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Can you explain in more detail please?

I’ve recently hit a situation where many members complained they could no longer post images. My member settings were set to 999999kb (1gb) and apparently many members hit this cap. I see there are settings for max size for images and for uploads, but I’m not seeing any obvious settings for resizing. some searches of this point to this being long requested but apparently never implemented, so I wanted to confirm… is there no method to auto resize member image attachments? Obviously most traffic these days are mobile based. Most images / photos are likely smart phone cameras. As there is no easy way to resize images and most wouldn’t anyways, the obvious solution is to resize attachments as they’re uploaded and posted. It’s how every social media platform operates. Instagram will resize my images proportionally according to their maximum size, not expect me to resize my images accordingly. If not, that platform would have never taken off. Same with every other social media platform I’ve ever seen and pretty sure every forum I’ve ever visited. Am I wrong about Invision Community being able to somehow do this? I’m trying to encourage participation and can’t necessarily expect those that actively contribute to pay for a premium account. I’d like it to incentivize contributing content, but obviously it doesn’t make sense to host 8mb+ images just because a smart phone is capable of taking super high resolution images. The obvious choice is to auto resize with granular control for size (resolution) and other variables that have been functions of ImageMagick for like a decade or longer so very much hoping there’s a solution here. Thank you in advance for any suggestions or fixes. P.S. Max storage area should also be tweaked. Cool to specify in increments as small as kb, but the jump from 1gb, which is the largest number you can specify, to unlimited is too big.

This is easier said than done. We have rules clearly posted per forum, in addition to an over arching set of rules. They are straight forward and simple and essentially simply communicate that the forum is meant for exploring topics via respectful discussion. Once you have a vibrant community it seems inevitable, you'll attract a few bad apples. All the reasonable reminders and encouragement in the world won't work for some of these people and banning just ends up inciting them. These are those occasional users that will go through the effort of registering one account after another and make it a point to be disruptive. Sure you can just engage in a war of attrition, but I've got a pretty full plate and can't dedicate the dozens of hours, spread across days or even weeks to deal with users like this. Again, often times they're savvy enough to VPN in so you can't just block IP's. Clearly posting rules and leveraging Invisions warning system hasn't worked in these types of situations. I can't imagine anyone running an online community with more than a few hundred members not encountering this is and it really sours the experience for everyone, from members to mods to owners. Again, social media can just as easily ban accounts, but most have some flavor of shadow banning for a reason and I'm pretty positive I'm hitting on exactly why.

Doesnt need to be. I don't need the system to target people for me. Only mods to flag an account. Little different than banning a user now, just the result differs. Think that features already exists or am I wrong? If not, pretty positive it used to.

I tried searching but nothing relevant came up, which seems odd to me. As mentioned in other threads, I commend the dev team for all the effort that went into v5. IMO, this version really feels - for the first time, really - less like a forum treading water to keep up with social media than it's own thing and a viable contender to online community in a post social media age. I don't mean that as kind of back handed compliment, but like most, our community really suffered after social media and this is the first time in a very long time that between an awesome product and a very wide spread, general disappointment from most people I've talked to about the social media experience these days, that we might see things come full circle and a new era in online communities. That said, managing people, especially in this hyper polarized world we find ourselves in is still a problematic area IMO. Social media's solution to this is shadow banning accounts... Being able to specifically throttle back on who sees a problematic users content. I don't recall what forum system even had a built in feature that introduces all kinds of glitches and load errors to targeted accounts, which is also a really great idea for problematic users. Wondering why Invision hasn't implemented these types of features? These days, VPN's are pretty common. Also, throwaway emails are dumb simple - Apple literally builds aliases into iCloud now. Problematic users can be super tenacious and banning accounts, however easy, is still an uphill battle when you have a tenacious disruptor in your community. Having to manually approve comments and registrations is a major chore for larger communities, so why not adopt or evolve what the big boys do? There used to be some plugins in the past that helped, but since v5, looks like there are none. Regardless, I feel this sits at the heart of community cohesion and success and too important to related to a plugin, so hoping we might see similar features in the future. I definitely welcome ands appreciate any suggestions or solutions to this type of problem, but seems to me the best method is a less direct approach. Just make problem users feel like they're the only ones at the party by making sure no (or electively, very little) of their content is seen. And / or make it just a painful slog to access the website... Super slow loads, 404s, no style sheets, etc commands randomly served up with requests from targeted accounts.

