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Thanks Marc. The thing that is holding me back is the number of page impressions on the starter deal and the huge jump from that deal to the next one up. It's almost 3x the cost which is not something that seems well thought out for a site that grows slowly.

I need some more advice on this, specifically regarding my existing license that I paid a fair amount for. Does that get credited to your account or do you just lose it and then have to buy it again if the IPS cloud hosting doesn't work out?

This lesson is only learned when there are no more customers to respect. I have lost my respect for all software companies. They seem to think that there is a never ending supply of money to support their increasingly dodgy (and seldom reliable) creations.

I have done the update and nothing has changed regarding the guests seeing the flags. This is an important thing because my forum is very international and I want people to see this when they look at the home page (forum index).

I have this ticked but guests are not seeing country flag. My version is 1.3.6. Not sure how long this has been the case but pretty sure it was working before.

Is it safe to do this latest update with Behemoth now?

I see the discussion got closed down about 5 years ago. Looking through Lindy's remarks there I can't help but feel that the world has changed from considered replies to short messaging so substantially in those 5 years that it seems like forum-like flat views are now considered antiquated by the next generation. This is the extinction risk that us old timers in the forum game have to be aware of - what worked for us doesn't seem to work for the next group of internet users. They want brevity and unless you are guiding them by the hand when it comes to following an online discussion, your outlet is just never going to gain favour with them.

Yes, I got that advice from Support a little earlier. All sorted now. :) Initially I thought it might have been a template thing on the theme that needed to be done, but fortunately not.

Sorted, thank you!

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.

Well colour me confused, or amused, or both. I just got one of my IPS license renewal invoices and I see that it is for 6 months and not the ridiculous, almost 3x the price I was expecting after the last email I got from IPS. Huh? So I come here to try and find out what's going on and I see that 6 month licenses have been restored. Great! Question: why didn't you send out an email advising your customers of this reversal?

I've just seen another person asking the same thing on the support forum so I don't think it is theme related. Looks like IPS has broken something in the latest update. I have now had to turn off all those fields so I can't really show a screen shot of the issue anymore. Basically all the custom fields that I had created and was showing in the topic view under the user profile have lost their titles and custom formatting. It just shows the content of the field, not what that field is. Eg, one of the fields I added is "Website" which formats like this for the topic view: <div align="left"><span class='row_title'><a href="{$content}" target="new">🌍 Visit My {$title} </a></span></div> ...but all that shows under the user's avatar is a dead url (non-clickable). It is ignoring the {$title} and the emoji. I will see what (or if) support comes back with an answer. Sorry if I rang the wrong bell here. :)

I just noticed this same thing happening. All the custom fields I have created with custom formatting in the topic view are missing their titles (and associated formatting). Example below: <div align="left"><span class='row_title'><a href="{$content}" target="new">🌍 Visit My {$title} </a></span></div> This is the custom formatting, but all that shows is a dead URL (can't be clicked).

@TAMAN, since the last update I have only just noticed that the custom formatting on my custom user profile fields are not showing up on the topic profile. How can I fix this?

Logic is logic. It has nothing to do with incorrect keystrokes from the creator of the logic. Either the logic is faulty or the creator made it faulty on purpose. But yes, I'm not obtuse enough to state that a massive application won't have problems in logic, especially if there are multiple authors, but in reality those problems are often caused by developers who are "fixing" what ain't broke to begin with. Invision are becoming more and more culpable in this regard as we go deeper into version 4.x. So much so that I am actively looking for a replacement.

I don't think it's outlandish at all. Software developers are always using security flaws to ensure their own future, that's all. If that isn't true then basically we are just being handed a new flawed product every time they release an update.

Maybe if you wrote the software properly in the first place there wouldn't be a need for a security update.

The email says that this is the only way to do it now, hence the post.

Just got the email telling me that my pricing is going up for my 2 licenses (and not by an insignificant amount). I do like the products but for me it's not worth over $500 a year on the small communities I still have. So I have to make a plan. In my Client Area I can't see an option to remove certain products from my licenses. For instance, on one of them I definitely don't need forums, commerce or gallery, so those can go, plus on the other I could probably dispense with Downloads. A small saving, but a saving nonetheless. How do I modify my license to exclude them?

Couldn’t agree more about the nature of the feed. It’s confusing and in my opinion it’s not conducive to good community flow. I’ve been involved with forums since I first discovered them on usenet in 1997. Maybe I’m old and cranky, but the simpler they are the better they become for their users. I moved to IPS from Simple Machines about 10 years ago and it was great at first, but honestly I don’t think it’s so wonderful anymore, mainly because of things like this. IPS needs to leave good enough alone.

I'd really prefer it if IPS wouldn't go and break the things that have been working for me for a long time. You can see my site's home page here.

What is your "discovery page"? Mine was the home page of the site with a block that displayed the last 20 topics of discussion. The ones in bold type were unread. Now it appears that when a member returns to the site there are no unread topics for them. This is not a good thing. The default feed that IPS has is not consolidated and to my mind isn't useful at all. I really don't need to see multiple entries into the same topic appearing on the same list. It never been the way I have read any online forum. You go onto the topic and all the unread posts will be there for you to see, one after another.

My blocks had the cache set to 1 minute, so unless it was a very boring post the block would have updated by the time the reader got back to it. But alas, logic is not being applied to the reasons for removing this most useful feature.

I have never seen that happening. And FWIW when most users are going through the community's new posts they use the next unread topic or default feed link. Well that's at least the way i have been doing it since becoming an IPS customer over a decade ago.

And if I have set my cache to 1 minute? Or if I don't use the caching feature at all? (pretty sure those were the options available prior to this unnecessary surgery).