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    RevengeFNF reacted to Stuart Silvester in Emoji error - don't work   
    This has been fixed in 4.7.6, StackPath is apparently not continuing the free CDN for OSS projects (such as Twitter Emoji). We've switched it over to a different CDN (JSDelivr).
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    RevengeFNF reacted to A Zayed in External Links Rich Embed [Support Topic]   
    EpicGames doesn't allow remote requests, always getting httpResponseCode 403 when performing the request.
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    RevengeFNF got a reaction from AlexJ in CKEditor 4 end of life - alternative editor consideration   
    I wouldn't be so sure of that. They say the support will last until 2023, meaning it can end at the end of 2022.
    Ckeditor 4 was released at the end of 2012, with a 10 year long term support. Unless they want to support more, 10 years ends at the end of this current year.
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    RevengeFNF reacted to Randy Calvert in Change from username login to email login ?   
    ACP > System > Settings > Login & Registration
    Choose "edit" for your login method.  
     
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    RevengeFNF reacted to Mark H in Change from username login to email login ?   
    I split your inquiry from another topic to create its own, as that will benefit more people who may have the same question.
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    RevengeFNF reacted to Jordan Miller in Hump Day: saying farewell to Invision Community OG, Rikki   
    Happy Hump Day, team! Sort of. 😔 
    One of Invision Community's founding fathers, @Rikki, is amicably moving on from Invision Community to pursue another exciting opportunity. This is his last week with us. He has a few parting words to share with you:
     

    Rikki has been an instrumental player in Invision Community's success; we're bummed to see him go, but at the same time excited for him to spread his wings. 
    Please leave some well wishes for Rikki in the comments! 
    ---
    Speaking of the team, @Matt Finger wrote a new dev blog post touching on the PHP8 Compatibility Scanner, our Pre-Upgrade Resource Checker and a full change log for our upcoming September release:
     
     
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    And last but not least, 4.7.2 Beta 1 is officially out. Check out the release notes here.
    See you in the replies. 🙏 
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    RevengeFNF reacted to Jim M in Not possible to dismiss an Alert in Mobile   
    Excellent. Thank you. I have moved this to a ticket so please watch your email for further correspondence.
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    RevengeFNF reacted to Adlago in CSS question...or disappointment   
    95% of your base CSS is not used effectively - and every online test shows it. Especially when a site uses external ads.
    Also, there are enough ways to combine effectively used css into one css - and notice, without changing the structure of your development - just a small change in loading. Etc.
    Any such change, even a small one, involves direct css editing... And a lot of testing and analysis... But it's worth the effort... This can't be done in designer mode, only in direct editing... It's individual for each site, each site uses different resources and requires different tweaks to improve... Etc.
    With these restrictions you are now "scoring an own goal"...
    PS. See your site

    All this slows down the loading of the site, especially on mobile. With direct editing CSS and ...one more thing, a solution to this delay is found...
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    RevengeFNF got a reaction from SUBRTX in Hump Day: 4.6.9 Beta 1 is out! 🎉   
    PHP 8.1 was also released today. Anyone tried it to check if everything works fine?
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    RevengeFNF reacted to Afrodude in Hump Day: 4.6.9 Beta 1 is out! 🎉   
    I did test it and it was not fine at all. Anyone create a new topic; the topic will be posted as duplicated in the same topic, and you won't be able to remove the duplicated one because it doesn't show as a reply. Also, some templates errors from third-party apps. 
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    RevengeFNF got a reaction from Afrodude in Hump Day: 4.6.9 Beta 1 is out! 🎉   
    They released the GA version on Github yesterday, and today it releases on the normal channels.

