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Please keep this madness out of IPB.

Please keep this madness out of IPB.

Please keep this madness out of IPB.

Please keep this madness out of IPB.

Please keep this madness out of IPB.

Please keep this madness out of IPB.

Please keep this madness out of IPB.

Please keep this madness out of IPB.

Matt, I need your cell phone number. I have a lot of good ideas. (This is totally normal here.)

Matt, I need your cell phone number. I have a lot of good ideas. (This is totally normal here.)

Does IPB collect statistical data and analyze it in terms of user engagement? It would be very powerful if they could survey data from all participating communities and come out with reports like "we found that user engagement increases X% when this change is made".

Matt, I need your cell phone number. I have a lot of good ideas. (This is totally normal here.)

Matt, I need your cell phone number. I have a lot of good ideas. (This is totally normal here.)

I've disabled all star ratings across our site because no one ever uses them. However, people use the reaction button all the time, every day.
I can see now why Steam changed their system a few years ago so that an item's rating is based on likes instead of choosing a rating.
As of now, we have no way for content to be rated. It would be nice if stars showed up based on the up/down votes. Obviously they would start off at 2.5 or 3, and then as ratings accumulate, it would push the star rating up towards 5 or down towards 1.

I've disabled all star ratings across our site because no one ever uses them. However, people use the reaction button all the time, every day.
I can see now why Steam changed their system a few years ago so that an item's rating is based on likes instead of choosing a rating.
As of now, we have no way for content to be rated. It would be nice if stars showed up based on the up/down votes. Obviously they would start off at 2.5 or 3, and then as ratings accumulate, it would push the star rating up towards 5 or down towards 1.

We have more featured images than can appear on the gallery front page. It would be nice if the front page showed a random selection of all featured images. This would allow us to feature more content, and would prevent the gallery front page from getting stale.

I just did a check in the skin to see if a header image is provided, and I skip the "pattern" block if it is missing.
It would be good to be able to require the user to upload a header image for each new blog entry. This would prevent blogs without header images, but it would also put pressure on users to be more selective about posting a blog article, and encourage fewer high-quality articles. A lot of times my users will create a blog entry just for a single video or image, along with a short explanation, and I feel bad removing it but I don't like this happening.

It's a good idea to use images that are double the resolution you need at 100% DPI scaling, especially for logos.

I will consider it.
Unfortunately, there is no way to generate thumbnail from uploaded video.

It's a good idea to use images that are double the resolution you need at 100% DPI scaling, especially for logos.

This is why I keep saying big tech is ****ing us all and we need to collectively do everything we can to work around it. That's why I am trying to expunge Amazon, Facebook, and Google from our system.

This is why I keep saying big tech is ****ing us all and we need to collectively do everything we can to work around it. That's why I am trying to expunge Amazon, Facebook, and Google from our system.

Thank you for your report. I will test it. If it’s a bug, will be fixed in the next version.

In business there is a concept called a whole product. You should study that. It is very frustrating to find a solution that is almost perfect and then be told "lol sorry you can't use it".
BIM YouTube Importer does not currently support importing an RSS feed but I am talking to the author about it.
I made the following fixes:
In "interface/sliders/nivoslider.js" find the text that says "random" and change this to "fade" to get rid of the different transition changes in the Featured videos block.
In "Application.php" change line 283 from this:
return "<iframe width='560' height='315' src='{$embed}' allowfullscreen frameborder='0'></iframe>"; to this:
return "<iframe width='560' height='315' src='{$embed}&rel=0&hd=1' allowfullscreen frameborder='0'></iframe>"; This will not prevent other videos from appearing after the video plays, but it will prevent videos from other channels from appearing. The "hd" tag will ensure the high-res video thumbnail is shown by default.
In all your themes you have in use, go to videobox > front > embed > player and comment out this entire block of code if you don't want to show the weird "external URL" / "Part 1" buttons:
<br> <div id='playerPanel'> {{$serverID = \IPS\Request::i()->serverID > 0 ? \IPS\Request::i()->serverID : $current['vbs_id'];}} {{foreach $video->videoOnline() as $name => $server}} {{if \count($server['online']) > 0 && ( $server['groups'] == 0 || \IPS\Member::loggedIn()->inGroup( explode( ",", $server['groups'] ) ) )}} <ul class='ipsButton_split ipsMargin_bottom'> {{ksort($server['online']);}} {{$cnt = 0;}} <li class='ipsButton ipsButton_verySmall ipsButton_primary vbServerName' style='width: 100px !important;'> {$name} </li> {{foreach $server['online'] as $videoID => $row}} {{$cnt++;}} <li> <a href="{$video->url()->setQueryString( array( 'area' => 'online', 'serverID' => $row['vbs_id'], 'vid' => $videoID ) )}" class="ipsButton ipsButton_verySmall {{if $serverID == $row['vbs_id'] && $videoID == $current['vbo_id']}}ipsButton_light{{else}}ipsButton_veryLight{{endif}}" {{if $server['upload'] == 0 && $video->canEdit()}}data-action='managePart' data-videoid="{$video->id}" data-partid="{$row['vbo_id']}"{{endif}}> {lang="videobox_videopart"} {$cnt}{{if mb_substr($row['vbo_url'], -4) == '|end'}} {lang="videobox_end"}{{endif}} </a> </li> {{endforeach}} {{if $server['vbs_upload'] == 0 && $video->canEdit()}} <li> <a href="{$video->url()->setQueryString( array( 'do' => 'addNewPart', 'server' => $row['vbs_id'] ) )}" class="ipsButton ipsButton_verySmall ipsButton_veryLight" title='{lang="vb_addNewPart"}' data-ipsDialog data-ipsDialog-title='{lang="vb_addNewPart"}' data-ipsDialog-forceReload='true'> {lang="vb_addNewPart_icon"} </a> </li> {{endif}} </ul> <br> {{endif}} {{endforeach}} </div>