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Well yes, fair enough. Although it is a step back in comparison to the marketplace in that respect, I think. And it may make it harder for new developers without any history or reviews. I can understand the change though, hopefully it'll be a success.

Will Invision be vetting those listed in the directory to ensure they are reputable?

Adsense and google analytics are very separate things.

Maybe it would have been a plan to hold off announcing this 1 tool until you were ready to announce the rest, or at least some of them.

You want the forum software to block requests? That's not really how it works. You need to upgrade your hosting.

Calling the cloud sales team hotline. Red hot lead right here.

You should only prefetch files that need to be loaded as a priority, js, CSS or whatever else.

Because downloading it all is still going to block something else from loading. So by moving all the CSS to be pre-loaded, it's actually going to block things that should and would have downloaded first. Browsers are actually quite good at prioritising these days, so you can do more harm than good by messing with the order and preloading potentially large files that don't actually need to be pre-loaded. In an ideal world the key CSS (eg the CSS needed to render the visible part of the page) would be pre-loaded or hard coded into the html. Just not all of it.

Preloading all of the css is not a good idea.

Yes

Same here @Daniel F - any word on a fix?

It sounds like what you really need to just run a single tcf2 compatible one. Quantcast choice is free and is just a case of copying and pasting the code into your site + a small amount of configuration on their website. https://www.quantcast.com/products/choice-consent-management-platform/ There's also Google's version which is built into AdSense and ad manager.

As the removal of the data a legal right (in the EU / UK), how does that sit with only giving the option to certain members?

Because some aren't at the moment, and now they'll have to.

You're correct, you can simply use the built in options in AdSense or Google ad manager and you'll be compliant.

The reason is the guest caching, as covered earlier in this thread. As far as I'm aware, there's nothing youv can do, at least in terms of the way you're looking at it. Re-framing it slightly though, maybe you could consider what you can do to encourage more of those guests to register? I'm not a fan of register walls and the like, so I'm not suggesting that sort of thing, but can you do something to make membership more compelling? Can you improve the messaging shown to guests so they're better aware of the benefits of joining? All told, a member is far more valuable to you and your advertiser's than a guest, they're far more likely to revisit, can receive emails, notifications etc. And for creating buzz, why not talk about the number of posts, new members joining, active members, trending topics and so on. I'd have thought those things are more likely to drive engagement than a simple 'look how many people are online' type thing anyway.

Said literally no-one, ever.

I'd have thought you'd want to use something like Google analytics for this sort of thing, rather than relying on an arbitrary guest count.

We saw a very similar thing with guest numbers much lower, but had no negative comments and I've not seen any negative results in terms of posts, active members etc. I think it's probably very much a vanity metric and not something to be too concerned about.

It's because of the caching on the cloud - only the first guest every 10-15 minutes is counted, the rest hit the cache.

Assuming you're in the EU or UK, for ad networks you're going to need to use a tcf compatible cookie prompt, such as quantcast, Google choices etc. Google is actually making it a requirement soon. https://support.google.com/admanager/answer/13554116#zippy=%2Cgoogle-certified-cmps

Not sure I agree, but I hope you're right.

Honestly, at some point the negativity around cloud vs self-hosted is going to damage the Invision brand. It's already making this community a painful place to visit. I don't know the numbers behind it all, but if I were involved in the business, an early cull of the self hosted platform would be a consideration because of the incessant negative sentiment dragging down every positive feature update, blog post, announcement etc in recent times. I mean, can this really carry on for the next 2+ years?

Any more info about this? We'd certainly be interested in taking it.

We've not tested as yet. Not sure if we're going to be using it or not at this point tbh, everyone has kind of got used to it not being available.