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Although if we're going to be making comparisons here, there is a distinction to be made between an unmanaged and managed VPS (with the latter the host takes care of almost all this for you).  Not to get too off topic, but there are things which, say, a VPS offers which Invision doesn't (and which the platform simply cannot at this point).  Not dissin', just sayin'.

I just don't see myself ever moving to cloud. I'm hosting multiple IPS sites on one dedicated box and the costs and customizability outweigh the price of any cloud packages for me. It would be triple if not more annually. I don't spend much time managing my server. I use cpanel/whm and pretty much set and forget, with the occasional updates. A lot of things are on autopilot. Now, if you are hosting others, custom packages, different software and such, then its more server management work. I'll also say that I don't run majorly busy sites with a need for massive architecture. Under 100K users each a month. If your dedicated server is only for you and you know what's on it and what you need, its not hard at all if you are using third party software like cpanel.
I've done a comparison and it costs me max $22-30 per site per month (depending on what apps) with server and IPS software updates. Yes, I am not taking into a consideration any more new sites where you have to pay the upfront software cost. I've long paid for that and will probably not add any more sites based on the direction with cloud features. Even upgrade fees used to be lower until they raised them to every six months. I was able to absorb that. I just would not be able to move to an $89 creator plan on each.  Even the beginner plan at $49 with forum only would not work for all my sites. In total, it would cost me $4-5K more per year in fees, which would come directly out of my earnings/profits. I see no reason for me to do that. I'd sooner move to another platform.
Now, if IPS comes out with some sort of discount per license that brings the prices way down and close to my current operating costs, I'd be willing to revisit. Just a little feedback 😉

Although if we're going to be making comparisons here, there is a distinction to be made between an unmanaged and managed VPS (with the latter the host takes care of almost all this for you).  Not to get too off topic, but there are things which, say, a VPS offers which Invision doesn't (and which the platform simply cannot at this point).  Not dissin', just sayin'.

That way you could also tie it to subscriptions if you wanted to...🙂

Many of my users would love to have this feature, and it's obviously a very bad idea to make all users moderators just for the sake of one feature. I hope that you will change your mind and refine this feature, then it will become really useful. Thank you.

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but I think that being able to trigger alerts for specific pages or apps would be really useful.
For example, if someone enters a certain Downloads category with certain products or services an alert could trigger with information specific to that product or product category.  Or, if someone enters a certain forum (or forum category) an alert could pop up to provide relevant information.  You get the idea.

Ughhh, triple head desk. 
Thank you!🥰

have you had a look at the moderators cp
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This looks super promising!  
A couple of suggestions if I might be so bold...
Integrate this into the warning system UI.  (Warn User, Flag As Spammer, Message, ALERT) Integrate this into the forums.  For example, being able to send an alert to those who participated in a topic.  (The use case might be to notify users of something important happening when they might not be following that thread OR if a thread is getting out of hand issuing a gentle nudge to get them back in line.) Allow sending anonymous messages that a member can reply to which would show in the alert section that any moderator could respond to.  (The use case might be part of the warning system of letting a member have a chance to respond to a warning, or giving a member a chance to ask questions with the moderator team.)

I didn't read through the whole thing, but I do want to say thank you for making it clear as to who this will be available for.

This is 100% on the "phase 2" list.

@Matt 
Any discounts ? I need an additional license !

My journey started 26.XII.2005. Loong time ago. It was a love at first sight. 😉

Congrats team!! Super excited to see where things go next 😃 

I second this...even though there have been one or two occasions where I've complained about things, there's a reason I've been here since 2009, when LiquidFractal was little more than a quirky community site where the odd colleague would pop in and rant about professors, Hegel, Wordsworth, [insert thinker here] or the state of academia in general (which is terrible and getting worse).  My site has since evolved from this (well, sublated its past state...never mind this little bit of nerd-dom 🤓) to become an open learning hybrid organisation.  I'm grateful that Invision has been with me along the way.  Here's to 20 more years! 🎉
 

We have a few other surprises to celebrate our twentieth anniversary. We can't wait to share them! @Matt
Can't wait to see those! Congrats to you and your team for being successful. 

Ipb has come a long way since you guys founded it 20 years ago. It has become the undisputed leader in the forum software world. Congratulation on 20th anniversary, and I wish you guys many more years of success. 

@Matt it goes even further back for me as I still count the original Ikonboard days!  It was the failed experiment that lead to the one that actually worked!
In terms of memories… there are too many for me to pick just one:
@Charles picking me up from the airport near Appomattox explaining how Virginia was not a state but a commonwealth.  The panicked support tickets to reboot a server and @Lindy saving the day and talking me off the ledge when IPS still sold dedicated servers.  Meeting you and learning about the migration from Perl to PHP.  Working through the upgrade from IPB3 to IPB4 thinking the conversion would NEVER finish… and then when finally turning the board back online and members saying “oh wow!”  

I have been here since Invision Power Board v1.1 way back around 2002. It is great to see @Matt and company develop and grow over all these years from a small start up to a titan of the forum community, many congratulations!
Glad I decided on choosing the correct option of IPB vs vBulletin all those years ago. Never looked back and been a happy customer ever since.
If there is only one criticism it is the recent change in support, barring that blemish here's to another 20 years of success... 👍
Ted.

Now I feel old. Fantastic.
Hello from 2004 as well:

 
99'999 Posts! Around 2004.

And some time later:

 
 
This long-term customer base is proof of the great work you do! Thank you so much!
 

Great message @Matt, its amazing to see how far things have come, and I'm proud to say I've been along for most of the ride starting in 2003, back when I was part of a gaming clan.  We needed a place to communicate, and the cobbled-together .NET website we had just wasn't cutting it.  Later on, I used it for a local car club which lasted until everyone's lives moved on, and eventually to run a business!  We are coming up on our 10th year in business on March 1st, all the while using a website built exclusively on Nexus/IPCommerce, Downloads, and Pages!
We are very grateful for the love and dedication you put into your products, and look forward to another 20 years!

Outstanding!  Is it currently possible to configure rules which bind specific products to X amount of points (with the ability to forego badges, i.e. set badges earned to none)?  According to the screenshot, it looks like you can only filter by product group.
I'd also suggest:
A way of manually managing a member's points (but perhaps this is already possible in the adminCP? Couldn't see anything though) The ability to trigger rules when a member's points reaches X (e.g., email, PM) But hey, what a great Christmas present!  Great improvements! 👍

Is there a way it can be even more personalised by detecting the username from the original topic?

[USERNAME], thanks for your reply.

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