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The button above the map is only for entering member locations. All other markers have to go through the "Browse Markers" link. You can also use the "+ Create" menu in the header, which is always available.

We are looking to patch some issues with calendar dates. Please keep your eye out for patches in the support area of your admin CP.

The version compatible with IPS 4.7.3 is currently pending approval.

Unfortunately I couldn't find any reference to hook 395 in there however I did end up finding the culprit which was "Enhanced Member List"

Unfortunately I couldn't find any reference to hook 395 in there however I did end up finding the culprit which was "Enhanced Member List"

Current version has an issue in PHP 8.1 only if you're using the setting to add ignore topics to new members.
New version submitted: IPS 4.7 & 4.6 with PHP 8.1, 8.0 and 7.4 compatible.

Thanks, I was holding off installing 4.7. I'll get onto installing it.

Great idea but no we don't use it. It's hard enough with sites like Facebook taking traffic and discussion away from the main forum.

Great idea but no we don't use it. It's hard enough with sites like Facebook taking traffic and discussion away from the main forum.

Hey team, happy Thump Day! We moved this week's edition of Hump Day to Thursday to give you a moment to read our new blog post on the Achievements upgrade included in our new release 4.6.8 (out now!). 
There's also a great blog post (if I do say so myself 😏) about the new stats and reporting metrics in 4.6.8 (again, out now!). 
Have you updated your community to 4.6.8 yet? Notice any improvements? Dug into the moderator stats? 
Here's a screen shot from my own community. It shows the warnings issued by our moderation team in the last month. Pretty interesting, right? I love that I can see now what the recurring warnings are so that we can come up with better ways to help the community in the future (and hopefully see a decline in these stats).


 
I also think the Badges metrics are super interesting, too. Looks like there's been a lot of members hitting that one-week target and earning that badge. I love being able to dive into the stats like this! 


 
If you're down to share some of your own community's stats, that'd be awesome! We could give each other tips and tricks for bettering our community management skills. 
 
Here's a list of updates/changes/fixes our dev team have accomplished in the last 7 days. 
By the way, for a full list of 4.6.8 changes, please visit our release notes page 🙂 
- Fixed a broken link to our support community on the Support dashboard.
- Changed the activity stream subscription emails to filter only by the create date.
- Improved the new version approval flow when the main file submission is also pending approval.
- Fixed an issue where rejecting a pending new version may delete screenshot thumbnails that are in use.
- Unapproved content push notifications now use `definateArticle()` for item titles.
- Fixed a bug where Nodes could be deleted if they are the target of another node's content
- Added reputation titles & icons back to the Reputation Activity page in user profiles.
- Removed the option to add a Custom Field type of "Poll" to Downloads Files
- Fixed a bug where Nodes could be deleted if they are the target of another node's content.
- Fixed a PHP warning on the ACP member profiles.
- Fixed an issue where a checkbox item would not select when found using the search in a checkbox set. 
- Fixed an issue where deleting a club would return an error.
- Fixed few potential issues caused by a record with an orphaned category.
- Removed the option to add a Custom Field type of "Poll" to Downloads Files.
- Fixed a missing custom field language string in the 'pending shipment' block on invoices.
- Fixed opacity on form placeholders when using dark mode.
- Changed value for prune_member_history setting from null to an empty string for Cloud.
- Fixed a broken getLastComment link in the forumRow template.
- Fixed an issue where the topic summary may only show 3 top posts instead of 4 if the topic contains many guest posts.
- Added reputation titles & icons back to the Reputation Activity page in user profiles.
- Changed value for prune_member_history setting from null to an empty string for Cloud.
- Fixed an issue where members requiring moderation could merge content with already existing replies without requiring approval.
- Fixed a missing language string in acp notifications of pending transactions.
- Improved the club landing page for closed clubs to return an error with further information.
- Fixed the badges for 'seven consecutive days' and 'Five Hundred Items'.
- Fixed an issue where it wasn't possible to delete the Apple startup icon.

How are you liking 4.6.8 thus far? Haven't had the chance to upgrade yet? Scared of doing so? Would love to hear from you in the comments! 

You mean like reddit? no thank you. Never understood how that mess became mainstream.

