Matt

Mevi, firstly I'm sorry for your loss.
I'm also sorry Senior here is already writing your obituary!

The idea of memorialising members has floated around for a while, and it's something I'd like to put some thought into.

We are discussing this internally. 👍

We are discussing this internally. 👍

We are discussing this internally. 👍

This is still the case.

This is still the case.

Appreciate the feedback, thanks!

We're constantly looking for new ways to improve content discovery. There are already widgets you can use to show popular content when viewing a topic list but we're definitely open to any ideas.

Appreciate the feedback, thanks!

We're constantly looking for new ways to improve content discovery. There are already widgets you can use to show popular content when viewing a topic list but we're definitely open to any ideas.

No problem, it's what we're here for. 🙂 

You haven't missed a setting, but I like this feature idea.

Of the 147 members who were classified as 4 but not FASed, about 30 are likely spam accounts (based on manual classification by one of my moderators), which gives a precision of 61% (39% false positive rate) when classifying based on a score of 4.
I'd be happy to share some more detailed data with you if there's anything that you think would be helpful - feel free to reach out by ticket/email/PM(/slack), whatever is easiest.

For push notifications on iPhone, you need an app downloadable from the App Store. There's no way to push notifications to iPhones in any other way.

I’m a Luddite...62 years old and retired from a career in Commercial Art; specifically graphic design. No industry went digital as fast and as completely as the graphic design field. We went from building mechanicals on drafting tables to using computers and Software overnight, starting in the mid 80’s. I developed a severe case of Upgrade PTSD. Back then every upgrade or update of OS, and design software, was wrought with issues. Files wouldn’t open, fonts wouldn’t work, it was always a cluster, and work flow was impacted. We learned to hate Upgrades,
So, in addition to living in the woods of a Maine with extremely glitchy DSL “high speed” internet at a whopping 7 mbps...that’s not a typo. I put off IPB Upgrades and typically ask Support to perform even the most minor ones.
Recently I found myself 15 Upgrades behind...with no SSL Certificate...and my Board of 19 years...again not a typo...(I launched my Discussion Community back in 2002 on Ikonboard) was experiencing all sorts of errors and issues. 
I finally contacted Support, and they were responsive and professional and they resolved the SSL Security situation, and the Upgrade(s), and moved my Board to the new Cloud II Server. There are some minor Member issues to work out, and I’m becoming accustomed to the new features, look and functionality, but generally things on Board are snappy and going well. 
For someone who isn’t as fluid as many here with the backend of the IPB Suites and Software, and suffers from Upgrade and Digital PTSD,  having the Support team on call is a huge relief. I’m not putting off Upgrades any longer...I promise.

We were talking with them this week. Our approach is unusual in that there is not a single URL to push data through as its distributed software, so it's taking longer to approve. It's all positive though.

We were talking with them this week. Our approach is unusual in that there is not a single URL to push data through as its distributed software, so it's taking longer to approve. It's all positive though.

I didn't state that it needed a major revamp nor do I believe that it does.
However, some aspects could be improved, which has been pointed out by users for quite a while now.  In particular, the view of member albums looks dated compared to the forum.
 

It's a little unfair to think of any app as being isolated in terms of updates.

Even though Gallery hasn't had a 'tear down' style revamp for 2 years, it doesn't mean that it's not received any updates. Simply by being part of the Invision Community ecosystem, it receives all the updates that the core gets, including UI updates, notification updates, performance updates, etc.

Quite simply we do not feel that Gallery needs a major re-invention at this time.

We removed post numbers about 5 years ago and although we get the odd request here and there, it’s not something that is raised very often.

Not a thing.

However, we have to be mindful of adding settings for minor things like this as each setting accrues technical debt.

It's just meaningless clutter.

The question comes up now and again, but it really doesn't get a lot of traction from fellow Invision Community owners. You can share the post permalink via the three dot menu, or by the post time link.

We're keen to keep visual noise to a minimum and let the post content be the focus.

What would you do when posts are deleted? Renumber the posts so that "check out post 4 with the answer" no longer points to the actual answer (it's now post 3) - or leave gaps in the numbering so it's obvious when content has been merged, deleted or moved?

I understand that.

We've tried to keep everyone informed as much as possible with blogs like this.

We also push this to our social media channels and do a monthly newsletter.

I'm not sure how else to get this information out.

We were in beta for months, alpha for about a month before that. We've been talking about 4.5 since last year, and announced the new front end theme in April. We've been running a beta version on our own community here for months.

I understand your point that you can't be expected to obsessively follow every bit of news we release, but with a major upgrade you should take a short time to investigate the changes before pressing the button.

I appreciate the feedback but I think it's a little unfair to state that you didn't know what was coming and now regret it.
We also have to design for a wide variety of screen sizes, so the layout has to be consistent and modular.

It's easy to see a lot of whitespace on a single screen with a short topic title and few logged in actions at full screen on a 24" monitor, but when you consider this:


I don't feel that there's much space to save here without cramming it into two lines and accepting some buttons will overflow.