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    Fierce God reacted to ASTRAPI in Community Guide on Setting Up Wasabi and CloudFlare   
    You can use it on any environment that supports natively or by any plugin/addon Amazon S3. For CiC (community in cloud) yes it will work!
    You can select from your admin CP which files you like to move and which not 🙂
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    Fierce God reacted to Joel R in Community Guide on Setting Up Wasabi and CloudFlare   
    @ASTRAPI is helping me move my community over to Wasabi and Cloudflare.  
    For any Invision Communities who are currently using Amazon S3, then you may want to seriously investigate the pricing for Wasabi or other S3 compliant services.  Wasabi is significantly cheaper (80% cheaper), charges nothing on exit bandwidth, and compatible with CloudFlare.  It's a drop-in replacement for S3, so for purposes of your ACP, you would treat it like an Amazon S3 storage.  
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    Fierce God reacted to ASTRAPI in Community Guide on Setting Up Wasabi and CloudFlare   
    Hello
    (This is a community guide on how to setup Wasabi and Cloudflare, as a significantly cheaper replacement for Amazon S3 and Cloudfront.  The author has no affiliate arrangement with any of the companies listed in the guide and offers the guide as a free community resource.  You should consult with your hosting provider and / or server administrator before proceeding with the guide.)
    BACKGROUND:
    Invision Communities contain rich content, from forum attachments to gallery images to download files.  These resources add up over time. 
    Here are real examples of communities that I provide server administration for:
    - Website A: 400 GB of total storage and 1.2 TB of total monthly bandwidth 
    - Website B: 800 GB of total storage and 14 TB of total bandwidth
    Invision Community allows a file storage configuration with Amazon S3 and a content distribution network (CDN) of your choice:
     
    WHAT IS WASABI?
    Wasabi Cloud  is faster and cheaper than Amazon S3 for object storage, offers unlimited egress for bandwidth, and compatible with Cloudflare.  One of the biggest hidden expenses of using Amazon S3 is not the cost of storage itself, but the bandwidth to deliver objects in and out.  Wasabi does not charge for egress bandwidth, which can save on the majority of the true cost of Amazon S3. It also provides an S3-compliant interface, which means it can be used as a perfect drop-in replacement for Amazon S3 storage and immediately usable on all Invision Communities.   

    Wasabi is 80% cheaper and 6x faster than Amazon S3, with 100% data immutability protection, and no data egress fees or API charges. Created by Carbonite co-founders and cloud storage pioneers David Friend and Jeff Flowers, Wasabi is on a mission to commoditize the storage industry. Wasabi is a privately held company based in Boston, MA.
    In March of 2018, Wasabi pioneered the cloud storage industry’s first ‘unlimited free egress’ pricing plan. We are excited to join forces with Cloudflare and the Bandwidth Alliance, validating that the early business models of Cloud 1.0 vendors no longer applies in a world that expects unlimited everything.  What this means in practice is that you can use Cloudflare services (including the free plan) like blazing-fast DNS, WAF firewall, performance improvements on the fly, and much more.  Forums users will request a topic, and all static content can be picked up from Cloudflare's optimized services that will connect to Wasabi.

     
    At the moment, Wasabi offers three Datacenters:
    1)US-WEST
    2)US-EAST
    3)EU-CENTRAL 

    One price. Lightning fast speed. No hidden fees.

    You can check and compare the prices above.
     
    GUIDE:
    BEFORE PROCEEDING, PLEASE BACKUP YOUR DATA FIRST!
    YOUR FILES WILL BE IN PRIVATE MODE AND WILL NOT BE ACCESSIBLE ON YOUR FORUM !
    YOU MUST GET A PAID PLAN TO BE ABLE TO ACTIVATE THE INVISION FILE PERMISSIONS AND GET YOUR FILES ACCESSIBLE AT YOUR FORUMS.
    JUST ADD YOUR CREDIT CARD NOW (AT YOUR PROFILE PAGE) AND THEY WILL CHARGE YOU 5,99$ FOR A MONTH FOR 1TB STORAGE AND UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH.
    THE FREE TRIAL WILL NOT WORK FOR INVISION !
     
