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  1. Can you even have 'question and answer challenge' as an option on the contact form? I feel like this would massively help spam, but I didn't even realise there was a setting for this... I still can't find it if there is... 😂
  2. Since the above application hasn't been updated since 2019, I wonder if IPS would consider adding some of these features into the core software? I imagine reactions are used by almost every community, so would be great to see their functionality expanded a little more. 🙂
  3. Just to expand on this, I'm proposing a search that a member can do inside of private conversations. (In the same way you could search for a specific phrase within a public thread by selecting "this topic" in the search options, instead you would be able to search for a specific phrase within a private conversation in the search options too). We have people with conversations of 50+ pages who would love this feature. Thanks.
  4. I realize I'm just getting greedy at this point... but one more I just thought of: Automatically show the video's duration - Right now the gallery doesn't show you the video length until you've already loaded the video - would be great if a youtube-style timestamp was automatically included in the corner of the thumbnail (e.g. 04:21 for a 4 minute 21 second video).
  5. Just wondering if this is something you think may get included in a future release? Maybe I'm wrong, but I would guess a lot of sites don't utilise features like calendar events or commerce, and so creating a new topic is the only option for users. Therefore removing the extra menu/click would definitely be a nice little improvement.
  6. +1 for this. If you click the black popup at the bottom, it still leaves the notification. Would be great if they synced up.
  7. Would be really great to have slightly more control over the widgets. For example, on our community, we'd love a recent activity block that: Showed the name of the thread, but with the avatar and username of the person who just posted in it (rather than thread creator). Showed the forum section where the thread is (so in this case, would have a small label saying 'feedback & ideas'). Additionally, perhaps some way to incorporate a user's custom activity stream within a sidebar block. The activity streams are such a great feature, but underutilised when buried away within the activity page. Having user's be able to see a shortlist of their chosen content (based on their own settings) right there on the homepage sidebar would be brilliant.
  8. Agreed! Question and answer seems to work great, as we get hardly any spam bots registering/posting, yet the contact us form is flooded with them! Since question & answer is already built into IPS, hopefully this would be possible to integrate to the contact us form too? 🙏
  9. This would be amazing! Members Shop application looks like it does most (if not all) of this, but for something this major it would be great to have it natively built and integrated into IPS, as I can see some mixed reviews on the third party integration.
  10. I can relate to this! I thought I was just missing something, but right now I don't think there is any in-built way to manage this problem without external applications/scripts, right? It would be really great if IPS could introduce a way to halt all future emails to an address once an email bounces, until they re-verify their email address.
  11. This really looks amazing, and seems to be an all-in-one solution to the kind of video features a lot of us were hoping for. I understand Invision have video on their radar (which is really great to hear, thank you IPS!) but in the meantime, I wonder whether anyone has already tried to integrate a solution like this themselves?
  12. +1 for all of those! I believe IPS have said video/media in the gallery is on their radar, but any of the suggestions above would be really great to see! For me, the ideal features would be: Automatic thumbnail generation for videos Video compression Custom video player (right now some videos don't play for certain users, depending on their browser) Possible integration with amazon mediaconvert (which I believe would do a lot of the above) - I believe this would also allow for multiple versions of a file to be served depending on the user, for example a lower resolution version on mobile devices / weak internet connections. Those kind of features could save a small fortune on bandwidth costs and improve performance too, as right now I believe the full raw video file is downloaded as soon as anyone loads the video. Wording changed to reflect media/videos, not just images.
  13. Sure, thank you! I was just checking here because this was early last year that the issue happened (and I manually was able to resolve it since only a relatively small amount of files were affected)... so I was more just checking if this was a known thing that had already been resolved. Guessing from your reply perhaps not though! Thanks again.
  14. A while ago I moved gallery images over to S3 (from file storage), and whilst it was mostly a smooth experience, any files with special characters in their name (%!& etc) stopped working. They files did transfer over to S3, but S3 renamed them slightly, by replacing the special characters that aren't allowed on aws. As a result, on the front end interface of my site, those renamed files no longer worked, as the path was now very slightly different on S3 because of the forced name change. This was quite some time ago, but I am now exploring moving all user uploads to S3, and am wondering if the issue I described above was a known bug/glitch that has since been fixed on more recent versions? If not, perhaps it was due to a configuration mistake I made. But I was just following the Invision guide through each step, so I'm not sure where I could have gone wrong if that's the case. Only a relatively small amount of my gallery files had special characters, so it wasn't a disaster by any means. But if the same thing happened with all user uploads, it would be - so I'm very keen to make sure the same special character issue doesn't happen again. Thanks in advance to anyone who can shed any light on this.
  15. Thank you very much! Right now it really is just the same very small selection of choices over and over again. Doesn't need to be genuinely random, just some way to not constantly cycle through the exact same images.
  16. Nearly a year on and worryingly I don't think there has been any update in terms of video support. I understand Invision is primarily a forum and not a video CMS, but video content is something that I am sure is important to most modern online communities, so I would love to see some steps to update the handling of videos within the gallery. Lots of great suggestions within this thread already.
  17. zyx

    Member Shops Possible?

    Exactly - it feels like the functionality is essentially already there with commerce + downloads, but just not an option for members to create their own 'shops'.
  18. I can understand the skepticism of Bitcoin, but I hope support for cryptocurrency/blockchain payments in general is considered. There are stablecoins that can be used if price volatility is the concern.
  19. Unfortunately since probably only a relatively small percent of people use the random image block, I imagine this will be another thing that just gets forgotten. But for us, it would be a very big improvement if this was resolved.
  20. Sadly still not fixed. @bfarber It will initially seem to be working, as it will show 4-5 different groups of 'random' gallery items. (So for the first 4 or 5 times of seeing the block, it works great). But after about 4 or 5 times, it will simply cycle back to the original group of items it selected. So in a gallery of countless thousands of items, actually only about 20 items ever get shown. And no, I am certain it's not down to the filtering settings - in theory the block should be pulling from 3,000+ items based on the settings, but it's always the same 20 or so items it seems to 'randomly' select from. Have cleared cache etc and checked for obvious fixes, but this has been happening for years so we just stop using the block. Really dissapointing though.
  21. Just to confirm, is this still the case?
  22. zyx

    Member Shops Possible?

    I see there is a member shop extension by @TheJackal84 - but I wonder if anyone knows whether that can be used with commerce to accept real payments? Or is the official downloads app the best workaround for members selling their own items for cash? Thanks!
  23. zyx

    Member Shops Possible?

    I am assuming this still doesn't exist then? For some reason I thought it did, but I can't seem to find it (which led me to this thread).
  24. Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure how complicated the features I mentioned are, but I'd be interested in financially contributing to their development if you were open to it once the craziness of the 4.5 update is over with? (either as a separate application or for this application if you were happy to expand its features to be more friendly to uploaded videos). I have spoken with several people here who were eagerly hoping for something like this.
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