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Looks great. But now I can't stop looking at it. 

Looks great. But now I can't stop looking at it. 

I currently use Members Shop to encourage activity. This has to be the best plugin available for the forum.

The main factor is allowing members to use their points to gain rewards. 

Whether it be the ability to pin a topic for a set number of days, or use it to download a file, it is very powerful.

Now that the developer of this plugin is no longer supporting it, this is a great opportunity to offer this type of gamification officially. 

I do hope as it develops, these types of features getting added overtime. 

This a MAJOR step in the right direction. Any feature or ability that we can do on our forums that can not be done in Facebook Groups, or Reddit, or which ever platform we are competing with, is a huge bonus.

Members Shop
Members Shop Goals
Automation Rules

If the features and capabilities of all these plugins can be developed internally from IPS themselves, then I'm sure you'd be dealing with a lot of happy admins!





 

I'm wondering if it'd be best that everyone starts from 0 🙂

Looks great, will there be any rewards ability/integrated?  Specifically with commerce.
Reach a points achievement, receive some $$, gift card, credit, other monetary value. Reach a points achievement, receive a free subscription or product. If already subscribed, receive credit. Reach a points achievement, receive a move to a designated user group. Just some ideas in my head at the moment for self-hosted customers... j/k 🤣
 

We aren't sure if this will make it into 4.6 or be a later release, but it shouldn't be too long until it's available in any case 🙂 

It's worth mentioning that the location filter (Topic) and the milestone filter (1000th post) are optional, so you can reward people N points every single time they post.

It's up to you.

There'll be more details soon, but it's very flexible. We have over 15 different rules built-in right now, for common actions across the community. Most can be limited by quantity and/or location.
Here's a look at configuring a "Award points when a user posts 1000 topics" rule:

 
Some rules can award different users too - for example, we have an action that fires when someone votes on a poll, but you can choose to award the voter and/or the poll author. I think this sort of flexibility will open up some really interesting engagement possibilities!

I currently use Members Shop to encourage activity. This has to be the best plugin available for the forum.

The main factor is allowing members to use their points to gain rewards. 

Whether it be the ability to pin a topic for a set number of days, or use it to download a file, it is very powerful.

Now that the developer of this plugin is no longer supporting it, this is a great opportunity to offer this type of gamification officially. 

I do hope as it develops, these types of features getting added overtime. 

These are all great ideas! This will be an ongoing project that will evolve over time. In our initial release we aren't translating points to = money. But I do like that concept because in theory it encourages people to engage. One issue with that is we want to avoid members writing "lol" as their comment just to earn points. But maybe we can implement a character threshold. Just thinking out lout with ya 😆  

You didn't see this snippet from our 4.6 changelog from me shhhhh
 

I tried for a while to get Google Workspace to work with IPS, I just could not get it to work unfortunately.

I tried for a while to get Google Workspace to work with IPS, I just could not get it to work unfortunately.

What's New in Version 1.5.2:
 
New Features:
Add questions image to the quiz results Add Quizzes Plays to the Admin CP ->Statistics -> Activity -> Overview Fix:
Fix points integration when playing quizzes without enable the Members Shop integration Fix error when creating a category with reviews disabled

@TheJackal84 You've ended up creating a number of apps that are extremely well received by your customers and their community members, as such their continued availability and timely updates to be compatible with each new IPS update takes on an increased level of importance in their minds. The price of success.  Try to be of good cheer during these trying times.
I agree with @liquidfractalthat the occasional Hi Folks, here's where things stand every week or so would be appreciated by your customer base. 
 
 
 

And like I said I have more than 1 app I work on, here I have about 50, with custom ones I have well over 100 without the ones here, I have a life, I have 2 children, I work 40 hours a week elsewhere what I have actually not been 2 for the last 2 weeks as I try to play catch up everywhere else, On IPS there are so many different versions of rules 1 post says this can happen where the other one says it can't or that it should be removed in the future, not right not but then it gets rejected as they want it removed right now, When I am writing updates some take 5 minutes some take days where some can take weeks, I update them once at a time and can not wait for a acceptance or rejection from IPS before I start on another as some can be approved on the day where some aint downloaded or checked for days so I need to start on another, 4-5 days later I get a email saying rejected cos it used 1 core_groups column and I say to myself once I finished what I am doing I will crack on and sort that, as I will not stop halfway through writing something to write something else, I also said this app has no renewal and was bought as seen working on the version it stated at the time, and I also said that my apps with renewals will always come first.
Anyway it got updated so lets see what happens with it now

Nope, I'm getting onto this definitely this weekend. 

I hear ya. Sounds like simplifying certain processes is important. 
The biggest hurdle that first comes to mind is prioritizing what processes we would want to look at first considering there's, like, a bajillion things one can do with Invision 😂. 
In other words, you read certain documentation, but it doesn't make sense mainly because it's slightly too complex, is that right? Also, can you point out a specific example for me please 🙏 
Also, props on majoring in music 👏  music is a big part of my life and my own Invision Community =]

You could write up about the lamentable help guides which are anything but helpful to those wanting to learn how things work in the IPS arsenal.  For example, there are very few real-world examples of 'how to' - to further this look at custom fields, there is a brief look but no real examples of how you would put those custom fields to use in templates, in various locations and uses etc.  Anyone wanting to learn would need to understand (or be experts) in PHP, HTML, etc when all they want is to add a custom field in a forum, or pages, or a blog.

This part hits home. Overall your response was pretty epic. 👏  I'm going to let your comment digest and I'll circle back if you don't mind. Thank you for sharing your insight 🙏 

Thanks,
yes you can create collection with tags. I've created a new tab collection in demo page for you to check it.

That's a good idea.
I'll definitely add this option in the next version

Very nice plugin. I do have a question.

If I wanted to show some handpicked threads placed in different sections of my forum together in a Tab or Grid,  would I be able to do that?

From looking at the screenshots, maybe I could do it with tags? I don't use the tags on my forum, but maybe as the admin, I could go and insert a tag on the posts I want to show together in a Tab or Grid? Example, I could add a tag named "tab-1" on all the posts I want to show in Tab 1. Would this work?

Thank you in advance for taking the time to answer my question/