[Marq]

Originally posted by Doc

I haven't inquired about this so I have no actual information on it, but I'd imagine we're not going to have a lot of those features. Header images for example, I can just imagine the kind of MESS it would be to moderate those.

Ah, this is true. I like the profile headers but if it could possibly start a whole mess with rule-breaking images, then maybe it's not worth it.

[posh]

Survey this weekend?

[Gavin.]

Originally posted by posh

Survey this weekend?

Nope

[Reinvention]

Originally posted by posh

Survey this weekend?

Soon.

[Athens]

Sorry about the dead air. Just one of those occasions where there's a lot going on in the background.

Survey
We're going to be launching our survey on June 5th at 12:00PM EST (Available to members and guests). Although the survey will focus on the upgrade, there will be questions about your experience on ATRL as it is now and a couple questions to get some demographic info. The general portion of the survey will run on an annual basis.

Upgrade
There's still no date given for IPS4's launch but recently there have been a lot more updates from Invision Power that could suggest they've now finalized most of it. I'll share some general thoughts about a few of these:

- Embeddable content

When you paste a link to almost any kind of content, whether it's a forum topic, calendar event, gallery album or more, IPS4 will automatically embed a small preview of the content, designed specifically for that content.

I don't have plans to make use of this, but it's an interesting format. We do have plans to do more with events (award shows and other major media related) but the beta period will be the best opportunity to decide whether this new embeddable format works for us.

- Profiles
This layout already has a lot of the functionality we were planning to add with custom plugins during IPB3 testing. It will save a lot of time to stick with what they have here and style it accordingly. Other notes:

- Content will be reordered to prioritize Status Feeds(Wall Posts) over Albums and Blogs.
- Recent Profile Visitors will most likely be disabled
- We'll allow the option to turn off profile banners if there's enough demand for that.
- We'd like to integrate last.fm for recently played tracks and music stats in a post-launch update

- Responsiveness
By now you've already seen our mockups for the responsive layout, but here you'll see some good examples of how IPB retains all the desktop features on your mobile device.

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Note: Sometimes I'll refer to the software as IPS4 instead of IPB4. Just to clarify, IPS is the entire suite that includes IP.Board, IP.Nexus (ecommerce), IP.Blog, IP.Chat and more. The new ATRL makes use of IP.Board, IP.Content, IP.Blog and IP.Gallery.

[Mimie]

Yay

[Marq]

Looking forward to filling in the survey and sending in my feedback!

Last.fm integration sounds really neat.

[Lulu]

- We'd like to integrate last.fm for recently played tracks and music stats in a post-launch update

Yasss pls

[Skywalker]

Last.fm integration would be so awesome! OMG!

[posh]

Embeddable content could be interesting, I don't see it getting much use on here, but it'll be a nice feature to know is there. I espeically like the idea of being able to have a preview of threads/posts. I'm excited to see how the profiles will look, hopefully Recent Profile Visitors will be disabled; I don't need my creeping ways to be exposed. last.fm integration would be AMAZING! I know it's not what you mean, but I always thought it'd be cool if our Now Playing changed to our last played song on last.fm; however, having it on our profiles would be really awesome too.

This is all so exciting. really can't wait for this update.
I'm hoping that doing round-ups means IP is about ready to launch B4!

Thanks for keeping us up-to-date, Athens.

[Poe Dameron]

Oooooh the last.fm integration would be good

[Kitt]

The general portion of the survey will run on an annual basis.

This is a good idea and I'd really appreciate it as a member.

We'd like to integrate last.fm for recently played tracks and music stats in a post-launch update

Woo! Yes! Please, if possible!

Thanks and looking forward to filling out the survey.

[Athens]

Originally posted by posh

I know it's not what you mean, but I always thought it'd be cool if our Now Playing changed to our last played song on last.fm; however, having it on our profiles would be really awesome too.

That's actually what sparked the idea as I was considering whether or not to remove or rename NP; it's currently useless for its intended purpose. A lot of this needs to be tested for stability, but the general idea is that NP would show the current song when scrobbling is active and the last played song when it's not.

[Marq]

Originally posted by Athens

That's actually what sparked the idea as I was considering whether or not to remove or rename NP; it's currently useless for its intended purpose. A lot of this needs to be tested for stability, but the general idea is that NP would show the current song when scrobbling is active and the last played song when it's not.

That's a really cool idea, I'd love to see this on the forum if it's possible to be done.

[Lulu]

Will the demograhpic survey include sexuality? Cause most of the gerls lie about it all the time

[posh]

Originally posted by Athens

That's actually what sparked the idea as I was considering whether or not to remove or rename NP; it's currently useless for its intended purpose. A lot of this needs to be tested for stability, but the general idea is that NP would show the current song when scrobbling is active and the last played song when it's not.

Really?! I thought you just meant it would appear on our profiles, maybe in the header or under our username.
That's even better though! Hope the development works out and it's achievable without causing any issues.

[Giselle]

We're getting a reputation system?

[iHype.]

How come you never answer my questions

[Melvin]

So exciting.

[J a y]

Originally posted by Athens

That's actually what sparked the idea as I was considering whether or not to remove or rename NP; it's currently useless for its intended purpose. A lot of this needs to be tested for stability, but the general idea is that NP would show the current song when scrobbling is active and the last played song when it's not.

This sounds great.