Joel R

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.

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.

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.

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.

Meanwhile, myself and fellow Cloud users watching all this pricing confusion unfold 😛

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.  

I think I narrowed it down to bad source data because I initially had to set sql_mode to compatibility mode, or the imports failed early on.  I fixed that, but I would not be surprised by other source problems.
For example, this particular db is using Latin1, but also has UTF8MB4 characters in it - so most posts convert properly  but there's the occasional post with mangled characters.  Any attempt to use character set conversion queries or Invision's tools to fix those, ends up mangling the others.  If Latin1 is used during import, one set of posts ends up with mangled characters, if UTF8MB4 is used then another set gets mangled.  A solution was importing Latin1 followed by a a set of find/replace queries - not how I'd do it if I had all the time in world - but it covered 99.9% of the instances so good enough.
It doesn't help that the SMF files are an earlier version than the SMF database is!  (I've seen worse though)
I would say bad source data is one of my biggest conversion headaches.  If I can narrow it down further I'll let you know, but at this point it's unlikely to be worth the effort.
Thanks. 
 

Clubs - I would like to see club statistics and to offer them to Club Leaders and / or Moderators.  

The user is asking to search Club overview and Club description, not content items in the club.  
@JesCiTy this is intended behavior (at this time). 
With that said, one easy workaround is to simply write a forum topic that exactly duplicates your club description.  This will then be searchable.  
A couple of queries: 
- Can you give more information on your specific use case? Just curious. You ask about club locations, and then talk about user locations.  Those are obviously two very different mappings.  
- How do you envision searching and sorting by location? Just curious. Searching for Cambridge can return Cambridge, UK or Cambridge, MA, USA.  
- If your goal is to offer user to user matching based on locations, I highly recommend a third party app Connections by @Andy Millne.  It's one of the more underrated third party apps in the Marketplace, and offers suggested connections between members who are geographically close. The setting can be enabled / disabled.  Bonus: You may be able to ask him to customize his app, so members can be connected to both nearby members and nearby clubs and nearby events, etc. Not sure if this helps, but wanted to throw this out to you. 😀

1.  Complete in order
The settings are located in both front-end and back-end and it can be confusing.  I can see why the settings would be separated, but it's still confusing.  
Complete in order for modules: Part of the ACP settings for the Course Complete in order for lesson: Part of the module settings on the front-end 2.  Next Lesson | Back to Course
Similar to Next Unread in Forums, there should be an easy button to progress the user to the next lesson.  
This should make it easier to progress on mobile.  
3.  Long Lesson Name / Description
This could probably be truncated for a cleaner look.  

4. Custom Fields
I can see myself adding custom fields to the modules and the lessons for things like:
Attachments Field: Upload various resources / handouts Text Field: Suggested time on how long to spend on the lesson  5.  Inclusion of interactive elements
These could be things like:
A forum discussion A poll A quiz   6.  Copy Lessons / Copy Modules
Be able to copy lessons or entire modules to make course creation go faster.  

1.  Complete in order
The settings are located in both front-end and back-end and it can be confusing.  I can see why the settings would be separated, but it's still confusing.  
Complete in order for modules: Part of the ACP settings for the Course Complete in order for lesson: Part of the module settings on the front-end 2.  Next Lesson | Back to Course
Similar to Next Unread in Forums, there should be an easy button to progress the user to the next lesson.  
This should make it easier to progress on mobile.  
3.  Long Lesson Name / Description
This could probably be truncated for a cleaner look.  

4. Custom Fields
I can see myself adding custom fields to the modules and the lessons for things like:
Attachments Field: Upload various resources / handouts Text Field: Suggested time on how long to spend on the lesson  5.  Inclusion of interactive elements
These could be things like:
A forum discussion A poll A quiz   6.  Copy Lessons / Copy Modules
Be able to copy lessons or entire modules to make course creation go faster.  

The settings are tucked away in a user profile.  
Go to any user profile in the ACP, including your own. Click on the dropdown next to Posts or Reputation to Recount.
 
Recount content or reputation.webm

Some thoughts regarding Google: 
Focus on your community and your community's experience. You are building a community experience for humans, not for crawl bots.  If it's useful to have widgets like Recent Topics or Popular Topics for your users to explore and discover and navigate and "be sticky" with your community, then be confident in your decision. 

