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jaeitee

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  1. SMTP doesn't really handle bounce management well for 60,000+ members and 2.5M+ content items unfortunately.
  2. Perhaps we'll see it in V6 😘 @Matt any chance we can get a new award/badge here called 'patience' for when customers have been waiting over a decade for a feature? 🤣
  3. Excellent. Spam via the Contact form gets to the point you start ignoring the emails due to the volume.
  4. I'm not excited, I'm disappointed. Bring back ibplanet, invisionize and we'll be alright 👍
  5. Imagine you choose to build that in to Commerce so that others could have a part of Invision "that can take orders, issue invoices, take payments AND fulfil the orders without any of us having to do a thing." 🙂 There's probably a significant number of communities out there that would like to be able to push those orders off to something life cafe press or similar via the backend. It looks like someone exclusively leaked the 'Invision 2001 Intranet Staff Uniform Page' on to Shopify 😛 I look forward to some new designs, maybe a mug that has the invision logo and all the different ways people pronounce mekham, meeechham, mackham, meykam 😉
  6. +1 that was what I was expecting the behaviour to be reading the description. It's 'Mass Add' on a topic with no pre-existing tags, however on a topic with pre-existing tags it is 'Mass Replace.' It would be helpful after assigning tags that you are returned to the forum page number you were on. For example in 1 section we need to tag 75+ pages of posts, every time we assign the tags to the topics we are returned back to Page 1 of that forum. It'll take me about 600 clicks changing pages to assign 4 sets of tags to 75 pages. That change alone for people managing larger forums would be a huge time saver
  7. With around 2000+ user contributed articles now in Pages this would really help us. ➡️ SEO Titles SEO needs a real look at, the fact that we create categories there should be a way to manage the SEO Title and structure within each category. Right now there's a lot of pointless words being added to the Record Title so it comes up in the Page Title for SEO results. IE: [Record Title] [Custom Field A-Z] [Category SEO Title] [Database SEO Title] The ability to customise SEO Titles for a whole database, with the ability to include Custom Fields in to the Title would be brilliant. We use a lot of pre-defined select lists which would be useful to have those words in to the SEO title. ➡️ Table of Contents Similar to the way Atlassian Confluence achieves this, just an insertable Table of Contents either within writing the article via a Tag or pre-defined through pages. Either way, we have some long entries that would really benefit from a Table of Contents. ➡️ Dependent Custom Fields Lack of a better way to describe this, however this really is a bit if a pain in some way so the best example I can give is Mobile Phones for example: Select Box: User Chooses their Manufacturer (ie: Apple) This brings up a Second Select Box: User chooses their Model: (ie: 12 Pro) This brings up a Third Select Box: User chooses their Size: (ie: Standard or Max) This brings up a Fourth Select Box: User chooses their Capacity: (ie: 256GB) The benefit of having all these select boxes pre-defined and dependent on each other is to be able to achieve the same in the Sort Filters and gradually filter the results from the frontend.
  8. It has held me off ordering the plugin since upgrading to 4.6, I've been ready to purchase since the day I upgraded our community.
  9. How valuable is the content going in to Wordpress and how much do you want it integrated in to the rest of your community? If the content is to be totally stand alone then Wordpress, if the content is going to be valuable to the community and you want it to drive engagement then Pages as they'll 'discover' it more through the tight integration of Pages and the rest of the suite. Personally I find Wordpress is like being given a balloon animal and having to try and re-twist it to get what you want. Pages is a fresh ballon that from the start you can turn in to whatever you want.
  10. Fluid mode is excellent, however on larger forums like my own with multiple levels deep the sidebar spans 2 page scrolls. An expandable [+] sign would be helpful with the ability to select if the parent category displays all the sub-categories, or if they're collapsed and only displayed once [+] is pressed.
  11. The expanded view is a great teaser-feed to get people in, however people wanting to open the discussion now have too many other variables available for them to open. Who liked, who followed, last reply. The actual action of opening the thread is is now harder as that 1 link is moved in amongst all other available links and content. Making the entire post area clickable would make it easier to open the discussion. I've just highlighted in blue the area I'm suggesting, or that entire <div> block.
