
Everything posted by Matt
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Invision Community 5.0.0 Released
Yes, I will look in the next 15 minutes.
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Reset template during software import/update
Ok, I figured it out. Fix in the next release.
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Invision Community 5.0.0 Released
What happened to your Pages? They should be upgraded ok even if they look a little odd if you have custom templates.
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Reset template during software import/update
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?
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Please stop removing features
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.
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Reset template during software import/update
Can you update your client area with your test site Admin log in and FTP please? I'd like to take a look.
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Please stop removing features
If you use Sendgrid, you can continue using Sendgrid without any issues.
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v5 questions
I can take a look at this for you tomorrow morning.
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You are still underselling your product and good support is lacking
Ok, thanks - we'll deal with it in the ticket.
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You are still underselling your product and good support is lacking
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.
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Please stop removing features
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.
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Please stop removing features
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.
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Please stop removing features
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.
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Invision Community 5.0.0 Released
That's great to hear, and I need at least a day off before starting v6. 😅
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Please stop removing features
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.
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Invision Community 5.0.0 Released
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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.- Please stop removing features
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.- Invision Community 5.0.0 Released
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.- Invision Community 5.0.0 Released
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.- The permissions for Downloads custom fields are missing
They're in PR for v5, likely out next week with 5.0.1.- Invision Community 5.0.0 Released
- Invision Community 5.0.0 Released
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!- Please stop removing features
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.- Happy FiveDay! 5.0.0 Soft Release now available
It's been so long doing v5 I have no clue what is going on anymore. - Please stop removing features