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Yes, CKEditor claim to have resolved the issue, so we're going to allow Grammarly again and see how it goes.

It would be nice if Invision would stop blocking it. It is something I pay for to help with my messy grammar.
 

Sitting here, ready to schedule my email, but knowing that I'll be in a work call when I actually want the email to go out.
Please make this happen!

Would it be possible to get a option to set a time/date to send a Bulk Mail?  We use it to send out our newsletter and the lack of schedule options means we have to do it all live. And when I have time to get everything set for email never matches the optimum time to send that email.
 

@Marc Stridgen There is another topic on this as well that didn't get a response.
What are the chances of getting a simple "start sending at" setting for Bulk Mail?  It would make my life a lot easier in setting up our newsletter.
We can already schedule posts, blogs and other things.
 

@Marc Stridgen There is another topic on this as well that didn't get a response.
What are the chances of getting a simple "start sending at" setting for Bulk Mail?  It would make my life a lot easier in setting up our newsletter.
We can already schedule posts, blogs and other things.
 

I'll throw in my support support here as a scheduled time would be much better than needing to add tasks to my To-Do list like I do now.

Would it be possible to get a option to set a time/date to send a Bulk Mail?  We use it to send out our newsletter and the lack of schedule options means we have to do it all live. And when I have time to get everything set for email never matches the optimum time to send that email.
 

Yes, that would be a great feature
 

I second this feature. It would help so much!

Bulk emails are a fantastic feature that allows you to communicate news and other important stuff to your community - allowing you to target specific subsets of folk too.
The addition of scheduled topics is fantastic, but this function doesn't yet exist for bulk emails. Is this something that the team is already considering?
It would be super practical if I could write something up in the evening and send it out at peak hours next day without having to log in, paste the content, and click the button myself at the right time.

Hi
We sent out a couple of updates a month via the bulk mail feature, some mails in response ask the member to email a specific address but they just press reply which means the email ends up in the "Outgoing email address" inbox that can get missed.
Would it be possible to add a "Reply To" email when creating a bulk mail?  I imagine an extra field here in the Email Details tab and it would not be required.

I love the new Events system and the look of the interface. 
There's only one thing that I find confusing: on future events that I haven't signed up to yet, it says "✔ Going" - which I find confusing: the checkmark seems to indicate that I've already signed up, and the word "Going" seems to indicate a current status, as if I'm already "Going" to this event. Put that in perspective with the "✖ Decline" button that is an action word, and not a status. 

So to make it clear I suggest that the button that lets you sign up for an event is named "Sign Up". Ideally it should have the color green IMO (like the "New Topic" button). And the icon should be some sort of a standard sign-up icon like for example: 
 or
Like this: 

Time sure does fly when you're having fun!
Let me add this to my list of things to bring forward to the team. Without a backend, there wouldn't be a frontend, but I do understand that this has been a common request so I'll see how, when and if this can be implemented.
I'll come back to you with some info everyone.

We can use them for badges... wouldn't anywhere we use images make sense to have svg as an option at least?

We can use them for badges... wouldn't anywhere we use images make sense to have svg as an option at least?

You know that's not the point I made - I'm sure some individuals are on a VPS package, however there is a near 0 chance that customers opting for the cloud version as a cohort would be more technically able than self-hosting counterparts. Not denigrating anyone of course, but the technical skills needed to launch a cloud version of IPB are minimal, versus those inherently needed with self-hosting. This is demonstrably what IPS have said they are trying to eliminate with the cloud version in fact; lowering the bar to entry.
You don't need to run your stack on a CSP to leverage their services such as the ones in question. Besides which configuring a firewall such as ufw behind an SG is redundant, NGFWs aside.
There's really not though, given IPB would just be using the SDK to make calls to the appropriate services. In fact there's less setup than S3/CF because you aren't dealing with things like bucket policies. For example, for Comprehend you'd just use their "detect-sentiment" API call and you get the outputs Matt has likely been watching drop with each of my responses.
What's more, IPS doesn't even have to teach people how to configure things if there was setup involved, since it'd just be a case of making a CFN template available - they're not going to be manually setting this up for each of their cloud version customers. Again, that's worst-case; as you say for self-hosted IPS leave the rest as an exercise for the reader, which is fine -
They don't, not the account-related portions anyway. API calls sure, but then they do that for other integrations no problem. It's not more involved than any of the other integrations (sendgrid, S3, MaxMind, etc) are and really is simpler in most cases.
No entitlement, just disappointed that IPS deem it beyond the capabilities of the self-hosting crowd to implement this at their own discretion, instead of forcing that decision upon them which ironically should be what differentiates their managed hosting (closed ecosystem, less choice) from self-hosting (greater flexibility, more effort needed).
 

I'm good with anything that just works and where you aren't blocking the use of Grammarly... a service I pay for to assist with my um... ongoing typo issues.

Please add to the announcements the possibility to display them regularly - for example "every Friday".
For example: We have a weekly chat, and every friday I have to set the new date to the announcement and to enable the announcement again. In Calendar the pick of regularly events is implemented, it should be similar in announcements.

