Richard Arch

Users do not always understand the difference. They mark emails as spam because it is easier and faster in comparison to unsubscribe. 
Amazon SES allows you to have 10% of bounces before your account is at risk. But it allows only 0.5% of spam complaints before you've got issues with them. The account reputation is not so much about invalid mails, but about valid emails that have marked you as spam.
You can clean your database from invalid emails. But there is no service to clean users who have marked your emails as spam. Unsubscribing with one click could at least lower the complaint rate. 😉 

A venue would need to be defined as allowing a certain number of tickets in a timeslot too, basically becoming an inventory item, which I think Commerce is doing away with.

This could be useful to us.  We sell attendance to events as a product, but there's no linkage between the event and the product.  In our case, we have just 9 or so events over a three-month period, so it's doable to set up the 9 products.  If one could purchase a place at the event it would be more attractive and manageable.  Even if you could just tie indicating attendance at an event to purchase, that would help us (but probably not the original poster).

I would rather say calling it a “hosting issue” is the unfair assessment, when having such limits is essentially a default in the entire hosting industry.
https://kb.mailpoet.com/article/150-lists-of-hosts-and-their-email-sending-limits
And even if I would go through the trouble of moving everything to a paid service like for example Amazon SES (just to get bulk mails out without issues despite having a perfect email delivery otherwise), I then have their sending limits per day. The issue remains, just with different limits. 
It’s not some edge-case issue on a cheap shared hosting environment that we are asking to “work around”. It’s just a reasonable way to deal with email delivery in standard hosting environments. And in contrast, it feels rather unreasonable, that I can have a perfectly working local SMTP delivery; in my full technical and legal control; highly optimized delivery through DNS settings; no privacy issues because no 3rd-party services are needed; working perfectly fine for all transactional mails; all at no extra costs … and then potentially have bulk-mails fail in an unpredictable manner because the background tasks may or may not take the right amount of time. 

Can this be changed so that when someone purchases multiples of a certain item it just sends one email?
Currently, if someone buys 10 of a single item 10 emails are sent, one email saying they bought 10 items would be sufficient rather than being spammed 10 times. 

 

Can this be changed so that when someone purchases multiples of a certain item it just sends one email?
Currently, if someone buys 10 of a single item 10 emails are sent, one email saying they bought 10 items would be sufficient rather than being spammed 10 times. 

 

I certainly did 😅 I've just added the screenshot, thanks!

Very nice, I cant wait.
Did you miss posting a video about about Data Lists (tables)?

Very nice, I cant wait.
Did you miss posting a video about about Data Lists (tables)?

Very nice, I cant wait.
Did you miss posting a video about about Data Lists (tables)?

Not this topic but the blog entry with the same title. 

Welcome to the third video of our sneak peak series! Today, we're really excited to introduce you to the new Theme Editor!
Built entirely from scratch, the new editor provides an instant, live preview of your theme, as soon as you modify a setting. It's a zero-code approach to creating themes, and has been designed to ensure your theme adheres to your color scheme and looks great on every device, with very little effort. Let's take a closer look!
 
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To the left of the editor, you’ll see a live preview of your community. You can navigate to any page, as if you were browsing your site normally. At the top left of the editor, you’ll find icons which change the theme between the light and dark color schemes. Below that are buttons which change the viewport size, from desktop, to tablet, to mobile. This is a really convenient way to ensure your theme looks great on every device, without needing to manually resize your browser window.
Lets take a closer look at the Color Palette.
Editing colors in version 4 was a fairly time consuming process. For example, modifying the color scheme from the default blue to another color meant that 26 theme settings needed to be changed. In contrast, the Version 5 theme is powered by just 3 colors: Primary colors are responsible for styling the main elements on your page, such as the Start new topic button. Secondary colors control minor elements, such as pagination links, while the Base color is responsible for controlling the overall tint on your site.
Clicking on these colors opens a color picker. Let’s change this blue color to yellow.
 
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You’ll notice two things have happened here. First, the preview window updated as soon as we modified the color. All elements which were previously blue, now use yellow, such as the Start new topic button. Secondly, the text color in our button has changed from white to black. This is our automatic contrast feature and it ensures our text is easy to read on our new yellow background, since white text may be more difficult to read for some viewers.
Below the color picker is a text box, with our color displayed in HSL. You can paste your own colors in this box, in any color format and that color will be applied to your elements.
 
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The Base color controls the tint of your backgrounds and text colors. Let's try a few examples to demonstrate how easy it is to recolor your theme.
 
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Next up are Logos! Invision Community 5 has three logo types: a text logo, an image logo for desktops and an image logo for mobiles. Let’s edit our text logo.
 
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After changing the text to “Theme Editor Demo”, we can see that the logo in our preview window updates instantly with our new text. Below that, we have multiple options to help us style the text logo, such as font-family These fonts are a combination of system fonts and web fonts. The web fonts are hosted locally on your site for optimal performance. Additionally, we can also change the font-weight and font-size. We might want a different font-size for mobile logos, so that can be edited too. We can see a live preview by changing our viewport to the mobile option.
If you’d prefer to use an image logo, you can assign it using the Image Logo options. Image logos are made up of 2 upload fields, one for the light theme and one for the dark theme. Below these upload fields, a slider lets you resize your logo so it fits neatly.
 
