Randy Calvert

IPB at one point was developing a native app. But that project was stopped in factor of focusing on the PWA/mobile web version.

Where has the year gone?! Here’s to a productive 2023!!

Damn you kids with your rock and/or roll!

It's exciting to see the improvements coming to Gallery... I love the idea of being able to do more with video. One thing I'd be curious to see is if there are any plans to also look at image optimization for JPG, GIF, etc.

It's funny... I used to work at a radio station for a number of years. I can talk to millions of people and not blink. But I'm VERY sub conscience about being seen on video (especially television)!

Does that mean you're coming back? You miss being a part of the action and need to be in the thick of things again?!

So.... does that mean we're about to see Jordan like this:

Best of luck Jordan! Thank you for being an advocate for everyone here and for being a ball of sunshine in general. You better not be a stranger!

Sucker…. Err I mean hello there and welcome!! 😄

I reported the event... but this also seems like a bug where an event can be set to end before the start date/time.

Yes. This basically reworks the existing calendar app. When you create the event, you choose if it is in-person or virtual. You can also make an event an all-day event without providing a link to a streaming event. IPS is doing this on this site with the days their offices are closed for holidays for example. 🙂

Normally yes... its not enabled specifically on this community. My guess simply because it was never really used here before.

Sounds like sales management material... you close the biggest deal of the year and the manager is like "what's your pipeline look like for next week?"

/me whistles innocently It wasn't me! I swear! (But clients can't comment on events here! So I can't show any appreciation there.)

And most likely for whomever is going to be helping in November with a CiC migration. It should reduce the database size by 400-800MB.

Praise be! My community has almost a million private messages from over 20 years. One thing that would be handy to have is the ability to remove PMs from those who have not been active in XX time.

The bigger part of GDPR compliance is that instead of trying to interpret a law yourself, it is important to have someone with a legal background and trained on laws applicable to your location and field (sometimes referred to as a lawyer) help you understand what is actually required and needed based not just the writing of the law but any other relevant cases referencing it. While many choose to not do so because of costs, the risk as @Davyc says can be quite substantial.

I'm actually using @Ehren's "Uniform" theme. It fit VERY well with our logo without a lot of heavy customization. I did end up tweeting the button colors a bit to reduce some of the grey (some users thought the grey meant the button was disabled), but nowhere near what I would normally need to do to integrate a theme.

Here I was picturing it something like: 🥰 😇

Just to be VERY clear... IPS has said multiple times that there are literally ZERO plans to remove self hosting options at this time. Any other comment to the contrary is 100% pure speculation by individuals outside of IPS who are not subject to those decisions and are not qualified to say that the self hosted option is disappearing. There is nothing to "begin" as it's not going away. 🙂

I agree it's better to lead than follow. And that's what I think IPS is doing. Rather than simply trying to stay a software company that makes a web-based application, they're reinventing themselves to be a company that enables communities... both as a turnkey solution and as a self-hosted service. I disagree with your statement that it's better to sell more products at a cheaper price. Sometimes it's better to focus on quality than quantity. If you have a premium product, you can get a premium price for it. Apple is a great example of this... it makes more from its hardware AND its services than others that just churn out cheap devices. If a company simply focuses on being cheap, it becomes an effort to simply cut corners and not necessarily do the "cool" thing or work on other things simply because it's not going to drive new revenue. That's a rather presumptuous statement that self-hosted customers should not be made to feel disappointed. That literally queues a thousand Karen videos about people who felt disappointed for things they should not. Instead I would make the argument that companies should try to do right by their customers... ALL of their customers. Sometimes it's not possible to give everyone what they want... especially at the price they want. (Heck, I want a Tesla Model X Plaid and I want to pay only 60K for it.... since I have a Model 3, they should give it to me cheaper right?!) But the question becomes then what's right? IPS has already said that the self hosted model will continue and that there are no plans to end it. Customers are not being forced to move to cloud hosted plans. They've even changed the "upgrade" to cloud button to change the text and make it dismissible. (Again, I never had a problem with it since end-users never saw it and it's not in the way.) They listened to those who felt it was a horrible slight and changed it. In addition there are new features in the works that will apply to all licenses as well. Just because a few features are only available to cloud instances (because they require advanced features and do not work in all standard LAMP stack environments) does not mean the company is trying to screw over self hosted customers. IPS is trying to do right by its customers and listens to feedback. Just because they can't do everything that every customer asks does not mean they don't care. And could it mean that a customer gets disappointed as a result? Absolutely... and that would be fair for them to feel that way. But at the same time, IPS can still do right by their customers by listening to that feedback and where it makes sense implementing it.