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"Zapier is the first smart community enhancement available for Cloud and Enterprise Community customers exclusively."
Not liking this direction...

AGREE.  I self host because I can tune my server for heavy use loads (as said above, not just user count) and customize our site which is MUCH MORE than just the forums.  Hosting w/ IPB would be impossible for my broader site, of which the forums is an integral part.

"Zapier is the first smart community enhancement available for Cloud and Enterprise Community customers exclusively."
Not liking this direction...

"Zapier is the first smart community enhancement available for Cloud and Enterprise Community customers exclusively."
Not liking this direction...

"Zapier is the first smart community enhancement available for Cloud and Enterprise Community customers exclusively."
Not liking this direction...

"Zapier is the first smart community enhancement available for Cloud and Enterprise Community customers exclusively."
Not liking this direction...

"Zapier is the first smart community enhancement available for Cloud and Enterprise Community customers exclusively."
Not liking this direction...

"Zapier is the first smart community enhancement available for Cloud and Enterprise Community customers exclusively."
Not liking this direction...

"Zapier is the first smart community enhancement available for Cloud and Enterprise Community customers exclusively."
Not liking this direction...

Yeah, I was very enthusiastic about this until I read that self-hosted clients like myself were left twisting in the wind on this. 😞
I, too, am concerned about a possible paradigm shift that would leave self-hosted clients more and more out in the cold.  Not that I distrust the cloud (for the most part), but I lease a VPS and I love having a VPS; I can run Invision, I can create test/developmental sites, I have root access and can experiment with other apps and platforms for resource management and other things.  I wouldn't have it any other way...and, to be quite honest (and no offense), with all of this taken into consideration it's currently cheaper than your services.
Now, I've been with Invision for 10+ years (since 2009) and there's a reason why I'm still here - I love the crew and the platform and have built my business (as well as my academic research) on it.  And while I have no plans to go anywhere, and I also remember Lindy saying somewhere that Invision has no plans to alter their availability to self-hosted customers, things like this do make me antsy.  At a time when I'm still building and soliciting clients, the thought of having to pack up and find somewhere else (even far into the future) almost makes me nauseous (you don't even wanna know the trials and tribulations I went through to finally arrive at a good VPS provider!!).
I understand that things evolve and change, but something as big as this in terms of trigger/action functionality for an Invision CMS?  Well, I don't get how you could simply leave us out and do truly hope that the "beta" release means at some point there will be some integration.  (NOTE: I can search the adminCP on my self-hosted install for "Zapier" and get one hit for [System] Community Enhancements, and when I follow that link there's nothing 🙃).  I'll be opinionated here and say that through my experience I believe that there are some things that simply shouldn't be left to third-party developers.  This is one of them.  So although I despise catchphrases and dogwhistle words with every fibre of my being, I'd love some "inclusivity" here.  There...look what you made me do! 😉

This is a bit of a slap in the face to self hosted clients. Nothing to celebrate here. 👎

This is smart.  We use GSE and track similar metrics to improve our site.  Good call!

This is smart.  We use GSE and track similar metrics to improve our site.  Good call!

What about page speed optimizations.  4.x is SLOW.