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Yea, why would a 16 years customer complain about a product. Everyone should just keep their mouths shut and look how the company runs its product into the ground.
Hell no, i want to see things get better so i actualy can continue using it. Got a proplem with that?
They've been doing many many bad design decisions in the past, and are most of the time working on content no one ever asked for.
And i'm not saying new features are bad, i'm just saying that they never focus on actual practical customer issues that have been reported years ago.
But they don't, they keep ignoring us but continue taking our money.
It's a great product overall, there's no reason to move.
But at the current state, there's a good reason to stop paying the subscription or at least pause it for a longer period.

Bump. Reports for user profiles are still missing.

Currently we can report only content items, but sometimes it would be useful to report a user, for example in cases when user account was made is only in order to leave links in it's profile and "About me" section, like this.

You forgot: "In 5 years from now." 
And yes, i mean it.
 
Maybe they do, but they don't care. There are hundreds of community posts screaming for improvements but they couldn't care less. You're better off preparing for your funeral than waiting for a patch that adresses long standing issues. They simply don't have a big enough team to work on whatever they want + plus community requests.
5.x may address some issues, but you're better off not betting on it. Never take their word, there's still a ~3 years waiting list of other promises.
But what you can expect is another new re-design as usual. Because new looks and marketing sells best. Let's just cross our fingers that at least some of the underlying ancient code gets updated a long the way.
 

Because there are smart people out there who can get easy faeces done in a matter of minutes or even seconds, unlike some other devs around here.
If you've ever worked in an open source git project then you would be aware how well it works. But that's an entirely different story.
 
This has nothing to do with customization, but with getting their faeces together and offering a proper product.
Customizations only require additional overhead for months on end on the customer (or a plugin which is lots of additional work), rather than getting something so trivial done within 1 or 2 patch time-frames by invision.
They have a subscription based model and ask for a substantional amount of money from each customer.
So it's not too much to expect a decent patch policy rather than a "fix it yourself" mindset.
And it can't get any easier than this. (There are many similiar topics that would be benefitial and easy to fix that are sitting ducks for years)
It would be fixed faster than reading through this nonsense topic that would not have been required if it would have been implemented properly in the first place.

I guess i'll miss out on the next year of the subscription.
It's just not worth it looking at the micro patch notes and still missing out on all the community requests.
I assume they fired most of their devs years back, because updates have been stagnating in the past 4 years.

Currently we can report only content items, but sometimes it would be useful to report a user, for example in cases when user account was made is only in order to leave links in it's profile and "About me" section, like this.

Currently we can report only content items, but sometimes it would be useful to report a user, for example in cases when user account was made is only in order to leave links in it's profile and "About me" section, like this.

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What is IndexNow?
IndexNow is an easy way for websites owners to instantly inform search engines about latest content changes on their website. In its simplest form, IndexNow is a simple ping so that search engines know that a URL and its content has been added, updated, or deleted, allowing search engines to quickly reflect this change in their search results.
Without IndexNow, it can take days to weeks for search engines to discover that the content has changed, as search engines don’t crawl every URL often. With IndexNow, search engines know immediately the "URLs that have changed, helping them prioritize crawl for these URLs and thereby limiting organic crawling to discover new content."
IndexNow is offered under the terms of the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License and has support from Microsoft Bing, Yandex.
Documentation FAQ

Hi. To avoid 404 errors, I suggest adding a redirect after merging accounts.
This function is already built in, but only works with topics.

What is IndexNow?
IndexNow is an easy way for websites owners to instantly inform search engines about latest content changes on their website. In its simplest form, IndexNow is a simple ping so that search engines know that a URL and its content has been added, updated, or deleted, allowing search engines to quickly reflect this change in their search results.
Without IndexNow, it can take days to weeks for search engines to discover that the content has changed, as search engines don’t crawl every URL often. With IndexNow, search engines know immediately the "URLs that have changed, helping them prioritize crawl for these URLs and thereby limiting organic crawling to discover new content."
IndexNow is offered under the terms of the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License and has support from Microsoft Bing, Yandex.
Documentation FAQ

What is IndexNow?
IndexNow is an easy way for websites owners to instantly inform search engines about latest content changes on their website. In its simplest form, IndexNow is a simple ping so that search engines know that a URL and its content has been added, updated, or deleted, allowing search engines to quickly reflect this change in their search results.
Without IndexNow, it can take days to weeks for search engines to discover that the content has changed, as search engines don’t crawl every URL often. With IndexNow, search engines know immediately the "URLs that have changed, helping them prioritize crawl for these URLs and thereby limiting organic crawling to discover new content."
IndexNow is offered under the terms of the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License and has support from Microsoft Bing, Yandex.
Documentation FAQ

