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You’ve gone this far, why not introduce a native newsletter feature which can be scheduled and tracked. 🙂 Love the new features but would like to remove advertisements per user group as mentioned. 

That does make sense in that it ensures if the reader is interested they return to the community get the "whole content" 🙂
Are you suggesting (just a thought) an additional setting: Something like "limit to x characters" , it probably would work with sane values applied.

Makes sense - we can take a look at that before 4.4 is released.
Yes (although realistically if you are using Sparkpost, you may be able to glean more advanced analytics through their control panel).

Is it possible to limit which groups receive email advertising?
We sell subscriptions that give people ad-free browsing of the site, and I'd like to exclude this group from receiving ads via email.

This is great news! I was just looking for a way to speed up image loading and found this article.  I was also reading up on HTTP/2 so was happy to see this support added.
Not sure if I missed it but would love to see CSS and JS combined into one output file for each.
Maybe test the suite through web.dev to see what else can be optimized? Since google is the big one and released this tool https://web.dev/measure

Great to see this feature coming!
I like this idea.

We've announced the inclusion of application manifest functionality in 4.4, which lays the groundwork for future enhancements
 

This is really good news, I'd been hoping to see a performance-based release for some time as traditionally IPS does rate low in Page SpeedGTMetrix/Yslow tests and we've been waiting for some of these overdue improvements for quite some time. So huge thanks! 
Lazyloading should really help with Gallery in particular, I currently get a poor Pagespeed score of F42 on one of my sites.
Please consider adding to your to do list (if not already added):
Serve scaled images (current GTMetrix reports a score of F0 with a 1.2MiB 80% possible saving is possible on my Gallery index page) Where static content is uploaded to Amazon S3 and Cloudfront (it should be copied, not moved!), often there is missing header metadata such as cache-control, expires etc. Whilst investigating poor Cloudfront cache hit ratios of just 5%, I noticed this week an IPS uploaded .png image placed in my S3 bucket with a content-type of image/jpeg instead of image/png.  Leverage Browser Caching (you can't do anything about Amazon and Google external resources, but IPS could and should add more to improve caching of its static resources) Specify Image Dimensions - I get awful scores for this both on Gallery and Forums where images are missing width and height attributes. This happens particularly in grid view layout and where you upload an image attachment into forum description fields via AdminCP.  Remove query strings from urls - Have raised this several times, and keep getting told it's needed to allow cache busting, but the string token could be built into the actual filename/url itself. If CSS for example is later rebuilt, a new url is created and immediately browsers see the updated resource and recache it. All of the separate CSS and JS files should be grouped into one or two files, not like 10-12. Pages article images should have medium sized thumbnails available instead of just tiny thumbnails which look awful stretch to cover on 4K displays. The alternative is full-sized (in my case massive 1920x1080 images) which kill page loading times are are such overkill for article listing previews.  
 
 
 

This online tool uses Lighthouse version 4.0 alpha 0, and a version that Lighthouse has already activated for Chrome browser is alpha 1.
There are more issues in the alpha's. It would be good to wait for release before serious tests.

This is great news! I was just looking for a way to speed up image loading and found this article.  I was also reading up on HTTP/2 so was happy to see this support added.
Not sure if I missed it but would love to see CSS and JS combined into one output file for each.
Maybe test the suite through web.dev to see what else can be optimized? Since google is the big one and released this tool https://web.dev/measure

This is great news! I was just looking for a way to speed up image loading and found this article.  I was also reading up on HTTP/2 so was happy to see this support added.
Not sure if I missed it but would love to see CSS and JS combined into one output file for each.
Maybe test the suite through web.dev to see what else can be optimized? Since google is the big one and released this tool https://web.dev/measure

Two clarifications provided by IPS:
1. Lazy load content will apply to all user generated content, from gallery images to uploaded cover photos.  
2. If you're self hosted and would like to take advantage of the Brotli compression, you'll need the php extension
https://github.com/kjdev/php-ext-brotli

Great to see this feature coming!
I like this idea.

Great to see this feature coming!
I like this idea.

Great to see this feature coming!
I like this idea.

Great to see this feature coming!
I like this idea.

Great to see this feature coming!
I like this idea.

We can take this big step to have a form before the list of forums for the user already insert content, something similar to the attached figure?
This is the type of UI most commonly used in the social networks. Users are already familiar with this, it would help a lot. 
 
Instead of the "Select Forum" popup it could be a "next step" form/page for the user to choose the best place to post the topic he just wrote. This would help in addition to other things to reduce the sending of topics in the wrong forums.
 

Great video. I pulled 2 things out of this I did not know or use really. I usually look at the member section for members and then to advance search if all I have is an email. Now I'll use the ACP search system. Very easy.
Second is the copy setting, never used it. Very nice.

I had posted about this back in 2016 and think we need to be able to force people to put in a title for SEO reasons. 
 

Maybe its already built in, not sure...but I'm surprised their isn't a report for registration and login method showing you which login handlers are used in your community.

My strategy is usually hiding ads while signed in. Guests can only see the ads, as a benefit of being signed in, no more ads are displayed. Unfortunately there isn't any impressions and clicks from the members themselves. But nothing subscription manager can't do to suffice that. Perhaps when 4.3 comes out I'll utilize the new tools.

Congrats on your business, you folks do a great job!

Just to be clear, we are not shipping or including any specific 'player'. HTML5 supports a native <video> tag, and the browser then generates the controls and plays the video.
webm will be supported in browsers that support webm. https://caniuse.com/#feat=webm
Yes. We were previously using video.js in Gallery, but this has been removed for 4.3 and Gallery's video support will mirror what you see elsewhere throughout the community when videos are uploaded.