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Please add a possibility to exclude some databases from search engine indexing. There should be a possibility to add
<meta name="robots" content="noindex" /> to all database records in one database at once (probable via page database), and to exclude certain databases from the sitemap.
Examples:
Databases with thin content, like database relationship records created only to group the main records. Databases with quotes, citation, news snippets - not unique content. Databases created from forum topics, blogs etc. - duplicate content. Thin, not unique and duplicate content is terrible for SEO. It would be perfect if we could control, what databases should be indexed and what not. 
Thanks!

This sound reasonable, but we do not have a number of single votes of X stars saved in the database. The values we have: average rating, total rating and number of reviews/votes.
Without touching a database, there could be at least two solutions:
Solution #1 can be to use both columns record_average AND num_reviews or rating_hits. This would result in more accurate rating like:
3x5 stars (average 5 with 3 votes)  2x5 stars (average 5 with 2 votes) 5x4+6x5 (average 4 with 11 votes) 10x4 stars (average 4 with 10 votes) 1x4+2x5 (average 4 with 3 votes) 1x4 stars (average 4 with 1 vote) Edit: if average rating would be saved as float and not integer, the results would be more accurate, but this requires changes in database.  There is already unused column called rating_real. If we change the column to float and sort by the column AND number of votes/reviews, then we get this:
3x5 stars (average 5.0 with 3 votes)  2x5 stars (average 5.0 with 2 votes)  1x4+2x5 (average 4.6 with 3 votes) 5x4+6x5 (average 4.54 with 11 votes)  10x4 stars (average 4.0 with 10 votes) 1x4 stars (average 4.0 with 1 vote) Solution #2 can be to calculate ratings based on total stars and votes https://calculator.academy/average-rating-calculator-star-rating/ IPS already calculates the total rating by star ratings in rating_value. Just do the same for reviews. Then divide the total number of stars by 5 or 10 (depending on how the rating system is configured in AdminCP). Save the result in rating_real (the unused column) and sort by it. The example from above would be different.
5x4+6x5 (50/5) = 10 10x4 stars (40/5) = 8 3x5 stars (15/5) = 3  1x4+2x5 (14/5) = 2,8 2x5 stars (10/5) = 2 1x4 stars (4/5) = 0,8 Scientific solution would be to use true Bayesian estimate.
But this would be an overhead, as we would need to recalculate the whole database every time the vote/review is given, changed or deleted. 😉
 

I am trying to sort database records by rating.
If I choose Highest Rated, then the number of votes is not considered. See below, the record #1 with only one vote is above the record #3 with 3 votes. Both have only 5-Star votes.

If I choose to sort by Most reviewed, then I have this order (I assume by publish date)

This does not make sense. I have set Allow reviews for database to No. There should not be a sorting option Most reviewed for the databases where reviews are disabled.
Additionally, if I choose Custom and enter this data

After clicking on the Search I have the order like Highest Rated (false, number of votes is still not considered) but also another not translated (translatable) string in the Sort by menu. See below. Both are selected. Bug?

 
Back to the rating: How can I consider not only 5 stars, but also the number of votes? 
Thanks.
 

Imagine this:
you add a whole bunch of website news RSS feeds to import to Pages app which are relevant to your niche and in english language. IPS automatically pulls the feed image and text and imports to pages database and then runs the text translation automatically lets say thru the translation service of www.deepL.com (much better than google translate from what I noticed) and leaves the entry for approval. staff member looks at the text, makes minimal corrections and hits publish  

I use own server. 
E-Mails are sent via SMTP. I have SFP, DKIM and DMARC. abuse@mydomain.com and postmaster@mydomain.com are set as alias Have you checked if your domain or IP is blacklisted? E. g. here https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx
 

https://support.google.com/a/answer/10685031
If you've configured your IPB to send email via SMTP instead of the default PHP (meaning from your server), it looks like the SPF record is:
v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all If your server itself is sending mail (via PHP), you would need to do something like:
v=spf1 ip4:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX include:_spf.google.com ~all Where XXX is your server's IP address.  
If you post the domain name, we can look up the SPF record to see if it's still incorrect.  A good tool to check out might be:
https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx
It will let you check your SPF, DKIM, and DMARC settings to see if it's reporting errors.  

Vala Story is an app that allows members to share their moments, interests, joys, portfolios, etc. with others through images and videos by allowed formats on your board and make them more interactive with title and link.
 
Please use this topic for support request or suggest new ideas.

members can add Image, Video, Story show time , Title (text) and Link.

 

All of these can be controlled by the admin:
Submit Form Settings Allow members to set the appearing time of a story Allow members to insert title for a story Allow members to insert link for a story Allow members to use external link instead of uploading file

I would also like to see the Marketplace link return to the native menu. While the ACP is required to install resources, I still use the website version to keep up to date with new release and search for products. I used to check it all the time and used it much more often than opening Our Picks for example, which have a spot in the menu. 

