shahed

Hi,
This plugin currently under some updates to add some new features, like color options, custom links in main area and also change the way of work, about those additional links. currently (in Dev) is looks like this, which is identical to links in the main area in term of style, but a bit bigger. Not sure how exactly you want their shape/size, but suggestions are appreciated.

No, it is not automatic. but yes, almost all of my resources are compatible even by current versions with IPS 4.7...
Nonetheless, I have recently submitted updated versions/marked as compatible of all of my resources, and they are awaiting for approval. Including Mobile Navigation.

IPS 4.7 is not officially released yet and it is in beta. my resources, including Mobile Navigation will receive compatibility update afterward.

Hi,
IPS 4.7 is still in beta. Countdown among my other resources, will receive compatibility update after 4.7 stable release.
 
No.

Hi,
Please add time and date to Versions table (plugin/app)
Happened to me several time that I wanted to know exactly when i submitted specific version. display them in table can really prove to be useful.

I'm really glad with all new features, but this new renewal pricing give me a serious pause here. sure there were discussions and decisions about this, but I really hoped Invision at least take developers to account on this. in a few month I have to renew my license with almost empty marketplace credit. no heads up no nothing, just pay renewal by year with this kind of price ups. I may decide not to renew for awhile, or remove some apps from my license and discontinue many of my resources in marketplace. my plan was to expand, create more resources, themes ... and not this. can IPS come up with better solutions for this?

Hello,
Good idea, will be add in 1.0.3 👍

Happy Hump Day, team! 
We have a blog post on the way that highlights some cool metrics from 2021.
I wanted to give a few of them a mention here before the blog post goes live!

Shout-out to all of our Marketplace contributors! It's been really fun to see the new submissions roll in throughout the year. Thank you so much for all your hard work and creativity. It's greatly appreciated! Here are the top submitters: 
 
@Nathan Explosion @Michael.J @Miss_B @IBTheme @Kirill Gromov @ReyDev @Adriano Faria @shahed 
 

 
 
Here is a list of members who earned the most badges in the community 😃. Nicely done! 
 
@CoffeeCake @TAMAN @opentype @PPlanet @SUBRTX @Sonya* @Afrodude
 

 
There's more to come! Keep an eye out for that end-of-year blog post out soon.
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As always, here's a roundup of updates and fixes performed by our developers in the last week. 💪 
- Fixed an issue where copying an achievement rule wouldn't copy the additional language strings.
- Fixed an incorrect css variable (--dialog--boxSHadow).
- Fixed the broken link to status replies and comments inside the similar content widget.
- Improved security for iframe embedding.
- Fixed sub-sub menu items showing in the wrong location when viewing the menu on mobile.
- Implemented the banned IP addresses check for PBR content.
- Fixed an issue where personal messages were incorrectly awarded points.
- Fixed an issue where Tax wasn't shown in the subscription upgrade charge.
- Fixed the duplicate rel attribute in the Twitter share widget.
- The member_edited webhook will now only be fired if there are any data in the changes parameter. 
- Fixed the customer page throwing an error if an application that implements a package type is uninstalled.
- Fixed an issue where streams limited by tags did not show any results when using Elastic Search.
Whatcha think? Drop us a line in the comments. We'd love to hear from you!

Hi,
Yes to all three. but just like @Sonya* pointed out, Legend News is just a set of templates for using in IPS Pages app and this app is required for using Legend News. as you can see in demo, in Pages app you can set up Database with Legend News templates and all the permissions for view, add article, send comments etc per user group, create categories and their own permission settings.

This is not a module or app. This is just a set of Templates for Pages. You can set any permissions on your database and even single categories in Pages.

