CheersnGears

you really should just put +MX in your SPF instead of zoho.com

(NE) Box of Tricks (added in v1.6.0)
 
 

That is the whole purpose of Community Hive! Every interaction with it intends to drive customer/clients/users BACK to your community. It does not want to be the center of attention!

It's ok, we'll create their plugins for them.

Beautiful. If only other forum software developers were so innovative... 
 
Looking forward seeing more communities entering the Hive. 🙂

Super duper excited about this!
I may break my rule of not using beta releases just to get into this early.

Super duper excited about this!
I may break my rule of not using beta releases just to get into this early.

Super duper excited about this!
I may break my rule of not using beta releases just to get into this early.

Super duper excited about this!
I may break my rule of not using beta releases just to get into this early.

Super duper excited about this!
I may break my rule of not using beta releases just to get into this early.

I think some sample Pages databases with different use cases would be nice for V5.

Some of us (many of us?) are not coders, and in this day of Elementor, Wix, etc, do not wish to become one. I don't want to spend my time learning how coding something like that when I could be using it to write content for my sites.

Some of us (many of us?) are not coders, and in this day of Elementor, Wix, etc, do not wish to become one. I don't want to spend my time learning how coding something like that when I could be using it to write content for my sites.

Some of us (many of us?) are not coders, and in this day of Elementor, Wix, etc, do not wish to become one. I don't want to spend my time learning how coding something like that when I could be using it to write content for my sites.

I think some sample Pages databases with different use cases would be nice for V5.

Is there any way you could share the structure of the database and the theme files so that we can recreate it on our site? 

Not Charles, but your site is not suppose to be frozen in time.   If the template designer went AWOL, look for a new template by a new designer... keeping in mind that going to V5 will completely change the template system and you'll need to update again.
These are just the costs of running a website.

As a developer who has years of development experience and I am familiar with various techs that I could use in the development of apps but I didn't due to their limitations by IPS. I am sure that this method will help to make IPS more powerful and eventually users will use it and who will have a powerful board. Also, this method increases the competition between developers, and better apps are produced. If you look at other platforms and CMSs like WordPress, you will see that there are many developers for an app and you can choose the best one after comparing them. Many of the apps in the market can be better developed and released to the public, but considering that other developers have done it, I didn't do it so it doesn't affect their sales.
For example, I was recently working on an LMS project, which was quite similar to the apps available in WordPress and other CMSs. When I found out that IPS itself had published the same, so I stopped the development, because I didn't know if this app would get permission to publish after the completion of the project. But I can continue to develop them now. also, I have made a lot of custom apps and plugins (+70) that I could publish in the market according to the agreement I had with the clients, but I didn't take the risk due to IPS restrictions, and now I'm thinking about publishing them. there are even apps whose value is less than $10 and some do not need renewal. We can manage them in this way.

I understand where you're coming from; it was indeed a tough decision. There is also, however, the side of the Marketplace that we've kept largely to ourselves and that is the costs associated with operating it. Many assume this has been an additional revenue stream for IPS, but the reality is, it has never even broken even. To explain why and in the spirit of transparency, let's use the example of a basic $5 plugin purchase; with our 10% commission, minus transaction fees, etc. we net virtually nothing, but we assume all the risk. This means, if someone decides they're unhappy with a resource (even though we have an all sales final policy), or uses a fraudulent payment method and a chargeback is performed resulting in us losing that dispute, we pay a $15-20 fee--the author is not charged this fee and usually retains the proceeds from the original sale. It takes dozens and dozens of sales of that single resource to break even on that one transaction. Multiply that by countless chargebacks and incidents of fraud in addition to the immense development time required to review resources, the administrative time to handle customer vs developer disputes, support overhead, payout fees, etc. the Marketplace actually costs us a significant amount to provide and maintain.
The costs have actually exponentially increased as the use of the Marketplace has decreased. Previously, there were more good sales to help lessen the blow of the bad sales, however, with a 75% decline in usage over recent years, the volume is simply no longer there, so the losses are subsequently no longer sustainable, even if we were to triple our commission rates, which would only hurt us and the resource authors. On a scale of full app stores such as Apple, Google, Steam, etc. you have enough volume to chase the bad with good and the numbers add up. We are, of course, not Apple. 
As has been said, the vast majority of our customers today appear to either prefer their installation to be "stock" or to have custom development performed by third party providers. The top three Marketplace resources are currently installed on only 2% of communities (that report statistics to us, to be clear). I know how easy we've made it for those who like lots of tweaks and resources and we hope you will continue to enjoy these resources, but unfortunately, we can no longer prop up and absorb the losses of a declining ecosystem. I fully meant what I said in the original announcement - we are excited to be able to redirecting the resources expended in supporting the Marketplace towards improving the platform on the whole and creating new opportunities for motivated third party developers to connect with interested customers for custom development, integrations, services and yes, premade resources. 
For those that are active in third party resource utilization, I'm very encouraged by and grateful to @Joel R for his interest and commitment to bringing our loyal third party contributor community together again in a way that provides them more freedom and opportunities.

