Phil Këvin

12 hours ago, Morrigan said:

But again, you are assuming every community is looking for the same experience (including the users experience).

If someone is running a tech forum, for example, its unlikely that they are going to need walkthroughs of all of the items on the site. On a site that is selling something they aren't going to want a walkthrough, they are going to want something that displays the individual traits of their product or their support (depending on what they are running), I run a site about community and writing so I don't need either of those things, I know other people run news sites and music sites and roleplay sites. There is no one size fits all answer like what I think you're seeking out here.

What you are looking for is guides, something that you can create FOR your users to improve the experience on YOUR site. Its really easy to do in a pages database. My site doesn't look like a default IPS site, in fact I move even more than the standard around for personal consistency where I believe MY users are looking for information because I know MY audience.

You can't expect IPS to know YOUR audience and build a default page that answers YOUR audiences questions. YOU know YOUR audience so YOU should build that information for them. I know MY audience so I built that information for them.

I get it, and that's why you have to see this as a simple suggestion. I know that there are different types of community and each owner manages it as they see fit or best for their community, I am not asking everyone to like this idea and therefore should accept it. Only due to the large number of users that I have and requests that them make, I am suggesting that a nice home page be implemented to guide the user to have a better experience within the community.
Since visually the user could be overwhelmed with so much information from the home page and would not know where to start.

If I don't explain me well I'm sorry, my English is not good.

@Morrigan

Obviously everyone has different tastes, but unlike some I put myself in the shoes of a common user who is entering a site with a wide variety of content.
I do not think about my tastes, I think about what my users ask for and I want to offer them a solution to this.

In a few words this would be, the tastes of you vs the comfort of the users. If this is the case, I prefer the comfort of the users.

37 minutes ago, opentype said:

Okay, no content feeds. Got it. 

I still don’t get it. You mean like static text describing the sections? You are being very vague. “necessary information”, “what he really needs” could mean anything.
And what is stopping you from doing these things right now with Pages?
Again, you can set a custom homepage and you can put what you want on it. If that is lacking somehow, you would need to tell IPS what you need on top of the current features. 

P.S. Some more styling options for blocks are coming soon: https://invisioncommunity.com/news/product-updates/45-page-builder-widgets-r1196/

It can be simply a small introduction to the forum in general, as well as Downloads, Clubs, Gallery, etc. Below the page we can leave details what you can find or achieve in each of these areas. Details with images plus a "See More" or "Know More" button.

Now if we go a little further we can do the following:

• Description of some parent categories of the forums, Downloads, etc may be one of the most popular categories. That is, show on the home page the areas that are most visited or popular, which will also have a brief description of what you can find in these spaces.
• What you can achieve by moving up in rank,
• Categories that we can unlock
• Show some basic rules of the site for the user to take into account before starting.

Of course, we can put more information but this will already depend on each site and what it has to offer.

In the end it would be like a simple page with good design that has details of each area of the site. Is this possible with the page creation tool?

33 minutes ago, opentype said:

It’s IPS corporate homepage for selling their product—it has little to do with a community homepage for users of the community software. 

Not necessarily, you can replace that information to guide the user. Similarly, replace the icons or images.

33 minutes ago, opentype said:

You can set any app you want as homepage. As mentioned before, you can set a Pages page and you can fully control what’s on it. 

The tools we have are limited and we cannot do much.
For example, when creating a page I can put the latest topics from all categories of the forum. In the same way, place "last files" in the Downloads area, following this example the same would be done with other areas such as: Blogs, Clubs, etc.
So far so good, the problem is when a community is large and every day there are many topics started in the forums, Downloads, Blogs, Clubs, etc.

On the home page that we have created it would show only 5 topics from all the forum categories, of course, we can also divide the sidebars, so that it shows the topics from a specific category, but that would take up too much space and an overload on the "home page "also taking into account that the forums have many categories.
So, it would be unnecessary to have a page that shows 5 topics from each area, forums, downloads, blogs, clubs, etc., because every 5 minutes it would be updated with new content, and it would be very difficult to appreciate the topics that interest me from the "home page "The only thing we would achieve would be to overwhelm the user by having too many sidebars, plugins or some application that we use to display the content of the site.

So the best thing would be to show a nice design from the "home page" to show what is necessary in each area with a short description to guide the user and show him what he really needs or wants to know. We would also achieve better SEO and page load.

