Pavel Chernitsky

Easy fix: disable editing after a few minutes 😄 and forbid mods from editing unnecessarily (with words, obviously, they'll still need to have the permission to do it). then members will have to post a correction, and only the mods will be held accountable. However, that being said.... YES! PLEASE, PLEASE YES!

Things change as time passes, and I think it's fair - and even welcome - for companies to change direction if and when they find a better way to achieve the same end-goal. I think going the PWA route is just a stop-gap to let them breathe while continuing to work on the app. I don't think companies should be forced to go down a specific route because they once said something good about it. I'd rather be a customer for a company who's "brave" and flexible enough to realize the path they went down is a bad idea and be open and honest about it.

Yeah, I kind of glossed over the "content rebuild" and it's meaning in your first reply. It would need to happen in order to get all the words "in line".

Ohhhh I see what you meant now. I looked into it and saw that in places where the expanded words are written before they were added, aren't expanded. So I'm guessing the deleted word won't get expanded anymore now that's it's deleted, but will remain with the expansion where it was "applied". Right? It that is the case, it is kind of half baked and I'll ask the team to reconfigure it. Hopefully they'll oblige.

Are you telling me that if I "expanded" an acronym once, this expansion is there for good, regardless of whether I delete it or not? If that's what passes for "as designed", that's a pretty... um, flawed "design" 😄 wouldn't you say? Especially given the fact there is a "delete" button...

There's a weird bug with the word expansion system - when deleting a word and its expansion from the "system", it doesn't actually stop showing up in the forums as expanded, complete with the expansion. In other words, it just acts as if it was never deleted. @Matt or any of the other devs, please advise. *I didn't use the support tool because it also bugs out and randomly won't re-enable some/all the customizations - forcing us to re-enable all of them manually (we don't have all our installed customizations active, so we have to make a manual list each time of what was active and what wasn't. and it's kind of a pain...

@Joel R Instead of writing "no update at this time" and making us die a little, they could post a gif like: And so on

You know what, I think I should have. I kinda blanked on the existence of that forum before opening the thread (I've never fully understood what goes where in those forums...). And don't get me wrong - I appreciate the help, and I will (actually already have) implement it. I was however aiming for this to be a suggestion. I guess that's what you'd call a brain fart 😅

Also, upon checking it more thoroughly, it doesn't seem to work since it inherits the view permissions from secondary groups as well. I might have to have another look at that and at the group policies we have in place.

Well, it can be done, But it adds SO MUCH work. It forces you to make and have multiple versions of what is basically the same widget and forces you to go into the ACP in order to change anything - so you have to remove and re-add the widget every time you change something. All that is regardless of the fact I needed to be told about the possibility of doing this. I mean, it does work and thanks for the tip, but it's kind of like asking for a box of matches and being told "you can already smash two rocks together" 😄

Since the addition of the "Page Builder" widgets in 4.5 I've been using the text one as sort of a headline replacement for widgets with lackluster headlines. But I've noticed that some of the widgets are visible to only some members, the text widget is visible to everyone (or at least there is no way to determine who can see it). That way, now for example - we have a subscriptions widget that only non-subs can see, and a "Get A Subscription" headline that everyone can see and for subscribers looks really out of place. So that got me thinking - why not add a universal "who can see this" selector on all widgets? That way we can tie in the headlines with the actual widgets they "belong" to.

Tapatalk support was added before I "took office" as community lead. And the reasoning was along the lines of "meh I dunno, some guys asked so we added it". Now I'm trying to mop it all up.

Great to hear that. Maybe something good will grow out of it.

We have a very tight anti spam defense. Almost all the new registrations are legit. Out of 46 people who registered today, two were flagged in one way or another, and maybe one or two others have a slightly iffy email address.

