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Looks good for newbies, not very practical for seasoned community owners. What is exciting though is that the frequency of these updates is increasing, so 4.5 shouldn't be that far out 🙂

Looks good for newbies, not very practical for seasoned community owners. What is exciting though is that the frequency of these updates is increasing, so 4.5 shouldn't be that far out 🙂

Looks good for newbies, not very practical for seasoned community owners. What is exciting though is that the frequency of these updates is increasing, so 4.5 shouldn't be that far out 🙂

I am mainly interested in doing the internal automation for now. I.e. replacing the Rules app.

I am mainly interested in doing the internal automation for now. I.e. replacing the Rules app.

Finally! My heart literally skipped a beat, before I checked that it is only for cloud 🙂 Now I wonder if there is maybe a way that I start a cloud instance, call its rest api from my main community and work like that with zaps 🙂 There is no chance you are leaving it to be only cloud feature, right?

I am mainly interested in doing the internal automation for now. I.e. replacing the Rules app.

I am mainly interested in doing the internal automation for now. I.e. replacing the Rules app.

I am mainly interested in doing the internal automation for now. I.e. replacing the Rules app.

Finally! My heart literally skipped a beat, before I checked that it is only for cloud 🙂 Now I wonder if there is maybe a way that I start a cloud instance, call its rest api from my main community and work like that with zaps 🙂 There is no chance you are leaving it to be only cloud feature, right?

Yes, once the beta process has finished, we are looking to bring this to downloadable/on-premises licenses.

Please. This is the first thing that came to my mind while I was reading 🙂 Let us choose how many posts, images, etc. we like to include. 

I won't lie, it hasn't been easy 😕 
Being in the travel niche, my community is heavily hit and it was an enormous task to moderate travel related discussions (flights cancelled, borders closed, etc.) from the general, speculation ridden, chit-chat covid talk that pretty much goes everywhere (including here).
In the end I had to enable pre-approval for posts in the virus topic. First time in seven years since my community start, but I guess desperate time requires desperate measures. It helped a lot! Before that it was pretty chaotic with everyone posting their own theories, unproven links form the internet etc, we had to try to keep it on topic by hiding almost 50% of the posts at some point. It was not pretty and people got annoyed and alienated. After pre-approval was introduced almost all posts were strictly on topic, you can say that by starting the pre-approval the moderator workload dropped at least 90% and was confined to quick approval to most of the posts. 
But it is still challenging, because with travel shut we have almost nothing to talk about besides the virus, quarantine, etc. Instead of discussing upcoming travels, most active discussions are based on what we do at home, cooking recipes and the emotional toll of the blockade. 
What I did to brighten the spirits and it worked extremely well is to organize Zoom conferences, where one presenter shows pictures and talks about his recent travels. As most people are stuck at home it is a very nice way to socialize and at the same time take your mind away from the constant negative news bombing. We will try to do it on an at least bi-weekly basis, maybe increase the frequency even more.
I always avoided chats as they may steal content from the community, but now I am contemplating chat setup as well, it will at least give the people a reason to stick around until this is over. I am just afraid that if I start a chat it might be difficult to remove later and I definitely do not want a chat when the things are back to normal.
Might start a book club and netflix/hbo movie club as well, we'll see. 

Please. This is the first thing that came to my mind while I was reading 🙂 Let us choose how many posts, images, etc. we like to include. 

Everyone can have their own opinion and style how to run their community. In mine I have decided that I don't want polarizing topic like the one existing here. I don't think the sense of family is encouraged by such topics where people are bragging how many people have entered their ignore list.
Of course, different opinions are possible, I don't think there is a right or wrong way in this situation, it gets down to moderating style.

I won't lie, it hasn't been easy 😕 
Being in the travel niche, my community is heavily hit and it was an enormous task to moderate travel related discussions (flights cancelled, borders closed, etc.) from the general, speculation ridden, chit-chat covid talk that pretty much goes everywhere (including here).
In the end I had to enable pre-approval for posts in the virus topic. First time in seven years since my community start, but I guess desperate time requires desperate measures. It helped a lot! Before that it was pretty chaotic with everyone posting their own theories, unproven links form the internet etc, we had to try to keep it on topic by hiding almost 50% of the posts at some point. It was not pretty and people got annoyed and alienated. After pre-approval was introduced almost all posts were strictly on topic, you can say that by starting the pre-approval the moderator workload dropped at least 90% and was confined to quick approval to most of the posts. 
But it is still challenging, because with travel shut we have almost nothing to talk about besides the virus, quarantine, etc. Instead of discussing upcoming travels, most active discussions are based on what we do at home, cooking recipes and the emotional toll of the blockade. 
What I did to brighten the spirits and it worked extremely well is to organize Zoom conferences, where one presenter shows pictures and talks about his recent travels. As most people are stuck at home it is a very nice way to socialize and at the same time take your mind away from the constant negative news bombing. We will try to do it on an at least bi-weekly basis, maybe increase the frequency even more.
I always avoided chats as they may steal content from the community, but now I am contemplating chat setup as well, it will at least give the people a reason to stick around until this is over. I am just afraid that if I start a chat it might be difficult to remove later and I definitely do not want a chat when the things are back to normal.
Might start a book club and netflix/hbo movie club as well, we'll see. 

Did you dopplegang-ed Travolta just for this cameo? 🙂 

Please keep in mind that at some point GIPHY might decide that they don't want to pay for the traffic of hosting gifs for free and demand paying or your site will out of a sudden have all gifs broken. It has happened before with another service: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/4/15919224/photobucket-broken-images-amazon-ebay-etsy-paid-update
In my opinion, if you don't have the space for hosting the gifs yourself, then simply don't enable the option. 

It will work retroactively. 🙂 

Will it work retroactively or only for new stats from 4.5 onward?

I think its one of the features more geared towards enterprises - these are the clients that have stats and charts as priority. The average forum owner and his audience will use it mainly for amusement. 

I would appreciate if you can share some practical examples. I also feel that there are benefits from rss->zauper automation, but I cannot figure out a simple practical example 🙂

Maybe it is nice to be able to distinguish between the personal and stock photos. Small pixabay logo in the corner or caption, something like that. I think as a reader I would want to know if a photo in a thread is a stock one. 

Any possibility that existing members can be added as referrals, if both members confirm of course?   I do like the possibility to add incentives for bringing new members, but some of my users deserve recognition for the manual referrals they did already 🙂

Any possibility that existing members can be added as referrals, if both members confirm of course?   I do like the possibility to add incentives for bringing new members, but some of my users deserve recognition for the manual referrals they did already 🙂