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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.

Wow, ok. Maybe we ought to consider switching over then.

We also currently use AWS, but send more so aren't within any free tiers. Although it's not expensive, I'm a great believer in not spending money on something you don't have to, so if there's another way I'm open to it!

Thanks, can I ask if you know of many communities who are using the built in email service and whether they've had any issues or voiced concerns in terms of branding and recognition of where the emails are from etc? From a technical and cost perspective it seems like a no brainer, the concern for us would be that the email isn't coming from our domain.

This could certainly be interesting to us. The theming design stands out, as do the zoom calls and opportunities for q&a's etc in terms of service add-ons that we'd probably jump all over. The staging package would be really useful as well - that's one thing we miss since moving to the cloud - it's been odd and slightly un-nerving not having that testing stage before making live changes!

Is there any plan to allow custom email addresses to be used as the sender from the cloud system?

Is there a thread, blog post or announcement on this community which doesn't end up with this same circular argument anymore? It's very tedious.

Honestly, in your case, you may want to think about how you work out the cost of running your site and include the value you place on your time within it. You're obviously not the most technically savvy in terms of running a web server (and I mean zero disrespect in saying that) and seem to spend a lot of time doing things on that side with varying levels of success. So, if you took all of that off of your plate, how much extra value could you add to your site with the additional time which would be available to you? Only you know the answer to that, but I think it's a worthwhile consideration. When you say it's slower - bear in mind that on here as an example, you're connecting to the USA, you can have your site hosted in the EU. We fairly recently moved over to the cloud, and like you are UK based with a mostly UK audience and we / our users haven't noticed any speed drop. In fact, it's probably a bit faster than our previous platform. People have already covered the third point, but suffice to say we've not missed having FTP access and what have you and have used the pages platform to add an ads.txt file and what have you - it's very straightforward to do. I'm not here to pitch the cloud to you, I've no skin in the game so to speak, but based on your posts in here and the struggles you've been having at times, I actually think you could benefit from it.

YouTube is fine if all you're worried about is getting those already on your site to watch a video. Like you say it's free and it works. But, if you want that embedded video to rank in Google for your site and not on YouTube, that's going to be challenging. It's not impossible, but properly self hosted video is way better in that respect.

Re the video encoding - I think a wider version of that was going to be an enterprise only thing at one point? Is the gallery version going to be available on other levels of the cloud offering?

Nice try, but it's The Weeknd

Thanks @Gary, nice to see you keeping @Jordan Miller's flame alive but doing it in your own style.

Best of luck in the future Jordan.

I believe it's an enterprise only option.

Good luck in your new endeavours Rikki.

You could maybe just post an image into the threads you want to share, as a work round?

@marklcfc - we use this, it uses the first image in the thread as the image used on shares. Maybe not the control you may want over the images, but we find it's pretty useful.

One of the pain points I see is this new found, deeper entrenchment of views and opinions that some people have gained in recent years - in part I assume it is related to social media and how easy it is to create an echo chamber for those views. To give an example - some people are so entrenched in their viewpoint that they don't really engage in a discussion other than to disagree with those who suggest anything different, restate their points and ultimately just go around in circles regardless of evidence, suggestions and information being fed back into the discussion by other participants. This can make discussions more fractious, and ultimately hurts engagement within them as people tire of the circular arguments being regurgitated and just step away from them. From a moderation perspective I think it's really tricky to know where to draw the line - different viewpoints and a bit of drama can add spice to debates, but when and how to stop that when it does start to become circular? And what to do about those with a tendency to take discussions in that direction? I'd be interested to know how other communities deal with this sort of thing.

As far as I'm aware, if you use 3rd party providers you need to put them in your privacy policy and clearly link to that site wide + particularly when you ask permission. There's no requirement to ask permission separately for each one. I assume you don't specifically and separately ask for permission for your cdn, webhost, existing email provider and so on? As for helpful information or not - I'd say it's a legitimate and expected use of someone's details to email them with registration details and information on the product they've registered to use within a relatively short timeframe of them registering. https://www.itgovernance.eu/blog/en/the-gdpr-legitimate-interest-what-is-it-and-when-does-it-apply#:~:text=What is a legitimate interest,the data subject would expect.

Was about to say something very similar. Sending out useful information about the service a user has signed up to isn't illegal. It may be annoying for some but it's not breaking GDPR (that's a privacy law, not an email one). That said, we don't do it, as I'm not convinced it's effective. As far as I'm concerned, for every person it engages it may well drive another one away as a constant drip of emails is never especially fun if you're not wanting or expecting them.

I think there are a few paid for apps on iOS which plug into it, not sure about Android. But, I suppose if there were to be a plugin or something available for invision community, I'd be open to trying it.