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Probably another beta or two, I don't think we're quite ready yet. I will let you know when we add the option.

Yep - you are shown only those items that are compatible with the version you running.

Thanks, I have logged a bug report for this.

Hi all!
I wanted to let you know that we've just released 4.7.0 Beta 1 and I wanted to run though some of the highlights on the release notes page.
 
We recently released a cool little feature to enable you to consolidate a forum and all sub-forums into a single list of topics, much like the global fluid view mode. We took onboard some feedback and made it a little more efficient and also reversed the checkboxes so they are ticked by default as some reached out to let us know it was confusing loading a page with content and unchecked boxes. We also added the new URL parameters into the default robots.txt to avoid Google and friends adding faceted pages into its index.

This week, @Daniel Fadded hCaptcha as a new CAPTCHA method to be used on the contact us form, guest posting and other areas a captcha is used. hCaptcha seems to be a more robust method to keep those pesky bots out. You will need to sign up to hCaptcha, but it's a short registration process and they have a free tier which should be all you need.

One of our enterprise clients mentioned that bots and guests are searching for random things which makes analysing the search trends difficult, so we've added a feature to allow you to omit member groups from adding to the anonymised search logs.
Another popular piece of feedback was to add 'solved' and 'unsolved' filters to the activity stream, and @Andy Millne did just that for 4.7.0.

Elsewhere, @Stuart Silvester improved the speed at which Elastic Search re-indexes the site (useful as 4.7.0 needs a re-index due to the new solved filters).
Our master API person @Daniel F made some improvements to the Zapier integration for this release.
We have raised the minimum PHP version to 7.4, but we do recommend 8.0. We are still working through 8.1 compatibility.
Our cloud platform has new architecture to remove a lot of existing if( \IPS\CIC ) code that you may have seen in our codebase. Moving all cloud functionality into its own area means that those on the self hosted platform won't have to run these checks constantly in the code.

We chose to name this release 4.7.0 because of the PHP minimum version changes and the cloud platform code consolidation.

Let me know if you have any questions on this next release.


 

Happy Hump Day, team! Back by popular demand. 😎
I want to put a few of our forthcoming live community features onto your radar. These new live features are designed to encourage members to further engage with the community. Check these out:

Who’s Typing
 


We just implemented a live Who’s Typing feature into our own community. If you're quick, you’ll see a member typing a reply in real time when going to submit your own reply at the form located near the bottom of the topic. 
 
Who’s Viewing



We implemented a live Who's Viewing feature into topics on our community as well. This may sound familiar to you - we already created a "Recently Browsing" block that shows what members are viewing a topic, however that block was a snapshot over a small chunk of time. The new Who's Viewing feature shows what members are viewing a topic (and when they leave) in the present moment.   
 
Image search analysis
 



We're also improving our native search by automatically informing the platform to look for items featured in photos.
In this example, @Matt posted a photo of an apple in a topic. 
I used the search tool and looked up the word "apple" and voila! The platform found his image of an apple. The new smart learning technology will identify as many keywords as possible in an image to make searching faster, more efficient and accurate. 
Speaking of Matt... he published a new dev blog about some of the things to expect in the near future, including updating the minimum PHP requirement to 7.4 and the recommended version to 8.0, as well as working on PHP 8.1 compatibility for a June release.  
As he mentioned, there will not be a May update release, however June's is already looking extra spicy.
See all the updates that are coming.
 
 
It's worth mentioning the live community features will be available on our standard plans. If that sounds of interest to you, please feel free to reach out to me. We do have some new features in the works for self-hosted clients as well, but more on that later. 
PS - we're testing out a new sentiment analysis feature that scores a topic based on how positive, neutral or negative it is. Let's keep this one as high-vibe and positive as possible please. I'd love to get a high score. 😇 
Let us know what you think in the comments! We're looking forward to hearing from you. 

@KsiążeHappy I see, thanks for the report! The fix has been implemented to version 4.0.11.

Update is pending approval.

@GazzaGarratt This option works fine for me.

@OptimusBain @BankFodder @Sirmadsen New version 1.1.0 with settings available 🙂

@OptimusBain @BankFodder @Sirmadsen New version 1.1.0 with settings available 🙂

You add a note to a specific post, not to the topic. As a result, the notes that will be created relate to a specific post. The author of the post on which the note was placed receives a notification that a new note has appeared on its content.
I have already prepared a template for version 1.1.0, which will introduce additional permissions for the visibility of notes and introduce the expiry time of such a note. See demo for visibility options:

You add a note to a specific post, not to the topic. As a result, the notes that will be created relate to a specific post. The author of the post on which the note was placed receives a notification that a new note has appeared on its content.
I have already prepared a template for version 1.1.0, which will introduce additional permissions for the visibility of notes and introduce the expiry time of such a note. See demo for visibility options:

Disappointed that the store was not built with Commerce....
Why do you guys not use your own products? Support with Commerce is ceased, now brand shop with Shopify. What next? Moving community blog to WordPress? Gallery to Instagram? Clubs to Facebook groups and Calendar to Google? Then "just" connect everything with Zapier. 

BTW repping the red polo today. 😎 

Thanks a lot. I will take a look at those links, much appreciated.
For me to buy it, I would need more control over the note's privacy. I don't want member's notes to be visible to everyone, only to themselves. If that's something you add in the future, I will consider buying your great tool. 

I'm currently working on an update. I suggest waiting 1-2 day for theme update.

See this live example:
https://ips.axendev.net/topic/1-welcome/ https://ips.axendev.net/topic/79-silvia-rp/ https://ips.axendev.net/topic/59-test/ https://ips.axendev.net/topic/69-test/ They are currently publicly available, but I plan to provide more control over their visibility in a future release.

@OptimusBain Thanks for this post!
The application allows you to add notes to posts.
It works like message for topics, but application allows you to add notes to posts with notifications push or email.

Example use:
Attention to incorrect user behavior, Post highlight, Complement the post content, Praise

A support topic for submitting suggestions and bugs.

If you plan on editing any css code, make sure you only edit the custom.css file.
All other css files should stay untouched.