Joel R

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?

PRO The problem with the current quote system is that the system literally skips past quotes, which leaves gaps in the conversation. It's a gaping in technical or in-depth conversation (see what I did there?). CON If you switched it on / off, you would need to rebuild all the posts. On balance, I don't see admins flipping the toggle for nested quotes and triggering a rebuild often.

Those instructions are the same for any CDN. Also, it's important to consider your overall pricing. For example, if you use Amazon S3 as your storage, you will pay egress fees of Amazon S3 + KeyCDN. Even though KeyCDN may be 'cheap', you need to take into account the bandwidth from your storage container to the cdn.

Is it template styling that you are concerned about? Don't you think that - on balance - it would be easier and better for you in the long-run to simply commission a custom Pages template from @opentype rather than trying to integrate an entire CMS for only articles? When you integrate with another third-party platform, you inherit all of the technical issues of maintaining the third-party platform AND the bridge. You also lose out on the notifications, theming, etc.

I agree. This is 100% the reason why my users requested reply by email for community interaction and personal messages, which I've raised to the team before. I genuinely believe the activity on my site would explode on an order of magnitude higher if reply by email was introduced. Is this something that the team can re-consider?

Social media pays users too. Social media pays users in likes, in virality, in attention, in interesting and fun new content. I 100% agree that social media does a better job of figuring out how to motivate, reward, and "pay" users with behavioral psychology.

So, this should not be a new concern. Nested quotes are a fundamental function of forums since, like, the beginning of time. Here's some market research for the IPS team: There are two pain points raised by users of this other platform's plugin for nested quotes: Notifications Limit of how deep

The reason why the Cloudflare + Wasabi setup is fundamentally cheaper than AWS is that Wasabi is part of the Cloudflare Bandwidth Alliance. There are no egress fees, so for media-rich sites, it's game changing. https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/

Actually, forums have been "paying" people for posting since the beginning of time. We pay them in badges, in ranks, in pips, in titles, in signatures, in special permissions, in upgraded membergroups, in crazy formatting and styling. We've been paying and paying since forums have been around.

Images are my community, so yes, yes I suppose you can say I have an image-heavy community. In the Cloudflare + Wasabi setup, I pay: $20 for Cloudflare Business, which you don't need. But why not, since I'm saving so much from AWS $6 for every terabyte on Wasabi. Real picture of Joel throwing his money around like he's the boss. A $26 dollar boss. Anything more and he's keeping.

Many members have attempted to commission an LMS based on IPS over the years. You're never going to find a product as evolved as LearnDash in the IPS Marketplace. You're just not. A plug-in of that scope and scale requires custom development that's way more money than what clients are willing to pay. You're also going to be stuck with a system that's not going to be well supported or well developed, and you'll be tied to all future development.

There's a community guide on setting up Backblaze by @ASTRAPI Two notes that you will soon discover: - IPS devs love to drink the iOS koolaid - IPS as a company loves to drink the AWS kool aid

Can you go into this? What do you mean by a just community?

Some thoughts: 1. Isn't the enforcement of "skin-deep kindness" still better than allowing people from blowing up anytime they want? There's a concept of law officers stopping 'gateway crimes.' If you can stop teenagers from doing the small stuff like shoplifting, then they'll learn to not do the big crimes when they're adults. The same applies to bad actors in a community. By stopping new users from committing the small crimes, then you can repress some of them from committing more egregious acts. 2. Community attitude is built over a thousand small steps AND the few big steps. You're not going to build a sense of community by only banning one member and ignoring all of the other members, not will you earn the respect of your members by moderating the masses but not taking decisive action on the truly disruptive actors. It's not one or the other. You need everything: strong terms of use, moderation team, community monitoring and user reporting, clear escalation procedures, etc. 3. Humanity is not born kind. Or polite. Or respectful. It's learned behavior taught by parents, schools, and society. This breaks down online when users can escape those social constraints. The question then becomes: how do you remind users to act like they would in public? 4. Invision doesn't do nearly enough in thinking about the behavioral psychology of users.

No, IPS doesn't restrict traffic. It'll just move you down to lower plan, until you get more members and they will bump you up again. This is useful if you have a temporary boost of members.

You know that IPS is never going to hide these renewal notifications security notifications.