jair101

@MIXOH - with this plugin enabled, my members (admins including) cannot react on comments on Pages records. Only thing I have done is limiting one member to not use certain reaction.

With plugin disabled everything is fine. 

19 hours ago, Subdreamer said:

I bought this great app but never got around to use it. Is it still being developed? I would like to renew my download, but I want to make sure it is still being supported. Thanks!

I use it for manual medals only and it works fine for that purpose. But people seem to have issues with the automatic awarding of trophies. 

1 hour ago, Ryan H. said:

FYI to existing customers, I've updated the file listing with the following message:

Author note 2018-10: Support and maintenance will be limited going forward. This app works fine as of IPS 4.3 and may continue to work with new releases in the future, but when it stops working that's probably it. Thanks for your support over the years!

I haven't invested much into the apps in quite some time (as I'm sure some of you realize). My forum has closed and other circumstances are changing, so I don't have much incentive to continue developing them going forward. I intend to leave the apps on the Marketplace as long as IPS lets them. I'll continue answering support questions as I'm able, but maintenance and changes will likely be minimal to nonexistent. Thanks for buying, and I wish you all the best going forward.

(If anyone intends to yell, I'll point you to the license terms I've used since release: "I make no guarantee as to the future functionality or compatibility of this software package." It works today on 4.3, be happy.)

I noticed that it is not uncommon to transfer apps to another developer, when the main one is leaving. Could this be an option for you?

I can say I do have mixed feelings. It is still one of the core apps on my site and I don't know what I am going to do without it, but on another side the decreased level of support, lack of new features, etc, was quite visible. So I am hoping some of the reliable devs here can recognize the potential as it is one of the most popular higher priced apps and either take this over or build a comparable replacement from scratch. 

But regardless what will happen, thank you for the app. While I am sad to see it going down, at the same time it lasted much longer then the average 3rd party resource here. 

@MIXOH, while it is fair that you cannot implement and comment on each suggestion (even though it is much better to say "sorry, won't do"), can you at least give a signal that this app is still supported?

Pretty much, yeah. I also want to invest heavily in Clubs, but find myself underwhelmed by its current status. Thank you for taking the time to summing some of the issues in an organized and structured way, hopefully IPS takes notice. 

And in general, if one of the best selling apps on the marketplace is called "X enhancements", where X is an app you develop...you need to think hard if there is something missing from your offering. 

To me, I hate to be dependent on 3rd party resources, so far it seems that I am either dependent on Group Collaboration or on Clubs Enhancements. 

@Joel R Was the switch from GC to Clubs easy? I think I might try with GC as there is a lite free version afaik. If things goes south with its support (which I frankly expect as Kevin's apps have not seen any recent development lately, barely any bugfixes), then I want to be able to fallback to Clubs. 

Will it be possible to daily limit the use per reaction? I.e., my global limit is 100 reactions daily per group, I want a specific custom reaction to be used 2 times a day at most. Can we do that with this plugin or maybe a feature suggestion? 🙂 

Thanks, works as described.

One small issue though - it breaks my custom theme (one of ehren's). I know that usually plugins are supported only against the default theme, but I believe you can make the modification easily. You insert directly the <a> tag, while the buttons are within a <ul> list. I think all that is needed is to wrap the <a> tag in <li> and it will work. I edited the file manually and it seems to work on my custom theme, also the quote and multiquote buttons next to it are also wrapped by default in <li> tags, thats what gave me the hint. 

Thanks again, I think my members will love it!

If only Pages by IPS also introduces support ? But I will stop derailing the topic. Thanks again!

Maybe something obvious, but is it possible to remove the member map from newly created clubs? Can't find such a setting anywhere. 

Oops. Found it! Member Maps Settings -> Clubs extension. Sorry ?

Just now, Joel R said:

Just disable it and your clubs will be fine.  I've tested this app out myself.

Ended up not using (not any fault of the app.  My club owner wanted to use Group Collaboration instead of clubs).  

Yeah, you understand my main fear, I want to limit my exposure to third party dependencies, so thats why GC is no option for me, even though it is more feature rich. 

Thanks for confirming disabling it is a non issue, I am just trying out clubs in live environment right now, but I suspect I will be needing this app eventually. 

I want to ask, what would happen if I buy this app, use its features, but later for some reason I decide I don't need it anymore? Will the clubs break with all kind of internal errors or it will mostly work?

For example, lets say I create a custom homepage for a Club, what would happen if I disable the app? Will the club continue to work as usual without the custom homepage or it will break?