    Step 1: Create a CName at CloudFlare
    We start by creating a cname at Cloudflare:
    cname -> cdn -> cdn.yourdomain.com.s3.eu-central-1.wasabisys.com  <--For Europe datacenter
    or
    cname -> cdn -> cdn.yourdomain.com.s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com  <--For US-WEST datacenter
    or
    cname -> cdn -> cdn.yourdomain.com.s3.wasabisys.com  <--For US-EAST datacenter
    Like this:

     
    Step 2: Create a bucket on Wasabi
    First we sign up for a free account at Wasabi Cloud: https://wasabi.com/sign-up/
    Then we create a bucket:

     
    It is important to name it as: cdn.yourdomain.com
     

     
    Then keep default suspend Versioning and Suspend Logging:

    Then click CREATE BUCKET:
     

     
    Step 3: Retrieve your Access Keys
    Go to the menu on top left and click Access keys on the left. Click on "Create New Access Key."

     
    Copy / save the access key and the secret key:

    Step 4: Setting up a new file storage in ACP
    Login to Admin Control Panel and navigate to Overview at the Files category and then click at the right side at Storage settings:

     
    Then we click at Configurations and at the right side at Create New:
     

    We select Amazon s3 and we add the following info:

    Save it.
    Step 5: Set the new storage at storage settings
    Navigate to Storage settings and select from the drop down menu the new Amazon s3 bucket.

     
    Keep only at your server your theme resources:

    *Attachments and Downloads doesn't work out of the box as it seems there is some hardcoded code at Invision related to S3...
    To make them work you just need to install the addon bellow: (tested with Invision 4.4.4).
     
    Then wait for any Invision background tasks to finish and check.
    I hope that you will benefit from this tutorial and get better performance while saving a lot of money 🙂
    Enjoy!
    OTHER NOTES:
    If you are already using S3 then it is very easy to move straight to Wasabi by following the above tutorial as it is NOT needed to move back your files to server and then to Wasabi.
    CREDITS
    Credits to @Joel R for giving me the motivation to write this tutorial and providing screenshots from his Wasabi account and for editing the topic.
    Thank you
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    Fierce God reacted to newbie LAC in (NB44) Polls Walls   
    Hello,
    - Content types. Topics, Events + 3rd party apps which support polls
    - Filters.

    - Separate page for each wall
    - Custom title, description.
    - Cover photo
    - Ability to edit wall on front end
    - Clubs support

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    Fierce God got a reaction from Adriano Faria in Crowdfunding   
    Much appreciated!!
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    Fierce God reacted to Adriano Faria in Crowdfunding   
    Added you to the proper user group. Try now! 👍
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    Fierce God reacted to SoftwareFactory in Brilliant Discord Integration   
    Unfortunately it seems that there is no "Remember me" feature for external login handlers in Invision Community.
    He will still need to link his Discord account in such case.
    Partial clubs support may be added in future updates. However, multiple server support would require complete code rewrite of the app. This generation of Brilliant Discord Integration is just not prepared for such feature.
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    Fierce God reacted to Fosters in Profile Privacy - Supporttopic   
    Sorry, I missed your post. Could you clarify what bugs you mean?
     
    Nope 🙂
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    Fierce God reacted to ahc in Members Shop ( Support Topic )   
    This is interesting.  I'm looking for a point system so that users can do on-site transactions with others (not as an incentive earning system) and this system looks promising, though I wish they could just exchange their points to account credit and then request a withdrawal after if they meet the minimum without our involvement or having to "purchase" something.
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    Fierce God got a reaction from SerialNoob in Members Shop ( Support Topic )   
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    Fierce God got a reaction from TAMAN in Pages Clan Wars [ support topic ]   
    @TAMAN hopes it's ok to make a feature suggestion here
     
    Can you maybe think about a add on to this as a Leaderboard of some type?
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    Fierce God got a reaction from Maxxius in (DF42) Members Social Info (Support Topic)   
    @TheJackal84 
    any way you can make this integrate with 3rd party apps?
    I have a few members that are full time active and would like to see their info show on some of the non core apps we have 
    Main apps members want their info on is:
     
