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    PrettyPixels reacted to Matt in Invision Community 4: Pages databases in Clubs   
    Finally, one of the most requested features for clubs in Invision Community is coming with our March 2024 release: Pages databases in Clubs.
    You may be surprised to see a new feature being introduced for Invision Community 4 during our flow of news for Invision Community 5, but as we're committed to Invision Community 4, we wanted to continue to bring optimizations and improvements to the platform.
    What is the benefit of this new feature?
    Clubs enable communities to host multiple micro-communities with many benefits. Clubs allow more specialized and focused discussions on specific topics. This can lead to higher-quality content and a deeper exploration of niche subjects that may get overlooked when posted on a busy forum. Clubs also offer the ability to tailor the community experience based on the needs of that community. That customization is what this feature focuses on.
    Pages is a powerful application that allows truly custom layouts for content areas. Simply by adjusting templates, you can create a news feed layout (it is what we use for this news blog area!) or something even more customized to your needs.
    The March 2024 release allows you to create Pages database categories directly inside clubs, including custom fields and templates.
    How does it work?
    Setting up your Pages database to allow clubs to use categories is simple. Simply allow categories to be created within clubs when creating or editing a database.

    Once that is done, club owners can add a Pages database category to their club in the same way they can add topics, galleries, etc.

    Once the Pages database category has been added, you can then add content as you would any other club area with the added features of Pages, including custom templates and custom fields.
    This example club uses a custom Pages database listing template to show the articles in a custom format along with custom field data.

    Likewise, viewing an article in this example club showcases the use of custom templates to present the content differently from the standard topic templates Invision Community uses elsewhere.

    Allowing Pages database categories inside clubs brings the opportunity for more complex custom areas making use of multiple custom fields along with truly custom layouts using templates. This is a great way to bring additional areas, such as news articles, into your club areas to compliment discussions.
    We hope you enjoy this feature, and if you have any comments, please leave them below!

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    PrettyPixels reacted to Foxtrek_64 in [Events] Allow Venues Without Addresses/Custom Addresses   
    I host a forum for an online game community, for which I use the events feature to invite people to in-game events. I would like to be able to create venues corresponding the in-game locations, but venues require a mailing address. Currently we must work around this by requiring event hosts to specify venues in the event description.
    I see a few potential directions here:
    Add a Yes/No question for "Venue Has Address" which toggles the Address field. Add a Yes/No question for "Venue Has Mailing Address". When Yes, the Address field is shown as today. When No, a simple text field is displayed allowing the user to provide custom input. The ability to specify our own fields. For instance, I may want to specify a specific tavern in a specific city. In real life, this would simply be the name of the tavern and a mailing address we can punch into maps. But in a fictional world, all that may be needed here is the name of the tavern and the name of the city. In practice this could look like option 2, but having the flexibility to provide that additional information is useful.
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    PrettyPixels reacted to Joel R in Subscriptions - Multiple Choices   
    Here's another good example from a random site that shows different payment options in case IPS needs inspiration on this commonly-accepted practice:

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    PrettyPixels reacted to Ehren in Invision Community 5: Dark mode, accessibility, performance and mobiles!   
    It's not something we've planned for an initial release, but it's quite easy to achieve with the new CSS framework and is possibly something we can implement in the future.
    With that said, browsers are very capable of scaling font sizes these days and since the entire UI is built using em's for sizing, the whole interface scales neatly. The color scheme also passes all contrast tests so far, and can be customized further using the Theme Editor if necessary 🙂
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    PrettyPixels got a reaction from konon in Invision Community 5: Dark mode, accessibility, performance and mobiles!   
    I love the new accessibility features! As someone who works with accessibility for a living, I'd also really like to see the ability for users to scale text and make it higher-contrast for older or visually impaired members.
    Is this something you'd consider adding?
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    PrettyPixels reacted to Cedric V in Invision Community 5: Dark mode, accessibility, performance and mobiles!   
    Brilliant work ! Loving the progress.
     
    Can we also round up an applause for the frequently in depth updates Invision is bringing? Something that doesn’t need to go unnoticed. It’s one thing to keep working on v5, but keeping us informed with a top notch video, is equally as important!
     
    Well done team!
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    PrettyPixels reacted to opentype in v5 news coming soon...   
    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.
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    PrettyPixels reacted to opentype in Enable / Disable Club features   
    Already available as part of the group settings:

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    PrettyPixels reacted to AlexWebsites in December Year in Review and 2023 Preview (Video)   
    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. 
     
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    PrettyPixels reacted to mountaininteractive in My Feedback on Invision Community   
    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
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    PrettyPixels reacted to Riley Anderson in Marketplace Closure   
    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. 
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    PrettyPixels reacted to My Sharona in Marketplace Closure   
    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.
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    PrettyPixels reacted to Bluedrake42 in Single account for multiple sites?   
    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.
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    PrettyPixels reacted to Clover13 in Marketplace Closure   
    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.
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    PrettyPixels reacted to Hisashi in Marketplace Closure   
    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.
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    PrettyPixels reacted to Randy Calvert in Invision Community Insight: Interested in Statistics and Reporting? Check out our June beta!   
    Crack the whip, Olivia!  Keep the guys in line. 
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    PrettyPixels reacted to My Sharona in Possibility to set time range for featured content   
    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. 
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    PrettyPixels reacted to Sirmadsen in mdPanel - Material Design IPS Theme [ support topic ]   
    Demo site down?
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    PrettyPixels reacted to Kirill Gromov in Custom fields everywhere   
    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?
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    PrettyPixels got a reaction from IncredibleIPS in Custom fields everywhere   
    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? 🙂
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    PrettyPixels reacted to FZ in Threaded View   
    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. 
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    PrettyPixels reacted to Jimi Wikman in Map RSS to custom fields & pagination for database relations   
    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.
    🙂
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    PrettyPixels reacted to Adriano Faria in Is there a tool there shows me unneeded tables on DB?   
    Or you can install a test board with the apps you currently have and compare with the DB of your live board.
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    PrettyPixels got a reaction from Adriano Faria in Reactions in PM's?   
    Just did some testing and it's working perfectly! Thanks, @Adriano Faria! 🙂
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    PrettyPixels reacted to Adriano Faria in Reactions in PM's?   
    PM sent. 👍
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