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    Maxxius reacted to CheersnGears in Save Draft - IC5   
    I am really hoping that Invision will see fit to include a save draft feature, at least for Pages, in IC5.  I have lost so much work over the years due to the lack of this simple feature.
    I just lost 3/4 of an article I wrote because I was going to click another button, and some menu popup jumped in front of me.  But also, I have been attempting to work around this for years by setting the post date several days in the future, saving repeatedly, and then backdating it to the current time once I'm ready to publish. This workflow, frankly, is absurd in the year of our lord 2024.  Furthermore, it messes with block and new activity sorting by showing those articles that originally had future publish dates at the top of the list, even if they've been read or their backdated date has passed.
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    Maxxius reacted to Randy Calvert in AI response bot feature?   
    Similar to the one done for XF… sounds like this would be a great third party resource.  🙂 
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    Maxxius reacted to Matt in Invision Community 5: Assign topics to moderators   
    Forum moderation management used to be straightforward. It was commonplace to assign a moderator to a single forum. They would be responsible for enforcing the rules, removing spam and generally modelling the behaviour you wanted to see within your community.
    As community management has matured and moderators are tasked with roles based on knowledge, help and support, there is a need for more nuance in managing topics within your community.
    For example, you may have specialists or teams of specialists who help answer questions about development, sales, or support. Topics that require this help may be posted anywhere within your community.
    Indeed, this feature was inspired by a need in our own support community to ensure customers get the right help from the right team member. We have questions on feature sets, purchasing, and support requests, each requiring a different team member. It is not enough to hope that the right person sees the topics; they must be assigned to ensure excellent service.
     
    What are the benefits of this feature?
    The ability to assign a topic to a single moderator or a team of moderators ensures that each topic gets the best outcome regardless of where it was posted.
    Having topics assigned helps moderators deal with issues quickly, as there's clarity over which moderators should handle the topic. It also helps keep your community team accountable by having the ability to monitor their workload and get statistics on the time it takes for your team to reply. These statistics also help the community lead assess quality control.

     
    How do you use this feature?
    There are two ways to assign a topic to a moderator or team of moderators. You can assign a topic when replying to it or do it from the topic's action menu.
    Once assigned, the assignee can review their assigned topics via the Moderator Control Panel and see which are assigned to them via the list of topics. Each moderator will receive a notification informing them they have a new assignment.

    Those with permission to assign topics to others will see all the assigned topics and who they are assigned to when reviewing the list of topics.

    The Admin CP contains a list of all assigned topics and also allows you to create and manage teams of moderators, such as "Sales Team" or "Developers."

    Finally, once the topic has been managed successfully, the moderators can remove themselves from the assignment completing the task.
    Assigning a specific topic to a single person or team in a busy online forum is a strategy that can enhance the effectiveness of the forum's management. It promotes efficiency, expertise, consistency, and accountability, which are vital for maintaining a vibrant and respectful online community.
    We hope you are looking forward to this feature and look forward to any comments you may have.

    View full blog entry
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    Maxxius reacted to opentype in Pages in Clubs, observations so far   
    1. Member posting is now working with the latest patch 👍
    2. Database records made in clubs do not appear in feeds, not the club feed or the Activity feed. I have seen reactions to records though. 
    3. Pages Feed Blocks don’t honor club-level access permissions. On the club level, I turned off access for “Members not in this club” and the records can’t be accessed by non-club-members. But Pages Feed blocks for the database contain these records, despite “honor permission” being activated. The goal here would be to create a “latest news (or whatever the content is) from the clubs I am a member of” block. 
    4. Adding a category in a club is missing the Description field
    5. Not making a Pages category in a club public leads to a confusing, generic error message, which doesn’t tell the user to join the club to access the content. I think the error should be clearer, or the Pages category tab should be hidden from the club, as it is done with Forums in clubs. Right now, it’s inconsistent. Forum tabs disappear, Pages tabs lead to an error. 
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    Maxxius reacted to Nigel Moore in Notifications   
    Hi, wanted to confirm if the plugin does the following functionalities: 
    Only Moderators/Administrators can inject news into everyone's notifications feed When we send something it shows in everyone's news feed all at once Thanks!

