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as long as the setting for a forum can be made individually or in bulk I think currently some things (best answer)  are stored in bitwise so there is no easy way to change all forums to use a given setting. 

So far the process to transfer has been good two of 4 done, and only two items don't yet have a provider. 

One thing that jumps out is that your choice of music hasn't improved with the new version. 

would be nice to see the reach of announcements. Including impressions, clicks, and perhaps who interacted or dismissed it. 

It would be nice if announcements could be constrained by time to start and stop announcements. Sometimes you have embargoed until a specific time - I hate having to get up super early to make the announcement. 🙏

would be nice to see the reach of announcements. Including impressions, clicks, and perhaps who interacted or dismissed it. 

Curious about what will happen to the Marketplace forum will that go to read-only? There may be posts that are still valuable. In addition to existing reviews of said apps? Will this data be transferred to whatever takes the place of this?

We did that three years ago in a genuine attempt to increase sales and viability. It helped for a short while but the trend didn’t hold. 

v5 is a significant step forward for UI, discovery, noise versus signal and brand matching. Change is hard but it is kind of inevitable.
If nothing changed, then we'd still be using this:

And while you could absolutely run a successful community on that product even now, the chances of attracting new members would be low given the expectations modern audiences have for UI and ease of use.

Yes, I will corral all of the Marketplace devs together so we come to consensus on this project. I've been fortunate to have worked with many of them over my 10 years with the community.  They all know me (for better or for worse, ha 😆). 
My goal for this new Marketplace Directory  is simple: provide an independent directory using Downloads.  It will link you to the providers' own website for support. 
 
More broadly, to anyone who is hesitant about these changes, there are some pros and cons: 
- More independence, more variation, and total flexibility for developers and themers.   They can build their own core, their own gallery, their own package of plugins.  You can't do any of that in the current Marketplace.  I expect to see some truly experimental and innovative approaches to how developers and themers work with IPS 5. 
- More independence, more variation, and total flexibility in how they charge.  Providers can charge crypto, they can offer a bundled set, they can offer discounts, they can set their own policies for chargebacks and refunds. 
- Trust will be deeper, not wider. The IPS Marketplace gave a broad stamp of trust to all providers for meeting standard IPS coding. But for clients, this is an opportunity to deepen ties to one or two trusted developers and take our most important apps private and control our own development pipeline.  I do believe the biggest developers will still offer - and can make healthy income - off a broad portfolio of single purpose mods, but those by itself aren't going to dramatically fulfill your community's specific needs.  

To Marketplace developers and the Invision community as a whole, I will be happy to host an independent and collaborative Marketplace directory.  It's already in the works.
I fully support a thriving ecosystem of developers and clients: to extend, to inspire, and to push the boundaries of our platform. Technology is an important differentiator more than ever in the modern web, and working with developers (either privately or through their public mods) can help fine-tune your platform. 
 
More information and invitations will be sent out to active Marketplace devs.  You are also welcome to send me a direct PM.  
Follow this topic for any future updates.  

If I was a new developer trying to gain trust, I'd spend some time in the community being helpful and getting to know people. You can quite quickly gain trust this way and then start to offer your services and products.

Can you speak yet of any database changes?

I know some settings are stored in a bitwise fashion (forum features) and enabling features in mass across all forums is impossible.
What changes do you anticipate for the ACP, or is the first push focusing on public-facing changes?

You could also use CloudFlair to combat intense attacks. 

You could also use CloudFlair to combat intense attacks. 

You could also use CloudFlair to combat intense attacks. 

During upgrading can we please change the Username/Password fields (what ever mechanism) to allow use of 1Passowrd.  Ideally add ability to sing in using Apple/FB/Google? 
 

The reality is, the more you use, the more secure it is. 

I have created a ticket on this for you, so we can take a close look

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/23/meta_giphy_sale/ 
Interesting read. 

Can you please adjust the tags or IDs or whatever is needed so that this page will work with 1Password. 
https://developer.1password.com/docs/web/compatible-website-design/

Can you please adjust the tags or IDs or whatever is needed so that this page will work with 1Password. 
https://developer.1password.com/docs/web/compatible-website-design/

Can you please adjust the tags or IDs or whatever is needed so that this page will work with 1Password. 
https://developer.1password.com/docs/web/compatible-website-design/

lol, I leave mine on I am instantly able to see they are spammers and then ban them no real user seems to ever fill out their profile to such completeness. 

You've been here before 😉