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ImpartialGeek

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    ImpartialGeek reacted to Joel R in 4x4 What Do Visitors See When They Visit?   
    I'd like to also add, without giving or affirming any direction, there have been many impassioned debates from the IPS team on how to best offer a new user experience for v5.  
    On a more practical note, I think community admins need to strongly consider using or building a custom homepage (such as in Pages app) while on Invision 4.    
    If there is a great homepage design that you feel does an especially good job of engaging members, feel free to link or share it in the Feedback forum for review.  Or share in the Client Lounge to inspire other clients and theme developers.  
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    ImpartialGeek got a reaction from Sonya* in Boundaries & Identity: Building Membership in a Community   
    We really work hard to nurture our community. Out of all the choices we had to build our community on, IPS made the most sense, as it has some amazing features. I just wish from the core, the developers would think more about DISCOVERY and ease of finding information, as well as navigation. The whole 3-4 clicks to get anywhere, and then have to scroll all over hoping to find a link BACK is crazy. We can only do the awesome things you said in your article WITH the right tools to keep community members happy. I do not at all regret my decision to move our community here, but I do want to really work with the devs here to focus in on what is MOST important.
    The way that I always approach UI is ask myself, what are the 20 things people do MOST on the site. Knowing those 20 things, I make those the easiest to find and do. And then I build backward from there. Now that those things are easy, how can I stack without losing that flow.
    It seems like development on here is more about the functionality of the plugins. Which IS important, don't get me wrong, but you can have all the amazing features in the world...but if navigation and discovery are hard...then those things don't matter.
    Anyway, sorry for the rant on your post. It is just that I can see you think the same way we do. I want to know that we made the right choice to move our AWESOME community here. 🙂 
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    ImpartialGeek reacted to Makoto in 4.4: Turbo charging loading speeds   
    This all looks wonderful. So many awesome improvements to the suite lately.
    Keep up the great work guys.
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    ImpartialGeek reacted to sbr in 4.3: Commerce Subscription Manager   
    Hi @Matt!
    A big issue now is that users signed up with Paypal and Stripe (and probably other methods) have different ways of canceling their subscription.
    Paypal users have to go to (by default) Store -> My Details -> Billing Agreements -> View Details -> Cancel
    While Stripe users go to Store -> Manage Purchases -> Manage -> Cancel Renewals
    This inconsistency is causing a lot of confusion when you have thousands of users. I know they are technically different, but for the users there should be a uniform way of managing this.
    Customizing the menus is an option, but it will never give you the end-user experience you'd like. There should be a very obvious option for the users where they either cancel or suspend (if possible) their subscription regardless of payment method.
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    ImpartialGeek reacted to Morgin in 4.3: Modernizing our Gallery   
    Is there really any reason people still need to be shown the file name prominently with extension and everything?
    It's really the only part of the lightbox I dislike. Mostly due to the fact people tend not to cleanly name photos in the galleries I visit, so it's just a long string of stuff (usually generated off facebook or some other tool which seemingly auto generates a name). I don't see a problem in showing it somewhere, but it just gets so much (and in my humble but totally subjective opinion, over weighted) prominence in that top left position. From a UX/UI perspective, I actually don't think file names have much relevance at all now that you've got drag and drop working for image ordering - there is very little (if any) additional info conveyed by the file name.
    I'd prefer (speaking as a consumer of galleries) that the caption stay blank unless a user completes it vs filling it with the filename.
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    ImpartialGeek reacted to Meddysong in 4.3: Paid club memberships, and other club improvements   
    Next time anybody suggests that the Invision Community team doesn't listen, send them to this article. There's so much here that I've seen people bring up over the past year. What an amazing product. You lovely, lovely people.
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