With the addition of the data layer config option in 4.7, could you please start to add all the standard GA4 events as outlined in Google's documentation? Especially the ecommerce ones in the Commerce module.
Google's Recommended GA4 events : https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9267735?hl=en

Yes, it has been stuck for several years.

Add official NGINX support to the list 😂😅

It should be done this week 🙂

I don't know about you, but I'm wondering if it's perhaps overdue that IPS got stuck into a huge performance and speed based review and implement it in the next medium sized update! I think a lot has changed in recent years in relation to site performance. Core Vitals in Lighthouse as many admins will be aware are now much more important in terms of SEO ranking, performance isn't just for the obsessed enthusiasts any longer!
Google Search Console tells me that on one of my IPS Communities, my Mobile Pagespeed test result sucks, just 28%-30% at present, so I started checking a few things under the hood. I like to keep my sites high performing, so I was quite surprised it was so low. 
One thing I found out in minutes looking at the optimisation list and then checking my IPS configuration is that if you have the IPS Lazy Loading feature enabled, it doesn't apply to your uploaded images in Advertisements or Post Author Member Group Icons. Both are shown in my topic view so I get scored down on mobile in particular.
I think it's now time that Native Lazy Loading was offered, either as a choice or as the default if enabled.
Also where possible IPS should support Local WebP conversion via the Task Manager.
I know some of us sometimes bash IPS for not delivering more obvious updates like Gallery, Blog, Pages and Commerce improvements for the sake of instead quick things like disabling features but IPS4 is quite a huge behemoth these days, no matter your pricey VPS, CiC, use of Redis pools etc.
More performance improvements I'd like to see considered include...
(Now admittedly I'm basing this list on a similar big audit that another website framework I invested in conducted and implemented last year. These are the options you can now simply toggle off/on as a result in their Dashboard. They can make a huge difference to bloat.)
Dynamic Modular Framework
Enable this to allow the IPS Framework to only load code that are actually used on the page, and process the logic for the features in actual use.
Dynamic CSS
Dynamic CSS could greatly reduce CSS file size by dynamically generating only the styles and assets necessary for the features and modules you actually use. This eliminates most if not all CSS file bloat and greatly improves load times.
Dynamic Icons
Font Awesome is 2 generations behind. The FA4 icon font could be broken up into various subsets. These subsets are loaded only when needed based on the modules and features used on each page. If you need access to the entire icon font on all pages (for example, if you are using lots of FA icons in a custom theme or want to allow members to insert them via the post editor), then you could disable this option and load the entire icon font library on all pages.
Load Dynamic Stylesheet In-line
This option dequeues the IPS style.css file and prints the needed contents in-line. This removes a render blocking request and improves the PageSpeed scores of individual pages. However, it also prevents the style.css file from being cached. Since the stylesheet is often smaller when dynamic or critical, it could be recommended to keep this option enabled. Accepted there are some potential CSP-related security concerns with inline CSS an or JS.
Critical CSS
Critical CSS greatly improves website load times and Google PageSpeed scores by deferring non-critical styles and eliminating render-blocking CSS requests. Critical CSS often covers what most users see when first loading the page, so called 'above the fold' content.
Critical Threshold Height
When Critical CSS is enabled, IPS would determine an "above the fold threshold" and defer all styles for elements below the fold. However, this threshold is just a estimate and can vary on different devices. Increasing threshold height will deffer fewer styles, resulting in slightly slower load times but less of a chance for Cumulative Layout Shifts to occur. If you are experiencing CLS issues you can then increase or lower the threshold 'height' via a drop-down low, medium, high setting.
Dynamic JavaScript Libraries
When enabled, IPS would only load external JavaScript libraries when they are needed by a specific sections or modules on the page. This removes unused JavaScript from the main scripts bundle and improves load times.
Improve Google Fonts Loading
Enable caching of Google Fonts and load them inline. This reduces render-blocking requests and improves page load times. Also presents an opportunity to switch to the Google Fonts API, to offer a dynamic dropdown list to allow admin to choose from all available GFonts. The Task Manager could check for and cache new versions of selected fonts in use weekly.
Limit Google Fonts Support For Legacy Browsers
Enabling this option will lower the size of Google Fonts and improve load times, however it will limit Google Fonts support in some very old browsers. You can turn this off to increase support for losers insisting on their older insecure browsers at a slight cost to performance.
Defer jQuery And jQuery Migrate
When possible, jQuery and jQuery Migrate could be moved to the body to speed up load times. If a third party plugin registers jQuery as a dependency, it would be moved back to the head.
Enqueue jQuery Compatibility Script
Some third party scripts may be incorrectly enqueued without declaring jQuery as dependency. If jQuery is deferred, these scripts could break. If you are experiencing console errors after enabling the "Defer jQuery And jQuery Migrate" option, you can enable this option, which will load an additional compatibility script that will attempt to solve the issue. (You can turn this feature off if everything is working fine without it).
Defer Additional Third Party Scripts
Warning: This can cause JavaScript errors in some cases and should be used with care. When enabled, scripts registered by plugins and themes will be deferred to improve performance and jQuery will always be loaded in the body.

This is probably what we'll do.