Some thoughts regarding Google: 
Focus on your community and your community's experience. You are building a community experience for humans, not for crawl bots.  If it's useful to have widgets like Recent Topics or Popular Topics for your users to explore and discover and navigate and "be sticky" with your community, then be confident in your decision. 

Some thoughts regarding Google: 
Focus on your community and your community's experience. You are building a community experience for humans, not for crawl bots.  If it's useful to have widgets like Recent Topics or Popular Topics for your users to explore and discover and navigate and "be sticky" with your community, then be confident in your decision. 

Some thoughts regarding Google: 
Focus on your community and your community's experience. You are building a community experience for humans, not for crawl bots.  If it's useful to have widgets like Recent Topics or Popular Topics for your users to explore and discover and navigate and "be sticky" with your community, then be confident in your decision. 

Some thoughts regarding Google: 
Focus on your community and your community's experience. You are building a community experience for humans, not for crawl bots.  If it's useful to have widgets like Recent Topics or Popular Topics for your users to explore and discover and navigate and "be sticky" with your community, then be confident in your decision. 

Fair question there. 
The reasoning behind this, is its simple to code a bot to read the answered question at the top of google (or indeed other search areas). So if you put something like "what is 2+2" it will actually give you the answer, rather than you needing to click through search results.
With the second part on making it easy for users, I completely agree. However, that is going completely the other way of thinking. You don't have to put a hard physics question in order to avoid the answers being given simply by Google. As an example, if you ran a site fourpaws.com which is a site for dogs, you could put the question "What animal is this site about?" which Google cannot possibly guess as it doesn't know the context. "What is the number in the title of this site" is another good example. Both very simple for a user, but impossible for Google to know without being given more context.
 

One thing that I miss a lot in group promotions is a rule that fires when a user is (or is not) a member of a certain club. (Of course clubs have to be activated on the community for this.) This would add much more flexibility to automated promotions. Can you please consider adding this in a future release?

This is great!  One suggestion however...  a user would not know they're being blocked unless the person happened to stumble into their email settings.  
In my experience, this is very unlikely to happen.  Users don't check there often (or at all).  They may not even realize there is a problem or realize email has not been seen by them in a while to know to investigate.  
Could you add some sort of front-end notification as well?  

The red stripe could literally just be the email settings page you linked above where you explain the problem and ask the user to update their email.  

Price is 10$ off for the next 4 days!
Happy easter everyone!
 

Yes, absolutely it can.  
IPS supports Amazon Web Services (AWS) for storage and delivery.  Keep in mind that you will incur incidental costs for storage, bandwidth, and potentially CDN delivery.  
Guide:  https://invisioncommunity.com/4guides/advanced-options/server-management/configuring-amazon-s3-r230/
 

Happy Hump Day! Sort of… 
I have a bit of news to share with you: this will be my last Hump Day as I am stepping down from Invision Community. 😢 
I am transitioning to a new role at Amazon. I’ll be creating content and engagement solutions for AWS. 
I’d like to take a moment to thank this community for welcoming me with open arms. When I first started my journey as an Invision Community team member, I focused on community advocacy and connecting clients with the team. We quickly realized my, um... exuberance was better suited in marketing and sales. 
Creating content around Invision Community opened my eyes even further to how brilliantly crafted this platform is and the team behind it.
I've also genuinely enjoyed communicating with industry professionals every day who showed interest in adding a community component to their business.
So many incredible Achievements (😏) happened along the way; I’m grateful I was a part of Invision Community’s success as we blazed through the 20-year anniversary. 🎉 
Now, you won’t be rid of me entirely. My own community, BreatheHeavy, will still remain on the Invision Community platform. I look forward to staying connected with all of you here!
Thank you for engaging and interacting with me these last few years. 
Please feel free to PM me here if you have any feedback, questions or well wishes. 😃 
I want to give a special thanks to @Charles for being my mentor and seeing potential in me (even when I didn't). 
And before I go, here’s a list of updates and changes made to the platform in the last seven days:
 

Thank you, 🙏 
-Jordan
 

Does this work with custom media embed codes, or only the ones supported as part of Videobox?  

Thank you everyone, I'm sad to be leaving but very excited for what comes next. I'm sure you'll still see me around here, just without that Staff badge.