SeNioR-

Now now @SeNioR-. Cursing at ips products. Not cool man.

I've disabled all star ratings across our site because no one ever uses them. However, people use the reaction button all the time, every day.
I can see now why Steam changed their system a few years ago so that an item's rating is based on likes instead of choosing a rating.
As of now, we have no way for content to be rated. It would be nice if stars showed up based on the up/down votes. Obviously they would start off at 2.5 or 3, and then as ratings accumulate, it would push the star rating up towards 5 or down towards 1.

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Font Awesome 6 Alpha is here.

Oh, it's possible but you really shouldn't - there are a LOT of changes between 4 & 5 and you will be in for a world of hurt as I would expect all of the IPS plugins to fail to work, as well as anything else designed to interact with the editor.

Font Awesome 6 Alpha is here.

I had Google reCAPTCHA but still got spam. I added Q&A via plugin but it didn't help. I don't know how the bots / spammers were bypassing these security features. I had to restrict guest access since then I don't get spam anymore.
My Q&A plugin (current waitning for approval)
 

SVGs are definitely great for logos and non-complex images, they scale nicely being vector images although they can add a lot of bloat to a page but fortunately they're cachable. Something that came to mind, I'm not sure what if any protection is in place within IPS for non-IPS provided/third party uploaded SVGs. You need to be careful and make sure that they’re sanitized to stop SVG/XML vulnerabilities affecting your site.
There's a good library available here that can help to avoid opening up security holes by allowing uploads of unsanitised files, it's used by some highly rated SVG Wordpress plugins:
https://github.com/darylldoyle/svg-sanitizer

Just something to be mindful of. 🙂

Thanks for the response and your thoughts... I actually never said anything about negative reactions in terms of actual -1 scoring, I hate negativity as anyone who knows me personally would tell, I battled it in a real world team as a team leader and manager for years. I'm also all for company loyalty but proud not be a 'Company Yesman Jellyfish' for that matter.
Absolutely, me too. I disabled the dislike -1 button on my own community for a few reasons, but mostly because I think deducting reputation points is not worthwhile and it can misfire when it comes to impacting member's reputation in their their profiles. However in my community, you are free to quickly express sadness at someone being ill or having lost their job, or express confusion (we renamed it bewildered for fun solely because I think it's such a great word!). We have members who are not great or are learning with computers, if they don't get something first time they can freely say their confused and ask for clarification. They can you these other reactions and they don't add or subtract a point, they're just neutral, they don't detract from anything. Members are free to add a follow up post, or not, it's completely up to them.
If you only allow one sided opinion to be expressed you're potentially on the path of manipulating your community in my book. How long until the penny drops in the minds of your community, or you start hiding and at the extreme begin deleting posts that don't conform with the management way of thinking. I honestly think, and again it's just my take, you can give people a choice of reactions without introducing negativity, just use positive and neutral reactions and back it up with a fair and reasonable set of community guidelines.
We don't always get it right, but I'd say is that my community is considered by many long term members to be a haven, it's almost 20 years old but it didn't start out that way. We used to allow all reasonable, work friendly and legal topics of conversation but politics and religion (yes, those 2 subjects that have been destroying civilisations for millennia) were an absolute nightmare. People just can't seem to behave themselves and give a respectful opinion. This was long before reactions came along. It was like the toxic vitriol you see every day on social media, that even from the normally respectable of people can leave you feeling dirty after 30 minutes of exposure, and heading for a cleansing hot shower. The best thing we ever did was remove those 2 topics except in the context of that shown in a particular TV series our community was originally about and we explained why. We now have 4 members of staff including myself and we've not moderated anything for maybe 16 years or so, except for the random human spammer or the occasional troll. Reactions came along and my members love them as much as they prefer old fashioned animated emoticons over emoji and giphys.
There is no negativity, it's never hurt my community and people can say if they don't agree with something we're talking about, either by a quick reaction and or a reply. It's about striking a balance where conversation and viewpoints are appreciated, even if people have a different view than your own. 
Lol. Yes don't we all! So it's a yes then, it's confirmation of what I was concerned about; a not so subtle coercion! I knew they were all out to get me.
Seriously though having a sad or confused graphic doesn't mean that people can't express disagreement with a particular corporate stance or comment, or that members in your community here should be prevented from quickly showing empathy in they're a bit are worried about you, because you are struggling with COVID in an off-topic part of the community that's for member to member chat.
 
