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Matt

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  1. Yes, I will look in the next 15 minutes.
  2. Ok, I figured it out. Fix in the next release.
  3. What happened to your Pages? They should be upgraded ok even if they look a little odd if you have custom templates.
  4. Thanks, I'm having some trouble with the FTP. It keeps prompting for the password, or times out when listing a directory. Is there anything I should be doing?
  5. Matt posted a post in a topic in Feedback
    Yes. We are using Postmark for Invision Community Cloud and have been very impressed with its speed, security and support and felt it was a better alternative to SendGrid. However, we understand many are using SendGrid already and they can continue to do so.
  6. Can you update your client area with your test site Admin log in and FTP please? I'd like to take a look.
  7. Matt posted a post in a topic in Feedback
    If you use Sendgrid, you can continue using Sendgrid without any issues.
  8. Matt posted a post in a topic in General Questions
    I can take a look at this for you tomorrow morning.
  9. Ok, thanks - we'll deal with it in the ticket.
  10. I'm not sure what you're experiencing. I just checked your site and it's resolving fine. You are welcome to open an email ticket if you have any concerns or issues that I'm not able to replicate.
  11. Matt posted a post in a topic in Feedback
    Yes, this makes sense. From my point of view, I was talking on behalf of how Invision Community is put together as a public facing platform.
  12. Matt posted a post in a topic in Feedback
    In any case, we're going off at a tangent here. This isn't really the place to debate hosting infrastructure. We've made our choices, we're happy with them. Likewise you've made your choices and are happy with them. Ok. I guess you're talking about internal systems, and not external systems because web/app interfaces for banks certainly do use CDNs.
  13. Matt posted a post in a topic in Feedback
    If AWS has a Crowdstrike moment, then 60% of the internet will be down including government agencies, police, fire, ambulance dispatch, banks, etc. A forum would be the last thing on people's minds. We used to run our own servers in a data centre and it was nice owning all that hardware and not relying on anything else, but not so nice when a drive failed taking hundreds of customers offline and we had to drive out to a location and switch it out. We operate at a large scale, and we have contracts to support our infrastructure.
  14. That's great to hear, and I need at least a day off before starting v6. 😅
  15. Matt posted a post in a topic in Feedback
    We use CDNs as a caching layer. Without them, our bill would be roughly a zillion times more expensive. It's common practice. Congratulations, you are in the 1% of our customer base. Literally every single scalable service in the world (Netflix, Disney+, Amazon, etc) uses micro services from an upstream provider like AWS.
  16. Matt posted a post in a topic in Feedback
    I do not think this is true. I would consider management software to be thinks like Monday.com and Clickup. Those manage timelines and projects very well but are not places for discussions. We are building the very best community software possible. And as Lindy said, that means leveraging technologies that are not readily available on your standard Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP servers. We have gone over this a lot in the past, but we leverage CDNS, SQS, node, react and more. More to the point that the days of "sell it cheap, stack it high" self-hosting licenses are well and truly over. I think what you really mean is that we are becoming an enterprise community platform, and that has some truth in that if we can't sell lots cheaply, then we have to sell few more expensively to keep the same income to pay our team and bills. Also enterprise communities are one of few areas of growth in this industry. But that does not mean that we focus all our efforts in that direction. We have many communities of all sizes using Invision Community. We are not trying to make it unaffordable. You mention $600/month but that comes with a lot of business-level functionality, for $89/month you get a lot of functionality on our Creator package. Again though, we have committed to the self-hosting option to make Invision Community as affordable as possible for as many people as possible. Our efforts to move into the enterprise market makes this possible. While you may have to look at our Business package to get Assigned Topics, everyone gets the new UI, new Theme Editor, new Page Editor, dark mode and so much more. I would say less than 10% of all that we have built in 5 is not available to those on the Invision Community Classic license. Without Invision Community Cloud, there would be no self hosting license. The self hosting model is no longer sustainable for anyone in this industry.
  17. Matt posted a post in a topic in Feedback
    In fairness, you've had since 2022 to tell that admin. We've not made it more difficult for members to log in at all, we've made it more secure.
  18. And thank you for your patience and testing! I'd loved seeing your site come together on the alpha builds. Let me know if you need any help with the upgrade, and I haven't forgotten about the status update conversion.
  19. It's been a pleasure having you along for the ride, Mike! Planning the upgrade is definitely the smart thing to do. Let us know if you need any help.
  20. They're in PR for v5, likely out next week with 5.0.1.
  21. A lot of effort from the entire team for sure. They've all worked so hard on this and have poured everything into it. We're all excited to see it released. We've been though some stuff together, that's for sure. Looking forward to seeing your upgraded site!
  22. Matt posted a post in a topic in Feedback
    I really do not agree with this. Invision Community is a forum platform at heart, so we must focus on those tools. Status updates are barely used on most sites. I do accept that is not the case for you, but it does not mean we are 'in the past'. Our platform is great at categorising a large number of growing conversations, its primary focus is not on short form content. You might be able to create a custom app, or even a Pages Database to do this.
  23. It's been so long doing v5 I have no clue what is going on anymore.