     
    I have both of these and they run full force on the site
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    Fierce God got a reaction from SoftwareFactory in Brilliant Discord Integration   
    Thank you for considering
    this will be highly usable for ppl like us (Gaming Communities)
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    Fierce God reacted to SoftwareFactory in Brilliant Discord Integration   
    Unfortunately, sending notifications from clubs is not yet possible. However, we will surely consider such feature while working on future updates 🙂
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    Fierce God reacted to bfarber in (.webp) images support   
    As it happens, this is on an internal discussion tracklist - but there's nothing else to report right now. I can't say if support will be included in any specific upcoming release yet.
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    Fierce God reacted to Elshara Silverheart in Chat Application ( Support Topic )   
    Thank you for tagging me in the topic. I should've come here earlier, but I'm new to IPS so am not quite sure how it all works yet as far as the community goes. But I really love what I see here.
    I love how observational and attentive you are. Your consideration of my ideas here means I'm already hooked but also appreciate your talent and ability to engage in people, as you treat us like we matter as not just consumers, but admins and community relations managers with people, members, and valued users of the forums.
    Here's some more features to consider if you think of it.
    1. Import from chatbox. Settings, posts and existing content if available.
    2. Add integration with blogs, articles and other databases.
    3. Add the ability for admins to be able to customize what chat sound appears.
    4. Add the ability for users to be able to invite other users to a specific chat room.
    5. Add seen, read, unread notifications.
    6. Add the ability to bookmark posts so if users or admins are reading lengthy conversations, you can bookmark your place or just highlight archived messages you wish to view later on.
    7. Be able to quote users, as well as mention them in chat. And have this work on a multi-chat room basis.
    8. Integrate chat with notifications system, so members get chat notifications when ever they are mentioned or receive a private message or an invitation.
    9. Integrate notifications idea with email that is optional.
    10. Integrate paid chat with nexus integration. This would be very useful for customer support and product feedback channels.
    11. Create a live chat alternative, where staff can talk to users one on one so make users have a one way communication with staff. then integrate that system with nexus support tickets.
    12. Add a multiple users documentation system. Where members can communicate in a room in real time, and then merdge each post into an article and submit it. Would also work for topics, where a representing user or groups of users are able to create custom posts by optionally not including members name or date sent in the article. Would work with my convert chat room to article or topic idea.
    13. Enable custom fields display for profile fields or other field types. So for instance, a custom chat field type would be location. Where rooms of users could automatically be set if people share a similar location. And or drop down value.
    14. Allow users to block themselves from being included or mentioned in a chat room. This works separately from the ban system, in that they aren't banned, they just ignore it.
    15. Create a statistics area for chat messages. Number of users online in which rooms, and rooms users may have in common with other users.
    16. Add chat as a stream option to activity, following and search for custom notification settings.
    17. Add total number of online users in all chat rooms with member photos as an option.
    18. Have chat create custom actions. For example, sending 15 messages to a specific user would open a bot based pop up asking the chatting member if they wish to follow that user.
    19. Merge profile activity comments with chat. that way replying directly to a comment (new feature idea) could show up on someone's profile page as an activity comment or in their chat box if the user chooses to display conversation history.
    20. Allow members to post in multiple chat rooms at once. this is useful, for when you wish to forward messages, or simply wish to make an announcement to save time.
    21. Optionally place an online indicator at the top of the chatroom, rather than at the bottom. Or let admins decide what information is included per chat display order.
    22. Allow the chat post message area to be at the top or bottom of the chat room. Or let it scroll with you in case you wish to hover over a post to reply to it.
    23. Allow members to choose their own chat display order. this way they see messages in an order they prefer.
    24. Allow chat to have custom pagination. this way, posts appear live as they are created, but when viewing history, there could be a tab to have chat be in read only mode.
    25. Allow rooms to have their own custom buttons on the text editor. this includes deciding how the enter key works. It also includes optionally displaying the button to send a message, or automatically send it.
    26. Have custom emoticons support. Where each chat room could in effect, have its own theme.
    27. Allow members to choose a background image for chat rooms they create. this way, they can personalize their chat experience.
    28. Allow members to leave chat rooms they're already in. This way, they can come and go at will like groups.
    29. Allow chat rooms to be able to message members whether they're online or not. This way, messages members could receive as such, could appear in rooms they previously joined, but were not there to view at the time. This is similar to member mentions feature, but the difference here is, the notifications could be forwarded to members each time they are quoted, mentioned or linked.
    30. Chat subscribers. Allow members to optionally subscribe to a chat room, and receive chat logs.
    31. Allow member created rooms to include custom moderators.
    32. Allow the ability to merge or split rooms based on number of people, messages or other areas.
    33. Allow silent mode, where members will only see room activity if they're mentioned in any room without having to be online in it.
    34. Allow members to type in different colors.
    35. Allow members to invite their friends to chat from social media.
    36. Integrate rocket chat with chat rooms so that chat integration provided by other chats just extend rooms from a custom API.
    37. Allow chat to have times of the day when it is closed to messages.
    38. Allow chat to be dependent on checking to see if any guest is viewing the chat page. Don't auto load messages if nobody is currently viewing a room.
    39. Allow members to customize chat in their language using google Translate.
    40. Allow chat to be renamed to something else, like conversations or interactions.
    41. Make it so that clicking on a user's profile takes you straight to a model window where you can choose if you want to view their profile, moderate their chat experience if available or start private chat. this eliminates the need to have a form where you need to enter a members name to chat with.
    42. Allow chat to be limited to friends or followers of a given member if any.
    43. Have a chat widget that loads from admin and moderator control panels.
    44. Integrate chat with the reactions system.
    45. Integrate chat with the rating system.
    46. Allow chat to have custom polls assigned. that way, voting is done live with users who are interested.
    47. Make chat viewable to only people who are of a certain age, location or have made so many posts, or joined within so many days of the community. Some of this can be done already using user groups, but make this independent of the promotion system so that chat appears as an option for user group creation and editing.
    48. Keep being awesome. Pat yourself on the back for a job well doing.
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    Fierce God reacted to TheJackal84 in Chat Application ( Support Topic )   
    No problem and thanks.
    There is a lot there but there are some good idea's, I will go through them all and see what I can pull up, there is a coupe things it already does like the colour of the text you can set it via the editor and the moderators you can go to the ACP and moderators then create a new one set it to either a user group or certain members and only allow them to moderate xyz chatroom, It's a good list though and nothing I like better then new ideas for my stuff, I got a couple things to do then I will start a new update for this 😀
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    Fierce God reacted to TheJackal84 in Chat Application ( Support Topic )   
    Once I wirk out the best way, it might have to be overall online as there could be lots of chatrooms
    if the user logs in anonymously then they will be anonymous in the online list, Admins can see anonymous users
    they are not in the search history but they are shown in their profiles content section
    I'll see what I can do with that
     
