AlexJ

9 hours ago, The Old Man said:

A pie or donut chart would be an ideal way to show who contributed towards a goal. Perhaps one could be added.

Not really. I work daily on BI tools from Microsoft, Google, Tibco, etc. and I can tell you from visualization perspective, it's bad idea. 

No one can click on donut slice of more then 10. Here is live example:  https://fearless-assassins.com/donate/

@Matt Happy to hear, it's added. Have you considered users using donation app can be moved successfully from app to commerce? I really have long standing request i.e. in commerce it accepts credit card as a payment while donation app doesn't. So now, i am forced to use 2 applications because commerce can't create donation goals and show who donated when. 

In today's world, I and many like me would prefer to provide transparency to end users i.e. when, how much and for what goals, users are donating.

2 major issues in donation app is only PayPal support and no subscriptions. I would prefer to have all in one app i.e. commerce or donation. 

It would be nice if Commerce can get some traction in donation tracking perspective. We have limited subscription option but bills are due every month/year. So having donation goals and who donated against that goal, provides more transparency. 

1 hour ago, Matt said:

Already in v5.

This is great news...  u have no idea how much I have asked to Michael about adding subscriptions. It's mess right now for our users... their profiles don't reflect correct count because subscription is through Store and regular donation through Michael donation app as it provides yearly goals. For any donation based community, yearly donation goals are critical. 

1 hour ago, Matt said:

I think the sensible thing to do is wait for all the news of v5 to come out and then make an informed decision on your future. Trying to extrapolate v5 from a few dev blogs may lead to rash decisions.

OK we will await but the notes from 3rd party developers that their majority addons wouldn't work got me concerned because their app is what IPS makes good. I am already grumpy and will remain as such because service desk is going away and it's headache for me to integrate 3rd party apps with SSO.  I wish you can publish the article with some alternatives and migration steps, so folks like me can follow. Right now it's going to be trial and error. 

Thanks!

On 7/27/2023 at 11:54 AM, Matt said:

Based on statistics we collect,

Again this bogus statistics gameplay. Jeez .....u had used same logic for removing support desk/ticket which everyone said, it's working fine. 

Anything that you want to remove, use the stats card. Without plugins, I wouldn't use IPS because IPS Nexus/Commerce can't even do basic donation tracking which every community needs. 

We love IPS and many are here since V2,V3 or even before versions... but with V5, it feels you want to go pro-cloud, make it standard for all and remove features which you think are not required without having 2nd thought for what your customer needs. 

Why you need to push us to XF man..... I am not touching vB for sure.. so only choice XF for me.