Looks like this setting was removed in v5? Some of the signatures on our forum is becoming obnoxious. I'd love to limit to only text, no formatting. Possible?

Surprised that this isn't a bigger topic. No doubt delivering on a great experience for members is important, but I'm sure all of us would love to grow our communities as well.

Hey Everyone, I'm absolutely new to Pages but also unsure I can build what I have in mind... I know there is a dedicated registration page (forum-url.com/registration), but unless I've totally missed something, I do not believe there is a method to register and subscribe in one? Seems like an oversize to now allow new users to simply sign up into a premium account for example (assuming "premium" being a subscription that's configured). My idea is to create a more robust conversion page for registrations. A sort of landing page where we describe our community and the benefits of joining. It would act as both a funnel for new registrations, but also allow a person to to choose a subscription level as they register. In our case, I created a monthly premium, as well as an annual premium, so along with just basic registration it would be three options. I've attached a screen grab below of something I had built in Wordpress, but after building it, I realized that I don't believe I can have a person register and subscribe at the same time. Anyhow, wondering if anyone has any advice on this? Thank you!

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Thanks @LemonGrenade I gave it a quick skim but didnt see those threads. Hopefully there's a fix identified soon.

Hello, we completed the upgrade to v5 yesterday and I have two very regular users that are mentioning that the new editor isn't working for them. It's showing a circle graphic, which I assume is a loading graphic of some sort, but no ability to type within the text editor. I have also had a couple users mention that they can't see the submit button when uploading an image, unless they type something into the text field. Unsure if that's expected behavior or if there's a configuration option but we would like to allow image posts without the need to type out text. Any suggestions?

Doh, I shoulda known that. Perfect, thanks! To the developers... Would be cool if you could collapse that section.

Hello, Not entirely sure what the right term is for what I'm describing, so posting an image below. I'm looking for what the method is to add the additional text below the forum description. I only want this text to show within the forum itself and not on the index listing. Also, I'm on v5. Thank you for the help. On a related note, would be awesome if this area was collapsible as well.

This makes sense to me, appreciate you explaining that. That being said, I assume a public beta is essentially a final round that may or may night include documentation and likely has some undiscovered bugs that get revealed from a wider and more diverse testing environment. That being said, possible to share your opinion on when we might see a public beta? I understand that it'll likely be made available to Cloud customers first and that it'll be an individual choice as to whether those that opt in, chose to implement on a production install. Documentation is nice, as is being as stable as possible, but hoping to get my foot through that proverbial door as soon as possible. Another nod of appreciation of the hard work that goes into all this.

I suppose I can probably rig this to work. The idea is to have two premium accounts. One that its a modest monthly subscription and the other essentially being the same thing, but billed annually at once. Those that sign up for the annual version would then receive a custom community t-shirt. I suppose it's likely a matter of a custom field to gather shipping details or if that's not possible to add some language into the transactional email with instructions. Would be a lot easier if it was all integrated as it used to be, but I'll make do. Anyhow, I wanted to voice my opinion so you guys were aware of the interest. Shopify is a great solution to a quick, full featured shop, but it's also quite expensive. I already have a Shopify shop, but am currently researching / testing Woocommerce since have the features I want are paid plugins for Shopify that also seem to be developed for WC. I suppose at the end of the day, the $105 or so I pay monthly for Shopify is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, but every little bit helps in this particular situation, a full website with content is almost as important to me as the transactional e-com side of it. Seems to me that, WC is a better solution to that end, but neither are tied into Invision or our community, so it's still a sort of hacked together solution that I can see being prone to mistakes as we copy / paste customer info back and forth. At least there's some solid looking solutions for the help desk feature when it comes to WordPress, though they seem to cost almost as much as most of the dedicated platforms out there.