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    Joel R got a reaction from Fierce God in Members Shop ( Support Topic )   
    Here's a nice example that maybe you could mimic:
     
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    Joel R got a reaction from Fierce God in Members Shop ( Support Topic )   
    Hi @TheJackal84
    I'm revisiting this app after many months:
    1.  Please add ability to upload custom icon.  The font-awesome icons are too limiting if you're creating custom items.
    2.  Please add point balance to site header.  The point balance needs to be an integrated part of the UIX experience if the app is going to drive gamification.
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    Joel R reacted to Adriano Faria in Delete My Account   
    I'll give some thought.
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    Joel R got a reaction from opentype in Global ignore facility   
    I'm going to side with @opentype on this.  From a community management perspective, you're ignoring the root of the issue.  You're allowing the member to continue to make bad posts (which honestly anyone can read in an open forum), you're just literally sweeping the issue under the rug by not letting anyone be notified of the issue.  But anyone can still read the posts if they want.  
    With that said, I'm not opposed to letting you choose how you want to moderate.  More power to you in your community.  That's why we all run our own communities, right? 
    I think, in general though, a lot of admins try to let technology replace the human elements of moderation.  You know, talking to the member, understanding his concerns, and being brave enough to tell him to stop being a dick.  Technology has allowed us to sidestep these human confrontations when they probably should be addressed human to human (keyboard to keyboard?).  In an office, you can't just put someone on mute.  You would pull him aside and address his behavioral concerns.  
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    Joel R got a reaction from Matt in Global ignore facility   
    I'm going to side with @opentype on this.  From a community management perspective, you're ignoring the root of the issue.  You're allowing the member to continue to make bad posts (which honestly anyone can read in an open forum), you're just literally sweeping the issue under the rug by not letting anyone be notified of the issue.  But anyone can still read the posts if they want.  
    With that said, I'm not opposed to letting you choose how you want to moderate.  More power to you in your community.  That's why we all run our own communities, right? 
    I think, in general though, a lot of admins try to let technology replace the human elements of moderation.  You know, talking to the member, understanding his concerns, and being brave enough to tell him to stop being a dick.  Technology has allowed us to sidestep these human confrontations when they probably should be addressed human to human (keyboard to keyboard?).  In an office, you can't just put someone on mute.  You would pull him aside and address his behavioral concerns.  
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    Joel R got a reaction from Makoto in Disable Personal Messages Until Post Count Reached   
    This is already possible with membergroups, and many communities already putsue this strategy.  
    Create a "new member" group with limited PM or status updates.  Make their posts moderated.  
    Once the member reaches X approved posts, you can use the automated group promotion to move them into a group with greater permissions for PM, status updates, and more.  
    Is this what you were looking for? 
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    Joel R reacted to DawPi in 'Print Topic' option missing after upgrade?   
    You may use this mod and then print whole page via browser options:
     
