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This month, we ask the team the age-old question: If you won a million dollars (or denomination of your choice), how would you spend it? The question was almost guaranteed to bring a raft of hilarious replies that showcase our amazing humour and wit. Once again, we fall short and instead worry about taxation and retirement. You can't give it away these days. Marc S I couldn't decide on whether to answer this with what I would 'like' to do with it, or what I would actually do with it, so figured I would answer both. [So you just upgraded to $2,000,000? geez - Editor] If it was just what I would like to do with it, then I would probably follow the F1 season around the globe for a few years until I got bored. I'm very much into the sport, and with the locations, it would make for some great destinations to visit in between the races. What I would actually do is pay off my mortgage, buy another 3 reasonably priced houses to rent out to others, and live off the investment. Given I would then have a constant income without doing much, I would then try my hand at starting a business. Not entirely sure what that business would be to be honest [How to understand people with strong accents? - Editor], but I'm not the kind of person who would be able to just retire, without it driving me to insanity. I know nothing of F1, so hopefully this is OK Jennifer Pay off all of my debts. Buy a house. Put away some in a nice savings account both for me and my kiddos. Buy a serious amount of shoes, and get a few cosmetic tweaks. Who doesn't love shoes? Brandon If I had a million dollars, I'd pay off debts, stash some money away for savings and to have a healthy cushion [You give your soft furnishings a health check? - Editor], and I'd probably use a good chunk of it for travel. There are a lot of places I'd like to see in the world still and travelling is expensive. I’d like to visit some of the top touristy spots in South America, like Rio, Galapagos islands, Peru, Machu Picchu, etc. I’d like to see Australia, Japan, China, Alaska, the northern lights in the Arctic, and I would like to make it back to Europe at some point, particularly to see more of Italy and visit Greece. It's where we first met. Daniel I’ll go with my sailing boat dream which is still is a thing for my retirement, but if I would get tomorrow $1,000,000 I would do it right now too. [How? You're not getting the money until tomorrow - Editor] Get a Katamaran and sail sail sail... depending on time and budget and people.. mediterran sea, caribbean sea, then around South America, US west costs , Hawaii, Philippines , India. Around Africa .. back to Mediterran Sea. Stuart If I had $1,000,000 tomorrow, I'd probably be fairly sensible [Boring- Editor] by paying off the mortgage and spending some cash on finishing renovating the house. Then I'd buy either a Mustang GT or a Tesla Model 3 Performance (I know, one is an eco-machine and one is a gas guzzler!). The remainder I'd split between savings and stock market investment. Mark H A million dollars….. well, the government takes about 1/3 of that first off, so after taxes you get ~ $650,000. With that I’d pay off the house and credit card, buy a reliable vehicle, then the rest goes in the bank. Would not have enough to retire, even at my age. [It wouldn't last 2 years? - Editor] But it would eventually make retirement easier. The fun answer. Jim I would pay off my mortgage, buy a 2019 Corvette ZR1 (plus pay off following speeding tickets) and probably go to Australia. Then save the rest for a rainy day or you know, retirement. Mark W I live in Sydney, so probably buy a small apartment and carry on as normal. [How small is your current apartment? - Editor] Good day. Matt I'm not a huge fan of travelling, but I'd like to see a little bit more of the USA. I've been to Los Angeles, Nevada, Las Vegas, New York and Virginia but I'd like to see more of the middle bit too. Definitely Miami and New Orleans. [Dude, you need to check a map to see which states are in the middle - Editor] I love my work too much to think about retiring but I'd put some away for when I do. I might give some to my family if they ask nicely and are reading this (hopefully they are not). Yes I can. Andy (Andy did not contribute this month, so this reply is 100% fictional) I'd be too depressed with the massive income drop to think about how to eek out such a pittance. Lindy (Lindy never contributes, despite being threatened with a fabricated answer) I'd probably invest in a gas-tech company, buy more cars I'll only drive 3 days a year and spend the rest in Vegas. Charles (Charles also never contributes, so this is also fabricated) Please do not say funny things about me. Charles also has edit permissions to this blog. So there you have it, that's how we'd choose to spend a cool $1,000,000. We'd love to hear how you'd spend your imaginary windfall. View the full article

This is a maintenance release to fix reported issues. This release also contains a critical security update for Commerce. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