    Note: This is JP, developer at The Tech Tribe. I am writing on behalf of Nigel's account
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    Maxxius reacted to Sonya* in Feature suggestion: link back from topic to database   
    If you connect Pages with a forum for comments, the topics will always have a link back to the record. Please consider making the link optional.

    There are several issues with this link:
    It is not editable: you cannot edit topics created automatically from records. It does not respect the template change: you can edit the template, but the changes are not considered while rebuilding. It does not respect permissions: if a user does not have a view permission for the record, the link is broken. E.g., database only for staff, topics for all. It sometime has ambigious wording, like view full person, view full movie, view full book. I know that I can change the language. But it is difficult to find a global one for all databases. It is not translatable: once saved in the post, it always uses the default language. No control for individual forums with other languages. It is redundant: I can create a field in the database and use Topic format to get a full control over the link. This way I can decide, whether to show or not, wording in individual database, exact position in the topic, formatting. This is also respected while rebuilding. Just a small choice field, yes/not would be sufficient. Or at least add a CSS class in the template so that the link can be suppressed with display:none. 😉
    Thank you!
  7. Haha
    Maxxius reacted to Dll in How to download a database off a Invision Website   
    *Unless you're a big AI company (allegedly) 🤐
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    Maxxius reacted to Matt in Invision Community 5: The story so far...   
    We have a few more things to announce, but we're just finalising our internal reviews. I want to do a status update on v5 early next week and outline the next steps.
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    Maxxius reacted to Sonya* in Addition of "Reply" Only Option   
    We have a "Mention" link. It just scrolls down to the Reply-field and adds the username, formatted as mention. No quote. Just the username.

    You could rename it to Reply. 
    (It is a pretty simple plugin that was offered in the past on the Marketplace.) 
  10. Agree
    Maxxius reacted to Sonya* in Addition of "Reply" Only Option   
    Rename it back to Quote. If they do not see a wording “Reply” there, probably they do not use it to reply. 
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    Maxxius reacted to Stuart Silvester in Speed Optimization: Embedded Iframes   
    Ah, I see. That looks like a bug that was introduced when we switched the domain to use youtube-nocookie.com. We'll get that fixed.
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    Maxxius reacted to Jim M in What is the meaning of "No notification list" option?   
    This is from Monosnap
    I’m the sense of verbiage for this particular segment, yes you could say that. 
  13. Agree
    Maxxius reacted to Sonya* in Badge and points for the popular topics and answers   
    I would like to suggest two new actions for Achievements based on two settings in ACP:


    I would like to award automatically members who:
    Created a topic that gets “Popular now” Gives an answer that is highlighted as content with positive reputation
  14. Agree
    Maxxius reacted to WebCMS in Emoji in seoTitle & (un)Friendly URL | 🔥😅😲💛🤩🤮😊   
    https://www.google.com/search?q=emojis+in+urls+seo
    Google is featuring this result on the top of 1st page for a reason with highlighted text -
    Avoid using emojis in URLs as it is generally not recommended and creates indexing problems and SEO issues. Search engines depend on the information containing text to index web pages and those text that has emojis are considered non-standard characters.
    URL address - however, it’s not the best place. The website address should be clear and user-friendly. It’s also important to mention that the search engine doesn’t have an obligation to show the emoji and may not be rendered or in color on some O/S's. If it doesn’t display it, you’ll simply see a chain of characters instead which won’t look attractive.