Happy hump day, team! Apologies for no hump day post from me last week - I was on the streets of LA freedom fighting for Britney. 💪😅 However, this post isn't about me 😏 this is about us officially releasing 4.6.7 into the wild! It's available to you now!
Just to refresh your memory, you and members of your community will now have the ability to subscribe to custom Activity Streams and receive emails with all the latest activity. There's also new Closed Club functionality and Stock Replies. 
Ya boy penned a post about it last month. Feel free to give it another check - it includes more details on the aforementioned:
 
 
Btw, one of my favorite parts of the new custom Activity Streams is the decay feature. 😎 
Please be sure to have full working backups before updating. The upgrade should go smoothly, but just in case it's always great to have them.  
Now, onto the updates! Since we didn't loop you in with all of the fixes and updates last week, here's a comprehensive list of all the awesomeness the dev team knocked out the past two weeks. Legit 🤯 
Sink your teeth into these then drop us a line in the comments and let us know what you think! 
- Fixed members REST endpoint responsible to award a badge. 
- Added the ability to quickly navigate between Node permissions and Group permissions in the AdminCP.

 - Fixed an issue where deleting members my leave orphan status update reports.
- Fixed an issue where json-ld info can show the wrong author details after a display name change.
- Fixed an issue where deleting members may leave orphan status update reports.
 - Fixed an issue where json-ld info can show the wrong author details after a display name change.
- Improved the reliability and security of using the (S)FTP upgrade method in the AdminCP.
- Fixed an error when viewing members with Commerce purchases in the admin control panel.
- Fixed an issue where it was not possible to resend validation emails if internal logins were disabled.
- Added a Limit of 1 to the First Comment query to improve performance. 
- Fixed an issue where Blog json-ld output may contain invalid HTML output.
- Fixed members REST endpoint responsible to award a badge. 
- Fixed an issue where it was not possible to create new default database inserts in the developer center.
- Fixed an issue where links to user profiles were shown in some circumstances where profiles could not be viewed. 
- Added the ability to optionally require a billing address for subscriptions.
- Fixed an issue where adding similar events could cause a blank cover photo to be saved.
- Fixed an issue where incoming emails may be rejected incorrectly when the x-auto-response-suppress header is set.

 - Added a Limit of 1 to the First Comment query to improve performance. 
- Fixed incomplete administrator logs when performing actions on achievement rules.
- Fixed an issue where promoting content may cause items to appear twice in our picks.
- Fixed a database error shown when managing followed content for Gallery images.
 - Added a Limit of 1 to the First Comment query to improve performance. 
- Improved the achievement new rank and new badge emails.
- Fixed an issue where deleting members may leave orphan status update reports.
- Fixed an error thrown when sending Easypost shipping notification emails.
- Fixed an issue where, after splitting a hidden content item, the comments show as hidden without the option to un-hide from within the new content item
- Added Achievement filters for bulk mail, group promotion and automatic moderation
- Fixed an issue that may prevent new badge emails from being sent.
- Added a Limit of 1 to the First Comment query to improve performance.

- Added member's rank and achievement point total to the member CSV export.
- Fixed an issue where task progress bars could show percent completion above 100%
- Fixed an issue where deleting members may leave orphan status update reports.

- Fixed an issue where it was not possible to resend validation emails if internal logins were disabled.

- Fixed an issue where word filters may not work correctly when editing titles inline. 

- Added a Limit of 1 to the First Comment query to improve performance. 
- Changed the stream subscription email to include max. 10 items.
- Fixed an issue that may prevent new badge emails from being sent.
- Fixed an issue where the confirmation modal for stream subscriptions would show a broken confirmation description.
- Changed the activity stream subscription emails to filter only by the create date.  
- Fixed a minor link target issue with the add phrase button when editing blocks.
- Fixed an issue where removing a currency can cause errors in search results.
- Fixed an issue where reviews may not be correctly indexed with Elastic Search.

Avoid it no matter how much your members cry about it. I found it very intrusive and buggy.

I am also someone who attempts to search before starting a new topic, but unfortunately the search here is not very good.  It would be immensely helpful if you defaulted to AND'ing search terms, but even then I often have to use google's "site:invisioncommunity.com" feature to find relevant topics here.

I obviously didn't make myself clear. It was a general observation about people having to complain before action is taken where a bit of foresight and planning could have avoided the mess. I think this is the biggest grip people have right now.
I genuinely believe the IPS staff are doing a great job. I recently had my VB migration issues resolved by @Stuart Silvester and my forum has never been better.
Going against the grain here and I know the decision has been reverted but yearly payment was another non issue for me, shame we can't have both options. I like to pay my bills and not have to worry about them but I understand people don't like change and if that's the way its always been done here in the past so be it.