To Marketplace developers and the Invision community as a whole, I will be happy to host an independent and collaborative Marketplace directory.  It's already in the works.
I fully support a thriving ecosystem of developers and clients: to extend, to inspire, and to push the boundaries of our platform. Technology is an important differentiator more than ever in the modern web, and working with developers (either privately or through their public mods) can help fine-tune your platform. 
 
More information and invitations will be sent out to active Marketplace devs.  You are also welcome to send me a direct PM.  
Follow this topic for any future updates.  

As has been mentioned, you have a DNS issue.  Multiple DNS issues in fact.
@Lindy mentioned the DMARC problem already.  You also highly likely to have an SPF issue. 
You have 11 entries in your SPF records, none include your MX record which is Outlook/365, none include your webhost (if you're directly sending from your host, this can be the issue), and it doesn't appear you have any sort of mailing service like SendGrid set up for SPF either. I'm surprised you can get any e-mails to go out at all.
If it is allowed by IPS, I can look into this for you. My rates are slightly lower than IPSes, but I do not offer IPS support outside of configuring a mail service on your site(s). I only would handle the Mail Deliverability side.  Since I don't believe it is an IPS issue, I may be a better fit for you than IPS's services.

As has been mentioned, you have a DNS issue.  Multiple DNS issues in fact.
@Lindy mentioned the DMARC problem already.  You also highly likely to have an SPF issue. 
You have 11 entries in your SPF records, none include your MX record which is Outlook/365, none include your webhost (if you're directly sending from your host, this can be the issue), and it doesn't appear you have any sort of mailing service like SendGrid set up for SPF either. I'm surprised you can get any e-mails to go out at all.
If it is allowed by IPS, I can look into this for you. My rates are slightly lower than IPSes, but I do not offer IPS support outside of configuring a mail service on your site(s). I only would handle the Mail Deliverability side.  Since I don't believe it is an IPS issue, I may be a better fit for you than IPS's services.

As has been mentioned, you have a DNS issue.  Multiple DNS issues in fact.
@Lindy mentioned the DMARC problem already.  You also highly likely to have an SPF issue. 
You have 11 entries in your SPF records, none include your MX record which is Outlook/365, none include your webhost (if you're directly sending from your host, this can be the issue), and it doesn't appear you have any sort of mailing service like SendGrid set up for SPF either. I'm surprised you can get any e-mails to go out at all.
If it is allowed by IPS, I can look into this for you. My rates are slightly lower than IPSes, but I do not offer IPS support outside of configuring a mail service on your site(s). I only would handle the Mail Deliverability side.  Since I don't believe it is an IPS issue, I may be a better fit for you than IPS's services.

You can still just create a forum or Pages database called “Support Tickets” and use this mode if you need privacy:

Honestly, the process was fantastic, and the discussions were numerous. While IPS does want the CIC product to be their primary product, they see the value in being the best self-hosted product on the market as well.
But as they've said for a while, the self-hosted market is changing.  Sites that are "just forums" are not likely to survive long going forward, which is a position I've held for years back when I added IP.Content/Pages as the article management system on my site.  As such, it doesn't make sense to keep the apps as individual products anymore and instead sell the suite as a whole.  It allows IPS to integrate the apps even tighter. 
In my view, site owners who run "just a forum" need to sit back and reflect on where the world is today and if such a site makes sense to continue self-host, or just migrate it to Reddit instead. If you are a "just forums" site owner, I would encourage you to look at this change as a chance to grow in new ways with the new apps that you didn't have access to before.  The only limit is your imagination.
IPS published several drafts of the upgrade language to us in the group and we all took turns making suggestions and modifying the language.  While IPS certainly set the guidelines, it was a very collaborative effort between IPS and those of us in the customer focus group. I think every person in the focus group submitted a modification suggestion to IPS and IPS was very receptive towards them. 
With regard to how the licensing changes work, especially regarding renewals, it's clear that in order to make sure the self-hosted product is a viable, ongoing product, people who use the software need to chip in. The pool of self-hosted customers has shrunk dramatically over the last years. Making the renewals and catch up fees mandatory was the only way to do that in a fair manner but IPS counters that with lower renewal fees for any site with 2 or more apps.
My relationship with IPS over the last 20-ish years has been strained from time to time, but I have to say that this has been a fantastic experience for me personally.