Matt

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Actually my geeky hobby is not really that geeky, I collect guitars. Right now I have 19
 

Being a forum admin is actually my answer. I think most people in my day to day life would be surprised/confused that I know anything about linux/php etc. (although most wouldn’t have the faintest idea what any of those are). The rest of my life, including my career, is about as non techy as you can get. 

I guess my most nerdy disposition is that I like to read through plans for and follow railroad projects closely. I'm a huge supporter of more rails transport!
Other than that it's mostly theatre (acting) and Netflix.

Nominating these to be the official IPS Mascot of 4.3 because ... fuzzy cuteness.

Congratulations to the invision power community team!
Excellent work from Discordianos.com we are a community from the beginning we use their forums are the best insurmountable there is no company to win their great work.
We are waiting for version 4.3.0 to maximize their benefits.
A hug from Discordianos.com

The mother had babies, then the babies ... created more babies. Anyways, it was definitely an odd experience. They were cute little pets though, and very gentle (if not extremely timid).

I had guinea pigs for a while many moons ago. They kept multiplying though (literally - we'd wake up one day and 3 more would be in the crate).

Nice!

I, personaly, spend time hammering my F5 button on your website, waiting for any new update about 4.3 !

I'm well past the 'geeky' stuff - anything that used to be considered geeky is now the norm.
But we (myself and my wife) have the Guinea Pig bug.....we've got 12 of our own. A herd of 4 indoors (the mixed group below) and outdoors a herd of 4 (the goldens/reds below) and 2 pairs of 2 plus we are also fostering 2 at the moment for a rescue we help with. If you'd told me 3 years ago that I'd be like this I would have laughed in your face.

Contests are actually a very affordable way to bribe people. I do this on my personal community. A calendar, a shirt, whatever it is can be cheap and gets them in the door/posting. People love a chance to win free stuff! Just need to ensure once you have your audience in you capitalize.

I'm pretty sure bribery would work but I can't afford it.

Thanks for the article Matt, all are very good ideas to increase participation, especially the "lurker week" sounds very interesting.
Activation rate of 44% in 5 days sounds amazing. Will try this out as soon as I convert my forum to IPB. 

Then just do it.  

You can cancel renewals from the front end, just visit the purchase.
Thanks!
As mentioned just below your reply, they all share a common framework of tax, invoicing, purchases and so on. It wouldn't make a lot of sense to break that up without moving all the core billing into the core framework, which is a major rewrite. You can shut off modules you don't want to see, so you can just shut off the hosting section if you wanted to.
Big hugs accepted! Thanks Cristian, I appreciate your kind words.
Yes of course, it's all translatable.
Yes, once the subscription has been put into an invoice, the usual Commerce tools take over.

You can cancel renewals from the front end, just visit the purchase.
Thanks!
As mentioned just below your reply, they all share a common framework of tax, invoicing, purchases and so on. It wouldn't make a lot of sense to break that up without moving all the core billing into the core framework, which is a major rewrite. You can shut off modules you don't want to see, so you can just shut off the hosting section if you wanted to.
Big hugs accepted! Thanks Cristian, I appreciate your kind words.
Yes of course, it's all translatable.
Yes, once the subscription has been put into an invoice, the usual Commerce tools take over.

My most respect and congratulations for your achievements never seen in any other company or forum company.
I have with you since 2013 I will never change great support for a large number of plugins and applications that make it unique.
A big hug from the most frodundo of Spain for the invision power team

Exactly this.
Yes, my aim is to offer an upgrader option to switch to the subs manager.

Um. We might be able to do something. We haven’t done anything with 3.x for a while. I can take a look. 

Um. We might be able to do something. We haven’t done anything with 3.x for a while. I can take a look. 

Exactly this.
Yes, my aim is to offer an upgrader option to switch to the subs manager.

Exactly this.
Yes, my aim is to offer an upgrader option to switch to the subs manager.