Chris Anderson

I know there is an ACP toggle to force users to acknowledge new terms of service or privacy policy before being allowed to use the board. Could a similar process be created for this new feature? Have a dialog box appear with an explanation of the new feature and a list of who will be able to ascertain user name and for what purpose.  User clicks on an accept button and only then can they post anonymously.

It's important to "really" know your audience.  Many people tasked with communicating to a wide audience assume readers have sufficient "real world" experience and college-level reading ability (In the language being used) in which to be able to "really" understand the message that is trying to be conveyed.  
There was a time people actually had a love of words, think back to the time of Shakespeare.  Now it seems people take a certain pride in trying to communicate with others with the fewest characters (not words) they can.  This is causing people to have shorter and shorter attention spans.  
"Executive Summaries" are a great way of providing a simplified explanation of a topic and cater to those folks with short attention spans. 
If you choose to use abbreviations or words not commonly used it is helpful to provide an explanation of their meaning.  
Lastly, writers often focus their attentions on details (or choosing just the right words) and completely forget to call the readers to some kind of action.  Some folks have more time than money, while others have money but little free time.  Most any call to action can readily utilize both so don't focus all of your attention on one group.  Give your readers a multitude of ways to be of service in the short and long term.  
 
 
 
 
 

It's important to "really" know your audience.  Many people tasked with communicating to a wide audience assume readers have sufficient "real world" experience and college-level reading ability (In the language being used) in which to be able to "really" understand the message that is trying to be conveyed.  
There was a time people actually had a love of words, think back to the time of Shakespeare.  Now it seems people take a certain pride in trying to communicate with others with the fewest characters (not words) they can.  This is causing people to have shorter and shorter attention spans.  
"Executive Summaries" are a great way of providing a simplified explanation of a topic and cater to those folks with short attention spans. 
If you choose to use abbreviations or words not commonly used it is helpful to provide an explanation of their meaning.  
Lastly, writers often focus their attentions on details (or choosing just the right words) and completely forget to call the readers to some kind of action.  Some folks have more time than money, while others have money but little free time.  Most any call to action can readily utilize both so don't focus all of your attention on one group.  Give your readers a multitude of ways to be of service in the short and long term.  
 
 
 
 
 

It's important to "really" know your audience.  Many people tasked with communicating to a wide audience assume readers have sufficient "real world" experience and college-level reading ability (In the language being used) in which to be able to "really" understand the message that is trying to be conveyed.  
There was a time people actually had a love of words, think back to the time of Shakespeare.  Now it seems people take a certain pride in trying to communicate with others with the fewest characters (not words) they can.  This is causing people to have shorter and shorter attention spans.  
"Executive Summaries" are a great way of providing a simplified explanation of a topic and cater to those folks with short attention spans. 
If you choose to use abbreviations or words not commonly used it is helpful to provide an explanation of their meaning.  
Lastly, writers often focus their attentions on details (or choosing just the right words) and completely forget to call the readers to some kind of action.  Some folks have more time than money, while others have money but little free time.  Most any call to action can readily utilize both so don't focus all of your attention on one group.  Give your readers a multitude of ways to be of service in the short and long term.  
 
 
 
 
 

It's important to "really" know your audience.  Many people tasked with communicating to a wide audience assume readers have sufficient "real world" experience and college-level reading ability (In the language being used) in which to be able to "really" understand the message that is trying to be conveyed.  
There was a time people actually had a love of words, think back to the time of Shakespeare.  Now it seems people take a certain pride in trying to communicate with others with the fewest characters (not words) they can.  This is causing people to have shorter and shorter attention spans.  
"Executive Summaries" are a great way of providing a simplified explanation of a topic and cater to those folks with short attention spans. 
If you choose to use abbreviations or words not commonly used it is helpful to provide an explanation of their meaning.  
Lastly, writers often focus their attentions on details (or choosing just the right words) and completely forget to call the readers to some kind of action.  Some folks have more time than money, while others have money but little free time.  Most any call to action can readily utilize both so don't focus all of your attention on one group.  Give your readers a multitude of ways to be of service in the short and long term.  
 
 
 
 
 

Another vote for Club Categories. 

This all looks amazing and so much neater, but there is one thing that really bugs me a lot - it's probably the designer in me - is the inconsistency of the side bar top alignment; see below:

The gap between the top of the sidebar and the topic header.
Yet here it is aligned perfectly:

I presume there is a reason for this, or is it an oversight?
I don't mean to be picky as you've done a fantastic job on the update, but this one little niggle is a bug for me lol

Can anyone answer if permissions can be applied to the categories? Would still like to know this.

That would be really nice! +1

This is great news.
The people who REALLY will want this will be the club creators themselves. ;-)
Any idea on how to make this info available to them?

Would like to know this too.

