BomAle

After 10 months of testing, customizing, learning all the new stuff (settings etc.), some days ago I converted my lovely vBulletin 3.x forum to IPS 4.3. (11 years old, 450.000 posts)
I was really scared during the whole conversion process and every single difference from the norm resulted in small panic attacks.  
IPS Staff @Daniel F 's support during this time was a real life saver, he has given so much above and beyond his duty. He is a real, big asset IPS has to offer,
Well, so far my members are loving it. There were no real complaints, except one user was asking if he still can change the topic view to have the newest posts first like it was possible in vB. Another user complained about missing profile comments and post attachments. Hopefully IPS staff can recover this data soon. Maybe I did something wrong in the conversing process. One user complained about the search function. I explained to him how it works.
To help the members getting a good experience I created some video tutorials about new functions. Right now the overall activity on site is still some quiet but I hope I can revive my forum to new spheres soon.  Some more work have to be done like moving forum parts into pages and smaller changes here and there. 
But for now I am really satisfied with the situation at the whole. Running my community in the last years was really boring, it didn't makes fun and I let things go down. 
The new IPS forum changed things a lot. Now I LOVE IT to browse my forum and enjoy it so much how it works, how it feels and how it looks. It is an absolute fantastic new experience I can't describe in words. The same feeling was there when I started with forums on vB 3.5.  No, not the same, now it is way better. My new Invision forum is so cool I could play with 24 hours without a break.
So many features and so lovely implemented, thank you Invision Team for this great job.
The only bad experience was with the plugins and applications, maybe 30% contain more or less bugs. This gave me a lot of headaches and sometimes too much anger.
But hey,  I want to close with a positive feeling. IPS is the leader and I love it. 
 

A bit messy, just moved to a new house. 

These are my actual PC specs for the "Powerful PC" thing:

Running a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080. Probably getting a VR setup within the next year.

Dare I should show my office (man cave) and risk a take-over?  Location:  On the water somewhere in Missouri.  And yes it "rocks", literally.

My little workspace ?
Monitor
Dell U2917W 21:9 PC Specs
Processor: Intel Core i5 8600k 6x4.3GHz RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB, DDR4, 2x8GB, 3000MHz, CL15 Cooling: CPU be quiet! Pure Rock Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX960 4GB ASUS STRIX Motherboard: MSI Z370 TOMAHAWK Image
Original Mona Lisa ? Other
Wacom One Medium Cat from childhood (8 years old)

I tried to use the available space and use a configuration with Santech N87. I gradually improved the desk by sawing the shelf in three and bought 4 partial extraction guides to have the possibility to slide each floor.
Finally I installed an Arctic Z1 to be able to move at will the monitor especially when I have to work with friends.

It lacks the orderliness of everybody else's, I feel, but it's my attempt to look modern: two monitors with a laptop docked to them, etc. But yeah ... cables everywhere, shoved off to the side where they won't get in the way. And try not to notice that the main monitor is millimetres too tall for its location when connected to its own stand, so I've had to knock up a fairly rubbish wooden frame for it and wedge it in there. At least I have lighting, though! (It's a strip light, Matt, for added points!)

I tried to use the available space and use a configuration with Santech N87. I gradually improved the desk by sawing the shelf in three and bought 4 partial extraction guides to have the possibility to slide each floor.
Finally I installed an Arctic Z1 to be able to move at will the monitor especially when I have to work with friends.

@MattCan we have 4.3.3. as soon as possbile? Monday is a bank holiday in many european countries. We could use this day to set up everything finally regarding GDPR. Thanks for all your efforts!

We can look at that in a future release.
One thing I'm always mindful of is security of the account.
What would a checkbox on a single use form do? 

My lawyer also heavily insists, that there must be a checkbox in the contact form.
@Matt
Another Thing:
I like the new download Feature for personal data. I would like to give that Option on my members in their account Settings. I don't see any harm in that. Maybe give the Administrator the choice if he want to give the members that Option.

