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Marc Stridgen

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    Marc Stridgen got a reaction from PinPics in Invision Community 5: The story so far...   
    🤔-Thinking about the bug
    👀-Looking for the solution to the bug
    📰-Writing the fix for the bug
    ➡️-Exiting when he realised the bug fix didnt work
    👤-Hiding in the shadow to see if anyone notices
     
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    Marc Stridgen got a reaction from SC36DC in Invision Community 5: The story so far...   
    🤔-Thinking about the bug
    👀-Looking for the solution to the bug
    📰-Writing the fix for the bug
    ➡️-Exiting when he realised the bug fix didnt work
    👤-Hiding in the shadow to see if anyone notices
     
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    Marc Stridgen got a reaction from teraßyte in Banned account in the Trial   
    I agree, and reported. 
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    Marc Stridgen reacted to Dreadknux in Invision Community 5: The story so far...   
    Quick, let's try to find clues in Matt's emojis 👀
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    Marc Stridgen reacted to Stuart Silvester in [4.7.16 Beta 4] The CODE button in CKEditor doesn't work   
    We released Beta 5 a short time ago to address this issue.
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    Marc Stridgen got a reaction from acarlsson in Image compression   
    If you are able to select it, then its installed
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    Marc Stridgen got a reaction from Tripp★ in Banned account in the Trial   
    It seems you blocked everyone there. The * is a wildcard character. So essentially an "Anything here". So for example, if you added 10.1.*.100 it would block 10.1.10.100, and 10.1.5446521551.100, but would not block 5.1.5.1. In your case, you added *, so said to block anything where the IP matches anything

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    Marc Stridgen reacted to opentype in Are there any easy how to videos or help website for pages?   
    Unofficial solution: I created a video course about using Pages:
    https://opentype.space/academy/pages-master-class/
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    Marc Stridgen reacted to Jim M in Are there any easy how to videos or help website for pages?   
    Would recommend reading through our help guides and asking any questions you may have:
     
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    Marc Stridgen got a reaction from abetts in Post count changed after move to cloud   
    If you create a ticket on this, I'll see what we can sort for you there 🙂 
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    Marc Stridgen reacted to Randy Calvert in EX1048 error when configuring search flood for guests   
    4.7.16 is currently in beta.  Once it is released, the issue should be fixed.  🙂
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    Marc Stridgen got a reaction from Allan - TheTechTribe in forum refresh if multiple tabs open   
    This is not something I have seen happen on anyones site. I know that doesnt help you much, but it does point to the fact its very likely 3rd party
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    Marc Stridgen got a reaction from Allan - TheTechTribe in forum refresh if multiple tabs open   
    No problem. Glad to hear you appear to have located the issue
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    Marc Stridgen got a reaction from sudo in Search results different   
    I would need an example of the items they cannot see, and the name of the users, so we can take a look for you.
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    Marc Stridgen got a reaction from Sonya* in Group Information to Google Analytics   
    System->Datalayer is what you would be looking for here, and indeed as mentioned, you would need to create one to suite your own needs with google tag manager
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    Marc Stridgen reacted to CA3LE in Can't edit Guest group permissions   
    @teraßyte and @Stuart Silvester thank you for the quick response!
     
    I haven't had any guest reports for hours now, so as long as that doesn't return I'll just be waiting for the next production update.
    If it does come back, it's good to know that I can just disable STRICT.  I appreciate the responses, very helpful!
    Great to know that Invision continues to quickly respond to topics and will open a side channel if needed.  Keep up the good work!
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    Marc Stridgen reacted to Shyrax in Having problems upgrading Invision Forums from 4.2.9 to the latest version 4.7.x   
    I want to thank @teraßyte for outstanding guidance.
    We were able to complete the upgrade from an outdated community forum from 4.2 to 4.7+ with his support.
    His service is top notch and I highly recommend reaching out to him for help.
    Respectfully,
    Shyrax
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    Marc Stridgen reacted to SecondSight in Email error in system log : can't fix it   
    Yes, it's in the support section of the Commerce application. Thank you ! 🙂
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    Marc Stridgen got a reaction from The Old Man in Blog Custom Sidebar blocks   
    Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention! I can confirm this should be further reviewed and I have logged an internal bug report for our development team to investigate and address as necessary, in a future maintenance release.
     