    Punycode
    Google

    Bing (it only shows the first emoji but the unknown character box for the other two)

    https://www.google.com/search?q="emojis+in+urls+for+seo"
    Most search engines will show no results when using emoticons. So make sure you only use emoji in your page title and meta description, and not emoticons. Finally, Google only shows emoji in its organic search results and not in its Text and Shopping Ads. So don't try to put emoji in your ads.
    https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-says-emojis-wont-hurt-or-help-seo/436079/
    About emojis in titles/meta - there’s no guarantee Google will show them in search results. Google rewrites a majority of titles as it is, but even if it chooses to display the title you’ve written it may disregard the emojis. you’re probably better off writing titles and descriptions in plain text. Emojis are allowed, but it’s highly unlikely Google will display them. There’s no SEO advantage to using them, either
     
    Avoid Using Emojis or Special Characters
    https://susodigital.com/blog/optimising-url-slugs-for-seo
    Google’s official guidelines are clear about this: you should not use non-ASCII characters in your URL, if you want it to be as well-optimised as possible. 
    This includes emojis, as well as characters from all languages that do not use the Latin alphabet, even if your page is written in one of them.
    For search engines, this is mainly important before your page is indexed, but when it comes to user-friendliness, using emojis and special characters in your URL slug can pose more serious issues to your viewers.
    In many instances, non-ASCII characters will not display correctly on people’s screens, making it impossible to copy-paste, or type out your link. 
    ✅ User-friendly URL: www.susodigital.com/blog/what-is-a-url-slug 
    ❌ User-hostile URL: www.susodigital.com/blog/URL-蛞蝓-是-什么 
     
    Similar issues
    Xenforo - https://xenforo.com/community/threads/remove-emoji-from-url.159250/
    Discourse - https://meta.discourse.org/t/thinking-dont-put-emoji-name-in-topic-slugs/76595/26
     
    https://mangools.com/blog/seo-emojis/
    What google does or not with emojis has changed over years many times, there is still no guarantee google would include them in ranking and there are instances where google truncated important keywords due to emojis thereby reducing the page ranks.
    If the title contains just emojis and users want to search by Title only, not many users are tech savvy to grab emojis from the internet to paste into the search field. Title should always contain some word(s) for searchability (even if it contains emojis).
    URLs should work by just the ID without needing to input the optional title text in the slug so if there are any emojis in the URL, it won't be difficult to query by just ID (if users know the topic/article ID). Also there should be an option to search by topic ID, article ID, etc:
    https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/470924
    When "emojis" exist in the url and we click in the address bar, the cursor is not visible while using left/right arrow keys which is a bad UX.
    The aspect of including emojis in the URLs or not can be implemented as a configurable switch in the ACP with a default value of ON so it works as it does now (if at all emojis are excluded from URLs, it should be implemented as a switch in ACP). Those who want to continue including emojis in the urls don't have to do any config due to its default value.
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    Maxxius reacted to Driven 2 Services in Moving a forum from Tapatalk to IPS   
    Unfortunately, Tapatalk does not provide exports.  Their entire model is based around locking you into their platform and their support forums have countless complaints about it.
    I've been able to successfully extract Tapatalk forums including email addresses (which are not public facing) with an admin logged in scrapper in an MySQL database, which I then import into a destination forum.  This includes pulling images into the forum attachment store.  It took some work, but it's doable.
  16. Agree
    Maxxius reacted to balazsp in Emoji in seoTitle & (un)Friendly URL | 🔥😅😲💛🤩🤮😊   
    Currently I am still using this plugin (I know, it is a plugin, not an app, but it works with 4.7.x).
    "Friendly URL Translit By Ilya Hoilik https://ipshelp.ru" (the url is not working either it is for search purposes if you want to hunt for it)
    Iirc it used to be a free plugin in the marketplace, it removes all non-standard chars from the url. 
    It keeps the emojis (and accented non-English characters, etc) in the topic title, but removes them from the URLs.
    Imo it should be part of the core functionality for SEO. 
     
