bearback

Hi,
In the IPS 4.6 update user's hovercard information what user do was removed.
I propose to restore this option.

Currently it looks like this:

The word "Online now" appears all the time for 15 minutes after the last user action.
In my opinion this is confusing and should be changed.
Here is my suggestion:

or

What do you think about it?
In my opinion, this last suggestion makes the most sense.

Thank you, will have a reply up shortly.

I notice that "Help and support" topics are open to guests and I find that a bit strange. On our own sites some of us have "About this community" forums, where people ask about problems with our sites, and then (now) we check the Help and support forum, or ask a question about it. It gets kind of awkward to discuss stuff like that open here then. I'm not a softwareguru whatsoever (even if som of my users might think I am) - and my own stupidity is displayed in public when it is 100% open for google and guests.
This topic here are not open for guests, and I see no good reason for having the Help forum open for guests either..
So - would it not be better to have all this support and help hidden from guests?

It's not our fault that IPS chose to be competitive and not raise the prices in line with cost of inflation each year. I'm very grateful they didn't, but that's honestly on them. They just can't come along out of the blue and ramp up the costs for whatever reason is behind this and expect people to embrace it.
Whatever it is that's causing the company to dismiss the feedback of their loyal core community customer base and steadfastly refuse all requests for some reasonable compromise, like retaining 6 month renewals.
It's very difficult justifying the cost of IPS 4.6. Since we're paying over and over again for it, we lose all our investment if we our cancel renewals, but I'm not willing to pay a year up front. I couldn't do it anyway. It's been the most problematic buggy release for quite some time.
Honestly, I've been with you since Ikonboard and I've never felt so disillusioned.
I'm also so tired of the all the patronising 'Fam' and bizarre hump day rubbish, please grow up already especially if you're being so corporate. It's a shame to see what this forum community has become in the last year.

No, at least not yet. For now I removed Blogs and Gallery from my license, which means I won’t support these apps anymore. Next is Pages, which I only use for a Tracker but I’m developing my own, so it’ll be the end of the road for it too… soon.
So I’ll support Core, Forums, Downloads and Commerce from now on.

Just to let you all know, there has now been a patch just released to resolve this issue. To apply the patch, please visit support in your Admin CP and select the "Optional Update" item shown

Why doesn't showing online users affect performance in other forum engines? Enabling caching is not a "problem" solution.
Let the forum administrators decide for themselves what affects performance and what doesn't. The Who's Online block must have a separate caching setting to be able to completely disable caching. My current caching setting is 1 minute, but I still get constant complaints from users that they don't see themselves in this block. With caching enabled, this block is absolutely useless and inconvenient (like the "Recently Browsing" block in topics, which now does not display anyone at all).

Few days after this he submitted a support ticket and apologies for all this and asked to get the purchases enabled again

CJ is alright now, even still likes cats! 🥰

It is a shame : that's not good for our communities performances neither because we'll put cache time to 1 minute, that will reduce global performances to face something that was not a problem on previous major versions... And despite reducing global performances, we'll not completely solve the problem... 
Somebody knows how to -manually- patch the code ? there must be some flag to set to false in order to disable caching on those modules ? 

Thanks, see what you mean now. I've confirmed this as a bug and will fix it next update.

You can get the latest version for 4.5 and 4.6 here.

I feel the gallery needs to be more appealing to users, not sure how though.
The gallery on my forum always used to get used but unfortunately not been used for some time now.

Known issue and still to be fixed
@IPS - you really should start making use of the Support dashboard:

2.0.0 submitted. Avail when it's approved. For 4.6 and up, not for y'all lingering on 4.5.x
REMOVED! Lazy Load on userphoto template - IPS has included same natively with 4.6 FIX! Limiting attachments in forum posts was either slightly broke or just slightly broke on 4.6; patched. NEW! Recent Status Updates widget now with three possible views AND you can customize the number of lines output per update - no more three line limit! TWEAK! for when displaying both topic and post count stats together to add more room for larger counts NEW! Remove the icon area from Forum index displays. NEW! Append <new> badges at the end of forum titles when new content is within in index view - combine with removed icon area for a clean lean look. NEW! Above also does the same for link forums and password-protected forums. And the usual etc... and 4.6 compatibility yada yada
New options to go ambient with forum views (on index, and forum blocks within forums). Remove the icon area, append badges instead of those dot when there is new content, matching badges for password and link forums, yes, on click, they will mark the respective forums read and so on. I do this on my sites and customs and got tired of hacking themes all the time so jammed it in here.
     
Two new status update widget views. Expands the content to fill the block which is so much better and, because I wanted it and no longer could wait for it, you can customize the number of lines displayed per-update beyond the default three. I sound like a broken record but it is so much better being able to read most if not all of the usual updates people post without it getting severely truncated.
For those tracking my updating for 4.6, Spacious ACP is probably next, then Viewers, then I need to look at some older plugins that had some problems officially coming up to the 4.5 line.
Toodles. 👩‍🚀

yes in settings
 

ahh yes you are correct, thought it changed both only changes avatar 

I did that right before posting. But yeah, it's updated now.
Thank you.

if this does not get updated, this one works ok, manual install though
 

Log in to the client area and purchase branding removal. Your CEO will like that because it's not cheap.

Ignoring the fact that I have to re-submit this update because I forgot to increment a number on the submission form which makes your ACP MP entry tell you that there is an update available, you have a new KS inbound. Soon...
KS 1.2.0
UPDATE! Altered the breadcrumb hook. Home icon now inserted without replacing elements, home text removed via JS. UPDATE! Review stars now use the complete half-star icon instead of the default half and half-flipped approach. NEW! FA5 Pro licensed icons supported.  FIX! Reverse Post Order in Topics setting when set to apply to all forums. FIX! Some sites do not ajax-load new pages of Forum topics, so I had to fix up the topic post numbering feature to account for that. I believe that takes care of any requested fixes/hitches lingering about.
EDIT: My MP idiocy has been reverted and now KS 1.2.0 has been successfully submitted. Approved, and available for upgrading to, whenever whenevers (holiday hours for IPS so prob the new year sometime)

Will this be fixed in the next versions of Invision Community or do I need to buy a plugin for $ 10.00 / 12 months for this primitive feature?

'set it and forget it' and remember 12 months later to pay $10 again.

When using facebook logins you had to have a facebook developer account and create a facebook app so that's nothing new, not sure why IPS can no longer support oEmbed,
Once again a developer has stepped in and restored the feature back so quickly, not knocking the developer of the plugin. They all have my respect and thanks for restoring dropped features or improving the IPS software. Thank you all
At this particular time i have to stop buying plugins as they all total up per year and start to make the software expensive.    

When using facebook logins you had to have a facebook developer account and create a facebook app so that's nothing new, not sure why IPS can no longer support oEmbed,
Once again a developer has stepped in and restored the feature back so quickly, not knocking the developer of the plugin. They all have my respect and thanks for restoring dropped features or improving the IPS software. Thank you all
At this particular time i have to stop buying plugins as they all total up per year and start to make the software expensive.