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On 2/20/2024 at 7:27 AM, Mercury Forever said:

Will this feature ever be available for onprem installations?

We do not plan to change the package requirements.

52 minutes ago, Heavy Harmonies said:

I'm getting complaints from many of my board users about this. Some of them are encountering this CAPTCHA spam with EVERY single attempt to post.

Not good, guys.... not good.

We made a change a few hours ago to reduce the challenges. Are you still seeing people being prompted?

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22 hours ago, virap1 said:

Thank you @Randy Calvert. Yes, and they are doing a great job. My suggestion was to do a better planning based on their abilities and vision and better communicate those plans and roadmaps. Right now I am paying a solution (pages app) that has terrible presentation solution so I like many were relying on third party plugins to overcome that. My understanding is there is not going to be any plugins in v5, so where does that leave me and others who use the pages app? That is where a road map and communication would help to plan for the future.

Invision Community 5 is still several months away from a release. We will keep posting blog entries about its development over the coming weeks. Those entries will keep you informed.

7 hours ago, PanSevence said:

Unfortunately, it's a pity that you're not improving interactions. By this, I mean dynamically adding content in real-time, for instance, when a post is published, so that a user who is currently in the thread can immediately see the added post without refreshing, and such interactions in the inbox as well.

Actually it's not a pity seeing as we have that already and are making it better.

That could be true from an SQL perspective but... it's probably more performant to ask yourself why any community needs 100 subforums. Think about usability from a human perspective. 

AI and LLM and all that could be another good metric but community-based metrics are useful too. For example, someone may post a long-winded rant and I might reply "ok."

AI and such would see that as a useless reply. But, in context, a human would see it's a funny, sarcastic reply and it might get lots of likes or other engagement. So you need both AI and actual I working together to create useful data.

On 11/23/2023 at 3:01 PM, mountaininteractive said:

instead of focusing on what other forum sites do

Curious what sort of community features others do out of the box that you think we should include.

Two years later and people still don't know how to get back to the top of a web page on their devices? The Internet must be a confusing bottom-of-page place.

You might want to wait until v5 exists before giving feedback on it 😉 

Again, please see Matt and my post above. You’re still comparing things the wrong way. I explained it as package limits earlier. 

It is a common misconception that we are doing "cloud-exclusive features." Invision Community sells its services in various package levels like you will find in literally any other software or service you buy out there. We offer the following packages:

• Classic (self-hosted)
• Beginner
• Creator
• Creator Pro
• Team
• Business
• Enterprise

All of those packages offer different levels of features, support, service, and consulting. For example, our Courses feature is available on:

• Creator Pro
• Team
• Business
• Enterprise

As you can see, Courses is not a "cloud-exclusive feature" but it is exclusive to specific package levels. Another example might be AI based image moderation which is only available on Business and Enterprise packages.

So we are not drawing a line specifically between Classic (self-hosted) and other packages (cloud). There are many differentiators between all the package tiers which is a totally normal way that software and services are sold.

From media streaming to your mobile phone plan right down to your internet service, offering different package for people to choose from offers flexibility of choice in terms of both price and options.

Schrödinger's Redis. 

40 minutes ago, The Old Man said:

It's just the principle of having to backpay potentially up to 2 years to re-enable such a license that is somewhat unnerving

That’s not how it works. 

The catch ups only apply on the monthly option as it’s basically a finance for the yearly. With yearly there is no catch up. You can let a yearly renewal expire for say 6 months and then reactivate it later for the normal yearly.

The monthly option was put in place to make it more approachable but we’re considering removing it because of all this catch up hand wringing that people come with it. 

16 minutes ago, asd937 said:

Thank you for clarification.

but will the forum running with an expired license be still working?

Yes, it would keep working. Just keep in mind that you would be way out of date so it might be risky.

8 minutes ago, OsmanK said:

It's really good news to hear this from you personally. Hopefully, v5 has something in store for the developers as well.🫣

There's a LOT in v5: https://invisioncommunity.com/developers/devblog/

We do not really have any plans to add API-based AWS SES support but you can certainly use SMTP right now.

We have offered an on-demand Free Trial on our site for years 🙂 

Don’t get obsessed over things like compact mode 😀

These new modes are options and you can keep a traditional mode like we have now or experiment with new modes. It’s all just a toggle and you can mix and match to create endless customization possibilities. 

9 hours ago, Luis_angel said:

"but we will over time likely merge all our apps into a single entity. This is not going to happen with v5.0.0 though."

These means to move to cloud hosting only at some point?

That is not at all what that says. It says we will merge all the apps into one product.

When can we expect new blog entries about IPS5? 😙

I would guess in the next couple weeks. It's almost to the point we can show people things.

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54 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

It's a neighborhood HOA site.  The only allowed members live in this small community.  Are there other downsides to clocking all other countries?

You are trying to use spam prevention for access control which is not what it is design to do. You would be best doing this at a firewall or server level.