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    christopher-w got a reaction from Davyc in Proud to Present: An interview with Invision Community President Charles Warner   
    Nice job guys - when all is said and done, it's the people behind the scenes that make it all real.
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    christopher-w got a reaction from Jordan Miller in Welcome to the team, Jordan!   
    Looking forward to it. Happy to support you in any way I can.
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    christopher-w got a reaction from sobrenome in Welcome to the team, Jordan!   
    That's out of my hands Jordan. As I said I wish you the best in what I see as a very confusing remit.
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    christopher-w got a reaction from Jordan Miller in Welcome to the team, Jordan!   
    I was just reflecting internally how times are changing and how I should probably watch out for the next ice age.
    Good luck to you, I shall follow your progress with interest.
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    christopher-w got a reaction from sobrenome in Welcome to the team, Jordan!   
    I was just reflecting internally how times are changing and how I should probably watch out for the next ice age.
    Good luck to you, I shall follow your progress with interest.
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    christopher-w reacted to Joel R in Welcome to the team, Jordan!   
    Jordan - Congrats
    Matt - What does this position actually mean for clients?  How will he triage, prioritize, and escalate client feedback to the IPS team, all of whom can and do visit the forums themselves? What are the parameters for clients to help highlight and channel our feedback in an effective manner?  And finally, as a community advocate, what does he actually advocate?  Whom does he represent, and to what extent?  
    Until the company articulates - and the community can validate - these above questions, this new position is entirely aspirational.  
    Invision has attempted multiple community engagement tactics over the years.  And I have a long history of memory:
    I remember IPS Release Notes when Charles said you were going to provide a roadmap.  That quietly disappeared and failed.  I remember Tagging when Lindy said you were going to tag the status of features.  That quietly disappeared and failed.   I remember how you removed Pre-Sales and merged Feedback from all product lines together.  Product Feedback is now a mess.   I remember how you recently launched a Slack channel for Marketplace devs.  How is that going?   I genuinely and honestly don't mind you guys trying new things - that's great.  Every community (and company) should always be experimenting and launching new initiatives.  But the past history of your community engagement is littered with no follow through.  How is this time different?    
    To be blunt and on behalf of all of your retail clients, we don't need a Community Advocate to post memes.  We need a Community Advocate with the power to deliver and communicate on meaningful actions to drive our communities forward.
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    christopher-w got a reaction from Rikki in 4.5: Introducing our updated default theme   
    Perfect.
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    christopher-w got a reaction from Matt in 4.5: Page Builder Widgets   
    Hey. 
    Nice work  
    Any facility to add classes or Id to the blocks?
    And if so, a very cheap way to style multiple blocks at a time would be to create a new widget type called, for example, CSS editor, and in that add the style controls which are in the other blocks. This would enable us to, for example:
    1/ add class X to each content block
    2/ add CSS Editor block and allow CSS to target classes or ID. For example class X
    3/ style class X using inline controls (per your demo), or using custom css. 
    Not necessary of course, but would make editing a page a lot quicker if you wanted consistency in terms of padding etc. 
    Also, whilst here, it would be good to be able to add Id or class names to widget containers, making it easier to set up flex container, flex direction etc for multiple widgets in a container.
    Looking  forward to 4.5 

    edit: I appreciated you can already  add css styles to HTML editor blocks (assuming you have HTML edit perms)
    🙂
     
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    christopher-w got a reaction from Matt in 4.5: Forum View Updates   
    Yes exactly, although we have to keep an eye on overlay to image ratio, else it'll look a little congested?
    Thinking something like this (or others from the demos on top menu):
    WP Plugin - The Grid
    And for some nice layout effects, add something like: Packery
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    christopher-w reacted to AlexWebsites in 4.5: Forum View Updates   
    Yes, like default gallery you can probably use some custom css and darken the text container over the image. I also don’t like the text over the image because it gets lost. Maybe something like

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    christopher-w got a reaction from PrettyPixels in 4.5: Forum View Updates   
    We own a visual effects business and text on image is a bit of a nightmare, which is why most titles in broadcast will have either a solid background, or be formatted in some way, such as a 'lower third', or similar.
    But on the whole, this is a great improvement, and presumably allows us to easily format text and container with CSS.
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    christopher-w got a reaction from Matt in 4.5: Forum View Updates   
    We own a visual effects business and text on image is a bit of a nightmare, which is why most titles in broadcast will have either a solid background, or be formatted in some way, such as a 'lower third', or similar.
    But on the whole, this is a great improvement, and presumably allows us to easily format text and container with CSS.
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    christopher-w got a reaction from annadaa in 4.5: Forum View Updates   
    We own a visual effects business and text on image is a bit of a nightmare, which is why most titles in broadcast will have either a solid background, or be formatted in some way, such as a 'lower third', or similar.
    But on the whole, this is a great improvement, and presumably allows us to easily format text and container with CSS.
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    christopher-w got a reaction from Matt in 4.5: Topic view summary and more   
    Very, very nice and similar to what Discourse has. Although of course, Discourse doesn’t have the depth of Invision. 
     
