Myr

Well that explains why you became a coder I guess. 

Interesting article but I think there needs to be a better way to call attention WHO a feature is applicable to or perhaps the blogs should be split between self hosting or Cloud or Business & Corporate/Enterprise plans. 
Landed on this page and saw the minimum version 4.7.0 - figured that was me started scrolling and didn't read the first paragraph and get to the part to go to your ACP and nothing... 
Perhaps your Version numbers should include a suffix: 
4.7.0 Corporate/Enterprise 4.7.0 Business 4.7.0 Creator 4.7.0 Creator Pro 4.7.0 Self-Hosted 4.7.0 Platform ( all clients )  It has to be in the headline so we know the target audience. 🙂 

1. It's an endless cat and mouse game between companies and thieves who try to self-rationalize their entitled behavior. 
2. Because they're superior! 
3. Most of them. 
 

Spoiler alert: Not everyone. @Stuart Silvester and I use a PC.

Looks good.  I'm looking forward to this release.

Looks good.  I'm looking forward to this release.

Looks good.  I'm looking forward to this release.

Yes, the badges you see here will be included by default in Invision Community 4.6.
There are many pages in the ACP. On the front end, viewing a member's profile shows you which badges they've earned.
I'm not sure if we are going to do a "here's all the possible badges you can earn". I'm not sure of its value. We don't want to turn the community into a game. It's designed to reward good contributions and not encourage pure engagement for engagements sake to win points and badges.
Yes, it does work across all apps. The profile link is also in this screenshot 😄
Not yet, but we already have this down as a future expansion idea.
You can rebuild points and ranks at any time including post upgrade. It's what we did here. We had 21 million data points to look at, and it took about 5-6 hours.
Reputation and points are still separate. One thing to keep in mind is that we don't want to turn a community into a game. An early rule I put in place was that we were not going to show point logic and show people how to specifically earn points, and which actions earned the most points because that will start to erode the purpose and people may decide, if you said that you earn 5 points for a post and 10 points for a gallery image, to reduce posting and start uploading random pictures just to earn points and rank up.

We do not want this. The achievements system is meant to be a reward for great contributions, and not the purpose of the community.

To this end, we will not be showing how you can earn points, and the rank thresholds.

We do have on our list a way to give you a weekly update about how many points you earned, so you may get an email with "You earned 205 points last week, that's 20 more than the week before" for example to keep you updated on your progress.
You can opt in to notifications to get a push notification / inline notification / email when you rank up or earn a new badge.
You are seeing the entire system from the perspective of a user. There is a "recognise" system that allows you to manually award points and/or badges for content.
Yes you can manually give points and/or badges.
Yes, you can add a "location" "and" clause to specify just forums, or whatever app and set up points per thing differently.

Before the question comes up..
Rules are handled via extensions, so 3rd party apps will be able to implement own rules in their apps :)

This sounds great and I love the suggestions as well.  It would be MUCH easier to manage our newsletter from right in Invision where all of our members reside, then have to rely on a whole separate system for sign up and what not.

You can now do this while you're not logged in. I get you point, we might be able to sort this for 4.4.

This is something we want to do. It won't make it for 4.4, but keep watching this space. (Not literally, nothing is going to happen in this specific space).

You’ve gone this far, why not introduce a native newsletter feature which can be scheduled and tracked. 🙂 Love the new features but would like to remove advertisements per user group as mentioned. 

Is it possible to limit which groups receive email advertising?
We sell subscriptions that give people ad-free browsing of the site, and I'd like to exclude this group from receiving ads via email.

Makes sense - we can take a look at that before 4.4 is released.
Yes (although realistically if you are using Sparkpost, you may be able to glean more advanced analytics through their control panel).

Exactly this.
Yes, my aim is to offer an upgrader option to switch to the subs manager.

Great, glad to see this is getting more attention!  
Will there be an upgrade path for those of us using IP.Nexus to manage subscriptions when we upgrade our 3.4.x forum to 4.3?  Which is something I plan on doing once 4.3 has been released. 
Thanks, 
 ..Al

Time for the next news please. 

What a superb implementation of social groups. Clearly a lot of thought has gone into this. You promised member engagement and you are delivering. Nice work IPS, it looks great!

Great great feature...
Google plus is must ... as it gives you upper edge in search listings...
I wish we can have email invitations possible as well... importing contacts from gmail - yahoo or uploading CSV contacts ...
 
Regards
Saurabh
 

Can we have the abilty to exempt select forums from the filter? This would be perfect for controlling political posts outside of the one allowed forum.
 

Can we have the abilty to exempt select forums from the filter? This would be perfect for controlling political posts outside of the one allowed forum.