Joel R

Lol I wasn't trying to answer your question! I'm a client just like you with my own questions 😃

Timeframe on rollout to cloud?

This is resolved. Thanks. It's been a long time since I've had these kinds of issues.

Okay, I read the Help Guide. What's written in the Help Guide is not what was presented to me. I was not presented with Recovery Mode This is what I see: As you can see, I was never presented with that walkthrough of Recovery Mode.

Okay I feel like I'm in a catch-22 loop If I enable RECOVERY_MODE in constants.php, I can access my ACP. But can't do anything in my ACP to disable or remove the plugin If I remove RECOVERY_MODE in constants.php, entire site is offline. No access to ACP IF I enter Recovery Mode, then I can't do anything in the ACP. Which prevents me from disabling any plugins.

Okay, another issue I started activating Plugins and one of them made site go offline. Please advise

Thanks, I was able to proceed with upgrade

Done

Please try now

I ran the patch on the latest version and my site got messed up. Please advise

Does IPS recommend Elastic Search 7.x or Elastic Search 8.x? I didn't see anyting in the Help Guides

IPS announced two features for v5 that heavily address the exact scenario that you pose of support / customer teams:

Hi, Just curious, did you have an underlying reason for running this exercise? Like, who cares if Google crawls 50,000 pages or 100,000 pages or 2,000 pages. If your goal is to ensure that Google has maximum visibility to the appropriate areas, there are easier methods to accomplish your goal. 1. Log out and as a guest, browse your community. What guests see is what Google sees. 2. Audit your guest permissions for each of your categories and apps. Both of these methods will be much easier than trying to mathematically match the number of expected pages vs crawled pages!

No, this is a pain point. Over time, I've simply copied and pasted the Alert messages into my own simple TXT file.

If you plan on offering multiple files for purchase, you will be better in the long run with using Downloads app to power the digital downloads. Dawpi has a really good point that the Downloads app has features to monitor, update, and version your files. Is it overkill if you're only going to offer one or two 3D files? Yes. But if you plan on selling dozens or hundreds of 3D models, Downloads is very robust.

If this feature somehow perversely incentivizes your users to post a whole bunch of questions and in-depth answers in your field and helps you build a massive Q&A knowledge repository, and in return you hand out a bunch of digital badges that mean nothing in the real world, I consider that a huge win LOL.

Some thoughts: 1. When you think of the typical user experience, I want to applaud you for actually taking the time to search. Most users won't even bother to search, they'll just open a new a topic! 2. On the search page, why don't we offer a prompt after the set of results, something like: "Didn't find what you were looking for? Post a topic and let the community answer you." These are the kinds of small, incremental design flourishes that address behavioral patterns and keep users in the community. 3. Google has had an advantage in search that can only be measured in light years. LLMs present the opportunity to democratize search in a revolutionary way. ElasticSearch is satisfactory in search over a well defined set of objects. But it fails in intuiting the cacophony and diversity of language and intent behind a user search, which is where LLMs can really fill the gap. 4. LLM search applied to the corpus of all Invision-powered communities would rival Reddit. This is the kind of large scale project for Community Hive that would make me proud of using IPS. 5. Our independent communities are being pushed more and more into mini-search engines with questions and helpful answers, and this certainly fits with the overarching development theme that IPS is already pursuing.

Some thoughts: 1. Thank you for the shout outs to Invisioneer.org, an independent and free marketplace listing. If anyone has not visited yet, it's a link directory of files. You will be linked to the actual developers own website for purchase and support. No files are sold by or on Invisioneer itself. 2. The revised codebase to use event listeners and extensions is fundamentally geared towards making 3rd party development much more stable and non-disruptive to the core codebase. Right? I wonder - and just throwing this out there - if this new development paradigm itself would warrant a re-review of bringing the MP back in house. IPS fundamentally does not need to do the same in-depth code review to see whether 3rd party code breaks anything in the core code. If it doesn't work, uninstall and move on.

Some thoughts: Start by tweaking and modifying and customizing your own badges using the available system. Once you've gotten comfortable and you've robustly optimized the achievement and badge system, then you can look into custom modifications. Be aware that views can be highly skewed for a variety of reasons. I often get hit with bots (hello AI bots that are shamelessly scraping my content!) that spike my content views, whereas reputation and likes can often be a truer representation of actual user engagement.

