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Can't you already just enable two-factor authentication? 
 

Update on IPS 4.5 version for you...
I've got the following at near-completion and/or being tested:
(NE) Hide Content (NE) HTML5 Audio/Video Player (NE) oembedServices Management I'm now going to stop working on several at once, and concentrate specifically on them in the order above. Following the release of the first, I will move on to the next and so on. With a bit of luck (i.e. my day job doesn't get in the way) I am hoping to get (NE) Hide Content finished over the next few days with a submission to the MarketPlace early next week.
Note: all of the above have been converted from Plugins to Applications, and they each contain functionality which would now be under much closer scrutiny for MarketPlace release - as such, they need to be right so I am taking my time with them.
Once I've got those out of the way, I can move on to a few other items on my list.
 

I have to say that this message is also annoying me. Do not get me wrong, I do plan to upgrade but not yet, since I mostly use custom applications and theme. They would all have to be updated for 4.5 and that's gonna take some time as devs are pilled up with stuff due to corona and due to other orders. I would also want to know if there is any way to hide that.

I think many of us are sitting back while the kinks get worked out of the new version. No major reasons to rush. 

After looking for this, I determined through careful testing that if I unplugged the server, I stopped seeing the message.

I think topic views can be very helpful, especially for the topic starter. We have sponsors that create topics and seeing that metric is very important to them while comparing that to replies. Someone can probably create a plugin for that.

I think topic views can be very helpful, especially for the topic starter. We have sponsors that create topics and seeing that metric is very important to them while comparing that to replies. Someone can probably create a plugin for that.

I think topic views can be very helpful, especially for the topic starter. We have sponsors that create topics and seeing that metric is very important to them while comparing that to replies. Someone can probably create a plugin for that.

I think topic views can be very helpful, especially for the topic starter. We have sponsors that create topics and seeing that metric is very important to them while comparing that to replies. Someone can probably create a plugin for that.

I think topic views can be very helpful, especially for the topic starter. We have sponsors that create topics and seeing that metric is very important to them while comparing that to replies. Someone can probably create a plugin for that.

XRegExp is 135KB when minified as part of root_library.js (that whole bundle is only 383KB, so it's a significant chunk), but it's only used in two places:
In ipsautolink/plugin.js, it's just used to evaluate a native JS regex, which I believe is totally unnecessary (use this.urlRegex.test(text) instead!) In ips.search.results.js, where it's just used to replace using a native JS regex (use $(this).text().replace(new RegExp(...), '...') instead, as you do for each subsequent replacement in that chain) (while you're at it, why does that code replace with HTML, HTML escape everything, then selectively unescape the content you just added?!) Removing those two places that don't, to my understanding, utilise the library in any meaningful way would allow you to slim down the site by a not-insignificant amount, and make certain people happy.

It is recommended to output webp files in a <picture> tag instead of an <img> tag, which supports specifying multiple versions. That's something we'd have to take into account.
Also, ios14 added support apparently: https://css-tricks.com/webp-image-support-coming-to-ios-14/
I found that we have an open internal suggestion discussing this already so I've updated it. Thanks!

I haven’t researched that in detail, but I believe one problem is that images are processed on the server (e.g. to create thumbnails) and that requires server-side support, which there is no guarantee of at this time of for the majority of IPS customers. 

I like the sound of that! 🤞

I like the sound of that! 🤞

The members of my community are not really sharing lots of video, so storage is not (yet) an issue. If they were, I'd probably be more willing to use a third party video hosting service as you're right about the potential costs.
My humble S3 usage rarely costs more than $5 a month, so in my case I feel it's definitely worth it.

I like the sound of that! 🤞

Same issue here. Most members of my community are browsing from phones (and apple iPhones) and posting videos as attachments. Unfortunately the .MOV videos does not play on Chrome and Firefox.
I would be nice if IPS had a solution for these media files, more even important for those communities that have Gallery App.

Same deal here, very annoying. I’ve had to convert to mp4 for some users. .mov does not play natively embedded on windows/chrome/edge like mp4 and apple products don’t play mp4. How does YouTube do it?

IPS has no conversion process built in, it’s just a video player embedded if the browser supports it. How about an html5 conversion process and player? Or some sort of third party solution like we have for other services via API, maybe Amazon AWS or cloudflare. 

I don’t really agree based on my own experiences with all my websites but can understand if you haven’t had good experiences with AWS to feel that way. Fits my needs quite well.

I've been using it for a couple of years and I don't see any issues. Here's the thing with Amazon AWS, you need to read docs and have a general understanding how to set these services up because you'll be on your own. If you need a support staff ready to answer tech questions, stick with sendgrid or other in my opinion. AWS can be confusing but when it works it just works and is very cost effective.
On another note, if it wasn't for the way IPS handles email notifications, I would be fine sticking with SMTP and SES. Its just that when a user clicks reply, that triggers the notifications and hangs up the actual posting of the reply within a topic. So either use Amazon SES API or come up with a way that notifications get batched out with a task or something instead of instant and let the reply get posted instantly first. I don't know enough about how it works but there's a big difference when replying to topics and how the reply is posted. I've had them hang for up to 10 sec sometimes using 3rd party SMTP sending methods.

Quickly to address this - if the thing being followed has more than NOTIFICATIONS_PER_BATCH followers (which defaults to 30), the notifications are queued and send in the background.

I think topic views can be very helpful, especially for the topic starter. We have sponsors that create topics and seeing that metric is very important to them while comparing that to replies. Someone can probably create a plugin for that.

I think topic views can be very helpful, especially for the topic starter. We have sponsors that create topics and seeing that metric is very important to them while comparing that to replies. Someone can probably create a plugin for that.