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Steph40 reacted to ahc in No-code automation with Zapier
I'm just going to be upfront with you.
I will remain slightly bitter until the automation and gamification options we could build with Kevin's app become a fully integrated core feature. I cannot overstate just how crippling losing the 30+ custom rules I spent hours building myself was to our site. I'm a broken record about this, but you can go into my post history and find examples of how I used this app to really get Invision going to its full potential based on the needs of my community, which was a lot.
I'm not talking about just "fun stuff" either, I'm talking about automation that increased the staff workflow tenfold, boosted engagement with custom emails and front-end notifications for too many things to list, added extra functionalities to downloads, commerce, and groups (clubs) that were missing that should come standard (in my personal opinion), etc. And the biggest kick in the throat is that we also were able to improve on the apps that Invision barely updates, like the gallery for example. That's one of the most used apps in my community, second to pages which features a lot of gallery based content. I know they just do basic maintenance on the other apps because forums is their bread and butter, but god damn they treat the gallery like their red-headed step child. Since moving here in 2017 I have suggested so many improvements that have fallen on deaf ears it seems.
We've had to backtrack so much that when I heard of the Zapier integrations, it almost brought a tear to my exhausted, frustrated eyes. Finally a light at the end of the tunnel for my community... but now it's locked behind their cloud service.
Invision charges $590/m for 100GB storage in their cloud service (that's the option I would have to select if I were to switch)... that is more than my yearly server and storage costs combined, and that's PER MONTH. I pay $7/m for 1TB storage, and if I go over that, it's only an additional $6 per TB. I don't want to leave Invision. I'd rather just stick with the software even if it's not perfect to save my community the hassle of having to move again, but that is just very unrealistic.
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Steph40 got a reaction from Simon Watton in Welcome to Invision Community 4.5
Sorry did not realize I was crabby, 🙂
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Steph40 got a reaction from Steve Bullman in Welcome to Invision Community 4.5
Sorry did not realize I was crabby, 🙂
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Steph40 got a reaction from IP-Gamers in Welcome to Invision Community 4.5
I am just saying they are working on it. Like it or not it will be done when it is done,
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Steph40 reacted to Square Wheels in 4.5: Notification Improvements
Thank you for considering, it's greatly appreciated.
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Steph40 reacted to ASTRAPI in 4.5: Invites and Referrals
Out of topic but Invision in my opinion should focus a bit more on scaling as forums are getting bigger and bigger every day...
Hope to get native support for cloud providers that are bandwidth partners with Cloudflare:
https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/
For example we can use Wasabi as it is compatible with S3 but i would love to get native support for Backblaze for example....
So forums can benefit from huge amount of storage for very low price and free transfer from the Cloud storage to Cloudflare and then back to users....
Thank you
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Steph40 reacted to media in Case Study: Building Safe Spaces for The Trevor Project
Beautiful cause and project... 🙂
Peace and ...
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Steph40 reacted to LiquidFractal in Case Study: Building Safe Spaces for The Trevor Project
It's hard enough to find any sort of love in this world without worrying about plumbing, preference, or perception...congratulations on a happy partnership and best wishes for TrevorSpace in the future. 👍
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Steph40 reacted to lordi in Team Talk: What's your favourite movie?
LOTR and HOBBIT
I wish someone makes SILMARILLION also as a movie
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Steph40 got a reaction from Matt in Team Talk: What's on your bookshelf?
I like fantasy books. Right now I am reading a serie by a French Canadian Author Anne Robillard called Les Chevaliers d'Émeraude. I am at tome 3 out of 12. I think they are also available in english under the name The Knights of Emedald. Very good serie.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Chevaliers_d'Émeraude
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Steph40 reacted to media in Invision Community 4.3 Coming Soon
I second this. It would be a nice addition
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Steph40 reacted to Slimer in Invision Community 4.3 Coming Soon
Please, put all css and js files in one minimized css and one js file automatically. Nobody in 2017 uses million files. Page load time is very important thing now! Think about SEO!
Good robots.txt from the box is important thing too.
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Steph40 got a reaction from Marc Stridgen in Team Talk: If you could only keep five possessions, what would they be?
That says it all. Maybe switch beer for Scotch.
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Steph40 reacted to steve00 in Black Friday Sale!
Sent PM 3 hours ago but no answer
Appears cannot use coupon to renew licenses ?
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Steph40 reacted to LuckyRiver in Black Friday Sale!
Guess no luck this year. In the past years, the coupon was also valid for renewal. Too bad, I was planning renew the whole suite.
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Steph40 reacted to Adlago in Team Talk: If you could only keep five possessions, what would they be?
This creates "double" bugs
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Steph40 reacted to Nathan Explosion in Team Talk: If you could only keep five possessions, what would they be?
My wife, and my 2 daughters, makes 3. Add beer and Jack Daniels and I is a happy bunny
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Steph40 got a reaction from Matt in QOTW: Name the one thing you cannot live without
Well besides the air, food, wife and kids, I have to go with the internet.
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Steph40 reacted to CodingJungle in QOTW: Name the one thing you cannot live without
I would have to say "air"
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Steph40 got a reaction from Durango in QOTW: What is your favorite TV show?
Some are done very well, most not so well. I have watched some movies with subs but I got to be really awake for that, I tend to fall asleep when I watch tv. God I sound old.
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Steph40 reacted to Durango in QOTW: What is your favorite TV show?
Hey Steph, French too (sent u a PM)
You're right before UK would buy some series, France would buy some others, and we didnt have the choice...Tx to Netflix now, there is no difference between different channels in the world, the whole world can watch the same series at the same time, and in original version ! i always prefer original version with subtitles if needed, dubbing can be such a disaster...