OptimusBain

Hello,
A couple of suggestions:
Couldn't these buttons be the same size? It gets pretty weird like that. It gets even weirder when there are only 2 buttons.
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Another visual detail that could be better is the grid view of the Downloads categories:

 
No user photo. No date (submitted/updated).
Could be something like this but better:

What would be cool is if you could define a set of  Stock Replies could be restricted to the alerts.
As there are some that would only ever be used in more of a private setting. 

Yeah, but something more accurate - each mod option has own titles/content.

Not yet®

Not 100% true. I pay 300$/year appx (I try to renew mostly on time but life expenses take priority on hobby expenses).
I get your 80$ calculation but just mentioning like me and many others, have your other addons, which adds to 300$/year and we haven't seen any ground breaking changes in Pages, Commerce, Blogs, etc. since few years.
Commerce is worst application for my use and I hope it can be improved, so that I can use either Commerce/Nexus or Donation but not forced to use both. Apologies for off topic on Commerce addon.
 

I mean even 20 clients on business beats 500+ self host customers in terms of price. Which is why they're pushing cloud so they make more money providing the same service. They have 27,450 active clients (anyone who's renewed within the last 6 months) which is a increase of 194 from last year.
However, the last 4 months there's only been an increase of 22 active clients, about the same time they started pushing cloud exclusives. Don't think their methods are really paying off unless they're converting a bunch of people to cloud which may be the case since they're intentionally gating useful features behind cloud

Nice - will scheduling be a thing for page records and bulk emails as well?

It's not the members, but administrators and moderators that would schedule a reply. For instance, my community basically does financial analysis on stocks. There is a topic for each stock, thousands of topics. Every time there is an update, it will be a NEW post in the topic that corresponds to the stock. For instance, an update on Netflix stock, or on Facebook.
I want to schedule an update of the topic with a new post. That's not possible, I am forced to publish it immediately. These forums can only be updated by admins and moderators (not members), so it makes sense to have an option to schedule individual topics with new posts, not with a brand new topic. it's just the same subject but with an update.
I love the possibility of scheduling a new topic but my community hardly has any new topics unless they are questions. It's made of many forums and sub.forums with hundreds of topics, one for each individual stock, so it makes sense that admins have the possibility of scheduling a new post within the topic.
Thanks for reading.
 

Very useful! Thanks!
@Jordan Miller I feature a Question of the Week each Monday as an Announcement (pinned and highlighted).
So each week, I have to log in at 9am, unpin the previous Q and pin the new one.
Would it be possible to add a pin/unpin or highlight/cancel highlight on date xx/xx/xx time 00:00?
So that I can both write the post in advance and schedule the Announcement 🙂 
Or am I missing something and it is already possible?
 

That way you could also tie it to subscriptions if you wanted to...🙂

For example, if you are running a contest and the submission must close at a certain time. In this case, it would be great to be able to schedule a reply to be posted and a thread closed at a specific time.

It would be great that also posts inside a topic can be scheduled, I expected it in this new feature. Why also on posts?
My community have many forums with announcements for many subjects. It's a megaphone style forum where only the admin can speak.
I don't want to write a new topic on the very same subject every time, so having the ability to schedule a comment/post in a topic would be perfect. Thanks

It would be great that also posts inside a topic can be scheduled, I expected it in this new feature. Why also on posts?
My community have many forums with announcements for many subjects. It's a megaphone style forum where only the admin can speak.
I don't want to write a new topic on the very same subject every time, so having the ability to schedule a comment/post in a topic would be perfect. Thanks

As the functionality stands now you get a running list of Stock Replies that you have to scroll through to "hopefully find one that is appropriate for the area you are in currently.

It would be nice if IPS created categories that you populate in the ACP and then choose on the front end to find a set of Stock Replies pertinent to a particular use case.

 
Once you click on a category it would bring up a list of relevant Stock Replies you could choose from.
Access to each category would be set in the ACP and would only appear on the frontend if the user had the appropriate permission.   
 

Ok now that I see this in action - wow it's fantastic.
( give us an inch we'll want a mile )
I could really see the need for by GROUP allow individuals to customize their set of stock replies.

Check this mod then:
 

This looks super promising!  
A couple of suggestions if I might be so bold...
Integrate this into the warning system UI.  (Warn User, Flag As Spammer, Message, ALERT) Integrate this into the forums.  For example, being able to send an alert to those who participated in a topic.  (The use case might be to notify users of something important happening when they might not be following that thread OR if a thread is getting out of hand issuing a gentle nudge to get them back in line.) Allow sending anonymous messages that a member can reply to which would show in the alert section that any moderator could respond to.  (The use case might be part of the warning system of letting a member have a chance to respond to a warning, or giving a member a chance to ask questions with the moderator team.)

It would be great if a button showed when you're moving a topic, so the user can press it to be directly taken to the new location of the topic.

This is 100% on the "phase 2" list.

Something I always wanted, but doesn't sound like it will work as I'd prefer - it would help if this was an option during the moving topic process, make it an option to create an alert for the topic starter whilst on the pop up for that.

@Matt it goes even further back for me as I still count the original Ikonboard days!  It was the failed experiment that lead to the one that actually worked!
In terms of memories… there are too many for me to pick just one:
@Charles picking me up from the airport near Appomattox explaining how Virginia was not a state but a commonwealth.  The panicked support tickets to reboot a server and @Lindy saving the day and talking me off the ledge when IPS still sold dedicated servers.  Meeting you and learning about the migration from Perl to PHP.  Working through the upgrade from IPB3 to IPB4 thinking the conversion would NEVER finish… and then when finally turning the board back online and members saying “oh wow!”  

What about SEO? There will soon be ranking factors in June that the forum software is currently failing - especially speed on mobile.
Will we see an announcement in our client area / ACP when the new version is available? I haven't seen anything.

I'm not defending them, I agree with you, it's really poor... they took the easy route rather than doing it properly. Like I mentioned in my first comment, you can build webhooks yourself in a custom application and using the IC "Hooks" to trigger them... but obviously that's additional development time I'd love not to have done and support.

Instead of just saying it's a bad course of action (which it most definitely is, don't get me wrong, but just complaining about it is pointless) I would like to ask why you guys chose to go that route. Maybe after hearing the answer to that we could agree with you, or think about a way to make it work for self hosted websites as well. 

AGREE.  I self host because I can tune my server for heavy use loads (as said above, not just user count) and customize our site which is MUCH MORE than just the forums.  Hosting w/ IPB would be impossible for my broader site, of which the forums is an integral part.