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Thanks for clarifying, Matt. 

Now I just need to fix the logo situation on the Hive and I will be happy to make the announcement to my members. 

3 hours ago, Stuart Silvester said:

Yes, it may be related to having a third party theme if you're not seeing the buttons in the follow drop down.

There's also a widget/block you can drag and drop onto your pages to prompt your members to use Community Hive.

As mentioned above, it doesn't work either. I tried. 

I don't want to upload my files here for the whole world to see. It is a plain old logo. I tried in .png and then I specifically made a .jpg after reading that somebody else was having the same issue. 

I tried to add the widget for the Community Hive in the main sidebar of the home page. It just doesn't display anything.

When you have it working properly I might give it another go, but I don't have the time to do IPS troubleshooting now. 

Problem #1. 

All posts being made on the blog post here have to be approved by a moderator. They never seem to be approved unless there is a secret handshake I am missing. 

Problem #2.

I Upgraded the forum software, enabled the Community Hive thing, went through a whole bunch of hoopla to register, etc, but when I look at my forum's feed on the Community Hive platform there is some Doris with a big black beehive like hairdo instead of the logo that I have tried to upload no less than 6 times (in both .png and .jpg formats). 

Problem #3.

I added a tag for my community to be "discovered" but when I try to search for that tag in the discover section it shows ZERO results. My community is not appearing. 

Problem #4.

How do the members of my community even get to know about this community hive. There is no button on the posts to show that they can follow the website there. I can only assume that this has something to do with the fact that I am using a 3rd party theme. I'd love to be able to get support for this ,but it brings me to...

Problem #5.

IPS have shut down the marketplace so I can no longer get support for the theme I have been using for the past 5 or 6 years. Does this mean that I must now change the entire look of my community just to be able to use this feature? 

I really hope that somebody here can explain in normal terms why we are going through all this pain with IPS. Where is the gain? 

This is my second comment here - the first one is for some reason not approved for publication. 

Maybe I am missing something here, but I really just don't get how this is supposed to work. I have enabled it on my site, created an account on Hive and I can see posts there (although it won't accept my uploaded logo for the account). 

My question is this; how is this going to benefit my members? How do they know to go to Community Hive to find a feed of the community content and discover other communities? 

Thanks for the input. 

Well that sucks. Another thing to dislike about this company.

I have a spare license that I am not using and am unlikely to again. If I can find a buyer am I allowed to sell the license to them and transfer ownership of it? 

16 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said:

Im a little confused as to what you mean in terms of asking for rebuild there, as it only asks for rebuild when you save. So you would change both fields then save

It didn't work that way when I made the changes. As soon as I input the digits into the first field the pop-up for re-building the thumbnails triggered. 

2 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said:

which 2 fields?

The highlighted ones. 

I think I figured this out. 

The compression settings were OK, but I had my thumbnail dimensions set to 240x240px in the Gallery settings and it seems that those were being enlarged to whatever the system shows thumbs at when viewing a gallery. 

I changed the dimensions to 400x400px and they look a lot better now. That said, I think there is a bit of a bug in the ACP when doing this. I have noticed since the last update that I have to change settings twice (everywhere) before they reflect as changed in ACP. Also, when you change one field in the thumbnails dimensions it wants to rebuild the thumbs before you can change the second field. 

85% is the setting. That really shouldn’t be degrading the thumbnails to that extent? The full size images are looking fine. 

The title in the browser. I need to update it, but just can’t see where I did it before. 

All the thumbnails in the galleries are very soft and appear out of focus. What is causing this and how can I fix it? 

I have a little slogan in there that I need to change and I can’t for the life of me figure out where I changed this. 

On 12/12/2022 at 3:24 PM, Marc Stridgen said:

No problem. Sorry I couldn't be of more help straight away, but of course if it was only showing the first few or something, that would be easy to spot. But its showing things from years gone by

I don't know much about PHP coding, but this looks like it can only be related to the math behind randomisation and how this is being implemented. 

10 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said:

I need to know the handful it is actually showing in this case, as unfortunately without having this information, there is no way of me knowing if its showing a new one

I'll have to write them down then over a few days, but just don't have the time to expend right now. I only look at the site once or twice a day. 

1 minute ago, Marc Stridgen said:

Please could you confirm you have left this long enough to check. Just looking there, its currently showing an image from 2015

Not sure I understand the question? I have images in the gallery dating back to 2006. As described it only seems to select from a handful of those randomly and then it repeats them over and over. It's been several weeks since I made the block. 

I ran the updates anyway and it all seems fine, even without the latest Behemoth version. 

On 11/4/2022 at 5:42 PM, Marc Stridgen said:

Please could you upgrade to the latest release and test first of all? Once you have done this, if you are seeing the same, we can get this escalated to be looked at

I have now finally been able to upgrade to the latest version, so if you could please investigate why the block is not drawing from the full gallery that would be appreciated. 

Has it been approved yet? 

Yes, also waiting on this, but of course with IPS now we will get this update sorted and then they will put us back on the hamster wheel at the beginning of December with another unnecessary update. 

4 hours ago, Adriano Faria said:

I think the main issue here is that the block would be “outdated” in seconds. It wouldn’t be delivered as a thing that can be updated every time you open and read the email; it would be static thing.

I may be wrong though.

Not every community has posts being made every second. And it doesn't just have to be for posts, it could be for anything related to your community. 

8 hours ago, Randy Calvert said:

I think he was meaning support as in lots of other people agreeing with his idea and upvoting it. 

Correct.

I guess there is no support for this sort of question.

On 11/12/2022 at 2:21 PM, Dknelson said:

I'm starting to get frustrated now.  Still haven't updated because I just don't know if it's going to cause problems with this theme.  Don't know why we aren't getting any answers.  I hope that @TAMAN is ok and perhaps just out on vacation or something.  

To be honest, I can't see this IPS platform as remaining a sustainable one for the small communities out there. The asking price for everything is way too high and now that the marketplace devs have adopted this teat-latching subscription model, all I see happening is that when "new" IPS things come out they break the old things that were working just fine and then we are expected to pay again for something that hasn't really changed other than to comply with those other things that didn't need to change in the first place. 

It's a form of software socialism and I have come to the end of my tolerance thereof.