I appreciate the feedback, candor and your kind words as well. Annual payments are something we would still like to explore and if we can modify the infrastructure to accommodate both, I personally have no issue with doing so. It will be something we revisit at a later date.
I am truly appreciative of this post; your earlier post(s) troubled me personally as being evil, disconnected and full of marketing fluff is not the image we want to project. I'm grateful you provided the opportunity for the dialogue to evolve, for feedback to be heard and actioned and to witness some of the thought and care that went into some of these changes behind the scenes. I apologize that our communication missed the mark and again appreciate the constructive feedback and patience while we digested and acted upon same. 
I'm all in on the group hug. 

I want to thank you all for your feedback. I appreciate everyone who took the time to leave their thoughts and concerns. I've read every single one and replied to almost all of them.
Firstly, I want to say that I understand that the messaging that went out ahead of this update fell short of what you deserve, and I want to apologise for that.
After spending two days reading every single post, almost all concerns fall into these three areas:
1) The future of support
I've seen many people use the phrase 'no more support', which isn't true. I know the change from ticket support to staffed community support is a significant change, but I genuinely believe that it will benefit customers. I believe that we can create a living knowledge base of solved issues just like many brands do. For example, when I have a problem with my iPhone, I google it and invariably end up with a link to a topic within their support forums with a solved answer. I don't need to raise a ticket with them and wait for a reply.
There are many "what about" concerns mixed in, and I ask you to try the new staffed community support areas and give us your feedback once you've used it regularly. We will work with you based on that feedback and make improvements where it is needed.
We have custom functionality that shows our team links to your client accounts, including license keys, etc., so we know who you are and have all your information right next to the topic. You will never need to divulge personal information, or even your site URL if you do not want to.
If your support issue is complex or needs developer intervention, with a click of a button, our technicians can convert this into a ticket for you and we will continue to resolve the issue with you in that ticket.
You will be in safe hands.
2) Price Rises
We have not raised our prices for well over a decade. We've always been reluctant to do it and held off for too long, resulting in a large jump to make up for a lost time.
We can't reduce the prices to their pre-September levels, but we will be much more mindful of price rises in the future.
3) Annual Renewals
We want to simplify billing and reduce the number of invoices we need to send, and you need to pay. An annual invoice seemed logical to achieve this.
However, you have made it clear that moving to annual renewals affects your budgeting, and we have listened to that.
We have reverted this decision and have restored 6-month renewals in your client area. This is not a temporary one-off offer; it's a permanent change.
Again, I want to thank you all for being so vocal and passionate about Invision Community. We want to keep offering you the very best community platform to help your communities succeed.

Several observations as a new customer.
Since moving to IPS there seems to be a lack or foresight on major issue like the one that's being discussed. No support for Zapier for self hosted comes straight to mind. It also feels to me that self hosted customers are being treated second rate which is sad. I've noticed many questions regarding self hosting being skipped over and ignored.
I've got zero issue with a price hike as long as I'm getting value for money. Compared to its competitors IPS is by far the best and I've tried them all (Troll as some might). I'm sorry but trying to blame IPS for your lack of traffic or ability to sustain your site is wrong. Social media is the real enemy to the traditional forum.
Hopefully the IPS team sit down and think hard before making announcements like this in the future. I can understand peoples anger having this dumped on them with little to no warning.
 
 

What strange email I got today from @Matt 
First the subject was somehow give the idea my account license had problem, then they are good news to start with as price rise? Good news for whom? Yes for IPS indeed not for customers.
I and other whom been with IPS from start been with this, no problem, if that will lead for better support, but:
Now with this price rise you drop the support (no matters how you explain it, it very clear you drop your support) and force me to use the community for it, or of Couse pay as well for support.
My records show I always goes and supporting IPS, but this time, the term for support is not acceptable at all.
I hope you reconsider you support term again, thanks.
 

Just wanted to chime in and give a big shout out to @Stuart Silvester. With his help I was able to successfully do a transfer. (Give this man a raise 😄). Also thanks to @Charles. It's customer service like this that a lot of forum software companies are missing these days. Glad to be back and be part of the IPS family once again. 

 
 

Perfect once last question. Some of my users don't like comments on their for sale threads, is there a option for a user to disable comments if they don't want them?

Yes you can 👍

Yes sorry I didn't realise there were another set of settings in Community.
Working now TY.

Avoid it no matter how much your members cry about it. I found it very intrusive and buggy.

Avoid it no matter how much your members cry about it. I found it very intrusive and buggy.