David N.

15 minutes ago, opentype said:

What does your menu look like currently?

Like this :

15 hours ago, opentype said:

(Not sure why it should go in the user menu though.)

Another reason is that menu is available site wide whereas the activity streams aren't. Of course I could make the "Forums" link in the main navigation a pop-up menu with choices.... but I feel that the user menu would be the right place to find the user posts. 

I hear you, and that's what I'll do, I'll live with it, it's no big deal. But if there was a simple on/off switch in my ACP to choose not to display those comments, I would hide them. 

The reason is purely visual. I'm in the early stages of redesigning my site with this newly acquired software and I give a lot of attention to details as far as how everything is laid out visually on the page. Things like the space each member's signature take, the padding around it, how much they have to scroll to see content on screen depending on their viewport size, the ratio between content, signatures, and ads, etc. 

I like the focus to be on the content as much as possible, with a minimalist look... I edit other members posts quite often to fix things like typos and extra empty lines, and sometimes reading a thread can end up looking... well a little bit something like this: 

Posted Wednesday at 11:32 PM Author

Should I try a new project?

Edited July 4 by Randlefish
Fixed typo

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Andrea Edoardo Elgado
Newbie producer - level 4

Posted 51 minutes ago

Yes!

Edited by Gus Holton

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tu quoque mi fili (Julius Caesar)

Posted Just Now

Ok I'll try it.

Edited Oct 21 by Randlefish

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I want to implement the Apple ID social login to my Invision Community however before I spend the $99 for a developer account I want to double-check with everyone that it's still up to date? 

1 hour ago, Jim M said:

This is something which we are working to upgrade towards.

Ok great, I'll be patient then. Thanks!

Do you see that info? I can't find it: 

I am trying to create a Twitter login for my community. I created an App in Twitter and turned OAuth. When I enter the API Key and Secret in my Invision Community ACP, the ACP saves them. But then when I attempt to sign in with Twitter, it takes me to the Twitter site, then I am redirected to my website where I get the following error: 

Note that when I enable OAuth in Twitter I also get a Client ID and Client secret however I cannot enter those in my Invision Community ACP (if I try, I get the error below): 

Just now, opentype said:

The “Content I posted in” does that. 

Great! Thanks, I did not know that. 😄

9 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said:

Its worth mentioning also, that if you wanted to be really creative about it, you could create a stream, add a link to it on the menu, but only allow it to a set group. Have a group that has posted say 5 or less items that it shows to, and nobody else. This way you end up in a situation whereby you gain the members you wish to help find their content, while removing the clutter for people who already know how

Very good idea, thanks a lot! 😄

2 minutes ago, opentype said:

There are already feeds for “content I started” and “content I posted in”. You just need to link them in your menu. 

Yes, but I'm looking for one single link that would be for both content started and posted by the user. Some users don't even know if they started a new topic or replied to an existing one, they just want to have a list of everything they wrote no the forum. 

Looks like that's working. 😄

Ok thanks. External would have been my choice as well. I'll try that. 

Excellent. Thanks again Marc and everyone who added further suggestions. 

Thanks, opentype.

In our community, I'm fairly sure that most users don't look at the activity streams, even if I did add a link there. You know how most users are, they're in a hurry, they want to find what they need very quickly without having to think. 

Maybe I should create a custom stream made from content the user either started or posted in, and create the button myself? 

Just now, opentype said:

(Not sure why it should go in the user menu though.)

As a user, that's where I would expect to see it. I mean I can access my profile, my attachments (which I never need to access in my case), it would make sense to me that I could access my posts from that same menu. 

Just now, Marc Stridgen said:

Those are warnings rather than errors, and are correct at present

Thanks Marc. That means I shouldn't worry about them then? 

I recently read a case study over on the admin zone where they studied how forums were used and one of the major points that came out were:

1. Most people googled something, came to a single page, either found their answer or didn't, and left never to come back again. 
2. For the few who sign up and ask a question or reply to a topic, when (and if) they decide to come back and see if there was an answer, most of them have the hardest time trying to find what they posted. 

I suggest adding a super obvious easy way for anyone to find their posts. Either a big green "Find my posts" button, or a less conspicuous "MY POSTS" link in the member pop-up menu like this: 

I am setting up Google login for my Invision Community.

I'm afraid I don't fully understand what Google is saying there. Which should I choose, Internal or External? Thanks!

Thank you for all these options. 

When I scrape a forum topic with the Facebook debugger I see this: 

The following required properties are missing: og:description, fb:app_id
 

I do have a facebook app which is set up for the facebook login for my invision community. How do I fix this? Thanks!

I could swear I've set it up before and yet links appear with a blank image. I searched my ACP for "open graph" but got no result. 

Thanks!

On 10/17/2022 at 7:57 AM, Nigel Moore said:

On a lot of Community platforms, they have a feature that allows for users to reply to thread email notifications and their email reply gets added as a post inside the thread. 

That would explain why some of our members reply to the email notification rather than clicking the button to go to the thread in the forum: 

Ok, understood, and that makes sense. Thank you @Jim M! 😄

Ok, thanks Jim. Not ideal, but no big deal. 

When I edit a post I see "Edited just now by (me)". I know I'm the only one to see that (or perhaps mods can see it too, not sure), however I'd rather completely remove it and not see it so that I can see the same thing a regular member sees. 

Is there a setting for this? 

And... done. Let's see if it works to help convince members to upload a custom profile picture. 

That's great, I completely overlooked this. Even better than what I was suggesting. Thanks!! 😃 

A lot of members don't understand how to upload a profile pic. They go to their profile and click "Cover Photo" and their avatar ends up being a cover photo instead. 

That little button at the bottom left of the profile pic isn't always obvious for some members. It seems that many just click their profile pic on their profile and expect to then be able to upload a new one. I wish we could click the profile picture to update it. 

For example Facebook's interface is a bit more obvious: I can click my profile picture and this pops-up a little menu where I can choose to update my profile picture: