Robert Angle

Yes, bring back the "Hide" option. We never delete anything. It's more painful to Approve and then immediately Hide it. Plus, that action will often send notification emails to followers of that topic. We don't want any of that, but we don't want to delete the post either.

I've played around with 5.0 in my dev site (-testinstall). I'll be feeling pretty good, but then come here and read these threads and will get all scared to upgrade my main sites, lol.

IF your username and password is automatically filled in when you visit your site's login page, then it's probably saved in your browser. You can usually retrieve saved usernames and passwords in your browsers settings if you typically tell your browser to "save passwords".

Can I do a "TESTINSTALL" with Version 5 to familiarize myself with it before trying to implement it on my 2 active communities? I have a v4 test install in a hidden location. My thought would be to upgrade that first to see how things go.

Although, I always edit my templates so that the feed is on the left and the sidebar block are on the right. This is because if you clicked an email notification for a Status update, it took you to the profile, but on mobile view you had to scroll past all the blocks to get to the feed (I have a lot of blocks due to a lot of profile customizations). By flipping them, the Status update is at the top of the page. V5 gets rid of Status Updates though, so this may be a non-issue unless a super cool dev brings the feature back to life.

And I am looking forward to getting my hands on it 🙂

No way. Courses is a relatively newer feature for Invision (Cloud only). All of the worthwhile competition community services also offer courses. Expect to see this remain and probably tweaked and developed even more.

Amazing. Now the question remains... will there be anything left for theme creators? lol.

You just confused the snot out of me, @Joel R lol 😄 This would be horrible in any of my communities. The last thing I need is a new member making one "helpful" post, and suddenly being crowned an expert, and then the rest of the time they are crazy or off their meds posting all sorts of wild stuff. Community Experts would naturally be seasoned individuals with a pattern of helpfulness. I can think of who these individuals are on my communities already. Sounds like when certain metrics are met, the Admin or Staff is notified and then the person has to be invited. They can accept the offer to be a community expert or not (gleaned from the use of "opt-in", above).

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But don't all the other forum platforms pretty much behave in this manner also? I've never seen another software provider with a "Marketplace". They usually just have a forum developers announce/share their plugins and users comment on them. I imagine something like the current Marketplace Forum will remain here and simply be renamed. How does this change exactly? Developers could always charge what they want to. There have always been limited devs experienced with this platform. I can count mine so far.... 4

V5 has me excited. Can't wait for 2024 to get here now 🙂

This is true on my well-established, long running board. I've spoke to a lot of members who visit and go straight to the Unread Content section of the Activity Feed, bypassing everything else.

Go download them to your local PC

@Joel R is taking the lead in creating a central location where all devs can list their apps in an organized, marketplace-like, structure. I'm sure there will be still be a developers forum here where such apps can be announced and discussed as well, just like on every forum software providers site.

I hope you consider it in the future, even as an additional paid add-on.

This won't be a big deal. I'm assuming there will be a forum here where 3rd party apps will be introduced, discussed, and possibly even supported. You just have to go off-site to purchase and obtain them.

This means no more sexy lonely women using the Contact Us form, lol

This is worth noting, actually. I'm not a developer, but I think I remember seeing something about a non-compete clause with Marketplace submissions. For example, when it was announced Status Updates were going away, there was concern that current Marketplace rules would prevent a developer from creating a Status Updates application. Invision responded that they would alter the terms so such an app could be created. Well, here's the altered terms, lol. With no central Marketplace, developers can create anything they want, even if it does what the core software pretty much already does, but perhaps with a different enhancement or twist.

I would like to ask why the structure of the Invision Marketplace couldn't still exist here, but instead of financial transactions and downloads being handled by Invision, just remove the commerce aspect of it and just let it be a "Downloads" directory with hyperlinks back to the author's site. The author could still update the application or theme's description, changelog, and compatible versions here at Invision, and the client would still be able to shop around here where they feel comfortable, and if they find something in your [former] Marketplace, they click through to the authors personal site. Downloads allows for URL submissions as it is. Why not retain that directory of applications here? What Joel is proposing to do, you could set up in a short amount of time and then it would be almost on autopilot. An existing Invision directory would only increase exposure to the applications that 3rd party devs have created and sell.

So I just looked at the Provider Directory and visited their links. Some of them only do custom work. Some of them have some work to do on their sites. But your regular marketplace contributors like @opentype @Adriano Faria @Miss_B all have very well developed Marketplaces of their own on their respective sites. I could care less if I am getting a 3rd party app/plugin or theme from outside the marketplace, but it was nice to have a one stop shop to search for what's available. I was thinking of the exact same thing but you beat me to it. 😉

This has been our experience too. We enabled Clubs when it first came out. Initially there was a lot of buzz and several members created their own Clubs, but then it petered out. We disabled Club Forums from appearing on the main index page because with so many it ended up being a ton of clutter, so we feature them on a subsequent page and in sidebar blocks as well as with a prominent link in the masthead but by and large they are dead. We're in the process of removing the deadest of dead Clubs. When we see what is left, we're probably going to convert them to subforums and just turn the Clubs feature Off.