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    Davyc reacted to Jordan Miller in Hump Day: ways to engage your community   
    Appreciate you weighing in! I agree it's a bit of paradox. You want people to join your community, but if you don't have an active voice, a clear tone and create valuable content, people won't. 
    This topic actually inspired me to write a proper blog post about it. Would love to have you comment there as well 🙂 
     
     
     
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    Davyc got a reaction from Jordan Miller in Hump Day: ways to engage your community   
    One the most fundamental problems is actually acquiring members that want to be part of a community; once you have established that core base engagement would be a natural progression, but getting that core to engage with is problematic.  It's a difficult paradox because it's easy to create content that most would agree should spark an emotional response that someone will be willing to register and comment. So great content doesn't automatically equate to engagement.  There is no easy solution to the Catch 22 situation that many community managers face.  You can engage with people on SM without breaking into a sweat, but getting those same people to register with your own community is nigh impossible.
    I know that is dampening the enthusiasm that this topic hopes to generate, but the lack of response in the three days this post has existed kind of bolster this issue of non-commital from people.  I also find this sad because those same people you can engage with on SM simply have no idea how much more rewarding it is to engage outside of SM without the many limitations that SM imposes.
    I'm completely 'old school' on this and find engagement in forum communities so much more rewarding, whereas the banalities of SM is just one big yawn 🙂
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    Davyc got a reaction from Bethanyrayne in Hump Day: ways to engage your community   
    One the most fundamental problems is actually acquiring members that want to be part of a community; once you have established that core base engagement would be a natural progression, but getting that core to engage with is problematic.  It's a difficult paradox because it's easy to create content that most would agree should spark an emotional response that someone will be willing to register and comment. So great content doesn't automatically equate to engagement.  There is no easy solution to the Catch 22 situation that many community managers face.  You can engage with people on SM without breaking into a sweat, but getting those same people to register with your own community is nigh impossible.
    I know that is dampening the enthusiasm that this topic hopes to generate, but the lack of response in the three days this post has existed kind of bolster this issue of non-commital from people.  I also find this sad because those same people you can engage with on SM simply have no idea how much more rewarding it is to engage outside of SM without the many limitations that SM imposes.
    I'm completely 'old school' on this and find engagement in forum communities so much more rewarding, whereas the banalities of SM is just one big yawn 🙂
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    Davyc reacted to Bethanyrayne in Hump Day: ways to engage your community   
    A thought, maybe development of the forum is going the wrong way or should I say going the wrong way for those of us who aren't corporate entities.
    A corporate wants to be all over social media its their advertising without the cost. They're NOT interested in making money from a community or running an information resource other than the sale of their own product(s) or service(s). In addition, if they have knowledgable people on their "community" they can outsource their support costs by using their members as UNPAID support staff thus relieving the burden and cost on their own organisation. I'm sure there are many other benefits for a corporate client.
    But aren't we as small/medium niche forums just playing the social media game? Trying more and more to integrate with, look like and offer the same things as social media. Are we social media wannabes? and is that the right way to go if the forum is to flourish and survive? We bend over backwards to make it easy to register on our forum using social media accounts, WHY?
    Do we think (I hope you have all thought) that the majority of individuals that can't be bothered going through the simple registration process wil turn out to be active productive members of your community? They just want to consume the content that you have shamelessly barred them from while they are a guest. Never mind though they'll just join your forum through a social media link that you enabled, consume what they want and be on their way.
    Thank you very much for giving me the solution to my problem, the answer to my dilemma and knowledge I didn't previously possess and ALL at no cost plus a ridiculously easy way to login through my beloved social media account.
    I've searched for answers to many problems on the web such as, How to? The answer to any of those problems has NEVER come from social media and has a lot of the time come from someone's forum and inevitably shared on social media which completes the circle of "my beloved social media". You are providing your competitor with valuable content.
    The main problem as I see it is, you don't value your own content, you suffer from an inferiority complex. In the battle for views and the fear of your content not being listed on the almighty Google or shared on social media you've hoisted the white flag, (nearly) given up, (nearly), thrown in the towel, (nearly) afterall why should anyone be interested in becoming a member of your little information rich forum when they have access to the social media giants who publish nothing but own everything?
    Invision could help with the listing of content by giving the likes of Google et al member status (as far as I'm aware they don't) so that content hidden from guests could still be listed. Of course they will say it's against the rules or it's too difficult or some other erroneous response. Google Analytics can tell the difference between a bot and a real visitor why can't you? The content is available to anyone as long as they become a member. Time has come to get ahead of the curve and stop walking in the shadow of giants. A little to the left, a little to the right or a completely different path, there is sunlight.
    Lets get of our knees!
    I'm not a writer so I hope you at least get the gist of this post and also appologise to anyone I might have offended.
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    Davyc reacted to Bethanyrayne in Hump Day: ways to engage your community   
    It's very true, they'll spend hours evryday Twittering on Twitter, Facetiming an Facebook, InstaGratting on Instagram, checking how many strangers LIKED their post or shared it. etc. But really hard to get them to register on a forum. Even if they like the content, they'll just consume it and leave.
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    Davyc reacted to Adriano Faria in Movies   
    What's New in Version 1.0.8:
    Fix: Display of movie rating Missing language bit when changing movie author
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    Davyc reacted to Edjazoli in Bug in Grid view- Unread Topic.   
    And this is what I exactly used, I will try as well later to tinker a bit of forum title that will be mark with a "new" badge etc...
    I used 
    I used text-bottom as its looks better for me....and changed the icon 
    Thx for your time and help.
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    Davyc got a reaction from Edjazoli in Bug in Grid view- Unread Topic.   
    Good to hear you have solved the problem of bold text - as for the icon:

