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I am currently using IPB 4.4.2. The admin CP shows me that I can upgrade to 4.4.10. Is 4.5 available yet? Do I need to upgrade to 4.4.10 before 4.5 will appear?

It would be a lot nicer if @mentions, images, and links worked in the status update block.

They are still headquartered in the U.S. and I would like to have an alternative to making all our commerce dependent on that region.

I am very keen on implementing a non-American payment gateway that can handle automatic recurring subscription payments.

Look how good my code blocks look on this page: https://www.ultraengine.com/learn/API_Entity_SetPosition_FP It's using a dark theme, but there are light themes available. There's even a nice copy button that copies the whole block to the clipboard. Search for "highlightjs" and "highlightjs-badge" for more info.

I designed the new interface. You're welcome.

There is something in the startup world called the MVP, or minimum viable product. The idea is to put something out there as soon as possible, and then improve it if there is a response from the market, and discontinue it if there isn't. This can save a lot of time because you don't end up building a product there is no real demand for. It's not that hard to create a simple app that just wraps a web page. Try this and release it in the iOS App Store. If you get 10,000 installs, then yes, maybe you have a good point about apps. But I bet you won't even get 20 installs. Your app will get absolutely buried. You're about 13 years late to the app party. This is coming from someone who actually has done mobile development on both iOS and Android and has been through the process of submitting an app to the store. I even gave a talk about mobile development. This should really be a first step before you demand that IPB skew things in a weird direction. If you want this you should provide evidence, not just say "the market is moving this way".

People use the Facebook app because it's Facebook, not because it's an app. Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

Nobody cares about a "mobile app" just to access a website. It's not 2007, mobile is not interesting or novel. Nobidy cares. This sounds like the same bullfaeces we heard in the game industry like "the world is moving to mobile, if you don't go mobile you're dead!" and everyone who did waste time on a mobile product got slaughtered. It's a constantly changing, extremely unstable platform with extremely complicated development methods and zero users. I'm surprised anyone is even still trying to push the whole "mobile is killing the PC!" nonsense.

Here's another reason: YouTube has arbitrarily decided to disable the "related videos" feature for embeds. So now we have all sort of unrelated content being advertised to our users after they watch a video. Who knows what they will do to us in the future?

It usually occurs because the author deletes their video years later. I don't mind if they delete the video on our site, but having a bad embed link sucks.

We also have a big problem with video embeds that later become removed videos. Would prefer to host the data ourselves. It's not 2001, video should not be this difficult.

Agreed, we don't need YouTube any more than we need imgur to host our image files.

I'm very interested in functionality to automatically download YouTube embeds and to generate thumbnails from images. Any dependence on third parties that we can eliminate is a good thing. Amazon S3 storage is cheap, so there's not really any reason to be hosting all our content on YouTube in 2020.

Right now I have my IPB install tucked away in a /community subdirectory. This makes for some slightly awkward URLS like domain.com/community/blogs and domain.com/community/store I would like to move IPB into our root domain directory, but I have my PHP website that is separate. I don't want to use IPB for my main website, because the site does exactly what I want and loads faster than a CMS system would. How can I make it so navigating to domain.com or domain.com/index.php will show my own custom site, but domain.com/blogs or domain.com/forums will show IPB?

The view for categories of items in the Downloads system barely shows four items at a time. It wastes so much space. All app stores squeeze as many products into view as possible and let the images catch the viewer's eye. The categories view should just show the title, image, and some other info. The user should have to view the item's page to see its description. Most of our uploaded files barely have any description at all, just one short sentence. It makes no sense to waste so much space that could be used to show the viewer more items. Examples from other sites: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/windows https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/popular https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/ This is bad: This is good use of space:

The default background image that is shown in blog entries, blogs, and profiles is very ugly. It looks like a website with its CSS missing or something. I would prefer to set this to a solid background color, without editing any templates in the forum skin.

I only recently learned about these, but it is a big deal if you are doing any government business. Do you have any documentation on this? If IPS is already building with this in mind we can literally save tens of thousands of dollars.

I suggest a default dark theme in addition to the white theme. Everyone is going this way because it doesn't fry your retinas after looking at the screen a long time, and it would make the process of creating dark themes much simpler if there was a good starting point.

However, Mailchimp's RSS import really sucks. If IPB had the ability to automatically send a mass email of each blog, I'm sure it would be much better.

Apparently MailChimp also has automatic email campaigns. So if you set up the MailChimp plugin for IPB that should handle everything you need. The only problem an IPB feature would solve is that Mailchimp is quite expensive for large lists.

Hubspot would charge about $7000 a year for this functionality. If IPB added another app for automated marketing and it was really well-tested I would gladly pay $1000.

You also want to have the server send out one email a day after they register, another email three days later, another one seven days later, etc. to keep the customer engaged. You just preconfigure a bunch of emails to automatically send out in scheduled intervals. Hubspot costs big money to do this.

I would like to make it so I cannot receive private messages. I do not want users sending me unnecessary messages. It would be nice if the user account had an option to disable them for only their own account.

No installation instructions?