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Paul, the feedback truly is appreciated. With anything, there are inherent risks. You can buy anything and it can go unsupported, warranty denied, or any number of things you hadn't hoped for. The Marketplace is an inherent risk to IPS as well. Anytime there's a fraudulent purchase, a developer disappears and/or there are chargebacks, IPS bears the burden of such - financially and otherwise. When you are dealing with inexpensive resources at a 10% commission, one $15 chargeback it can take dozens of transactions to recoup the loss from that one previous transaction. The Marketplace, from a financial standpoint, is a loss leader for IPS, but it's something that adds value to the product and enhances the customer experience. So, yes, there are risks - for everyone. We've drastically improved the footprint and presence of the Marketplace for 4.5 and thus increased exposure - which ultimately, will be great for everyone. With that, however, necessitates the need to leverage tighter control of the Marketplace. If you buy an app in the App Store or Play, you don't get the source. If the developer disappears, that's the end of the app. That is the unfortunate reality that we all face virtually everywhere else. 99% of the time, the risk pays off.
I completely understand where you are coming from, Paul. Truly. You are fortunate to have the skills and desire to get your hands dirty. I do, however, have the advantage of knowing our customer base and  very respectfully - you are indeed the exception, not the norm. Most want to point, click and go. I understand the argument that has been raised: "why not have both?" - we effectively do, even if it's not quite what you had in mind. You can manually install resources and if you wish to purchase something in the Marketplace, there is nothing stopping you from contacting the author and asking for files and likewise, nothing preventing the author from providing it to you. The only caveat is it's installed through the unofficial installation side of the framework and thus unsupported. Beyond that, if the author agrees with your assessment that you should have the ability to view and alter their resources, what we've done in 4.5 should have no bearing on you. If you're asking to have it like it was, I'm afraid we have no intention of doing so, to be completely candid. Whether that changes in the future is unknown, but at this juncture, we will continue to improve the infrastructure, processes and work with the authors to create the best experience we possibly can. There will be bumps. There always is - as we speak, there's an app I can't open on my iPhone since an update - it just crashes. I've been doing this long enough to know things happen and I don't expect the developer or Apple to catch everything. Likewise, we can't predict the perfect storm in every circumstance and when we find something, we will all learn from it, do our best to ensure it doesn't happen again and rather than mask issues that bubble up outside of the Marketplace, they will be dealt to ensure other customers don't encounter the same thing.
Invision is moving in the direction that the majority of the Internet has already moved towards. Point. Click. Done. Fewer and fewer people have any interest in the nuts and bolts of things anymore. We used to have our own datacenter space long ago. I remember personally, in our earlier years, getting late night calls because a power supply failed, or one of the Cisco 6509's didn't come back after an update, or a processor failed. I know nothing about latest server hardware and I haven't had to telnet into a power strip in years... do you know why? Because I don't have or want to. 🙂 Our infrastructure is housed entirely within AWS these days. They do what they do, so we can do what we do and while they aren't perfect either... it works. That is what the overwhelming majority of customers want. Of course, if I wanted to get my hands dirty and rack a server, there are still colo providers available. If we wanted to download, hack up and mess with a collaboration and communication tool - we could, but why? That's what Slack does and I don't care what their code looks like, or what the third party developer's code looks like. It's point. Click. Done. If there's no done, they will work until there is. Again, it may not be your ideal outcome and I really do understand the mistrust, but we just can't be something to everyone and in this case, we're focusing on the things you shouldn't -have- to focus on vs carving out space for you to rack your own server. Others do that well, but we are moving away from that model and I do realize it's a big change for some. We hate to alienate or turn away anyone, we really do.
In short: I would encourage you to contact authors moving forward if you want a copy of a resource and see if that's an option, either as a courtesy or by purchasing from their site instead of the Marketplace. We are standing firm on our position with regards to how the Marketplace will function moving forward. You have my word and commitment to making that the best possible experience it can be. We will also improve communication for these types of things in the future. I think we just assumed everyone would welcome the change - who doesn't like simplicity, right? There's obviously a few that do care and we'll be more mindful of that.
Thanks again for taking the time to provide concise and constructive feedback, Paul. It's appreciated.

Yes, it is planned, prior to December 1.

Yes, it is planned, prior to December 1.

Known issue, a good workaround is to limit the snow to just the header of your forum. See the settings window, I explain how to do this there.
Try experimenting with other target CSS class elements, too.

Deck the halls with lots of twinkle lights, fa la la....
Christmas Lights has been updated to 1.2.0! It now works properly with IPS 4.4.
Happy holidays!

Ho ho ho! Snow has been updated to 1.3.2! It now works properly with IPS 4.4.
Happy holidays!

Ho ho ho! Snow has been updated to 1.3.2! It now works properly with IPS 4.4.
Happy holidays!