    @Elshara Silverheart easier to reply to you here then we can chat properly
    Like this idea to convert topics or rooms to the forums etc, I'll look into that
    I could look into some settings etc for users, also it already allows files uploaded

    bad words will be included in a update, it will work alongside the IPS bad words filters, Mobile app would be good, I canonly make android apps though 😀 but they will be full site not just the chat app
    this is something else I will be looking into for a future release as well, No promises with that but it will be something I will turn my time to
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    Fierce God reacted to Matt in Why not offer push notifications solution   
    Sales figures mean nothing sadly. There's little point investing a lot of energy into a system that does not work on one of the top two phone platforms.
    I think we're on Web 5.0 by now.

    I would agree, other than push notifications which require an app for iOS.
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    Fierce God reacted to Dean_ in Auto Welcome Support   
    I'm also facing double posting, and still facing this issue below..
     
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    Fierce God reacted to gabs007 in Clubs Enhancements   
    Sorry to be the one asking for more features (I hate it,)  but ...  
    would it be possible to add the option to allow  members of the club to write blog entries for the blogs in clubs ?
    Right now, only the club leader (or any moderator of the website) can write in a blog included in a club. 
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    Fierce God reacted to TAMAN in Pages Clan Wars [ support topic ]   
    Well, could be css conflict. you can check which one causes the issue by disabling the plugins and apps one by one.
    or simply ignore it and leave the code i gave you in custom.css 🙂 
    But i would really like to know which plugin or app causes the css conflict lol
     
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    Fierce God reacted to TAMAN in Pages Clan Wars [ support topic ]   
    You haven't edited anything in the theme css files? 
    the clan wars css styles arent same as default they look have been edited 😕 
    This has been deleted in your side
    .cw_Team, .cw_teamOpponent, .cw_recordDisplay .cw_teamLogo, .cw_vsWrap, .cw_recordDisplay .cw_VS, .cw_recordDisplay .cw_VS > span, .cw_date .cw_d-time, .cw_recordDisplay .cw_teamName { display: inline-block; } Add that in custom.css and see if it works 
    if it works then that means the clan wars plugin css is still modified and you need to revert the css templates or remove the plugin and then reinstall it again 
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    Fierce God reacted to TAMAN in Pages Clan Wars [ support topic ]   
    Hi,
    Try to reinstall the plugin 
    only the plugin. you do not need to touch anything in Pages app.
    You might have accidentally deleted some codes in the plugin css file in theme templates 🙂 
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