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    RevengeFNF got a reaction from AlexWebsites in Hump Day: 4.6.6 is live!   
    Probably some bug that was making some sites slower, that was fixed?
    On my end, performance seems the same.
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    RevengeFNF got a reaction from sobrenome in Mariadb - which version to use   
    Im using MariaDB 10.6 without any issues.
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    RevengeFNF got a reaction from SUBRTX in Way to Disable Upgrade Banner?   
    Probably its possible to do it with a theme edit, i hope so.
    I took some time to update from 4.5 to 4.6, because some of my plugins were not compatible, and it's really annoying to receive the same notification every single day, and every admin of the forum receives it.
    Im not sure the reason behind that. Once we receive the notification one time, we know there is an update. We don't need to receive that notification every single day till we are ready to do the upgrade.
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    RevengeFNF got a reaction from AlexJ in Hump Day: A Refresh Has Arrived!   
    I don't have any kind of monetization on my forum, so it survives with donations from my users.
    I already told them that the price increased, and the overall reaction from them was: "It's possible to migrate to another forum software?"
    Just to let you guys know that many people will have this kind of reaction, because we are talking about an increase of 60% just in the forums app.
    I don't want to tell names, but your biggest competitor costs 55$ for the forum app, which is now a lot less than the 80$ from IPS.
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    RevengeFNF got a reaction from Ibai in Way to Disable Upgrade Banner?   
    It would be better to show 1 time per week or even with more days between, it's not necessary to show every single day.
    But there are other options, a simple notification and not a banner, it would work the same in regards of warning the Admin and not be so intrusive.
    At the end, it's our community that is at risk if there is a security update, so if we decide to not update that day, it's our responsibility and there is no need for us to be constantly reminded of that.
    I only updated to 4.6 on 14 of August, because only by that time a plugin to embed Streamable was updated (i even asked IPS if they could add it natively, without response), so between 25 of June and 14 of August, there was no need to show the banner constantly for 50 days, i knew there was a security update.
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    RevengeFNF got a reaction from AtariAge in Way to Disable Upgrade Banner?   
    Probably its possible to do it with a theme edit, i hope so.
    I took some time to update from 4.5 to 4.6, because some of my plugins were not compatible, and it's really annoying to receive the same notification every single day, and every admin of the forum receives it.
    Im not sure the reason behind that. Once we receive the notification one time, we know there is an update. We don't need to receive that notification every single day till we are ready to do the upgrade.
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    RevengeFNF got a reaction from sobrenome in Hump Day: A Refresh Has Arrived!   
    Ok Matt, i think i understand what you explained, but i will need to test it first to give feedback. Fortunately, i don't have any issues right now, so i don't have the need to test. 
    I still don't feel comfortable enough to share all the issues i might have with my implementation with the public. 
    Imagine i create this ticket:

    "If someone goes to this link on my site, it will break my webserver until i restart it"

    Im basically telling everyone how to ddos my site.
    This is my main issue. I understand Invision have not raised the prices for more than a decade, but the reason behind that it's because your competition did not also raised their prices.
    In my point of view, Invision needs to be on the same market level of prices as their competitors. You can argue with me that Invision is much better, but we know in reality that at the end, the diferences are very small.
    Good decision 👍
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    RevengeFNF got a reaction from sobrenome in Hump Day: A Refresh Has Arrived!   
    Matt, but if im not mistaken, the reason for the community support was not because of money, but to create "a living knowledge base to search for answers before even needing to ask."
    In this case, it would be better for the cloud customers to also post their problems in the Community Support instead of going directly to a ticket.
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    RevengeFNF got a reaction from sobrenome in Hump Day: A Refresh Has Arrived!   
    Like i told yesterday, i have a small community without any kind of monitization. The site survives only with donations from the users.
    So, i needed to told them the prices increased, because that will required more donations.
    Basically after too much discussion, we reached 2 solutions. 
    Move to a different bulletin software that is cheaper or even free Continue with IPS, but only get 1 year of updates and then 2 years without updates and so on. Basically paying the license once every 3 years Im inclined for this last one.
    Now the wierd part. I have 1 active license and 1 inactive license. Till now i could just go to the inactive license and just pay the price to renew it and it was good.
    Now if i go there, it won't let me renew it, and it will ask for support. I don't know why, but i have a feeling that we won't be able to pay only the renew price for an inactive license, but we will need to pay more, like the price of a new license or something like that.
    Well, if that happens, it's the end of IPS for me.