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Layout options let you assign the default layouts in your community. In our first sneak peak video, we showcased the new side panel layout, feed view for forum categories, and compact view for topics. These can all be enabled via the theme editor using a simple select menu.
 
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Lets explore some Color options! In the Header panel, we can see a list of elements we can customize. Clicking on an element opens the Swatch List, which is a list of 22 colors that are powered by the Base, Primary and Secondary colors from earlier. We have 6 "light" base colors, 6 "dark" base colors as well as various shades of our primary and secondary colors. Clicking on any of these swatches will apply that color to your element.
But what if none of these colors suit your requirement? That’s where the Color Picker comes in handy. Here, we can easily choose any color, or even paste in our own color like before.
 
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A major hurdle with themes in version 4 was customising the header. Depending on the complexity, this would typically involve modifications to both the CSS and HTML. That is a thing of the past with version 5! If we flick over to our Settings tab, you’ll see a brand new interface for customising the header. A new drag and drop feature allows you to easily reposition header elements without touching a single line of code.
 
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It’s an incredibly fun tool to play with, and we’re really excited to hear what you think!
Below the drag and drop area, we can customise the header further by using sliders to adjust its height, or we can enable navigation icons with a single click. Body settings let you can customise global elements such as the body background color, text colors, the max-width of your site, the font-family, font-size and more.
Editing Content boxes has always required code modifications in the past. Using this new editor, we can adjust not only the colors of the boxes, but also the borders and shadows. Theme editing has honestly never been this easy!
 
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And there you have it! Our brand new theme editor. With a few simple clicks and drags, we've been able to create a customised theme that looks great on desktops and mobiles, with a new color scheme, new logos, a customised header, new page layouts and restyled content boxes - all without touching a single line of code.
Speaking of code, for those of you who want to apply more advanced customisations, we’ve added a really convenient way to access your custom CSS file, via a new dialog box.
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And last but not least - the new theme editor is fully responsive, so even if you’re away from the desk, so you’ll be able to change colours and settings, upload new logos, redesign your header and even add your own code!
 
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Developing this new editor has been a lot of fun, and it’s even more fun to use. Themes have never been easier to edit and we're really excited for you all to get your hands on it so you can have a play for yourself - but for now, let us know what you think the comments, and we’ll see you next time!

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Brilliant work ! Loving the progress.
 
Can we also round up an applause for the frequently in depth updates Invision is bringing? Something that doesn’t need to go unnoticed. It’s one thing to keep working on v5, but keeping us informed with a top notch video, is equally as important!
 
Well done team!

You could use a local install, do an internet search on WampServer.
 

You will either need to change or cancel the existing purchases. The alternative, if you no longer want to sell the product to new users but keep it available to current users is to remove the product from being visible in the store.

As long as Show in store? is disabled the products won't show on the front end. I think (?) categories with no products available products are also automatically hidden, but I'm not completely sure. If they aren't, a quick plugin can take care of it, I guess. 🙄

Its worth reading this guide first, you need to carryout the "Manual Upgrade".  Also have a read of the "Unsupported Legacy upgrades to Invision Community" section fyi.
 
Take a backup of your test environment both files and database in case you need to repeat the steps.
Run the compatibility checker, it should complain about your php version.
Disable all 3rd party applications, plugins, themes.
Switch php to version 8 or 8.1, run the compatibility checker again. Everything should ok now.
Overwrite all the files with the new package as described in the manual install.
You may need to clear cache from your ACP Support area afterwards.
 

See if you can get this to work on your subdomain first.
 
 

Have you updated your conf_global.php to reflect the change?
 

Its all good now, the host sorted it out and I can remain on php v8.1.

Are you on a shared hosting plan or do you manage your own Vps/Dedicated box?
If the former, then there is nothing that you can do about it. Some hostsmay choose to disable the PHP function phpinfo() for security reasons, because it displays information which may be used to compromise the server that your site is running on. In that case you should contact your host and ask them if they can enable it.
If the later, at the php.ini file find the following line: (it's located athe disable_functions directive)
disable_functions = phpinfo 
and change it to disable_functions = and save the changes. That should enable phpinfo. Hope it helps.
 

I view them as merged, the restriction takes the best option.  In your example its 3 or infinity and infinity is what gets applied in that restriction.

We could live without that, but its unknown if GMP will be used for more in the future.
However, the host (krystal.uk) has replied...
And sure enough all is good now, happy days 😄

For the Geolocation settings, is there a way of filtering all countries EXCEPT the specified one (i.e., a whitelist instead of a blacklist)? My forum's users are all based in one country, so it would make sense for me to validate all users outside of this country.
Also, does the work for users who register via SSO (e.g. Google Login)?

Yes