AlexJ

Hi @Marc Stridgen - I see your point but let me share few things from other side. 

1. User requesting for help, doesn't often indicate their installed version. So may be an option to indicate their installed version would be great. 

2. Conversations in reference to infrastructure set up / optimization, monitoring, monetizing, DDoS, spam, etc. is mostly general across all versions.  Today, even though I am using IPS forums, some/many times, I have to look at Xenforo forum because they have wide variety of infra conversations available. I would prefer to use IPS forum for having a conversation with fellow IPS forum admins. I normally contribute what I am using and at same time interested what other's are doing as well.

3. Also current IPS customers can ask for help on other non-IPS forum. Based on that my suggestion would be - general conversation category for admins to talk on and if they need IPS team support, IPS specific category. - Thanks

Hi @Jim M - I don't have PayPal specific rules. Does MaxMind rules also apply to apply? 

Currently only active customers can comment. Before majority of IPS customers, used to ask question through IPS ticket system. Now it's through forum first. 

Can you enable commenting on existing topic/post, so even though I am not 'active' license holder but I still hold 6 licenses and hence allowed to comment. This way, I can help others because certain times in last few weeks, I thought, I can help but wasn't able to. 

It's understandable I can't create a topic but disallowing other users to help your existing customers, seems counter productive. 

Just a minor feedback. Thanks.

Hello,

Credit card transactions through PayPal goes in manual approval status. Is their anyway, it can be auto approve? I can't find the setting for it and in past PayPal has IPN set up or something? Any help appreciated. - Thanks.

13 hours ago, Joel R said:

It's going to be interesting to see how IPS plans to expand its digital monetization

I hope they improve this crazy mess of donations/subscription which works across the spectrum and not just some forums/customers.

10 hours ago, AlexWebsites said:

Anyone using Zaraz with Cloudflare? I just implemented Google Analytics.

I use in one of my less used sites for testing purposes. I haven't done before/after monitoring. 

Off topic:  I was setting up zero trust and that's when I noticed it. It would be interesting to know if you are using CF Email service with AWS.. trying to set up auto move, to validating for bounced emails. If you have experience in that, will PM you. 

I am still having an issue when posting profile comments on our site. Do you guys have any solution planned? This bug is open since months now. 

UI update has Ehren written all over it. Using your themes for past 10 years 🙂 Well done. 

Is it possible to disable in wild card search in admin CP? It seems, through moderator logs, topic titles can be exposed to the members, who don't have access to categories. 

Marketplace was really good option to find everything in one spot. Now i need to register on 20 different sites and half I don't even remember. 

It's like Apple telling to it's customer, here take iPhone. You want apps? Go on developers site and install from their. Jeez, what a nightmare. 

Take care of your health. Rest everything will go on. 

PS I am one of the customers who is unhappy because support/ticket system is gone and have to deal with broken donation system in store. 

On 11/28/2023 at 11:45 AM, FanClub Mike said:

User-generated content and real-life experience are becoming more and more important.

I think we are saying the same thing for AI and that's what i mean by training AI models i.e. to provide better/accurate results. Same thing happening in banks as well, where AI results are used to check anomaly. I think it's industry wide adaptation ongoing at present. 

Also, Microsoft is pushing hard with their co-pilot program or bing chat. So Google is improving as well since their major revenue of 50-60% is from adds. 

Competition is always good for consumers. 

Google is taking seriously because of all the rush to get good data for AI models/search display and competition is getting spicy with Bing. 

5 hours ago, Jim M said:

Would be very careful about doing something like this. Don't want to be overzealous in doing so or you may accidentally block legitimate traffic. Maybe that's a legitimate user using a VPN or a third party service you're running which runs in a datacenter or something else entirely.

I normally check using https://www.ipqualityscore.com/ - it is accurate overall, especially this M27 or datacenter related IP's. 

We normally mention on site, users should remove Proxy if they face the issue. 

On 10/15/2023 at 2:03 PM, Martin A. said:

I will not continue supporting this app in IPS 5. I may set the repository on Github for this application to public in a while, unless someone else is willing to take over this application. 

 

@Adriano Faria  @teraßyte (Tks for checking already) @DawPi

Block them at Cloudflare / Firewall level. I have blocked bunch of IP's and ASN's and it took care of the issue. Just make sure you check - if the IP is from Data Center / Proxy and based on that update the rules, so no real users would get impacted.

It also takes care off useless search bot who just aggressively scan for WordPress links. Ex:

On 9/1/2023 at 8:44 AM, Joel R said:

The third party community plans to launch a coordinated Marketplace Directory that at least lists all of the files in one location.  

 

Is this done? Checking if i need to register on 50 different websites for find new apps .. Thanks to Dev's for coming together. 

Dream come true 🙂 Nice work @Ehren 

49 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

https://invisioncommunity.com/clients/purchases/

Thanks! Is that going away or it will stay? Also any thoughts on how to download the applications? 

How app renewals / paid $$ will be tracked? I don't have track of what applications, i have purchased over the year. I really had liked the idea of install apps through ACP (marketplace). Easy, less worry and headache. 

Can I please get the list of paid apps? So on next renewal, I can talk to app owner? Thanks. 

On 8/15/2023 at 3:52 PM, Stuart Silvester said:

After October you'll need to get any updates from the author, we're not going to be allowing files to be downloaded directly, that isn't part of the agreement we have with authors. There will be a means to 'prove' your existing ownership to them on their own sites so you can continue to receive updates and renew the purchase (if required)

I can't even download files today. Can you please tell me how can i download the files/apps which I paid for? I would like to save the local copy. - Thanks. 

Ok thanks for quick response. Just a general question: How it impacts IPS team? From business standpoint Apple store makes 30% appx. I am guessing, to support developers through IPS Marketplace, IPS was charging fees on each transaction. 

Now does that mean, no marketplace = less revenue OR since 70% sales decline, it wasn't worth the hassle for IPS? Does this mean, customers will be charged different way, to make up for this revenue loss? Just curious. 

Is their anyway, I can have the 'local copy' of addons which I purchased through IPS? Currently it's all through ACP -Marketplace. I never asked so far because never needed it but with marketplace shutting down, I might need in future. 

So for normal users like me, can i still do 'application upgrade' check? OR That process is changing as well? 

If i understand - rather then purchasing renewals from IPS, i will be purchasing through developer site? So 10 developers, 10 sits for renewals? I am fine with it, as long as I can use add-ons on IPS forum. 

Current IPS functionality doesn't cover all my needs and for us, stand alone forum would be non usable without developers fixing the gap/bridge. 

I agree with Robert here. I always click on Notificaiton on our forum and all is marked as read. It works fine when you have 5 things to catch up but doesn't help really, when I am logging in after few days and i have 30 notifications to catch up on. 

Hey.. Q: For spam management, does IPS support, this one? It's from Cloudflare. 

It would be nice to have some option to delete spam members in bulk. This one by one is pain!  More like once user profile is selected as spam, auto delete post and profile after XX days. 

On 7/21/2023 at 12:12 PM, Matt said:

Hi all,

Next week we plan on releasing a few blogs outlining what development looks like for Invision Community v5.

I was curious as to what changes you'd like to see, and what changes do you think are coming?

I would be interested if page application going to be better for creating basic site front end pages and some navigation options. Non tech folks like me, can't make the best use of Page app and information available on our site. I really have whacky landing page which I would like to make better.