This is a maintenance release to fix reported issues. This release also contains a critical security update for Commerce. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Today, we're handing over our blog to long time client and friend to Invision Community, Joel R. @Joel R is often found hanging out in our community offering his insight and wisdom when he's not harassing the team in Slack. Over to Joel. Invision Community releases a variety of blockbuster features in every major update, which usually hits once a year. You may think those updates are not enough (it’s never enough!), but I wanted to spend some time talking about how to survey and incorporate those features into your community systematically. This blog post is not about any specific feature, but more a general and philosophical approach in integrating the newest features. My goal is to help you get the most out of every new IPS update! You may think that many of the features in the updates are easy to assess. You either want them or don’t. But it’s not that easy. I was inspired by some recent personal experiences when I found myself revisiting features from 4.2 and earlier. I was pleasantly surprised to realize that I still had so much to experience and learn from those features, all of which I had previously reviewed when they were initially released. Invision Community comes packed with rich features, and no community manager is expected to be a master at everything. But a systematic approach is your best chance at making sure you get the most out of every feature. To give a personal example, I jumped into Social Media Promotion when it first came out in 4.2. The new Social Media Promotion offers several powerful tools for social media cross-posting, and I immediately wanted to learn how I could use it to cross-post content to my Facebook and Twitter accounts. It’s an easy drop-in replacement for services like Hootsuite or Windscribe and allows community managers to drip interesting content to their social media pages for constant advertising and social engagement. Well, it turns out my Facebook and Twitter reach is nil because I have no followers (wish I was more Internet famous!), so I soon lost interest and dropped Social Media Promotion as a tool. A couple of months ago, I was assessing my homepage versus other popular websites when I came across a startling realization: I could make a gorgeously visual homepage on par with Instagram using Our Picks – a feature of Social Media Promotion. I would intentionally ignore the social media component, but use the other component of Our Picks for a beautiful new homepage. The context of using Our Picks for a homepage opened my eyes to a whole new way to evaluate Social Media Promotion, and what was once a feature on the back burner is now – literally - the front page of my Invision community. I love it! To help you incorporate new Invision features, I’ve brainstormed 5 strategies on how to make the most out of Invision feature updates. Each strategy comes with a mini-lesson for an action plan. 1. Learn the knowledge, not the feature. This is my personal motto when Invision Community releases a new feature. I’m more concerned about the knowledge and broader usage of the feature than implementing the feature itself: What’s the potential scope of the feature? In what context could the feature be used? How did Invision Community intend for the future to be used, and what are other ways it can be used? I’ve never worried about the technical configuration of the feature. You enable or disable some settings, and that’s it. But what’s more important is how the functionality can best be integrated and in what context. You never know when you might come back to the feature for the next great idea, and you can only do that if you possess the knowledge and application behind the feature. Lesson: Try every feature at least once, even if you don’t need it. 2. When at first you don’t succeed, take a nap. Some things take a while to think about. Don’t try to cram through all new Invision Community features. There’s too many to digest in one pass. Assess the features you’re most interested in one by one, play with each feature until you’re satisfied, test them, find out how they work, and when you get frustrated, take a nap. Eat some ice cream. Go jogging. And revisit in a month. The bigger the feature, the longer you should think about it. The biggest “aha” moments didn’t come to me right away. When you try to rush through a feature, you can get rushed results. Take your time to bounce ideas around your head and try to think through the context of how to best utilize the feature. Lesson: For features that you like, set a calendar to revisit after a month. Then take a nap. 3. You’re running the marathon, not a sprint. Successful community managers have evolved with the changing needs of our audiences. While our mission remains the same, the backdrop of user expectations and digital trends has dramatically changed. When you implement a feature, you should be evaluating it for both sustainability and longevity. Is this a sustainable mechanism to keep up with? Is this something that I want to continue for the foreseeable future? It’s nice to play with new features; every major update is like a Christmas unwrapping of new features. But you need to prudently pick-and-choose which feature is most appropriate and how it can give you an impact for the long-term. Sometimes it’s better to do a few things very well than many things not well at all. Lesson: Ask yourself if you see yourself using the feature 3 years later? 4. Make it uniquely yours Invision Community ships with default features ready to use out of the box, but those features are just that: default. We like to dress up our theme with custom colors, designs, and logos. You should apply the same flair for customization with your features. Some features are ready to be customized: reactions, ranks, and group promotion. Others, however, might take more thinking. Here are some examples to spark your creativity: • Social Sign-in Streamline – are you using the default message, or did you customize it with a unique and clever introduction? • Fluid Forum – did you activate fluid forum and hope it went well? Or did you use it as an opportunity to re-analyze your entire forum structure for the modern web? • Leaderboard – did you leave it as a Leaderboard, or could it be Genius board for a technology company, or Joyboard for a nonprofit, or Loyaltyboard for a consumer brand? Lesson: Make the feature uniquely yours. 5. Talk through your scenario Every battle-tested community manager knows that the only thing constant is change – whether it’s our forum software, ACP settings, user expectations, and broader digital trends. It’s important to find a trusted circle of friends and users who can help you steer and implement features. It may sound great in your head, but other users may look at it very differently. On my site, I have a trusted group of users called “Champions.” In my pre-planning stage, I float my ideas by them as early in the process as possible. They’ve provided valuable feedback of user expectations with differing perspectives. I’ve nixed certain features based on their veto, and I’ve tweaked continuously based upon their continuous input. Talk through your scenario with your trusted friends, and not just with the voices in your own head! Community management is such a uniquely rewarding and challenging role because every community demands and needs a different set of features. Invision makes it easy with regular releases of exciting features, but you also need to make the most out of those features on your own. Don’t just turn on the next feature: turn on excitement, joy, and community. If you notice, I didn’t include a lesson yet in my last strategy when you’re ready to talk about your scenario. And that’s because it’s the ultimate lesson: Write the next guest post in the Invision Community Blog and share your own success story in how you adopted a new Invision feature. We’d love to hear about it. Thanks Joel! We love this angle on how to best evaluate the myriad of opportunities the Invision Community software allows. What is your biggest take-away from Joel's advice? View the full article

