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rest api docs got nuked. If this is intentional, can you add all the response codes in the ACP documentation?

Is it possible to have the option to replace existing code instead of injecting before or after? Right now it doesn't seem possible to remove and move things around. Right now it doesn't seem possible to have a truly custom theme.

I'm not fully understanding the new theme editor. How do I modify the entire page without having to inject my code with pre-defined placements? My design is completely custom. I do not like IPS design personally. Am I missing where to access the raw template code?

Yeah I don't see developers sticking together on a single marketplace. We'll end up with at least a dozen off the jump so be mindful where you buy.

My go-to dev for anything and everything. I've never had an idea they weren't able to materialize. Their ability to understand without having to ask a million questions makes the process so much more enjoyable.

Would it make more sense to have this section unlocked for banned users so they can request PII or account deletion? That seems to be the primary audience for these services.

How would a banned user go about requesting PII?

Would be nice to include members in "everywhere" as well and not just content

@Matt That is a step in the right direction. Still doesn't take the burden off the price hike, but it certainly gives more people the option to only renew when they need to. So potential for money savings in the long term. I'd also recommend adding an option to make a thread in the support section "staff only" in case it contains sensitive information.

Sorry, but I find that very hard to believe. Then again, most of what has been said by IPS staff in this thread is pretty unrealistic. Moral of the story is, this is a tactical push to evolve completely into a SaaS service. Might even save you some time and money just to refund all of the self license purchases and get rid of it entirely. I'm pretty disappointed you haven't realized this was a huge mistake, and haven't taken steps to accommodate anyone you've blatantly hurt by these, I'll say it, malicious changes. It's clear this was not a "communication" issue, rather a stunt to prevent anyone from renewing prior to the price hike. It's also clear the changes to self hosting prices had nothing to do with betterment of the software, rather an excuse to push people to cloud hosting. It's also clear the reason for yearly renewals was to prevent customers from selectively renewing only when they actually need to. Not because "it would confuse customers." Yeah, confuse customers with the same model you've had for the past 10 years... We aren't that gullible. I'll stick around, but I'm not going to renew until there's drastic changes, and I'll avoid using the marketplace from now on and work directly with 3rd party developers to make sure they're being taken care of. I can't express enough how disappointed I am.

You have 27,256 active paying clients and only 15 staff (that we know of). Let's not pretend you're struggling here. Just for fun... Let's assume all 27,256 (All clients who have renewed in the past 6 months) are paying the lowest possible, self hosted, forum license only. $80 a year / 12 equals $6.66 a month x 27,256 equals $181,524.96 a month and $2,178.299.52 a year before expenses. Enough to give 21 employees a 6 figure salary a year. This of course is the lowest possible income for all current clients and assumes all of them only have a single license. I am pretty confident your income is twice, if not triple that.

I know I've contributed well enough to this thread, so I'll end on this note. You're very clearly out of touch with your customer base. If you think we're just going to "get over it" while you're mocking us by advertising cloud hosting, you're mistaken. You're going to lose the majority of clients that kept the marketplace alive, and following that the developers you've repeatedly hurt by your radical changes to the marketplace over the last several months. I hope it was worth it. </end rant>

The people who paid hundreds of dollars to be self hosted?

I don't get it. Those of us who are self hosted are self hosted for a reason. We don't need you to "manage the internals." We want to host in our own, secured environment, that we have 100% total control of. Not create an external point of failure subject to downtime and potential for compromises. Sure, all of the shortcomings of cloud hosting could happen to self hosting, but I'd rather go out in my own terms. 😉 You're advertising to the wrong crowd. If we wanted cloud hosting, we wouldn't have chose IPS.

Clarification: We're going to make self hosting licenses so inconvenient to make cloud hosting more appealing. Scummmmmmmmy.