Simon Woods

Look at this screenshot, specifically at the breadcrumbs...  Home > Clubs > (club name) > Topics.  If it allowed multiple forums (or categories), where is that link at?  Why wouldn't it be 'forums', then the forum name, with "Topics" at the end?
If I were to make a bet on anything (which I'm not, I've learned not to do that when it comes to the IPS crew), it'd be that the forums integration enables one 'forum', where all topics are placed.  I believe allowing multiple (but not nesting) forums would be a great inclusion, but I'm doubtful that it's the case.
 
 
Edit:
Just took another look and it does allow multiple (as mentioned in the blog entry).  I think that implementation is rather smart, as it keeps it all as one menu, vs app/area > section > content, which can get a bit bloated.
 

Hi Joel,
1) Yes, I didn't see the point in restricting content where you do not have guest permission as you may want to "tease" your social media audience into signing up.
2) I'll sort that today. Rikki was still tweaking it yesterday.
3) I'll have a good think about this. My fear is that it'll then mean your Facebook page stops being a curated list of really interesting things and just becomes an RSS feed with no custom content, images and so on. This will harm your organic reach and turn off your social media audience. Perhaps I could look at a way to promote when you use a specific item tag, all good ideas to explore for future releases.
4) I am very familiar with Facebook marketing. I've learned a lot in my own time over the past year as I really am interested in this and I also manage a few Facebook pages for friends to learn more and experiment with what works and what does not. I have about a year's worth of experience and training that I can use to help our customers become successful. I realise this sounds like a Facebook advert that links to a landing page with a PayPal button to join my seminar, but it's true and the information will be free.
5) It's all in the templates, baby.
6) Actually, no. You need to think of the Our Picks page like you would a Facebook wall in that it will show to everyone (well, I guess you could at App > Module level turn off permissions). My feeling is that you may want to tease people, and only showing them what they can already see is restricting the feature. So it's up to you as the community manager to share to your entire community what you are comfortable sharing. My thought is that a truly private area like a moderators lounge, or Secret Lair is something you'll never really WANT to promote from.
When you are about to promote something without all permissions, you are informed:
7) Yeah, good idea we can do that.
8) When you re-promote an item, it will not add a new row, it will just bump up that item. If you have "Evergreen" content that you share regularly, you'd end up with hundreds of duplicate items hanging around. You are told when promoting when it was last shared. I guess we could keep a complete history of all the times it was shared if we feel that is useful information.

9) It's paginated. 25 per page, but I may increase that.

That's certainly possible. If I may suggest, though, that turning your Facebook page into an "RSS-like feed" is probably not the best approach, but you may have a good specific case for this.
I'm looking to create a few on best practises for Facebook and Twitter in terms of maximising organic reach, and to give guidance on what works and what does not.

Very happy to depend on ips platform, version 4.2 is way better I've ever imagined. Congratulations!
One suggestion for the future because I don't think it's implemented now. Now I depend on external services like hootsuite to easy promote some articles to my facebook/twitter page. It would be really helpful if there was an option to post an article from ip.pages automatically to fb/twitter, x minutes after it's been posted in the frontpage.

I knew there would be new developments in 4.2, but I never anticipated that something like this would come about which fits so precisely - PRECISELY with what I have wanted for tutoring clients - spaces which constellate all the other apps and that can be custom-tailored for my clients with complete control over visibility and privacy.
Obviously the product of a lot of work and consideration, and I am truly looking forward to using this on my site.  Awesome!
 

This feature alone just ensured that I renew my license.
I've needed this so bad!

Ok. with the introduction of Clubs is time to come back to IPS. Renewing...

All this and guides too. Awesome.

As Charles said, once we gauge interest, we can look at other social networks. I wrote the system to allow you to drop in a new class and it can then be used.
Great feature suggestion. Right now it's locked to one Facebook page and one Twitter account, but I like this idea for the future.

This is fantastic! Great job, guys!
Will we have the ability to post to multiple sources (such as multiple FaceBook Pages or Twitter accounts) or are we limited to one page per each social media service?
Some of our content is relevant to our other communities, so it would be helpful to cross-promote.

They are embedded in the feature too. You have to use my photo. ?

Sometimes development isn't about creating something nobody has ever seen, but rather improving on existing concepts and providing a robust, built-in solution.

Charles is clearly The Glorious Leader.

My staff members are currently very excited.

Charles is clearly The Glorious Leader.

What a superb implementation of social groups. Clearly a lot of thought has gone into this. You promised member engagement and you are delivering. Nice work IPS, it looks great!

I have a lot of long running threads for essentially what are ad hoc clubs members have created - things like sports fantasy pools, etc. 
this will be a great way to organize all that. 

We've still got some great stuff to announce, but Clubs is definitely my favourite 4.2 feature - glad you like it too  

Yes  

Year, not years. Facebook rolled that out in 2016. 
Vanilla has it much longer, but I never liked their implementation. 

You know, you could actually read the article and not just look at the pictures.  It explains it. 

Great Scott! Future is coming.

Who would have thought that the "Reactions" would get such a great reaction?

Confirmed: algorithmic site management coming to IPS. Humans no longer trusted with making decisions.

Confirmed: algorithmic site management coming to IPS. Humans no longer trusted with making decisions.