Charles

Monetizing the Achievements system is something we plan to look into. As you might imagine, turning community engagement into something equivalent to money is an area you have to be very careful with so we decided not to do it for the first iteration of Achievements.

Hey team, I’d love for you to give a warm welcome to Invision Community’s new developer, @Matt Finger
You want some sweet sweet Achievements addons? Then be extra nice to him 😉  
So you can get to know Matt F better, I held a mini-interview with the 20-year-old developing prodigy. I said what I said. 
When he’s not coding, he’s cooking, fixing things (like cars, bikes, electronics, etc) and reading up on science, physics and philosophy. 
After asking him about his hobbies, I cut to the chase and asked him about his passion for coding and a few of his past experiences with it. He flexed his knowledge of philosophy right away. 

🤯🤯🤯

He continued: “That being said, we're faced with the question of, 'how to improve upon one's ability to reason?' We improve upon our ability to reason the same way we can get better at most things: do it over and over again while challenging yourself more and more each time. And in the case of our ability to reason, problem solving and solution finding is, in my experience, the best way to challenge our ability to reason, therefore making it most conducive to increasing said ability to reason, in turn allowing ourselves to achieve our true potential. And software development persistently presents new problems to solve and solutions to find a great way to flex our brains and get better at reasoning.”
“So to sum up, to me, developing is more than writing code, it's more than solving problems. It's a way to achieve my true potential as a human being.”
“Plus it's fun.”
Welcome to the fam, Matt F!
Please drop a line in the comments and spread the good vibes 😎 

We added bug tracker for reporting 4.6 alpha issues on our site here: https://invisioncommunity.com/4bugtrack/

We added bug tracker for reporting 4.6 alpha issues on our site here: https://invisioncommunity.com/4bugtrack/

We added bug tracker for reporting 4.6 alpha issues on our site here: https://invisioncommunity.com/4bugtrack/

Monetizing the Achievements system is something we plan to look into. As you might imagine, turning community engagement into something equivalent to money is an area you have to be very careful with so we decided not to do it for the first iteration of Achievements.

For the record: I have minimal emotions.

+sad 

+sad 

For the record: I have minimal emotions.

For the record: I have minimal emotions.

For the record: I have minimal emotions.

For the record: I have minimal emotions.

In 2021 I would really suggest you use S3 for this over database storage. Storing images in the database is a holdover from days past and is something I think we should remove in a future version. You are trying to make MySQL do something it is not really designed to do but, 20 years ago, better solutions like S3 did not exist.

Sometimes people use big graphics like GIFs too. I do not for many such GIFs are cat-based and therefore evil.

Sometimes people use big graphics like GIFs too. I do not for many such GIFs are cat-based and therefore evil.

+sad 

@Giray is referring to the challenge questions. You are right though, we can make that a hidden input.

@Giray is referring to the challenge questions. You are right though, we can make that a hidden input.

Jordan wanted to make Achievements cloud-only but I said no.

Jordan wanted to make Achievements cloud-only but I said no.

In 4.5 we have the following security updates:
Improved password strength checks to detect password values set identically to the account username or email address and to consider them weak. Improved method of encrypting certain text. Improved AdminCP session handling, removing the session ID from URLs and introducing alternate CSRF protections. Improved email change process to invalidate any pending password reset requests. Fixed user not being prompted for two-factor authentication when signing in from a new device. Fixed an issue where it was possible to bypass the messenger recipient count limit. Fixed a niche issue where it was possible in certain configurations to view others profile field attachments on the registration page. Fixed a race condition issue where it was possible to artificially inflate or reduce a user's reputation score. Limited password inputs to 72 characters max to reduce the chance of a malicious user forcing unnecessary computationally expensive operations on the server. Fixed an issue where AdminCP sessions may be usable longer than expected if a community receives little activity. Fixes an XSS vulnerability when quoting posts and comments. This release also contains the patch from 4.5.4 that resolves a security issue with the Downloads REST API Then of course beyond security there are countless performance, usability, and capability improvements since 4.4.

We have cleanup tasks and the like but since it went down after your host migrated the DB I wonder if your host may have just needed to optimize the DB. MySQL sometimes does not release space until a table is optimized. I am just guessing though 🙂

Looks great. But now I can't stop looking at it. 

@Jordan Invision's favourite design improvement in 4.6