Chris59

Are there any plans to implement AI into the software's search feature in the near future? I'm thinking something along the lines of an AI summary or synthesis of the search results for my forum. Seems like it would be offered as an additional subscription service, since an external server would need to run the LLM. This seems like a natural integration of AI to kick the software's (already quite good) search engine to the next level. Anything in the works for this? Länk till full forum post

Suggestion / Request: It would be nice if the forum staff or moderators received an email as soon as one of them takes care of a previously reported post. The goal is to prevent everyone on the team from having to check for themselves whether the job has already been done by a colleague. Thanks and regards! Länk till full forum post

The default language pack comes with several pages of “empty“ language strings, which have no original/English output. So when filtering and monitoring untranslated strings (which can be added with every version) these empty strings become a little annoying, because it means there will always be “untranslated strings“, even when everything that can be translated meaningfully, is translated. And I always have to scroll past these empty strings (or use the table sorting options) to find potential new strings that can be translated. So, my question is: what’s the best way to deal with this? I saw someone suggesting to just put spaces in there or something, but I don’t know if that is actually a good idea or if that can cause issues. I also wonder if IPS could resolve this issue, so it wouldn’t come up to begin with. All it would take is to have two filter options instead of one. One for the “empty strings untranslated“ and one for the “non-empty strings currently untranslated“. Länk till full forum post

With reference to this topic. It must be just as a suggestion to the topic starter who still must be able to write their own title. Länk till full forum post

I am trying to make sense of the Subscriptions system. I think it might be improved and simplified. Early PaymentsWhat is the thinking which allows members to pay their subscription early? I suggest that if their card details are on file, and the payment fails, they would enter a grace period where they would be invited to pay manually. At the end of the grace period, another attempt should be made for payment with the card on file. And if this fails, subscription services are then suspended/removed. (All automated, of course.) I can see the advantage of allowing early payments at a site like Invision, where non-payment (and suspension of services) impacts more than a single individual - none of us would wish to see our websites go offline because of payment glitch of some kind. So having the option to pay early makes sense. But in most cases, allowing early payments only adds potential confusion and complexity. CreditsIn testing, I allow for upgrades and downgrades, with pro rata refunds applied as account credits. But for credits to be applied to the account, I must also allow the member the option to manually add credits to their account. I think this is totally unnecessary in most situations. Yes, to account credits for refunds arising out of downgrades, but I fail to see the advantage of members being able to load up their account with credits they cannot have refunded (if they decide to leave; they are banned; I stop providing the product; etc.). Yes, I could potentially manually refund their card in such situations and/or provide in the ToS that no refunds of credits are possible in these situations, but I'd prefer to avoid this potential situation altogether. Default Payment MethodWhen a member pays early, they are presented with the option to pay using account credits, but the default is to pay by card. I note that if they do not pay early, and there is an automated payment, this will first use account credits and only use the card on file if there are insufficient credits. This is the correct way of doing this of course. But the default option being to use the card on file rather than account credits when paying early does not make sense to me and is contrary to the action taken during an automated payment. And I think it worth adding that option to instead use account credits during manual payment by the member is easily missed - I missed it during testing. In SummaryI think for most usual cases, Subscriptions could be simplified. No manual early payments; and no ability for members to manually add account credits. If these changes are made (or provided as admin options), the default payment method for prepayment not being account credit becomes somewhat moot (though, still applicable where/if pre-payment is still allowed). Länk till full forum post