    One small suggestion. If this is valuable within a topic, I see it as even more so within a forum. So showing (off the back of a promise) most frequent and popular posters, most popular topics, most answered questions - filtered by last 7/30/90 days  etc at the top of the forum page would be really cool.  But perhaps something for the future, coz who needs someone saying that they want even more when you’ve delivered something very cool  

     
     
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    christopher-w got a reaction from LaCollision in 4.5: Topic view summary and more   
    Very, very nice and similar to what Discourse has. Although of course, Discourse doesn’t have the depth of Invision. 
     
    One small suggestion. If this is valuable within a topic, I see it as even more so within a forum. So showing (off the back of a promise) most frequent and popular posters, most popular topics, most answered questions - filtered by last 7/30/90 days  etc at the top of the forum page would be really cool.  But perhaps something for the future, coz who needs someone saying that they want even more when you’ve delivered something very cool  

     
     
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    christopher-w got a reaction from sobrenome in 4.5: User Interface Improvements   
    Nice job. Image resize will be especially useful. I'd only been looking at adding a CKEditor plugin today to achieve same.
    Quote collapse - great. 
    Looking forward to all of this.
    Thank you. 
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    christopher-w reacted to Sonya* in 4.5: User Interface Improvements   
    Love it. Thanks!!!
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    christopher-w reacted to bfarber in 4.5: Simple Stock Photo Picker   
    Your existing attachment limits will already apply. 🙂 At the end of the day, these images are nothing fancier than attachments, just with a nice UI to submit.
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    christopher-w reacted to jair101 in 4.5: Simple Stock Photo Picker   
    Maybe it is nice to be able to distinguish between the personal and stock photos. Small pixabay logo in the corner or caption, something like that. I think as a reader I would want to know if a photo in a thread is a stock one. 
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    christopher-w reacted to Davyc in Team Talk: What's your favourite movie?   
    Classic favourite is Yankee Doodle Dandy featuring James Cagney - I love all Cagney movies but this one is a stand out for me.
    Anything in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy vein after that as long as it is well acted and well produced; such as The Matrix series, Judge Dredd (the Karl Urban version), most of the Star Trek Movies, same with Star Wars and Stargate. 
    Currently, most of the Marvel and DC iterations of the various characters - most recently I thoroughly enjoyed Wonder Woman and Avengers Infinity Wars Pt 1.
    I never get to the cinema these days so everything is either streamed or on DVD that I watch.
    Always a good question to ask 👍
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    christopher-w reacted to Midnight Modding in Team Talk: What's your favourite movie?   
    I never got around to watching Fargo (the movie) until either this year or last year and I liked it a lot.
    What's weird is I used to never watch movies.... I bet I went over a decade watching no movie. Yet now in the past 7 years I've watched over 1,000, I think. (I actually started keeping records of them to remind myself what I've seen, but I accidentally lost the file with a couple hundred of them in it...)
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    christopher-w reacted to Aaron M in Team Talk: What's on your bookshelf?   
    Currently the bookshelf closest contains 3 shelves of Lepidoptera taxonomy reference material and 1 of Shakespeare.
    E: Forgot to include image

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    christopher-w got a reaction from christinemeany in Invision Community 4.3 Beta Released!   
    Congratulations. Huge effort it seems. Good coffee too I hope.
    Will there be a beta version running in your cloud, or is it download only?
     
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    christopher-w reacted to Joel R in 4.3: Engagement Improvements   
    A couple of things for future consideration:
    1. Highlight content in email - I want to second the concerns voiced above.  Some communities don't use Our Picks or social promotion.  They need to be given fallback options such as Popular Content or Leaderboard content.  
    2. Review Response - something to consider for future enhancement is the ability for moderators or administrators to respond as well.  Usually the Mods and Admins are the most active users on the site and can interject sooner, can clarify site policies, or provide methods of recourse that regular users are not always aware.  
    3. Typing - I love the idea behind this feature.  It's real time, immediate, and gets users hooked onto the activity of the website.  But the online user list (and hovering over a member) is not a common or noticeable place to look.  
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    christopher-w reacted to SammyS in 4.3: Modernizing our Gallery   
    The new image lightbox looks beautiful!
     
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