  17. Agree
    Maxxius reacted to SeNioR- in Emoji in seoTitle & (un)Friendly URL | 🔥😅😲💛🤩🤮😊   
    Hi. seoTitle function currently does not remove Emoji from URLs. Link with emoji becomes unfriendly. Consider adding a new preg_replace
    $value = preg_replace('/[^ -\x{2122}]\s+|\s*[^ -\x{2122}]/u','',$value);  
    The copied and pasted URL looks like this: 
    https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/470924-emoji-in-seotitle-unfriendly-url-%F0%9F%94%A5%F0%9F%98%85%F0%9F%98%B2%F0%9F%92%9B%F0%9F%A4%A9%F0%9F%A4%AE%F0%9F%98%8A/  
  18. Agree
    Maxxius reacted to beats23 in I demand this feature in IPSv5   
    Hi, over the years, I have seen a lot of feature requests and suggestions in this thread, and none gets implemented when politely requested. So now I will not ask. I am demanding this change for IPS v5. Make it happen 🙂.
    In IPSv4, when an image is uploaded in the forum and across the suite, except for the Gallery app, the EXIF data, including camera and lens specs, is not stored in the database. This makes it impossible for third-party devs to create add-ons which can display the image's EXIF data in the Forums app, Pages app and other places. This simple feature is vital for many who use the IPS suite for photo\image-driven communities. So, can IPS readjust the image uploading software code so it saves the EXIF data in the database for all images that gets uploaded in the whole IPS suite? The aim is to have selected image EXIF data displayed when the mouse is hovered over an image using a tooltip across the whole IPS suite.
    Thanks.
    Web-link example Image EXIF data displays on mouse hover over image.
    Photo example of EXIF data displays on image.

  19. Agree
    Maxxius reacted to Aiwa in REQ: Discord Integration   
    Point of advice, keep the login and feature rich portions as 2 separate installable applications. Keeps maintaining the code base faster and easier for both. 
  20. Thanks
    Maxxius reacted to Kirill Gromov in REQ: Discord Integration   
    To make it possible to login via Discord, I created this application, while it can't do anything other than login, I'm considering other features of the discord api to include in my application.
  21. Thanks
    Maxxius reacted to Aiwa in REQ: Discord Integration   
    Talk to the author and see if they are willing to set it up as an open source repo. If so, I’ll be able to contribute to help get it updated. The original author deserves the credit on their profile, and to set the license, but I can assist.
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    Maxxius reacted to Sonya* in "List-unsubscribe" in the email header   
    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. 😉 
  23. Agree
    Maxxius reacted to sadams101 in "List-unsubscribe" in the email header   
    I still see adding this as a net positive. Why? Because on a daily basis I must manually unsubscribe people who are too lazy to do this themselves, and they hit the spam button instead of doing the right thing (I am subscribed to the feedback loops). 
    Gmail has already incorporated this now to some degree. If, for example, I hit the spam button to report real spam, but there is a one-click unsubscribe link in the header of that spam email, I am now asked by Gmail if I want to unsubscribe via a pop up. Since the coding for this can't be too difficult, I see only an upside to including it, especially if it increases email deliverability.
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    Maxxius reacted to Joel R in Better image upload & image Resizing For Topics   
    Some thoughts (as one of my communities is very image heavy): 
    - Make sure you and your members know that you can drag and drop into the upload bar.  You do not need to click on Insert. 
    - As @Clover13 mentioned, you should target maximum image dimensions to control the idea display size.  
     
    I've bucketed some different kinds of images posters: 
    - The casual image posters. They wouldn't use the resize even if presented as an option.  
    - The heavy image posters. These are my members who are posting 10 images per post, and making multiple posts They know about the resize option, but they're not using it. 
    - The blogger. These are people writing specialized articles with custom layouts and offsetting images.  They're the few people who actually care about image alignment and image resizing.  
    - The admin or moderators doing announcements.  We know all the tricks anyways. 
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    Maxxius reacted to Sonya* in Need an original forum template for 4.7.15   
    Go to Appearance -> Themes and click on Create New. The new theme will be original (unmodified) one.
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