Joel R

You can trigger users to re-agree to the new Terms, which would be akin to a (mandatory full page) pop up. Alerts would also work

Use the built in Terms or Privacy fields

Just curious, what does this mean? Instead of records #1 to 8, you show records #2 to 9 in the block?

In the real world, my company regularly sends out customer surveys X days after the transaction where we solicit Trustpilot reviews. We have the highest ranked Trustpilot in our industry. If you're going to be soliciting Trustpilot reviews, one strategy when sending out the email survey is to ask the client to click on 3 options within the email: We're doing great - This redirects the user to the company's Trustpilot We're doing okay - This redirects the user to an internal feedback form, which is then sent to management We could improve - This redirects the user to the internal feedback form, which is then sent to management This allows you to curate positive Trustpilot reviews, not just cast a wide net at any reviews. The people who tend to publicly comment are the extremes - the extremely happy (aka Day) or the extremely unhappy (aka Mr. Redacted), so you do need to be careful when blindly asking for reviews.

Just curious, when you look at your most used tag, is it actually useful? One observation I have about tag popularity - especially in large communities such as yours where you're starting to reach audience saturation - is that the top set of popular tags are probably so generic and so broad, it's almost meaningless. It would be akin using the tag "Invision" here in this community. It's the second tier of tags that start to provide meaningful taxonomy. I am most worried about the thousands of long tail, unique, and niche tags that are highly structured that will be lost in the upgrade. Yes, there are misspellings, variants, and mistakes in there, but the corpus of our tagging will be lost if only the top X tags are retained (whatever that number is).

Will IPS consider an option during the upgrade to gracefully remove this data? I don't see the need the save this data - especially for images and attachments - if IPS is going to officially deprecate this feature

For background context, I have the same issue as you - we have an incredible Blogs section - but it's overshadowed by the Forums. One last item to consider is that you need a sufficient threshold of activity and compelling content on Blogs to make it a draw to begin with. You can't just offer an app, with a blank slate, and hope that people will come even when Blogs is a superior app for long form content. In my case, I launched and relaunched and relaunched Blogs three times in my community over 7 years. The first two times, my users never picked it up even though it was a better format for what they wanted to share. The third time, I worked with a group of 5 super posters to privately build 2 weeks worth of content, and then heavily promoted it. It was a very actively managed launch.

Partially solved. The Activity Streams are great at the point of initiation, it displays all of the content from across the community. But once you go to the app, you're stuck in the silo of the app - there are no widgets of global Activity Streams to seamless navigate you to other parts of the community. One of the other drawbacks - and this is a powerful anecdotal observation - is that the Activity Stream treats all content the same: every content posted in chronological order. But content creation in the apps is not the same. One blog may be thoughtfully curated with one hour of editing and writing, but it can be quickly buried in the Activity Stream with a hundred forum posts.

The multi app suite of Invision Community is one of its greatest strengths - and also one of its greatest weaknesses. The apps are siloed. Some food for thought while your feedback is pending: In a forum centric community, you're going to have to push the other apps to give them a greater standing. This means prioritizing their content, their links, and their positioning across your entire community layout such as your menus, your promotion and featuring of content. Users will always go to the easiest and most familiar option (the forums), unless you intentionally surface the apps you want to prioritize. Some quick wins that you can implement is to slap on Blog widgets across your forum index and topics, your activity streams, your newsletters and bulk mail. This is a real issue in my primary community which is fairly high volume.

Think of IPS subscriptions as a no-frills Product with renewals. It's designed to be simple and easy.

This is entirely an off handed observation, but there's a certain exquisite irony in theme design. The positioning of the community menu to the sidebar is to take advantage of larger resolution and wider screens. Here we are with massive, curved screens with extra large resolution and bigger monitors yet at the same time we also need our communities to appear on handheld smartphones. I'm waiting for the day that we can navigate our communities (or at least new notifications) on my smartwatch!

I'm a little taken aback that IPS is referencing Backblaze as a formally supported solution by the company. Was this ever announced in your documentation? I would have strongly considered them as a storage solution if I knew. I was always under the impression that IPS only supported Amazon S3. And although the third party community provided an informal plugin for S3 compatible storage, this was never officially supported by IPS. To the topic at hand, I could care less if IPS wants to group all storage into one. My only ask is that IPS retains top-level folder categories of at least Attachments vs Gallery vs Downloads. This is the one benefit that I currently have of different storage buckets, and I periodically need to investigate content / DMCA takedowns so this organization helps tremendously.

How will this be handled in the upgrade from 4 to 5?

You can put widgets of (or filter for) Featured Content around your community. This is one of those features that isn't integrated or does a lot right now. In Invision Community 5, there is a new Featured Content page that can make featured content more valuable. https://invisioncommunity.com/news/invision-community/invision-community-5-tagging-reinvented-r1302/

I'm not IPS so this is simply an outside observation, but they are convinced of the pros. And convinced of the cons. Which is why they built Live Topics, which is their answer to Chat.