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The existence of this topic is enough to tell you some people are unhappy with this change.
We could have it both ways with an option to minimise the new additional header space - e.g. disable follow section, reposition, toggle
Both viewpoints can co-exist but at the moment only one is being catered for.

No, do it similar to the way you multiquote full posts. When the "Quote selection" popup comes up have a "plus sign" that quotes that text.
The biggest flaw I'm finding with the "select text" bit of quoting is that, if you have a few posts that you want to quote specific text from spans multiple pages the only way to do it is to multi-quote then to cute the quote down to the specific text (or texts) that you actually wanted to quote which is tedious at best.

I can take a screenshot of forum 4.4 where everything was fine.
Lol!

Why did they move the follow button to a separate line, which takes up a HUGE white space??? Previously, this button was in the title bar and did not take up extra space. Read "Web Design For Dummies" before commenting here.

Hi,
I had to edit our theme here to restore the "Edit" and "Report" links to their previous (< 4.5) locations. The "Report" link must be very visible to our users, and as for the "Edit" link, it gives us extra work. When seeing a post that requires editing, our moderators must scroll back to the top of that post, click on the "..." and then click on "Edit". So, there are two extra steps required, i.e. wasted time.
Just my two cents.
Cheers.

After converting our community to 4.5, we received almost unanimous feedback that the moving of these links was a crime against humanity. I'll be posting a free plugin on the Marketplace that restores all that is right in the world.

Sometimes you want to reply to specific text, you highlight, you quote but you may want to do that multiple times or over multiple pages and at the moment that is basically impossible. It would be nice to be able to multiquote specific text.

Well it would still be interesting to know the answers to the to the points which I made in my previous post – two posts up from this one as I don't have a number to refer to. It's the post that I made one hour ago – although of course this will change as the thread gets older so for the avoidance of doubt, to the question I asked in this post:
but here's a suggestion which maybe will satisfy everybody.
I also hadn't realised that the dates were clickable although that wouldn't be necessary for the suggestion below.

As clearly the date of each post is logged somewhere, how about actually having the date and time each post was submitted.

This would allow people to refer exactly to the post that they made – whether it is a member view or a moderator view. At the moment, there is a certain amount of "visual clutter" which might interfere with focusing on content.

Instead of using "posted two hours ago" or "posted August 28" which is actually visually cluttering and is also using information which is quite unnecessary because it is so obvious -  such as the word "Posted", how about replacing that with simply the date and time that it was posted.
So that when you see "Aug 28, 14.31", it becomes obvious that the post was submitted on August 28 at 2:30 PM and therefore it becomes very easy to refer to whether you are a moderator or a member.

That means that you could say something like – "if you go back and check my post about eight pages ago in this thread dated Feb 10 23.49, you will see that I've already described what happened…", Then this will provide a precise reference for everybody, no misunderstanding and also it will have the advantage of removing visual clutter because unnecessary words such as "Posted".
It will have been replaced with useful and functional information and also it will be several characters shorter than the current "visual clutter" because the month names would have been shortened to their traditional three letters and the word "Posted" would have been replaced altogether.

If this is felt to be to "legacy" then there can be a setting somewhere to make this a matter of choice so that the nay-sayers will be able to dispense with it altogether but those in favour will be able to decide to use the system.

I know that I have posted the above suggestion in a slightly mocking manner – but if you can get over that and treat this as a serious suggestion then maybe you'd like to let us have your comments. It seems to me that this is a way forward.

If you wanted you could also give an option to decide whether to have a 20 4 o'clock or 12 o'clock so that the date might say "Sep 14, 10.31pm" if you prefer- although the AM/PM would just make things longer and for Europeans would be unnecessary visual clutter.
Of course it would mean at some point that one would include the year that the post was made – but this would probably be a bit shorter than what is being used at the moment and at least the visual clutter would have a purpose.
2019, Aug 14, 20.21
  I think that it is important to distinguish between useless visual clutter and useful visual clutter.
I would add, that simply having a generalised date of posting is generally speaking quite unhelpful. With lots of threads, there can be a flurry of posts the same date so simply saying - if you look at the posts which were made on August 28 – when there might be 10 or 15 posts, it is pretty nebulous – and August 28 really becomes visual clutter without any particular purpose. Having a specific time makes it very useful.
 

I totally agree. The default skin in 4.5 is absolutely terrible. Huge elements, padding, empty space, thin and faded text, low contrast, and more. It's no surprise why more and more people are choosing to use XenForo, Discord, etc., over IPB. I don't know who made the new skin, but it feels like a beginner freelancer from Dribble made it.
But why did they need to move the follow button one line down? If the follow button was positioned on the same line as the title, as before, there would be no useless empty space.
One more example:

It takes up a lot of space, but none of it is needed there.
You just entered a topic and want to reply right away? Not! You just entered a topic and want to create a new topic right away? Of course not!  Who cares who is the author of the topic and when it was created? Nobody! For example, I have active topics on my forum that are already 12 years old. Why should I constantly show who is the author of these topics if they have not visited the forum for 10 years and everyone has already forgotten about them?? Nobody cares who is the author of the topic. This information is completely meaningless and useless. One more example:

Am I exactly in a place for people to communicate? Because on my screen I see only a white space and a couple of lines of text. 🤦🏻‍♂️

This is really excessive.

