Joel R

If you are self-hosted, IPS does allow a second non-public version of the self-hosted suite using the -TESTINSTALL license.

The good devs are busy. The bad devs are busy too. You can reach out to developers like @HeadStand @DawPi @Marcher Technologies @CodingJungle who take on private clients. If you're an enterprise client, you can ask IPS for private referrals to help initiate the introductions. You may want to check with @CodingJungle on modifying his Keyword Tooltips. When you hover over certain text, you can have a popup hovercard

I agree

IPS uses Pages for its Company Blog. That should give you a hint ...

Yes You want Pages. You would create a single page, and then add a topic feed from News & Rumours. I would not recommend blogs, unless you have a community of bloggers.

Yes that should be doable. Just wanted to clarify that you wouldn't be able to stream through IPS itself, of course

I think it would be extremely interesting if you followed up with the community in six months or one year with an analysis of your 26 emojis. Were they all used equally and actively? Or were only a handful of emojis used? My gut tells me that once you exceed 6 reactions, the marginal benefit of each additional reaction doesn't do a whole lot.

This allows users to share videos, hosted on other sites. There is no direct hosting of videos. At the end of the day, until IPS builds in video functionality (and doubtful it'll include live video streaming), your client is going to have to use another service and then embed that service onto your community.

So, just to make sure I understand what you understand, you think a user who sees Page 1 and Page 115 doesn't intrinsically understand there will be a Page 2, Page 3, and Page 4 in between them? More importantly, how does adding a Page 2, Page 3, and Page 4 help a user understand the magnitude of a long topic that is 115 pages versus 15 pages versus literally any page length of 5 or more? In any case, other thoughts: 1. Everyone is a critic of the default theme. 2. The default theme is grossly inefficient in certain areas. On desktop, nobody cares. On mobile, we have to care. 3. I think the better question to be asking is: based on heat analysis map or navigation pathways, do users actually click on Pages 2, 3, and 4 in a 115 page topic? My gut instinct says no. I think the smartest approach would be to intelligently tie those pagination numbers to topic pages that are especially important, as per the Topic Summary. 4. There's this whole area of research and investigation that should be done on ultra long topics. How do we get users to be able to efficiently absorb the entirety of the topic? How do we create intelligent splits and divergences within the topic?

1. Webp is not a niche image format anymore. Full stop. While I could understand that argument in 2015, webp is now almost universally supported by all browsers: https://caniuse.com/?search=webp 2. The grand irony - or perverse absurdity - is that my own website delivers images as webp via my Cloudflare. I literally have users who have downloaded my site's images, but can't upload them back to my site! That comes across as distinctly discrepant.

Just buy Radical tags. I'm almost certain IPS privately comissioned the app because they know the functionality is needed, but it's been a third party function forever.

To me, the problem is not in delivering webp images. It's in posting webp images. My users re-post webp images from around the web. It works when they post to Facebook, to twitter, to tumblr, to their blog, but then it doesn't work when they post to my site.

If IPS is serious about gamification, here are some foundational points: Entire suite -- Not just forums. Not just apps. But the entirety and power of the full Invision suite: uploading a cover photo, filling out a profile custom field, writing a status update, making a blog post, RSVPing to a calendar event, getting a post marked as best answer, creating an album, renewing a subscription for the sixth time, winning second in the leaderboard, getting an item promoted. Weighted -- Writing an in-depth long-form blog is very different from uploading one image, but IPS weighs them the same as one content item. They shouldn't count the same. Customizable -- I would like a gamification system to be customizable to exclude / include nodes, categories, and apps. How I reward my users is very different than how you run your community or how Invision runs its community. How we offer member journeys will be as diverse as our communities. Clubs -- I would like a gamification system to include clubs. Not nearly at the same amount of customization, but each club deserves its own basic set. Meaningful -- The rewards should be: Immediate, Recognize the relative difficulty of the accomplishment, and Provide the steps needed to get to the next reward. Typical reward: "Congrats, you won a badge for making X posts." Better reward: "Congrats, you won a badge for making X posts, an accomplishment that puts you into the top 10% of users. Your next badge is at Y posts." Attention Grabbing -- If a tree falls in a forest and no notification is sent out, does anybody care? Gamification needs to have movement, to have excitement, to be dynamic, and offer a call to action. What I'd like for gamification to address: Profile onboarding - I've logged in to the accounts of multiple users over the years, and every single one has totally ignored the Profile Completion. I would love to actually see usage statistics on larger sites, but at least on my site, most users don't care about Profile Completion. I'd rather deprecate Profile Completion in favor of Gamification. New user activation - There needs to be multiple calls to action within the first X minutes, where X is the site's average session duration. I've seen first-hand how if I can talk live to a user when he first joins, his posting skyrockets at least over that session. There needs to be activity, excitement, and movement within that first session duration. Member pathways - Users find fulfillment in many ways in our communities. We need to empower them to both progress along certain member pathways while encouraging them to also explore other pathways.