Are you looking to make all moderator groups the same? Or, are you looking to edit certain settings to all moderator groups? For the first one, you may want to simply simplify and consolidate the member groups. For the second one, there is the copy value setting.

Some thoughts: 1. Can't the community - and by that, I mean individual members - simply remove their reactions? 2. This is entirely anecdotal and unscientific, but I would think that - in the overwhelming majority of time - users who edit their posts usually do so to further clarify their original intent in the same vein of opinion in which they originally intended. What you posed is a very unusual and untypical situation. 3. This is, and I want to call this out because it's such an unusual situation, deceptively brilliant. Post something very likeable. Get all the likes. Then immediately edit your post to the opposite opinion, to the point where members are so confused and wracked with self-doubt and mass consternation to the point where they question the very nature of space and time. The universe explodes. Reactions become useless.

I'm surprised that this is working as intended, and I had to test this myself on my main community. My main account with global and unrestricted Administrator and Moderator permissions (and I did explicitly check that the account has permission to Move Content), is unable to move images between albums. I would like to support this feedback of moderator permissions to move images into another album. Categories only work at a very high and simplistic level. My community has 54.8k albums, there is now way I can build the category hierarchy to support the complexity of user-generated albums.

I disabled all 3rd party customizations. Site is running vanilla TypeError: in_array(): Argument #2 ($haystack) must be of type array, null given (0) #0 /home/nginx/domains/myinvisionsite.com/public/applications/gallery/sources/Album/Album.php(944): in_array() #1 /home/nginx/domains/myinvisionsite.com/public/applications/gallery/sources/Category/Category.php(628): IPS\gallery\_Album->setLastImage() #2 /home/nginx/domains/myinvisionsite.com/public/applications/gallery/modules/front/gallery/submit.php(935): IPS\gallery\_Category->setLastImage() #3 /home/nginx/domains/myinvisionsite.com/public/system/Helpers/MultipleRedirect/MultipleRedirect.php(93): IPS\gallery\modules\front\gallery\_submit->IPS\gallery\modules\front\gallery\{closure}() #4 /home/nginx/domains/myinvisionsite.com/public/applications/gallery/modules/front/gallery/submit.php(762): IPS\Helpers\_MultipleRedirect->__construct() #5 /home/nginx/domains/myinvisionsite.com/public/system/Dispatcher/Controller.php(107): IPS\gallery\modules\front\gallery\_submit->saveImages() #6 /home/nginx/domains/myinvisionsite.com/public/system/Dispatcher/Dispatcher.php(153): IPS\Dispatcher\_Controller->execute() #7 /home/nginx/domains/myinvisionsite.com/public/index.php(13): IPS\_Dispatcher->run() #8 {main} Cannot upload images.webm It looks like the albums are actually created, BUT they appear at the end of the album list and no album thumbnails appear This is related to my other topic: https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/479280-bug-4718-beta-3-new-gallery-albums-appear-at-very-end-of-list-do-not-generate-thumbnails/#comment-2975945

Upgraded to 4.7.18 Beta 3 New gallery albums appear at end of list (when using default Sort By > Recently Updated). They previously appeared at beginning. Gallery thumbnails are not being generated.

So .... Some thoughts. 1. Some mobile designs have a bottom menu. In that bottom menu, I can see the menu be expandable (with the action "pull up"). When you pull up, there's obviously a whole new screen area to share additional information, links, or contextual information. Navigationally, this option literally keeps the footer links at the bottom and always accessible. Like the desktop footer. 2. We can probably leverage the vertical menu in some manner. Footers tend to be static information and links, and are literally "another menu". So append it to the other existing menu areas on mobile. 3. I went to go check some popular sites and they don't have a footer in the navigation whether it's post scrolling in Facebook or shopping on Amazon. Ironically, on desktop, they can massive footers (especially Amazon). At some point, there needs to be a recognition that mobile is just not going to show as much information as desktop. Things like massive and complex signatures, massive and complex postbits, etc are legacy overhangs.