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Chris027

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  1. Using the follow feature is too "inside baseball" to hook causual readers. One has to know where to look for the follow button and understand it. On the other hand, if a writer could put an email address form in each article and say, get notified each time I post, people would be much more apt to understand it and use it. I'd like to bring on a few mroe writers and provide them with their own spaces / clubs. They will build their own followings and possible their own sponsors. I want to make things as easy as possible for them.
  2. I have writers who want their own club section and want to give people the ability to subscribe to the club like a substack. In other words, receive articles written for the club as an email notification. I realize people can kind of do this already but it would be awesome to have a box where people could enter their email addresses to subscribe to a club.
  3. Ok. It would be nice to discuss in another topic. One sub-topic is how some of us currently make manual adjustments so our ads aren’t blocked by the popular ad blockers. It’d be great to eliminate this need.
  4. Very nice looking and nice features. Please keep in mind that many of us use advertisements as our main source of funding to keep our sites going. I don’t see much room for ads in any v5 snippets.
  5. Given that FTP/SFTP access to IPS Cloud isn't allowed, it would be nice if the media uploader accepted more file types. Not all files are for playback or viewing directly inside a browser. I want to offer my readers a FLAC file to download within an article, but can't upload it via the media uploader. Because I'm still self hosted I will SFTP it to the server, but it would be nice to have this capability for when I eventually move to the cloud. Accepted file types js, css, txt, ico, gif, jpg, jpe, jpeg, png, mp4, 3gp, mov, ogg, ogv, mp3, mpg, mpeg, ico, flv, webm, wmv, avi, m4v, webp, m4a, wav, pdf, svg
  6. Thanks. I'll see if I can let them know and if they'll work on not identifying it as such.
  7. Hi Guys, I just noticed that Proton Mail identifies spacer.png as a tracker in the email sent from my site. Here's the message I get in my mail client. Question: Is spacer.png really a tracker, and if so how can I stop it from being used in my community? Or, is this a misidentification?
  8. I just don’t see myself looking at the providers page, then going to their individual pages, then looking at apps. Most of the apps I use were found by browsing here, not even searching. I’m guessing I’ll gradually use the stock, less good, version of Invision Community. Kind of a bummer.
  9. Very nice. One thing I’d love to see is the ability to restrict dark mode to specific user groups. This would be nice because we sell subscriptions that remove advertisements. Dark mode works great for subscribers, but for those who see the ads dark mode would make the ad images look really strange.
  10. I think I figured this out. It's a way for scammers to test stolen credit cards to see if they still work. Had it happen today.
  11. Doesn’t make sense to me. If I’ve already captured the reader, I could encourage him/her to sign up and follow my site, on my actual site. Or, I could send him/her packing and hope he/she follows my site on CH and doesn’t find too much other content. Everyone’s time is limited. Sending someone away, where there is competing content, makes no sense to me.
  12. Why would I want to send readers to another site to follow my own site?
  13. Yes, we need this in V5 (without even seeing V5)!
  14. I just tested out the new "Require guests to verify their email?" option. The popup that tells people they need to verify their email is way to small and disappears way to fast. I would love the option that would take people to a new landing page with instructions. This way it won't disappear and they could even leave the page on their screens while they verified their email addresses. Contact Us is critical to some businesses.
  15. I should also add that analytics and measurements aren’t for everyone. Just because we can measure everything doesn’t mean it’s helpful in reaching goals. I write about what interests me and the community writes about what interests it. If we went by stats, we’d all be talking about other stuff trying to boost numbers but simultaneously lowering our enjoyment. The ways in which we offer content are very similar. We do podcasts because they are fun and a different way to provide information. If we were to go by statistics, we probably would’ve stopped doing pods after 5 episodes. Now, the pods bringing new members to the community even with what I’m guessing is low numbers of listeners. I don’t pay attention to stats. They lead to homogenized content for those with the goal of improving stats.
  16. It should be up to community managers to decide who sees the value in these numbers. I can’t think of a single reason this information should be broadcast to the world on all communities.
  17. Giving community owners the option to remove them would be wonderful though.
  18. This seems cool, but I’d like to ease into it. Can we disable the Community Hive button?
  19. Nobody is interesting to everyone. If a topic is interesting to one person or someone finds an answer found nowhere else, that’s fantastic. Number of views is indicative of one thing, how many views it got. Absolutely nothing more.
  20. I’d love an option to disable public view counts for articles and even forum topics. We’ve become accustomed to seeing this because it has been around forever, but I think it’s detrimental to a community. Encouraging everyone to participate can be really tough for those whose topics or blog posts don’t get many views. People get discouraged easily. Plus, view counts play into the whole “more followers is the goal” ideology, rather than good content and community are the goal.
  21. I received a notification icon that someone wanted his/her account deleted. Because I had no clue what would happen if I deleted it from within that specific section of AdminCP, I went to the user's account and removed it there. Now this red circle won't go a way.
  22. Thank you Matt. This gives me confidence.
  23. Thank for the more reasonable reply. I hear you, but also am hesitant to buy into change when the only information available is sparse. There are some awesome communities full of information and interaction, still running terrible looking versions of software. For them, it's about getting and giving information fast and efficiently. This is the opposite of a site like YouTube where it's about dragging people along until you can show another commercial or sponsored segment or the site trying to get you to watch more videos until your eyes dry out. Perhaps I'm the only person without patience to weed through a mountain of garbage just to get the nugget of info I need. Much of the internet has become exhausting now days. I frequently think of this magazine cover compared to magazines of today and websites where there is so much going on it causes a headache. More isn't automatically better, and neither is less. There's a happy medium, and using technology to meet needs is always good.
  24. I don't suffer from FOMO and I understand my community far better than anyone else. I don't jump on bandwagons or follow the herd. Only dead fish swim with the current. It's about having vision and content, not the new shiny object.
  25. When using an app for fun, this kind of thing got me excited. I use IPS for my business, so this means nothing but problems and tons of work coming soon. My community likes stability and hates change just for change sake. V5 sounds like a bunch of change, even for everyone who wants to maintain the same experience for their communities.
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