It looks even worse if your forum background is set to white.

When I search for a member's display name in the ACP, if there are many members that have that portion of their name within either their e-mail address or display name, I only see the first 50 matches and in almost all cases, never see the exact match appear. To clarify, from the search bar at the top of the ACP.
Please return any exact matches at the top of the list. Reporting this as feedback, yet since I can't access the member I need to access, I'm wondering if it's a bug. To find these folks, I have to go to the member list and use the search on the right hand side to limit and scroll through all results.

Also, I would love to see limits for the number of reactions of the specific types given to one user within some defined period, i.e.:
Maximum number of positive reactions allowed to give per user [value] per [period] Maximum number of negative reactions allowed to give per user [value] per [period]

Suggestion.
I would love to see separate limits for positive and negative reactions in the IPS:


Thanks.

Hola! So I've encountered something interesting. 
We have a warning points system.
If a user reaches 5 points for example, they are restricted from posting for 24 hours. 
Problem is... they retaliate by going on a downvoting Reputation spree and downvoting other members incessantly. 
I don't want to necessarily ban them from visiting, just posting.
I'd love to see an option to stop members from also being able to use Reputation. Thoughts?

For IPS 4.4, changed this:
<li><a class='ipsType_blendLinks' href='{$comment->item()->url()->setQueryString( array( 'do' => 'findComment', 'comment' => $comment->$idField ) )}' data-ipsTooltip title='{lang="share_this_post"}' data-ipsMenu data-ipsMenu-closeOnClick='false' id='elSharePost_{$comment->$idField}' data-role='shareComment'><i class='fa fa-share-alt'></i></a></li> to this:
<li><a class='ipsType_blendLinks' href='{$comment->item()->url()->setQueryString( array( 'do' => 'findComment', 'comment' => $comment->$idField ) )}' data-ipsTooltip title='{lang="share_this_post"}' data-ipsMenu data-ipsMenu-closeOnClick='false' id='elSharePost_{$comment->$idField}' data-role='shareComment'>#{$comment->$idField} <i class='fa fa-share-alt'></i></a></li> In this template:

I hope this will be fixed in the future. We need this feature working this way.
This flaw is the reason why the "Flag as spammer" feature is completely disabled on my communities. It's too dangerous since its irreversible.

Hi,
IPB has an option to flag a user as spammer from the front end through user profile. This hides all user posts/topics. However, when unflagging the user as spammer the topics/posts are still hidden and need to be manually approved again.
Is this a bug or can anything be done to fix this?
 
Thank you.

Any news on this?
JFYI: I'm one of these clients who does not have it installed because there is no reason to install while IPS does not support it. Your move must be first.
Also, as a step even further, it would be good to integrate the support of https://imgproxy.net/ (https://github.com/imgproxy/imgproxy)

Our users also complained on this. +1

We know, and we don't need it all. At all 🙂
The only thing we need is a widget where we could use HTML. It has to be a core functionality. It's logical and obvious.
It's a weird way to try selling the "Pages" app. It causes distrust and disappointment, not sales. 😥
Please, discuss it internally. I'm sure the Pages app will not suffer from moving such a small feature to a more logical place - the core.

+1 for moving this feature into the core. In our case, we don't need pages app at all. Just one widget is not a good reason to buy something you don't need.

Here are some related posts and topics on these forums:
 
 

+1 vote for the suggestion to support U2F in the IPS core. It is supported in all modern browsers now.
https://caniuse.com/#search=U2F
Also, U2F is widely adopted and supported by companies and governments. It's already implemented in Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, GitHub, GitLab, Dropbox, and many other internet giants.
U2F is much more convenient to use compared to all currently supported 2FA methods.

The maximum height for the embeds and uploaded videos must have a limit.
Here is why.

Such restrictions do not benefit the community. An open community is a very cheap, stable, and efficient way to product promotion and user retention. It's funny (and sad at the same time) what IPS still hasn't figured it out.
The client lounge could be read-only for not active clients. Contributors section, the same way, could be read-only for those who did not contribute yet, as it has some topics which are useful for those who are just on the way to contribute.

Yet another thing causing a big disappointment about IPS is the strange restrictions on the content on this website.


 
Thanks. I hope you will add a way to rebuild old content (including user profiles, signatures, etc.) and change existing images from HTTP to HTTPS where it possible.