    As you can see on mine it's the star, however I had to make some changes to the CSS because it was blending into the background - try this in your custom CSS file and see if it works 🙂
    /* Change topic read status */ .ipsItemStatus:not(.ipsItemStatus_large).ipsItemStatus_read { color: rgb(178 167 187); opacity: 1; vertical-align: text-top; } .ipsItemStatus:not(.ipsItemStatus_large) { color: rgb(83 217 81); vertical-align: text-top; } Change the colours to whatever suits your theme or preference.
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    Davyc reacted to Adriano Faria in Movies   
    Will take a look. 
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    Davyc got a reaction from Adriano Faria in Movies   
    Small issue with the rating feature.  When I go to rate a Movie or TV Show I input the date (see screenshot) and give number of stars:

    Set the date as September 2014 and then click the rate this movie button - and this is what is shown:

    This next one I said it was October 2021 and although the year is correct the month always reverts to January.

    Not a really big deal for me, but some may query the issue - any ideas @Adriano Faria
    With thanks for your support 🙂
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    Davyc got a reaction from Jurgis in Hump Day: A Refresh Has Arrived!   
    He most likely can but you won't get the positive answer you want.
    I've had time to sleep on this and my conclusion is this:
    You say you haven't increased prices in a decade. Who's fault is this?  A small annual increase is easier to swallow than a massive increase in one fell swoop.
    Such a large increase for your corporate clients will be less than chicken feed and they will most likely offset this against tax. Us hobbyists can't do that and such an increase of these proportions is ridiculous if expect us to buy into it.
    In a declining hobbyist market you would be best placed to split your business into two - one catering for corporates who you can charge whatever big bucks they're willing to part with, and one more affordable option for hobbyists; the two are mutually incompatible and you can't expect hobbyists to pay corporate prices.
    You need to take a look at what your competition is charging and price yourselves competitively.  You can argue that you have the better product, but when priced way above competitors it doesn't look so attractive from the ground up.
    A small number of your clients who are used to being on this (and I say this loosely) community platform have probably voiced the concerns of many and who are now leaving the fold.  How big a number do you have to lose, silently, before you realise you made a huge blunder? A number 'we' will never know.
    It's like you have taken a big stick and beaten us with it and then in come the pacifiers with, "well, you know" as though that is some kind of ointment to soothe the pain.
    I just bought my second licence this year, that was bought with faith and trust in you as business, which incidentally has grown because of the grassroots support of your hobbyist clients over many years; that has flown the nest with this latest announcement.
    So you should be aware that whilst your costs are rising, just the same as ours, your income is about to take a dive.
    I am fully aware that prices rise constantly and it's a pain we all have to bear, but imagine if you went into your local grocery store and when you get through the checkout and have to pay the bill, you find that it's 50% more than last year.  How happy would you be with that?
    Small increases over a period of time hurt less and it's YOUR fault that you didn't do this over the last decade and now you want us to swallow the sob story - no way.  Am I angry, you bet - I wasted good money buying that second licence and there's no way I'm throwing any more at it. Your loss, my gain.
