jesuralem

Quick question : with open tags how do i know how many tags i have on my community ?

I am totally in line with what is said here. I think "tag administration" might be a burden for some of us and maybe some tweaks could make it easier, thinking out loud : A feature so members might be able to suggest new tags Move the tag adminstration to the moderator CP and allow moderators to manage them : this way we could spread the load on more people and access it way faster than having ot go to the admincp. Also having a tool to massively tag post would be very helpful since the new tagging system might in fact replace subforums for example.

For minute I did hope this would be available for self hosted because it seems very integrated with how new posts are managed and displayed...

I honestly can't decide whether this is good or bad news, I understand both point of views. My 2 cts (definitely not worth more): - I like the idea that devs will have more freedom, but the risk of security issue is real issue for me. Most of us do not have the money to perform professional security assessment of our sites. I liked the idea that ips reviewed proposed ressources. - the centralized aspect of the marketplace was very simple for community owners, hopefully we will have a viable alternative. - marketplace ressources and discussion is one of the main reason I come here, the impact on this community might be an issue. Globally this looks like another step toward "big customers" who can pay for specific dev and further away from small community owners who try to improve their community for a few $. What is surprising is that it looks like you invested in the marketplace not so long ago integrating it in the admincp and with the compatibility check etc... Also I guess a big part of the costs is about resource checking which is something you implemented not so long ago and actually might explain part of the marketplace activity decrease one the devs part. In the end, we will see how this goes but honestly the 3 months warning is clearly not enough and a change of this magnitude deserve better that an announce in the middle of the summer with a short warning.

Am I wrong or this the first official mention of Invision community 5 ? And with a timeframe!

I'm a still convinced you could find a way to make these features work on a self hosted environment with an interface to your cloud platform and selling it as an additional paid service. This would actually be a nice way for you to increase revenue from self hosted environment.

Sometimes i feel like i am always complaining so thanks for this remark :).

I actually missed the "coming" part when I went through the video quickly so thanks a lot !

No offense but many of us don't have time to watch a 1 hour video when we may be able to take 5 or 10 minutes to read a news or an article. I'm not saying the video is not a good choice but it should be accompanied by a text with the main points or announcement. Basically just an image of the slides presented would be a good start.

On an admin level, spam through the conact-us is the worst problem i have. I basically do not read any contact-us message anymore and wait for people really wanting to contact me to find the email address. For my community i would join others : - people tend to be more and more assertive and less open to contradiction, this basically kills the interest of a forum - It is hard to find a balance between the core group of regular users and newcomers or occasionnal users that may hesitate to parcipate because they don't belong to the "core".

Maybe it is because english is not my native language but i honestly want to puke reading this. I read way slowly simply because i keep trying to understand why some parts are bold and other not, and if this is supposed to have a meaning or not.

Given you have a privileged relationship with their CM, there is indeed no use to announce here features that are specific to them. I don't deny that we are all lucky that they are using IPS and probably bring a lot of ideas benefiting to every community. Just in these cases public annoucement are probably useless. This is totally understable and i have no issue with it. But you can't just present it as a new feature without at least mentionnign clearly that it won't be available to most.

Seriously, what is the point of announcign this feature on this public community when it will be only available to " corporate and enterprise" cloud plan ? How many clients does IPS have on this plan ? what %age of this community members does this represent ? Announcing features only available to a few % of your clients can only frustrate the vast majority.

Question: does the sentiment analysis support languages other than english ? As regard to the technical consideration, as I already said you could clearly present API on your servers acting as "proxy" between self hosted sites and AWS services. You could sell it as paid options to self hosted clients and maximize revenues from theses clients. This way self hosted client wouldn't need advanced technical skills.

I did put a smiley in my message ! 🙂

Will all these features only be available on cloud subscriptions ? I get it for image analysis and sentiment analysis but i would expect who's viewing and who's typing to be available on self hosted as i don't see any AI in there :).

Official translations for a few languages (french for me) The new release rythme makes it almost impossible for community translations to follow up...

Okay, my best advice : don't discuss or justify moderation. Every time i tried to say something like "i removed this because blabla..." i ended up with 3 pages debating if i was right or wrong. Now we just remove what we think has to be, and every comment made about the moderation. If deccessary we deal with the moderated user by personnal message.

You are gonna kill me but it was actually a good change for those of us who have to account invoices etc... Is there any way we could choose between 6 months and 1 year ? BTW, i have to say i have the most respect for what you have been doing for 2 days answering to everybody here.

I think this distinction is very hard to make. My site is a hobby in the sense that i don't exepct to live or even earn money from it. Yet it has advertsiement revenue that i use to pay for hosting, licenses and web developpement (and accounting...). Where would you put it ? my accountant costs 10 times what IPS is costing, the price increase is around what a corporate credit card costs, it is definitely not a problem per se.

Given the fact that you provide no valuable info on how to configure the server, you should expect that. Maybe i missed it but i never saw a list of basic Mysql/apache/php key config items for IPS. Providing basic key settings value for typical community sizes would help a lot. Theses settings depend on the code so nobody can guess the best settings for IPS. By the way, most of the time the hoster says it is a code issue and you say it is a server issue. And this is often right for both as optimization on both sides would probably solve the problem.

As I said, the price rise is not really the problem here for me. they had been the same for more than 15 years and everybody can understand it. Now you are making a lot of changes suddenly after 15 years with barely any, you can only expect people to react strongly. this is all change management and communication, as i said you chose the "rip the band aid" approach, and you may be right a everybody will complain for a few days and i will probably be business as usual in a week. But a more progressive approach would probably have created less tension.

@Matt what would be the harm of letting people choose the renewal period ? I know i would definitely choose 1 year personnaly but at least you would make a move to help some of us.

Three of the most active third party devs have been active on this very discussion. At least two of them clearly stating this would impact their future projects. Honestly, how many active devs is there ? what would-it cost to give free licenses to developper having more than xx downloads/intalls of their apps/themes/plugins ?

I have to say i am kinf of proud of myself 🙂 Coming from vbulletin, we had both public forum support and public roadmap and it seems appropriate. I have to say i really did appreciate the roadmap. Maybe without going so far as the roadmap, having a suggested feature list and a voting system would be nice so the community would feel listened to and it may be a good input for you. For instance my alarm provider has this very basic system : https://ajax.systems/features/