Plugin with TOP Shouts (CHATBOX) in the block. Easy to use. :) View the full article

Comics allows your members to upload .cbz comic book files to view and or share them on your board with other members, You can navigate through the comic pages by either click the next or previous icons or you can simply drag your finger across the comic page ( if using a touch screen device ), you can also choose from 3 different sizes for the comic books what will either be small, medium or large pages. Members will be able to react, rate, review & comment on each comic ( if they have the permissions you will set in the ACP ), Comics fully integrates with the IPS moderator permissions and content allowing your moderators to keep a eye on the uploads / reviews / comments and so on via the ModCP. Demo Comic Category Permissions Choose what usergroups can view each category Choose what usergroups can read comics in each category Choose what usergroups can upload comics in each category Choose what usergroups can download comics in each category Choose what usergroups can review comics in each category Choose what usergroups can comment on comics in each category Comic Category Settings Set a category title Choose to use a image instead of a icon on each category Choose to moderate new uploads Allow comments Choose to moderate comments Allow reviews Choose to moderate reviews Usergroup Permissions / Restrictions Choose to set a minimum amount of posts / content your members need to have in order to download comics for each usergroup Choose to set a maximum download speed what each usergroup will download their comics at Choose to set a mamimum downloads per day for each usergroup Choose to set a mamimum downloads per week for each usergroup Choose to set a mamimum downloads per month for each usergroup The restrictions above can be set to have a value or no restriction at all ACP App Settings Show a featured comics box on the apps main page Choose the amount of featured comics to show Show a newest comics box on the apps main page Choose the amount of new comics to show Show a most viewed comics box on the apps main page Choose the amount of most viewed comics to show Show a most downloaded comics box on the apps main page Choose the amount of most downloaded comics to show Show a highest rated comics box on the apps main page Choose the amount of highest rated comics to show Choose to upload a watermark to place on the comic pages Moderator Permissions ( If you are using the global moderator permissions for content then this app will use them too, other wise you can pick and choose them seperatly ) Can pin comics Can unpin comics Can feature comics Can unfeature comics Can edit comics Can hide comics Can unhide comics Can view hidden comics Can move comics Can lock comics Can unlock comics Can comment on locked comics Can delete comics Can edit comments Can hide comments Can unhide comments Can view hidden comments Can delete comments Can edit reviews Can hide reviews Can unhide reviews Can view hidden reviews Can delete reviews PLEASE NOTE This application only allows the uploads of .cbz comic book files REQUIREMENTS You need to be hosting the files on your own server as it uses the PHP zip functions to work and the comics have to be stored locally to extract the information from it View the full article