Deck the halls with lots of twinkle lights, fa la la....
Christmas Lights has been updated to 1.2.0! It now works properly with IPS 4.4.
Happy holidays!

Ho ho ho! Snow has been updated to 1.3.2! It now works properly with IPS 4.4.
Happy holidays!

Ho ho ho! Snow has been updated to 1.3.2! It now works properly with IPS 4.4.
Happy holidays!

Deck the halls with lots of twinkle lights, fa la la....
Christmas Lights has been updated to 1.2.0! It now works properly with IPS 4.4.
Happy holidays!

Deck the halls with lots of twinkle lights, fa la la....
Christmas Lights has been updated to 1.2.0! It now works properly with IPS 4.4.
Happy holidays!

Hi everyone,
Year-end crunch hit early this year, so my plans to review this plugin and Snow before December 1 got way-laid.
I hope to get to this in the next day or two. Thanks for the continued interest!

Hi everyone,
Year-end crunch hit early this year, so my plans to review this plugin and Christmas Lights before December 1 got way-laid.
I hope to get to this in the next day or two. Thanks for the continued interest!

Hi everyone,
Year-end crunch hit early this year, so my plans to review this plugin and Snow before December 1 got way-laid.
I hope to get to this in the next day or two. Thanks for the continued interest!

Hi everyone,
Year-end crunch hit early this year, so my plans to review this plugin and Snow before December 1 got way-laid.
I hope to get to this in the next day or two. Thanks for the continued interest!

Hi everyone,
Year-end crunch hit early this year, so my plans to review this plugin and Christmas Lights before December 1 got way-laid.
I hope to get to this in the next day or two. Thanks for the continued interest!

Thanks! We actually haven't moved to 4.4 yet...once we do I'll be sure to fix this. It's usually something trivial. Should be in time for the holidays ;)

I feel so bad, you've been refunded double what you paid.
My guess is that the location setting needs updating for the new 4.2.x themes, should be fairly straightforward.

@EmpireKickass Yup, just give me a day or two...c'mon people, it's a free plugin, and I do have a job

Changelogs for the upcoming Clubs Enhancements 2.0 
BUGFIXES
1. Migrate items to club not add all users
2. Double "overview" bug
3. Email notification issue on Message member
NEW FEATURES
1. Plugin conversion to application
2. Clubs Enhancements and Improved Clubs (IC) merged
3. (IC) Blocks Manager for Clubs (acp)
4. (IC) Extended Blocks Manager for Club Leader
5. Added HTML block (adsense, banner image...)

ACP EXAMPLE:

FRONTEND:

5. Hide members list in the sidebar when the "Display Club information" is located "In the header" (bluto request)
6. Ban Member - add moderator permission to ban/unban members (prov only admins can ban/unban)
7. Ban Member - Give the option to ban from ALL CLUBS or from specific clubs
8. Ban Member - Revamped Banned Members Page
SOME SCREENSHOTS:


OTHER
1. Removed reorder&delete features (core features)
2. Removed "Restrict Number of Clubs per member" (core feature - group settings)

This is the support thread for the Snow plugin.
 
The Snow plugin adds a festive, wintry touch to any IPS4 website with configurable JavaScript-driven snow.
Features:
Snow that gently falls and gathers, with wind speed and direction determined by the mouse X position. Settings provided include: Number of snow particles on screen and active ("falling") at any time Configurable Animation tick rate Snow Color (with color picker) Snow by default is in the header, but can be configured to be in any HTML element ID, or within the document body. Snow "floor" can be set in pixels (the absolute pixel value at which the snow stops falling or sticks) Stickiness of snow (does it stick to the bottom of the window/element or not?) Twinkle effect - snow fades in and out as it goes down the screen Optional support for mobile devices (will be cruel to their CPU and battery!) Enjoy what is perhaps the second most useless plugin ever developed for IPS4!
Original BSD-licensed code for snowstorm provided by Scott Schiller (2007).
WARNING: Will slow down browsers. As the JavaScript implementing this functionality is not mine, only critical IPS-breaking issues will be fixed. What you see is what you get, take it or leave it.
Known issues:
When targeting document.body (leave target parameter blank), the IPS main content blocks the snow effect, leaving the snow only in the header and the side margins of the page. Scrolling to the bottom of the page can result in an "infinite scroll" situation. As a result the default target is the header block only.  

OK! It was an easy fix, just a minor JavaScript error.
New v1.3.0 uploaded:
Fixes for 4.2.x New bigger snowflake by default! ❄ Re-targeted the entire body instead of just the header by default. For the previous behaviour, target ipsLayout_header instead of ipsLayout_body. Sample picture of the new bigger snowflake attached.

I'll look into it, but no promises.

Xmas Lights seem to be working just fine in 4.2.6. If anyone has any pre-holiday issues, let me know.