Joel R

Hi @Fosters
My most favorite developer in the Marketplace (I promise I don't say that to every developer 😀).  I wanted to let you know that I use Trophies & Medals app, and would appreciate an upgrade to 4.4 when it becomes officially available. 

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. 

Hi @Adriano Faria
I wanted to let you know that I use Delete My Account app, and would appreciate an upgrade to 4.4 when it becomes officially available. 

Hi @Kevin Carwile
I wanted to let you know that I use Automation Rules app, and would appreciate an upgrade to 4.4 when it becomes officially available. 

Hi @Kevin Carwile
I wanted to let you know that I use Automation Rules app, and would appreciate an upgrade to 4.4 when it becomes officially available. 

Compatible with IPS 4.4.

How this works? Is this automatic? Or do we have to change something in image call in templates? I see you mention a setting to show a blank image in some places. 
Tks. 

Praise the Lord and hallelujah to sweet baby Jesus, we have a savior in the house! Thank goodness you're taking over this app.  
I would have been sad if this app died.  

As much as you would like to start yet another boring discussion about holes in other peoples logic (I have noticed how much you enjoy those), your assumption in fact is not correct. 
My comment was sarcastic on purpose, to me the answer is obvious - asking why you might need Pages in a Club is like asking why you need Pages at all. Clubs is community within a community, why it should not have access to all features available for the main branch and why the use cases within a club should be different then the use cases for all other apps that have clubs features? If it is difficult to develop, so be it, I can accept that. But I can't believe it is possible that IPS did not include Pages features in Clubs simply because they thought it is not useful. Hence the "surprise" in my comment. 
If I wanted to be a straight shooter, I would say instead: "Matt, the use cases for clubs usage are exactly the same as for main community usage and for all other apps that already have clubs features. You want to isolate particular database in a club, the same way you prefer to isolate particular gallery or discussion topics". Instead, I decided to be funny with a short sarcastic one liner. Shoot me. At least I didn't use a gif. 

One of my members wanted to make this suggestion: designer sticky notes
Custom background Image repeats / does not repeat Image designs can be live selected on front-end  Group permissions to send designer notes Something like:

It also throws off the design of the Our Picks cards.  Usually I choose the first paragraph or teaser text 

No it don't do that, I could add it to the update though
I will sort that for the update, it don't actually use any storage yet so don't worry about filling up your server etc, that is for the coming images what are getting added
Update should be out with-in the next day or two it is only a small update sorting a few things out

For CJ Duplicate Logger, would you consider incorporating the already built-into IPS device check on members? I have a lot of users who have been IP banned (thanks to this app) who are coming back with a different IP, but on the same device. IPS ALREADY logs if a device has been used by more than one member:
 
 

 
It's cheap to get a new IP, but it's not cheap to get a new device. A device check would make this application utterly complete. Please consider.
Thanks!

There's always going to be a cost to upgrading, whether it's loss of features, functionality, custom work, and the expense needed to recreate the items you must have.  You should upgrade only when you feel you gain more out of the upgrade than what it costs.  Marginal benefit needs to be greater than marginal cost.  
In general, I agree with you though. Im not sure how reinventing forums for the fifth time is compelling enough to get anyone to upgrade.  There are dozens of incremental improvements that can still be made on the 4.x series to polish and I'm going to be vocally disappointed if a pivot is made  to 5.x prematurely.  

1. I applaud you for starting an IPS 5.0 feedback topic before me.  Props to you.  
2. Customizable homepage - no.  I want to control the display and presentation (and I will admit, the ad placement because I'm a greedy admin farming my user's data.  Take that GDPR!).  
-- 2a. I'm okay with personalizing the content on the page. For eaxmple, pushing content from followers or prioritizing popular content for more interesting and relevant content.  But not the overall layout.  
-- 2b.  If this were Blogs or Profiles that are tied to the user, I could understand.  Those are "individual spaces"in the where it makes sense to give more design control.  But again, not the homepage which is a community homepage.  
4.4. See how I skipped to this number.  IPS is taking it's sweet time.  

the mystery items box will be in the next update

as for the images, I have already wrote like 60% of the code to use them what is inside the app atm, just hidden away, it is something what is coming but requires lots more work and a better way to store them for when users buy and store the items without filling up the server with lots of duplicate images as the items can be created in millions of different ways per item etc and could all maybe be using different images
I am also thinking of maybe adding a win % to all the mystery points etc, if you set it at 70 then a user has 70% chance of winning with 30% chance of losing and getting nothing

While different communities may have different demographics that tend to use one device over another, the underlying global trend is clear.  Mobile use is increasing. In 2017, it surpassed desktop use for the first time. It now makes up the majority of global traffic, and in developed countries, the use is even higher.  
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF ONLINE TRAFFIC IS MOBILE?
In 2018, 52.2% of all worldwide online traffic was generated through mobile phones, up from 50.3% in the previous year (Statista, 2018)
57% of all U.S. online traffic now comes from smartphones and tablets (BrightEdge, 2017)
https://www.bluecorona.com/blog/mobile-marketing-statistics
I actually think any UIX decisions from here on out by IPS need to be judged in the context of mobile first. 

