Users don’t create courses. Admins (from the ACP) do. Users take the courses based on what permissions they have. There is no pre-created courses. You define them yourself and it’s content in the ACP. Take look at:

All IPS releases include multiple types of security scans before release. In addition their corporate customers also run their own various scans as well. Anytime an issue is identified, a fix is generally pretty quickly released. New updates also flag if the fix contains security fixes or if they are just general bug fixes. IPS does a pretty good job in its approach to security. Like any company, there is always room for improvement but they do a good job overall.

This is hot hot hot! I assume there will be a process to save and import/export themes still?

You might want to re-read earlier in this thread... as per Marc earlier: Given that IPS never did vulnerability scanning, you are not actually losing anything on that front other than the perception that it was being done when it was not. 🙂

On the topic of mobile, are there plans to help promote the PWA? For example notifying the user the option exists and promote installing it?

How about something like this to stay safe? If I need something formal, can I get away with the following?

I’m showing my age, but I remember 2.0 and 3.0! You dang kids get off my lawn! (I still remember thinking how IPB 1.0 looked so much nicer than Ikonboard 3.X!)

The feed view looks amazing! One thing to consider might be allowing us to use multiple views concurrently. For example say feed view for specific forums and then table for the rest. The idea is that this might allow us to highlight and give more “real estate” to a few specific forums and highlight the content inside while others could be in a more “compact” view.

I found the super secret server hosting the site! Invision.local! That’s what you get for not blaring out that localhost address! All the secrets exposed!

Out of curiosity, how is a rewrite specifically benefitting you outside of what Matt noted?

It’s already live if you buy a new license. https://invisioncommunity.com/buy/self-hosted/ If you have an existing self hosted license you can change to the new license price/terms from inside the client area.

If they're not longer responsive, the same thing that would happen even if the marketplace remained open... you could continue using the application as long as it works. But given there are no new updates or support... it would mean if you run into problems later you would be on your own in terms of figuring out what the problem is. IPS does not own the plugins/applications. It's not for them to give to someone else. That would be like me giving your website to someone else. It's not my right to do that. 🙂

The problem is that when you get beyond the country level, the accuracy of identifying where users are coming from literally craters. I work for a large CDN that bases its business on knowing where users are coming from and I can tell you it’s HARD. The databases (especially free ones) out there are essentially trash and useless.

No. Moving to v5 will require accepting the new license terms. If you want to accept those terms early, you can gain access to the new pricing structure immediately including having access to all of the applications. Those that do not want the new terms can stay on v4.

Remember this is happening outside of the IPB software itself. That check is being done by the WAF. It’s not aware of your theme settings etc. it’s not “themeable”.

They also have the size/scale AND the budget for it in terms of people and money. 🙂 Thats like saying a little league baseball team should be able to do something simply because a professional league baseball team can. I can see why and agree that it makes sense to pull IPS out of the transaction. What would be nice is if there was a better aggregated resource discovery tool. Nothing that handled the sale… just discovery.

She’s just exercising understatements to under promise and over deliver. 😁

That policy has existed a LOOOOOONG time. In fact, it looks to have been in the very first marketplace guidelines released back in 2020. The Wayback Machine has it in the cache on August 6th and the first blog talking about Marketplace coming soon was on June 12, 2020. https://invisioncommunity.com/developers/submission-guidelines/

Happy Independence Day to the IPS team! I hope you have a great holiday break!