CLOUD Customer Hi, I recently had a problem with two members of our team who unsubscribed to notifications via the 'Unsubscribe' link in their email. They did not realise - frankly, neither did I - that this is an irreversible process. They used it as a quick fix to receiving too many notifications. But there is no option to resubscribe to email notifications and neither can I re-enable this for them. Fortunately, Invision resolved this for me and without any fuss. However, I have a sizeable number of members showing up in the Email Undeliverable list, and for most of them I cannot reverse this (I have not previously removed them from the list). Presumably, most/all of them used the email unsubscribe option which removes the option for me to remove them from the email undeliverable list. But how many of them did this not realising the consequences is more of an unknown. I suspect many of them. But is it worse than this. When a member unsubscribes via the email link, they also PERMANENTLY unsubscribe from receiving newsletters and all notifications. Worse still - and more critically - they can no longer use the Forgot Password function. A few questions: Is this expected behaviour? Is this optimal behaviour? Is this somewhat forced upon Invision because of the shared email server environment? Is this because it is simpler to apply? (I am not suggesting that 'for the sake of simplicity' is never justifiable.) Unless there are overriding reasons for this behaviour of which I am not fully aware, I think this action should be reversible by at least the member (if not forum admins). And I am particularly concerned about the member being unable to request a password reset email. I can think of an edge case which might be the reason for including password resets in email unsubscribe: if someone else attempts to login to the account, they could trigger a password reset email. That would be legitimate reason, and could be exploited to cause problems for Invision. In which case I suggest that if a member who has unsubscribed (via the email link) wishes to request a password reset, they are instead prompted to email the site owner or an admin from the email address associated with their account to request a password reset. Some method would need to be developed to then enable this. So, unless I am missing something, I'd like to see two things: The ability of members to reverse blanket unsubscribe via their user account. It should include a warning and the action logged (for Invision''s benefit). A method developed to ensure that the block on password reset email might be circumvented by the member so that they are not permanently locked out of their account. It is not obvious that unsubscribing via the email link disables the ability to request a password reset. Länk till full forum post

I'm curious why was this removed? This is required for a business and is a key feature that is great. I noticed in V5 latest it was gone. Länk till full forum post

CLOUD Customer Hi, I recently had a problem with two members of our team who unsubscribed to notifications via the 'Unsubscribe' link in their email. They did not realise - frankly, neither did I - that this is an irreversible process. They used it as a quick fix to receiving too many notifications. But there is no option to resubscribe to email notifications and neither can I re-enable this for them. Fortunately, Invision are resolving this for me and without any fuss. However, I have a sizeable number of members showing up in the Email Undeliverable list, and for most of them I cannot reverse this (I have not previously removed them from the list). Presumably, most/all of them used the email unsubscribe option which removes the option for me to remove them from the email undeliverable list. But how many of them did this not realising the consequences is more of an unknown. I suspect it is many of them. But is it worse than this. When a member unsubscribes via the email link, they also PERMANENTLY unsubscribe from receiving newsletters and all notifications. Worse still - and more critically - they can no longer use the Forgot Password function. A few questions: Is this expected behaviour? Is this optimal behaviour? Is this somewhat forced upon Invision because of the shared email server environment? Is this this way because it is simpler to apply? (I am not suggesting that 'for the sake of simplicity' is never justifiable.) Unless there are overriding reasons for this behaviour of which I am not aware, I think this action should be reversible by at least the member (if not forum admins). And I am particularly concerned about the member being unable to request a password reset email. I can think of an edge case which might be the reason for including password resets in email unsubscribe: if someone else attempts to login to the account, they could trigger a password reset email. That would be legitimate reason as it could be exploited to cause problems for Invision. In which case I suggest that if a member who has unsubscribed (via the email link) wishes to request a password reset, they are instead prompted to email the site owner or an admin from the email address associated with their account to request a password reset. Some method would need to be developed to then enable this. So, unless I am missing something, I'd like to see two things: The ability of members to reverse blanket unsubscribe via their user account. It should include a warning and the action logged (for Invision''s benefit). A method developed to ensure that the block on password reset email might be circumvented by the member so that they are not permanently locked out of their account. It is not at all obvious that unsubscribing via the email link disables the ability to request a password reset, potentially locking out the member from their account. Länk till full forum post

It has been suggested by my members that there be a ability to filter the events calendar, such as by the location (ie be able to filter to just country or state), to make it easier to find events in their area Länk till full forum post

Liked this summary part , will this come to self-hosted to or is it specific for cloud clients?? 2. Is assign topic also cloud specific ?? Hope you will include those for the self-hosted clients as well Länk till full forum post

When using the endpoints for /forums/forums, & /downloads/categories/index, they do not output the descriptions of each category. One would assume it would be accessible when retrieving category information? So, I would like to ask if this would be possible to add to the API endpoints in a future release? I would also like to suggest if the forums feature color could be added to the API? Thank you for reading. Länk till full forum post

