Chris Anderson

Speaking of ironic:
One would hope that everyone can be free to express an opinion here, even if it seems to be on the "ironic" side to some of us.  As with many comments posted here, I personally disagree with some points made and agree with others, rarely do I weigh in completely one way or the other. As a consequence I rarely use reactions.
If everyone consistently keeps their concerns to themselves "nothing" will change and there will be no chance of any knowledge transfer.
What appears to be a waste of time to some may not be to others. Jordan's approach to community management may serve him well on his board but might not work 100% of the time here.  The original poster was pointing out that in his opinion Jordan's approach might benefit from a little tweaking. If Jordan is to improve this community hearing contrary views will help him figure out how best to manage this community to be in service to "all".
 

This is a product support board, not an emotional support board.  Enough with all the touchy feely emojis, gifs and any other means of expressing emotions, whether positive or negative.  All communications should be done in a completely neutral fashion.
To ensure neutral communications going forward, please remove all reactions and the emojis and gif buttons as well from the editor in these forums as a few people can't seem to help themselves from being emotionally expressive.  The old saying goes, a few bad apples always ruins it for the rest...

Speaking of ironic:
One would hope that everyone can be free to express an opinion here, even if it seems to be on the "ironic" side to some of us.  As with many comments posted here, I personally disagree with some points made and agree with others, rarely do I weigh in completely one way or the other. As a consequence I rarely use reactions.
If everyone consistently keeps their concerns to themselves "nothing" will change and there will be no chance of any knowledge transfer.
What appears to be a waste of time to some may not be to others. Jordan's approach to community management may serve him well on his board but might not work 100% of the time here.  The original poster was pointing out that in his opinion Jordan's approach might benefit from a little tweaking. If Jordan is to improve this community hearing contrary views will help him figure out how best to manage this community to be in service to "all".
 

This is a product support board, not an emotional support board.  Enough with all the touchy feely emojis, gifs and any other means of expressing emotions, whether positive or negative.  All communications should be done in a completely neutral fashion.
To ensure neutral communications going forward, please remove all reactions and the emojis and gif buttons as well from the editor in these forums as a few people can't seem to help themselves from being emotionally expressive.  The old saying goes, a few bad apples always ruins it for the rest...

This is a product support board, not an emotional support board.  Enough with all the touchy feely emojis, gifs and any other means of expressing emotions, whether positive or negative.  All communications should be done in a completely neutral fashion.
To ensure neutral communications going forward, please remove all reactions and the emojis and gif buttons as well from the editor in these forums as a few people can't seem to help themselves from being emotionally expressive.  The old saying goes, a few bad apples always ruins it for the rest...

This is a product support board, not an emotional support board.  Enough with all the touchy feely emojis, gifs and any other means of expressing emotions, whether positive or negative.  All communications should be done in a completely neutral fashion.
To ensure neutral communications going forward, please remove all reactions and the emojis and gif buttons as well from the editor in these forums as a few people can't seem to help themselves from being emotionally expressive.  The old saying goes, a few bad apples always ruins it for the rest...

@Gauravk remove that direct edit of the widget file, and use this plugin instead.
EDIT: updated plugin to force the usort to only run when the upcomingEvents widget is the item calling the function
 
(NE) Re-sort Upcoming Events widget_1.0.1.xml

I like this idea but there would need to be some way to end subscription (and revoke elevated access) if a member fails to complete one of the payments. A configurable grace period and set of warnings should also be included to gently prompt a member to complete their payment plan.  
There should also be a way to track these kinds of subscriptions in the ACP so the admins know which members are on subscription plans, and their status (such as: Payment 2 of 5, Days Late).  This would allow the admins to know how much money should be coming in and which members are behind on their payment plans.  "If" a member fails to complete a payment plan there should be a way to mark their account as such. 
 

The 4.5 version is now available. (YouTube support only)

@Adriano FariaGoing forward could you please let folks know the moment you decide not to continue updating one of your apps.  This would give us some time to figure out an alternative solution if one can be readily had and if not give our members a head's up that your apps functionality will be disappearing on a certain date. 

I saw this topic and was waiting to see the same thing basically.

Integrating with other company's products can be quite tricky as they might change, add or deprecate features on a regular basis.  An integration that works this week might not next week as that company released an update that materially changes their product necessitating IPS to quickly release a patch to restore the integration code they provided to us. 
That takes lots of time and effort on IPS's part and they might encounter a release they simply can't support.  What then?  If that is a strong possibility its hard to justify pressing on month after month never knowing when it will abruptly end due to the other company's actions.  Deprecations can be jarring to those impacted by them but they are often necessitated by circumstances completely out of IPS's control.
 

hi, it would be nice to make it so that custom added emoticons show up after lets say animals and nature category instead of being at the very end?
what I'm trying to suggest is to let us order the emoji categories however we like. not only the newly created emoji categories but all of the  categories.

Any update on your update or can you confirm current version will work with 4.5?
Thanks,

Unfortunately this marketplace developer has decided to vacate the marketplace and is in the process of selling all of his apps to "anyone" willing to buy them.  It is anyone's guess who might buy any of his apps.  Continued support and updates for this app or any others may or may not come to a complete halt while new owners are sought.  What the future of any sold apps will be will remain a complete mystery until such time as the new owners let us know. 
I hope this inspires the community, IPS Staff and the remaining marketplace developers to come together in an effort to improve upon the marketplace and recruit a handful of new developers to be of service to the existing developer community and one day create apps of their own.  
Let's not spend a single moments time complaining and worrying about our apps and the marketplace as a whole and instead come together to collectively craft a marketplace that works for us while being mindful how hard it can be to be a developer.

