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    LiquidFractal got a reaction from Rikki in Why I try and avoid the F word in public   
    My culture is academic and scholarly, so I've never had a problem with the concept of "forums"...especially since the discussions we have (when you can get academics together on a website long enough 🙄) could never be seriously carried on in Facebook groups or anything of the kind.
    Likewise for teaching and tutoring academic writing, critical thinking and English - the ways in which forums allow you to excerpt ("quote") and analyse specific parts of an argument or debate win the day as far as collaboration goes.  Forums are key to creating meaningful exchanges which can be revisited and amplified by students and educators alike - especially when more recent functionality allows them to be appended to other content such as Articles.  Not one of my students or other clients has ever had a problem with "forums."
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    LiquidFractal got a reaction from Matt in Why I try and avoid the F word in public   
    My culture is academic and scholarly, so I've never had a problem with the concept of "forums"...especially since the discussions we have (when you can get academics together on a website long enough 🙄) could never be seriously carried on in Facebook groups or anything of the kind.
    Likewise for teaching and tutoring academic writing, critical thinking and English - the ways in which forums allow you to excerpt ("quote") and analyse specific parts of an argument or debate win the day as far as collaboration goes.  Forums are key to creating meaningful exchanges which can be revisited and amplified by students and educators alike - especially when more recent functionality allows them to be appended to other content such as Articles.  Not one of my students or other clients has ever had a problem with "forums."
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    LiquidFractal reacted to Joel R in Why I try and avoid the F word in public   
    Better than "bulletin boards" 😂
    Regardless of the name, I think discussion communities will always serve a growing importance in an increasingly digital world.  The ones who can be the best in their niche will be able to serve a digitally global audience, solopreneuers can now reach customers everywhere, and brands can scale to any size and audience group with a community. 
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    LiquidFractal got a reaction from Matt in The hidden cost of doing nothing   
    Not to mention the fact that CentOS 6.x reaches EOL some time next year. 🙂
    But the points made here need repeating: despite the hassle and inevitable hand-wringing involved with upgrading one's live site (compound this if you use many third-party apps and plugins, all of whom almost certainly have their own update schedules which will not coincide with yours), IMHO there is no excuse to fall behind to the point where you're still using 3.x.
    I don't always agree with the priorities re: what gets added and when, or what gets dropped from v3 to v4, but it's the world we live in.
    Oh, and...backup backup backup.
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    LiquidFractal got a reaction from Hexsplosions in The hidden cost of doing nothing   
    Not to mention the fact that CentOS 6.x reaches EOL some time next year. 🙂
    But the points made here need repeating: despite the hassle and inevitable hand-wringing involved with upgrading one's live site (compound this if you use many third-party apps and plugins, all of whom almost certainly have their own update schedules which will not coincide with yours), IMHO there is no excuse to fall behind to the point where you're still using 3.x.
    I don't always agree with the priorities re: what gets added and when, or what gets dropped from v3 to v4, but it's the world we live in.
    Oh, and...backup backup backup.
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    LiquidFractal got a reaction from JoshB84 in Welcome to Invision Community 4.4!   
    "you can now get your hands on the beta release from the client centre."
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    LiquidFractal reacted to iacas in Welcome to Invision Community 4.4!   
    Yes please to both or either of these types of requests.
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    LiquidFractal reacted to Lindy in Welcome to Invision Community 4.4!   
    Sorry for the confusion. The title has been updated to reflect it's 4.4 beta. 
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    LiquidFractal got a reaction from opentype in Welcome to Invision Community 4.4!   
    "you can now get your hands on the beta release from the client centre."
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    LiquidFractal reacted to Mark in 4.4: Increase visitor registrations with Post Before Registering   
    It will use the one from the social service (assuming it's set to import emails)
    I did experiment with a modal but it felt weird... Like, do you leave the editor with their post still open underneath? That makes it feel like the post hasn't been submitted, and that you could close the modal to cancel, but that wouldn't be the case.
    Yes that checkbox is part of the normal registration form.
    If they don't complete registration (i.e. they never confirm agreeing to the privacy policy) the email address is automatically deleted. The only thing it is used for before that is to send one follow up email to remind them to finish submitting the very content they submitted alongside giving their email, which is a legitimate interest.
    Yes, that's exactly how it works 🙂 
    Yes, they will see the COPPA form after submitting the post, and then on the next step it will be as shown in the blog entry.
