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Maxxius reacted to Joel R in Why I try and avoid the F word in public
Better than "bulletin boards" 😂
Regardless of the name, I think discussion communities will always serve a growing importance in an increasingly digital world. The ones who can be the best in their niche will be able to serve a digitally global audience, solopreneuers can now reach customers everywhere, and brands can scale to any size and audience group with a community.
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Maxxius reacted to opentype in Why I try and avoid the F word in public
Forums already existed in ancient Rome (as central places where people would get together to talk and do business). If it survived for 2000 years, it probably also can go on for a while. 😉
My choice of terms would depend on the circumstances. Community is fine too, but it also rather generic. A Facebook group can also be a community. Forums describes a specific functionality. Yes, it has certain connotations (like “old-school”), but not only bad ones. And it doesn’t have the bad connotations social media platforms currently get.
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Maxxius reacted to Stuart Silvester in 4.4: Converter updates to make migrating to Invision Community even easier
The UI is greatly simplified so that this information isn't visible, we do however still log any issues to the database so that can be reviewed. It's important to remember that the converted counts won't always match, we mostly see this with vB where the database can contain a lot of orphaned data. Yes, any required rebuilds and processes are automatically started when the conversion is completed. Thanks for the feedback!
The converter saves ids for almost everything converted, vBulletin attachment.php URLs will be redirected automatically to the relevant location. We try to redirect as many (important) URLs as possible.
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Maxxius reacted to GTServices in 4.4: Converter updates to make migrating to Invision Community even easier
This is great. I'm glad you put it together.
Something like this would have helped me months ago.
You want to convert more people over to IPS?
Create more videos, articles, and better guides and show how easy it is to use.
Think of small AND big board admins when creating these. Each group want to hear something specific ... something that helps them make a decision. Something that helps them take that first step.
I can tell you this...
Big Board admins would love to hear that IPS conversion script saves old topicids for mapping purposes (to redirect old urls to new). The more info you provide the better. (It was hard to find this info last year.)
One question that bugs me but haven't checked...
Does the conversion script save old attachment ids?? (Specifically images.) To redirect old attachment image URLs to new. I'm only asking because I know a lot of vbulletin sites that have accumulated many many images over the years. (Thinking SEO here.)
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Maxxius reacted to MMXII in Welcome to Invision Community 4.4!
Post before register and lazy loading.
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Maxxius reacted to Stuart Silvester in 4.4: New Email Features
If you have your community configured to use 'site traffic' to run tasks, it relies on the amount of traffic your community receives. For best speed and reliability, switch your task method to use CRON. (search for tasks in AdminCP).
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Maxxius got a reaction from AlexJ in 4.4: Extend Invision Community with the REST API
I have read about it but honestly I have no idea how it can benefit me. In what circumstances I could for example take advantage of the REST API? I'm running a community for 13 years now and when it come to API stuff I'm clueless.
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Maxxius reacted to motomac in 4.3: Modernizing our Gallery
Still no photos order setting. All photos are ordered in the descending order, which is inconvenient and wrong. If it's an event users see photos from the last to the first. What's the point?
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Maxxius reacted to TSP in GDPR updates for Invision Community 4.3.3
@Matt On deletion of members:
Could there be an option to define the name to attribute to on that page directly? So we could input for example "Member 3312" (where 3312 would be their memberId). This will keep the discussion still somewhat reader friendly, so it would still be possible to differentiate different accounts as having written in the discussion, for readers reading old content.
Alternatively let the Anonymize attribution do a md5 hash on the (memberId+some community specific value that is unlikely to be changed) and grab the first 8 letters or something.