What is IndexNow?
IndexNow is an easy way for websites owners to instantly inform search engines about latest content changes on their website. In its simplest form, IndexNow is a simple ping so that search engines know that a URL and its content has been added, updated, or deleted, allowing search engines to quickly reflect this change in their search results.
Without IndexNow, it can take days to weeks for search engines to discover that the content has changed, as search engines don’t crawl every URL often. With IndexNow, search engines know immediately the "URLs that have changed, helping them prioritize crawl for these URLs and thereby limiting organic crawling to discover new content."
IndexNow is offered under the terms of the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License and has support from Microsoft Bing, Yandex.
Documentation FAQ

What is IndexNow?
IndexNow is an easy way for websites owners to instantly inform search engines about latest content changes on their website. In its simplest form, IndexNow is a simple ping so that search engines know that a URL and its content has been added, updated, or deleted, allowing search engines to quickly reflect this change in their search results.
Without IndexNow, it can take days to weeks for search engines to discover that the content has changed, as search engines don’t crawl every URL often. With IndexNow, search engines know immediately the "URLs that have changed, helping them prioritize crawl for these URLs and thereby limiting organic crawling to discover new content."
IndexNow is offered under the terms of the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License and has support from Microsoft Bing, Yandex.
Documentation FAQ

.htaccess rule for all xml and json files:
<FilesMatch "\.(xml|json)$">     Order Deny,Allow     Deny from all </FilesMatch>

I have four licenses which expired late July, noticed today the price to renew has jumped from $25.00/every 6 months to $40/every six months.
When and why the price increase?

This forum section is full of topics about trivial fixes and improvements that are very easy to do.
I hope someday IPS will give active clients access to the repository to create pull requests, so that we can fix it ourselves, and we don't have to wait for years for such small things to be fixed (or never fixed).

This forum section is full of topics about trivial fixes and improvements that are very easy to do.
I hope someday IPS will give active clients access to the repository to create pull requests, so that we can fix it ourselves, and we don't have to wait for years for such small things to be fixed (or never fixed).

OpenSearch is the Elasticsearch alternative with open source and Apache 2.0 Licence.
https://opensearch.org

My vote for OpenSearch.
 

This, or even better, do it like vB did it, make security updates available to every release version. 

ImageMagick is used by IPS to handle uploads of images, resizing them, compressing them and creating thumbnails.
Why not give the community admin the option to use ImageMagick to convert uploaded images by users to WebP?
As long as WebP is now accepted by IPS 4.6, I imagine that would be very simple to add this feature to the suite.
I am having a great experience converting the images that I post on my community to WebP. Same quality and much less bytes than JPG or PNG or GIF.

Absolutely agree with you.
It's been a pain to create a portal with IPS, pages is extremely difficult to use, not at all intuitive or friendly. The community here does not give you the code for what you want (like wordpress community often does) and you will not find blogs, websites or your doubts anywhere other than here.
Go with WP for your main website and IPS for the forum. That's it.

Luca,
IPS is still the preferred choice for forums, so your question comes up quite often in entrepreneur groups I belong to. Folks understandably want to learn one platform instead of two, if possible.
Luckily, there's an easy answer.
Wordpress is the standard for blogs. The platform is the CMS of choice for an ever-growing number of businesses, small and large. 
At times, Wordpress is a challenge in terms of security, backups, caching and hosting. But it is a well-supported platform that continues to get better and better for its users.
IPS is at least 15 times (maybe 20) times more difficult to use. Also, and you probably already know this, but if you're self hosting (not using paid IPS cloud services), asking for help in any way is met with extreme resistance and almost outright hostility. The message is brutally clear. I finally just hired a developer to handle the IPS side of things. Life is too short to fear asking questions about a service you pay for, right?
So no, you absolutely do not want to use IPS pages as a substitute for a Wordpress blog. You'll be posting routinely and want a user-friendly platform like Wordpress.
Use IPS only for forums, and possibly the gallery if integrated with your forum. This is critically important if you're self hosting. And this is just as critical: be prepared to solve ALL problems and have ALL questions answered by someone you trust - who is an advanced PHP developer.
Just my two cents.
Best of luck to you.