Joel R

As long as I still show up 5,000 times on the Leaderboard, everything is okay.  

Hi,
This sounds great, thank you. Quick question. At the moment in 4.1.x when a tweet is made containing a link to a topic, it results in a rather ugly gray icon in the Tweet. 

I think it has something to do with Twitter meta tags in IPS's code that are used to create these Twitter cards.
Is it possible that a screenshot of the topic/webpage could be used instead, or perhaps at minimum a sharing type icon image (in the theme you can add an image for Facebook)?
Is it possible to achieve a better image in Twitter feeds for now until 4.2 is released, with 4.1.x?
Many thanks. 

As long as I still show up 5,000 times on the Leaderboard, everything is okay.  

We should be able to exclude groups or users. The founder of a forum, for example, will probably have more reputation than another admin and maybe he doesn't want to appear in the leaderboard.
One example here on IPS is the IPS NEWS account! There's no sense in display it there: https://invisionpower.com/topmembers/

I agree.  The implementation in Groups Collaboration was better I thought.  It allowed listing of forums (or any other node) in the original app and the club.  Right now, the club compartmentalizes the information and partitions the community.    

How are you bulk uploading your 140k download files? 
I've completely stopped using IP.Downloads on my site since I can't bulk upload.  

Pinned topics still appear at top of list?
Changing forums count as new page for Google Analytics?
Do prefix tags still show in fluid view? 
Forum color works well with custom icon? 
 

Pinned topics still appear at top of list?
Changing forums count as new page for Google Analytics?
Do prefix tags still show in fluid view? 
Forum color works well with custom icon? 
 

Pinned topics still appear at top of list?
Changing forums count as new page for Google Analytics?
Do prefix tags still show in fluid view? 
Forum color works well with custom icon? 
 

Where's our cake slice??

Where's our cake slice??

I do hope there is a more rigorous quality control in place now for these updates than what we experienced last year when you broke Purchase transactions and it went undetected for four months, crippling our business badly.  Bragging about only showing off new features when they're ready needs to have more substance than just turning off the bug tracker to save your blushes, the very thing that caught the last issue. We also had other major problems layered on top at the time, broken Maxmind fraud checks, broken Support Request system, broken Downloads etc, it was a nightmare.  They were mostly fixed in the end but at great cost so I can't say I'm going 'yay' at this announcement.  At least extend the Commerce cart to Downloads so it feels like there is some progress after four years and the in-between was just a 'vapourware' bad dream.

These are pretty substantive changes, relative to the other apps. So I'm very thankful that they've done this much already. But I agree there are some larger overhauls that need to be done on one of the most popular apps in the suite.
Yes please.  
Random images in gallery block.  
 

Thank God.  
Some much needed changes to Gallery.

The ability to order images randomly in widgets was added as well. Sorry for forgetting to mention that!

There is a sorting issue - If that can also be resolved... say if I have images name 1 to 15    it is shown as   1 , 10, 11, 15   then 2 , 3 ...
https://mechanical-engg.com/gallery/album/283-vocabulary-car-parts-give-caption-to-each-image-and-write-description/
Additionally  n new feature.... if Adsense / adverts position can also be looked upon  

Thank God.  
Some much needed changes to Gallery.

These are pretty substantive changes, relative to the other apps. So I'm very thankful that they've done this much already. But I agree there are some larger overhauls that need to be done on one of the most popular apps in the suite.
Yes please.  
Random images in gallery block.  
 

@bfarber, a common request is add a RANDOM option to the image widgets. Will this be added in 4.2?

Thank God.  
Some much needed changes to Gallery.

Thank God.  
Some much needed changes to Gallery.

Nice, look forward to it.
A question though: Why not just make the downloads area 100% widgetized so we can customize it more?  

Thanks for the article DanielF! 
Agreed the Downloads Index page is quite stale looking and could do with some IPS Feng Shui love! ??
It's weird how the featured downloads slider on the Downloads index page still isn't touch enabled in this day and age, instinctively you go to swipe through the downloads when using a tablet and then find you can't and instead you have to catch the left or right buttons just right.
Same with the Gallery images widget for main forums index, it could also do with being touch enabled and let you choose random images from specific Gallery categories instead of the persistent recent images if nobody has uploaded new ones for a while.

I understand your concern but I never stated that the club forums would be required to be included in the main forum listing.  In the implementation of Group Collaboration, it was an option in the club settings whether to include or not include.  As such, some admins like yourself would be able to wholly segregate your website into subcommunities.  Other communities would be able to retain their content in the primary app while still focusing a club on a particular subset of content.  

This is a good question.  There's a setting to control "Maximum number of positive reputation points allowed to give" -- will this integrate and stop additional reactions?