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Plus you can be the good guy and NOT sell people's Data ?

Agreed.  The only reason I have a FB account is because I need the visibility for my business.  It's a ghetto if you ask me.
 
And if this were put into practice the Internet would be about 90% quieter than it is now. ?
To be fair, I think a default theme should be fairly generic - enough to run your website with the fundamentals without bloating bandwidth with features the client base may not want or need.  That said, this reboot of the default IPS theme is great - @Volpedid an amazing job of contemporising it and I pray he keeps up the great work.
 

This topic has been coming up lately on virtually every forum. Facebook overtakes forums.
Facebook has its own terms and conditions. Many times they embarrass a member publicly by deleting their posts. In my city senior police officers have been put through this humiliation. 
In Facebook there is nothing like hierarchy. Once you comment on a six month old post the newer ones get buried deep down. if you want to own and hold your head high without the Fear of humiliation then forums are the way to go. 
Why are forums slowing down. Firstly its the cost of forum licence and hosting. Facebook is free. Secondly there is lot of trolling in forums. Facebook is very tough on this. The user can completely block a members if he is bothering him. If there are too many spam complaints the account is altogether closed down. 
In the long run the solution is to integrate forums and social media together as seamlessly as possible. Facebook Twitter Instagram and similar platforms need to be integrated into forums. Without this forums will slow down. 
To mention here Invision Power is not just a forum . It blog, Ecomm, Gallery and of-course with the right CMS coding a complete solution for an organisation. 
If they are able to deal with trollers IP is going nowhere for a longtime to come. 

It is a clean design no doubt, but somehow it looks dated, needs refinement. In-house themes is what it needs. Do check what a difference a theme makes in www.shopify.com The third party themes dont impress me at all. Not much done with the layout

Well, I said (or meant to say) it didn't look attractive on an iPhone.
I do like the looks of the community on my desktop computer.

The automatic moderation feature that was added to Invision Community 4.3 will help.

This topic has been coming up lately on virtually every forum. Facebook overtakes forums.
Facebook has its own terms and conditions. Many times they embarrass a member publicly by deleting their posts. In my city senior police officers have been put through this humiliation. 
In Facebook there is nothing like hierarchy. Once you comment on a six month old post the newer ones get buried deep down. if you want to own and hold your head high without the Fear of humiliation then forums are the way to go. 
Why are forums slowing down. Firstly its the cost of forum licence and hosting. Facebook is free. Secondly there is lot of trolling in forums. Facebook is very tough on this. The user can completely block a members if he is bothering him. If there are too many spam complaints the account is altogether closed down. 
In the long run the solution is to integrate forums and social media together as seamlessly as possible. Facebook Twitter Instagram and similar platforms need to be integrated into forums. Without this forums will slow down. 
To mention here Invision Power is not just a forum . It blog, Ecomm, Gallery and of-course with the right CMS coding a complete solution for an organisation. 
If they are able to deal with trollers IP is going nowhere for a longtime to come. 

This topic has been coming up lately on virtually every forum. Facebook overtakes forums.
Facebook has its own terms and conditions. Many times they embarrass a member publicly by deleting their posts. In my city senior police officers have been put through this humiliation. 
In Facebook there is nothing like hierarchy. Once you comment on a six month old post the newer ones get buried deep down. if you want to own and hold your head high without the Fear of humiliation then forums are the way to go. 
Why are forums slowing down. Firstly its the cost of forum licence and hosting. Facebook is free. Secondly there is lot of trolling in forums. Facebook is very tough on this. The user can completely block a members if he is bothering him. If there are too many spam complaints the account is altogether closed down. 
In the long run the solution is to integrate forums and social media together as seamlessly as possible. Facebook Twitter Instagram and similar platforms need to be integrated into forums. Without this forums will slow down. 
To mention here Invision Power is not just a forum . It blog, Ecomm, Gallery and of-course with the right CMS coding a complete solution for an organisation. 
If they are able to deal with trollers IP is going nowhere for a longtime to come. 

Nice to see the UI getting more and more colourful  

Nice to see the UI getting more and more colourful  

Nice to see the UI getting more and more colourful  

I don't like current behaviour of highlighting because it works for every posts, does not matter if this post important or not (i.e. "official staff answer" or "staff member's comment on kittens photo"). I'd prefer to have an option below editor. Posted this also as suggestion in feedback and ideas section. Please support(reaction/comment - any activity) this topic if you need it too.

We want to put out more information, help and inspiration - but we accept that some only want to be notified when there are updates, etc. We're going to be tweaking the news sections very soon.

In any community it would the of utmost importance to monitor the posts not just for bad language but to judge the level of knowledge of the member and asses if the member is worthy of contributing to the forum. 
That said its never a good idea to altogether ban a member. If not in the beginning at some point of time if he would grow and mature into an effective member of the forum. 
IP does most of this pretty well. Content Moderation, members cant see if the member is banned unless you log into his profile and only a preset number of infractions can ban a member. What it needs to consider is, as forums are all about opinions, should a member be able to read my post if I dont want him to. Is the member really interested or just trolling and passing cheap comments. Is there a way to ban IP addresses of that computer from reading my posts. While this can be done at the moderator level, should IP allow it at the member level. 
As we grow with time and age we will make an impact on a community. Moderation is no easy task and needs a very high level of judgemental power. What would be the right way of going about this. Any community needs full time moderators. Lets say six moderators that work in shifts. First few posts should be approved and disapproved with warning with in a few hours. As mentioned above the ability to asses if a member is really asking a question or trolling is a key factor in moderation. 
https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-internet-trolling-3485891

There are a couple of them but this one tops the list
 
 
 

@Sergey your version looks like more thoughtful 
@Andy design it isnt revelant, there is a some disproportion with left and right side

This version looks better & cleaner to me.

If there is one feature we all would like to see it's Complete block of a user if he is annoying another member. As of now this is limited to collapse of the members posts. I have seen conflicts to the extent that forums close down altogether. A forum as such is all about opinions, there are bound to be difference in openions to the extent that at times the conversation really heats up. Facebook and Twitter do this the right way.

If there is one feature we all would like to see it's Complete block of a user if he is annoying another member. As of now this is limited to collapse of the members posts. I have seen conflicts to the extent that forums close down altogether. A forum as such is all about opinions, there are bound to be difference in openions to the extent that at times the conversation really heats up. Facebook and Twitter do this the right way.

Also topic starter can edit/delete others' replies in that topic and block member from seeing his topic, just like Facebook's status.

I agree with this.  I'd love to see something along the lines of how Facebook user blocks work.  When you block someone on Facebook, you cannot see their profile, you cannot see their posts, you don't see them in the list of users for a group, you pretty much never see anything from them.  The only time you'll even see their name is if someone writes it out without linking to their profile.  Very effective.  
I've had this same request on my forum by numerous people over the years.  

If there is one feature we all would like to see it's Complete block of a user if he is annoying another member. As of now this is limited to collapse of the members posts. I have seen conflicts to the extent that forums close down altogether. A forum as such is all about opinions, there are bound to be difference in openions to the extent that at times the conversation really heats up. Facebook and Twitter do this the right way.

This. I grasp less then 2% what's possible with pages and love to learn more. How, why, what, where, who when.

Please make formal videos as to how this is done.