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Current Gallery settings allow Admins to limite file uploads by file size.
This setting is ok for photos, but not so great for videos.
As long as Gallery accepts video files, it would be nice to have a setting to limit video uploads based on videos length in seconds.

It would be great if when you click on an ajax notification popup at the bottom of the screen, it should clear out the notification in your notification list as well!  Not a huge issue but it's all in the little details!  🙂

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.

But! You can offer certain customers a 6% coupon code for their valued membership!

 

Search is pretty complex in IPS4 and to be honest, lack of Commerce search was a mere oversight. Unfortunately, it's not something that can just be easily plopped in, but it is something, along with pages in Pages that we have slated to be added in a search overhaul. 

First time I've really seen the new sidebar topic summary in action. Works really well especially on multipage threads.It gives a real flavour of what the thread is all about.

 
Just a thought on this, it works so well that I am wondering whether something similar couldn't be used in topic lists. I've got a feeling it would do a better job than what we currently have:
 

 
 

Appreciate the feedback, thanks!

We're constantly looking for new ways to improve content discovery. There are already widgets you can use to show popular content when viewing a topic list but we're definitely open to any ideas.

From what I gather, it's not quite the direction we're taking IPS into at the moment. There's some other major things that we need to focus on for the time-being,  however I do personally see a lot of value with it 🙂 
It'll def stay on my mind and hopefully I can inspire some change 🙏 

Can we please get the addition of the question/answer challenge on the contact us form? Captcha is not adequate any longer.

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There's so much to unpack here, but I love where your head is at. I put your feedback into our system and will have some eyes take a look. I'd imagine this would be a huge undertaking, but I do think it'd elevate Invision in a pretty profound way. @liquidfractal

Perhaps this is a pipe dream, but as sub-economies have proven to be a very effective way of hijacking goal-oriented psychology I would love to see a native points system in IPB.
In such an application one could develop different "banks" for different types of points systems depending on the nature of your website.  Examples:
"credits" (for purchasing services, Store products, exchanging for cash donations to relevant charities) tokens (for gambling, buying bling for their online personae) hours (if you're like me, you sell hours of tuition and/or consultation) How might these points be accumulated/awarded?  Examples:
buying blocks of tokens/credits/hours in the Store buying Store products: buy product X and get Y amount of credits in points system Z having the highest-rated answers in a Q/A Support forum having the highest reputation in a given forum Awarding points to people who invite new members to your community completing courses or other certifications Other ideas:
Targeted emails to certain groups, or certain individuals when credits/tokens/hours are at X or 0 - time to get more!) Targeted emails to people indicating they've been awarded free tokens/credits/etc. Promotions where points are awarded under special circumstances from dates X to Y Toss tokens into a (virtual) fight pit and watch your community fight for them.  Cue the oldschool Star Trek fight music.  Dance, puppets, daaaaance! mwuahahaha) Hijacking goal-oriented psych--err, offering points could be a great way to spur development and participation in one's community.  They could also obviously be integrated into other apps (or other apps could make use of points) as part of competitions, e.g., submitting the highest-rated photos, articles, blog posts, etc.  The possibilities go on and on!
As some know there have been a couple of third-party devs who have made Points systems, but I have come to think that if one is going to embed something like this into a community (let alone a business) I wouldn't want to trust it to anyone but the core developers for updates and stability.
I obviously can't speak for others, but I for one would be happy to pay for this as an additional (optional) IPS module, similar to the way IP.Downloads is offered.

Additional points that were super confusing to a new person in this community involving Marketplace and search. I think this may be what @MEVi is running into:
Use the term "Marketplace" everywhere. It's great that IPS uses their own product, but it's completely lost on a new person that "Marketplace" is "Downloads." ACP > Translate those strings, so that when I'm doing a search my brain doesn't have to think, no wait.. downloads. In Marketplace, when performing a search, the search box doesn't default to Marketplace results. This is counterintuitive. Might be a nice feature to provide an administrator option to have quicksearch prioritize the context in which it is called from. If you're in gallery, then search gallery only by default unless specified, or offer a radio box in the drop down upon typing (not the full list when you hit the magnifying glass icon) to quickly choose current context or all, i.e.:  [x] Gallery [ ] Entire Community [more...] Provide a place for me to send invoices for all these valuable tips. 😁

Why is something like this not part of IPS, is there no way of having this within the software if it detects a bounce back and setting that member accordingly?

+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.

Crossing fingers to have big news for video in the next release!

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I'm all for it.
These days having video upload/stream options on our small niches is a must. Specially when we are trying to get away from the big corps. I know video is costly, but for small communities is not a big issue, because when your offer your members a friendly/trusty space to socialize, they pitch in. And you can always limit the size/time of the videos, similar to what Tik Tok does.
I really hope IPS seriously considers adding a native video application to the sw. 📹 🙏
 

A long shot I know, but I'd love to see the gallery become a truly video-friendly place. 
> Automatic thumbnail option (generated from midway point in video perhaps)
> Video compression options
> Inbuilt video player, rather than relying on users browser's video player. 
 
Would be willing to pay for anyone who developed these features too.

+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.

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?  

+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.

There are no public plans for anything at this time, but we are aware of the needs/desires of many administrators to improve video handling within the software. I was mostly just stating a fact, but that doesn't mean it's something we've not looked into either.

Yes, Gallery has an extraordinary potential that is not explored.
I had some thoughts here:
It would also be nice to have stories on gallery:
 

You're right, I've seen now and it allows, unfortunately though it doesn't indicate if this is a video or an image, at this point it would be cute/better to have the “play” icon to indicate a media content.
Yes, I know, but I never understood why a user should care about the name of the image. I think that goes to break the beauty of the design. Also if one uploads 50 images together, changing name to every single image becomes a huge job, for something that in my opinion shouldn't appear there, at least. In my opinion that be inserted just above “Taken with”, in the lightbox.  Or they include the function for “rename all to:” a bit like when setting copyright in on mass.
It's a bit like in the attachments of images in posts, rightly the name of the attachment (if image) is not shown because it's not of interest.
Moreover I am not a developer of the IPS scene, so I do not know if it is true, and I ask you. Is it true that plugins can't include elements in lightboxes?
I hope you improve this application that really has so much potential.
 

Gallery should be a Media Center that provide rich video and image tools that support and enrich across IPS platform. By now it still a traditional gallery concept, need innovative improvements. 

I honestly believe that IP.Board is one of the most complete platforms, but unfortunately its additional content (Downloads aside) needs more attention.
In Gallery you can also upload videos as well as images, but in every button there is “Insert image”, wouldn't it be better to put “insert media”? (obviously where video content is allowed to load) Whenever a person uploads a video, the video doesn't have any thumbnails, I have no idea if with php you can extrapolate a frame from the video, but I sincerely believe it would take too much. Why not allow a custom thumb to be loaded? Maybe with FFmpeg? YouTube style, 3/5 thumbnails where the user chooses the best one.
When a blank album is created, a blank thumb is created, in the list, wouldn't it be better a written with: “There are no images in this album yet”?
File name in the gallery, why? in albums me and my users upload lots of screnshots, it's hard to edit every single name... But why make it appear in “ipsPhotoPanel”?
An edit I asked for a few times, and I tried to make it custom, spoiler images. Now every community has the possibility to hide images, because they have spoiler or NFSW content, such as the method used by Reddit or Steam. And finally, a secondary thing but definitely nice and appreciable in a gallery, a personalized video player, and not the classic HTML5. A video player that allows you to put the logo of the site and other customizations, example: VideoJS, JWPlayer or Plyr.