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I second that, having a core feature to send news as notifications to members using various filters much like BULK MAIL does. it would be great if we could send short messages as notifications to members. even having some sort of analytics how many members viewed the notification or click on it would be nice.
@Jordan Invision

Yeah, I know of these plugins, but I'm afraid I don't feel comfortable with letting a 3rd party get involved with such a complex (imho) feature.
I'd feel much better if that was a core feature developed and supported by IPS themselves.

thanks for your perspective @Morrigan
I tend to believe that things change and IPS will come around on that idea too one day 🙂

You can exclude duplicates by using following rules:
Disallow: /*do=* Disallow: /*sort=* Disallow: /*sortby=* Disallow: /*csrf=* Disallow: /*csrfKey=* Disallow: */?tab=* Disallow: */?_fromLogin=* Disallow: */?_fromLogout=* My entire robots.txt https://hoilik.com/robots-txt-for-invision-community-473d8aa32984

Just wanted to drop a note here that after testing on both our live and test site, it seems groups with a lot of members causes issues.  Data below.
Moderator Group
Members: 21
Error: None
Notification Verification: All moderators received a notification that they had been mentioned in test topic.
Member Group
Members: 4591
Error: A redirect to a generic 500 server error occurs after attempting to mention this group.  A page refresh will show that the post/mention was actually created even though you receive this error redirect.  I'm assuming this error shows up due to timing out, but I'm only speculating and could be wrong.  My assumption is based on the website being stuck in some sort of loading/pending stage after hitting the submit button for about 10+ seconds before it finally gives up and errors out.
Notification Verification: No one could verify that a notification was received with proper notification settings applied.  I asked roughly 60 members and also checked random accounts for the notification and couldn't find a record of one.
Secondary Member Group  (Promoted to this group after x amount of content.)
Members: 871
Error: None
Notification Verification: Several members verified a notification was received.
Additional Notes: The website hesitates for about 5 or so seconds compared to the moderator test, but the mention is sent without error nonetheless.
 
Similar test results were received on the test site with the exception of being able to verify the large group issue due to not having that many accounts for the test.  Is this something on my end I'll need to look further into or is the application itself struggling to keep up when the group count hits a certain number?

Custom Notifications is amazing!!! I use Group mention only for my staff to mention other staff teams because I recommend my staff follow staff relevant forums so my users don't need the ability to do that.
I know custom notifications will never be implemented as core, its been said before but I can't recall the post. Its basically seen as intrusive to a users experience.
For me I use it to remind people of stuff.

I like this! Jotted this feature down.
@Joel R mentioned this already but this should accomplish what you want no? 
 
Another great tool is the group mention plugin:
 

And there you go.
New format option, customize the FontAwesome icon, toggle the light/dark text, compatible with 4.2.
    

I second that, having a core feature to send news as notifications to members using various filters much like BULK MAIL does. it would be great if we could send short messages as notifications to members. even having some sort of analytics how many members viewed the notification or click on it would be nice.
@Jordan Invision

I don’t have any issues, just wondering what urls and what is being appended to them, haven’t tried anything yet. Figured I ask to see if anyone has it configured already to share.

this is support topic for
 

SVGs are definitely great for logos and non-complex images, they scale nicely being vector images although they can add a lot of bloat to a page but fortunately they're cachable. Something that came to mind, I'm not sure what if any protection is in place within IPS for non-IPS provided/third party uploaded SVGs. You need to be careful and make sure that they’re sanitized to stop SVG/XML vulnerabilities affecting your site.
There's a good library available here that can help to avoid opening up security holes by allowing uploads of unsanitised files, it's used by some highly rated SVG Wordpress plugins:
https://github.com/darylldoyle/svg-sanitizer

Just something to be mindful of. 🙂

Currently have an app pending on marketplace that lets you use svg logo as one of the features 

Here's a link to dbfiddle that shows the output:
https://dbfiddle.uk/?rdbms=mysql_8.0&fiddle=0238af66d4e90f4553c5769a13e0f2b9

Don't do this via phpMyAdmin. Connect to your MySQL server via SSH (the mysql command) and perform the operation there. Do not export and reimport the data to Notepad++. Back up everything twice before you start. That way, when you forget or ignore the suggestion to back things up the first time, you have your second warning to fall back on. 😁
You can see all impacted posts and preview the change by running a SELECT statement with a conditional that matches your replace. For example:
SELECT `post`, REPLACE(`post`,'http://wrongDomain.com/','http://correctDomain.com/') AS `expectedresult` FROM `forums_posts` WHERE `post` LIKE '%http://wrongDomain.com/%';  

I would second running a one-time REPLACE SQL statement for this specific purpose.
Back up the database, then run something like
UPDATE forums_posts SET post=REPLACE(post,'http://wrongDomain.com/','http://correctDomain.com/'); Note that you may wish to check other similar tables (blog entries, status updates, personal conversations, etc.) but the method is the same, just the table name and column will vary.

You could do it with an UPDATE statement and the REPLACE() function in SQL, but back everything up first and test in your test environment.
REPLACE() documentation:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/string-functions.html#function_replace
If you need more granularity, look at REGEXP_REPLACE():
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/regexp.html#function_regexp-replace

Back in 4.4 days I made this topic and @All Astronauts made a fine plugin to handle this. Today I'm working on a clients' forum and I bump into this inconvenience again.
Please read more about it here:
Since the EXPAND POST feature is now available with QUOTES and whatnot I strongly suggest that you make this work in new content stream page. My client also has tens and tens of forums and if you make a custom stream you get many lines of USELESS text where posts are shown from. This either needs to be truncated or made into a popup window which then load up all the forums if clicked.
@Jordan Invision buddy, I hope you deliver this feature and it makes its debut at 4.6 🙂
@Matt tagging you for obvious reasons too 🙂

You probably don't need it with 4.6, we've changed how the support section works so there's a simple button to clear caches.
More info:
 

@Jordan Invision suggestion to consider making this a core feature. we can lock / unlock topics during creation but not publish it. Seems like a nice feature addition 🙂

Please consider to let us place widget where we can get and show Solved topics information.
Inside the forum we need show the Solved topics statistics.
- How many topics in a forum. 
- How many topics solved.
- How many topics solved we want to show in the widget. Example last 10, so in the widget will show the 10 topics title and a button More. When we click to title it take us to the post marked as solved. When we click to More, it will expand to show all topics marked as solved according the date (because the parameter is by last date) .
- In the widget show topics solved parameters apart of By last topics solved, by staff, by member, by title, and + by tags
- Should be have a page to enlist all topics solved？

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