We utilize a very large gallery and at times there is a need for some mass cleanup.  We have noticed the following items could be improved:
 
Currently there is no option to select multiple images to change owner, must be done one by one. You can hide/delete/etc, but not alter ownership. Currently there is no option to move images into another users album if moderator/admin. You can only move them into albums you have created. If an album has ownership changed, there is no option to apply that change to the images inside the album. Therefore the album is under a new owner, but the images remain under the original album owner. This is ok in some cases, but undesirable in others, an option would be helpful here.

One day, future time traveler, 4.6 will appear. Until that day, here's a plugin that does what @Gabriel Torres documented for you for 4.5.
 
Lazy Load Images.xml
Submitted to Marketplace as a free resource for those that like the Marketplace thing:
 

I spent numerous hours crafting my Terms and Privacy Policies and and thought I had a pretty good handle on covering all of my bases.  I would like to implement the IPS Community App and various Community Enhancements and Login Handlers in the future.  I happened to come across the article below this evening and it got me thinking:  How much personal data or inferred data this app might be trackable for each user and how one might best let members know so they can make an informed decision whether or not if they want to use the app or other third party services.
Can another installed app interact with this one to extract data?  As the amount of apps in use would be on the small side it probably wouldn't be worth it but the possibility still exists. 
Study reveals the scary amount of personal data apps can collect without your permission – BGR
We have to trust that IPS, Google and Apple wouldn't use any data (or any bad actors with access to their systems) that could be conceivably extracted from the app or inferred from it but our customers should be made aware that data has the potential from being extracted during app usage via an entry in the "Third Parties" section of the privacy policy and probably in the Terms as well. I'm not sure exactly how that might best be communicated to protect ourselves and inform our customers.
I am now using the following blurbs in my Terms and Conditions:
Links to Third Party Sites/Third Party Services
These Sites may contain links to other websites ("Linked Sites"). The Linked Sites are not under our control as such, we are not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site.  Clicking on a Linked Site may expose you to various tracking services which might infer various personally identifiable details about you and your surfing habits. By clicking on such Linked Sites you accept such consequences and will not hold these Sites responsible for any adverse outcomes. These Sites provide these Linked Sites to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any Linked Sites does not imply endorsement of these Sites or any association with its operators.
Certain services made available on our Sites or mobile app may be delivered by third party sites and organizations. By using any product, service or functionality not originating from our Sites or mobile app, you hereby acknowledge and consent that we may share such information and data with any third party with whom we have a contractual relationship to provide the requested product, service or functionality on behalf of our Sites or mobile app.
Third Party Accounts
While using your account on these Sites or mobile app you will likely utilize third party services. When such third party access occurs, you acknowledge and agree that you are consenting to the continuous release of information about you to others (in accordance with our privacy policy and published third party site privacy guidelines). If you do not want information about you to be shared in this manner, do not use these Sites or mobile app.
A good start but probably could be improved upon by the community.  Please note I depersonalized it in order to be suitable for other sites. My Terms and Privacy Policy is filled with legalize. Believe me I would prefer to keep things simple but being too simple opens one up to potential legal jeopardy.
If the mobile apps is enabled in the ACP one would hope that entries for Apple and Google would be added to the Third Parties Section with links to their privacy policies.  Also any login handlers or community enhancements should have entries posted as well. If such functionality doesn't exist or we can't add to the list ourselves, then not including such functionality might be a better approach.  We could simply add a "Third Parties" section ourselves and populate it with all of the appropriate third party services used by IPS as well as any utilized by marketplace or custom apps.

@breatheheavyI like this idea a "lot" as well as your other ideas and many others here in the community.  Unfortunately they may never get implemented as IPS has limited bandwith and the marketplace developers are pretty much maxed out for the foreseeable future. There is also the concern of how many of the total customer base would utilize any particular idea.  I think this one would prove popular and should be considered for inclusion. The big question is does it get added to the core or would a new app be built akin to clubs that members would purchase to help offset the additional development costs. Could enough additional apps be added for sale to warrant bringing on an additional programmer or two?  Probably...
Querying the customer base as to what "great ideas" they would like most implemented would determine demand.  Once that number has been quantified then you would need to determine the development and yearly support costs.  Divide those costs by those individuals that pledged to purchase the app to figure out how much each person would have to front to get the app developed.  This would allow IPS to bring on additional developer(s) knowing that all of their expenses would be covered for the next year eliminating the financial burden of bringing in a new developer and hoping they pay their way. This would allow for a hybrid marketplace model.  Some high value apps would be sold directly by IPS and all others would be sold in the marketplace.  This would lift some of the heavy burden off of IPS trying to include every suggested feature into the core and the high value apps would be minded by full-time professionals.
Please don't let me derail the conversation, please continue on...
 
 

IPS’ system already does that. Just upload the image here:
 

Thanks for your kind offer to consider suggestions for the upcoming update.  Unfortunately I don't have sufficient understanding of the apps capability now to know how it might be improved upon.  Once I put the forthcoming update through its paces I "might" offer up a suggestion or two for a subsequent release.

Another marketplace app you might want to browse through the feature list to see if it might meet you needs:
Chat Application - Applications and Plugins - Invision Community

Another marketplace app you might want to browse through the feature list to see if it might meet you needs:
Chat Application - Applications and Plugins - Invision Community

@TheJackal84 You've ended up creating a number of apps that are extremely well received by your customers and their community members, as such their continued availability and timely updates to be compatible with each new IPS update takes on an increased level of importance in their minds. The price of success.  Try to be of good cheer during these trying times.
I agree with @liquidfractalthat the occasional Hi Folks, here's where things stand every week or so would be appreciated by your customer base.