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Improvements are nice, but my main concern is maintaining existing projects. I would want to know everything that is not possible anymore and learn if there are alternative ways. This includes hacky solutions like putting a MySQL query in a theme template and things like that. I have lots of customized installations and I don’t want them to be stuck with 4.x.

Already available as part of the group settings:

I watched the video and it's great to see that gallery video transcoding will be a cloud only feature...

 
That's sarcasm...I hope they at least did something with the titles for SEO.
It really would nice if you allowed self hosting customers to use AWS libraries on their own. Or give a developer the ability to create these features and support with a plugin or app. That goes for all the "cloud only" features. Your cloud pricing is just not comperable to self-hosting, especially multiple licences. 
 

Hi,
My name is David. I run a side business called Mountain Interactive and frequently browse forum pages around Invision community. I've used Discord mainly for my community with over 34k+ Members. I am more attracted to running a website (forum) instead for communication as it is a more safer and enjoyable way, discord feels too corporate and doesn't give you enough room for customization. Now, I used to use Xenforo and left because they made an error while cloud hosting my site and I lost pretty much all my site data and subscribers which is really important when you're making $20,000 a month and need to ensure that your billing is working as normal every single day. They offered me $500 credit and told me that's all they could do 💀.  

Now, with that out of the way. I love Invision community for a lot of reasons but I do highly recommend you guys do not choose to go full corporate robot mode. A lot of things I like about Xenforo were that they had such a big addon community and it felt more sociable aside from how IPS Boards feel. My biggest recommendation and advice is to keep a balance between serving those corporate communities and also little guys like us, who love add-ons, and configuring our websites to the fullest potential possible.  I'm super excited to see Invision Community 5, It's been really hard to push my community from Discord to a forum software because anyone who like me, was born in 2004 and later isn't very familiar with forums. 

Thank you for your hard work!

Sincerely,
David

We will have to go to tons of differents platerform for keep our products purchase up to date.
Gonna be a pain to handle. Not gonna lie. 

A detriment to the devs will be the loss of all the reviews their plugin/apps have generated. It would be a nice gesture on IPS' behalf if there was a way to salvage them.

Not a bad idea, but I'd really like each project be domain-specific. So for instance one club would be for one game with its own domain (or sub domain) and another club would be for another game, also with its own domain (or sub domain.) I don't think that is possible to do with clubs.
Goofy I know but... having clean domains for each of the games we support is really important to us.

To be clear, as I was one who brought up the security concerns in this topic, I absolutely was not referring to any known instances or developer here, but merely the potential for it to occur and increasingly so when IPS becomes 100% hands off with third party applications.  Apologies if it came across that way.  I've seen enough security exploits in my own career (not anything IPS or IPS third party related) to warrant the concern.  Again not a reflection of any developer here or the quality of their code, I'm simply proactively thinking about the possibility and considerations regarding preventative measures.  If anyone feels such a security concern is  completely unnecessary or overkill, I would appreciate your particular insight as to why.  I certainly don't know the underpinnings of IPS code, so perhaps there is a reason a client doesn't need to have an elevated concern over it.
I'd still like to know what IPS corporate customers do, if it's anything like the corporations I've worked with (unrelated to my IPS projects), there is full fledged InfoSec and AppSec scanning of all application code before any deployment with Production (real user/member) data.  Generally for a hobby site, I'm not very concerned with data loss (with regular backups available to restore as needed), but I am concerned about data breaches involving PII.

Perhaps this would be the perfect time to come back with the "Requests Forums"? @Matt
Honestly, I feel it's too intrusive to have to message each developer. Creating a topic telling about your project and letting a developer be interested in it is more pleasant for both sides.

Crack the whip, Olivia!  Keep the guys in line. 

I second this for threads as well. It would be great if when creating a thread, I could also set when that Pin is to be removed. 

Demo site down?

Thanks, I already bought this application, however, I would like to see this functionality out of the box
This is exactly. 
IPS, will there be any thoughts on this?

Sorry for the necrobump on this topic, but I'd really love to see the option for custom fields in threads, too. Any chance of seeing this in 4.5? 🙂

Over on Dpreview.com the forums have the option of showing topics with a threaded or flat view. The threaded view is very reminiscent of the way I used to read usenet groups on a reader who's name I have long forgotten. 
It would be nice if IPS could develop a similar thing so that people could follow branches of discussions within the same topic. 

Two things I really would like to see are:
Pagination for database relations. As I plan to map stories to companies and articles, there will be a lot of them. Not having a pagination will make this a bit....messy. So please add 🙂 Map RSS fields to custom fields. Importing RSS into a Pages database could benefit greatly from allowing me to map the available fields in the RSS to custom fields. Right now I have to manually update all entries to map image and url, which is a tad bit annoying. That is all.
🙂

Or you can install a test board with the apps you currently have and compare with the DB of your live board.

Just did some testing and it's working perfectly! Thanks, @Adriano Faria! 🙂

PM sent. 👍

@Adriano Faria I'd love to test this out, too. 🙂

Agreed. Anyway, I think this should be an admin’s decision. He can control new accounts with email validation, check IP address, restrict messenger for the initial group, restrict number of reactions per day, etc.

Good day folks, I was wondering if in the future, we may consider integrating social media MeWe and Parler into IPS core? Thanks!

Suggestion - With the plethora of stats that the system has it would be interesting to see for self-hosted clients a widget in the ACP that would estimate what cloud plan would be best for them, if they decided to go to cloud. 

Hello IPS team! A probably rare request, but something I would like if possible is the ability to change the forum view by member type. Fluid view has done a lot to promote activity on the boards. That is now the default view for members. And they seem to be very happy with the change. What would be great is to have the ability to have guests (search engines in reality) view the Table (traditional) view. 
Reason:
I would like to continue having members default to fluid view, as they're more active and love having everything in one place. But I would like to have Google see and properly index the individual forums.
Thank you. Continue the great work!

I see the discussion got closed down about 5 years ago. Looking through Lindy's remarks there I can't help but feel that the world has changed from considered replies to short messaging so substantially in those 5 years that it seems like forum-like flat views are now considered antiquated by the next generation.
This is the extinction risk that us old timers in the forum game have to be aware of - what worked for us doesn't seem to work for the next group of internet users. They want brevity and unless you are guiding them by the hand when it comes to following an online discussion, your outlet is just never going to gain favour with them.