Mateusz Manikowski

New update pending approval for IPB 4.6 and several more bug fixes too.

Friday? Booo. Saturday? Blahhhh. Sunday? Who needs it! 
Welcome back to another fine edition of Hump Day, the best day, and today's is a doozy. 
We've officially launched 4.6 Beta 3! 🎉 
It's available for download or per request if you're on Cloud.
We're pretty confident things will be stable, but don't take our word for it; please make backups before updating. 
The official release will make its red carpet debut in the very near future.
What's changed from Beta 2 to Beta 3? @Matt passed along these changes (see below). It's worth mentioning these updates are our new team members, @Christopher Pei and @Marshall Slemp, first bug fixes. 👏 
Fixed an issue where Weekly and Monthly Email Stats were not displayed correctly Fixed an issue where CSV downloads were limited to 25 rows. Fixed an issue where editing a Link for an Image would not save. Fixed an issue where images added to a Custom Email were not showing up in the email being sent to the customer after a purchase. Fixed some spacing issues with member lists in various blocks. Fixed an issue where adding a theme setting to a parent theme didn’t update children themes with the new setting. Fixed an issue where the database checker may show un-needed database changes. Fixed an issue where an invalid “oembed” widget plugin type would appear when creating a block. Fixed deleting a widget not using JSON_PRETTY_PRINT for the widgets.json file. Fixed an issue where Achievements rebuilding would not finish Fixed an issue where Achievements badges would show in the hovercard during a rebuild. Fixed an issue where changing an authors name from anonymous would not reset the “is_anon” flag Fixed an issue where some ajax content was indexable by search engines Fixed an issue where badge counts could be wrong  

I know, that's a lot of awesomeness to absorb.
What are your thoughts? Have you been using any of the Beta releases thus far? We'd love to hear from you in the comments!
 
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The Tag cloud in this is great, but as mentioned above, sadly the app has been abandoned.
Would be nice to see IPS incorporate a tag cloud widget by default, as we found it was a really popular feature. 
And if we're really dreaming here, it would be even better to have the option within the widget of whether to show all tags for the entire site, or specifically tags for the current app.
By which I mean, if you're in the gallery, you could opt to have the tag cloud show only tags used in the gallery, and when clicking on a tag, only show gallery items with that tag. Same would apply if the widget was used on the forums, or in downloads and so on. 
But either way, any sort of tag cloud (that shows a clickable list of all the different tags used) would be a really useful feature.

This topic inspired me to make tagging mandatory when a user creates a new topic (they could add tags previously, but it wasn't required). I'd like to see in a few months what the tags functionality looks like so I can begin explaining to my community how to follow certain tags in a custom Activity Stream. It's an effort to begin really utilizing the Activity Streams and ideally shift our homepage from the top news stories, to a page where they're seeing content they chose. 
A tag cloud would be cool 👍 

@Stuart Silvester Isn’t this changed? I have a user sending messages to me saying that can’t download marketplace files because his license expired a couple of days ago and support says he can’t download. 

I'd love to say soon but it's more medium term then short term unfortunately. IPB 4.5 really did take a lot of effort at the same time as when I was busy with real life. I won't go into the full details but there was a lot of surprises in there that developers weren't aware of. It's not easy when you've got nearly 100 apps and plugins and you have to make large changes to lots of them.

COVID is really kicking my sites, I started gaining ways to fund my communities from within and even some third-party work.
Last month, I lost an incredibly kind donator who chipped £10 for the last 2+ a few months.
I've been ever do grateful for the support, donation drives go well but you can't always repeatedly ask for hand outs or hand ups - people soon become tired of it. However, there's still people out there willing to lend support.
Unfortunately, this concern has impacted my enjoyment of what I do and I've taken time away from my main site.
It's a community within the real world, without those live interactions there's little I can do. I'm trying to move into other avenues such as merch and emails (the latter I've neglected) but on those past occasions where the community got together I often had donations given to me in person.
I've never known a feature to be requested so much, by many different people.
As a long-standing user of IPS, Michael is someone who's shaped our communities through his apps (plus custom work). I value his time, effort and dedication highly.
I'm just hopeful that Stripe might be added soon, with 4.6 it could be longer and I do understand. It's not easy to balance time with life and more important demands (I mean this with the utmost respect).
It feels like the last roll of the dice for me, without the issues caused by COVID - I'd be just fine but everyone is in some form of Limbo. I would hate to be unable to keep something I care so much about. This application has helped me several times when I've really needed it, so I'm not complaining. I know Stripe will be handed at some stage. Take me back to the early 00s when things didn't cost so much. 👍🏻

There's no widget available for this app, but you can add it as an iframe.
You should be able to add this to a Pages block, select "Manual HTML".
<iframe src='{url="app=communitymap&module=communitymap&controller=showmap&do=embed" seoTemplate="communitymap"}' width='100%' height='300' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'></iframe>  

Does this application allow the use of STRIPE for payment processing @Michael.J?

Also Interested

Well, it's been a while since the community here talked about the job board app. Does anyone have news on this? I guess the project has been dropped?  
I am thinking to use the app "pages super directory" instead.

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