Alzar

So, to me, this is absolutely bonkers. 

IPS' team has noticed that their plugin community is a fraction of what it used to be, thinks this is because everyone has switched to bespoke work (You sure it's not the other way around? People using bespoke work /because/ the plugin community has a fraction of the size it did back when there was a free version and before IPS was trying to be everything for every person by default?). 

So they /murder/ pre-made plugins. No, we're not going to see thriving new marketplaces. Excited devs will start some, none of these will be as active as the current one, most if not all of these efforts will peter out quickly. Not having the marketplace in the panel, not having them vetted by IPS, not having people browse over them prior to purchasing IPS (and plan out a setup with plugins), not having their plugins listed on IPS' websites are all small cuts that together, cut deep. IPS' website was never a limiter on other marketplaces (they've always existed for themes and some plugins), but free advertisement to those who did have those. You're merely taking away an option and your stamp of approval. 

And you do this brilliant move in the middle of a version, announcing it to your costumers roughly a month up-front. 

Definitely not obvious you're springing it this way to ensure customers don't either, mass-hug a former major version to keep their plugins, or start planning migrations away from IPS between the time of announcement and release. 

Now, months after it happened, I google 'Invisionpower plugins marketplace' and find nothing on the first page. 

Sincerely, as someone who was a fan once of IPS, you people suck.

Getting some great quotes for the marketing material, thanks!

Holy f***, that is incredibly nice.
Y'all are knocking it out of the park with v5

Holy f***, that is incredibly nice.
Y'all are knocking it out of the park with v5

v5 looks promising.
As someone who runs small communities and is working on relaunching one currently, this new licensing is great for us. It actually lowers our total paid and gives us access to apps that would have been nice-to-haves but we couldn't justify the extra costs.
Still some disappointment over the decisions about the marketplace, but v5 gives me some hope for the future of Invision

🍂🍎 Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! 🍏🍂
Thank you for checking out our weekly, round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week. 
 
This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 
 
Current Happenings
Newest Version 5 Teaser is here! 🎉
Matt has given me the privilege of posting our new teaser here first! 👏
Check it out and let us know what you think.  🤩 
 
New Version
The official September release was made available last week. Upgrade your community now.
Here is what is included in September release, version 4.7.13. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/
Key improvements include:
New Spam Prevention Features Introducing Community Hive  
Release Chat
Our September release chat is scheduled for Wednesday. Join us live or catch the video and discussion in the converted topic after the event. 
 
Marketplace Closure
As a reminder, our Marketplace Closure announcement was made last month. Notices are added to the AdminCP with the September release. 
Last week, we have shared our new 'license key' system to allow you to transfer your purchases to the third-party developer website in a privacy-conscious way. You can get more details and ask any questions in that post: 
 
Changelog
No version 4 Changelog to share this week.

Thank you for reporting. This is a big more complex and I will need time to look into this bug. Unfortunately the only other work around right now would be to disable the Forms app while copying groups.

Any chance we can get some improvements to this? WIth how things currently are, it just feels like this was an idea that was done to MVP and just left, goals are beyond useless as if you're wanting deactivate a goal, or do something like a monthly goal there is absolutely no way to retain that donation goal. You either delete it, or reset it back to 0 manually. Can we get an option to either manually deactivate it, or be able to set a date for it to close which prevents contributions to it & hides it from the goal widget?

And why is it for pretty much every other feature of Commerce you can select which payment methods you want to allow, except for donations? I have a credit system that they're able to buy some items off the store, which works great as you can choose which methods are usable for both products & subscriptions. But unable to do that for donations (or gift cards)? So you're left with having to either disable methods entirely or spend time removing donations made using those methods. Can this be a setting somewhere?
 

Stay tuned for a new update with this included.

Curious is there any way to make the threads that the form creates have a prefix on it by default? Trying to setup status prefixes (Pending, Accepted, Declined) and trying to see if I can make new threads start with Pending prefix.