  12. I've been from Ikonboard pre 1, through to when @Matt & co switched away from Perl to PHP and so fourth over to Invision Board then the transition from free to paid etc. Over the 20 or so years there's been a small handful of decisions I look at and just wonder WTF were they thinking, this is one of them. To tie an entire customer base to quite literally a junk rated service (just ask the receiving mail servers what they think about SendGrid's reputation! They'll quite literally share their opinion with a bounce back message 😉 ) is one of those WTF moments over the past two decades. Not implementing SES is so many levels of stupid it's beyond even trying to understand. Essentially here's something that could make a significant difference to many communities as email is Invision's default outbound communication method, instead of improving that experience for the end user it is actively ignored/avoided. Don't get upset, some things in the world need to be so ridiculous they're unbelievable just to create intrigue.
  13. Use phpMyAdmin or something similar (I like TablePlus https://tableplus.com/ personally ) and open your custom_database_x table. Check your custom fields (ie: field_50, field_51) etc all match your old database. If they do not match: Clone custom_database_x table. Rename the old field_x numbers to match the new field_x numbers. Optionally I reorder the field structure to help visually reading the database, otherwise don't worry about this. If they do match or after completing the step above: Copy the rows from the old database and paste them straight in to the new database. Warning: Make sure you have backups before doing this, personally I just clone the whole custom database table as I find that's easiest to revert if something goes wrong. My last import this way was 1738 records as I merged two separate Pages databases, no issues so far 🙂
  14. Search for the Auto Follow Content plugin that allows new registrations to auto-follow certain forums. Select by default for user preferences to subscribe to content they create or reply to.
  15. Just touching base on this topic as I've just had to do this myself as I merge three 15+ year old communities in to one including a Wordpress with nearly 2000 records converted to Pages. 1) Create Database 2) Create Fields 3) Check old Database Field Names (ie field_28) 4) In the AdminCP go to the new database and hover over the edit field button, you will see the Field ID in the URL. 5) Update old Database field Name (ie: field_28 now is called field_70). 6) Once completed, for the sake of visual clarity I reordered the table index as well. 7) You can now easily export from the old in to the new. Migrating the comments is actually really easy, they're simply tied to the Database ID and the Record ID, so changing those two values will have them appear on the new record/entry. Using something like TablesPlus and a BIG wide screen really helps, it was infinitely faster than attempting on the laptop screen 🙂 Your distance may vary, moving them from a 'TEMP' category to the category I wanted also seemed to clean up any 'last post' and front index issues. Backup before you do any of this, I also clone the tables I'm editing as well so I can be as destructive as needed. I don't know any side effects yet but so far it seems to be working 😄
  16. Finally the ability to move forum posts to articles came around, and it is brilliant. However I don't understand why when selecting to copy replies along with the article that the dates for the comments aren't maintained? Instead of putting a warning up that the comment dates may be different, use the post date info on the existing comments and copy it?
  17. Is it possible to limit the depth of the Fluid View navigation on the right to only filter 2 levels deep? I have some forums that run 4 levels deep, and would only like to display the top 2 levels as the sidebar becomes excessively long otherwise.
  18. It would be useful to be able to set the form homepage views based on device. I find Grid view on Desktop is excellent and Fluid View on Mobile gets people to the most recent content the quickest and engaging over more sections of the forum. The ability to set the default view by device would be helpful.
  19. The laughs just keep on coming. August 17th lodged a Support Ticket to try and upgrade our account due to hitting limits. Yesterday.... Today... 😂
  20. SendGrid is hardly a stellar alternative https://www.facebook.com/SendGrid/ just look at the complaints all similar, no response from support. Here's the status of 1 SendGrid account linked to a community with around 4,000 members. 1 day to go and still unable to upgrade an account, stellar service 🙂 /s @bfarber it really is time to reassess SendGrid as being the sole API integrated mail platform for Invision. Here's something that's now affecting the experience with the core Invision product. 🙂
  21. Will this also disable them receiving emails from any content they follow throughout the community?
  22. Submitted ticket to SendGrid August 17 2020, still no response. Good luck to anyone attempting to migrate an existing active community to SendGrid 🙂
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