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*Says in a whisper* We've officially soft launched 4.6 🤫 🎉 

Welcome back to another fine edition of Hump Day, the best day, and today's is a doozy. 

4.6 Beta 2 is now live! 🎉 

We want to feature your community!

Made some updates today, and it's starting to look ok I think?

After 4.6 rolls out, we're focusing on freshening up our homepage/subsequent pages.

Spam is as much a part of life on the internet as emoji overuse, serial GIF abuse and regretful tweeting.

But I'm not here to talk about how I conduct myself online; I wanted to talk about three spam improvements coming to Invision Community 4.6.

It's coming!

The future of forums... let's talk!

Hump Day: Improved appearance of the Notification Settings

Hump Day: Achievements Improvements

One of the overarching goals for any community leader is to shine a bright light on your members. Their contributions should be publicly recognized. Now with Invision Community’s new Achievements system... you can!

In the past, I focused my efforts on writing news articles (in Wordpress) while my Invision Community community ran rampant. I felt my presence needed to take center stage. That cast a shadow on my community and thus my members. I unintentionally muted their voices by exclusively promoting mine. 

Protect Your Forum With D.M.C.A Safe Harbor. I post this once a year or when I see a proliferation of copyright lawsuits against web publishers - here's some novel (not legal) advice.

Hey guys, as I'm sure you're quite aware, Facebook made some changes recently that affected their embeds (along with Instagram) from showing up in Invision communities. 

There was a plugin created for the time-being (🙏), but I wanted to share with you that we developed a fix and will release it in an update in the near future!

Have you missed this feature? Or did it not really matter in your community? Would love to hear from you in the comments. 

I am planning to run live webinars and online courses about using Invision Community and Pages in particular. Apart from a walk-through which would cover all the parts (pages, databases, blocks, templates), are there any particular things you struggle with or want to learn regarding the Pages app?

Guidance is an essential component to any thriving community because it creates structure and boundaries for the community.

Oftentimes, people think community guidance is about restriction, but in reality it allows your community to express itself in a healthy way.

All communities run into issues unless there are clear guidelines laid out for all members. It only takes a couple of toxic trolls to bring down an entire community of thousands of members.

As a community leader, it's important to find the balance between allowing freedom of speech and restricting what people can and can't say.

Invision Community has an exciting opportunity for an experienced PHP developer to join our team!

As a back end PHP developer, you will be working closely within a tight nimble team. You are a clear thinking problem solver and are able to demonstrate skills in creativity and innovation with the ability to meet deadlines. You thrive when given a brief and create well structured efficient code.

Shifting your interpersonal narrative from administrator to community leader can profoundly change your community’s culture for the better.

As a community leader, you’ll inevitably perform administrative tasks, including the nitty gritty like group promotions, moderating and reputation (all critical functions for a high-functioning community). However, it’s possible to execute said functions while cloaked under anonymity that the administrator title can provide (that’s not necessarily good or bad, it just is). An important component to community leading is visibility.

As we approach the release of Invision Community 4.6, I wanted to take you through some improvements for using Invision Community on a mobile device including web push notifications, splash screen images, native web sharing and offline detection.

You’ve probably already noticed that something looks a little different in our community today.

As part of our ongoing community improvements, we’ve performed some housekeeping to streamline the forum structure, make more distinction between areas and open up a few areas to guests and friends.

The big visual change is that we now have four separate areas: support, community, marketplace and developers. It should hopefully be clear what each section does, but let's go through a few examples.

Cloud and Enterprise Community customers can create automated workflows between Invision Community and over 3,000 other apps including Google Documents, MailChimp, Facebook and Twitter with just a few clicks.

When someone exhibits toxic behavior... ask yourself why, and more importantly... can you help them?

Typically, a troll’s demeanor stems from what’s transpired in their real life, and it manifests onto your community (lucky you!). Know there’s a motive behind the negativity; a harsh reality they may not want to face.

You’re not necessarily required to reach out, and a suspension is a lot easier, but taking this upon yourself as a community leader to uncover what’s really going on is an unrequited and selfless act that’ll set your community apart.

I'm thrilled to introduce the newest member of team Invision Community.

Jordan's official title is "Community Advocate" which means that he will be working very closely with our community to guide and curate feedback, assist with support questions, to help educate and inform and to bring you news of the latest developments being cooked up by our development team.

The support tool has served us well for many years. You can identify, at a glance, potential issues with your community both presently and down the road, right from the comfort of your AdminCP, and you can often resolve those issues with just a few clicks.

But what if we could do better? What if we could make this useful administrative area of the software even more useful?