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Joel R

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  1. Disappointed you didn't mark this as solution! 😆 On a serious note, I've always thought that IPS could develop the feature to the next stage. "Marking as solution" could mean many things ... It could mean the post was helpful, the post offered alternate options, the post offered helpful hints, the post explained why the question was irrelevant to begin with, or the post addressed the specific issue. I've also found, in my community, that multiple members submitted various solutions. All of them were partially valid.
  2. Joel R

    Mail to topic

    I support this feature. There would be a material and marked increase in activity. I've studied this across my members: 1. There are a LOT of non-active / lurker members who get email notifications. 2. Many of these members already try to reply by email. I know, because I get all of these orphaned emails as webmaster. 3. Nobody wants to visit Yet-Another-Website when all of the activity flows through your email platform anyways.
  3. I'd like to support this idea. If it were implemented, I would probably recommend several of my closed clubs switch to this new community-public type.
  4. This is one of those situations where I think a lot more thought should go in to behavioral psychology and content scaling. When you're a new platform and getting started, getting an email of your first reaction is useful. Getting an email of your second reaction is useful. Getting an email of your third reaction is kind of useful. Getting an email of your hundredth reaction is not useful. The real purpose of email notifications is not to actually notify users of all activity. Really. The real purpose of email notifications should be to engage users to re-visit the site. That's it That should be the one singular purpose behind the email notification. Modern social platforms like Facebook have figured this out. IPS, on the other hand, wants to vomit every last content item, reaction, and comment at users. There's information overload of trivial posts and a total turn-off of interest. It's so bad that there's a backlash, where users want to turn off ALL email notifications. If you go to Facebook, they only show you 4-5 notifications, even though you may have hundreds of content items. But they're the 4-5 most interesting, most likely to click on, most likely to convert to activity. That's the real goal. This is even more pressing in the mobile world, where we have even less screen real estate. If I'm checking my email on my phone, you only have four to five chances / notifications to convince me to visit the site. When I assess IPS and complain about it being legacy, this is the kind of stuff that I worry where we will continue to fall behind.
  5. 1. Do you really need a local copy? I mean, do you really really need a local copy? Most clients who say yes are illegally pirating the plugin across multiple installations. (No judgement from me, by the way. Just pointing out the obvious). The license terms of plugins are usually restricted to one site. The only valid response I've heard is from an enterprise client asking to conduct his own security review of the plug-in before installation on corporate forums. That enterprise client, because he pays enterprise money and has special enterprise access, can probably enterprise his way towards getting an off-Marketplace version anyways. Nobody actually feels bad for him. 2 We all know it's renewal blackmail. You know it's renewal blackmail. I know it's renewal blackmail. IPS definitely knows it's renewal blackmail because they designed it. I figured out a secret though, that if you pay the blackmail hush money, all of these problems will magically go away ... Until six months later, when the blackmail starts all over again! It's how blackmail is supposed to work, by the way. I suppose if you're going to be blackmailed, though, getting spam filtering, company support, a mobile app for free, and company forums where we can poke fun at the company is not the worst kind of blackmail there is in the world.
  6. No, no escrow functionality built into Commerce.
  7. Oh yeah, if you want to remove ALL email notifications from ALL members, you would need an SQL query.
  8. This is very doable with the permissions system of Downloads: It'll also give you greater control over all of your content, hosted directly on your community site. Members can follow the files for notifications, get updates if new versions are posted, etc.
  9. IPS finally introduced a stop all emails in the user's Account Settings (go to Notification Settings, then all the way to the bottom of page). I don't know if they added function in ACP
  10. You can also contact some of the people listed on the Providers page for migration options, like @Marcher Technologies or @DawPi
  11. Two options in Marketplace: https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/8483-15-off-bim-hide-link-and-code/ by @onlyME https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/8395-ne-hide-content/ by @Nathan Explosion
  12. No, IPS does not treat langstrings on frontend or backend differently. It's been suggested before. One idea is to use the 'View key words?' tool:
  13. I'm not here to defend IPS one way or the other, but ... Do you actually need the source code of plugins? I'm not asking about rare 'what if' scenarios. I'm asking if you genuinely have a need to review the source code or to perform security audits. The majority of clients don't actually need (nor would they understand) the source code. We just need to know the plugin is installed and it works and it meets IPS' benchmarks. We install and go. If you do have a need to examine and download the plugin, you can reach out to the author for a private transfer. If you're self-hosted, there's also nothing stopping you from examining the TAR or XML files on your server. And if you're cloud, there's a reason why you chose cloud, which is that you don't want to self-manage the software, much less third-party plugins. I can't speak to other companies' policies, but my understanding of certain third-party ecosystems is that it's a glorified linklist to offsite resources. No security reviews, no performance benchmarks, no standards at all for being listed. You go to a third-party site, pass along financial and customer data to a third-party site that can pop up and shut down at any time, and install at your own risk. IPS forcefully removed certain authors from the Marketplace for egregiously breaking certain standards, and those authors are still participating in other forum ecosystem.
  14. Who is the original author of your custom theme? That would be your best bet. Otherwise, you should start messaging theme developers: https://invisioncommunity.com/third-party/providers/?csrfKey=1d95d540c0199b44e8d63bfb9022f693&advanced_search_submitted=1&sortby=primary_id_field&sortdirection=asc&content_field_124[1]=1 I would recommend @Brian A. or @ehren. or @steve00. I'm not as personally familiar with the others.
  15. See, it would have been more clever if you had marked your answer as Marked as Solved. That would have been meta. And a good demonstration of the software.
  16. 1. I support this feedback. This is workflow issue that kind of defeats the entire purpose of promoting content and redirecting users deeper into the community. 2. As a temporary workaround, promote the album and only include one photo.
  17. This Help Guide will walk you through setting up Subscriptions (from your community).
  18. You can send in a Support Ticket asking for specific Help Guides to be updated. They only periodically update the Help Guides, so some of them may become outdated after awhile.
  19. You can check the Providers list: https://invisioncommunity.com/third-party/providers/
  20. Do you mean for IPS Support Tickets, or do you mean for Commerce > Support.
  21. There's a very robust Attachments Center app by @DawPi
  22. FYI he embedded a YouTube video.
  23. You should probably check with @Adrian A. or go custom
  24. Joel R

    Moving a post

    Hi @Elbmek, I think I understand the confusion - you want to move a single post. Keep in mind that most posts are not isolated to themselves. There are subsequent posts that flow with the discussion, so in most cases (and I'm speaking broadly here), when you move a post, you normally want to move that post and all subsequent posts. That' why IPS calls it 'split,' because it divides the topic at that point. I believe you want to move only that one post, yes?
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