13 minutes ago, opentype said:

But what are the necessary information?

They already have a system in place for a custom homepage. You can use the Pages app, create an empty page with it and set it as homepage. 
Then you can add widgets with feeds from areas that are important on your site (“latest topics", “latest articles”…) as well as static information. Even group based content, like a widget just for guests. 

Hello,

A great example of a "real home page" is the one with "invisioncommunity.com", starting from this point, it would be great to have a similar home page.

By default, IPS displays forums which have too much information, category, sub-category, etc. (Categories that deal with different topics.)
I have received comments from many users who barely review 10% of the site and that there is so much information that they do not know where to start, they are lost. (My IPS site is normal like any other).

Due to the large number of topics started in the forums of the different categories, we have the "downloads" area that every day there is new content, and this we add blogs, clubs and other custom areas ends up overwhelming the user.

So my humble suggestion to add a nice default home page.

Regards!

Hello,

Today new users do not see all or 50% of the page. Too much information overwhelms the user and therefore they end up leaving the site in a few minutes or seconds.
It is recommended to have a "Home Page" with the necessary information of all the areas of the site, in addition to a short description.

A great example of a real home page is the one with "invisioncommunity.com".
I would like to suggest that you please add a default page with the necessary information for all sections.

Best Regards!

@Nathan Explosion

Hello,

Does it still work in the latest IPS version?

Regards!

Did I get the following error message for overpayment?

"The merchant received the payment, but the amount it received was greater than requested. Contact the merchant using the following order code to continue:
W7MEBCAF"

The strange thing is that I have received the payment and it is reflected in my coinbase panel.

Due to this inconvenience, the user who made this payment could not receive the subscription.

10 minutes ago, Fosters said:

Removing works fine for me. Have you probably changed something else ? Do you see any JS errors once you remove the bookmark  ?

 

This is already possible in combination with 

 

and about this button +Favorites? i want add an icon for this option

How can add an icon for Bookmark and at the top. ? any guide please.

Regards!

5 hours ago, Fosters said:

Like?:)

Tab sub-category
Sub-category with Tab icons
Open/Close count tab
and especially those design details, they are very subtle and look great.

Example: https://github.com/jwplayer/web-player-demos/issues

Regards!

On 2/23/2020 at 10:20 AM, Fosters said:

implemented for next release:)

I am interested, but I see very few updates. It would be great if you gave more priority to this project.

By the way, can you take some ideas from github.com?

Best Regards!

Since I see little interest, How much would development cost for this plugin?

Best Regards!

Hello,

Does this plugin still work on the latest IPS version?

Hello,

I have a large community and all day there are new topics, updates, etc. The default IPS blocks take up too much space, because it includes:
Author Name, Description, Category Name, Start Date, Response Counter.
If we remove all these characteristics then it would take up less space, which would only show the titles of the topics and prefix, remaining in this way, example:

Most users only read the title of the topics and only interact with some if they find it interesting, which is why I see unnecessary the other features mentioned above.

We can use this same model for the "Downloads, Articles, etc" areas.

It would be great if someone took this project that I am sure will help those websites with a large number of users.

Best Regards!

Hello,

I just bought it, the truth is very useful although the design is very simple. It would be great if you worked more on the design, the details are also important. Especially in the part, "Recent Topics"

Regards!

Hello!
I would like to suggest adding a new payment method for IPS, Paymentwall.
A few months ago the official website 'paymentwall' developed an application for IPS but unfortunately there were no new updates for the latest version 4.4.

Would you be kind to give continuity to this new payment method?

It is open source.

Paymentwall IPS: https://www.paymentwall.com/es/documentation/IP-Board/1760

Paymentwall IPS Github: https://github.com/paymentwall/module-ipboard

Best Regards!

I am also interested in this topic. The WebP format is becoming popular.

Regards!

Question before buying:

Can you make it show on the avatar within the topics in the forum?

for a example

Regards!

On 12/21/2019 at 3:21 PM, OctoDev said:

Is the payment getting marked as paid if not have you setup the callback in Coinbase?

I think I have it configured correctly:

When the user makes the payment and reaches my wallet on 'coinpayments', the invoice is still pending and this does not change for several minutes or hours.

This problem affects subscription plans and also products.

Regards!

When the user makes the payment to obtain a monthly subscription with BTC, the user does not receive the subscription.