This application allows your club owners to send a PM to all club members View the full article

Plugin with TOP Posts in the block. Easy to use. :) View the full article

Works with 4.3.5 with no changes required A clean Blue theme for IPB 4.3.x Includes: PSD Files for logo and Member Shields Readme.txt file (includes installation instructions) Themed for the following: Forum Blog Gallery Downloads Pages Clubs Commerce Calendar Leaderboard Demo Here (select theme from theme selector at bottom of page) Terms & Conditions: To be installed on one forum only, to install on more than one then you will need to purchase theme again (contact me for discounts for purchasing more than one skin). You are not allowed to re-sell the theme or make profit directly from the theme. You do not have the right to redistribute this theme set in any way. If you wish to purchase copyright removal then please contact me for more details View the full article

This plugin will allow your staff to change the author of topics and/or posts. Whenever a topic/post author is changed, the post count will descrease for the previous owner and it will be increased for the new author by one. The search log will also be updated to reflect the change of authors. All author changes will be logged in at the Moderator Log. The permissions for groups that can change authors can be set at the plugin 's setting. View the full article

Flatum 1.0.0 (4.3 IPS) A dark template for the latest version of IPS 4.3.x, which has a very advanced configuration in the admin panel (including a top in the style of fixed, changing the display of the subforum, layout of the header and other visible in the gallery), which allows you to adapt it to every requirement. It is fully responsive and ideally suited for any topic. Click! go to the demo Acp Settings Thanks to the settings in Acp, you can customize the template for your needs. Category ---- Header and More ---- Forms ---- User profile ---- Sidebar ---- Slider ---- Editor colors View the full article

This plugin will prevent registrations of more than one account from the same ip address. There are no settings. Simply install it and you are good to go. View the full article

This application will add a Garage Directory to your forum where you can provide an interface for your users to showcase their own cars visually by uploading pictures of them, and textually by providing detailed information in the custom fields. Added cars will be displayed in 2 ways, the traditional list or the more enhanced modern grid view. A sidebar widget to display most recent car entries is avialable too. Admins can add cars to the garage directory from the Admin Panel and from the front end too. Other groups can add cars to the garage directory from the front end in the garage page or from the global Create button. Garage Display: List View. Grid View. Categories: Admins can add unlimited categories from the application 's category page in the Admin Panel. Each category will display the car entries that it contains. Moderation: Car entries can be set to be moderated for groups. Moderated entries will appear in the Mod CP where your staff can review them. Management Admins can manage car entries from the Admin Panel and from the front end. Other groups can manage, (edit, delete, move and hide/approve), their own and/or all car entries from the front end depending on their permssions. Car Visitors: Depending on their permissions, users will be able to view who viewed their own and/or all car entries. Daily Limit: A limit of how many car entries users can add can be set for each group at their Garage Directory permissions tab. Hoover Card Car Count: An option to show the count of car entries is available in users cards. Pagination: You can set the number of car entries that will be displayed per page on front end from the application 's setting page. Custom Search: Users can search for affiliates submited by users, posted between a certain time frime, title and description. View the full article

Adds link to your profile on Discord social network in IPS Community Suite footer. Work exactly the same way as standard Facebook, Twitter or Google profile links. Demo You can see and test social profile links on our support forum. Look in the footer, where all social links are displayed. Support For support contact us by email [email protected]. Please, do NOT ask for support or report issues in comments! If you need a profile link for any social network, just drop us an email to [email protected], and we will do it! View the full article

Set an "active" and "inactive" status for forums and allow members to toggle the forums homepage display for either status. Set forums to exclude and which member groups can access. Gif Demo: https://i.imgur.com/tTEsPGf.gifv Features: Set "active" or "inactive" values for each forum. Forum homepage toggle between "active", "inactive" or "both" statuses. Set which forums are excluded and shown at all times regardless of the status selected. Set which member groups are disabled from viewing different states. Keep up to date with DevFuse mod development and releases. View the full article

