Joel R

Hi @Seylerg Sort of related and this might help with new user onboarding is the feature of Profile Completion announced in 4.2, which guides users through basic profile steps such as uploading an avatar or filling out profile fields.  
Help Article: https://invisioncommunity.com/4guides/member-functions/profile-completion-r312/
Blog Article: https://invisioncommunity.com/news/invision-community/new-complete-your-profile-r1029/
Otherwise, as other members have stated, you would need to come up with your own Help articles for users.  I wrote a robust set of Help articles for some of my apps, and in my experience, the only ones who read them were my most dedicated users.  Majority of new and casual members just want something intuitive that works.  
 

It's going to be interesting to see how IPS plans to expand its digital monetization
 

It's going to be interesting to see how IPS plans to expand its digital monetization
 

Here's another good example from a random site that shows different payment options in case IPS needs inspiration on this commonly-accepted practice:

Hi @Seylerg Sort of related and this might help with new user onboarding is the feature of Profile Completion announced in 4.2, which guides users through basic profile steps such as uploading an avatar or filling out profile fields.  
Help Article: https://invisioncommunity.com/4guides/member-functions/profile-completion-r312/
Blog Article: https://invisioncommunity.com/news/invision-community/new-complete-your-profile-r1029/
Otherwise, as other members have stated, you would need to come up with your own Help articles for users.  I wrote a robust set of Help articles for some of my apps, and in my experience, the only ones who read them were my most dedicated users.  Majority of new and casual members just want something intuitive that works.  
 

Here's another good example from a random site that shows different payment options in case IPS needs inspiration on this commonly-accepted practice:

Here's another good example from a random site that shows different payment options in case IPS needs inspiration on this commonly-accepted practice:

It would be great if, when we refer someone to another topic by embedding a solved forum topic, the embedded topic would show that it is solved. 

Here's another good example from a random site that shows different payment options in case IPS needs inspiration on this commonly-accepted practice:

faeces! Seems like they would tell me that when they did the import for me. That is crap. 
Super Mad. Not about the money but the lack of customer service. 

Hello,
I was thinking of using the Kartra online application to manage my marketing campaigns, landing pages, forms, abandoned cart, upsells, etc. Invision lacks most of these important functionalities, so I need to look for alternatives, and Kartar impressed me.
Can I connect Kartra with Invision and use the products in my ACP in Kartra?
Somebody buys Invision Membership X in a list of products in Kartra and then a new user is added to ACP with the correct primary/secondary group I wish Invision had many of the basic functionalities of any shopping cart, like upsells and abandoned carts, but it doesn't. So how am I supposed to do that if I wanted to? Can Kartra do this with Zapier and Invision? Is this the way it would be done in Zapier? See screenshot.

 
Thanks a lot for your help.

Just for clarification, Pages is getting a substantial update for v5 and is a core part of our community platform strategy.

In case you don't want to put the whole site offline but only a specific application, for example only Calendar/Events, you can put it offline by going to ACP > System > SITE FEATURES > Applications > Events > Lock Icon (on the right).

That is most likely a modification that shows the group icon for secondary groups: https://www.invisioneer.org/files/file/350-axen-secondary-groups-indicator/

An observation on my end: one of the fundamental issues is that IPS has siloed the applications. And while IPS offers a feature to push Articles over to Forums, the reality is that we have the same content item in two different locations.  Should you go to Articles to read?? Or should you go to Forums to read?? 
One approach that I've seen from a competitor is to offer a long form article layout directly in the Forums.  So you're still in the Forums, but the layout of the topic is designed for articles.  If you go to page 2 of comments, the Article is condensed. It's an elegant approach to consolidating everything in one hub (aka the forums). And I find that simplicity is more important than ever to offer a simple and easy navigation.  

Time machine to 2025 and download v5.1 🤣

Really like the improvement to Tabs on Profiles on mobile, with the horizontal scroll. 
The dropdown menu in v4 basically hid all of the tab options unless you knew of the tabs in advance.

Really like the improvement to Tabs on Profiles on mobile, with the horizontal scroll. 
The dropdown menu in v4 basically hid all of the tab options unless you knew of the tabs in advance.

Really like the improvement to Tabs on Profiles on mobile, with the horizontal scroll. 
The dropdown menu in v4 basically hid all of the tab options unless you knew of the tabs in advance.

Really like the improvement to Tabs on Profiles on mobile, with the horizontal scroll. 
The dropdown menu in v4 basically hid all of the tab options unless you knew of the tabs in advance.

I suppose this is the difference between: 
- A returning member at large who wants to quickly scan for interesting and missed content 
- A returning member who posted in the topic and is therefore more invested 
In regards to the second point, Ive always believed that members like seeing their own content. Ideally, the topic summary would always include that specific members contributions (to a point). There's a psychology of reinforcement of seeing your own contributions or posts, which could be a powerful way of encouraging even more engagement.  

My personal take is that we can wait for Google to scrape all of our content to start offering AI generated summaries on Google (which is already happening - hello Bard!), or we can start doing it ourselves.
I'm sure there's a worthy existential debate about the importance of sourcing content from reputable sources or trusted people on forums, but at the end of the day, if I'm a user searching for the fastest and most accurate solution, do I want a condensed topic (because honestly that's all the topic summary really is) of 30 discrete replies that I still need to read through and interpret or do I want an actual well-written summary that's short, sweet, to the point.
There's a race to convenience that LLMs are unleashing on our public content. We can either own those summaries ourselves, with links and references to other parts of our community, or we can let Google do it for us without ever giving us any traffic.  

I clicked into this very excited, thinking you'd be showing off an AI-generated 'executive summary' of topics. Genuinely curious: why not feed those posts with high impact signals into an LLM to summarize? Not long ago your approach would have been great, but now I think will be in danger of feeling pretty clunky, manual and old fashioned. This seemed like it'd be the perfect opportunity to use a modern tool to solve the problem.