SammyS

Does this work only for default theme?

3 hours ago, alphamale said:

@CoffeeCake Yeah lots to learn then. 
 

Think I’m going to learn html then css then JavaScript. Get fluent in front end and then tackle the back end. 
 

HTML --> CSS --> PHP (easier for beginners). Js is hell: tackle it after you learned php so you´re more confident.

35 minutes ago, Maxxius said:

@kmk do you think might be used as an alternative for commerce?

 

It's developer is dead so not an option 

1 hour ago, Adriano Faria said:

So far:

• Added support to Blogs
• Added support to Raffles System
• Added support to Tutorials
• Added support to Links Directory
• Added support to Quizzes
• Added support to Staff Applications System
• Added support to Movies

I guess it's enough for the new version. I can add more in a future version.

You´re great, man. I was really worry about jackal´s departure but knowing that a top programmer like you is taking over his stuff is reassuring. I´ll be buying this and other apps next month

19 minutes ago, Steph40 said:

Looking to buy this but I am in 4.5

is it compatible?

No. Almost 10 months with no updating, not a very reliable stuff. 

Some years ago (2018) there was a lms app, coded by Adriano. There was almost no sales. 

3 minutes ago, modman said:

Every day that advances I see Ip.Board and its plugins more and more forgotten by developers.

Dozens and dozens of bugs that are not fixed and projects to create new functions that no one answers or answer after 2 months...

I foresee a dark future for this community and I am very sorry about that.

Something changed during last year, after 4.5 was released. I dont know why

53 minutes ago, Sonya* said:

It is not true for all projects. I have some communities where people are BECAUSE they do not want to use their real names. Think of medical content, psychological and other vulnerable issues that people do not eager to share with the whole world. 

I agree on this. In fact Im working on a new project: a community for investors and entrepreneurs and I wont require real names because these people wants privacy to relax and share experiences, ideas, problems, etc. Less privacy = less content. But I showed invision to some of my partners and they begged me to use only discord. They see forum UI as really old and over complicated. 

There are priorities, as resources are scarse. I´d prefer invision fellas to expend their valuable time trying to improve UI, mobile UX rather than creating something already exists and will demand lot more of bugs fixes and support. My 2 cents : )

5 hours ago, Sonya* said:

 

I would not say "SM crushing forums", I would say "search engines crushing forums". Many people do not really know there are other possibilities than SM or content sites

Really?
I see all the people I meet in forums no using them anymore since many years ago. All of them are now on SM. And you now what? all of them now create better content tha before because they cant hide behind an username, they have to use their real name.
Search engines penalices forums for their low quality content. 
We should drop that elitist way of thinking that "people using SM are retarded, all the good people use forums". That may be conforting but simply no true.
We should learn from them in terms of simplicity, UI design.
Reading some books is a nice way to start: "contagious. Why things catch on" and "hooked: how to build habit-forming products" are masterpieces and can really help to be a better admin
 

You guys receives a lot of feedback from others admins.
People likes histories about success. I´d love to read, for example, how some guys used Clubs to create microcommunities... Thats kind of things are inspiring as well as informative

4 hours ago, Joel R said:

Actually, forums have been "paying" people for posting since the beginning of time.  

We pay them in badges, in ranks, in pips, in titles, in signatures, in special permissions, in upgraded membergroups, in crazy formatting and styling.  We've been paying and paying since forums have been around.

So, forums "pays". I agree with you. But SM doesn´t, thats the reality. And I see SM crushing forums, so may be we should learn from them. I´ve never seen people complaining because FB, TW, doesnt give them badges, ranks, titles... and that´s because people doesn´t care about them. They want a clean, modern interface. Filling their screens with medals, badges looks really old and annoying. They dont want to see badges, or how many posts, or likes, has a member every time they read a comment. 
Maybe Im wrong, but that´s my opinion, we all are trying to learn here and be better admins for the good of ours comunities so I like to read yours opinions even if we dont agree.


 

4 minutes ago, Jordan Invision said:

Interesting perspetive. 

On my forum, members can earn a subscription (which gives them perks and an ad-free experience) by earning points. Points are earned by commenting and posting topics. I do find that that does incentivizes people. 

Also there's this blogging platform called Medium.com. They are a subscription only platform (you can read a few articles for free each month). Their business model works like this: publishers (people who post stories there) earn money by other subscribers reading their stories. Any time a subscriber reads a story, the publisher of that story gets a cut of the subscribers' monthly payment of $5. In other words, it does pay to post 🙂

Ey Jordan, congrats for your new job : )

Yeah, I know medium, Im a subscriber and I love it!

But:

1.- I think they´re not a community per se
2.- As you said, they pay you if many others subscribers read your stuff. They pay quality, not quantity. No views, no money

Maybe for some communities that works, and I'm ok with that, of course. In general I believe that the fewer mechanisms and functions a community has, the better the user experience.
Many administrators instead of concentrating their energies on creating a community, spend their priceless time adding and configuring a lot of useless stuff thinking the more things the forum has the better. I disagree

In the other hand, social media almost destroyed forums and they doesn´t use points. You dont build a community "paying" people for posting

Jackal´s Members Shop does the job quite good. I hope invision to keep pushing in what 3rd party providers cant do, like to improve the mobile app, UI, etc

38 minutes ago, Noble~ said:

will this one get the 4.5 Update?

x2
Hope this not to be abandoned. Lot of potencial here

Indeed! Although I hope it to be soon fully functional on invision mobile app 

8 hours ago, Fosters said:

You want a setting for each content type? Why? This would overcomplicated things so much:( I see people already asking why they can bookmark content item X but not Y.

Thanks for the other things. It's on the map. I've hired @ehren.

It works with every theme/design, you'll just need to adjust the template ( see instructions at the end of the post https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/8582-bookmarks-black-friday-deal-10-off/ ) 

 

Does it work on the mobile app? 

57 minutes ago, IndianaJoe said:

This isn't cool. Great job Invision, now you are breaking people's websites. 

Developer abandoned this app over one year ago. Thats not invision fault.

So we´re suffering huge competence from social media, apps, etc, and now this?
This will make invision lose costumers, no doubt about it. Now Xf is more and more appealing

I think they are solving bugs now.
After that surely will add some missing features to their app (ads, commerce and clubs, I hope).
Maybe 1, 1 1/2 year from now we´ll listen something about white apps.

3 hours ago, EmiTimE said:

hola conseguiste?

me interesa

Hola. No. Aunque estoy estudiando programación y en unos meses lo haré lo mismo 

A great idea

They could develop technical topics as well as admin/growth hacking for communities. Being so time around here they surely can share lots of knowledge about that

10 hours ago, Maxxius said:

 

Lets hope IPS 5 brings us such automation because I believe for such a complicated feature IPS should be behind the wheel.

I hope not.
Better they improve their mobile app (lacks ads, clubs, commerce) and UI

Maybe zapier integrations can be useful for you, I think

Well... al least dark mode is available on the mobile app : )