Maxxius

I’m a Luddite...62 years old and retired from a career in Commercial Art; specifically graphic design. No industry went digital as fast and as completely as the graphic design field. We went from building mechanicals on drafting tables to using computers and Software overnight, starting in the mid 80’s. I developed a severe case of Upgrade PTSD. Back then every upgrade or update of OS, and design software, was wrought with issues. Files wouldn’t open, fonts wouldn’t work, it was always a cluster, and work flow was impacted. We learned to hate Upgrades,
So, in addition to living in the woods of a Maine with extremely glitchy DSL “high speed” internet at a whopping 7 mbps...that’s not a typo. I put off IPB Upgrades and typically ask Support to perform even the most minor ones.
Recently I found myself 15 Upgrades behind...with no SSL Certificate...and my Board of 19 years...again not a typo...(I launched my Discussion Community back in 2002 on Ikonboard) was experiencing all sorts of errors and issues. 
I finally contacted Support, and they were responsive and professional and they resolved the SSL Security situation, and the Upgrade(s), and moved my Board to the new Cloud II Server. There are some minor Member issues to work out, and I’m becoming accustomed to the new features, look and functionality, but generally things on Board are snappy and going well. 
For someone who isn’t as fluid as many here with the backend of the IPB Suites and Software, and suffers from Upgrade and Digital PTSD,  having the Support team on call is a huge relief. I’m not putting off Upgrades any longer...I promise.

You can use the build in fields for that. On our site we use clubs for featured games, so I simply put the link to the club in a field, looks like this https://prnt.sc/vfh4xi
Of course you can use topics too and place the field in the sidebar or below the main content of the game.
@Adriano Faria your Books application seems to have a cool feature called Bookshelf. How about some kind of button a user can click and add a game to his collection? Must not be such powerfull like the Bookshelfs, maybe just a profile tab with the games they own?

I’ll consider it when I have to release a new version. 👍

I have done it this way:
A guest user sees all the records in the database landing page (note I use an addon to display the individual records with an image in this screen shot):

And when a Guest clicks on one of the records to view it what they see is:

To help everyone else that may need this type of permissions for a database/page this what I have done:
1. In Page management create a copy of the Display template group and name the group what you like
2. In the record template of the group add the following code at the very top of the template:
{{if !\IPS\Member::loggedIn()->member_id}} <div class='ipsPageHeader ipsBox ipsResponsive_pull ipsPadding ipsClearfix'> <div class='ipsFlex ipsFlex-ai:center ipsFlex-fw:wrap ipsGap:4'> <div class='ipsFlex-flex:11'> <h1 class='ipsType_pageTitle ipsContained_container'>Registered Users Only</h1> <div data-controller="core.global.core.login"> <input type="hidden" name="csrfKey" value="{expression="\IPS\Session::i()->csrfKey"}"> {{if \IPS\Login::registrationType() != 'disabled'}} <div class='ipsType_center ipsPad cGuestTeaser'> <div class='ipsBox ipsPad ipsSpacer_top'> <div class='ipsGrid ipsGrid_collapsePhone'> <div class='ipsGrid_span6 cGuestTeaser_left'> <h2 class='ipsType_sectionHead'>{lang="teaser_account"}</h2> <p class='ipsType_normal ipsType_reset ipsType_light ipsSpacer_bottom'>{lang="teaser_account_desc"}</p> {{if \IPS\Login::registrationType() == 'redirect'}} <a href='{expression="\IPS\Settings::i()->allow_reg_target"}' class='ipsButton ipsButton_primary ipsButton_small' target="_blank" rel="noopener"> {{else}} <a href='{url="app=core&module=system&controller=register" seoTemplate="register"}' class='ipsButton ipsButton_primary ipsButton_small' {{if \IPS\Login::registrationType() == 'normal'}}data-ipsDialog data-ipsDialog-size='narrow' data-ipsDialog-title='{lang="sign_up"}'{{endif}}> {{endif}} {lang="teaser_account_button"}</a> </div> <div class='ipsGrid_span6 cGuestTeaser_right'> <h2 class='ipsType_sectionHead'>{lang="teaser_signin"}</h2> <p class='ipsType_normal ipsType_reset ipsType_light ipsSpacer_bottom'>{lang="teaser_signin_desc"}</p> <a href='{url="app=core&module=system&controller=login" seoTemplate="login" $item->url() . '#replyForm'"}' data-ipsDialog data-ipsDialog-size='medium' data-ipsDialog-remoteVerify="false" data-ipsDialog-title="{lang="teaser_signin_button"}" class='ipsButton ipsButton_primary ipsButton_small'>{lang="teaser_signin_button"}</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> {{endif}} </div> </div> </div> </div> {{else}} and don't forget to add {{endif}} at the very bottom of the template as well
3. Open the settings of your database and in the field "Display Template Group" select the name you gave the group in Step 1 above.
Hope this helps

Do it at the field level instead of at the article level. So edit the permissions of the fields and create a special “guest teaser” field. This field only shows to guests while the others don’t.

I understand that.

We've tried to keep everyone informed as much as possible with blogs like this.

We also push this to our social media channels and do a monthly newsletter.

I'm not sure how else to get this information out.

We were in beta for months, alpha for about a month before that. We've been talking about 4.5 since last year, and announced the new front end theme in April. We've been running a beta version on our own community here for months.

I understand your point that you can't be expected to obsessively follow every bit of news we release, but with a major upgrade you should take a short time to investigate the changes before pressing the button.

I appreciate the feedback but I think it's a little unfair to state that you didn't know what was coming and now regret it.
We also have to design for a wide variety of screen sizes, so the layout has to be consistent and modular.

