Chris Anderson

@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. 
 
 
 

@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. 
 
 
 

@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. 
 
 
 

+1

This is because there are a lot of opinion based threads here. I don't think "Like" is a good reaction when you want to agree or support what has been said in a thread but currently the only agreeable reaction. 
Like is a broad (and at least for me) a very default way for people to respond/react to something that they simply think was a good read.
In some cases I would like to actually agree with what the member is saying or support it with a +1. To me agreeing versus liking something will give me a better way to show my appreciation to a members post.
An example a cute joke in the middle of an opinion thread would get a like or a 'haha' but something that brings up good points can get my 'agree'.

@TheJackal84 - Hey bro, any update on this?

Developer has moved on to other endeavors and is unlikely ever to return.

Sites could readily come to rely heavily on your application working long term. How likely will your solution not require updating to continue working as IPS releases new updates in the coming year(s).  If it ends up needing updates how likely will it be that you can readily figure out how to update your app to continue being compatible.  If you bow out of the marketplace who will take over maintaining the app?  We have had a fair share of apps being neglected or abandoned for various reasons (such as death of a developer) to place to much reliance on marketplace developers. If you can address those concerns you will garner my support and business.
 

Sites could readily come to rely heavily on your application working long term. How likely will your solution not require updating to continue working as IPS releases new updates in the coming year(s).  If it ends up needing updates how likely will it be that you can readily figure out how to update your app to continue being compatible.  If you bow out of the marketplace who will take over maintaining the app?  We have had a fair share of apps being neglected or abandoned for various reasons (such as death of a developer) to place to much reliance on marketplace developers. If you can address those concerns you will garner my support and business.
 

I can't tell you how great it is to see you back online. I hope all is well with you.

The 4.5 version had a "lot" of changes, deletions and additional functionality added. This nescitated a great deal of changes to the code base.  Some of it obvious and some not so obvious to third party developers. The vast majority of developers have full-time jobs and as such can devote only a limited time each week on their apps. If we want more timely app updates we would need to collectively pay "much" more for apps and updates to entice developers to code full-time for the marketplace. As folks complain quite loudly that the prices charged now are too high I don't expect things to change. 

We have an internal suggestion for this.

We don't have any agreement with Sendgrid. It has simply been implemented for a longer period of time.
There is interest in SES integration (although you can already use SES via SMTP presently anyways). I think the main catch is that they have stricter requirements for handling bounces which would necessitate new functionality being built in, not just slapping in another email gateway and calling it a day. That said, we're monitoring feedback/support for topics requesting SES integration.

This sounds like something I might like as well.  

Another suggestion : 
@TheJackal84 Is it possible to integrate Members Shop with Poll system? For example whenever a user answers a poll they get x amount of points.
I am sure quite a few forum owners will find this useful and engaging at the same time.

Feature Request:

Please provide a toggle to hide the "Activity" tab.

What's New in Version 1.0.11:
Allows event creator to manage attendees.

Like the idea!

By the way @Mike John, I need this suggestion like ... yesterday.  No pressure or anything.  But totally lots of pressure.  
I am onboarding the biggest expansion my website has ever seen over the weekend - and they're all clubs.  I'm getting 100+ new registrations every day and launched 4 new clubs in the past 24 hours, ever since Yahoo announced the limitation of Yahoo Groups.   

That's brilliant Adriano!!!  You might consider creating a separate monitizable version of this product.  Such a version could be marketed to an entirely different group of IPS customers increasing overall sales.   Once folks really look at the capabilities of the Member Shop, the Commerce addon and your app (with "just" the new features you will be adding in a couple of days) their imaginations will spark and multiple different use cases will come to mind.  Being open to further refinement could lead to entirely different ways of running communities, allowing some to remain open a few years longer or allowing new ones to launch and thrive.

Clubs aren't supported yet. I'm looking into getting it into a future version though.

It's great to have the ability to start a topic about a particular book but there are times when it would be great to be able to reference a particular book in a forum conversation.  
For example if a forum poster wrote the following sentence below and embedded a book title "Battle of Hastings". 

Forum poster clicks on the "new" book icon in the toolbar as shown above.  A book choosing dialog box appears.  After appropriate book is chosen the dialog box disappears and the book title with underlying link gets added where the cursor lies and the forum poster continues writing.
In Battle of Hastings, the author states on page 22, "This battle is the most defining event in English History".  Anyone reading the forum posting later hovers their mouse pointer over the book title and a popup dialog box appears with more information about the book.

When done reviewing the book they exit the dialog box and return back to the forum posting.
The reader can better determine how reliable the quoted text is based on reader reviews on Amazon.  It also can expose the membership to additional books on a particular subject matter being discussed without having to create an entirely new ThreadStarter: Books created topic.  Doing so may end up fragmenting the conversation and the topic ends up dying prematurely. 
This idea is inspired by Wikimedia.  
The more book links to Amazon the more chances a member will buy a book or other merchandise which will earn the website additional affiliate commisions.
 

It's great to have the ability to start a topic about a particular book but there are times when it would be great to be able to reference a particular book in a forum conversation.  
For example if a forum poster wrote the following sentence below and embedded a book title "Battle of Hastings". 

Forum poster clicks on the "new" book icon in the toolbar as shown above.  A book choosing dialog box appears.  After appropriate book is chosen the dialog box disappears and the book title with underlying link gets added where the cursor lies and the forum poster continues writing.
In Battle of Hastings, the author states on page 22, "This battle is the most defining event in English History".  Anyone reading the forum posting later hovers their mouse pointer over the book title and a popup dialog box appears with more information about the book.

When done reviewing the book they exit the dialog box and return back to the forum posting.
The reader can better determine how reliable the quoted text is based on reader reviews on Amazon.  It also can expose the membership to additional books on a particular subject matter being discussed without having to create an entirely new ThreadStarter: Books created topic.  Doing so may end up fragmenting the conversation and the topic ends up dying prematurely. 
This idea is inspired by Wikimedia.  
The more book links to Amazon the more chances a member will buy a book or other merchandise which will earn the website additional affiliate commisions.
 

I second this.  I already use Clubs to host academic reading and research groups, but pages would go a long way toward monetising Clubs for online courses.
<gratuitous promo> @Adriano Faria is also working closely with some of us on an Invision LMS platform, which may be able to make even better use of Pages in Clubs.</gratuitous promo>

Oh, and a big one: Online Courses!
With Pages databases in clubs we could easily sell online courses with articles, video lessons and so on. The entire club could be a paid course and the usual features like discussion area are there already as well. And members could make money selling courses and admins can get a cut of it.