    Invision Community doesn't natively integrate with Akismet, but the registration process is unchanged so our native Spam Defence service, and any other anti=spam measures you have in place are still honoured.
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    LiquidFractal reacted to Iwooo in 4.4: Increase visitor registrations with Post Before Registering   
    Nice one! 
    What about a case someone enters email and then click social sign-in connected to different email address? 
    Keep up good work
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    LiquidFractal got a reaction from The Old Man in 4.4: SEO Improvements   
    "It's been said that the best place to hide a dead body is on page 2 of Google."
    Oh, thank you @Matt....this made me genuinely Laugh Out Loud
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    LiquidFractal got a reaction from Daniel F in 4.4: SEO Improvements   
    "It's been said that the best place to hide a dead body is on page 2 of Google."
    Oh, thank you @Matt....this made me genuinely Laugh Out Loud
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    LiquidFractal reacted to Adriano Faria in 4.4: 6 New Micro Features   
    You can see on forum view in the preview site: https://invisionalpha.com/
    Not sure about index. Topic view remains without formatting names.
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    LiquidFractal reacted to Joel R in 4.4: 6 New Micro Features   
    Huh? The screenshot shows the profile page (not the forum index), and nothing is different with Matt's name.  
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    LiquidFractal reacted to MMXII in 4.4: 6 New Micro Features   
    I am confused. Maybe it is just the screenshot, but... what exactly has changed here compared to earlier versions?
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    LiquidFractal reacted to Chris027 in 4.4: New Email Features   
    Is it possible to limit which groups receive email advertising?
    We sell subscriptions that give people ad-free browsing of the site, and I'd like to exclude this group from receiving ads via email.
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    LiquidFractal reacted to Tom S. in 4.4: Extend Invision Community with the REST API   
    How about more integration with with Commerce?
    Creating invoices, managing purchases, etc ...
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    LiquidFractal reacted to CodingJungle in 4.4: AdminCP Notifications   
    well that is the simplified version, to give an "approximation", here is the full equation:

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    LiquidFractal got a reaction from Adam84 in 4.4: AdminCP Notifications   
    You forgot the last stage:
    Add 12 more teaser blog entries, then divide the lot by the square root of -1 with the constant "under development." 😉
     
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    LiquidFractal reacted to Adam84 in 4.4: AdminCP Notifications   
    „..due later this year.“
    So mid 2019 is meant? :-)
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    LiquidFractal reacted to Joel R in Gamification for your community   
    Customize your language strings.  It's easy!
    Most people only think about it for second languages, but I think it's one of the easiest and most powerful methods for crafting a unique 'lingo' for your site.  
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    LiquidFractal got a reaction from Matt in Team Talk: Which job would you be terrible at?   
    For me it would be Sales and being a politician...probably because they're so much alike!
    I belong to an old and dying breed who would rather dispense with underhanded tactics, lying, cheating, stealing and being a general #(*&#$ and get on with finding out what unapologetically artsy, philosophical truth is for myself, helping others find their truth, and envisioning a world which, while far from perfect, would be one where people didn't have to be constantly scared for their future security.  Not trying to turn the discussion to these heated topics, but my curse is that for me this means critiquing things like the Left, the Right, capitalism, socialism, the United Nations, democracy, organised religion and atheism (whose foundations are often equally shaky), etc.  Doesn't make you popular in, well, much of anywhere.
    Think of me as Agent Mulder but without the gun, cool badge or the boyish charisma.  Oh and without the suit.  I hate suits.  Probably another reason why I'd suck at sales and politics.
    PS I still think Jennifer is ubercute.  No disrespect intended, so please no one assault me with hashtag populism
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    LiquidFractal reacted to Matt in Video Tip: ACP Tips and Tricks   
    oooh. We could tie it into the version ID, so you could search for the version number. Hmm.
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    LiquidFractal got a reaction from Matt in Video Tip: ACP Tips and Tricks   
    Thanks for the overview!  I knew most of the stuff except that, like @Joel R, I only wish I had known about Copy Settings before...alas.
    One idea did occur to me whilst watching this: if one uses the adminCP to search for, say, a blog name, and it comes up in the blog listing, clicking that name will take you to its adminCP page so you can edit settings and so forth.  What if that listing also included A "View on Site" option?  The option to go directly to that blog (or any other forum, gallery, download category) on the site would save a bit of time versus having to click the Visit Site button, then browsing to blogs in the menu, selecting your blog, etc. etc.
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