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    RevengeFNF got a reaction from sobrenome in Hump Day: A Refresh Has Arrived!   
    What is the diference between the current support system, with the new community support system and the new Premium support system?
    Is the new Premium support system the same thing as the current support system?
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    RevengeFNF got a reaction from sobrenome in Hump Day: A Refresh Has Arrived!   
    I didn't even noticed this one in the email.
    So, for us to have the normal ticket system back, we just need to pay even more. Ok...
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    RevengeFNF got a reaction from sobrenome in Hump Day: A Refresh Has Arrived!   
    Till now i was paying 25$ per 6 months. With that i would pay more for only half the time.
    Perfect... 
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    RevengeFNF reacted to Daddy in Hump Day: A Refresh Has Arrived!   
    Sorry, but I find that very hard to believe. Then again, most of what has been said by IPS staff in this thread is pretty unrealistic. Moral of the story is, this is a tactical push to evolve completely into a SaaS service. Might even save you some time and money just to refund all of the self license purchases and get rid of it entirely.
    I'm pretty disappointed you haven't realized this was a huge mistake, and haven't taken steps to accommodate anyone you've blatantly hurt by these, I'll say it, malicious changes.
    It's clear this was not a "communication" issue, rather a stunt to prevent anyone from renewing prior to the price hike. It's also clear the changes to self hosting prices had nothing to do with betterment of the software, rather an excuse to push people to cloud hosting. It's also clear the reason for yearly renewals was to prevent customers from selectively renewing only when they actually need to. Not because "it would confuse customers."
    Yeah, confuse customers with the same model you've had for the past 10 years... We aren't that gullible. I'll stick around, but I'm not going to renew until there's drastic changes, and I'll avoid using the marketplace from now on and work directly with 3rd party developers to make sure they're being taken care of.
    I can't express enough how disappointed I am.
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    RevengeFNF reacted to Randy Calvert in Hump Day: A Refresh Has Arrived!   
    Wow...  spent the last hour or so reading through the 16 page thread so that I would not just post the same thing that has been said a million times already and hopefully bring some constructive feedback.
    Communication
    Using terms such as "modest" when describing an increase of 48% (if someone licensed all applications) and anywhere from 36-60% on a per product basis struck me in a bad way.  Statements like "It's not bad news" also did not sit well.  In fact, reading the entire message there was nothing at all that came across as "positive".  If you're going to break a bunch of bad news, it might help to drop in some "good" tidbit of something to look forward to.  Bring both the carrot AND the stick.   I understand costs are higher and this is a quality service.  I love the product and I have supported the company for literally decades.  (I've actually met and spent nearly a week with Matt/Charles/Lindy several years back when I was considering working for IPS.)  However instead of simply noting the price change is effective immediately, I would have suggested having it take place after the following renewal.  Whenever your NEXT immediate renewal is, it would renew at the existing rate, however on the SUBSEQUENT renewal, the new price would take effect.  This gives people time to adjust and prepare.  At the end of the day, it won't break the bank for me... however it would have been much more appreciated to have had a bit more heads up.   Support
    I generally try to come to the forums and find the answers to my questions first by searching before I've ever opened a ticket.  I also appreciate the fact you're trying to simplify the support process.  One thing I might suggest you consider is having a section within the support forums be configured as "Users can see topics posted by other users?" being set to no. This would allow the forums to be utilized, but also allow individuals to ask questions in a more private fashion.  Information that is helpful and could be of benefit to the community could be exported using a moderation rule to the "public" forum or into whatever KB system you're looking to implement.   What is going to happen to the Support tool within the ACP?  One of the features that I loved was that if I had to create a ticket, at the same time a support login was created.  By needing to visit the community, there is no way to allow the support team to quickly login and check what is going on.  I foresee the following situation playing out: I have a problem and come to the community asking for help.  Given that I would have already searched for an answer before posting, I'll create a thread.   If it's not a general "how do I" question and instead is "something is broken" situation, the IPS support person will need to create a ticket on my behalf and collect information.  They'll also have to ask me to create a support login for them most likely.   This will then put the delay back on me to get this information and reply to support who can then engage to help. If this is a situation where "something is broken", typically it's more urgent than a "how do I" question where minutes can matter.  If my site is offline or if a major feature is working, having a delay of a full round of back and forth can be painful.  Can we come up with a way to reduce this step?  If the support tech IS going to create a ticket on my behalf, he/she should have access to everything they need to engage without feeling like we're starting over.  I'm hoping those tickets that are created by staff are prioritized so that not only do we have to wait for a ticket to be manually created for us, but then also assigned to someone to actually help. Developers
    Having the Marketplace and the developer community is a feature I see as being critical to my ability to be successful.  There are certain features that are VERY important to my community that I understand that does not make sense to include in the base product.  So having 3rd parties that can customize your product in a way that makes me successful is super important for me. Matt noted about it being difficult to determine how to support developers in terms of who should be able to get free licenses, etc.  My suggestion on this front is to consider something like Microsoft and some other large software companies do....  offer a tiered developer program.  The base developer account gets you a base set of features and access to the developer forums.  The next tier includes maybe access to a private slack channel, etc.  And the "gold" tier developers might get that a free license as well as maybe something like priority app review.  You can define milestones to reach each tier such as XX in sales or YY number of installs.  I'm most likely not the best one to suggest what those milestones would be, but I think that would be a great conversation to have with your 3rd party developers.  This would make a fair system and reward those that drive the most value within your developer community.  It would also provide incentives/goals for those newer developers to reach those higher standards.  (You're making an effort to gamify communities, maybe this is an opportunity to do the same thing within the developer community here?) I appreciate no one likes getting bad news and that these are hard things to do when they need to happen.  Hopefully some of my notes above can help as you move forward.  Finally I hope my feedback is received as it's intended... as thoughtful constructive suggestions and not a general "b***h fest".   Good luck and here's to the next twenty years.
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