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I'm sad to say this, but these recent decisions of Invision Power to make it harder for their customers just to prevent Piracy has given Xenforo a complete monopoly in paid forum software. 
Vbulleting and IPS are running further and further behind focusing on the wrong things.

For example my one big issue before 4.5 was IPS inability to create small thumbnails for every image attachment automatically like Xenforo does. you could argue that it does if you change the image size but you will never be able to choose between a tiny or large image, you will be stuck with small images then.

@onlyME is a great developer and one of the biggest reasons why I stayed on IPS so long, however his addon : https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/7436-bim-topic-thumbnail/ BIM Topic Thumbnail needs to create his own thumbnails in order for your website to load in a couple of seconds.
Compare that to xenforo where the developer just can use the thumbnails from the inherent system. @onlyME had to make one himself.
In my opinion something like that should be a priority including a new text editor that apparently you'll add in 4.6, because the current editor takes a couple of seconds to load.

You have lost a customer with me, I and many others don't like a closed system where the creator tells you how to do things, and you can't do it any other way. 
In the long run you will financially lose more from this than piracy ever will, this includes 3rd party developers. 
I'm not defending piracy at all here, just your customer treatment in limiting their freedoms the way they use your products. I probably spend 1000+ dollars on custom development, plugins, themes, and the core products during my membership here.

I don't want to be rude or disrespectful just giving my honest opinion, I suspect a lot of other customers feel the same way.

I'm kinda confused with the image handling. Is there a way to prevent broken external images? 

Thanks in advance @A Zayed

Just now, Makoto said:

Hey @Serayah!

At the moment, this is currently not a feature, but that's a good suggestion!

I'll add it to the issues tracker and see if I can get it in to the next major release.

thanks much appreciated.

@Makoto I would buy if this has a paginated tags list on the front end that users can browse. guess it doesn't have that though? 

@Mike John Not sure but the thumbnail grabber doesn't seem to work for me in 4.4

On 1/28/2019 at 9:36 PM, DolSch said:

How do I change the poster's display name from "Guest xxx" to "Anon xxx"?

You need to change the guest phrase in languages I believe.

2 hours ago, A Zayed said:

 

it would be better to use the built in imageproxy feature.

About that, This is a general question but maybe you know, what if you set cache remote images for 1 week, does it get the original image from the external server or from withing? I'm confused that if you set the cache duration to 1 week or something the image might get broken after that period, if it needs to fetch from another website constantly.

Guess you need to set it on Indefinitely then.

@A Zayed Just wondering what happens when you post an url of an image that is dynamic or protected? will it show a broken image after a while? 

Whoops never mind.

22 minutes ago, SammyS said:

https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/416840-advanced-tags-prefixes-ips-4x/?do=findComment&comment=2761509

Is see thanks, sorry didn't scroll up. 

@Ryan H. could you add an option to select prefix from thread view? currently the prefix selection won't show up. also it conflicts with the prefix system in thread view. when you click on item prefix it enables other prefixes to be selected? any way to disable the prefix default system?

I added this css to no longer display the default prefix as a quick fix.

div#topic_tags_prefixWrap {
    display: none!important;
}

Just now, Faqole said:

This works only for replies @Serayah atm.

ok thanks for the quick reply. hope you will add for OP also in the future. If possible

does this only work for replies? or is the first post aka OP included also thanks? @Faqole

@Taman nice theme. Would buy it if you could add an option where you can place the sidebar underneath the vertical menu 

To clarify if you enable left sidebar does it go underneath the navigation or at the side? would be great if left sidebar went underneath it.

Another suggestion I have would be to add an option for no thumbnail. so when a user picks that the default no thumbnail image will show. thanks for considering. 

quick update. I think you need the zip php extension enabled for it to work?  

update: yup my server's php selector was messed up. is fixed when zip php extension enabled. sorry for the hassle. 

yeah might be conflicting with topic thumbnail or my opera browser. maybe ad blocker I'll give my credentials if it doesn't work with any of those. probably server issue i guess. 

testing with: https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/9037-external-links-rich-embed/

my website is located here: https://lokalist.nl it's dutch though. 

any php extensions you need enabled for this to work? can't see any preview using php 7 and ips 4.3.5

Nice addon. does it show the price in forum view also? 

could you enable this for guest replies also in the future? @Adriano Faria

much appreciated @onlyME

9 hours ago, onlyME said:

Where do you want to show it

Next to the thread title in thread if possible. 

Is there a easy way to show the thumbnail inside the thread @onlyME

@onlyME Just wondering if it takes longer to load a website with this? Have the feeling it takes longer to load when the thumbnail is enabled. Any change you could implement lazy load or add an option in the future. I would do it myself but don't know how to implement lazyload when the image gets loaded through css. 

Update

Maybe I try with this: https://appelsiini.net/2013/lazyload-190/