Troy Shaffer

To Marketplace developers and the Invision community as a whole, I will be happy to host an independent and collaborative Marketplace directory.  It's already in the works.
I fully support a thriving ecosystem of developers and clients: to extend, to inspire, and to push the boundaries of our platform. Technology is an important differentiator more than ever in the modern web, and working with developers (either privately or through their public mods) can help fine-tune your platform. 
 
More information and invitations will be sent out to active Marketplace devs.  You are also welcome to send me a direct PM.  
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Yes, all changes were visible in the member history.
Randy Calvert,
You are correct. Caching was the issue. There was a setting in Google Chrome that was telling the browser to remember my past webpage visits. I disabled this setting and cleared the cache and all is well again. Thank you! 🙂
 

Do you see any related changes in the Member History? 

Or maybe some group promotion or achievement, etc.

The only time I saw this happen was with a browser cache issue.  As a test, try making the change with a different browser. If that works, try popping the original browser cache. 

To add fake members online, you must go to the Add section of the app and you can add a member online from there by selecting said member and the session duration. 
I will look into this soon and get back to you.  

Hi Miss B,
I just purchased your AFMOS App - it seems like a smart way to create initial user engagement / get things started, etc.
To use your app, do I create a members through the normal IPB process, and then add these members to your app? Or does it work some other way?
Thanks in advance.

Darth Vortex,
Thank you for the feedback. I appreciate it.
Your experience with Wordpress and your comparison with IPS pages is helpful and encouraging.
I upgraded my IPS suite to include pages a couple months ago. I'm glad to hear a recommendation e.g. "just have to work your way into it" like yours. 

Luca,
IPS is still the preferred choice for forums, so your question comes up quite often in entrepreneur groups I belong to. Folks understandably want to learn one platform instead of two, if possible.
Luckily, there's an easy answer.
Wordpress is the standard for blogs. The platform is the CMS of choice for an ever-growing number of businesses, small and large. 
At times, Wordpress is a challenge in terms of security, backups, caching and hosting. But it is a well-supported platform that continues to get better and better for its users.
IPS is at least 15 times (maybe 20) times more difficult to use. Also, and you probably already know this, but if you're self hosting (not using paid IPS cloud services), asking for help in any way is met with extreme resistance and almost outright hostility. The message is brutally clear. I finally just hired a developer to handle the IPS side of things. Life is too short to fear asking questions about a service you pay for, right?
So no, you absolutely do not want to use IPS pages as a substitute for a Wordpress blog. You'll be posting routinely and want a user-friendly platform like Wordpress.
Use IPS only for forums, and possibly the gallery if integrated with your forum. This is critically important if you're self hosting. And this is just as critical: be prepared to solve ALL problems and have ALL questions answered by someone you trust - who is an advanced PHP developer.
Just my two cents.
Best of luck to you.

With my experience of using both WordPress and IPS Community for years, I would choose and recommend WordPress for blogs.
And there is no other choice between those two, honestly, IMO.
IPS isn't bad for what it was initially created for, i.e., for forums. But not more than that.