It's easy to see a lot of whitespace on a single screen with a short topic title and few logged in actions at full screen on a 24" monitor, but when you consider this:


I don't feel that there's much space to save here without cramming it into two lines and accepting some buttons will overflow.

No, you shouldn't change that for now, I just wanted to confirm you were indeed having mail sent from your local server.
This is unfortunately why your messages are likely being delivered to spam. Local mail servers are generally seen as a high potential for abuse even with a clean IP reputation, DKIM, SPF records and the whole shebang. That's why it's generally worth investing in a good mail solution like Amazon SES or GSuite nowadays.
The process in getting these configured is a bit involved though. I don't know for sure if there are any limits placed on your grandfathered GSuite account or not, but in general I recommend having a separate GSuite account (it can be on the same administrative domain) used for delivering site related e-mail, so this would run you an extra $6/mo if you wanted to configure it.
The reason I recommend this is otherwise you're going to get all those bounced e-mail messages and people accidentally replying to your site notifications to your main inbox, which you definitely don't want.

I noticed something weird today. I'm importing shortnews from several external sites to a database. The author is set to my account because the fake account I've set up for the import didn't work at all, it always used mine (UserID 1).
https://xboxhub.com/shortnews/xbox-series-x-inoffizielles-unboxing-der-konsole-r119/
Later I noticed other imports had other authors, regular members that can't even create articles in that database at all...
https://xboxhub.com/shortnews/yakuza-like-a-dragon-xbox-series-x-gameplay-videos-veröffentlicht-r125/
https://xboxhub.com/shortnews/xbox-series-x-–-erstes-unboxing-aufgetaucht-r127/
Looks to me like that are the accounts that triggered the task.
When I import feeds to threads instead, it always uses the correct author (the already mentioned fake account).

Of course, the https://www.theaudiodb.com/ 😉
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Hey @Adriano Faria, is it possible to force HTTPS when serving the books from Google?
In the Tabs the shown book covers all served per HTTP and that will break my site in the browser.

You just need to not browse a couple of tables in your database and if you login as the member, it’s enough to not go to the messenger. 
As I imagine other admins won’t have access to your database, you can probably restrict them in ACP profiles, so they won’t be able to login as any member.
Note: certainly there’s a admin restriction to login as a member but I don’t remember. So I would try that first. 

I think that's a suitable solution yes.

I'm revisiting old news but I'd like to reiterate that perhaps self-integration tasks (I mean within the IPS itself and not including zapier) should be a thing. Pretty much something like the rules app which comes up quite often when zapier integration is discussed.
Please consider trying to add something similar in future version of IPS software which would allow such things like user described one post above me. Now that could bring things to a whole new level. 🙂

I'm revisiting old news but I'd like to reiterate that perhaps self-integration tasks (I mean within the IPS itself and not including zapier) should be a thing. Pretty much something like the rules app which comes up quite often when zapier integration is discussed.
Please consider trying to add something similar in future version of IPS software which would allow such things like user described one post above me. Now that could bring things to a whole new level. 🙂

Partially. It might send an email, if user X creates a topic in forum Y... (Can it though?), but what I am looking for is more Invision Community specific/working with data and values of Invision Community:
"If custom profile field X of user Y has value Z, then do..."
"If file X has been downloaded by user Y then do..."
"If user X is member of club Y and posts a topic in forum Z then do..."

Some time ago, I described how I solved this problem for one of my communities.

Awesome! How did you do this? Does it track clicks? 

SendGrid's shared IP pool is being blacklisted at an increasing amount of places. It's no longer a great place for deliverability.
See here for more information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14202068

I appreciate the feedback here. We're listening as always.

My only request is that we keep it polite. We don't need to scream in each other's faces to be heard. If we don't reply or action the feedback immediately, it isn't because we disagree, or are ignoring what you're saying; it's more likely that we need to consider every change as a team and this takes time.

I’m not sure where you heard this but we do not have plans to discontinue custom buttons. 

Or for people which don't like IFTT, you can also use Zapier!
Zap for RSS to Facebook Pages https://zapier.com/apps/facebook-pages/integrations/rss/39/post-new-rss-items-to-a-facebook-page 
Zap for Rss to Twitter https://zapier.com/apps/rss/integrations/twitter
 

You can do it by turning on RSS feeds for the Pages database and then set up an IFTTT connection which reads the RSS feed and posts the records to wherever you need. Scheduling may or may not available. I haven’t checked that out but I do use IFTTT to post Pages records to social media. 

I don't have a problem with calling this aspect of the design "terrible" because it is.
The previous version had the follow button on the same level as the Forum title.
Somebody made the "terrible" decision to move this button into acres of precious vertical space, all on its own. What was wrong with leaving it where it was? Why is this necessary? If it had to be moved below the title as an essential button then why not place it beside the start topic button?
Or if a follow button is of such paramount importance to be a leading feature for the landing page, why not go full width?
You've probably all heard of the "hero image" ... welcome to its successor, the "hero button"

Thanks so much for taking the time to share your feedback, the team have seen it and love it, thanks!

Yes, it’s my assessment that this layout is well-thought-out. (The one I commented, which was from Pages)
I work as professional web designer for more than 20 years and I customize these Pages templates all the time—inspecting every little detail, checking the flow of content in many situations and at every CSS breakpoint. 
Of course if you can’t have an open discussion and need to laugh at people just because they say something you don’t agree with, this discussion ends right here. If all you guys can do is judge a web layout in one desktop view, you know very little of web design and have a lot to learn, but with reactions like the one I quoted you are apparently not willing to. I am out.