ARMY (1.0.0) Theme for IPS 4.3.x Dark orange template under the latest version of the IPS 4.3.x a giant gaming. Fully configurable and responsive admin panel. ➡ LIVE DEMO (change theme to ARMY) View the full article

This application will allow administrators to read conversations on Admin CP. If admins has a special permission, they will also be able to VIEW hidden conversations, EDIT, HIDE/UNHIDE conversations (from appearing on PM Viewer application) and INVITE/REMOVE MEMBERS from conversations. Conversations can also be tracked by filtering keywords. If a specific keyword added by an admin is used on Conversation, users from selected group will receive a notification with a link to the conversation on PM Viewer application. Admins can also use tools to HIDE or UNHIDE all conversations with one click. Settings: Number of conversations per page Number of log entries per page Enable keyword monitoring Keywords to monitor Notification Groups: Members from selected groups will be notified when someone sends a private message that contaims a monitored keyword. Groups Permissions: Protected groups: If a member from a selected group is involved in a conversation, then this conversation will be not viewable in the PM Viewer application regardless of who else is involved. Can view HIDDEN conversations Can HIDE/UNHIDE conversations Can INVITE/REMOVE members from conversations Can EDIT message content: Users will also be able to view Revisions from posts and delete/restore the original text Tools: Hide All Conversations Unhide All Conversations Logs: Added log in all actions: view a conversation, hide/unhide conversation, add/remove users from conversations and restore or delete a revision from a post Added a Logs module to display Admin Logs from this application. Compatibility: IPS Community 4.3.X IPS Community 4.2.X IPS Community 4.1.X Additional Informations: Application originally made by @Adriano. He gave it to me to continue support and add new features. All previous purchased will be added. If you bought this mod before and you can't download it - let me know. I'll check it. If you have any suggestion or found a bug - let me know. View the full article

This plugin allows users to easily create topics about steam games and fill them with content automatically. Features Users can add steam games to topics. After attaching the information, which can be done easily using a search with auto complete, the thread will show various information about the game above the post. Discussed steam games can be shown in blocks. Posting games can be restricted to certain forums. Game forums can show steam content with the game logo above the topic list. Access rights to edit and post games. How to Install Go to ACP > applications and upload the downloaded tar file After installation the plugin will pull a full list of steam games in the background which will be updated once per day. This games can be attached to topics as shown in the screenshots. Demo noexcept.de This plugin is in not affiliated with or endorsed by Steam or Valve Software. View the full article

With this plugin you will be able to display full navigation items where the reported content is located. It's very helpfull on larger boards with many moderators assigned to different categories etc. View the full article

With this widget you may display all posts added by the following members only. NOTE: you may also use it in the other place - skin or Pages blocks/templates also by using special template bit. More info you would find in the readme txt file after purchase. It's initial release - if you need more options please send me your suggestions or request after purchase. View the full article

This plugin will give the ability to topic authors to run specific topic Saved Actions allowed by the administrator. Public Saved Actions will appear only to the topic author and if the author doesn't has mod permission to run regular Saved Actions. Requirement: Forums app View the full article

This application will add a global message to your forum. Global messages can be added from the Admin Panel and/or through the front end via the global Create button. They can also be managed from both places. Messages: Messages contain titles and content that supports the rich editor. Displaying Permissions: Each message can be displayed to all or certain group(s). Each message can be displayed in all or certain forum(s). All messages can be excluded from showing at the applications of your choosing. Global Dismiss: Your users can dismiss the global messages once they have read them. When the messages are edited, they will reappear again to users who had dismissed them so they can read the new updates. View the full article

This plugin will add the ability to display all posts made by a specific user in a topic. All the moderation and topic features are still available (except reply to the topic) for those who can use them. View the full article

