Jim M

Invision Community is growing at a rapid rate! To help us keep up with all of the epicness, we've brought on two new developers (4.7 we see you 😏).  
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@Christopher Pei

 
 
@Marshall Slemp

 
Welcome to the team, gentlemen! It'd be greatly appreciated if you showed our new dudes some love in the comments!
 
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Another fine Hump Day, folks! Hope you're having a great week. 
Yesterday, we announced 4.6.0 Beta 1. We've already added a few updates/fixes, and in less than a day we rolled out 4.6.0 Beta 1.1 (which is now available for download! Per the sound advice of @Nathan Explosion, I'd like to remind you that this is a Beta; please make a backup of your community and all its data before updating). 
 I want to give @Pavel Chernitsky a shout-out for saying this in the announcement post:
The team worked really hard on this release, so that is greatly appreciated! 🥲 
Last week when I shared that precious photo of @Charles and I working together in Vegas on our forthcoming website refresh, I didn't include a roundup of bug fixes per usual. So please sink your teeth into this updated list:
- Fixed the position of the queued content badge in fluid view, which was overlapping the topic stats.
- Removed browser caching for "upgrade in progress" page.
- Fixed an issue where a cached Widget returned the wrong timezone based time.
- Changed the email in the profile hovercard into a mailto link
- Fixed an issue where the Privacy Page does not redirect to an external link.
- Fixed an issue where the first step may be skipped during checkout even if custom fields are required.
- Fixed an issue when an anonymous online status doesn't persist across logins when using button log in methods
- Fixed an issue where merging members could leave members as alternative contacts for themselves.
- Added a no search results message when searching Pixabay and Giphy
- Added truncated views for status updates.
- Added an option for members to cancel expired subscriptions to be able to purchase another subscription.
- Fixed an issue where PayPal Billing Agreements / Subscriptions may not include sales tax.
 
Thoughts? Have you tried out the Beta version yet? We'd love to hear from you in the replies! 

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Hey team, it's been 84 years (if you know you know), but...
We're excited to announce that Invision Community 4.6.0 Beta 1 is officially live! 🎉 
@Matt has a blog post on the way detailing all of the amazing additions, including how many commits and lines of code that were changed. A lot. The answer is a lot. 
Just to refresh your memories, some of the biggest changes/additions include:
Achievements (Points!) Web app and Push notifications Anonymous Posting when posting as a member Highlight Topics with replies from specific Groups Spam Improvements (And more!) It's available per request for Cloud customers or, if you're self-hosted, by manually downloading it.
Self-hosted: please make the necessary backups before upgrading. Because this is a Beta, please understand there is an inherent risk when upgrading.
The more information/feedback we get, the better we can optimize and improve things 🙂
If you find something and would like to submit a bug, please do so here.
Looking forward to hearing what you think! Sound off in the replies below. 

Just to follow up on this, we worked with SJ77 and there was an issue with their Twitter app configuration on Twitter's developer website. 
If anyone runs into this, I would recommend reviewing your app configuration with our Guide, as things (unfortunately) change frequently: 
 

Appreciate the follow-up here Jim!

Just to follow up on this, we worked with SJ77 and there was an issue with their Twitter app configuration on Twitter's developer website. 
If anyone runs into this, I would recommend reviewing your app configuration with our Guide, as things (unfortunately) change frequently: 
 

Has your database connection been solid? I would double check that it is not taking a long time to connect.

If whatever they were injecting was taking your MySQL server offline or otherwise causing connections to take a while to connect, yes. That would not be something I could inform you though and you would need to check your MySQL server logs.

Would suggest using our Downloads application and just restricting the groups you do not want to have access to the downloads. Pretty much the whole purpose of the app 🙂 .

These are decisions that require a technical understanding and cannot be realistically answered within the scope of a post here. Depending on a multitude of factors, the best choice may vary and IPS gives flexibility in that regard.
If you don't understand something, don't use it until you do.
If you do not have the personal time or skillset to seek out and obtain an understanding of these things, then consider hiring someone who does:
https://invisioncommunity.com/third-party/providers/

The Matt's are multiplying like the Marks!

Welcome @Matt Finger