Agreed. It almost needs to be that desktop and mobile use two different themes, different JavaScript, etc.
A good example is the release notes page:

Works pretty well on desktop but is awful on mobile, because it was built using this widely used responsive design tactic of just collapsing everything on top of each other.

It'll create a background task per trophy.  You probably set up a bunch so they all ran at once.  That's what happened to my community.  

Actually, this app is much much more efficient than the other awards app or using Automation Rules.  This app runs on a background task that checks every X minutes to see if a user meets a certain crtieria.  Thus, it limits the check to once every X minutes.  
Using Automation Rules, you have to build your rule to check on every new post or like.  Let me repeat: each and every post by any user will trigger a check and potential trophy assignment.  It's an incredibly inefficient and computationally expensive method.  If you have a busy board, I probably wouldn't recommend thiserhod at  all. 
Yet .... I think when I build my trophy system (unless Fosters comes out with something new), it's my preferred method.  That way users are trigger and notified right away of the new trophy assignment.  The problem with Fosters method is that users aren't notified until many minutes later, potentially even after they've left the site or forgotten about the action.  It's like giving a doggy treat to your dog a day after he did a trick.  Gamification only works if you can immediately and directly tie the reward to the action.
The reason why you probably thought it was a resource hog was that you probably saw tons of background processes on install or upgrade or changing the criteria. That should be expected as the initial survey of criteria.  That wasn't publicly explained by Fosters at all and can look extremely scary.  
To be honest, I'm also still trying to figure out how to build a proper trophy and awards system.  Fosters has a smarter backend, but a terrible front-end impact.  The other methods are incredibly inefficient on back and, but preferred front-end impact.  

Actually, this app is much much more efficient than the other awards app or using Automation Rules.  This app runs on a background task that checks every X minutes to see if a user meets a certain crtieria.  Thus, it limits the check to once every X minutes.  
Using Automation Rules, you have to build your rule to check on every new post or like.  Let me repeat: each and every post by any user will trigger a check and potential trophy assignment.  It's an incredibly inefficient and computationally expensive method.  If you have a busy board, I probably wouldn't recommend thiserhod at  all. 
Yet .... I think when I build my trophy system (unless Fosters comes out with something new), it's my preferred method.  That way users are trigger and notified right away of the new trophy assignment.  The problem with Fosters method is that users aren't notified until many minutes later, potentially even after they've left the site or forgotten about the action.  It's like giving a doggy treat to your dog a day after he did a trick.  Gamification only works if you can immediately and directly tie the reward to the action.
The reason why you probably thought it was a resource hog was that you probably saw tons of background processes on install or upgrade or changing the criteria. That should be expected as the initial survey of criteria.  That wasn't publicly explained by Fosters at all and can look extremely scary.  
To be honest, I'm also still trying to figure out how to build a proper trophy and awards system.  Fosters has a smarter backend, but a terrible front-end impact.  The other methods are incredibly inefficient on back and, but preferred front-end impact.  

While different communities may have different demographics that tend to use one device over another, the underlying global trend is clear.  Mobile use is increasing. In 2017, it surpassed desktop use for the first time. It now makes up the majority of global traffic, and in developed countries, the use is even higher.  
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF ONLINE TRAFFIC IS MOBILE?
In 2018, 52.2% of all worldwide online traffic was generated through mobile phones, up from 50.3% in the previous year (Statista, 2018)
57% of all U.S. online traffic now comes from smartphones and tablets (BrightEdge, 2017)
https://www.bluecorona.com/blog/mobile-marketing-statistics
I actually think any UIX decisions from here on out by IPS need to be judged in the context of mobile first. 

While different communities may have different demographics that tend to use one device over another, the underlying global trend is clear.  Mobile use is increasing. In 2017, it surpassed desktop use for the first time. It now makes up the majority of global traffic, and in developed countries, the use is even higher.  
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF ONLINE TRAFFIC IS MOBILE?
In 2018, 52.2% of all worldwide online traffic was generated through mobile phones, up from 50.3% in the previous year (Statista, 2018)
57% of all U.S. online traffic now comes from smartphones and tablets (BrightEdge, 2017)
https://www.bluecorona.com/blog/mobile-marketing-statistics
I actually think any UIX decisions from here on out by IPS need to be judged in the context of mobile first. 

What record? Different community admins, different opinions, different use cases. I'd like to see more ambitions concerning progressive web app development, and app look & feel styling as well as all the other benefits granted by apps. My target demographic members are young people that prefer apps. I'd be willing to pay my share if someone will come up with a longterm-supported solution. I really hope this will happen one day. 🍾🥂💥