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    Was any of this identified as bug to be fixed in maintenance releases?

    My biggest issue is still this, which has stopped me from rolling out Pages databases in clubs altogether:

    On 3/14/2024 at 4:58 PM, opentype said:

    2. Database records made in clubs do not appear in feeds, not the club feed or the Activity feed. I have seen reactions to records though. 

    Is this intentional? Do I miss certain settings? I just tested again with the latest release and still see the same. 

    Without new database records appearing in feeds it would be kind of pointless. The way to discover new records is just too long, when you manually have to go to Clubs → Specific Club → Database Category instead of just seeing a new record on the Activity page. 

    4 hours ago, CheersnGears said:

    It would be interesting to see if there is a significant pagespeed difference between mysite.com/ and mysite.com/forums for sites that use Pages.

    I haven’t seen significant differences, but again, it would depend on what is actually on those pages. 
    As Alex said, Pages databases don’t seem to be super fast. I have one site where the Pages homepage doesn’t show the main article database, but actually a block listing the latest articles. As those blocks are part of the regular sidebar block caching, it loads faster than the actual article database. Might be worth considering.  

    Those Page Speed results can be misleading as they usually complain about exactly the things you cannot change (as they are part of the IPS framework) and they don’t tell you about the things you can change. 

    It’s much better to focus on the things in your control. 

    1. The server and all its components play a huge role. That’s the admin’s responsibility for self-hosted installation. 
    2. Caching of resources and maybe even full pages. Plenty of optimization potential here!
    3. Third-party interference. Loading external ads, analytics, webfonts  … that slows down the site significantly. 
    4. And then of course: what’s on the page to begin with? I often see community sites completely overloaded with blocks, trying to announce everything the site has to offer on the homepage with sliders and sometimes hundreds of avatar images to be loaded, plus external ads everywhere … Of course such a page will be slow to load. IPS can’t fix that with framework updates. 

     

    Instead of patching these issues, the entire functionality should probably be reimagined. Having this forum posting to begin with comes from old 3.x days where everything was centered around the forums. Having the need to have a separate comment system for Pages comes from the fact that 4.x originally allowed people to just have Pages, but not Forums. With the new licensing system, these legacy options should be consolidated into one comment system without the need for any kind of syncing, cross-posting or any anything like that. 

    It’s worth noting that image processing is handled through server modules like GD or ImageMagick. It can take a few years until new formats are supported and the server packages get updated to make these changes available for hosting customers. 

    Yeah, that was my number one use-case for databases in clubs as well. 

    I would have expected that this can easily be solved by turning on custom category permissions and then changing them to disallow posting outside the clubs. But for some reason, the setting is there, but with clubs activated, custom permissions for the default category outside the clubs aren’t available anymore. 

     

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    … had to post my physical home address …

    I’m pretty sure they didn’t phrase it like that. They probably just asked for a proper imprint with data about the legal representation, which is simply the law here in Germany (see German Telemedia Act) and not something “draconian” that T-Online made up because the don’t “like” certain domains as you phrased it. 

    But that’s all beside the point anyway, which is that services like United Internet (GMX, Web.de) in Germany or Orange in France have a market share of over 30% in those countries, similar to Gmail in the United States. So blocking these service would be like blocking Gmail. 

    I would buy a ‘link search and replace app’ with simple and regex functionality. While running global search-and-replace queries is somewhat dangerous, the app could just go trough the matching posts one by one, showing the old and the new link with an option to click the old and new link before clicking “skip”, “change” or “remove link and replace with …”. 

    http to https changes would be typical, but there are more examples: Removing dead links entirely and replacing them with a note; Adding/changing affiliate links; Changing links from one domain to another after after takeovers or a rebranding (e.g. twitter.com to x.com); removing parts of of the domain (like www) or a specific folders after the external site changed their structure …

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    9 hours ago, Verto said:

     

    No Sir. That is not true. Throughout Europe you rent a property for a defined contractual period, and then pay month-to-month rent. No one would think of putting a tenant indefinitely in their property. Similarly, and to give another example that is well known to everyone, when you subscribe to a licence for Adobe, you do so for periods of one year, and then pay month-to-month for the subscription. And if you cancel early, Adobe charges the proportional part that remains to complete the contracted time. That's what contracts are for; to secure the interest of the parties.

    None of these examples prove your point – they prove my point. Yes, a subscription has a default amount of time it lasts until in renews. Adobe has monthly subscriptions and yearly subscriptions. But both of them run INDEFINITELY unless they are cancelled. Show me the offer from Adobe where you can buy just "5 months” or “5 years” and then the subscription does not renew anymore. It does not exist, because that is not how subscriptions work. Yet, that is what you want and what you are falsely claiming is even necessary. 

    I am sorry, but you misrepresent the facts around subscription in order to demand a feature you would like to see. That never works. 

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     I am looking for a limit on the number of renewals of a product for sale.

    Simple answer: It is not possible. 

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    when you sign up for a subscription, rental, etc., there is an obligation to set a contractual limit on the duration of the contract.

    That is not true. Subscriptions run until they are cancelled – by definition – and that is possible in every country of the world – just as with the given example of “paying rent for an undefined time until one side cancels”. 

    What you are asking for to achieve a “5 month course” is NOT a subscription. It’s single purchase of a course, which grants access to something for a limited time. 
    You also want to spread out the payments, but that is a payment option and INDEPENDENT from the product type itself. And it also not possible with the Invision Community software.