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    optrexnz reacted to SeNioR- in New Live Community Features!   
    From what I understand only for communities with a someone paid plan. So this not be available for self-hosted instances.
    By the way, they should mark these types of articles with the information that the features are only available to CLOUD users.
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    optrexnz reacted to ChrisVanMeer in New Live Community Features!   
    Will this also be available for self-hosted instances?
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    optrexnz reacted to 13. in New community manager tool: schedule topics   
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    It would be better if the feature was available to certain groups, and not just moderators.
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    optrexnz reacted to Adrian A. in Test drive Invision Community 4.4 now!   
    What is this GIF button?

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    optrexnz reacted to Day_ in Test drive Invision Community 4.4 now!   
    Q - When can I download it?
    A - When it’s ready™️
    Just thought I’d help get that one cleared up straight from the off.
    Brb, off to play. 
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    optrexnz got a reaction from mudcrutch in 6 reasons why you shouldn't just settle for a Facebook group community   
    In a nutshell this is why I hate FB. Yes my groups are more active, but that's because you get asked the same questions over and over. People can't/wont use the search or follow instructions on a pinned post or even read documentation in the files sections on FB
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    optrexnz got a reaction from KentT in 6 reasons why you shouldn't just settle for a Facebook group community   
    Amen +1
    Reading through we do a similar thing with our sites where we try to use FB as a feeder to the main site. It doesn't always work, hence the desperate need for the above 3 points.
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    optrexnz reacted to KentT in 6 reasons why you shouldn't just settle for a Facebook group community   
    Let me set some context, before I explain. My site is a 19 year old virtual club for enthusiasts and collectors of a specific brand of antique garden tractors. It includes a significant online library of contributed resources of all types, plus an active Classifieds ads (free) that allows them to buy, sell or trade for free with real folks avoiding Craigslist scammers and hassles ( we have always required users to provide their real name, city, state) or eBay costs. It also supports an aftermarket of reproduction parts. In addition to researching and finding things or asking questions, users can document their collection and their projects in a variety of ways (a custom tractor registry - now using Pages + collections, photo gallery, build log blog, a Show & Tell forum specifically for that, etc.)
    We also have a Facebook page and a Facebook group. The page is simply to stake a place and hang a shingle on Facebook - because we are a virtual club, many of the FB tools for a business owner to use on their page simply does not apply - and most imprtantly, because search engines and such penalize me if I don't have one. Consequently that page doesn't see much traffic, and the content is not very dynamic. The Facebook Group is used to "push" key things from my site into Facebook so that users can then share that info with their friends, family, other groups, etc. We share new classified ads, blog updates, new photo gallery items, new registry entries, etc - so that our users who are in Facebook can then share their hobby with their friends, family, etc. My site has over 9000 users, and the FB group has over 1000 members.
    We do not actively encourage users to post in that FB group, much less use it for general chit-chat. Similarly, we don't encourage status updates on the club site.  I really don't care what they had for lunch, what their kids/grandkids now look like, or where they went on vacation. But, if they have something significant or meaningful related to their tractor hobby, I want to capture that, catalog/index it, and save it for posterity (rather than it disappear with the latest Photobucket policy change, when MySpace or or other free photo repository fades away, etc.) I want to add that to our knowledge base and repository and make it easily searchable and shareable.
    In addition, we have a News and Announcements forum for news about the club, the site, or its software - and we share all topics in it to Facebook. Meanwhile, our moderators also monitor that Facebook group and should someone ask a question there, they respond and if possible provide a link back to the site for more details, resources, etc. 
    We try to use Facebook as a means for our users to share info about their hobby with a wider audience, to "market" who we are and what we can provide to a wider audience (especially younger users who live in their phones but may seldom use a computer), and as a way to broadcast news and updates about the site and the club. I don't try to compete head to head with FB, while fully acknowledging that it is a part of many of our users lives, and simply want to facilitate that...
    So, things I would like to see are:
    1. Ability to Promote to a Group in addition to a Page
    2. Ability to auto-promote new content from specific parts of my site, to reduce the workload of moderators manually sharing (or promoting) content, and let them work in a "by exception" mode, similar to how they police the forums.
     3. Ideally, I'd like to see the ability to automatically feed or pull back to my site any Facebook reactions or comments to content that has been shared or promoted there...
     
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    optrexnz reacted to bearback in Proactive and reactive moderation - which is right for your online community?   
    I for one am getting fed-up with seeing these off topic notifications in my admin cp (news and updates), come on now start taking notice.
    if I was to start posting off topic comments and discussions in the wrong forum sections I would soon get pulled up about it
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    optrexnz reacted to 13. in Proactive and reactive moderation - which is right for your online community?   
    Could you post only News&Updates in News&Updates section? Please stop bother(with useless notifications) people who subscribed to this section in order to follow news and updates, not QOTW/Obvious things about moderation, etc.
    Create separate section for such kind of things.
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    optrexnz reacted to rgf100 in Proactive and reactive moderation - which is right for your online community?   
    The report centre is, unfortunately, hamstrung by the lack of notifications - you get alerted to a new report, but not to a moderator commenting "not sure what to do with this, any ideas?" 
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