PoC2

Thank you!

I did that, but many are still archived.

I archived a fair number of site topics a few years ago when I needed to be careful with my site resources. I'd now like to unarchive everything.

Is there a simple way to mass unarchive?

Running 4.4.10

Many thanks for any info.

On 5/17/2020 at 4:35 PM, marklcfc said:

Good opportunity for me to post this again from a XF site

Yes I'm seeing a number of XenForo sites appearing with this feature, and the respective members seem to love it (it gives them a convenient choice).

So I see other forum sites (not using Invision) increasingly offering toggle-based "Dark Mode" and a plethora of users thanking them for it.

Yet sadly we don't see it coming for the front end for Invision Community (just the back). I see 3rd party developers offering such solutions for IC (so it can't be impossible), but not from the actual devs.

Unfortunate.

This what I do:

For major dot upgrades (e.g. 4.4.x=>4.5.0) I will back up the database and file structure first (as mentioned above). I would usually wait until 4.5.1 is out (to resolve any initial release niggles).

For minor upgrades (dot dot), I will just hit the upgrade button when it's out.

Having run forums for more than 20 years, I now run vanilla installations. It's a life-saver.

On 1/23/2020 at 5:41 AM, Lindy said:

The feature is intended to promote engagement and reduce the initial barrier of such. 

I tried the "post before registering" once, but switched it off after a couple of days due to the spam entries in the records. I laud its intended idea.

Personally I've taken a very different approach in the past year and it's high barrier, not low barrier

• Visit my site and you get a fairly blank/minimalist home page.
• New member applications are only taken one day a week.
• All new registrations are admin approved and have to fill out a special profile field correctly first to help pass validation.
• Erased from Google. Erased from The Wayback Machine.
• "Word of mouth" beats any potential "drive-by" traffic.

So a high barrier, but I believe that the future of specialist communities (that forum software encourages) is security and privacy rather than "lowest barrier/truck them all in".  Though I suspect how effective that is depends on how established your site is.

The result is no spam, anyway (and a relative haven for users, who increasingly value privacy).

With the number of calls for it from my visitors I'd be tempted to make any official "Dark Theme" the default and the current "white" theme as the alternate option – but that's just my own case.

8 minutes ago, AlexWright said:

Something many members have asked about, and something I would absolutely love to see, is a member-customizable home page.

I remember this kind of thing in the early 2000s (different software). It wasn't popular. As long as it can also not be customisable, fine.

Because they wouldn't know the answers to the questions on a specialist web site - nor could they look them up.

That is why.

We get contact form spam. It’s being used by human spammers so they overcome Invisible reCaptcha.

Invision Power: Please allow Q&A to be used with the contact form - as that would do the trick. Thanks!

If it was me I would consider such a follow up intrusive, especially with better privacy these days.

So +1 for removing redundant invoices.