AlexJ

So, if I understand correctly, missing one renewal means losing the license and having to repurchase it for $500? I just want to confirm my understanding. Thanks.

For IPS 5, I was told, you can't use Classic and you have to use new one. I had good balance on my minimal (less then 5 user) forum. My other sites, I upgrade on regular basis and have active IPS renewals. I would like everything on IPS 5 but in some case, it's renewals and for some it's awaiting updated on addons. It's god send news, if you tell me, IPS 5 can be used with Classic terms. Thanks and Happy New Year.

I got 5 IPS licenses. For single users, it doesn't matter but in a grand scheme, I 100% agree with you. This are free hobby sites and that was the beauty about the IPS back in the days i.e. hobby, pro, commercial, etc. folks can use it. Now it's all geared towards commercial users. I would like to sell my other 2 licenses and use sale proceedings towards IPS renewals. Sadly, we just can't. The renewal terms are what's stopping me i.e. miss one renewal and you loose 500$. Even the M$ doesn't do that with their subscription based model for Office 365, Github, etc.

@Matt - IPS Tickets to private topics please? One of the biggest blocker for me to update site besides some addons - awaiting 3rd party dev's to release new version for 5.x.

Hi @Matt - Any plans on converting IPS tickets to private topic for audit and compliance reasons? You had agreed in past but I don't see any mention on that recently.

Where do we stand on converting support tickets to private topics? I can't convert my 2 sites because of this. Thanks

How are you doing this through CF? Please share the tips. Every site owner should do this.

I can ignore 100 defects from your code, against 1000 helpful answers from you. :) We are good. However don't let go any defects from X who has not improved ages old IPS email integration. :D

I like your bottom 3x2 layout.. i somehow can't do that. Is that something u can do in v4? I got ugly one in big line which makes no-sense.

How does Redis performs? Asking because I never see Redis using more then 20-40Mb max. So is it really that optimized or it's not evening caching correctly? My database size is around 2.5G appx. I see - thanks.

It helps with larger forum as well. Imagine you have 500 users browsing and each having it's own request i.e. 500 DB request. Now with event/schedule based, 1 query every 30 sec (OR configurable) -> Update block cache -> Server all 500 users that without any database request. I am not sure if MySQL has build in cache i.e. if content hasn't change, does it still do full DB scan OR provides from cache. I know for sure, snowflake has it's caching engine. So if my underlying data hasn't change my next query execution comes from cache.

Thanks for the confirmation. Can it be modified, so that it's event based? If event driven is not possible, schedule would help as well i.e. every 5 mins run 1 query, update block, static block (5 mins) -> all users get it if it's configured as don't check for permissions.

How does this caching work? It's event or scheduled based to pull latest topic/post? For Ex: Caching is at 15 mins, it will only generate the block data every 15 mins OR Topics / Post are event based and will update the store data. Then user uses gets that as a static block, so request wouldn't be dynamically processed for each user? I am not sure if I am explaining my question correctly. I am hoping it's event driven block update and then user refreshes the browser, request wouldn't go to database rather cache.

We need the same solution for tickets as well... we can't loose the ticket history for audit perspective. If we can convert tickets to private category -> Topics and posts, would be perfect.

Super - Much appreciated and saved the hassle. Thank you.