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I'm just suggesting that there are better ways to achieve what you're hoping to without spending hours and hours hacking about in the css. Particularly as that's now harder to do.

And on top of that, once a website is fast enough that its speed doesn't affect the user experience negatively, you're chasing ever diminishing returns for your time, regardless of how good your speed scores get. Particularly when you consider the myriad of other things which go into making a website worthwhile for a user that you could be spending your time on. 

2 minutes ago, Adlago said:

Yes, I have done similar optimization on various large (with many users) sites. For each such site, it takes about 2 weeks of work - but after that, all Web Vitals are within normal limits. Here is an example from such a site

But here's the thing, here's one for a community without your updates, not really any difference?

@Adlago - have you looked into how those changes affect actual users rather than test scores? I know you like your tests etc, but improvements are only of use when they actually positively impact the user experience and load time by a discernable amount. This is why things like core web vitals exist now, as that's specifically measuring how a site loads for a user. 

You're probably going down a rabbit hole with all this stuff which improves your scores but maybe makes <50ms difference to page load time, which in turn makes little to no difference when it comes to an actual person using your website. 

It's up to you of course, but for most website developers there are way more worthwhile and impactful things to be doing with their time. 

I'd maybe recommend reading up on using Google tag manager @Adam Goodrich - we've found it's generally easier to implement these sorts of things in GA4 through that + I believe Invision have added some functionality which hooks into it in the latest release. 

No, the custom CSS is still there @My Sharona. 

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. 

Just spotted an issue with the similar content widget on here - it's showing a link to this, but it doesn't exist:

https://invisioncommunity.com/invision-community-documentation/reaching-out-to-your-members/alert-system-r2/

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.

Of course there is. Turning to some sort of pirated version of anything should never be an option. 

No, it's for static links. 

1 hour ago, opentype said:

There needs to be freely given, specific, informed consent. That is why I have an opt-in checkbox for bulk mails during sign-ups, but there is no checkbox for a drip campaign or similar uses. So, as a user, I have not freely given consent, I have not given specific consent to the drip campaign, nor am a properly informed about having my personal data processes by third-party providers (like Zapier/Mailchimp…), which is certainly relevant in regards to GDPR. Google got a $50 million fine a while ago because of this. They did ask for consent, but the kept it too vague. 

The distinction between ads and “helpful information” also doesn’t exist this way. If I run a website as a business, then everything I do is a business activity. If I try to keep my users active with drip campaigns, that a business activity. It doesn’t matter if the specific email tried to sell something or not. 

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.

Just now, Matt said:

My understanding is that you can send emails related to the service they signed up for. It's when you start sending them adverts for other services that you are on shaky ground.

Sending a sequence of welcome emails and guidance how to use the community is fair, and I cannot see how this would be deemed "illegal".

We work with brands in the EU who have whole departments dedicated to legal and they have no issue with a welcome email sequence.

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'm thinking you'd probably want to raise this with Google?

1 hour ago, Sonya* said:

I do trust my moderators to login into member accounts to investigate the issues. But I do not want them to look into AdminCP with full permission:

• they should not be able to change something by accident, as they are technically unexperienced
• they should not be able to see payment history as this is not their business 😉 

That's different to the original question and your original post though. The original point was allowing staff to log in as one user but not as another one. That's not related to technical proficiency or the chance of them making a mistake, that's purely related to whether you trust them or not, in my opinion. 

Particularly bearing in mind that just because a super-mod could log in as an admin, it still wouldn't mean they had full access to the acp, as that's separate, as far as I'm aware. 

22 minutes ago, Sonya* said:

Use case: moderator logs in as member to investigate the reported issue. Helpful to distinguish if the issue is reproducable e. g. permissions issue. Or if not, then probably browser-based. This helps to instruct the user further. 

Indeed the moderator should be able to login as member only, not as other moderator and not as admin.

But, if you look at it as if you're a member of that community - if someone is going to be able to login as me, then I expect that person to be trustworthy. If the owner of the community doesn't trust them to login to their account, why should I trust that person to login to my account?

On 4/26/2022 at 9:04 AM, PatrickRQ said:

@Randy Calvert, it won't help. Using restricted access is designed to use specific admin permissions for specific member or group. Problem here is the "Sign as member" privilege which allows to sign as any member. let's say you give "assign as member" to your super mods or junior admins - they will be able to login as you - his majesty the king ^^

Thing is, if you're concerned that by logging in as you they could do bad things, I wonder why you'd trust them to login as anyone, or indeed to login to the ACP at all?

18 hours ago, Jordan Miller said:

Maybe my version - the font was too large? Not sure 😅 

I did see there's a browser extension. However, I couldn't find one for smart phones - so maybe having it in the community platform vs relying on an extension would still be our best bet. 

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. 

45 minutes ago, Jordan Miller said:

I used a generator 😇 

https://api.bionic-reading.com/convert/

There's an API on another site so in theory if someone loves it, perhaps it could work within a community. Low-key curious about how people would use it. 

I was just wondering as I've found the bionic text to be really good previously, but it didn't seem as effective in your post for some reason.

It's an interesting prospect for a community but I wonder if those who want to use it will just install the browser extensions, app etc?

Ok, thanks for your help. 

Thanks, is there any additional control over where ads show - for instance we may want them to show in a particular forum or topic?

Hi, I'm trying to find out what the additional advertising features are if you add the commerce module to your community. I can't seem to find a lot on the website, so wondering if anyone can let me know the differences, or point me in the right direction?

Thanks

The layout shifts near the top of the screen in live topics when there is another user online. The space really needs to be reserved on page load to avoid it impacting CLS scores on core web vitals, I think.

@Jordan Miller - can I ask, did you use the bionic reading app to make your post, or was it a DIY job?

Trying to save you some time here, but regardless of when you installed your third party add-ons, it's best to try it with them switched off to make sure the problem isn't related.