Pleeb

The actual screenshot is on the "4th" page, the question is on the 3rd. This is really confusing. I thought it was the horizontal rulers that was causing it, but when I edited the post that the person on my forum created to remove those lines, it didn't change to a normal post. (posting this as a response, since editing it will just result in my message being on a 4th or 5th page) I couldn't find any reference to this in invision community's documentation or mentioned anywhere else.

Preventing pages in posts How did this happen This is a header Testing Invision community, A member did this on my forum today. I cannot replicate it except copying and pasting, and I would like to prevent them from doing it in the future. Reading this post will be evident on what happened. I'm attaching a picture of what it looks like in the editor before submitting. Please help. Sincerely, Pleeb. 🌐

Anyone?

We are heavily using the "Voting System" for the Questions & Answers forum mode to vote on user-submitted guides (see example attachment) for my community. Does Invision Community 5 have a way to do this? Or is there a way to rate topics, sort by topic rating, and such? Or is there an Invision Community module (either already in 4 that's going to stay in 5) that I'm overlooking that already supports posting items that can be rated and sorted by ratings like this? Our "using the questions mode" has always felt a "bit hackey" since the non-questions mode never supported upvoting (we don't want downvotes) topics like this, but we have about 250 user-submitted guides (and about 5,000 posts between them all) that we are trying to easily rank. I guess my question is, if you're deprecating the Q&A section noting that it's been moved into the main threads, does that mean the rest of the Q&A section will work in the board such as voting? We definitely utilize voting on questions right now which only seems to work in the Q&A mode. I would be very happy if it just worked like that in regular threads too. Actually, I would be happier if we could just vote on threads like the current Q&A mode works without it having to be Q&A 🙂

Yes you did.... it's been a long 3 years 😅 Thanks again.

Hey. Did something change that ties it to the board's start date again? This was working for the longest time, but I noticed at some point it was moved back from 4/26/2012 to the start date of the forum (in 2019). When I tried to change it back, it gave me this error:

We have a native dark theme for the ACP, let’s give a dark theme for the front end! Then I can happily 100% use the default invision community theme for my community, while still letting my users choose between dark and light.

I updated the client area with the information.

@Daniel F I tried signing in with that account in the ACP at community.tulpa.info/admin/ using the "IPS Temp Admin" account and it works fine using the account information provided in the ACP console when I click on "Support." Do you want me to PM you the password that it gives me? Note there's no space in the password, I don't know if you're using a space or anything. What error do you get when trying to sign in? I get a 2fa prompt.

It's been a few days, is there anything else you need from me?

I just set the admin account now. Also, I noticed the big red " Maintenance Tasks Not Running " banner at the top of my acp this morning. Evidently I had to change "/usr/bin/php" to "/usr/bin/php7.4", since I had multiple versions of PHP running and running the script with php8 results in errors. This isn't related, but I figured I'd let you know. The "IPS Temp Admin" password has been updated as per instructions in ACP and I confirmed the user is in the administrator group. Please let me know how else I could help.

No errors, just a warning about cross-origin read blocking: Except when I do that on this forum it happens too:

When anyone tries to embed videos in my forum by typing out the video, they're getting the error: "The link could not be embedded because www.youtube.com does not allow embedding of that video." Happens with youtube and youtu.be. Strangely, if I add the "embed video" button to the toolbar, that actually works (see below). I have the latest version of Invision Community with the default theme (I have one css modification), and I generally use cloudflare. I have 14 plugins and applications that are up to date. I can embed here on this forum, so I'm not sure what else I'm doing wrong or what's failing where. For troubleshooting up to this point: I cleared caches I disabled cloudflare I disabled all of the plugins and applications Switched to newly-created fully vanilla theme Updated all software and OS on the server itself Updated from php7.3 to php7.4. This started happening about last month, with no changes on our end so I'm not sure where it's faltering. Does anyone else have issues automatically embedding videos on their forums? Please see screenshots with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFNekjEgvuk: I can add an "embed youtube video" button (notice it exists in the following screenshots) and that works, so the video itself can be embedded: And finally, embedding does work here:

I was able to solve this using member groups, group promotions, and this plugin: I was already using it to prevent spammers from signing up with 0 posts then editing their profile fields with URLs; what you can do, is create a special member group that promotes a member to that group on say, 500 posts. Then simply enable this field for that membergroup to edit.

I bought this plugin and mentioned it in my last post on this very thread, when pointing out how Invision Community needs to better listen to requested common-sense features along with my grievances of the marketplace. Fosters' update has been rejected once already, and it takes weeks for a plugin to come out of review.

