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Google supports this along with Android and iOS on mobile. 
 
https://www.google.com/account/about/passkeys

I have hidden that guide, as that is out of date

Google Cloud can provide this as a service (amongst other services likely):
https://cloud.google.com/document-ai/docs/workbench/build-summarizer-processor
 
AWS perhaps as well:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/use-a-generative-ai-foundation-model-for-summarization-and-question-answering-using-your-own-data/

The Google CMP looks decent, example from the CMP builder tool:

 

There are definite "best times" to send mass mail [ref 1, ref 2, etc.] but it's never convenient to have to be online each week at these times to "hit send".  This seems obvious -- but can we have a "scheduling" option for mass mail?  

Hi, the geolocation block is only at a country level (really broad block).  Can we narrow that down at all?  For countries like India (with lots of spam attacks) this would block a few Billion legitimate people.

Hi, the geolocation block is only at a country level (really broad block).  Can we narrow that down at all?  For countries like India (with lots of spam attacks) this would block a few Billion legitimate people.

One thing that jumps out is that your choice of music hasn't improved with the new version. 

Hi IPS,
I know you explained inability of efficient implementation of such for self-hosted solutions, however, would you be able to add ability to manually mark accounts to do not send emails to? It would help bounce back in case of using bulk-email send. For now I manually review our inbox and do the same with some workaround to prevent massive bound-backs when sending bulk emails. Having ability to mark accounts with some DB stored flag would help a lot, as I could automate the process without use of custom plugins etc. I think many others could find the ability useful too. Thanks

Google offers a free CMP for AdManager users.  I haven't tried it (yet) but probably will because this is now a requirement and Google's option is free.
https://adtagmacros.com/google-ad-managergams-new-cmp-requirement-ensuring-gdpr-compliance-and-implementing-consent-management/

Hi Olivia, any chance we can get a small push for spam prevention in the current version?  80% of signups for us are spam...  😞

This is one of the major reasons we are having to migrate away from invision community after using them since the early 2000's.
We will not be renewing any licences for the foreseeable future.
The new plugin developer restrictions and rules are stopping developers offering new products like in the past.
The steep increase in renewal costs and lack of new apps and plugins are to name another two reasons.
This section used to be buzzing but it's like a graveyard now - Highest Rated Submitters
That in itself should tell a story.
Maybe one day if things could return to the good old days, we will return and renew a licence or two plus all of the plugins and app licences.
Hopefully invision community will have it's Ouroboros moment and have a rebirth, as it has been our number one choice for a CMS as said, since the early 2000s.

First, all the credit to this site (Wordpress folks... no surprise!): 
Here is the fix to save 0.7s due to render blocking (and it is a big one for anyone using a google font which I think is the default.  This should probably just be a permanent update by IPB 🙂 IMO.  It's so minor (and the linked page goes into the details).
In the includeCSS template.  Change this:
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family={expression="\IPS\Http\Url::encodeComponent( \IPS\Http\Url::COMPONENT_FRAGMENT, \IPS\Theme::i()->settings['body_font'] )"}:wght@300;400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet"> to this:
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family={expression="\IPS\Http\Url::encodeComponent( \IPS\Http\Url::COMPONENT_FRAGMENT, \IPS\Theme::i()->settings['body_font'] )"}:wght@300;400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet" media="print" onload="this.media='all'"> This is the specific difference which is quite minor: media="print" onload="this.media='all'"
This was before:

And after it's totally gone :).  The improvement is significant... with before:

and after (0.7s faster!):

I tried this other fix but it was a bit hacky, requiring inlining the Google font css (the issue).  It does work as well... just less elegant as above.
Note: I have ton's of other things that slow my site down (ads / header bidding, etc...) but the relative improvement is awesome!  This is not just faking Google Pagespeed ratings...  this is a legit 0.7s reduced pageload time for the first page view.
Thanks... hope this helps others. @Matt and team IPB.  You are welcome to use (hopefully) or not :P.  I linked to all references on the "why's" of the technical implementation.

I have that option for years through a third-party solution. Get ready to be insulted. 😉 People who leave a community in anger (e.g. after moderator actions) will love the opportunity vent their anger one last time, blaming and insulting you. I can’t remember a single time a text-based option to give reasons to delete an account was actually useful. If anything, I would suggest a checkbox list with admin-defined options. 

I think a good improvement here would be for the flag as spammer action to clear profile fields, member photo and custom field data as well.  If not their profile will remain as a spam billboard (see above).  
Maybe another complementary option would be to simply have spammed flagged profile not be visible publicly (even the user name is often SEO crafted).

Adding to this.  Banned members for us include spammers which may have left nasty images and such in their profile fields (visible on their profile) without having posted anything on the site.  I’m sure other admins have had this (SEO member names with random profile spam).  Flagging them does not remove this content.  We prefer to clean up those banned members which include lots of spammers for us.  

Just like the prior poster. We’ve been with IPB for 20+ years and tens of millions of posts. Hopefully we have something to add. Right now around 50% of signups are SEO profile spam accounts that never post.  It’s silly and I refuse to fully lock down members their first day or two and drive new folks away with a bad experience.  Credit to our mods who review new accounts daily for this. 

I think a good improvement here would be for the flag as spammer action to clear profile fields, member photo and custom field data as well.  If not their profile will remain as a spam billboard (see above).  
Maybe another complementary option would be to simply have spammed flagged profile not be visible publicly (even the user name is often SEO crafted).

Adding to this.  Banned members for us include spammers which may have left nasty images and such in their profile fields (visible on their profile) without having posted anything on the site.  I’m sure other admins have had this (SEO member names with random profile spam).  Flagging them does not remove this content.  We prefer to clean up those banned members which include lots of spammers for us.  

Just like the prior poster. We’ve been with IPB for 20+ years and tens of millions of posts. Hopefully we have something to add. Right now around 50% of signups are SEO profile spam accounts that never post.  It’s silly and I refuse to fully lock down members their first day or two and drive new folks away with a bad experience.  Credit to our mods who review new accounts daily for this. 

Great, thank you!

The most realistic date at this point is Monday 7th November. We'll be doing betas all this week which are already stable so you can considering upgrading to any of the beta releases to give yourself a window of a week to get it together.

The Invision Community release train. Choo-choo!

Make sure the privacy policy has a description of how users can request deletion of their private data. That is required by Facebook.

If a member hadn't logged in, in a long while, send them an email to alert them.  Just in case. 

If a member hadn't logged in, in a long while, send them an email to alert them.  Just in case. 

Feature suggestion?
This would help ensure delivery of the most important emails.  And cost less than forcing ALL emails including status updates and post alerts  to go though a formal service.