AlexJ

I will see what I can do with it all, I do have some ideas for other tournaments & leagues too
Not charge a fee, you can award points for winning in each round though, I could add it to a update when you can charge points for tournaments etc and even have a pot where it costs say 100 points to enter then they go into a pot and the winner takes it all

Hi! This application looks great and I'm interested in getting it as it is, but it doesn't quite fit what I would fully want, so I want to gauge interest from my fellow admins and from site users before purchase. 
I run a forum for competitive debate and I would like to be able to host online tournaments simply, but a simple single elimination bracket isn't quite sufficient. I have a few different suggestions and they're definitely not too debate-specific to be generally applicable to anyone who wants to host tournaments.
The way debate tournaments are typically structured involve a set of preliminary matches (usually 4-8) that are used to determine seeding and only a set number of teams move into single elimination matches (ex. the top half of prelim performers, only a set number of competitors, only people with winning records, etc.). Usually after each preliminary match or every 2, competitors are re-seeded and placed in appropriate skill brackets. So it's functionally a Swiss format with a single elimination bracket added on to it. Seeding usually happens by win record with the first tiebreaker being "speaker points" given by judges on quality of speaking, but there is a shift toward using "opponent wins" as the first tiebreaker, which cumulatively adds the wins of opponents in order to weigh the difficulty their preliminary matches. 
Other tournament structure options that would be interesting to add:
- Loser brackets: Allowing teams to compete after losing helps determine overall placing in a single elimination bracket.
- Double elimination: requiring 2 losses to be fully eliminated
- Round robin: everyone has a match against one another and then either the best record wins the tournament OR the best 2 teams have a finals match.
- Tournament series: setting up a series of qualifying tournaments that result in a championship tournament among the top performer
 
Other features that would be interesting to see: 
- Integration with commerce - Both for charging tournament entry fees and paying out tournament prizes (being a percentage of the entry fee total). I understand the desire to require people to purchase members shop for this kind of function, but that's not quite what I'm looking for and I think a lot of site owners would probably be willing to pay a higher price for this application with commerce integrated.
- Integration with calendar - Being able to schedule tournament events automatically. 
- Creation of "Leagues" - Allow users to create their own leagues who then administer tournaments to participating teams. Integrating with commerce could mean leagues require membership fees that the site can take commission off of and league owners can charge entry fees for their tournaments that the site can get commission off of as well. Kind of steps up user involvement and investment in participating while allowing site owners to step back from needing to be too heavily involved in constant moderation. Permissions on who can create leagues and requiring league approval would clearly be necessary. Maybe allow for non-league tournaments but attach different commission settings to them. 
- Since my site is about debate, adding an extra layer to teams would be useful. Schools operate as squads with multiple teams who compete individually in a tournament, BUT teams from the same school can't compete against one another. I think that this would also be attractive to users if there was the possibility of winning a prize as it ups their odds. That said, I think it would be ideal to have tournament settings involve allowing teams in the same squad to compete against one another or not. (I'm not sure if this is included when you say "Create unlimited categories and sub categories for members to create teams.")
- Show teams on user profiles. 
- Expand stats to also include history of tournament placing, not just W/L and ELO.
- Ability to set start times for rounds of matches to keep it on schedule as well as notifications for start times/notifications for when pairings are released
I do have some more debate-specific ideas I may ask to have done custom (if you're willing) after purchase and after some other things have been updated with this application.

will this change a member's content post dates too?

After 2 years without using clubs because of the lack of pages in clubs I'm still hoping.
Is there a chance?

Can IPS add a feature so the Quick registration form is able to show custom fields upon member registration?
I have custom signup field but can't set my site to use the much better quick registration form. 

Add in your globalTemplate before </head>
<link rel="preload" href="https://your site/applications/core/interface/font/icomoon.woff?v=-29n77j" as="font" type="font/woff" crossorigin="anonymous"> <link rel="preload" href="https://your site/applications/core/interface/font/fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.7.0" as="font" type="font/woff2" crossorigin="anonymous">  

For a normal users - you are right. Cache works correctly.
But when a speed test is done by a machine - incl. and these Google machines, these machines do not use cache. The http/2 protocol speeds up CSS and JS, but font awesome slow down a browser.
Here are three concurrent tests from different test server-
all reflect this delay.