Replace last CSS class with this. will be permanently fix in next version.
@media screen and (max-width: 767px) { .MVNC_postStyle_meta .ipsType_reset.ipsResponsive_hidePhone { display: block !important; position: absolute; left: 20px; } .MVN_postStyle_userInfo3 .ipsResponsive_hidePhone.ipsType_break { display: block !important; } }  

I want to thank you all for your feedback. I appreciate everyone who took the time to leave their thoughts and concerns. I've read every single one and replied to almost all of them.
Firstly, I want to say that I understand that the messaging that went out ahead of this update fell short of what you deserve, and I want to apologise for that.
After spending two days reading every single post, almost all concerns fall into these three areas:
1) The future of support
I've seen many people use the phrase 'no more support', which isn't true. I know the change from ticket support to staffed community support is a significant change, but I genuinely believe that it will benefit customers. I believe that we can create a living knowledge base of solved issues just like many brands do. For example, when I have a problem with my iPhone, I google it and invariably end up with a link to a topic within their support forums with a solved answer. I don't need to raise a ticket with them and wait for a reply.
There are many "what about" concerns mixed in, and I ask you to try the new staffed community support areas and give us your feedback once you've used it regularly. We will work with you based on that feedback and make improvements where it is needed.
We have custom functionality that shows our team links to your client accounts, including license keys, etc., so we know who you are and have all your information right next to the topic. You will never need to divulge personal information, or even your site URL if you do not want to.
If your support issue is complex or needs developer intervention, with a click of a button, our technicians can convert this into a ticket for you and we will continue to resolve the issue with you in that ticket.
You will be in safe hands.
2) Price Rises
We have not raised our prices for well over a decade. We've always been reluctant to do it and held off for too long, resulting in a large jump to make up for a lost time.
We can't reduce the prices to their pre-September levels, but we will be much more mindful of price rises in the future.
3) Annual Renewals
We want to simplify billing and reduce the number of invoices we need to send, and you need to pay. An annual invoice seemed logical to achieve this.
However, you have made it clear that moving to annual renewals affects your budgeting, and we have listened to that.
We have reverted this decision and have restored 6-month renewals in your client area. This is not a temporary one-off offer; it's a permanent change.
Again, I want to thank you all for being so vocal and passionate about Invision Community. We want to keep offering you the very best community platform to help your communities succeed.

Not my case. This is my only source of income for a couple of years or so (yes, I’m not crazy to have 200 resources for nothing) but honestly, this is becoming a pain more and more at every “new thing” IPS does.
IPS don’t listen. Just read. Try to justify things and that’s it. Nothing will change.
So for the rest (of us) stop wasting your time debating here. That’s how it will be from now on. 

Oh but you are forcing me out because in one fell swoop you have taken what was affordable to unaffordable.  Instead of making excuses for the rest of the team (who are noticeable by their absence in this discussion) and just admit you all read the potential outcome wrongly and actually do something positive to mitigate the appalling mess that this huge error has caused (possibly damaging the reputation of IPS irreversibly), instead you are attempting to defend the indefensible.   
When I was running my own website development business (for 20 years until I retired last year) I wanted to be the cheapest so I could gain business from potential competitors, but I never lowered standards and had hundreds of highly satisfied clients over that period of time.  When one of them asked me why I was so cheap compared to the rest my reply was two-fold:
1. I wanted their business so I offered them lower prices than my competitors
2. I wanted to be the best that I could be so that they would be happy with my endeavours and recommend me
I also pointed out that 'something is better than nothing' if I wanted to pay my bills and live a comfortable life. Without that philosophy of giving good value for money I would not have survived for the 20 years I did and I gained clients who would otherwise have moved on and not had what they could afford.
Cheap doesn't always equate to being crap, and expensive doesn't always equate to being great, or even the best.
I often use this tactic when I negotiate with utilities and I ask them "would you rather have something, or nothing". When you're dealing with your clients you have to understand the affordability equation and if you price yourself out of a market that has sustained you throughout the early years, then it's understandable that you will lose them.
You really should consider giving your clients some breathing room and not lumber them with a lump sum they had no time to plan for or even decide whether it was affordable or not.  We all realise that prices rise, but your team decided not to implement yearly rises for a decade, and you survived and grew, but now it's all OK to just make sweeping changes without warning and you expect everything to be rosy and everyone will be happy campers.
IPS made a huge blunder by leaving price increases for ten years or more and then just hit everyone out of the blue with patronising PR babble as a defence.  You need to negotiate with your clients, not dictate.
I've waded through the years of complaints railed against IPS for some blunders made in the past, this is not the first toxic topic, but man it has quickly become the one to beat.
 

