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    christopher-w reacted to Miss_B in How to reset activity prior to going live?   
    You are welcome :)
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    christopher-w got a reaction from Miss_B in How to reset activity prior to going live?   
    Perfect, thank you.
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    christopher-w reacted to Miss_B in How to reset activity prior to going live?   
    Do you mean members history logs? If that is what you meant, you can truncate core_member_history table in your database for a quick prunning.
    There is also a setting called: Member History under the Profiles tab in the Admin Panel, where you can set it to be prunned automatically based on x amount of days.
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    christopher-w reacted to Adriano Faria in Recruitment Solutions   
    Another option:
     
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    christopher-w reacted to Jordan Miller in Title in the card   
    Hey. I'm actually not quite sure what you mean.
    I believe a lot of the suggestions you've made recently could be accomplished on an individual basis with CSS 🙂 This may not be a case for one size fits all 😇 @kmk
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    christopher-w reacted to Davyc in Title in the card   
    With a few simple template changes and some custom CSS I've change the way grid forums appear:

    Forum name is under the image as opposed to being over the image and the last entry is shown below.  It just makes things look neater and tidier, at least it does for me 🙂
     
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    christopher-w got a reaction from sobrenome in We need webp NOW   
    Good to hear someone talking about benefit rather than just features.
     
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    christopher-w got a reaction from Matt in We need webp NOW   
    Good to hear someone talking about benefit rather than just features.
     
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    christopher-w got a reaction from CoffeeCake in Augment the Moderation System to be More Refined?   
    If you want to ensure a post is policy compliant and not have the poster wait for it to be approved - 20 mins or whatever, then most likely some form of automated positive vetting (APV from here on in) will be needed.
    To this end I have previously suggested Invision add an interface to Google's Natural Language API (and also put out an unanswered custom dev request for same) which would allow all posts to be run by Google's sentiment analysis tool in near real time. Along with scoring sentiment negative through positive, it also extracts entities, which can be matched locally against categories and keywords.
    As well as providing moderation capability, this tool could also be used on the front end too, with a sentiment score being added to topic descriptions, comments and.... users. You may not want to publicly show User X as having accrued a negative sentiment score over time, but having this visible to mods would I think be very useful. It would also of course allow you to automate the totting up procedure, whereby a user may not have had any any posts removed, but has for example exceeded an upper or lower control limit, which in turn might automatically put them in the cooler, or alert mods for manual intervention.
    Google's Natural Language API is not perfect - I believe it performs at the same or similar levels of efficacy to spam filters. It cost money too, but I am hopeful that this, or something similar, perhaps an open source alternative , can be added to the suite quite soon.
     
    For the record @Charles Fischer, here's Google's view of your balanced opening post:

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    christopher-w reacted to mcsg in Access Pages custom field attributes like label, description   
    Thank you @bfarber. To sum up in case others come across this.
    In order to display a Custom Field information in a Pages Database, determine the Pages <database_id> (a number) and use the following template code.
    In this case, I am iterating over the custom fields that are marked to display above the content ('display_top') in the DatabaseTemplates > RecordDisplay > Record template.
     
    {{foreach $record->customFieldsForDisplay('display_top') as $fieldId => $fieldValue}} <!-- fieldId is the field template identifier --> {{$field = \IPS\cms\Fields<database_id>::load( $fieldId, ‘field_key' );}} <!-- gets the field object --> Template Code: {$fieldId}<br/> Field ID: {$field->_id}<br/> Label: {$field->_title}<br/> Desc: {$field->_description}<br/> OR<br/> Label: {expression="\IPS\Member::loggedIn()->language()->addToStack( 'content_field_' . $field->_id )"}<br/> Desc: {expression="\IPS\Member::loggedIn()->language()->addToStack( 'content_field_' . $field->_id . '_desc' )"}<br/> Value: {$record->customFieldDisplayByKey($fieldId,'processed')|raw} {{endforeach}}  
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    christopher-w reacted to Davyc in What kind of blog content are you interested in?   
    You could write up about the lamentable help guides which are anything but helpful to those wanting to learn how things work in the IPS arsenal.  For example, there are very few real-world examples of 'how to' - to further this look at custom fields, there is a brief look but no real examples of how you would put those custom fields to use in templates, in various locations and uses etc.  Anyone wanting to learn would need to understand (or be experts) in PHP, HTML, etc when all they want is to add a custom field in a forum, or pages, or a blog.
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    christopher-w got a reaction from OptimusBain in Feedback: Great feature - well executed   
    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:
     

     
     
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    christopher-w got a reaction from bEARS in Feedback: Great feature - well executed   
    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:
     

     
     
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    christopher-w got a reaction from zyx in Feedback: Great feature - well executed   
    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:
     

     
     
