Jimi Wikman

Ah, so more of an invitation feature to collaborate on a database entry where both would be "authors"?

Sort of like the group blog feature that the Blog have? In a Wiki-like page it would be nice to list all contributors rather than original poster. How to present this would depend a bit on the amount of contributors though.... If we have this information available in the templates, then we should be able to modify it accordingly....

Parent child relations usually means that the child theme only override the parent theme in the areas where a delta (difference) is in place. So unless you change a template in the child theme it will use the parent theme and any CSS changes you make just overrides the one from the parent theme. I don't work with child themes since I rarely find any use for it, but in my mind it should work like this: A Child theme will simply be a container with its own configuration All settings and templates should be greyed out, meaning that you inherit from the parent. When you want to override for example the configuration of colors, you click on configure and the configuration or template becomes editable as a new configuration or template in the database. You can remove the override and then the child theme use the parent settings for that configuration or template. This way a child theme will only contain the overrides in the database and inherit everything else from the parent. Any change you make in the parent also change children, unless the child theme have an override for that change.

For anyone who think Nightmode is helping you sleep better. https://nabil-alouani.medium.com/why-using-night-mode-on-your-phone-isnt-a-bright-idea-9d7fe1c2aca Might affect how we see Nigh Mode in the future. Should be easy enough to make a dark standard theme. If it is not available than any theme designer can make one.

Do you have any plugins that could affect the editor, or have made any alterations to the editor itself? Also do you have any custom JavaScript in the templates that could affect input of any sort? I have seen this in another type of software when a modification for file uploads conflicted with a comment form. That also happened a bit random depending on what form was loaded first 🙂

A common issue is if your database have a different encoding than your website files have. Check to see what encoding your database is set to and see if it matches the encoding you have for your files. If it only happens for old content, but not for new ones, then you can try a find and replace in the database. Here is a blog post about what you are probably facing and some help how to fix it: https://digwp.com/2011/07/clean-up-weird-characters-in-database/

I think this is better as a plugin. It's a seriously infected issue that will cause division in the user base. Personally I would never add it, unless my community is based around a community that think this is important. The reason for that is that it is pretty much a safe bet that people will behave just as bad as on Twitter and I think we have enough trolls to worry about to not add strife amongst our members if we can prevent it. I am all for expressing yourself and adding whatever labels you feel is appropriate to your community, but this is what custom fields are for and this is what plugins should be used for in my opinion.

So...set a cookie connected to a toggle, then if the toggle is set to dark mode, add a short css file with color overrides?

Tried it and playing around with it on my test site. Looks awesome and so far no issues that I have found.

Yes 🙂 Here is my custom version 🙂

This is why you make a second account so you can switch and award yourself. ...it also helps when you feel the urge to have a nasty argument and no one else is awake...

I understand that, I was just curious what kind of support you are looking for? Is it regular management? Customizations or community management for example?

May I ask what type of support you need that would make you switch to VBulletin?

Minimalistic design, maximum awesomeness as content. I like it!

@Mr 13 bring up a good topic and that is if IPS should focus on just an editor, or something that can also work for content creation. Having a good way to write text is of course very important, it is the basis of a community after all, but it does not work very well for content creation. There is a reason why you have a ton of page builders as plugins for Wordpress and there is a good reason why Wordpress dropped the text editor in favor of Gutenberg as the standard for content creation. That is because text will not cut it anymore. If IPS want to push Pages further I think a very important step for that is to add a Page Builder. While we have the ability to create blocks to create pretty much anything we want, the majority of users don't know how to do that or want to build blocks that way. I think that is holding Pages back a lot to be honest and I think adding such features would do wonders for the growth of sales for Pages. Not a lot of people use Pages however, or work a lot with content creation, but it might be good to keep in mind that Pages, with some improvements to reduce the initial step in the learning curve, blow Wordpress out of the water any day of the week in terms of functionality and power out of the box. It is to me a very big segment that IPS currently are not dipping their toes very much into, but they should 🙂 Moving towards adding a page builder will mean some challenges, because some areas will benefit greatly from page builders (blog posts, pages, descriptions in Downloads/Gallery and so on), while other areas will see a negative aspect (comments, forums, PM's). A Balance has to be set, which can either be to have both a text editor and a page builder, which has its own set of complications (what should be added where, should users be allowed to switch, maintaining updates for two products...), or to have a page builder with different sets of features based on where it is being used. Overall I hope IPS are exploring options beyond just a text editor for the future of IPS and I think now is an excellent time to do so.

You mean to show a start page rather than having the forum as your start page?

Looks great @Adriano Faria!

