Everything posted by AlexWright
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Tags
AlexWright replied to AlexWright's post in a topic in Invision Community 5: Beta Testing's Beta DiscussionIf this is going to be a forced closed taxonomy system, it definitely needs a better management and application system for tags. Tag categories would be helpful for this...but yeah. I have to agree with Joel here about this having to have a predefined, comprehensive and generic list of tags. This doesn't work for all communities.
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Tags
AlexWright replied to AlexWright's post in a topic in Invision Community 5: Beta Testing's Beta DiscussionEesh, ok. Guess we'll have to hold off on upgrading the 2 other communities as well.
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Tags
Alright so I got a v5 beta community set up. And we're running into an issue with Tags. Is there a way to make the tag system an open system, like currently exists on v4? For the life of me, I can't find one. As someone who runs a very diverse community where tagging is not only essential, but extremely diverse, this seems like a change for the worse to have it only follow a closed, pre-defined list generated by the admins. There were hundreds of species tags that were in use on one of my older communities that I was likely going to bring back with the launch of ICv5, but this kind of puts a damper on that. Looked at all of the tag settings, but nothing makes it an open system again that I could find.
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Ignore / Block
Sure. Here's from the invision 5 site, as I don't currently have a community set up. Just test ignored a user chosen at random (Sorry Astro!) Their content is still absolutely visible in Gallery: Topics they started also behave weirdly, in that they can be seen if someone else has replied in them: The posts behave as expected within the Topics, however. I'll get some help for a community I work with for showing this on the v4 platform when I can, but it's essentially the same. Don't believe the v5 site has test page databases available for use atm.
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Ignore / Block
Ok, but it should still be possible then to ignore all of a user's content throughout the default apps, not just the forums, messages, and mentions. The fact that there isn't a parity of the ignore feature across all of the Invision in-house applications simply doesn't make sense. It should work for Pages databases, Gallery, Clubs started by that user, and Blogs, at the very least in addition to the other core applications.
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Ignore / Block
Having now also played around on the v5 site, I can say that nothing with this system has improved or changed. It is still not possible to, for instance, block someone's gallery, blog, or pages content. I'm kind of disappointed in this, but not surprised anymore. I'll have to agree with @Tripp★ above and say that the current version(s) of the Ignore function aren't suitable for purpose in a community based platform.
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Cannot moderate private messaging abuse
We just had a similar issue. Turning off the ability to delete PMs doesn't actually disable the "Remove from Conversation" feature, which still acts as if the conversation has been deleted to the other party.
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A different article styles By Pages ( IP.Content )
Sorry to be a bother, but is the PAS Display template still available somewhere? Even for purchase? It seems that it's not included in the current install availability. Love the rest of the current templates though.
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Pages: Feature Image
Ah, I could've sworn there was a switch. Thanks for the correction.
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Pages: Feature Image
That's the thing, it is activated: But on the record, no switch exists to have the image featured: Edit: Even on default theme:
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Pages: Feature Image
Ok, I may be going stir crazy, but I seem to remember there being a setting to feature the uploaded image in a pages database record. Is that a setting somewhere? I'm not seeing the ability to do so on the record itself, and I've been through the database settings. If I remember right, it would show the larger image above the record text. Any help would be great, thanks!
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Pages SuperBlocks (Support Topic)
What would it take to get something like this working?
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Pages SuperBlocks (Support Topic)
Super blocks is pretty great, not going to lie. However, we've hit a small snag in ours. Is there a way to have the blog entry feed have each entry have the entire block be clickable to get to the entry? Thanks!
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Upgrade from 4.6.12 to 4.7.0 Failing
Hi all, Seeing a problem here upgrading from 4.6.12 to 4.7.0. This is a direct upload of files from the client area to the server, and we're now getting: The error shown here. It is definitely from the 4.7.0 files, and the permissions are set to 0777 via Filezilla. Not entirely sure what's going on here, however because of the update, the site is currently down. Any help appreciated.
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Report Member Profiles - Supporttopic
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More Gallery Suggestions
Sure. In categories where Allow Albums, but not Require Albums is set, users can upload to either an Album or not. Images that aren't added to an album display below a listing of all albums in the category. At one point, we has a category with over 400 albums and about ten thousand images outside of albums. Navigation became...awkward. This is a suggestion we made to xenforo as well, but in essence: With multiple categories, one could add a Category field above the Album field in the image above. Basically have a nice tidy form for each image being uploaded which you can select these options in.
