Daniel F

I've built that engine, and I'm about to tear down another one to put on some "not road legal or not for use in California" parts.
 

I'm, erm ... functionally fluent in Esperanto. Does anybody have a less impressive-sounding superpower? (At the very least it got me a publishing contract. There's that, I suppose.)

What a lovely, lovey compliment.

Next time anybody suggests that the Invision Community team doesn't listen, send them to this article. There's so much here that I've seen people bring up over the past year. What an amazing product. You lovely, lovely people.

Great wrap to the end of the year! 
Thanks to all IPS Staffers for your talent and hard work, and our awesome, community/modding heroes.
This year has had a great positive feel within the IPS community, Not just a place for tech support but a fun, helpful community that it's a pleasure to visit every day. I've actually been ill since January 2017, still waiting for an operation, lost my job of 22 years end of September due to UK austerity cuts, and at times this place has really cheered me up throughout all the anxiety and stress.
Honestly, who could forget Joel's humour-soaked coverage during the 4.2 build and release? Brilliant!
Or the way the community got behind the Black Friday initiative? 
So here's wishing you all a well deserved, peaceful Christmas. 
☃️ ⛄️ ? ? ??
 

If the product weren't as good as it is, then I doubt most of us would use it instead of an alternative. So give yourselves a massive pat on the back for a job well done, enjoy the Christmas break, and have a happy and productive 2018

IPB 4.0 was innovative, IPB 4.1 was advance and I feel like 4.2 is my dream board and I cannot wait to see 4.3.... Hurry up...... just kidding...
Thank you so much for all you've done for us and continue to do for our community (IPB). 

I really like the articles that discuss best practices and ideas on how to use your community. Keep those coming  

Let me set some context, before I explain. My site is a 19 year old virtual club for enthusiasts and collectors of a specific brand of antique garden tractors. It includes a significant online library of contributed resources of all types, plus an active Classifieds ads (free) that allows them to buy, sell or trade for free with real folks avoiding Craigslist scammers and hassles ( we have always required users to provide their real name, city, state) or eBay costs. It also supports an aftermarket of reproduction parts. In addition to researching and finding things or asking questions, users can document their collection and their projects in a variety of ways (a custom tractor registry - now using Pages + collections, photo gallery, build log blog, a Show & Tell forum specifically for that, etc.)
We also have a Facebook page and a Facebook group. The page is simply to stake a place and hang a shingle on Facebook - because we are a virtual club, many of the FB tools for a business owner to use on their page simply does not apply - and most imprtantly, because search engines and such penalize me if I don't have one. Consequently that page doesn't see much traffic, and the content is not very dynamic. The Facebook Group is used to "push" key things from my site into Facebook so that users can then share that info with their friends, family, other groups, etc. We share new classified ads, blog updates, new photo gallery items, new registry entries, etc - so that our users who are in Facebook can then share their hobby with their friends, family, etc. My site has over 9000 users, and the FB group has over 1000 members.
We do not actively encourage users to post in that FB group, much less use it for general chit-chat. Similarly, we don't encourage status updates on the club site.  I really don't care what they had for lunch, what their kids/grandkids now look like, or where they went on vacation. But, if they have something significant or meaningful related to their tractor hobby, I want to capture that, catalog/index it, and save it for posterity (rather than it disappear with the latest Photobucket policy change, when MySpace or or other free photo repository fades away, etc.) I want to add that to our knowledge base and repository and make it easily searchable and shareable.
In addition, we have a News and Announcements forum for news about the club, the site, or its software - and we share all topics in it to Facebook. Meanwhile, our moderators also monitor that Facebook group and should someone ask a question there, they respond and if possible provide a link back to the site for more details, resources, etc. 
We try to use Facebook as a means for our users to share info about their hobby with a wider audience, to "market" who we are and what we can provide to a wider audience (especially younger users who live in their phones but may seldom use a computer), and as a way to broadcast news and updates about the site and the club. I don't try to compete head to head with FB, while fully acknowledging that it is a part of many of our users lives, and simply want to facilitate that...
So, things I would like to see are:
1. Ability to Promote to a Group in addition to a Page
2. Ability to auto-promote new content from specific parts of my site, to reduce the workload of moderators manually sharing (or promoting) content, and let them work in a "by exception" mode, similar to how they police the forums.
 3. Ideally, I'd like to see the ability to automatically feed or pull back to my site any Facebook reactions or comments to content that has been shared or promoted there...
 

Spot on, Rikki. I'm working on an educational project at the minute and the team has an idea that "we can create a Facebook group!" as a way of setting up a support community. Little do they know what I have in store ...

The only thing that's voice activated in my house is me because let me tell ya, when my wife says............ Oh oh..... Gotta go.

Currently literally stuck on Electro Swing, Swingrowers in particular. Nary a clue why this particular genre helps so much in thought processes while working, but it does loads for me.

Anybody remembers this? AMAAAZING SOUND:D

Do you mean pinned topics?

Could you please submit a ticket sot that we can take a look at this.

We had several code changes in this area, they'll probably need to update their app for IPS 4.2

Couldn't agree more and our members are loving it!!
Thanks for all the hard work and more! 

Good news 

Thanks for the update! Very exciting!

Most of the changes are suite wide, so most of the mentioned news will also affect you
Leaderboard Enhancements Richer Embeds Group Promotion Improvement Fluid Forum View Member History Editor Uploading Improvements Authy Integration New REST API Endpoints Statistic Reporting Promoting Content Clubs Reactions Social Sign In Streamlining Letter Profile Photos SEO Improvements Device Management Delayed Deletes Content Messages Recommended Replies Complete Your Profile  

Most of the changes are suite wide, so most of the mentioned news will also affect you
Leaderboard Enhancements Richer Embeds Group Promotion Improvement Fluid Forum View Member History Editor Uploading Improvements Authy Integration New REST API Endpoints Statistic Reporting Promoting Content Clubs Reactions Social Sign In Streamlining Letter Profile Photos SEO Improvements Device Management Delayed Deletes Content Messages Recommended Replies Complete Your Profile  

Most of the changes are suite wide, so most of the mentioned news will also affect you
Leaderboard Enhancements Richer Embeds Group Promotion Improvement Fluid Forum View Member History Editor Uploading Improvements Authy Integration New REST API Endpoints Statistic Reporting Promoting Content Clubs Reactions Social Sign In Streamlining Letter Profile Photos SEO Improvements Device Management Delayed Deletes Content Messages Recommended Replies Complete Your Profile  

Yes, it's part of the converter app.

Clubs is part of the Core Application, which needs to be enabled in your ACP

This is what I've been waiting for!  Thank you!!