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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.

If IPS ever increases your plan on Cloud, you can request to move down to save $$.

Welcome to Invision Community @Andre Noberto 1. If anything is ever broken, always submit a support ticket via the ACP as your first step. 2. You can check out the Help Guides: https://invisioncommunity.com/4guides/welcome/about-invision-community-r7/

Have you thought about activating Clubs within your main site? Literally just rename the langstring Clubs to Hubs, and you would create a Hub directory where each Hub would contain a separate download directory. Also, save on renewal fees from not needing extra licenses. Thank me later. You can read more about Clubs here: https://invisioncommunity.com/features/clubs/ https://invisioncommunity.com/news/product-updates/new-clubs-r1017/ https://invisioncommunity.com/news/product-updates/45-club-improvements-roundup-r1172/

Welcome to IPS! Some notes for you: 1. For site migrations, there are several good developers who specialize in migrations either from other software or from older versions. You can check out the list of Providers here: https://invisioncommunity.com/third-party/providers/ (Or you can migrate yourself) 2. Private sections in posts - I haven't heard of anything either. Sounds interesting though. You can post in Customization Request: https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/forum/506-customization-requests/ 3. Private topics - I haven't heard of anything either. Not sure of the mods posted by @Miss_B will do what you really want. If you can group the users by membergroups, then this can be done through the core membergroup permissions. If you can group the users manually, then you might be able to use Clubs (but you would need to create a club for every group). 4. You may want to talk to @Morrigan, who can probably provide some guidance on RPG-related communities.

Are you wanting someone to get you a better Google Pagespeed score? Contact @Adlago Are you wanting to actually improve your site's actual interaction with users? Contact someone like @ASTRAPI or @Makoto.

Some thoughts: 1. I may be in the minority, but this idea is grounded in solid engagement principles that are already being deployed on the largest publisher sites in the world (like Yahoo.com and NYTimes), where certain news articles attract very divisive commentary. I like this feature because: It's at the point-of-action. Moderator notes can be added to the top of the page or bottom of the page, but it's not where users are trying to type. It's proactive. You can add moderator review or surveillance, but those are retroactive. Even worse, they're repressive because you moderate after a user has already expressed his feelings. 2. To implement this well, I think this should be setting per topic or per board. As others have pointed out, adding this to every post or comment would be very tiresome. But targeting this feature to specific divisive posts and asking users to pause, reflect, and elevate their discourse before posting can be incredibly meaningful. 3. I would be mildly impressed if IPS added this feature. This is the kind of forward thinking that I applaud Jordan for brainstorming. 4. On a final note, I'm not a fan of Jordan the Client debating product feedback in the community when he's also Jordan the Company Representative. Any smart client should be sucking up to Jordan at this point and greasing his ego. See points #1 - 3.

Some thoughts: I've been watching the IPS forums for many, many years and I've seen an average of 2 year turntime from product suggestion to product implementation. For most suggestions in the IPS forums, they ignore. IPS gets feedback from many sources, including enterprise clients and managed clients -- you know, people who pay more money than you. When you have zero expectations, you're always surprised!

Everything is possible with private customization and $$. I know @DawPi is taking customizations, so hit him up.

Just a thought: Keep in mind that if you do that, those banned users will be able to come back and re-register. There's a good reason to keep banned user profiles in your database. They don't add any weight to your database, and it's a preventive measure for the future.

No I know the IPS team has privately brought this up as a 'hey that's cool', but this would probably require a radical reworking of the theme and editing systems. If you need to use repeatable blocks, you should investigate using custom CKEditor buttons to insert chunks of code.

Okay, so social validation of real world identity. Some thoughts: 1. You can customize the registration screen (this should be pretty easy / not too expensive / available plugins from the Marketplace) to: Add instructions that ask users must use real name. This won't stop someone from registering as MickyMouse, but it'll guide the majority of registrants to follow instructions. Require an avatar picture. 2. Hide the default email registration, and turn on Facebook and LinkedIn so it'll force users to register only using those two methods. That way users can use those social networks as another form of social identity verification. 3. Allow public registration, and set up a membergroup promotion like such: New Member --> Unvalidated A new member can have total board access with up to 5 posts (and you can change this access to whatever you want, maybe you only want to give New Members access to certain boards such as a Validation / Introduce Yourself board). Once they hit 5 post, they will move to Unvalidated by default where all of their future posts are hidden / restricted from posting / can only post in Validated. This is a rather unusual way of using the permission system, of promoting members into a group where they have less permission. The only way out of the Unvalidated would be manual move to the Validated group. These are just ideas, but hope they help!