This application will add an Affiliate Directory to your forum on a separate page that is linked to the Menu Manager. After affiliates have been added they will be displayed categorised on the affiliate page and as a sidebar widget too. Categories: Admins can add unlimited categories from the application 's category page in the Admin Panel. Each category will display the affiliates that it contains. Adding Affiliates: Admins can add affiliate links from the Admin Panel and from the front end too. Other groups can add affiliates from the front end in the affiliate page or from the global Create button. The add form contains the name of the category where the affiliate will belong to, the title of the affiliate, a brief description as to what it is about, the image upload option and the url to where you want the image to be redirected to when clicked on. Daily Limit: A limit of how many affiliates users can add can be set for each group at their affiliate permissions tab. Image Width&Height: They can both can be set from the application 's settings. Affiliate Management: Admins will be able to manage affiliates, editing or deleting them from either the Admin Panel or the front end, where a list of all added affiliates is displayed. Admins can also delete all affiliates in one go from the affiliate page. Users can edit/delete own and/or all affiliates depending on the permissions that they have. Hoover Card Affiliate Count: An option to show the affiliate count of users is available in their user cards. Affiliate Pagination: You can set the number of affiliates that will be displayed per page on front end from the application 's setting page. Custom Search: Users can search for affiliates submited by users, posted between a certain time frime, title and description. View the full article

$100 is our special introductory price for the first 50 customers. Once we hit 50 customers the price will be increased to $199 and quizzes and assignments will be added to the core application. MisesLMS allows you and your community to create their own Schools within the community. Inside of those schools you and your community members can create and charge (optional) for access to educational courses. As the site admin, you can set a base commission. As a school owner, or Dean, of the school, you can set a commission rate for courses within your school. Using the power of IPS Group system, the possibilities are endless. Here is how the LMS breaks down: Schools Courses Modules (a kind of Category for your lessons) Lessons Quizzes and Assignments (coming in a future release) Clubs: optionally you can assign a course to a club, granting access to a course's enrolled students to a club. As you can imagine this opens up a LOT of opportunity and functionality to your students and instructors. MisesLMS is a core application. This means that it is meant to be built upon with applications, plugins, themes, and integrations both by us and by third-party developers. The core application has everything you need to get up and running with creating and selling schools, courses, modules, and lessons. Quizzes, Assignments, and Certifications are not yet included in this release but they will be added in the near future provided we sell at least 25 copies of MisesLMS at the current introductory price. We have created a website for MisesLMS where you can test the system out for yourself as well as provide suggestions, bug reports, third-party applications, and find support documentation (coming soon). Requirements: Commerce is required to sell courses using the LMS. We have not tested the application without commerce installed. LMS what? LMS stands for Learning Management System. Learning, because you use it to deliver education courses or training programs. Management, because it helps you organize these courses (create them, change them, assign them to students, grade them, etc). System, just a fancy word that translates to "Application" or "Software". Just like Word helps you write documents and Gmail helps you manage your emails, an LMS is a software program that helps you create, manage and deliver online educational courses Who uses an LMS? Anybody who's doing eLearning is using an LMS ― and that includes a whole lot more than just educational institutions. To give a non-exhaustive list: Businesses of all sizes, from large multinational enterprises to small and medium businesses. Traditional educational institutions (schools, universities, colleges). Online and eLearning based educational institutions (online schools from Khan Academy to Lynda.com). And now, online communities of all sizes. What are they using an LMS for? An LMS can be used for all kinds of learning activities. But it's also an invaluable business tool, one that has been embraced by enterprises and organizations big and small. Here are some of the most common use cases for an LMS platform: Employee training The need to train new employees or teach existing employees new skills is a constant, whether you are an insurance company, a scooter factory, a hospital or a government organization. With an LMS you can cut down on costs and eliminate business disruptions associated with traditional learning, by letting your employees study the material online and at their own pace. Employee or Community Member orientation The all-important task of onboarding a new hire or new community member can be automated and handled easily by an LMS. It's also a good place to educate your new hires on your company's employee conduct code, privacy guidelines, and race/sexual harassment policies. Teach your community members how to navigate your community, use the site, forums, applications, etc etc. Knowledge retention Training your employees is one thing, but learning from them is also important. A knowledge retention program ensures that valuable skills, techniques and information stays with your company when your employees leave or retire. It's also a good fit for an LMS platform, as you don't want this valuable information to just sit in some document management system that nobody ever checks, but to have it available at all times to train new employees or people coming from other departments. Education Last, but not least, an LMS is a good fit for general educational offerings. It could be a school selling online lessons, a traditional educational institution supplementing its classroom-based courses, a business educating its clients. In all these forms, and many more, eLearning is here to stay, to the degree that it might be the very future of learning. View the full article