22 minutes ago, Fosters said:

I like this and I'll add a new setting to the next version where you'll be able to define the position of the trophies:)

Awesome :)

23 minutes ago, Joey_M said:

Has anyone got this working?

Mine suddenly stopped working and in the past I gave up because Facebook just declined the permissions, I even had to open a ticket with support and I followed their steps and nothing.

If you don't have permissions approved from fb (which I believe is almost impossible), you need to put your app in development mode and it will work. However, in this case the FB login won't work. Win some, lose some.

Is there any way to push the trophies and medals on the top of the postbit, above the other custom profile fields? I want to move the Brasil medal right below the content counter:

Ok, final note from me. 

If the app is in dev mode - then you can promote to your fb page perfectly fine. But your fb logins won't be working. 

If the app is online - your logins will work, but you need to be approved to promote to fb page. And by checking others comments, approval is kinda impossible. 

So either one or the other, you can't have both. 

53 minutes ago, jair101 said:

So basically we cannot setup promotion to facebook anymore, is that correct?

Quoting myself as I did some digging. Indeed, you shouldn't need to submit for review if you are going to promote through your admin profile - this is something that is confusing many people, but IPS still have not clarified that in the ACP or in a help guide, you can only find it in random posts here and there. 

Second thing, which I wasn't aware of - you need your app in development mode for it to work, you should do it either before you go live with your fb integration or temporarily put it back in dev. 

I will list the steps to perform.

1. Follow the guide here, make sure the login works and your admin profil is synced: 

2. If you followed the guide literally, then your app is live. Put it back in dev mode. 

3. Go in the promotion settings in FB and click "Grant Facebook Permissions"

4. Follow the dialog, click ok and don't bother submitting anything to facebook. You will see in ACP that you have now the options to select on which page to promote, default hashtag, etc. 

Click Save and that should be it! Sort of... It appears to work, but the promoting fails:

If someone managed to promote content in 4.3, please advise. I will submit ticket to IPS tomorrow. 

So basically we cannot setup promotion to facebook anymore, is that correct?

I am also affected by the misalignment and it is definitely related to the two lines below the thumbnail. Sometimes you can have long usernames, they push the number of views on second line and this is not always handled correctly. Weird thing is...it is not a problem all the time, but only sometime. Here is an example of two lines working correctly and incorrectly:

When I reduce the length of the username in the "Incorrect" video, all remaining videos nicely snap together:

Mike, feel free to inspect it on my site: https://magelanci.com/videos/

I think I have suggested similar thing before, but here it goes again. Please make the trophy/medals clickable in postbit. Possible link destinations:

- description what this trophy/medal is all about
- list of members that have the same trophy

I actually prefer the second one, the first one can be done with popup on mouse over. 

Anyway, it will be great if we can interact with trophies in postbit, instead of just seeing static images/icons ?

10 hours ago, Fosters said:

No sorry, we're not going to enhance it further, but it's going to be possible with our own new system coming with 2.0 ?

I don't want to derail the topic, but I am very much interested in the new system since you posted that screenshot earlier ? Will it be just for the trophies app or it will be more flexible and can work with other core and 3rd party apps?

Earlier I had suggested the idea to implement Emojis as trophies/medals. Is this something that might take a lot of time and effort? Sorry, don't want to be one of those nagging guys, but I am about to create probably 60-70 trophies using emoji icons that I am going to award to 200-300 members and I'd rather use the built-in then resizing PNGs ? If you plan this feature soon I'll wait, if not, I'll start processing the image files today ?

Also, any possibility to expand the automation rules integration? At the very least the following is necessary I believe:

Event: trophy/medal is awarded, trophy/medal is deleted
Condition: has a trophy/medal?, does not have a trophy/medal?

Also is it possible to display just the members profile picture like in my screenshot above? Or they are always shown with names and groups?

Edit - I did it with css.

Still, a bit disappointing that we lost quite a few settings. 

Hi Taman, 

I am trying to replicate the old plugin layout with the app and I am facing two issues. 

1. Is it possible to use the compact block for facebook?

With the plugin it used to be like that:

Now with the app it is:

2. Is it possible to use two block one above the other? In the plugin I could add About us and Members below each other:

Now it looks like there could be only a single block in a column per row...

Hi @TAMAN,

Sorry that I am not following this topic in details. Can you advise the best way to upgrade now that this is an app, but with preserving the previous settings? Do I need to delete the old plugin and create all blocks from scratch?

Your best bet is to try it and see if it works ans report here. Thats my plan at least. The app has been poorly supported for a while, which is a shame as it is one of the more expensive ones on the marketplace. At least there are no renewal fees.