I have been a big fan of IPB all growing up, I was an admin on many forums using it in the past, and when I was younger and wanted my own sites (without being able to afford enterprise software), I even opted for InvisionFree. With that being said, when my community moved away from MyBB in 2019, Invision Community was the obvious choice for me; we're entirely ran on donations, but I was willing to save up and pay for the price out of pocket because I was looking forward to an enterprise solution. I talked up Invision Community on my forums, and while we were a bit bitter over losing BBCode (we're still dealing with posts with formatting issues in my community after all this time), we sucked up and made the migration (which unfortunately didn't go smoothly due to a bug with the MyBB conversion system, but a support ticket pulled through!). I'm not upset about the price increase, though I think it could have been dealt with better tact (read on), but I'm pretty upset about the loss of opening support tickets. Most of my tickets that I opened were legitimate bugs that had to be escalated to the devs, and some of them involved bugs that could have been security issues (e.g. seeing topics and posts in feeds under specific circumstances that were meant for only staff). One of my biggest talking points to the community, and one of the biggest brags that I've done post IC was "The benefit of enterprise level software is enterprise level support!" I could tell my community when something went wrong "I opened a ticket". I can't do that now, and raising the price while removing that feels less premium. Less enterprise level support. Regarding Devs.... I'm presently terrified that this is going to lose people like @Adriano Faria. @Matt I hope you're listening, because Andriano Faria is the reason we choose Invision Community. Due to some specific nature of my community, being able to post between multiple accounts was vital, and without their Linked Accounts plugin, we would not have chosen this platform. If it breaks, we won't be able to continue using it, as it was one of two mandatory requirements for a community platform (even Youtube allows me to switch between pre-selected linked accounts from a user interface, many people support this out of the box): I would pay for this 20 times over if it stayed (just not all at once!) @Matt, earlier you listed a fair bit of features that were pushed in the last couple years; however, there's so many missing features that should be de-facto (and they are in other free solutions, e.g. MyBB, SMF, etc.) but have either been removed or haven't been included and require a plugin and some of these plugins are holding the software up. People have been asking for night mode since 2019 for the main site (ACP is appreciated but only admins can see that), profile-specific permissions prevent 1-post spambots from joining and putting things in the website field (again, we needed Adriano Faria's plugin), searching reported content is pretty important for larger communities (plugin), bookmarks (plugin...still can't use it in the latest version), post number in thread ( @All Astronauts's Kitchen Sink took up that mantle when Tom Irons' left). You cannot lose any more of these individuals; hire them to implement these things into the main suite if you have too, because it feels like these common sense features are simply not there when they should be. As for the marketplace, it has burned me a couple times now, specifically with themes. After upgrading my site's main third party, purchased, theme (which I only needed because Invision Community doesn't support dark theme natively), I shortly realized that there was a critical bug in it. The author was prompt in giving me an updated xml with the fix, but since I already had linked the theme to Invision Community, I couldn't just upload the XML, and waiting for the theme to be approved was not immediate; my only choice was to create a brand new theme from that XML, which sucked because the theme in question was heavily customized 😞 The second time is still ongoing, since y'all rejected @Fosters' recent bookmark update (I understand that you're aiming for quality control here, but from what I've heard it can take weeks for the plugin to be in review). As for as how this all could have been handled, it's unreasonable to never increase the price for existing users, and only introduce it for those coming. However, it is also unreasonable to drop it on us with no prior report. I remember when Flickr changed their pricing structure, and while it got some pushback, they not only provided a warning, but also allowed current customers to prepay another 1-3 years at the current rate before they did. The result? I bought 3 years worth at the old rate, and I think a lot of people did. I think a better approach to this would be to give existing customers an additional year of the old pricing (or even just 2 more billing cycles), while bringing new ones in, but in this case even the controversial way that Flickr handled their increase I feel was more graceful than Invision Community's. As others have said, there's still time to make this right; find a way to remedy this to show the community that you're still acting in good faith. Let us open tickets if something is broken, but perhaps still allow "how do I do xyz" to be topics. And please, I don't want to tell my members that we need to switch to yet another platform after arguing for this software for the past 2 years because you pushed away the developers... find a way to lesson the blow to them, or just hire them outright so they can bring these much-needed features to Invision Community (see above). P.S. Also please don't make this software become another Discourse-like platform, another reason I love IPB is because it's always had the forums feel; I don't want to lose the bulletin board look.

This plugin was also the last 4.5 holdout in my community too; I understand there's been a lot of design changes so I'm more interested in a working plugin with no bugs than a rushed plugin. Just renewed my license and looking forward to the update so I can start using it again.

Just tossing out another callout to @Tom Irons, hoping for a 4.5.x update 🙂

I just purchased this for my forum, but I'm not using version 4.5 yet (I'm on 4.4). I tried to select the latest version from the change log (the only one that appeared was from December 1, 2019) and tried downloading it, and apparently it wasn't found. Could I get a copy of the 4.4 version?

I just have one quick question about this. What happens when someone does delete their account? It looks like their posts remain, but is their username replaced with "Guest" on the forum, allowing them to essentially "anonymize" the username attached with the post?