You can already show club forums in forums: Go to ACP > Community > Clubs > Settings. The company always drips out their new features in the company blog: https://invisioncommunity.com/news/ They historically do not do a good job of notifying or tracking updates in the forums.

Can you answer the following questions: Is it important to show both video + text? OR mainly just video? Are you the primary poster? OR Are many people posting? From what I've read, you want both video + text and you're the primary poster. If that is true, I would recommend: IP.Pages -- Pages is the most powerful (and confusing!) application. Nothing like it exists in vBulletin. It basically allows you to create multiple front-end CMS systems. You would basically define a custom Pages database for your videos, where you would define: a YouTube / video field, text, comments, custom tagging, etc. You will need to customize the layout, so I would recommend you tap a third-party dev like @opentype. Pages is good if you want to publish definitive news. IP.Blog -- If you want to allow multiple people to post their stock analysis, then blogs would be the recommended way. Some other notes: The default editor, which is used universally in IPS, allows YouTube embeds. This is probably recommended rather than you uploading the raw video to your file server. Youtube takes care of transcoding, bitrate transmission, and display on all screen sizes. If you upload to your own server, users literally have to download the file to their device and then manually play. You can create multiple databases in Pages. You can have one dedicated to video analysis, one dedicated to research reports, one dedicated to market news, etc. Each one can have a totally different layout, styling, and fields. Pages is very, very powerful. There are a ton of features in IPS that you can probably utilize beyond your video analysis. To give you some examples: Q&A boards / Mark as Solved -- If users have a question in the forums, you can help percolate the most valuable or most correct answer. Clubs - You can start investor circles and launch in their own clubs. Blogs -- If users want to post their own stock market journeys, then Blogs would be perfect. IPS actually uses Pages for their own company blog (https://invisioncommunity.com/news/).

Try one of these plugins from Marketplace: https://invisioncommunity.com/search/?q=whatsapp&quick=1&type=downloads_file

IPS has created multiple features that duplicated existing features in the Marketplace. I've lost count how many third-party mods they've cannibalized: letter avatars, clubs, reactions, membergroup colors, etc. Their latest feature of Anonymous Accounts existed in the Marketplace for many years, so this reasoning is totally irrelevant.

Not possible. You should post into Feedback

Did you submit your ticket on Friday? Support does not normally work over weekend, which is why you had delay for two days.

If you have a self hosted license, you only need to pay renewal to get latest version. With that said, you will find that IPS is much aggressive through its company policies, systems, and reminders about renewals on the updated version 4.x. This is a company that wants its renewal money every six months.

You can contact third party migration people like @ASTRAPI @Makoto or @DawPiwho can probably help you migrate and upgrade.

This is called "Social Proof," but I like your explanation better.

Do you have a lot of private, members-only content though?

Thoughts: 1. IPS Search is bad. Just accept that it's horribly, horribly bad. 2. Use Advanced Search, so you can filter by app: https://invisioncommunity.com/search/ Will our users ever understand the Advanced Search? No. See Point #1. 3. As an alternative to translating Downloads in the langstrings, they could also simply used the Word Expansion to explain that Marketplace is the Downloads app (eg. you can see the Word Expansion feature in action on the word "ACP") 4. Ironically, IPS did used to search the app by default. I remembered arguing that where you search from shouldn't dictate where you're trying to search to. This is one of my Great Mistakes in feedback to IPS.

Do you mean: Support for your users to reach you? Support for you to reach IPS?