This test I do on this site as a guest - as every online tool does a test. Such an estimate speed makes and Google when analyzing the sites in which it publishes advertisements. This reduces the price paid by site owners.
Of course, users who logged into a site do not have this issue. But when it comes to money - any delay in loading site is bad. And I see many sites that rely on this ...

Pay attention - how late is the loading font awesome well after basic resources have been loaded - and the browser waits - that slows site rendering.
More curious is that this delay reduces the value of ads, of course for anyone who expects money from Google.

I'm not worried about myself - I do not use ads. But I think the font awesome is a poor place in the suite.
The same delay, unfortunately, is also observed in 4.4 alpha.

No. Only one option (radio box) and multiple right answers (check box), on development. 

Hello
I have some suggestions for a future release:
- The possibility to indicate the difficulty of a quiz or to generate it automatically according to the results
- The possibility of changing the duration of a quiz by moderators
- The ability to set the quiz options by category (possibility to play several times and update the score). This would make quizzes based on speed and others on initial knowledge
Thank you

We have a moderator only topic that we have been 'printing' and saving to a file for years.
After a recent upgrade (not sure if it was the last one... may have been earlier) the 'Print Topic' option seems to have disappeared.
Does anyone know how we get a topic into 'printable' (we print it to pdf and save) version?
Would appreciate any help :)

As has been alluded to, there is no dedicated "print X" (i.e. "print topic") option anymore. Instead, we apply print styles to the page and you can print directly from your browser. If the page is still too heavy for your liking, you can further tweak the print CSS using custom.css in your theme.

I don't think this is good:

I got the whole page (menus, links, breadcrumb, footer, search box, etc.). I  want to print a topic, which is: title and posts. I don't need the rest.

The “print version” uses a print stylesheet. Print via browser is a mess. 

Thanks for sharing the extensions :) but it would be more awesome if there is in Built more robust system from IPB TEAM rather than relies on third party add on :)
Omg !!!!!! looks with quote to above response  reply content again repeated for TOPIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
 

That is a good sign.... it means you are actually pondering what we are asking for.. ;-)
I know it is a big job... but it would blow away ALL competition.
If you added a PWA, real-time private messaging, your platform would begin to leave all the others in the dust.

Most of your users access the responsive version with IOS and will continue to access, even if they create a PWA. There's no reason to create a desktop-only version, right? The theme of responsive design would remain the same, the novelty would be the PWA. One thing don't need to replace the other. The difference is that users could have that option and the search engines too, which instead of indexing a page with 15s of load, would index to compatible mobile which loads in 5s or much less.
 
Anyway, we can not ignore that IOS is used by the minority of users and since 2009 has only fallen. It's almost 10 years since the fall. On the other hand the use of android only increases every year.
IOS vs Android:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/266136/global-market-share-held-by-smartphone-operating-systems/

 

I support @Caez77 idea. It's crucial function! Cron sending would be awesome also, it's taking a long time for bigger communities. 

Automatic account deactivation should be an option for our communities.
I noticed this topic was started and then closed because Admin was reluctant to see the value of this feature.
Could you imagine Facebook or Instagram not having an option to disable your profile? Or better yet, you need to write to the staff to manually get it done?
It's ridiculous that we have to do it manually.  People care about their privacy - whether you think it is a big deal or not that they close their account, it is important to them and it is an expected right with social media sites these days.
This plugin is great but it's nearly $100 for what should be a basic social media site function.
I also already forked out USD$35 for the same plugin which was then discontinued and rebuilt. 
I am still going to purchase the above again because this is something I desperately need.
Does anyone else find themselves wasting time on manual account removal requests and feel this should be part of the core?
 

What's New in Version 1.2.1:
Fix error when sending email

I wasn't available in the weekend. I'll be back to this today.
Anyway, follow the file and the topic. You will get notified when they're updated.

This one is weird. The first email is sent. When you try to send again, the error occours.
Still on it, @AlexJ and @Edward Shephard

Sorry, forgot that. Will take a look tomorrow. 

IPS Support are in the Commerce app. 
This is made with Pages

Then you have to create member groups for each "ticket" database, then set the permission on who can use it - but then again,
u have to make ALOT of groups for each "seller and each buyer" OR the easiest way, like here on ips, make a forum for support.