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More Gallery Suggestions
Right, so this may be a long topic, and one I harp on from time to time. Now that I have moved a forum away from Invision (and over to XenForo), I'll list some of the reasons of why we made that choice, and what IPS could do better, at least from my user's experience. I'll try to break this into segments so it's not too rambling. 1. Displaying Albums above the regular gallery navigation. Doing so degrades the user experience with the software. Albums should be a way for users to categorize their uploads, but should not detract from navigational experience. Instead of displaying Albums entirely separate from the general view in categories that allow both albums and regular uploads, this should display the image grid, with items from Albums included. The album in which the image appears should be listed in the image details, allowing users to browse that specific album if they wish. In doing this, you clean up the (oft times) confusing layout of categories that allow Albums and separate image uploads. 2. Albums/image categorization in general. A feature of a few gallery sites is to allow an image to be categorized in more than one album. For instance, if I have an image that includes multiple characters (Say, from a game, anime, movie, or other), outside of tags it is hard to have the ability to categorize that image appropriately. Several of our users had requested a way to include an image within multiple albums without having to create duplicate copies. Even if an image could be "imported" to display in another album, this would help. 3. Uploading needs to be simpler. Yes, uploading takes a lot. Select category. Select album, no album, new album (and detail new album), upload, edit each individual file anyways for description and tags. This could potentially be streamlined by: Upload each image. Select Category and Album, No Album, New Album per image. Set details while doing this (description, tags, etc). Additionally, don't allow the uploader to be closed if the user accidentally hits escape or clicks outside of the box (sometimes a warning prompt appears before the box closes, this should be always). I probably have more...but these were the big ones from the users.
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(DP43) Grid View per Forums
Has this been looked at?
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Add "Report Member"
Another thing thats often overlooked is the ability to report a member directly. For example, to report a member's About Me area, or a username, etc.
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Ignore Improvements
The ignore function is an extremely essential part of running community services such as Invision. However, I feel as if one of the most overlooked features is a fully functional Ignore and/or Block system. While we do have the current iteration of the Ignore function, it is severely lacking in some departments. The image below is (while themed) on a clean install: This install has all of the Invision applications enabled (Forums, Blogs, Pages, Commerce, Downloads, Gallery). The above only references Posts (which many assume, and correctly, this refers to the Forums), Messages, and Mentions. So how can this be improved? There's a number of ways, and a few other items I'd like to add. 1. Add most community applications to the Ignore list. This would mean adding Downloads, Blogs, and Gallery items (very unlikely that the need to Ignore admin generated Commerce content would arise) to this list. If I want to Ignore someone's content, generally I want to ignore all of it, not just some. 2. Extend the functionality of Ignore into a full on Block (perhaps as a user option). Most major community/social media platforms do this. Think Twitter, Facebook, etc., where when you Block a user, they cannot access your content (including your profile) either. 3. Add admin options to force users to ignore each other. Currently this requires logging in as the user and adding to their ignore list. At least make this accessible in the admin panel, and have options to disallow the user(s) to un-ignore/unblock each other. Numbers 2 and 3 here are major reasons why I moved one community off of Invision and onto a competitor and repurposed the license for another project that doesn't need this functionality yet (yet being the key term, of course). The question of "why these changes, specifically" arose in a conversation with my mod team for the community we moved away. Our main answer was: this lowers the amount of moderation work, and allows us to not need to use posting moderation and/or account suspension between users tossing barbs back and forth. We weren't a large community by any means (about 18,000 registered users), but even so these features were so asked for by the moderation team and users that it caused us to shift platforms. Hopefully something will be done with this feature set in the future. Cheers, Alex
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(DP43) Grid View per Forums
Has this been looked into? We're not seeing any grids on the selected forums over on: https://forgeborne.games/forums/ While we do get the forum images displayed, they display full-width rather than in a grid. This can't be working as intended. Edit: just noticed it's applying ipsGris and not ipsForumGrid. Could that be why?
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Run Background Processes at Server level?
Yeah. Turned out not to matter anyways. Not enough space on the server. Invision's ACP showed 212 GB of space used for gallery...really it's more like 800 GB with the double copies of every item (small and large version plus original). I'm still wondering why the Invision widget showed total of 212 GB of gallery disk space, unless that's just originals? Seems kind of pointless to list just that if in fact the size is much larger.
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Run Background Processes at Server level?
Conversion to XenForo. Which, unfortunately, requires the files to be localhosted.
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Run Background Processes at Server level?
The problem is the cron job just isn't fast enough. We're already using CRON to run tasks, which includes the Queue task, which handles the background processes. I'm wondering if there's a way to speed this up without using the web interface's Run Manually.
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Run Background Processes at Server level?
Is there a way to run the background processes at server level? Run Manually takes too long to start and runs into a php limit. We're moving about 152,000 image files from the s3 back onto the server. Any help appreciated! Thanks, Alex