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Anyone have any historical perspective on how long it usually takes IPS to roll out a beta... to when us non-beta users will be able to upgrade?
Are you all thinking March? June? Just curious.

Yeah.

OMG YES, YES, YES!!!
This is amazing and something I've wanted forever!!!
 

OMG YES, YES, YES!!!
This is amazing and something I've wanted forever!!!
 

OMG YES, YES, YES!!!
This is amazing and something I've wanted forever!!!
 

Outstanding.
Possibilities = Endless.

Well, you've literally created a monster with Clubs... I can tell you right now that there will be implementations that will definitely require clusters - I know this, because what I intend to do with Clubs will absolutely require clusters!
Maybe pins can be the default, but clusters can be an option in the ACP? Pretty please?
I can think of many more implementations off the top of my head that could benefit from clusters as well... think outside the box of what clubs is capable of
Was so excited about this that I told my wife about it over dinner last night! lol

OMG!
We have been promoting specific articles and posts to our Social platforms for years now. This will save 40-50 hours a month for us! Thank you!

I feel like I am in heaven last few days... lol!
Please do not wake me up...
 

A "premium" Club where you have to pay for access is an interesting idea  

...interesting. The same concept should be used in all apps too.

Well, you've literally created a monster with Clubs... I can tell you right now that there will be implementations that will definitely require clusters - I know this, because what I intend to do with Clubs will absolutely require clusters!
Maybe pins can be the default, but clusters can be an option in the ACP? Pretty please?
I can think of many more implementations off the top of my head that could benefit from clusters as well... think outside the box of what clubs is capable of
Was so excited about this that I told my wife about it over dinner last night! lol

Well, you've literally created a monster with Clubs... I can tell you right now that there will be implementations that will definitely require clusters - I know this, because what I intend to do with Clubs will absolutely require clusters!
Maybe pins can be the default, but clusters can be an option in the ACP? Pretty please?
I can think of many more implementations off the top of my head that could benefit from clusters as well... think outside the box of what clubs is capable of
Was so excited about this that I told my wife about it over dinner last night! lol

as major as this announcement?

Well, you've literally created a monster with Clubs... I can tell you right now that there will be implementations that will definitely require clusters - I know this, because what I intend to do with Clubs will absolutely require clusters!
Maybe pins can be the default, but clusters can be an option in the ACP? Pretty please?
I can think of many more implementations off the top of my head that could benefit from clusters as well... think outside the box of what clubs is capable of
Was so excited about this that I told my wife about it over dinner last night! lol

We debated this, but the current implementation is just pins. For this, and a few other things related to the map (like how to choose what displays by default) we thought we'd wait to hear what feedback we get from you in the beta, once people get a feel for how they'll use Clubs 
Yes, Club Leaders can ban a member from the club which will remove them and they will not be able to rejoin.
The homepage is a feed of all activity in the club including topics, gallery images, etc (including content from third party apps if they add support). It will also show when people have joined the club. We haven't done status updates.

seeing this news about the Clubs, I immediately thought about your Collabs application  

I've some good news for you! Since forums within clubs are real forums, you can move topics between regular forums and club forums just like in any other case. You just need to be a member of the club, and you'll see your club forums in all the select boxes:

Outstanding.
Possibilities = Endless.

Outstanding.
Possibilities = Endless.

Should include
- Time in hours or minutes (eg. 1 hr before event starts) 
- other forms or notifications like modal pop-up, desktop notification, and inline notification

I think you guys are announcing/releasing this at a great time. With the upcoming release of Xenforo2 this will help keep current customers from switching sides as well. I think in the last couple of years IPB has got a great solid code foundation and now it's time to release all the fun stuff. Looking forward to it!

Assuming your hosting environment allows it, you can try adding this to your .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_headers.c> Header set Content-Security-Policy "upgrade-insecure-requests" env=HTTPS </IfModule>  
It should automatically upgrade any insecure (http) request to https automatically, assuming the user is using an update web browser that supports this header. In the event that an external resource doesn't support https then it will fail to show, which will preserve your secure status.