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Some ideas: 1. You write one pinned topic per forum with the name of the forum board (eg. "Information on Calama" in the Calama forum). Search will include topics, not the names of forums. 2. You use prefixes and reduce your forums. You can predefine prefixes. 3. A general thought on user behavior: if a user needs to search your board to find the right board before they post, your board is too complicated. Simplify, simplify, simplify especially in the beginning.

Some thoughts: - How is 'Community Expert' defined? Automated or manual? - Email notification can be opt in / opt out?

@SeNioR- we need full screenshots again! I'm old and my eyes are tired!

Hi, Is it safe to assume that users are leaving many reviews on profiles because they're entering into many separate transactions? You can potentially check out Trader Feedback System by @stoo2000. It's a very mature and stable app.

You may want to ping providers like @ASTRAPI or @Driven 2 Services who specialize in hosting. Is your mobile site slower than, say, IPS or another Invision site like Cruise critic?

Just curious, what are you looking for with the editor improvements?

Personal reactions: - Dynamic theming is useful to new clients who want some decent design options out of the box, without getting a whole new custom theme. But once you set up your theme, you're unlikely to change it (especially elements for navigation!). I think this will encourage clients to stick more with the core theme as much as possible. - IPS has an incredibly robust and wide array of content signals. There are staff highlights, post notes, topic summaries, popular, Mark as Solved, reactions, and the new Helpful. How these all blends together into one cohesive strategy is not as clear for communities. But we certainly have options. - The new Grid and Modern will work well on smaller boards, since they add several lines of recent topics. Large boards with dozens of boards will be overwhelmed. New communities and tightly focused communities will benefit the most from these new and improved layouts.

Top 3 takeaways: - Dynamic theming with drag-and-drop navbar elements, light dark mode, device preview - Helpful is a new content signal. Summarize to only helpful posts. - Grid and new "Modern" layouts include list of recent topics.

The third party community plans to launch a coordinated Marketplace Directory that at least lists all of the files in one location. Developers will handle support and payments on their own site, but at least you will be able to browse and access files in one location.

Marketplace contributors will need to set up their own site to handle selling and support. We are looking to put together a community directory that will at least make it easier to browse all of the files from all themers and developers. We will announce in October. Thank you to all of the contributors who have already started cross listing their files.

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At a fundamental level, I wholeheartedly agree. This was web 1.0 thinking, and it's been proven that you can highly manipulate hits and views. I definitely think it would be better, especially for long form blogs and articles and indepth topics, that we think about whether or not the content solves a question, or fulfils a need, or brings value. To put it another way, what's the delivery of value? On the other hand, there is actual value to hits. There's a growing trend among professional community management circles to view lurkers as learners. They do read, and they do obtain value. How we measure the extent of learning or value is hard though. That's when you need to start measuring passive signals such as time spent on content.

One option, which is not a perfect substitute but might be an acceptable workaround, is for your users to create private albums. Private albums are not shown to anyone except the user (and site admins or moderators who have permissions). Private users can then give access to individual users for access. It's a little more time consuming than a password, but it works.

Something is in the works! Should have something to announce in October.

If you're looking to host real time events using Zoom, then I encourage you to read the blog post about Events. This was a new enhancement that's very recent (and in fact, IPS hosts a monthly webinar that your team might want to join as a case study of how it's utilized). It incorporates real time chatting that are then migrated to topics, so it combined the best of both. Unite your community with the Events application https://invisioncommunity.com/news/invision-community/unite-your-community-with-the-events-application-r1265/ If you need persistent chat behind these one time Events , yes there are third party modifications for chat and shoutboxes.

Yes, I will corral all of the Marketplace devs together so we come to consensus on this project. I've been fortunate to have worked with many of them over my 10 years with the community. They all know me (for better or for worse, ha 😆). My goal for this new Marketplace Directory is simple: provide an independent directory using Downloads. It will link you to the providers' own website for support. More broadly, to anyone who is hesitant about these changes, there are some pros and cons: - More independence, more variation, and total flexibility for developers and themers. They can build their own core, their own gallery, their own package of plugins. You can't do any of that in the current Marketplace. I expect to see some truly experimental and innovative approaches to how developers and themers work with IPS 5. - More independence, more variation, and total flexibility in how they charge. Providers can charge crypto, they can offer a bundled set, they can offer discounts, they can set their own policies for chargebacks and refunds. - Trust will be deeper, not wider. The IPS Marketplace gave a broad stamp of trust to all providers for meeting standard IPS coding. But for clients, this is an opportunity to deepen ties to one or two trusted developers and take our most important apps private and control our own development pipeline. I do believe the biggest developers will still offer - and can make healthy income - off a broad portfolio of single purpose mods, but those by itself aren't going to dramatically fulfill your community's specific needs.

My goal is to provide a listing directory to make it easy for developers to list their apps. A directory will provide visibility, scale, and ease for everyone to visit. Developers will handle payments and support on their own.

To Marketplace developers and the Invision community as a whole, I will be happy to host an independent and collaborative Marketplace directory. It's already in the works. I fully support a thriving ecosystem of developers and clients: to extend, to inspire, and to push the boundaries of our platform. Technology is an important differentiator more than ever in the modern web, and working with developers (either privately or through their public mods) can help fine-tune your platform. More information and invitations will be sent out to active Marketplace devs. You are also welcome to send me a direct PM. Follow this topic for any future updates.

One immediate and easy workaround is to disable the various Gallery settings for the gallery index page, and then add your own gallery widgets.

The new terms only begin once you opt in to the new terms. There's a certain amount of hysteria that these changes are being applied retroactively. If you don't accept or want the new terms and want to coast along on v4, then don't accept the new terms. It's understandable that clients with your worldview will skip renewals, perhaps because of experiences in other forum ecosystems. It would make sense that you are cautious about continuing to invest in an active license if, for example,your forum developer doesn't release any new features after years of no activity. If you truly and authentically evaluate IPS on its own merits by looking at the Release Notes and the Company blog, however, you'll find a development and release cycle that is robust, monthly, and feature rich. The terms by IPS seem more stringent in light of other ecosystems. I invite you to evaluate IPS on its own merits, instead of imposing the fears from other vendors.

Are clubs included in Classic?

This is just me, but I would look to see a series of future pricing announcements targeted to: - current customers - future customers - competitor customers This new pricing scheme to renew all-in at $199 / yr is extremely good. I take it as a sign that IPS still sees viability in self-hosted communities at a very competitive price point. Some other thoughts: - To see this pricing leak so early is surprising, but I think it's IPS way of trying to adjust everyone to their "all apps" model as soon as possible. This will make future upgrades and pricing easier for the company for when they do release v5. - It wouldn't be IPS pricing without cloud pricing. If IPS is willing to be this aggressive with their self-hosted pricing, for any clients who are even thinking about moving to cloud, wait until you see their cloud promos before making a decision. ☁️ - Cloud clients already get all apps. This new pricing model for self-hosted also requires you to get all apps. My thesis is that IPS is moving away from a model of core + apps in v4 into One Big Core in v5 with all content types included. Maybe.

This screenshot also says you're getting "Live Topics" and "Real Time Features" on classic. The page can really benefit from some proofreading, before it causes any more confusion.

Hi, any update by IPS?