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I've been a client of IPS for about 17 years, and I am disappointed of the direction they are going in now. They are creating new features for their cloud clients even though they have several bugs that have gone unfixed for months. I haven't renewed my license because I feel like an idiot for paying for something that, after 17 years, I might not be allowed to use.

Shame you don't allow us to do this for the advanced users to host a socket, i don't like how you guys are forcing clients to use Cloud solutions for good features like this.

I'm in the process of building a new project and have it started in Wordpress + BuddyPress + bbPress... part of the way through the bbPress setup I was kinda disappointed in the forum features and was thinking to myself "I could do this in a full suite version of IPS self-hosted".
Thanks for removing my doubts of why I went with Wordpress in the first place.  No point starting a new project on software that is destined to get starved of features by the developer in order to push more clients into $549/m plans.

That's not really an opinion. There is no chance a gaming community outside of large orgs are paying for the Business plan.

I don't believe any gaming communities outside of developer/publisher/merchandiser forums would actually be able to afford to use given the restriction to business & enterprise cloud plans

Interesting to see a community advocate that accuses people of being hostile because they have a conservative tone via text.  Good luck. 😏

I disagree with this. If there is any company out there that really listens to their customers, it is Ips. Regarding your forum issues, Ips is at no fault here. I agree with Matt above, they occurred due to your set up. 
I just noticed that I am out of milk btw, damn Ipb. It is their fault 😄 
@Jordan Invision, congratulations :). I think your promotion is very well deserved and you are doing a very good job so far. Keep it up :)

Jordan - Congrats
Matt - What does this position actually mean for clients?  How will he triage, prioritize, and escalate client feedback to the IPS team, all of whom can and do visit the forums themselves? What are the parameters for clients to help highlight and channel our feedback in an effective manner?  And finally, as a community advocate, what does he actually advocate?  Whom does he represent, and to what extent?  
Until the company articulates - and the community can validate - these above questions, this new position is entirely aspirational.  
Invision has attempted multiple community engagement tactics over the years.  And I have a long history of memory:
I remember IPS Release Notes when Charles said you were going to provide a roadmap.  That quietly disappeared and failed.  I remember Tagging when Lindy said you were going to tag the status of features.  That quietly disappeared and failed.   I remember how you removed Pre-Sales and merged Feedback from all product lines together.  Product Feedback is now a mess.   I remember how you recently launched a Slack channel for Marketplace devs.  How is that going?   I genuinely and honestly don't mind you guys trying new things - that's great.  Every community (and company) should always be experimenting and launching new initiatives.  But the past history of your community engagement is littered with no follow through.  How is this time different?    
To be blunt and on behalf of all of your retail clients, we don't need a Community Advocate to post memes.  We need a Community Advocate with the power to deliver and communicate on meaningful actions to drive our communities forward.

This brings back memories to when I made an app that did this back in 2010.

We (those who make/update translations) need a tool that can tell us which new language bits was added between versions so we can update our translations easily and faster.
The UNTRANSLATED filter isn't practical in this case because there are hundred of language bits that I (and a lot of people here) didn't translate (like countries, emoticons, etc) and they are there so it's a "false" positive in this case.

Like this?

Very "improved"...
OMG 😱 "elements having room to breathe" © Rikki 🤣😭
It should look like this:

Agreed - we avoid making large changes to the frontend on the whole (save for new features, which necessitate updates by their nature). The downside of that of course is running the risk of appearing outdated, or not being able to employ newer techniques/technologies. It's a balance between competing concerns as always. 4.3 and 4.4 didn't have any substantial changes, so we feel 4.5 is the right time for a moderate refresh, saving a much bigger update for a future (major) version.

Oh dear god in the heavens above, yes, can we get it to look like the image on the right? This looks MUCH better and takes up less space, obviously. PLEASE IPS.... 

Thanks @Takohashi 

Too much empty space. It looks like an abstract Dribbble-layout for a portfolio, not for real use.

What a strange excuse. It's the problem of the users of these third-party themes. Why we're who use the official theme should suffer because of them?

Surely shipping with two themes is better not just 'no' in the meantime, otherwise customers are waiting literally years for something that shouldn't take as long. I know staff aren't keen on it though so that's probably more the reason why.
On a forum which uses XF they do this and I think it works great.
 
RTG Sunderland Message Boards.mp4

If you set Chrome (I've not tested others) as dark mode, here's what the ACP looks like.