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Maxxius reacted to Adriano Faria in 4.3: Modernizing our Gallery
Yes, it requires a mod permission:
{{if $image->canSetAsAlbumCover() AND $image->canSetAsCategoryCover()}} <li class='ipsMenu_item'><a data-action='setAsCover' href='{$image->url()->setQueryString( 'do', 'cover' )->setQueryString( 'set', 'category')->csrf()}'>{lang="cover_category_only"}</a></li> <li class='ipsMenu_item'><a data-action='setAsCover' href='{$image->url()->setQueryString( 'do', 'cover' )->setQueryString( 'set', 'album')->csrf()}'>{lang="cover_album_only"}</a></li> <li class='ipsMenu_item'><a data-action='setAsCover' href='{$image->url()->setQueryString( 'do', 'cover' )->setQueryString( 'set', 'both')->csrf()}'>{lang="cover_both"}</a></li> /** * Can set as album coverphoto? * * @param \IPS\Member|NULL $member The member to check for or NULL for the currently logged in member * @return bool */ public function canSetAsAlbumCover( $member=NULL ) { if( ( $this->album_id AND $this->canEdit() ) OR static::modPermission( 'edit', $member, $this->container() ) ) { return TRUE; } return FALSE; } /** * Can set as category coverphoto? * * @param \IPS\Member|NULL $member The member to check for or NULL for the currently logged in member * @return bool */ public function canSetAsCategoryCover( $member=NULL ) { if( static::modPermission( 'edit', $member, $this->container() ) ) { return TRUE; } return FALSE; } You probably should request them in Feedback to allow the image submitter to do it too.
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Maxxius reacted to jair101 in 4.3: Engagement Improvements
Does the "Typing..." tooltip only appear when you mouse over the user name?
I would rather have it like facebook, somewhere above the editor.
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Maxxius reacted to 13. in Invision Community 4.3 Coming Soon
I hope you did not removed support of old smiles?
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Maxxius got a reaction from PrettyPixels in New: Customizable Blog Sidebar
sidebar per forum would be awesomisimo.
also blog custom headers like in profiles would be great too
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Maxxius got a reaction from SJ77 in New: Downloads Index Page
but overall the view of downloads looks very stale. nothing ever changes to make you say wow. now thats cool. but on the other hand I have 0 suggestions for improvements too.
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Maxxius reacted to Joel R in New: Group promotion improvements
Their criteria unfortunately doesn't include count items per application, which I agree would give admins much more granular control over unique membergroup promotions.
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Maxxius reacted to Joel R in New: Complete Your Profile
1. When dismissed, what's the timeframe for the block to reappear?
2. Is that a block that can be placed into any hot zone / sidebar / removed?
3. If profile is complete, is there a recognition of some sort? For example: green check mark, notification, Linvision bucks, or the new Starbucks unicorn frappucino? Kidding about the last two.
4. Integrated into Activity Stream, profile activity, membergroup promotion, ACP commerce account activity?
- "Joel updated his profile to 50% completion"
- "Joel completed his profile"
5. Profile completion % is based off number of steps, and not number of actual fields to fill out?
6. Has IPS been able to test on live communities to measure whether it's actually improved new member registration or profile completion?
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Maxxius reacted to Ryan Ashbrook in New: Complete Your Profile
Of course. The system is built on application extensions, so applications can create their own steps.
We will provide developer specific updates soon on how to integrate with this feature, and others in 4.2.
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Maxxius reacted to Matt in New: Complete Your Profile
Yes. So if you allow Facebook log ins, then they will have to complete any required steps before they can access the community.
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Maxxius reacted to Joel R in New: Leaderboard Enhancements
As long as I still show up 5,000 times on the Leaderboard, everything is okay.
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Maxxius reacted to Square Wheels in New: Leaderboard Enhancements
I'd like it if the stats got locked in after the day is over.
If a user is in first place for a day two days ago, I can simply go back and vote on lots of posts from another user from that day and change the results. It should be like a voting system that ends at midnight each day.
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Maxxius got a reaction from Aaron M in New: Leaderboard Enhancements
yep, personal or by group exclusion should be added.
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Maxxius reacted to Adriano Faria in New: Leaderboard Enhancements
We should be able to exclude groups or users. The founder of a forum, for example, will probably have more reputation than another admin and maybe he doesn't want to appear in the leaderboard.
One example here on IPS is the IPS NEWS account! There's no sense in display it there: https://invisionpower.com/topmembers/