Määäh...
What about real (DB-driven) Pages in Clubs? 
https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/450035-pages-in-clubs/

I'm genuinely kind of confused as to why IPS is posting such an early announcement of 4.4.  While we're all excited for the newest version (insert more gifs here), this really is premature:
1. You can't actually download unless you specifically request beta.  
2. You probably don't want to download since it's beta.  
3.  Did I mention it's still in beta yet?
5. And not even late stage beta.  This is literally beta 1 with potential breaks to global template. 
4.  But whatever.  Party on.  This is like the pre-party before the preview party before the launch party, and by the time we actually get to download 4.4 we will all be so drunk and hungover from the partying that we really won't care what version we're actually using on our live sites. 

The "Magic Eight Ball" says: "Release date hazy, try asking again later."

The "Magic Eight Ball" says: "Release date hazy, try asking again later."

I think a "play on hover/tap*" feature for GIFs would be great from a UX perspective, but also from a performance perspective - no endlessly looping GIFs slowing down browsers or mobile devices.
*for mobile since there is no hover
In fact, here's how: https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/on-click-animated-gif/

If you have deleted a handful of members and their content has been merged to Guest you will probably have several hundred postings over time.  Someone that took the time to read through all of these "Guest" postings would find it difficult to guess which posting was made by which prior member.  If the same postings were attributed to various "defined" accounts as mentioned above someone "could" comb through the site and see all of the content a particular deleted member wrote.  Those postings might include enough clues that someone could conceivably figure out the identity of the poster. "If" content left behind by a departing members "could" be attributed to them is the content "really" anonymized?  Something to consider.

Thanks for the updates.
As @The Old Man said it would be great if the download/delete etc was within the users own account admin so admins don’t have to manually do this for them each time. 

If you have deleted a handful of members and their content has been merged to Guest you will probably have several hundred postings over time.  Someone that took the time to read through all of these "Guest" postings would find it difficult to guess which posting was made by which prior member.  If the same postings were attributed to various "defined" accounts as mentioned above someone "could" comb through the site and see all of the content a particular deleted member wrote.  Those postings might include enough clues that someone could conceivably figure out the identity of the poster. "If" content left behind by a departing members "could" be attributed to them is the content "really" anonymized?  Something to consider.

If you have deleted a handful of members and their content has been merged to Guest you will probably have several hundred postings over time.  Someone that took the time to read through all of these "Guest" postings would find it difficult to guess which posting was made by which prior member.  If the same postings were attributed to various "defined" accounts as mentioned above someone "could" comb through the site and see all of the content a particular deleted member wrote.  Those postings might include enough clues that someone could conceivably figure out the identity of the poster. "If" content left behind by a departing members "could" be attributed to them is the content "really" anonymized?  Something to consider.

GDPR should be readily understood and easy to adopt.  The fact you asked your question means the people rolling out this new regulation failed to adequately inform the populace about it in a way that could be easily understood by one and all.  Lawyers themselves may find themselves puzzling over the wording of the regulation and it is quite likely many a law suit will be launched to bring clarity to various aspects of it.  Some if it is likely to be changed or deleted as consequence. You are responsible for adhering to GDPR even if it is flawed and you don't fully understand it.  Ignorance of the law is no defense in the court of law.
Nothing is likely to happen at first.  I imagine the individuals tasked with enforcing this regulation will focus their attentions on websites that inspired the adoption of this regulation in order to make an example of them.  They will probably move on to websites after that who have made no effort whatsoever towards trying to be compliant.
Every website owner will have to make a personal determination if they feel comfortable that they can come to understand the GDPR enough to know what changes (if any) need to be made on their website and have the wherewithal to make those changes or sufficient resources to hire legal and technical expertise to handle it for them.  The GDPR is likely to cause many website owners to decide the effort to become compliant with GDPR and other initiatives around privacy and security is just too much.  You and others members of this forum will have to make that decision in the coming months.

Is there really any reason people still need to be shown the file name prominently with extension and everything?
It's really the only part of the lightbox I dislike. Mostly due to the fact people tend not to cleanly name photos in the galleries I visit, so it's just a long string of stuff (usually generated off facebook or some other tool which seemingly auto generates a name). I don't see a problem in showing it somewhere, but it just gets so much (and in my humble but totally subjective opinion, over weighted) prominence in that top left position. From a UX/UI perspective, I actually don't think file names have much relevance at all now that you've got drag and drop working for image ordering - there is very little (if any) additional info conveyed by the file name.
I'd prefer (speaking as a consumer of galleries) that the caption stay blank unless a user completes it vs filling it with the filename.

I would really like to see Clubs support Pages.
I think there is a real need for Clubs to be able to post an article/page as opposed to a forum post.
Thanks for all you do!
 

Can you add custom fields for blogs?

Will we be able to customize the reactions per forums ?
I say this because it's nice to have all those reactions in specific sections, but if we have a forum for the community guidelines and someone clicks on "thumbs down" it's irritating. it's easy to troll the system.
We should be able to exclude reaction per forums and also decide which reactions are available and which reactions are not available for specific sections.