Randy Calvert

The supported hardware versions are: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213411 That means it supports iPhone 8 and beyond. Given that the iPhone 8 was released in 2017.... that's 6 years of updates! (Personally if my phone is older than 2 years old, I feel it's way too old! haha)

Woot! Congrats! What's the user experience like if a user's email is triggered? Is it an alert style message? Are they just dropped back into the validating group? Does it actually just change all their preferences to no mail delivery or leave it, but a flag overrides the ability to trigger mail being sent?

IPS uses a 3rd party monitoring company (uptime.com) to monitor its network. It's not run on the IPS infrastructure. If there is ever a situation in which there is a core critical issue, check the status page (https://status.invisioncommunity.com) to get an idea if it's just you or if it's widespread. AWS does not publicly post this type of info, especially as it relates to their customers.

Just tell him....

oooooOOOOOOooooo! I'm excited to see this! (And is that a feature that I see available to non-cloud users too?! What will people start thinking??)

And by the way... my site was down as well from 11:01PM onwards. I'm not exactly happy about the situation either. However I'm going to let IPS work with AWS to determine the root cause of the problem. My plan is to follow up in a few days to learn more because this type of outage warrants the investigation. Like anything online, things can and do break. The question is what you learn about each instance and how you improve from it going forward. A true root cause analysis not just looks at what went wrong and why, but also looks at what can be done to prevent it from occurring again. And I think these guys know that and will work through that process.

In looking back over a wider period of time, you'll see that the incident this morning is the exception and not the rule.

I do love me some WebP. 😄

The monthly price is the monthly price, but they do have a one-time credit that is available if after you move to the cloud that you give up your self-hosted license.

@Andy Millne one thing to consider later... Let us control the UI a little bit more similar to how the next release offers some customization in Gallery. For example: Ability to disable Main Questions. (Just have chat only and hide that part of the UI.) The idea here is there can be events such as viewing parties or addresses where questions are not taken live, but instead is a chance to gather members to talk about an issue. For example, watching Apple keynotes. Ability to flip flop the Main Question/Chat areas. (Users tend to look left to right. Put the chat right in front of them and let them look to the side for questions!) Ability to make the video full width (or nothing to the side of the video) I'm really excited by what this has the potential to be as it develops further! Ya'll have done some great work with figuring out some complex stuff on the backend to pull all of these complex things together!

Last week, I migrated my community from using SES to using CiC for outbound email. So far, it's been a pretty smooth transition. The only thing I "miss" and wish would be available is email tracking. There are times someone says we did not get an email from us and I will go pull the logs to show that the email was not only delivered, but also opened by them. Overall though, this is one last thing I need to worry about going forward so I'm thrilled with the simplification.

Yes. As the event progresses, it just feels like a live chat room. (There is the chat side and the “questions” side.) People can come and go as they want. Once it’s done, it automatically makes the forum topic and converts all the chat messages into replies in that topic.

Not to be rude, but yes... that's kind of the point. Business do that. They introduce new features to get you to use their stuff. 😉 ESPECIALLY the services that have higher margin and lower support costs.

I'm sorry, but that is incorrect. 85% of features released have been for everyone. The features that are actually "cloud only" are that way because it requires stuff that does not typically exist in a regular web hosting environment. @Matt explains this pretty well in the following topic:

No. It's cloud only feature.

Check out the following... it looks to be IPS's direction for APIs. This is something they've noted they'll be heavily investing in as we go forward as a way to reduce the amount of 3rd party apps breaking with new IPB releases and PHP version changes, etc.

The first mention that I saw of it was Feb 23rd. Though the deprication discussion is the first talk I've seen of actual timelines. 🙂

It’s always easy to overlook the non-flashy things, but good backups are critically important. It’s like electricity for your house… you don’t realize you need it until you don’t have it!

Awesome! Thanks!

@Charles... where do you plan to have this management done? Is this going to be in the Client Area or from within the ACP?

I saw the slowdown earlier on my site. (In fact, I had a moderator ping me asking if I was busy breaking anything.) It looks to be back now and the site certainly does feel snappier. I don't have anything I can use to show imperial data to show logged in user data (I have before/after from WebPageTest.org, but I don't have it logged in). But as I'm navigating around... it feels more responsive!

Out of curiosity, what are you actually using for that caching layer? Anything that decreases latency, especially for logged in members is welcome and appreciated! Those are the sorts of improvements that being long term value in CiC!

Personally I’ve standardized on IPS for managing accounts. I’m trying not to deal with extra signin options or integrating with yet something else that can change or break over time. If I can bring enough value to my content, people will sign up. I don’t need to integrate something else. Regarding themes… there are enough providers out there today I can engage with for a quality product. I would also love a private forum that provided early previews, roadmap type discussions, etc. Basically I’m looking for IPS to fill the things I can’t already get elsewhere.

What I PERSONALLY have in place is use my own SMTP provider. I chose to use AWS SES. Since IPB is using the AWS platform, it qualifies for their free tier, which is 62K outbound emails per month. (Additional emails are $0.10 per 1K email). My site sends about 15K emails per month, so I have no problem staying within the free tier. This has allowed me to have outbound sent from my own domain entirely. BUT... this means that IPB won't be able to handle bounces etc. It means I have to manage getting out of the SES sandbox, reputation, etc. (I was doing this before I moved my site to being cloud hosted. Once I moved to cloud, I just kept my existing already setup mail setup.)