    You may be great at developing software, but you suck as looking after your clients, especially those who have walked this path with you since the beginning.
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    Davyc got a reaction from SeNioR- in Hump Day: A Refresh Has Arrived!   
    WOW! Definitely NOT impressed with the new pricing structure - this is taking it out of the ballpark for a lot of people.  I was looking forward to the revamped CIC and was considering it, but not now. Even self-hosted is now very pricy and I can see your competitors hoovering up the ones you've scared off.  Not sure this was a wise move, but then it depends on who you want as clients.
    The general makeover is OK, nothing that makes me go WOW! (other than your prices lol).
    Whoah!  I've just logged into the client area and I see my renewal price has gone from $40 every six months to this:

    Is this a mistake?
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    Davyc got a reaction from OptimusBain in Shopping cart for Marketplace   
    Is it possible to have a shopping cart in the IPS marketplace?  For example, I may wish to make several purchases but can only do one at a time.  This makes my bank jittery thinking that someone is hijacking my payment method when it sees multiple purchases going through one after the other and can stall payments until verified and this in turn makes it a nuisance when they text me and ask me to call them to verify that it's me making the purchases.
    With thanks 
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    Davyc got a reaction from OptimusBain in Reading Time   
    As we are used to such a busy lifestyle time is a precious commodity.  It would be useful, for Pages content, to have an estimated reading time for each article.  I know this has been done on another platform, but as to the criteria for estimating the time taken to read is something that would need to be calibrated.  Having an estimated time of reading may have a positive impact on whether someone will read an article or skip it if it 'appears' too long.  Thoughts?
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    Davyc reacted to Nathan Explosion in Reading Time   
    As you asked so nicely...pluralized language string included:
    Example in Pages:
    {$record->get__readtime($record->_content,200)}
     
     
    (NE) get__readtime() 1.0.0.xml
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    Davyc reacted to TDBF in Reading Time   
    I already did this Daniel.
    I was going to release it to the public, however due to a hard disk failure, cloud sync error and a drunken night in where I feed large quantities of alcohol into my floppy disk bay, I lost all the code.
    You know, all the normally excu... issues we developers face daily.
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    Davyc got a reaction from SeNioR- in Reading Time   
    As we are used to such a busy lifestyle time is a precious commodity.  It would be useful, for Pages content, to have an estimated reading time for each article.  I know this has been done on another platform, but as to the criteria for estimating the time taken to read is something that would need to be calibrated.  Having an estimated time of reading may have a positive impact on whether someone will read an article or skip it if it 'appears' too long.  Thoughts?
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    Davyc reacted to Sonya* in Reading Time   
    No need to edit template. Custom field would do the same 😉

    Pay attention to Default Value! It has to be filled out in order of the field to be displayed.
     

