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Typographer’s nightmare.

There is nothing wrong with staying informed about the entire product line. After all, some admins will be interested in switching to the cloud offer, if it provides features or benefits they might want. So, they want to get that information as well. We just need to be able to easily tell which new feature applies to which plan.

Well, that’s the “marketing talk” way of saying it. It’s already in black and white on the pricing page: https://invisioncommunity.com/buy

We can only skip the news, if it is indicated to whom it applies. Scenario A: “Streaming is coming (to enterprise plans)” I am not not on that plan, so moving on. Otherwise it will be scenario B: “Streaming is coming!” Getting exiting. Having to research the details. Finding out to whom it applies. Being frustrated. So, it’s very much about how the news are presented.

Discourse trust levels to automagically moderate content and lift restrictions over time. https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/

It’s a setting for each member group.

I’ve seen that before. I just wanted to post the URLs but the sites are closed now. So much for that experiment. 😜

I keep trying but every (closed) club is like starting a new community from scratch and I never get clubs busy enough. I don’t use the open clubs. That doesn’t make much sense to me because it goes against the club concept of joining a club first. Paid clubs would be an interesting concept once we can have Pages databases in clubs. That would open up lots of options like paid online courses.

Speaking of that: There seem so be another change, causing entry-level cloud customers to loose the ability to even install resources which are not from the Marketplace. From a developer’s perspective, that makes offering products outside of the Marketplace even less appealing.

I knew the prices would rise with this site relaunch, but I expected more a generous correction for inflation for new orders (not renewals). But the changes are far from slight. And for people like me who have many licenses, it actually threatens my entire business, because the price change is multiplied by the number of licenses. And the new terms make it all even worse. For my oldest license, I had an upcoming renewal of $85 as the last payment in this financial year. Now that jumped to $310—well over 300%! Yes, it’s for 12 months, but I still need to pay it NOW without having earned this money through the site or even planned for it. And even if would manage with this one site, I certainly can’t manage it for 5 self-hosted licenses and their upcoming renewals. And it didn’t had to be this way. There is the established system of grandfathering existing prices while only charging more for new customers for example. Or it could be a slow transition that is announced a year or two in advance, so we could have prepared for it someone. Dropping these drastic price and terms changes on us like a bomb, effective and possibly charged immediately, was a bad move.

Yes. There is no function.

Could well be that SuperGrid isn’t ready for PHP 8. I haven’t done any testing for that yet.