Davyc

It would be useful to be able to set Sort By defaults from the menu options available - for example: 

If I wanted to set 'Highest Rated' as default click it and then have a save button at the bottom - this way it will always be the default when access the page.  Why?  Because not all sort by options are available in the ACP (whether as an oversight or whatever) having the ability to do this would be a boon for everyone wanting to default to a choice of their own.
The image below is from another software:

The bigger part of GDPR compliance is that instead of trying to interpret a law yourself, it is important to have someone with a legal background and trained on laws applicable to your location and field (sometimes referred to as a lawyer) help you understand what is actually required and needed based not just the writing of the law but any other relevant cases referencing it. 

While many choose to not do so because of costs, the risk as @Davyc says can be quite substantial. 

There needs to be freely given, specific, informed consent. That is why I have an opt-in checkbox for bulk mails during sign-ups, but there is no checkbox for a drip campaign or similar uses. So, as a user, I have not freely given consent, I have not given specific consent to the drip campaign, nor am a properly informed about having my personal data processes by third-party providers (like Zapier/Mailchimp…), which is certainly relevant in regards to GDPR. Google got a $50 million fine a while ago because of this. They did ask for consent, but the kept it too vague. 
The distinction between ads and “helpful information” also doesn’t exist this way. If I run a website as a business, then everything I do is a business activity. If I try to keep my users active with drip campaigns, that a business activity. It doesn’t matter if the specific email tried to sell something or not. 

As mentioned before, I don’t see how these options can be implemented legally. How do these methods ask for consent to receive multiple emails in the future? How do we get consent to have the email (i.e. personal data) routed through multiple 3rd-party services in the background? What happens if users turn off notifications/bulk mail in their account? How do we stop the drip campaigns then? What happens if the user deletes their account entirely? 
It’s 2022. This approach of “you registered, now we can shower you with emails” luckily ended when GDPR became legally binding. I don’t like to be on the receiving end of such unwanted emails and therefore I also don’t want to send them out unless it is legal and there is proper consent. 

@Interferon I reached out to the plugin developer and he has extended the support of the plugin to cover blogs, etc and has submitted it to the marketplace for approval, so keep an eye out for the update🙂
 

You would need to reach out to the developer and ask if this would be possible - it may be 🙂

@Interferon I reached out to the plugin developer and he has extended the support of the plugin to cover blogs, etc and has submitted it to the marketplace for approval, so keep an eye out for the update🙂
 

One of the plus points of @ehren. themes is that they are very easy to customise and if help is needed then it's there without hesitation and always with a solution.  Fantastic themer with first class support.
Highly recommended 🙂
 

Currently taking bets on how many times @Ehren is mentioned in this topic.

Speed reading, as @opentype stated doesn't mean comprehension of what is being read.  I would prefer to read slowly and fully understand what is being presented, rather than flash through it and miss important factors.
One of the big issues of today is that everything must be faster, and in reality speed isn't always the be all and end all of everything.  Everyone is different and everyone reads and comprehends at different speeds.  Personally, I just think it makes the text look ugly and malformed.
If this were introduced to the IPS system then I would hope that it would be optional.

Speed reading, as @opentype stated doesn't mean comprehension of what is being read.  I would prefer to read slowly and fully understand what is being presented, rather than flash through it and miss important factors.
One of the big issues of today is that everything must be faster, and in reality speed isn't always the be all and end all of everything.  Everyone is different and everyone reads and comprehends at different speeds.  Personally, I just think it makes the text look ugly and malformed.
If this were introduced to the IPS system then I would hope that it would be optional.