Thanks for the response. First let me I'm sorry if come of a bit harsh or cynical, I am a little salty, but this shouldn't "come out on you". As a "boutique" company ourselves - I know full well s**t takes time, sometimes for time than you thought, and always more than you wanted. What bugged me was the complete lack of updates for almost half a year after building up so much hype for it. It kinda stung. Actually your post about the browser push notifications (which, in my defense, was published three hours after I started this thread 😄) did ease my stress levels on the matter. I think - and please do correct me if I'm wrong - that saying "we have no updates" is WAY BETTER than not giving any update. Maybe, I don't know, have like a "Promises, Promises..." blog post once a month where you recap your progress on all the features/addons/modifications/additions you have publicly "came out with" in a blog post (or wherever else you tell us about future features). It may be a pain to get going at first because you need to collate all the things you "promised", but after the first time it should be super simple because you can basically copy-paste the list of things and just add the stuff you promised in the passing month. Kind of like a "release notes", only for things you're going to do and not ones you've already done. @Paul E. You, as always, make very valid points. But I'll tell you the truth... I just wanna shove push notifications down my members' throats and let them "have an app" so we can kill Tapatalk (curse it's soul) support. And at this point in time, I don't even care how it happens anymore. For all I care Invision can send Jordan to creep up to people and yell "SOMEONE COMMENTED ON YOUR POST!!" into their faces. He'll obviously have to do this in Hebrew, but this I can help with 🤣

Is it just me, or is this thread not having any replies super ironic...?

I don't think there is a separate stat for that. But I can tell you that when we first enabled it our registrations more than doubled. From around 50-70 a week to around 150+ *the second jump was after we've enabled Facebook+Google login.

So it turns out to quite the pain in my ass... Pretty much any conferencing application requires some sort of special license to be able to stream, and our VIPs seem to not want to stream a single device, but the actual conversation (sort of like a split-screen/multicam stream) AND they want it to be native or a close to it as possible and I'm pretty much at my wits end. Any ideas?

Oh yeah, sure. That could definitely also work. I guess I blacked out on this possibility 🤣

So yeah, we've talked this over and we'll probably go with either a Facebook live broadcast or a zoom call stream using YouTube. If we'll be using the Zoom call, we'll probably add a join link in the post and have people who joined, interact directly through Zoom's interface. To combat the lag, we'll just let the members watching know that there's going to be a long delay and tell them to only watch it via one of the sources - Zoom for participants and the forum post for the youtube stream. I'll come back and let you know how it turned out and how large of a disaster it was. Because although it sure does sound like I know what I'm talking about (I surprised even myself during our talk about this today), I pretty sure at least one thing has to go horribly wrong 🤣

Hmmm.... This could be a thing, but I can't think of a way to do this from the top of my head. I'll need to think about it. You might make a very crude "rule" with a free subscription that moves people to one of groups, but that sound really ass-backwards LOL

I guess they want to have just one time limit for editing on all content. I'm not sure I understood this sentence entirely (English isn't my first language, and let's be frank, that's a fairly long sentence) - but I want to say that the answer is "yes".

I FIGURED IT OUT! I found a way around this. it is, most definitely a faff and a workaround, and is NOT a "how it should be", but it works nonetheless, so if anyone in the future is reading this - this is how you do it: Make a new group for all the people you want to apply this permission to (I just copied my basic "members" group so they have the same permissions). Give this group the "can edit own content" permission, click "customize", choose ONLY "Blogs", and tick the "unlimited" box under " Edit time restriction" (See 'screenshot_1'). Choose the people you want to have this permission. for us it was pretty straight-forward, I just used the "Download member list" and filtered by "Member has a blog". To do this, in the ACP go to Members->Members->Download member list (See screenshot_2) and the scroll down to "Member has a blog"->choose "yes" (See 'screenshot_3'). Put the people you chose into that group (you can import the list you made in the previous step to the new group). Bonus Step: You can, additionally, grant this group the "can lock own content" and choose "Topics". (See 'screenshot_4') That way you can encourage your bloggers to open a thread for when they have a new blog post, link that blog post and have people who want to comment on it, be "forced" to comment on the blogpost itself and not in the thread. this allow you to KIND OF replicate what can be automatically triggered with articles, where when an article is published a thread automatically opens and the comments to both are shared between them. This should, at least minus the member list download part and to the best of my understanding, work on any "type" of content you want to allow your members to be able to edit without any, or with different time limits.