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Hello
It only supports html code (or ckeditor) to design the popup content, and display for specified groups.

Can this be used for a newsletter signup popup?
Onlyme has some great plugins.
I'm looking to tie in mailchimp and wish I could use something like monsterpopup on ips hosted plan
 
Keith

Granted you are talking about OpenSearch as a service add-on - I assume for CIC stuff (or a generalized service add-on for anyone) - but flipping the search internals from the existing ES over to OpenSearch in general would probably be fine for self-hosters as well.  Just don't, you know, remove ES and make OpenSearch a paid upgrade/service for everyone 🙂

No, Opensearch uses the last ES open source version which was 7.10. I would't expect things to change dramatically until ES moves to v8 as their stable branch.

We will cross that bridge if/when we get to it. 😄 

Worth nothing, that if we offer an ES service ourselves, it'll likely be Opensearch we use.

@Mattam using aws elasticsearch engine service
they have started their own 'fork' of elasticsearch this year called opensearch as elasticsearch is no longer open source
is this update to the latest version of elasticsearch going to cause any issues for aws users going forwards?

Yes. I didn’t see any alternative to be honest. 
 
You may be able to get away with editing content/search/elastic/index and dropping the min version constant but there are inconsistencies on elastic search indexes between major versions. 
 
I felt it better to focus on the stable branch. 

This means the new min version will be higher than the old max version, right? That's really unfortunate for orchestrating the upgrade.

Yes, the minimum version will be set to 7.2. We will be issuing an ACP bulletin on this early next week ahead of the beta. 

<inserting placeholder for the "will Elastic Search be upgraded to version 7.x" questions that are sure to come>

It is not but we are researching offering it. Elastic Search can get a bit expensive so we are trying to find ways to lower the cost of deployment.

Is Elastic Search included in IPS Cloud? If not, what is the cheapest solution to use it in IPS Cloud?

Happy Hump Day! Wanted to pass along some exciting developments. 
We've been wanting to improve our search capabilities within the platform. We started by adding more Elastic Search functionality in a few areas on our own community.
For example, in the sidebar of our topics, you'll notice the previously-existing 'Similar Content' widget. It now includes Elastic Search to offer, hopefully, a better list of related topics for you. Essentially what it's doing is looking at a topic title and finding similar words in other titles, then ranks the most relevant (previously it was pulling by tag). 
Here's an example. This topic includes Cloudlfare in the title. This is what shows in the Similar Content section on that topic:
 

 
 
Activity Streams in our community also take advantage of Elastic Search. 😊 
Feel free to poke around our community and let us know if it's functioning great or whether you're seeing something odd.
We want to see how things perform and would love to hear from you.
Now for the juicy platform updates made in the last 7 days:
- Fixed the duplicate rel attribute in the facebook share link.
- Fixed a missing search keyword for block caching.
 - Fixed some missing rel=nofollow attributes on add new content links.
- Fixed a niche issue with the Marketplace interface showing an entity instead of dollar sign in some browsers.
- Removed no longer used sitemapLinks functions.
- Fixed an issue where pagination links could redirect to the wrong location when using Blog categories.
- Fixed the design on the Zapier Integration page and added the clipboard copy button for easier data copying.
- Fixed an issue where RSS feeds were unavailable to readers when the site is not available to guests.
- Fixed an issue where it was possible to have more than one Subscription at a time.
- Fixed an issue where it was possible to have more than one Subscription at a time.
- Fixed an issue where using a Yes/No custom field as a purchase identifier caused an endless loop.
- Fixed an issue adding products to an invoice via AdminCP when it contains a Miscellaneous Charge.
- Fixed an issue displaying stats for "Solved Topics by Forum".
- Fixed an issue where 'webp' was missing from the mod_rewrite rules.
- Fixed an issue where removing all followers of a content item does not immediately update the count.
- Fixed an issue where banned users show in @mentions.
- Fixed an issue where the 'rel' attribute content rebuild may break embedded images. Re-run to fix.
- Fixed an issue where report center links may point to a container rather than the reported item.
- Fixed an error on posting due to followers in specific situations.
- Fixed an issue where the content promoter would get a badge instead of the content author.
 
 
Do you currently use Elastic Search? Notice any positive changes in our own community in regards to it? Drop a line in the comments!

Personally, I find that audio messages on a forum are a bit unnatural and also cause some difficulties:
Cumulative file size Specific moderation  Lack of referencing. But it can be something interesting, for example on role playing games 🙂  

I agree with the commentors that this wouldn't be welcomed by admins or users to replace traditional forums. The inclusion of audio might be a welcome addition if it was truly an value-add to certain segments of a community and their use was kept to an absolute bare minimum. An audio "here", an audio "there", but NOT an audio "everywhere".
If this kind of functionality were added by IPS or a marketplace developer, I imagine it would be permission based, disabled by default and upload size limits in place to help manage storage space and minimize the impact on the server's CPU.
 
 
 
 

Me? No. I want exactly the opposite: create polls without tie them to topics, blog entries or whatever. 
It’s pretty weird the need to create a topic to ask questions in a poll!

I look at polls probably way more as a key feature of Invision more than most. So much so, I use the Poll Wall plugin that is available on third party to separate all polls from the forums sections as poll make you do something different to just posting a discussion point.
The way we currently create polls are very cumbersome, mainly due to the amount of info needed as it is linked to a topic thread. Multiple headers can confuse even me at the best of times. Solution wise, Polls should be a separate creation to a 'Topic', even if once posted it looks very similar to one like it does today. Many places in social media can make a poll in seconds (like your Invision Twitter poll @Jordan Miller 🙂), so we need to reduce those steps to enable greater throughput.
To support all of this, it would then be ideal to have dynamic widgets at your disposal. A slider, with multiple polls selected would be a great engagement tool to entice people to interact with your site. Rather than a static poll that you can only select one per block.
And like @Adriano Faria said above, greater integration with pages is the key. You've already built engagement links in the new Achievements, which is a super start. We just need to make them more visible and usable.

Show the amount of page views for polls to admins.  If thousands of people view a poll but only 20 people bother to participate then that is a useful metric to know.
If only 5 people view a poll then it makes sense that a small percentage of the membership were actually aware of the poll.  
 

Nice idea! 

Just wanted to pass along the Twitter results in contrast to the results here 
 
 

Sometimes I'd like to allow guests to vote (perhaps using ip checking to prevent people voting multiple times). 
Sure, I understand that poll results wouldn't be as trustworthy, but sometimes the whole point of a poll is to encourage people to participate. Also, it is very frustrating for a guest to click on a poll topic only to be told "sorry, you can't read the results...". Yes, this might encourage some to register, but it'd be nice to have the choice of having the option to make polls where we let everyone vote or just registered members.

You shouldn‘t think about polls only in threads. We need polls in Pages, in articles, too.

Different options, such as sliders, to rate 1-10. I have had an app written for my site to add ratings to certain topics which include sliders but its not perfect.
https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/127178-match-ratings-leeds-1-1-leicester-city-vote-now/

I think polls could be displayed on a specific page, like a poll wall, and preferably, not tied to a topic or blog entry. Someone may want to crate a poll and would be more useful to not tie it to a topic/blog entry; then the poll wall would be the place.
Currently they're buried in a topic or entry and a simple "?" in topics list, for example, doesn't seem to draw much attention.