Perhaps, instead of closing the marketplace within Invision Community, it might be worthwhile to focus on a development strategy that attracts a larger user base and encourages them to purchase solutions offered by Invision Community. The current direction of the company's actions seems quite misguided and could potentially lead to a decline in the popularity of the forum platform.
It's worth carefully analyzing what is lacking in Invision Community compared to competitive solutions. For instance, if there is a successful marketplace, it would be worth considering the introduction of free tools or creating an alternative to the WordPress platform and Elementor tool. Such a step would attract new users, ultimately resulting in a higher number of purchases, such as for the forum platform.
The emphasis should be on continuous development and avoiding regression, as well as the closure of crucial elements like the marketplace. It's also important not to exploit the financial resources of existing users, but instead, focus on exploring new avenues for growth.
Engaging the user community to express their opinions and ideas about the platform's development is valuable. Forum platforms possess tremendous potential, yet it's crucial to find ways to revitalize their activity and attract new users, rather than eliminating them.
To sum up, the Invision Community platform can gain a lot by concentrating on development, innovation, and responsiveness to user needs, rather than limiting itself or shutting down essential features.
(Sometimes, offering something for free at the start is necessary to gain more in the future.)
I don't understand why there is a $15 domain name change fee and why you can only change it once every 6 months free. It doesn't cost IPB anything for me to change my domain name. To me this is the equivalent of an ATM fee when you withdraw money, except in this case from your own bank.
For those worrying about fraud or anything else, as long as only one domain is tied to that license it shouldn't change anything.
So yeah, this is one thing I don't understand, see it as nothing more than a money grab from IPB, and serves no real benefit to the consumer and serves no benefit to IPB other than financially. IPB is the only forum software that I see that does this. I may be missing one, but most don't charge to change the domain.
Charging twice a year if you want to keep downloading things and keep certain features of your forum going is expensive enough. But if you decide to change your domain for any reason, now it costs you an extra $15 for literally no reason other than for the sake of changing it. If some are still worried about potential fraud or hijacking or something, other things could be put into place to prevent it.
This I think is probably one reason people go more to Xenforo and others is because of this. Some people change domain names often while they struggle to find something that works for them. With them you don't get charged to change a domain. Period. You can renew today, then in 5 days or a month or 3 months if you choose to change your domain you simply change it. You don't get charged $15 every time you change it.
This is a hindrance. It serves no tangible benefit other than to make money. IPB never did it for years with no problems. But in recent years started to. And considering how much people already pay for renewals, I don't think it's too much to ask to remove the $15 fee. Period.
It's literally one of the most pointless fees I've seen on here. I love IPB, but that is one thing that absolutely needs to go. No one is handling the domain change other than the consumer. Unless customer service needs to handle it, there should be no fee for it. I'm literally getting charged just to change my domain. Absolutely insanity.
And like I said prior, if some think it's a way to prevent fraudulent actions, there are plenty of other ways to do that. As well, after the 6 months your domain would be open to be changed anyways which changes nothing in regards to possible fraud.
So yeah, it's really gotta go. It's just a pure money grab and is something no one else does. So what's the logical reason for it here? Costs keep going up, as forum popularity keeps going down. I don't think those 2 will go hand in hand very well. So we need to be mindful of things like that this are really pointless fees and serve to benefit no one other than IPB.
Hello, I am asking the Invision Community administration to create a forum application generator for Android and IOS I think that everyone who has a forum would like its users to download applications, e.g. from the play store It is worth going ahead because most people mainly use smartphones (computer and laptop times go by: D)
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