I got an important question. here is scenario:
for example I make 3 packages. free, silver and gold.
I create an advert and choose free package.
after its time runs out I want to renew it and I ONLY can renew it as a free package. I CANT UPGRADE the same advert to silver or gold.
This is bad because 1. I would loose all my reviews and comments of the advert. 2. I would need to waste time and post same advert again and choose another package. Why package can't be changed more easily? This seems like a fundamental flaw.
- also can expired classifieds can be reached only with a direct link and not be publically listed?

Imagine this:
you add a whole bunch of website news RSS feeds to import to Pages app which are relevant to your niche and in english language. IPS automatically pulls the feed image and text and imports to pages database and then runs the text translation automatically lets say thru the translation service of www.deepL.com (much better than google translate from what I noticed) and leaves the entry for approval. staff member looks at the text, makes minimal corrections and hits publish  

Imagine this:
you add a whole bunch of website news RSS feeds to import to Pages app which are relevant to your niche and in english language. IPS automatically pulls the feed image and text and imports to pages database and then runs the text translation automatically lets say thru the translation service of www.deepL.com (much better than google translate from what I noticed) and leaves the entry for approval. staff member looks at the text, makes minimal corrections and hits publish  

V11LeMans.com is a worldwide forum running on InvisionBoard for 20 years. It's members are mainly english speaking, but I would like to reach a bigger audience. Therefore I've been searching here for a plugin that can translate member posts with a click (like on Facebook) and integrates nicely.
Is there such a thing? Could be a interesting for other forum admins too.
 

🥲 Appreciate that! 

@Ehren and @Jordan Miller did a great job designing and writing the new site.

Hello!
I have a suggestion for your plataform, or if already have this function tell me how to use then.
Wordpress have a good tools to help us with thumbnails, this - perfect to use if i change my theme and want to fix all posts/pages/etc.
My suggestion is allow the IPS use this concept too, for example: If i use a widget with most downloads:

There have a very small image, maybe 50x50 for example. The problem is: your plataform request the full image, if my customer upload a large image, with 200kb, this will broken my SEO score. 
If you allow tumbnails for all parts of the theme, this problem will not happen, like - picture-50x50 or picture 150x150.
Today google rank the website with best content and speed, but it's hard have a great speed if your system keep using a very old method to request images. I have no problem to pay more for your plataform, but you need to delivery more for us. Help us to have a best UX with your plataform. Try to start with this small feature.

Maybe if i was using a 50x50 version of the picture, will down 90% of this size.

Haha thanks, I've actually been lurking around here for almost 2 years now as a staff member! 🙂
Yeah, this is just for the Invision site for the moment. Version 4.5 included a pretty significant redesign, so I imagine we'll stick with that for a while before doing another revamp. When that time comes, if this new design is still appealing to our visitors, I'm sure we'll use it as inspiration for a new default theme.

Looks quite nice, so far I like it 🙂
Brings me back to 3.x days - dark blue and green but differently of course.
Great job you all guys! Especially @Ehren I guess he was in charge of the redesign.
BTW got a bug here for you - the tooltip z-index 😄

Looks quite nice, so far I like it 🙂
Brings me back to 3.x days - dark blue and green but differently of course.
Great job you all guys! Especially @Ehren I guess he was in charge of the redesign.
BTW got a bug here for you - the tooltip z-index 😄

Oohh, new Invision portal (is this a new default theme?)....nice and shiny! 😃
Although when I clicked on "Our Community" from the Client Area the drop-down menu was blank.
Looks great though!

v1.0.2 of this has been released and approved on the MP, fixing an issue with a template error appearing on some posts
Note: no screenshots in the listing currently, they were lost during the approval process.
Here's the 'before' and 'after':
 

Here's an example of an accordion panels using Pages and a custom block - using CSS and JS functions - you can add as many panels as you want and style them as you want.  You may need an HTML editor (such as Dreamweaver) but if you're happy to hand code then it should not be an issue.
https://moviebuffs.org/test-page/
I'll just leave this page up for a while as it's only a test - you must you the above URL to access the page as it's not in any of the menus.
🙂
EDIT:  After some thought I decided to go to the CKEditor site and found a FAQ plugin that will allow you to add all manner of different types of FAQ right from within the editor.  I've attached the file here if you want to give it a try and I've added an example to the above page.
powrfaq_1.2.zip

Great
great! I think I will use that for my site 🙂 will style it up with CSS and that will be enough I guess

Forgot about this one 🙂
You don't even need JS to get accordions 😎
https://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_details
 
 

It's just the pages app with some custom templates and js code.