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    Joel R got a reaction from SoloInter in Bulkmail Template   
    Shame! 
    It's okay, we still 😍 you.  
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    Joel R got a reaction from Fierce God in Trophies and Medals - Supporttopic   
    I'm not the developer but if Fosters has updated the file to 4.4.0 compatibility, then it's ready to go.  He probably just forgot to update the compatibility field (by the way, the author updates that field, not IPS).  
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    Joel R got a reaction from InvisionHQ in Clubs Enhancements   
    Thank you for update to Clubs Enhancements 1.2.0 Beta.  Currently running on Invision Community 4.4.2
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    Joel R got a reaction from kmk in Feedback on Clubs   
    Not happy.  
    That summarizes my feelings on clubs.  I investigated clubs three times in the past and last night I officially converted my group from Group Collaboration over to IP.Clubs, and I'm still deeply unhappy.  I feel like I went from driving a top-of-the-line Mercedes to a Kia.  The only thing going for the Kia is that it's company-insured to always be supported.  
    This is an incredibly sensitive topic to me, because the reputation and features of my community are now critiqued by a third-party Club Leader who has entrusted me to move his 12-year group over to my community.  
    I don't even know where to begin:
    No homepage - Your dinky little text box doesn't cut it.  My Club Leader understands the concept of a homepage, wants a homepage, and deserves a homepage.  A homepage with full ckeditor capabilities with image attachments, bold, colors and all the other wild and outrageous formatting that he wants.  He wants it more than an Activity Stream, which we can't customize anyways. Follow - no club-wide follow.  These external members have no bloody clue what your features are, and asking them to follow each node is ridiculous.  Getting them through a two-step process to register on my community and then join the club is already a huge ask.  But once they join the club, they don't get notified on any of the content even though that's the whole reason why they joined.  Once a member joins a club, they should auto-follow the club.   Members No custom moderator permissions.  I have no idea what moderator permissions were just given to the moderator.    No member outreach.  How does my club owner actually message or mail his members to market outside of his club?   Nodes - no reordering, which means you're screwed on ordering. Nodes - no categories within nodes, which is a major pain point for me.  I had to convince my Club Leader to reduce 70+ categories into 3.   He had detailed categories for each letter of the album A-Z, and now all albums are mixed together in 39 pages of albums.  Content is king, and the inability to organize and categorize within nodes is a huge pain point.   Conversion - no conversion of existing nodes.  I have no idea how IPS expected me to manually move 49,700 content items into clubs.  Content is king, and clubs is not easy to transfer content in / out.   Delete and Move/Delete - In the ACP > Community app nodes, club nodes are not an option when using Delete or Move / Delete.  Node Settings - I, as root admin, don't have full node control over settings or permissions.  For example, in galleries I can't enable "only use albums".  I have no idea how or where these nodes are inheriting certain settings that are beyond even my control as a root admin, and that's a big problem.   I am asking a Club Leader to trust me to move his content, his members, and his loyalty over to me, yet these are the real challenges that I'm facing: his members aren't notified of new content; his members can't find content in 39 pages of albums; and his moderator and members can do whatever with whatever permissions they want because I can't control user, moderator, or node permissions.
    Joel
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    Joel R got a reaction from SJ77 in Trophies and Medals - Supporttopic   
    Thank you for update to Trophies and Medals.  Currently using 2.0.0 RC3.  Will report any errors
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    Joel R got a reaction from Adriano Faria in Filter by First Letter of Topic Title   
    Thanks for the update. 
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    Joel R reacted to Adriano Faria in Filter by First Letter of Topic Title   
    What's New in Version 1.0.1:
    Fix: it wasn't remembering filters
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    Joel R got a reaction from The Old Man in Dimensions & Image Size on Gallery Images   
    Running on Invision Community 4.4.2 and it looks fine.
    Remember to update the compatibility field.  
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    Joel R reacted to ToddKarlen in Quick request if you have 2 minutes...   
    Thanks Matt, Looking forward to them. 
    Screencasts (tutorials) work great too if you have the time. 
    Or If you create a place to put them I'd be happy to record my screen as I learn and then post what I've learned for others.
    I've been using WP for years and my frustraction with Invision is the User (me) lol.  I know it's just another learning curve I have to go through, I'm guessing the frustration is an age thing 🙂
    Looking forward to finishing my site.  I know the real work will come later (I listened to the last podcast interview you did and enjoyed and found it very informative - Thanks)
    Soon, I'll give you an awesome sound bite ... soon, but probably not soon enough.  
    FYI, I've been searching for years for software like this and I gave WPMU Dev a ton of money over the years as well other plugin and theme companies.  I almost signed up over the past year with Brilliant Directories (came very close) and Member Mouse, MemberPress and others from Theme Forest.  Just as I was about to go click (with the visa) something stopped me and you guys showed up on the next google search and so far I'm glad you did.  I like what I see 
    Cheers! 
    Carpenters Club
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    Joel R got a reaction from LiquidFractal in Disable Personal Messages Until Post Count Reached   
    This is already possible with membergroups, and many communities already putsue this strategy.  
    Create a "new member" group with limited PM or status updates.  Make their posts moderated.  
    Once the member reaches X approved posts, you can use the automated group promotion to move them into a group with greater permissions for PM, status updates, and more.  
    Is this what you were looking for? 
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    Joel R got a reaction from Matt in Quick request if you have 2 minutes...   
    Some interesting and broad choices in there.  I was just curious to see how you discovered Invision Community as a choice within your search.  
    Thanks for the compliment on my article.  I sometimes say smart things and impress myself, ha.  
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    Joel R reacted to Cannabis Connect in Quick request if you have 2 minutes...   
    Our software team members have spent over 5 years assessing the top Professionals' Networked Community (PNC) platforms which are used to deploy business-related discussion forums. We thought that we had seen and tried all of the best. But then we came across Invision Power Services (IPS). This PNC gave us a whole new appreciation for the state-of-the-tech. The bottom line: we scrapped our prior investment and have moved to IPS. We couldn't be happier and look forward to making a huge business impact with the global Cannabis Connect Value Chain standards bodies that we're about to publish for numerous countries that want to jump on our bandwagon at https://www.chchains.org/.
    Phil Wilson,
    Founder and Managing Director
    International Association of Cannabis + Hemp Value Chain Organizations
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    Joel R got a reaction from Maxxius in Custom Notifications - Supporttopic   
    I wanted to let you know this worked beautifully for sending out a holiday greeting to my community for Thanksgiving.  

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    Joel R reacted to sobrenome in Featured Content for IPS4.x+   
    Will it be available in the future?

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    Joel R got a reaction from Metor in Topic Thumbnail for IPS4.x   
    Hi @onlyME
    I wanted to let you know that I use Topic Thumbnail app, and would appreciate an upgrade to 4.4 when it becomes officially available. 
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    Joel R got a reaction from Thomas P in Everybody is choosing "Night Mode" nowadays....   
    I'm personally mixed on your dark mode suggestion ... but not because I wouldn't want a dark mode.  In fact, on my smartphone I use a blue light filter and switch to dark mode for many apps.  I love dark mode to ease the strain on my eyes.  
    Keep in mind that for all of your examples of dark mode, the developer controls one user experience for all users. 
    For IPS communities, however, individual communities can develop and customize the theming to their hearts content, and that can include any variations like regular or dark mode.  
    Will IPS earn major street cred for coming out with dark mode? Yes.  But is it something they need to do or should it be left up to the themers? That's a little more nuanced.  
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    Joel R got a reaction from SJ77 in CodingJungle's Apps [support topic]   
    It was in the most recent release, which is when the notification feature was added.  
    Notify your moderators to adjust their notification settings to disable the notifications.  
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    Joel R got a reaction from AtariAge in CodingJungle's Apps [support topic]   
    I love them! In fact, I'm the bloody bastard that told @CodingJungle to add them in the first place.  It helps me be notified when when tricky members try to create duplicate accounts.  But it's acting as it's designed.  
    If your mods won't want these notifications, then instruct them to adjust their notification settings.  
    @CodingJungle might also have an SQL query that you can run.  
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