And LEGO®, SEGA®, Warner Bros, etc. ?

IPS rarely responds to any feedback in the feedback forum.  I like to think of those forums more like an infinite void for retail clients, where I send off my hopes and dreams.  
Check your membergroups  to add albums.  When you're in gallery, you should see a button to Add Images.  

@Charles@Matt

We also nees this for the "Contact-us" Form. I we want to contact the user after he used the form, he have to agree before that we store his personal data, most likely his e-mail adress.

Two general additions

1) The above is all for self-hosted forums. In case a user booked your cloud services you should provide an "order processing agreement" document, which should be signed from both sides. Also it is a good idea Invision gets listed under https://www.privacyshield.gov.

2) I'm not sure for myself, but we (in Europe) should consider to enable age verification check because of https://gdpr-info.eu/art-8-gdpr/.
 

Yes, typo fixed. I meant explicit but my brain substituted the word incorrectly. The intention was always explicit consent as the surrounding text illustrated.
If you're more comfortable removing IP addresses from content data, then get in touch with support and we'll show you the queries to run on your database (assuming you make back-ups, and are comfortable with admin tasks like that, etc, etc).

Confusing and crazy. It's being talked about on WoltLab and XenForo. On WoltLab they are saying you have to add you Name and Address on the privacy policy page as well.
Lol, guess you could do that really. Make them pay to remove their account. Ha! Good one, call it admin fees.

Invision Community © 2018 IPS, Inc. must have a lot of european customers, isn't it? So you must be preoccupied with GDPR for your terms & policy too, as we here all or not?
I apologize in advance, but I still do not understand what to do and how to prepare for the 25th of May.
To copy someone's else (IPS for example) GDPR policy to my site would be great and easy for me, and all i can as noob admin.

I'm looking for a way to embed the community search in my Wordpress search or in the search result page in Wordpress. Do you have a hint for me?

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

I prefer communities without (external) advertisement. 
The only real interesting part for me are the IPS subscription services which are highly customizable.
My monetization strategy is
virtual currencies / points systems that integrate perfectly into commerce/downloads. It's a natural incident, that most customers never use/spend all their deposited credits, so the community wins all forgotten or expired credits.  better handling for transactions for digital products for european union customers/members, so we won't get in conflict with laws and tax regulation. Please help us expand in the EU and reach out for more paying customers. something like an IPS native "automation rules" / trigger systems, if event x happens then do y (f.e. send pms, emails, react, superlike...) the more you can target and engage your members (and add your own ads in there) the more will be sold. With such a trigger system, make it happen to generate personal vouchers and limited time offers enhance email marketing campaigns, introduce options for bulk email subscribers filtering, so we can entice more members to subscribe into bulk emails, award subscribers (with community benefits), disclose the opt-outs. As soon as you have a bunch of willing subscribers and good, valid emails, you have a very high chance to power up your conversion value. If you don't like (external) advertisements in your own community, but you already are a commercial actor, then monetization requires a different strategy. 

Thanks for the links, I'll take a look. I still don't understand why this wouldn't be part of the core product though.

This one? Pretty expensive
EDIT:
Here is another:
 

Could you be more specific about the points 1 and 3?  That is:
Where did IPS "answer" about the opt-in/opt-out of cookies?
For the record, showing a message stating that cookies were set is not a valid opt-in.  I'm also not sure where we can opt-out after accepting the cookies.
(I don't think GDPR forces us to rely on consent to store cookies, but it would be nice if IPS allowed us to do so.) Where did IPS "answer" about allowing to export users' personal data?
I'm not sure which data users may require to be exported for portability, but even if we assume it is just the profile info (which may be easy to collect), note that the users may also request to know all personal data stored about them.  I'm pretty sure this includes IP addresses stored in IPS logs.  In any case, I did not find any feature to export users data in IPS 4.3 (but I may be missing it).

As of Beta 4/Final - yep!

Maybe its already built in, not sure...but I'm surprised their isn't a report for registration and login method showing you which login handlers are used in your community.