     
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    Davyc reacted to Nathan Explosion in Reading Time   
    Edit the database template Displate -> Record
    Add this anywhere (change the 200 to what you believe the 'words per minute' speed is for someone reading):
    {{$wordCount = \str_word_count(\strip_tags($record->_content));}} {{$estimateTime = \ceil ($wordCount/200);}} Then add this in your desired place in the template:
    Estimated reading time: {$estimateTime} minutes  
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    Davyc got a reaction from Nebthtet in Swap apps in licence   
    Plausible answer except for one omission - you already have access to my account detail so you would know that this was not a new purchase and could have answered here.  I still have no idea why this is not feasible.  I am not asking for something for nothing, simply asking that one app be removed from the licence and replaced with another app of equal value.  There is no loss to ISP and no additional expense to me and I would then have a licence that I could use for an upcoming project as opposed to it sitting there being useless.  I already have another licence that I am using so you have my custom, but certainly not my admiration as far as customer service goes.
    I know I can be quite vocal at times, but only when necessary.  I kept my business alive and working through some truly difficult times, until I retired, by valuing my clients and not charging them for trivial changes that they requested; that was something they appreciated and from that small provision I gained new clients as opposed to losing them.  I'm pretty sure that IPS has gone through some tough times, maybe even now, but you certainly don't win any awards in my books for refusing to administer a small request to a long serving client, and especially when a client needs to jump through hoops to get an answer that is already set in stone. Truly a sad state of affairs and one which has, once again, lead me to being disappointed in IPS; I even waste $20 renewing the licence to make sure it was active in anticipation of your support.
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    Davyc reacted to Randy Calvert in Swap apps in licence   
    I don’t know and would not venture to guess and speak on their behalf. I would suggest making a request to the contact us page to the accounts team to make your case. That would give you an official answer. 

    https://invisioncommunity.com/contact-us/
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    Davyc got a reaction from InvisionHQ in Hump Day: do you use the Clubs feature?   
    OK here's a first look - I can't provide a link as the site isn't fully ready yet.

    I've removed all the fluff on the card itself and move the name down under the image; I've also made the image clickable to make entry into the Club easier.  On right side bar I've removed what I consider to be non-essential to my own needs and tidied up the positioning to give it a more aesthetic look.  Personally, I feel this will give the directory a more pleasing to the eye look as well as making it more functional and less cluttered.
    I've pretty much done the same on the Club itself when entering it.

    Removed all the unwanted fluff that overlaid the image retaining only the link to add an image.  I'm also using this add-in to improve functionality:
    There is one template edit and the rest is done purely through CSS - the media queries were a bit tricky to ensure mobile and tablet continuity - there may be a few phones that are not covered by the media queries, but they are less commonplace than the mainstream phones; the queries can easily be adapted if needs require.
    I must point out that you may need to make some slight adjustments to the CSS depending on the theme you are using; I'm using the Novus theme by @ehren.
    Once I've made sure everything is as I expect it to be, I'll post the template edit and the CSS used.
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    Davyc got a reaction from Genestoy in Hump Day: your dream feature   
    I want a feature that will take down all Social Media sites (every single last one of them) permanently, so people will have no choice but to return to forums lol; well, you did say 'dream feature' in your topic title, so that's my 'dream' lol 😉
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    Davyc got a reaction from Markus Jung in Hump Day: what is your New Year's Resolution?   
    React less, help more - the world needs more helpers.
    Live for the moment - if you worry too much about tomorrow you will not enjoy today.
    Worry less about anything - if something is going to happen it will happen whether you worry about it or not.
    Try to drink less fluids after 8:00pm - so I don't spend half the night getting up for a  pee.
    Eat more fruit and veg and less processed foods - having been diagnosed with fatty liver disease.
    And lastly, stop getting older - the clock's ticking lol.

     
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    Davyc got a reaction from Markus Jung in Hump Day: your dream feature   
    I want a feature that will take down all Social Media sites (every single last one of them) permanently, so people will have no choice but to return to forums lol; well, you did say 'dream feature' in your topic title, so that's my 'dream' lol 😉
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