Such claims need to be tested scientifically. There is no way to test this for yourself and actually come to useful conclusion. Any effect of such a change, positive or negative, will be subtle and there is no way to assess the difference yourself. You will be “primed” to perceive the supposedly improved text as better and possibly come to that conclusion just because of this priming. That’s why science uses double-blind tests, where you don’t know what is actually being tested. 
And reading speed isn’t reading comprehension. Even if the method would actually make you faster, it doesn’t mean you actually understand the text just as well as when you would read a normal text. 
There are also confounding variables, like the font weight. The website shows a very light text and then the “bionic” text with some letters being bold(er). Maybe the problem with the light text is that it is just too light and the reading improvement comes from the bolder letters – not their “bionic” distribution. Such things must be taken into account and tested for.  
And from my experience with reading research, the entire premise is highly questionable. The focus points we use while reading depend on many things:
personal reading experience personal understanding of the specific sentence you are reading the text layout (typeface, length of line …) the reading conditions (reading distance, lighting …) This “bionic” approach tries to force focus points on all readers of a text, independent of their reading experience and how good they understand the text. I don’t see how that can work. If the focus points don’t match what one personally needs, there can’t be a positive effect and it is actually more likely to see a negative effect caused by forcing focus points in the wrong locations. 
But I guess the makers of that product don’t really care as long as they can sell their API access. If they would care, they would have started with proper scientific testing, not with sensational claims distributed through general media outlets. 

In that case you may find this free plugin will help.
 

If you missed this in the ACP under Customization>Editor Settings you can choose to start a new paragraph with each return or go to the next line, which will omit that space between.

If this is not what you're after then it needs to move on the IPS team to determine the mitigation 🙂
 

All jokes aside, not everyone visually processes things the same way when it is in a small, medium, or large format.  A one size fits all approach will leave some folks at a disadvantage. 
If someone has less than "normal" vision, it can be quite challenging to comfortably read everything that is presented to us as we visit one site after another. It would be nice if sites running this software suite could be the exception to the rule. There may be value in offering a variety of different fonts instead of being locked into one. Doing so would likely increase the amount of content actually read and reacted to, increasing overall engagement.
If one font appealed to one and all there wouldn't be thousands of free or purchasable fonts out there.  A vast majority of these fonts are created to be aesthetically pleasing, not for increased readability. There are some fonts that might work far better for some portion of your members, as it stands today, we can't readily offer them an option.
If your site is geared more towards educating, then things get more complicated.  People learn in a variety of different ways. Some like to read content, some like to hear it, and some want to visualize the material being presented, and many want a combination of all three at their fingertips.
Having an all-text site leaves many people out in the cold. Having a built-in ability to hear text would be great for those that want to give their eyes a break or are severely sight impaired.
So, I'm not sure if @Jordan Millerwas being lighthearted in offering up the Bionic font for discussion or was trying to strike up an earnest conversation around fonts and how they can be better utilized to serve our communities.

Not really. Not for me or my board.

It actually hurt my eyes.  It's not normal nor natural and it appears that someone somewhere decided this would be a good idea and call is 'bionic' - sorry, I don't have bionic eyes and if I did I doubt that emphasising parts of words would improve my reading speed.  I was actually very happy to reach the end of the text as it became painful at the end.
Sorry, it doesn't work for me, but then I'm an old git and prefer traditional over modern 😉
 

It actually hurt my eyes.  It's not normal nor natural and it appears that someone somewhere decided this would be a good idea and call is 'bionic' - sorry, I don't have bionic eyes and if I did I doubt that emphasising parts of words would improve my reading speed.  I was actually very happy to reach the end of the text as it became painful at the end.
Sorry, it doesn't work for me, but then I'm an old git and prefer traditional over modern 😉
 

It actually hurt my eyes.  It's not normal nor natural and it appears that someone somewhere decided this would be a good idea and call is 'bionic' - sorry, I don't have bionic eyes and if I did I doubt that emphasising parts of words would improve my reading speed.  I was actually very happy to reach the end of the text as it became painful at the end.
Sorry, it doesn't work for me, but then I'm an old git and prefer traditional over modern 😉
 

It reads like things were supposed to be more emphasized so I would stop to emphasize it more in my head. NGL I prayed you did it on accident as it was extremely annoying to read.
 In a way it felt like reading a bad poem in iambic pentameter.

Typographer’s nightmare. 

Maybe it's just me, but the bionic reading did not change my reading pattern at all. I just ended up reading it at normal speed. In fact maybe even slowly since the darker contrast to lighter contrast makes you pause more while reading. I understand what they are aiming for, but I preferred the normal paragraph in the link above. Maybe it's just me though. 

Regarding search, it has an internal search.

Hello, Dave,
Nope, this one has to enter manually all the data. I tried a couple of APIs to implement but they’re not good at all: one brings only the lyrics; the other a few more data about the album only but very limited in terms of lyrics/albums database.
The best one is musixmatch but it’s paid for development and for usage and not cheap.