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    Marc Stridgen reacted to Randy Calvert in How to change the email unsubscribe content   
    You will want to edit your language pack.  
    ACP > Customization > Localization > Languages
    Click on "Translate".  The phrase "Prefer to stop receiving these emails?" is unsubscribe_blurb and "Unsubscribe here" is unsubscribe.  Search for those keys and replace with what you want.  You can also just search for the phrase instead of the key as well.  
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    Marc Stridgen reacted to Daniel F in EX1048 error when configuring search flood for guests   
    This is a known issue that was fixed in 4.7.16
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    Marc Stridgen got a reaction from teraßyte in Importer Woltlab 6.0   
    Ive logged a bug for that, cheers 🙂 
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    Marc Stridgen reacted to Adriano Faria in Leaderboard -> Exclude specified forum / subforum from counting   
    👆
    Leaderboard isn’t a Forums app thing; it is a suite wide thing. They would have to add the same to all other apps, via a new extension or whatever. You better do your customization locally. I wouldn’t hold my breath for it at all.
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    Marc Stridgen reacted to NSPN in Event calendar not working properly for recurring events   
    Understood.  Yes, seems to be the same problem.  Again, if I can help or test, do ask.
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    Marc Stridgen reacted to Mike Gholson in Things I need with Invision   
    As a community owner for over two decades, I wanted to give some personal feedback as to what I find very useful (and need) to keep my community alive. 
    Big Tech Competition:  The biggest challenge has been competing with other online services like FB, Reddit, Twitter, etc, etc.  You guys have hit the sweet spot in generating useful integrations to these services.  I would also like one for Linkedin but I'm sure that's on the radar.  With any competition like big tech, we can provide a more specialized touch to any community.  I hope we can still maintain this presence and I have a feeling IBP5 will give us even more ways to create active sites that give the big boys a run for their money.
    Monetization:  I have a specialized car club and, with Invision, I've been able to monetize our existence and pay our bills.  We are hosted on a dedicated server environment so we have our fair-share of bills.  I've looked into using a cloud-host but the costs don't justify simply putting a machine into a colo site.  We also have other bills like licensing, email services, and annual domain costs.  With the integrations to Google Adsense, Infolinks, and the paid subscription model (built into IPB), this has enabled us to pay these bills and continue well into the future.  The addition of Subscriptions has also helped us a LOT!!!!

    3rd Pary Marketplace:  I have appreciated the Invision Community capabilities with 3rd party apps (Marketplace).  However, I see these have been depreciated for the upcoming release.  Some of these modules really gave us an edge and we were able to stand out.  I fear that removing this integration may put us into a general category just like everyone else.  So, I hope the team considers opening this up again or at least making it easier for us to customize our sites to provide unique services.  Some of the more important apps for us are Member Garage, Member Maps, Classified Ads (big one), Tapatalk, and Member Info blocks (we use member numbers for members to use as discount codes to our partners).
    Advertising Banners:  We have used, and will continue to use banner sponsor placements on our site.  The one place we are missing is at the top of the screen.  Of course we can always do a pop-up or slide-down style ad.  But people tend to hate these and disable them.  So, if we can add more customizable locations for these banners, it would be a big hit for our business.  
    Google & SEO:  This service is so strange and it seems to change every other quarter.  New rules all the time, and I've gone from ~$700/mo in banner income to ~$125/mo.  I have no idea why this is, but I did notice that Google doesn't do very well with active community sites (they prefer static pages I guess).  So, if you are building something new with the release of IPB5, I would be very interested to see how we can improve our SEO or even Google results.
    Forum Layout:  I *REALLY* like the new look of your forum design in IPB5.  I cannot wait to use it.  The one thing our members really appreciate are the active notifications and easy way to see how things changed over the last 24/48 hours.  The new features coming seem to compliment this very well.  Not to mention a lot of people have been asking for the light/dark mode and it will be nice to see this capability built-in rather than having to design our own.
    Community Experts:  I did see something about the addition of community experts.  VERY GOOD addition!!  In an automotive community like ours, there are always guys hanging around that are considered RL experts as well.  I'd love to give them the recognition they deserve and let people know they actually *DO* know what they are talking about.  I hope this is an 'approved only' capability as I am sure some people may request this status and don't really deserve it.  😉
    Downloads, Knowledgebase, Gallery:  These existing capabilities are huge wins for us.  Although I would like to see an update to Gallery, the majority of the existing features work very well.  I hope these stay and continue to see improvements as the product goes into the next stage.
    Blogs:  For us, the blog module has been a strange experience.  Some guys know how to use it, while other people tend to post questions and use it like a forum.  If we were to continue using blogs, it might be a great idea to make sure end-users know they are in a "blog module" rather than part of the forums.  It's hard to explain on text but honestly I think people get confused as to what a blog is versus a forum.
    All in all, I am so happy to see that I've invested with a company that is taking this product to the next level.  Your team is amazing and it's reassuring to see that private communities are still a necessary part of the Internet.  As we continue forward, please understand that I'll stick around as a long term customer.  Just don't jack up the rates too high on us.   😉
    Mike
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