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📆 It will be ready when it's ready, and not a moment sooner. 📆

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Hi Jordan 🌹 Are you working on this suggestion as well?
In fact, the inability to see the list of «Community Answers» in the user profile is not interesting and pleasant.
Anyway, I hope this problem will be resolved before public release of 4.6

We are working on making sure they're crisp across all browsers/devices 🙂 🙏 

@Matt congratulations! very nice work! 😍
When will the official & stable version 4.6 be released? We are really waiting for it.
Many thanks for your efforts Matt and all the members of the IPS Team. 🌹

@Chris Anderson
I don't think therr will be beta version for 4.6
They'll release then if there is a problem, will fix with 4.6.1 and so...
They said also 'will be released in a few weeks'

Yes... And i really hope. But the taken with updates on the past the release of 4.6 will be september / oktober. Based on my feeling and the past. 
Hoor IPB can break this feeling. 😉

As we're on 4.6 now on this board and it's not a really MAJOR MAJOR update, i think end of May or in June lately

@Matt congratulations! very nice work! 😍
When will the official & stable version 4.6 be released? We are really waiting for it.
Many thanks for your efforts Matt and all the members of the IPS Team. 🌹

This site has been running 4.6 Alpha for only a few days now.  Based on previous 4.x releases, it will take several beta releases before IPS makes it available for download in your client area.  Once it's available there, it will take several 4.6.x releases before its "really" considered stable and the marketplace developers begin releasing updates to their products. 
If your site doesn't use marketplace apps a stable 4.6 will likely be available 2 to 3 months from now. If you are dependent on marketplace apps it could be many months before they get updated especially if the developer has lots of apps to update. There are a fair amount of apps that haven't yet been updated to 4.5 so it seems that updating isn't as easy to accomplish as it would seem.
This timeline is based on IPS keeping Achievements "as is".  If they should decide to take customer feedback into consideration and include their various suggestions to change, add or delete functionality then the timeline could be extended much further.  Time will tell...

Love it, great work!

Awesome! I've been waiting so long for a proper achievement system. 👍

Great add-on...  but when will we get it ?!  😉
 

All I need to know is:
Is this optional (can it be turned off)?
I ask because IPS made the "new members" badge non-optional.
Cheers.

I love it. The new point system ties nicely into a vision I have for one or both of my communities.  I have been using Discuz! (2002) and FluxBB (2008); since the founding of their conception. Both of them have become dated in many ways, and while I have developed them both beyond their functionality, I feel we have reached an impasse. They most certainly work and function, but the development for one of them (FluxBB) has all but nearly stopped, and the other has become more 'hackish' (Discuz! 3.5) as the development has progressed (when it moves).
Our current business model mimics Reddit, both in the way of ad placement, monthly subscription, and the ability to reward others. Members naturally already receive achievements and points, which I see Invision will have in the upcoming v4.6; this is a beautiful way to encourage engagement while giving the member base a sense of involved reward and recognition.  Additionally, you already have a reaction system in place. What is lacking, and I presume we may need to build out in third-party development, is a method to purchase the reactions to reward others ("x" value allows to "y" number of reactions you can reward others).
Nevertheless, I am excited and looking forward to the pending release of 4.6

Where do we see what can be earned? Or what the badges mean? There’s no descriptions.
A really good example of a achievements system is on HotUKDeals, you can see the list of badges/awards that can be earned. I know Matt has said he doesn’t want to make it a game. But users seeing what they can earn is an incentive. But you can have stricter rules and not just have people randomly post.

Yes, the badges you see here will be included by default in Invision Community 4.6.
There are many pages in the ACP. On the front end, viewing a member's profile shows you which badges they've earned.
I'm not sure if we are going to do a "here's all the possible badges you can earn". I'm not sure of its value. We don't want to turn the community into a game. It's designed to reward good contributions and not encourage pure engagement for engagements sake to win points and badges.
Yes, it does work across all apps. The profile link is also in this screenshot 😄
Not yet, but we already have this down as a future expansion idea.
You can rebuild points and ranks at any time including post upgrade. It's what we did here. We had 21 million data points to look at, and it took about 5-6 hours.
Reputation and points are still separate. One thing to keep in mind is that we don't want to turn a community into a game. An early rule I put in place was that we were not going to show point logic and show people how to specifically earn points, and which actions earned the most points because that will start to erode the purpose and people may decide, if you said that you earn 5 points for a post and 10 points for a gallery image, to reduce posting and start uploading random pictures just to earn points and rank up.

We do not want this. The achievements system is meant to be a reward for great contributions, and not the purpose of the community.

To this end, we will not be showing how you can earn points, and the rank thresholds.

We do have on our list a way to give you a weekly update about how many points you earned, so you may get an email with "You earned 205 points last week, that's 20 more than the week before" for example to keep you updated on your progress.
You can opt in to notifications to get a push notification / inline notification / email when you rank up or earn a new badge.
You are seeing the entire system from the perspective of a user. There is a "recognise" system that allows you to manually award points and/or badges for content.
Yes you can manually give points and/or badges.
Yes, you can add a "location" "and" clause to specify just forums, or whatever app and set up points per thing differently.

Here's an example of me manually giving a badge and/or points.


Here's the dialog the moderators can use:


One other thing we haven't spoken about is that you can allow your moderators to deduct points from a user when they are warned.

 

Nobody reads my comments 😪
 

Feedback aka Feature Suggestions needs to be improved. As the definitive location for your clients to post any and all feedback for consideration by the company, it is by far the most important forum for our collective futures.  You literally tell retail clients to post their suggestions in Feedback, but because it's so unorganized and so unmanaged, your own company follow-through on client feedback is embarrassingly non-existent over the years.  
Feedback is a combination of site feedback, company feedback, feedback on seven apps, the admin control panel, clubs, community enhancements and integration, product guidance because people don't know where to post, and the personal planning of kmk on using community software in literally every way except as a community. Feedback needs to be broken-out per app, to be actively collated and tallied and merged, and non-feedback needs to be moved out.    
There is zero incentive for clients to search for past feedback when everything is jumbled together, zero guidance on how clients can bump or lend weight to a prior suggestion, and finally zero transparency to your client base on how our aggregate suggestions are flowing through the suggestion pipeline. Probably because it's a hot mess.  
 
If you had simply tasked Jordan to organize this section with clearly defined workflows, I would have applauded. Something like:
Prequalify all posts in Feedback: Ask for poster to provide minimum specifications as defined by the company. Until those are submitted by the poster, the suggestion shouldn't be accepted.  One of community management's best practices is realizing that great suggestions aren't written by the poster, they're elicited by the asker.      If bug, give poster instructions for sending in a support ticket.  Close and mark as resolved. If non-feedback, give poster instructions on proper navigation of site for reference.  Move as needed. If feedback that meets minimum specs, then move, organize, and merge as needed.   For site feedback: If valid, escalate to site management team. Follow-up and mark as resolved when done.   If not valid, follow-up and mark with a thanks but no thanks.   For company feedback: If positive, ask for permission and promote on social media.  Follow-up and mark as resolved when done.        If negative, escalate to company management as needed.  

Time for the next news please.