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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!

No Open clubs allow all registered members to immediately join. This can probably be done as a private customization. You can post here: https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/forum/506-customization-requests/ You would need to go private customization. Some other thoughts: 1. You should talk to @Morrigan who runs an RPG site. She might have some good ideas for you. 2. You can check out third-party developers here: https://invisioncommunity.com/third-party/providers/

How will verified members validate the unverified members? With photos, text descriptions, or what? You require manual validation, so .... that's going to require some manual adjustments once they're approved. This is the nature of your registration process. You can give ACP access to Staff where their only permission is to manage members, so they can approve and move members for you.

Check Radical Tags by @Makoto in Marketplace.

If you're trying to recreate a full LMS (learning management system), my honest recommendation would be to integrate with WordPress, then use a WordPress-based LMS such as LearnDash. There are several free, best in class systems with lots of options without having to use Invision in a very hacky manner.

You create two products. One renews every month. One renews never. If clients want, they can upgrade from one product to another. Not trying to criticize your suggestion at all. Just wondering what the current framework doesn't allow. Calm down. It was a jab at IPS not peer clients, who used to sell lifetime / perpetual licenses and then promptly told clients they would no longer honor those licenses.

1. Create a new blog in the second club. Then move the blog posts from Blog A --> Blog B 2. Purchase Club Enhancements in the Marketplace. I believe you can move nodes between clubs, but you should double-check.

Some thoughts: 1. Isn't this just a Product with no renewals? I'm confused by your request. Create a product in Commerce. Leave renews off. 2. IPS doesn't believe in lifetime products *cough cough*

From what I understand - and don't hold me to this - IPS doesn't actually pull the raw content when showing search results or streams. IPS duplicates the content into a search database, and then runs queries on the search database. This is why there's no direct interaction that's allowed on these results.

From what I understand, IPS has hardcoded certain functions to S3 like in IP.Downloads. If you do investigate Wasabi and Cloudflare, you'll be reliant on a Marketplace plugin. With that said, I would support S3 compatible buckets which would dramatically open more choices for community admins. If I were to use Amazon S3 + Cloudfront, I would be paying something like $180 - 200 / mo for just storage, bandwidth, and CDN and it will continue to grow as I'm charged as usage grows. With Wasabi + Cloudflare, I'm paying a flat $26 with significantly more capacity to store up to 1 TB at the same $26 price. The cost savings are too compelling.

This is already doable in Clubs, especially with their improvements: You can create paid clubswhere fans need to pay $$ to access You can add a club calendar for coaching You can download Club Enhancements plugin to add custom widgets to sidebar You can make club forum node to be question and answer You can add custom pages What else do you need? Pretty sure everything you want is 100% available today either in vanilla IPS or in the Club Enhancement.

If you don't like Google for privacy reasons which I totally understand, there's a reason why an IPS developer (under a pseudonym) released a captcha alternative into the IPS Marketplace.

So, you're going to be moderating 100 topics / posts on a daily basis? Some thoughts (and I may be way off base on some of them, but hopefully this will get your creative juices flowing): If these posts are in a certain board, then I think the easiest method would be to require Post Moderation. This can be applied per forum or per membergroup. You can then approve / manage the post approvals via the Moderator CP, which is designed to handle this use case. If you're trying to moderate for keywords, then you can also use the keyword filter. You create a private Activity Stream for yourself (or your moderators) that only shows Unread content. This will only show you ... unread content, which is kind of perfect, right? I get all those. I wonder, however, if IPS is going to have the same technical challenges as other requests from the community to make the Activity Stream interactive.

Well, therein lies the problem. In vanilla IPS, you can't disable reps in certain boards. So for the most active and passionate users in the most casual / offtopic forums, there is no way to stop downvoting or getting into a 'downvote war.' This can and will happen eventually. As you pointed out, you need to manually interject and message the members. This is not sustainable as you grow larger.

Just curious, can you describe the kinds of situations you're facing? For example: Are members posting items that are later hidden / removed, but they're still showing up in Activity Stream? You notice problematic content directly via the Activity Stream, and you need to moderate it immediately? I'm genuinely curious, as I only allow certain boards from appearing in the default stream (only 1/3 of my forums are in my default stream), and they're heavily moderated via the front-end app. I personally think most communities need to think harder about what appears in their default activity stream instead of all content.