Dropping a widget into the footer makes said widget inherit the color layout specified for the footer. This is not always conducive to the text contained within a widget. It might be desirable if there was a way to have that widget inherit the color scheme of the other widget content boxes. Thank you for your consideration. Upps, Meant to drop this in the Feedback sub. Please move, thank you. Länk till full forum post

Just started experimenting with the Side panel layout... It would be the bomb if there was a way to collapse the side panel to a depth that would only show the icons. And when the user wanted to open the side panel, they simply click on one of the icons and it would expand to normal width. Speaking of normal width, it would also be great if we could specify the default width shown. The way it sits now, in my opinion, it may be too wide. Won't really know that my opinion on the width as it stands now, is valid with out being able to experiment with it. There just seems to be considerable dead space. Thank you for your consideration. Länk till full forum post

Ändrad Release Datum till 2025-03-08

I wish we could embed Twitch videos in the forum! :) Länk till full forum post

Can we get Threads as an option in social profiles, pretty please https://fontawesome.com/icons/threads?f=brands&s=solid Länk till full forum post

Using Safari on iPhone, iPad and MacBook, X embeds are not great. We and I would imagine other football (it's football not soccer) forums would be in a similar position. Sometimes they don't show at all, you have to scroll up and down several times for them to load. They can also get cut off and only show 80% of the embed, quick refresh loads it better. If you give embeds unlimited width, in dark mode you have a large white box that stretches across the full post when using dark mode. I have filed a bug previously where the reverse was happening and this is the fix apparently. We had a large black box when in light mode, which yes it's fixed but now dark mode has the issue. Limit embeds to 550px, it does remove the issue somewhat, however it would be nice to just remove that background completely. I can see in the CSS you have tried background none, yet it's not working with Apple devices in Safari which are our most used. Example. Unlimited embed width. 550px embed width I haven't posted as a bug as much of this is difficult to replicate, the loading issues are not persistent where I can post a link and say look, there. Länk till full forum post

On mobile, guests do not see the register or login button to download But it appears on the desktop as shown @Ehren Can it be displayed on mobile via custom CSS? Thanks Länk till full forum post

On the forum home page, the topics of the latest posts for each forum are listed with, below them, the avatar and name of the last person to comment. I've already asked whether it would be possible to replace this so that the name that appears is that of the topic creator. @Jim M kindly replied that this was not customizable via the software. Is this a modification that could be considered for a future upgrade? Länk till full forum post

This have since caused serious problems for our forum. Länk till full forum post

Våra uppdateringar av språketNya versioner ändras också i språket så man måste gå igenom dom med jämna mellanrum då mycket är ändrat och vissa översättningar inte matchar över huvud taget sen dom ändrat något , även många språknycklar som inte längre används . Hel genomgång av filer (downloads) massor av ändringar i översättningar Hel genomgång av Sidor (Pages) . här finns massor som behövdes uppdateras Hel genomgång av Forum , frågeforum borta i v5 så justerat språket för det Massiv genomgång av vissa delar som Featured, Feaure, pinned , etc Featured = nu Utvalda Pinned = Stiftad Kollar även för utgångna språksträngar som ska tas bort System och core se alla %s,%d etc så det blir rätt . ser många har ändrats under versionerna Visa hela release

A user asks if those who've RSVPed to an event would receive notifications of comments on the event. As I understand it, those who follow the event would, but those who've RSVPed would not. I think it would be a good idea if they did. If RSVPing to an event were added to the following list, that would do it. Länk till full forum post

Events page has Featured Events Happening Near You Online Events Browse by Month These elements can't be rearranged or suppressed. This means that an event might show up in three places, or that an event might be pushed off the bottom of the screen. I've been catching hell from my members about this mess. If these could individually be moved or suppressed, and if other blocks like Upcoming Events (which is great with its flexibility) could be dropped in, that would fix it. Seems doable. I was able, at least, to suppress the map in Happening Near You, and that did help. I know full efforts are on squashing bugs rather than adding features, and that's as it should be...but this is a bigger bug, in effect, than a label that's off by a couple of pixels. Länk till full forum post

It is nice that the sidebar can be made to stick. It would be nice if there was also the ability to make it scrollable, independent from the main page. Thank you for your consideration. Länk till full forum post