Chris027

I'm requesting post numbers be an option to enable/disable. The reason why I really want these is because I often get notified about conversations that have gone way off topic. There may be 20 pages of on topic, mixed with off topic, and some in the middle. When a member of the community asked me to move the off topic posts to another topic, I have to read through every post in the 20 pages, understand each one within the content of the discussion, and make a decision which posts to move. It's impossible. If posts had numbers, I could just ask which posts people want moved, and it would be simple.

It would also be really nice to be able to give the topic originator the ability to be a moderator of his post or posts. I used to use such a mod.

OK one more question: Is it possible to give topic starters the ability to recommend posts?

This was beyond simple. Thank you so much for the help!

Oh dang! If I follow this correctly, I could just recommend the most current version of the list, in whatever post, and it will be at the top?

Hi Guys, I need help determining the best way to solve a problem. In my community we often have topics that contain lists of products, and the lists need updating as new products come out. For example, a member of the community may post a list of all speakers that come in the color red. This is the first post in the topic, followed by discussion of the speakers for several pages, then a new red speaker will be released and the list will get reposted on page 10 (for example), making the original list obsolete. This goes on for years, with many new updated lists. I only allow editing posts for 30 minute after publishing/saving them due to misuse by bad actors. Unfortunately, this makes it impossible for the original poster to edit his initial post containing the list. Question: What's the best way to use any IPS feature (not just a forum topic) to host lists of things that need to be updated, but also require specific members of the community be able to edit them? I was thinking of a Page, and giving a person or couple people access to the page for editing, and putting the Page URL in the forum topic, so discussion could continue in the forum. Not really sure the best way to solve my issue, thus the question.

Thanks for the communication. Every bit helps as we inch closer to a large upgrade.

I have the emails. I couldn’t believe what they were telling me. I think it’s draconian to require a published physical address, in order to route email. I also know they don’t enforce it for every domain, thus my “certain domains” comment. Given that receiving email at one of these addresses is difficult, every member of my community who has an address at one of these addresses, also has one at a service that works much better.

Just an FYI, I don't allow people to signup on my site with @t-online.de addresses either. The sole reason is that t-online.de has draconian policies about blocking mail from domains it doesn't like. They actually told me I had to post my physical home address on my website in order to allow their users to receive email from my domain. I just tell people, "You are not allowed to use that email address on this site."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Thanks. I'll see if I can let them know and if they'll work on not identifying it as such.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Yes, we need this in V5 (without even seeing V5)!

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.

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.

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.

Giving community owners the option to remove them would be wonderful though.

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.