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    christopher-w reacted to Adriano Faria in Tabbed Forums Index   
    Sorry, forgot that. Will review it again yet this week. 
    Happy new year. 👍
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    christopher-w reacted to Chris59 in Tabbed Forums Index   
    Thank you for the update 1.1.1 , All works perfectly , 
    PS" Want to thank you for make more and more plugins to apps . means I can translate and save them for future 
    Hat off! 
    Thanks @Adriano Faria
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    christopher-w got a reaction from IP-Gamers in So much empty space...   
    Come on guys, Invision is never going to please us all. And even if they adopted granular ACP theme adjustment tools same as Xenforo has, we'd still need to sit back and adjust dozens and dozens of margin, padding, line height and similar parameters to suit all of our individual tastes. And then you have the menu, which in my view should be docked in an object that can be bound to the DOM either on the server or in a CSOM. But, even if Invision did that, we'd still need to position it ourselves, and move it around depending on the app currently in use. So I say, be careful what you wish for as even though I'd like to see pages that are rendered a little more tightly and menus that break from the current paradigm, you can bet if Invision did that, we'd still be back with another set of demands next month.
    So how about we get together, put our hands in our pockets and see if we can find a designer come dev to create a configurable theme for us - and I mean a theme, not a (wanit in green, blue, red?) skinning exercise. It could include all sorts of presets including spacing, fonts, menu positions and so on, including specifics for desktop and mobile. Won't be cheap, but at least at the end of it we will have something we can use to give us what we want, rather than assuming Invision can pull a theme styling rabbit out of the hat which is going to miraculously please us all. I just don't see it.
    Of course, Invision are more than capable of doing this themselves. But a bit a string only goes so far, and if they do this, then all the other stuff we need like video transcoding (ok I need that 🙂 ) will get pushed to the back of the queue.
    So how how about it? Put our energies into something creative?
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    christopher-w reacted to Matt in Feedback: Great feature - well executed   
    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.
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    christopher-w got a reaction from Davyc in Feedback: Great feature - well executed   
    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:
     

     
     
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    christopher-w got a reaction from SUBRTX in Removing Powered by and template credit   
    I think that's subjective. Some folks reading the powered by notice will be impressed. Others won't.
    Either way the licence terms are clear, and If you want your boss off your back then you know what to do.
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    christopher-w reacted to Noble~ in "Kindness" plugin   
    @breatheheavy this one may be what your looking for?
     
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    christopher-w got a reaction from sadel in Record video and voice   
    If you want native video recording and hosting then IPS will also need to implement something like FFmpeg to handle transcoding. It's not so much of an issue for content that is captured directly into the community because the platform can encode it on the fly, but any uploaded videos will need a transcoding pass to make them suitable for cross platform usage on the web. Incidentally, XF supports FFmpeg and assuming you've installed FFmpeg on your XF server, issues a notice that the video is currently being prepared for use once the video is uploaded. I think it probably does the same for audio. It's a nice solution and works well, or at least it did when I last used it a couple of years ago.
    Obviously going the YT or Vimeo route cuts out the transcoding and bit rate tuning requirement, but as @Malwarebytes points out, you are left with little to zero control over who sees what, unless you install a security trimmed, proxy streaming service that obfuscates the true location of the video being sent to the viewer. 
    Despite the obvious issues in implementing this, we'd love to see native video handling and transcoding capability in IPS, especially security trimmed playlists that are protected by native IPS permissioning. If IPS has no immediate plans to consider this, then I'd suggest approaching someone like @onlyME who built the Videobox app, which he might consider enhancing to include AV capture and transcoding. I know he's busy at the moment, but might be tempted with the right offer. Count me in for a sizeable $contribution should anybody want to run with this idea, or something of a similar nature which delivers equivalent functionality.
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    christopher-w reacted to Vegan Gaymer in Anyone else scolded for using Plugins, Themes, etc?   
    Just a quick update that after a month of third-party resources being blamed, it turns out (yet again) that it was an Invision issue. That's okay. I don't have any problem with any bugs or issues discovered in any application or Invision, but I have to say that I think this could have been resolved much sooner if there wasn't this uncomfortable bias against 3rd Party resources. I am just happy that the issue is being resolved, but after going through this so many times, it can get very frustrating. I say that with great affection because I am in awe of all of you who do this kind of work. I just don't want to go through this again.
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    christopher-w got a reaction from SammyS in So much empty space...   
    TBH I don't think there is a strong enough community here (ironically) to work together on a labour of mutual love. That's why I suggested a paid project, which in itself hasn't attracted much interest.
    It seems to me that most folks just want to solve 'their' problem and off they go. Which is a shame because I see mutual client cooperation as the only way some of these projects will get completed. Otherwise we are left with the Hobson's choice of wait for somebody else to solve our problems for us.
    On a more positive note, based on my belief that there is a lot of reinventing the UX 'wheel' here, some of it buckled, we've been looking at developments on Apple News, Twitter and FB. Apple News in particular has really nice UX patterns on both its desktop and mobile apps. At first it looks very simple, but benefits from a light and open design, whilst keeping information itself tightly packed. This follows Google's material design pattern mentioned by me earlier, and sort of has us thinking, these guys have put $billions of user clinic tested UX into common usage - so why not learn from them and follow suit. So that's the direction we are headed for now.
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    christopher-w got a reaction from xtech in So much empty space...   
    Come on guys, Invision is never going to please us all. And even if they adopted granular ACP theme adjustment tools same as Xenforo has, we'd still need to sit back and adjust dozens and dozens of margin, padding, line height and similar parameters to suit all of our individual tastes. And then you have the menu, which in my view should be docked in an object that can be bound to the DOM either on the server or in a CSOM. But, even if Invision did that, we'd still need to position it ourselves, and move it around depending on the app currently in use. So I say, be careful what you wish for as even though I'd like to see pages that are rendered a little more tightly and menus that break from the current paradigm, you can bet if Invision did that, we'd still be back with another set of demands next month.
    So how about we get together, put our hands in our pockets and see if we can find a designer come dev to create a configurable theme for us - and I mean a theme, not a (wanit in green, blue, red?) skinning exercise. It could include all sorts of presets including spacing, fonts, menu positions and so on, including specifics for desktop and mobile. Won't be cheap, but at least at the end of it we will have something we can use to give us what we want, rather than assuming Invision can pull a theme styling rabbit out of the hat which is going to miraculously please us all. I just don't see it.
    Of course, Invision are more than capable of doing this themselves. But a bit a string only goes so far, and if they do this, then all the other stuff we need like video transcoding (ok I need that 🙂 ) will get pushed to the back of the queue.
    So how how about it? Put our energies into something creative?
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