Wrong topic 🙂 Carry on.

Keyword being almost. 10% of unsupported users of those being tracked is quite a lot of users. I would still argue that unless the format is officially supported as an industry standard and fully supported in commercial platforms, both for producing graphics and for displaying graphics, it is a risk to add it to your commercial software. Besides, it even says so on the page that webp is already being challenged by an even better standard in AVIF that is developed by AOM. Do you really think that Google will come out on top with a BSD licensed image format against an open format backed by the giants in the AOM? At the end of the day it is IPS decision, but I would rather see support for vector graphic than webp in the near future. A plugin for those that need webp should suffice over it being a native feature as it would mitigate official support taking time from other, more important issues. That's just me though 🙂

Don't stare too much at the speed of the site or the rankings. Getting people onto the site is secondary to convert those that visit because traffic is not endless and ROI matters 🙂

This is the preferred way since it allow for re-targeting as well as align with legal requirements that @opentype refer to. You also tie stock to purchase order to make soft reservations (usually with some rules, so you don't run out of this to sell based on soft reservations). Purchase Orders also often have a defined lifespan, so they are removed from the system after a certain time and so soft reservations are released even earlier. The advantage with this setup is also that you can work with FOMO to show live data on how people place things in their basket (which has a good impact on CRO).

I think what IPS has is a chained payment setup and what you suggest @Ocean West is a parallel payment. It would require a change in the logic since those are different ways to manage the processing. You can see a description of the ways they are handled in PayPal here: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/archive/adaptive-payments/integration-guide/APIntro/ You probably want a fallback if the parallel payment fail, or there is an issue with the seller account, so you can go with a chained payment instead. I have used Parallel payments before when setting up a drop-ship website, and it works quite well. I am not sure if it will be as easy to have multiple recipients, but I do not see why it should not be possible 🙂

I don't think it would be very difficult to get a base LMS setup using pages to be honest. It would not be very admin friendly unless you build it as an app, but if that does not bother you Pages have most of what you need I think.

An interesting concept! In theory, because I have not tested it, you can do this manually using Pages by setting up components on a page where you fetch data from multiple categories.

Of course. I apologize if I made presumptions that was incorrect. I mistook the "my members" as people that you did not control, hence my comment. I have not found many graphic services that provide webp only that are legal. In fact, I have never found any at all 🙂 Might be a side note, but if you know of any service that only provide webp, could you give me a link? I am always looking for new sources of graphics and I would like to discuss the business model with such a site owner. I would not bet on any law that are designed to protect communities from copyright claims. Safe Harbor also works very different in different countries, and it differs between content types. In Europe there are numerous laws that are either already in place that hold you accountable as a website owner and there are many, many laws that are on the rise. This is why you hear people screaming when content get flagged over at Twitter, Facebook and YouTube as they try to add AI support to scan every single item that is being uploaded because laws are being designed to hold them accountable. I assume this is one of the reasons IPS have added the ability to add images from known free graphic sources to reduce the problem of users stealing content and uploading it on peoples communities. You are also required by law in many countries to prove that you have done everything you can to prevent copyright theft, or you will be liable based on being negligent and reckless. As someone who have been working with web design since 1996 I can tell you that the apparent rise of a new graphic format is nothing new. Web technologies comes and goes, but unless it becomes a defacto standard it will always just be something fun to tinker with. Webp has been around since 2010 and there is a reason why it is not a standard yet, not even after more than 10 years. There is a reason why it is not supported by several industry standard tools and there is a reason why conversion based websites do not use them. There is also a reason why most, if not all free graphic resources do not offer webp as an alternative, or include as a secondary option only. Google is also notorious for making up new things and then put it to sleep. Just look at AMP that flopped as soon as people realized the SEO and CRO cost or any of the dozens of projects that has been cancelled by Google over the years. If you want to use webp on your website, then go for it. Options are almost always good (I guess some of you remember the gif injection issue back in the day as an exception for example). Personally I would wait until webp was a supported industry standard with 100% support in all web browsers before I put it into a commercial system. That is just me though, because I have other things than spending time supporting people complaining that their users can't see images on their site. Auch. I see the issue then 🙂 Still, if you shaved off 4 seconds in 2-3 images, then the size of those images are huge, or you did not use thumbnails and just shrunk the images to display them? Either way, webp is much better than png, but you should use jpg for photos. It is probably a setting in your export or some adjustment you do for the images that cause the degradation. Are you using LightRoom or something like that for the export? Maybe we can find a way to reduce the file size even more, regardless of the format you choose. Probably good to take that as a separate topic though 🙂