@Matt When you break down a large amount into a monthly amount and base it on the lowest denominator, it looks trivial, but we're not talking about a monthly payment.  To just drop this onto everyone without so much as mention is really bad karma. You just need to look at this topic and realise how toxic it is and there is no remorse, just excuses and rubbishy PR talk. Sorry mate, it just doesn't make sense and it doesn't sit well with your clients and that is something you need to address quickly before the floodgates open.  I really don't like have to post these replies and I don't like being forced out of the door after such a long time, but if that is the intent and there is no relenting then out of the door I will go, with great sadness.  The one solace is that there are alternatives out there that are more affordable.

I'm really glad with all new features, but this new renewal pricing give me a serious pause here. sure there were discussions and decisions about this, but I really hoped Invision at least take developers to account on this. in a few month I have to renew my license with almost empty marketplace credit. no heads up no nothing, just pay renewal by year with this kind of price ups. I may decide not to renew for awhile, or remove some apps from my license and discontinue many of my resources in marketplace. my plan was to expand, create more resources, themes ... and not this. can IPS come up with better solutions for this?

I'm really glad with all new features, but this new renewal pricing give me a serious pause here. sure there were discussions and decisions about this, but I really hoped Invision at least take developers to account on this. in a few month I have to renew my license with almost empty marketplace credit. no heads up no nothing, just pay renewal by year with this kind of price ups. I may decide not to renew for awhile, or remove some apps from my license and discontinue many of my resources in marketplace. my plan was to expand, create more resources, themes ... and not this. can IPS come up with better solutions for this?

I'm really glad with all new features, but this new renewal pricing give me a serious pause here. sure there were discussions and decisions about this, but I really hoped Invision at least take developers to account on this. in a few month I have to renew my license with almost empty marketplace credit. no heads up no nothing, just pay renewal by year with this kind of price ups. I may decide not to renew for awhile, or remove some apps from my license and discontinue many of my resources in marketplace. my plan was to expand, create more resources, themes ... and not this. can IPS come up with better solutions for this?

I'm really glad with all new features, but this new renewal pricing give me a serious pause here. sure there were discussions and decisions about this, but I really hoped Invision at least take developers to account on this. in a few month I have to renew my license with almost empty marketplace credit. no heads up no nothing, just pay renewal by year with this kind of price ups. I may decide not to renew for awhile, or remove some apps from my license and discontinue many of my resources in marketplace. my plan was to expand, create more resources, themes ... and not this. can IPS come up with better solutions for this?

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. 
 
 

It looks like a page made up with blocks that are defined with either a tag or custom field.
The category for example is just tiles with the first tile being different:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world
Below you have your blocks again.
This is something you can build on your own, if you feel comfortable doing that.
 
In the marketplace, you can find several blocks and templates for Pages that you can use as a starting point.
Some examples:
 

@shahed I installed the latest version and everything is working splendidly - thank you!
Great plugin!

Hahaha 😀 that is very nice of you my friend.
But you're not wrong. working on all of this really is not all about countdown plugin, and it is very well should be done in a different plugin/application. my suggestion is put all of these idea together and post it in Request forum.

I see. thanks for clarification. what you want is actually tricky, and not sure it's even possible, considering widgets can be edit only when Block Manager is open and that section are only accessible to admin/moderator. so again can't promises anything but let me see what I can do.

Issues have been resolved. Thanks!