Foolboy

Please kindly recosider about this and the future cloud plan-exclusive feature. Don't abandon those self-hosted clients like this, IPS. At least, give this feature to  client who is paying to keep their license active, like you did with the Spam Defense feature. Thank you.

Please kindly recosider about this and the future cloud plan-exclusive feature. Don't abandon those self-hosted clients like this, IPS. At least, give this feature to  client who is paying to keep their license active, like you did with the Spam Defense feature. Thank you.

Please kindly recosider about this and the future cloud plan-exclusive feature. Don't abandon those self-hosted clients like this, IPS. At least, give this feature to  client who is paying to keep their license active, like you did with the Spam Defense feature. Thank you.

Please kindly recosider about this and the future cloud plan-exclusive feature. Don't abandon those self-hosted clients like this, IPS. At least, give this feature to  client who is paying to keep their license active, like you did with the Spam Defense feature. Thank you.

Nothing good is free. I can’t blame any company for needing to make money. If I wasn’t making money with my forums I wouldn’t be doing it myself. I only run sites to make some income, so I can understand the financial aspect.
However, I do think some of these features can be deployed quite well with self hosted environments. IPS is trying to differentiate to add to a value prop for cloud, which brings in more revenue. Unfortunately, It’ll weed out the smaller site owners over time. 

Why don't you use a pre-fix with the title like: [Cloud Only] New Live Community Features!
Save all us self-hosters some time in our day...

From what I understand only for communities with a someone paid plan. So this not be available for self-hosted instances.
By the way, they should mark these types of articles with the information that the features are only available to CLOUD users.

Will this also be available for self-hosted instances?

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And from now on invisionpower.com is running on 4.2  Great job

Congratulation! Can't wait to implement this on my community after a stable release.

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