Thanks Jordan, I appreciate your reply as well. My personal take on that first point is that it reminds me of the old saying, "Statistics, statistics and damn statistics"; incidentally I do like all you can eat stats and analysis myself! There's two ways of looking at your report. Yes, one is that those 2 reactions may be under-utilised compared to Likes and Laughs. The other way to look and interpret it is that it's showing you that you're generally or even more strongly so doing something right, because the reaction to your websites content is mostly positive and often light hearted and good natured. Isn't that what Matt said he prefers? By removing the less used reactions simply for the sake of their usage, you've kind of shot yourself in the foot, because now you're effectively no longer seeing as true, reflective and clear snapshot of your community.
I can understand that, it being a corporate site, but please consider too that not everyone feels comfortable having to justify themselves over every little thing, by and large. Sometimes people simply don't have the time or confidence to do so or plan to come back later. Sometimes a quick sad reaction to some news is enough to show support or solidarity. Sometimes people are new to a community and aren't quite ready to jump in yet. Your stance could equally be, however unintentionally or with the best intentions, interpreted as sending a message; that only the most vocal of people's opinions count, are welcome, are as important, interesting or deemed valid.
 
Yes, as above. I've also found positive and neutral scoring reactions work best.
That's cool but it's about striking a middle ground. It's not about allowing or risking dissent in the ranks.
In the spirit of *maintaining my upbeatness and positivity, thanks for not removing the 😔 😩 or 😡!
 
Hey, this is a feedback forum, where IPS asks for feedback, and so I gave it. To those supportive, thank you, to those reacting to my post by calling me a pussy, cat or whatever the cat emoji actually now means now that April Fools Day has gone, that's fine, you 😻!
Again, I never said anything about restoring negative reactions. You're so wrong about why I created this feedback topic, in a feedback forum, that's always been for feedback, like from customers. Of all the cheek, right? I should be flogged. Publicly, in the village square and my IPS licences torn up in front of my face, friends and family. But wait, you're being negative, we don't do that hear, I'll report you good!
Moving on...
 

* Me, maintaining my positivity and upbeatness!
 

Still positive, don't worry I got this!
 
Here's some of the books I personally use to achieve my positive zen, without falling down a negative shame spiral...
Available from all good bookstores near you... or Amazon, they're positive folks...

 
Sent this to a few people at Christmas, highly recommended...

 
Next, a personal favourite...


But really I owe it all to...


 

Hello,
It would be very helpful if database-stored files could be assigned a caching URL. Right now, they are at /index.php?file=xyz
I am using a CDN for file-based storage, which covers JavaScript, CSS and emoticons, but there are still database-stored files such as user profile pictures etc. At this point I'd say this is the bulk of my data transfer. They don't seem to cache for very long in the user's browser either, despite barely ever changing.
I do recognize this would require the user's setup to support friendly URLs. Most do, though.
Thank you!
James

And in the meantime...plugin attached.
 
IMPORTANT: if the following setting is set to 'Opt out' then the option on the register page will be displayed - I'm not facilitating the removal of the users ability to opt out of the receipt of news and updates:

(NE) Hide 'Send me news and updates' on register form.xml

Thanks, that did the trick! That and other extensions needed to be loaded.

So happy there was a reaction for that

I too currently have a ticket in with support about this. It's currently a bug and will be fixed in 4.6, but for now they'll have to manually add the renewal to pay (if it doesn't show). I'm still waiting on being able to update apps, as I just renewed Quizzes yesterday but still unable to update as yet.

Wassup my IC fam?! 
Not to make this Hump Day topic about me, but, well... happy birthday to meeee 😂 🎂 I'm 33 today (April 7). 
Birthdays are always a great time to reflect on the past year. For ALL of us it's been a year of facing challenges and enduring.
Becoming part of the Invision Community team, and becoming more integrated in this community, was easily one of the highlights of my entire year. Love you guys!! 🙏 
Alright, alright, enough about me (😏), check out a mini-roundup of new 4.6 changes below. The list is dwindling down because we're inching near the finish line!
Oh and you didn't hear it from me, but we'll be formally announcing Achievements in a blog post in the near future 🤫. Be sure to follow me so you get the notification first!
- Fixed an issue where content was missing the proper share logo.
- Fixed an issue where post attachments sometimes used different styles within a list. Attachments in a list will always use a smaller 'inline' style now.
- Improved upgrade error messages. 
- .well-known can now be used as a folder name for Apple Pay verification in Commerce.
- Fixed an issue where it's possible to create two Folders with the same name, causing conflicts.
- Fixed an separate issue with the Easy Mode theme editor where a JS could be thrown due to a race condition.
 

Not sure I understand, but take a look at this:
It will display forums based on user language. Forums app only.

Okay, I'll remember that. I haven't used the support for a long time. Now I can see that it is much more convenient than before. 👍

Issues like this should be reported via ticket so the actual support team can investigate and resolve it. This is a feedback forum, not a bugs forum.

It's a good idea to use images that are double the resolution you need at 100% DPI scaling, especially for logos.

Currently have an app pending on marketplace that lets you use svg logo as one of the features 

From what I've read it makes a lot of sense, the positives could see a large improvement for those that utilizes it - especially if .webp is used in conjunction.
Most people don't have overcomplicated graphics or logos.

We already know that in 4.6 we will be able to use the WebP format.
We need webp NOW (.webp) images support But will SVG support also be added? Why? Because SVG format is intended for logos and icons. Assets load in lightning speed, much faster than in PNG.
Please consider the suggestion 🙂