Daniel F

New feature blog early next week. 🤔👀📰➡️👤

Unofficial solution: I created a video course about using Pages:
https://opentype.space/academy/pages-master-class/

This is a known issue that was fixed in 4.7.16

To clarify: The possibility to install 3rd party apps wasn't removed in v5!
Plugins were deprecated, but applications can still be created, exported, imported, etc.. Hooks were replaced with Code Listeners and several new Extensions But all in all, 3rd parties will still be able to create new apps like Member Garage, Member Maps, Classified Ads, Member Info blocks etc..
More information about the upcoming changes can be found in our Dev Blog: https://invisioncommunity.com/developers/devblog/blog/

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

This would require a 3rd party application!
The IPS "clubs" sitemap will contain a list of all clubs, but not the specific forums from clubs, these will be covered in the forums sitemap which contains the list of literally all guests accessible forums, which brings me to my next point:
It's probably not smart to "only" sitemap.
If you want to train your own AI chatbot, you'll probably want to contain also more domain specific content, so you'll probably want also to include content which is accessible by your members but not guests.
You could probably use a RSS feed that contains all the forums that you want to use for the training.

This would require a 3rd party application!
The IPS "clubs" sitemap will contain a list of all clubs, but not the specific forums from clubs, these will be covered in the forums sitemap which contains the list of literally all guests accessible forums, which brings me to my next point:
It's probably not smart to "only" sitemap.
If you want to train your own AI chatbot, you'll probably want to contain also more domain specific content, so you'll probably want also to include content which is accessible by your members but not guests.
You could probably use a RSS feed that contains all the forums that you want to use for the training.

We would need to look further into this for you, however the access details on file appear to be incorrect or missing. Could you please update these details by visiting your client area, selecting the relevant purchase, then clicking "Review/Update Access Information" under the "Stored Access Information" section. 
We look forward to further assisting you. 
 

Correct, this only affects guests / visitors which aren't logged in.

No...  not really.  Those are default values... not necessarily YOUR values.  For example, settings.json has existed for literally a decade.  The schema data is not sensitive data either.  If an attacker can run direct queries on your database, you've got much bigger problems than knowing failed_login_count cannot be null or a default value is no.  And for furls, if you're not using them, you would see the complete URL anyway.   There is no extra security by going to /login vs /index.php?app=core&module=system&controller=login
If someone is REALLY that interested in knowing the default out of the box settings as an attacker, they could simply download the software source code itself (legally or illegally) to find them.  But there is nothing there that exposes anything about your install vs a vanilla fresh/clean install.  
 
 
 

This app can save comments as bookmarks. https://www.ic-essentials.com/files/file/31-bookmarks/

That’s a somewhat dishonest approach. You suggest that the claim “not even good for seo” is proven by the links that the Google search would reveal, yet I checked the best results and they say NOTHING of the sort. The query doesn’t address “seo” in any way and so the results also don’t. They discuss the possibility of having emojis in URLs and agree that they are possible. 

Are notifications working for your other members?
Have you applied the latest patch ( ACP => System => Support ) If not, it's possible that your background tasks stopped working.

The table 'ipb_core_view_updates' is full Sounds like your drive /db drive run out of space

We have fixed this for an upcoming maintenance release.

The table 'ipb_core_view_updates' is full Sounds like your drive /db drive run out of space

No. It's actually a bug in our categorySidebar template.
We'll fix this for the upcoming maintenance release.

There's no need for a 3rd party app!
You can add custom HTML code to the end of the </body> tag by adding it to the footer HTML field.

No. It's actually a bug in our categorySidebar template.
We'll fix this for the upcoming maintenance release.

No. It's actually a bug in our categorySidebar template.
We'll fix this for the upcoming maintenance release.

Hi,
this was my debug code which was left accidentally after I was working on your recent ticket with the broken embed code.
I noticed this actually 2 hours ago and removed it, that's why nothing new was logged after 12:58pm
 
I'mr really sorry for this.

Hi,
this was my debug code which was left accidentally after I was working on your recent ticket with the broken embed code.
I noticed this actually 2 hours ago and removed it, that's why nothing new was logged after 12:58pm
 
I'mr really sorry for this.

Hi,
this was my debug code which was left accidentally after I was working on your recent ticket with the broken embed code.
I noticed this actually 2 hours ago and removed it, that's why nothing new was logged after 12:58pm
 
I'mr really sorry for this.

It sounds like a doorway technique, called cloaking. You will be penalized by search engines if you try it.