KT Walrus

I would prefer if I could place the admin panel on its own subdomain. Much better for security when using Cloudflare One and deploying Zero Trust for the admin domain. https://www.cloudflare.com/case-studies/cloudflare-one/

You need to set to expanded view. This is a simple template bug I’ve reported several times before but have been ignored. Maybe you never use View -> Expanded for your index pages? It is an annoying bug since I don’t know the forum the topic is in until I view the topic.

Fluid view index page does not show forum names in index view while the topic view page does show Feedback forum on the topic page.

I use Herd for local development on my Mac. Herd uses .test local domains so I can install multiple dev/testing instances of my PHP apps (as opposed to placing each instance on a separate localhost port). Only problem with this set up is that Invision Community doesn’t recognize .test domains as being localhost domains. Can you please allow multiple installations on local .test domains? I want to have installations of both v4 and v5 on my mac at the same time. https://herd.laravel.com Herd works great for all kinds of PHP apps, not just Laravel apps. I have Herd Pro which supports MySQL, Redis, and MinIO. This makes it very easy to test under various versions of PHP and these other services.

Invision should fix this. BTW, Invision should really be using flysystem for storage like other PHP frameworks like Laravel.

Invision should fix this.

Switch to Backblaze B2?

This would be very concerning to me. Examining over 700k rows will take a lot of time in the db. It might be very hard to optimize this query and your solution might be to disable fluid view on your forum.

Did I miss an announcement? Can I download a copy of IC5 right now?

https://mailtrap.io/ is very popular in the Laravel community. Might want to check it out.

Could you add built in support for embedding Bunny Stream videos? Bunny is the cheapest video transcoding/hosting/streaming service and I use in my WP blog. Would really be nice to recommend to my IC5 users instead of telling them to just use YouTube. Most users don’t pay for YouTube Premium, so these users will see annoying ads in content posted by others. Or, can you test the new Custom Embeds to make sure I can safely allow users to embed Bunny Stream videos in their content?

Maybe checkout https://www.the-art-of-web.com/php/dkim-mail-signature/ if you want to develop a plugin for adding DKIM to your PHP mail. Or you could run postfix locally to relay your outbound mail to either a transactional mail service or your bulk email provider. SMTP queues outgoing mail so you can rate limit and send mail asynchronously. Or, you could see if IC5 distinguishes between transactional and bulk mail to allow ACP configuration. Should be something Invision could easily add, even into IC4.

I use Zoho ZeptoMail for transactional mail. It is cheap and Zoho has the best privacy policy I’ve found. ZeptoMail is just $25 for sending 100,000 emails. I also use Zoho Mail for all my email accounts. It is only $48 a year per mailbox with even less expensive options available if you have a very small budget. Zoho has a fantastic suite of apps for businesses. I moved from Google Workspaces just because of Google’s privacy policy being so bad for us consumers.

Will the test sites come with the option of a pre-loaded testing database (like forums, topics, and user profiles already populated)? Or will it be just like a self hosting installation on a new database?

Ditto. Seems like I’ve been waiting forever for the self-hosted beta, and now it might be July or August before I can move forward with v5. I’m moving on to the Laravel framework, I think.