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Personally, I'd be a bit concerned about using iframely for user generated content on a community, as the way I understand it, there is the potential to end up with unexpected bills. Obviously it's possible to monitor usage, but if you're not on the ball with it, even on the free account (after the trial period you will need to put in your card details) there are overage fees possible, and no way to block that from happening other than switching it off when you near your limits. We already have an account with them, and the last time I spoke to them about this (during the spring), they said they were planning to bring in overage warnings etc, but from what I can see, they haven't been added yet. Just something to consider perhaps.

We're trying to pull promoted items from the API for embedding away from our community, but are running into an issue in that it only returns the original title and no description when a custom title and description has been set. I'm assuming this probably isn't a bug as it aligns with the API docs, but I think that since custom titles and descriptions are available when promoting content, it would be sensible to add that to the data the API returns?

Thanks for this, it's really useful and interesting to see how these enterprise, brand communities are doing things. Can I ask in terms of the theming and layout of the community there, I assume as they're an enterprise client it was put together for them by Invision? Would you say that level of customisation is possible out of the box on v5, with the built in page and theme editors? We're just starting to look at all of that on our test community at the moment, so it'd be interesting to know how far we could go with it.

Do you act this way every time a company changes product lines or increases prices? It happens all the time, businesses have to change, adapt and pivot. It can be annoying if you've used a product some time that's being removed, changed or made more expensive but that's just the way it is. The alternative would be that more businesses just cease to exist, as if they don't change with the times, what chance do they have?

I believe there is a patch available to resolve this issue. Check under support in your acp.

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry, but for now I'll settle for this.

@Adlago, you appear to be misunderstanding how the caching works. It's not a local cache on a users machine, it's caching the html for the block server side, so the backend isn't generating it each visit. If you cache it for 1 hour, it'll retrieve the html from that cache for 1 hour, and then check again for an update the first load after that. Once it's done that, it'll cache it again for an hour. So, setting it for one hour will make it faster across the hour than setting it for 5 minutes.

Nice to see Invision finally get over their apparent pathological dislike of all things cloudflare and embrace its obvious advantages

B2 maybe good, but I'd possibly suggest you're storing up a whole load of hassle (support wise) for yourselves by saying any other compatible s3 service is ok, as some of them definitely aren't. Cloudflare R2 caused us some issues on 4.7.19 with caching and the IPS system could never delete from it properly. In the past google cloud buckets were problematic as well.

When you say they can be used right now, I assume you mean just on V5?

Certainly agree with this. We've been self-hosted and cloud-hosted (currently back to self-hosted for the time being at least). We're comfortable managing servers etc, but the removal of the stress and time of doing the nuts and bolts of that for our community was a definite plus when we were cloud based. I don't think the comparison in price between a VPS or even dedicated server at some random host vs a SAAS product is ever a particularly fair one.

Matt, I appreciate the reply. We have been customers for the best part of 20 years now, and although I have, at times, been vocal in voicing concerns (cloud vs self-hosted not being one of them btw), I'm sorry to hear that the negativity around the cloud is continuing to create hassle for you and the team. It's a lesson learned that things may be going on out of sight which affect the things we do see, so apologies if my comments in this thread have added to that.

Ahrefs is a brilliant example - yes they have tiers, but they also communicate about them properly. They also have impeccable timing, as right now they are beta testing a new ai content feature and they're properly transparent about it, in that they're saying that 'at the moment' everyone has access while it's a beta feature, but in time it will be a paid for addon. Everyone then knows where they stand. As for the 'them vs us' - the sad thing in that the biggest cause of that isn't the change itself - most people get how different products and pricing tiers work. It's the way it has been handled and communicated from the off. It's become a problem of Invision's own making, which is a shame for all concerned, especially as the lessons just never seem to be learned.

You're of course welcome to your opinion, but have a read of the posts in this thread, is there confusion due to a lack of transparency or not?

If we want to stick with that analagy, I think it's probably reasonable to say that most car manufacturers communicate the specs and differences between models some way in advance of launching them. But regardless, the analagy is actually inappropriate because this is software and is totally different to new cars. People already have licenses and packages are highly likely to be planning to move to the new version which has been trailed for over a year now, and is apparently only a matter of weeks or a couple of months away. Now is the point many want to plan, discuss things with their teams, their communities etc, but they can't because there's no clarity over which of the newer, more exciting features they may or may not have access to. The irony never escapes me that Invision, a community building company are so bad at actually communicating - you'd think that would be a prerequisite in this business. I'm sure Invision are trying to create as much buzz as possible about the upcoming version, yet here we are across several threads where confusion reigns (again) due to the lack of transparency. If Invision really haven't figured out what package will have what features at this point, then that's a failure of organisation on top of the failure in communication. But anyway, it's only been 20 odd years, there's still time to learn how to communicate yet - maybe v10 will have a perfect launch. 🫣