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As showcased in our past blogs, Invision Community 5 introduces a brand new, modern interface which brings improvements to performance, aesthetics and mobile usability. An optional side navigation panel, new view modes, light/dark modes, customizable header layouts, a search modal and a mobile navigation bar are some of the things we've showcased previously. Today, lets take a closer look at some other miscellaneous changes that we've been working on while developing Version 5, including some of the code reductions and performance improvements that we've been able to achieve in the process. For those of you who are developers, we'll also give some simple explana…
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Live Topics in Invision Community 5 Introduced last year, Live Topics are an innovative way to host live chat and question-and-answer sessions, complete with the option for live video integration. Live Topics effortlessly transform these events into permanent forum topics once the event concludes, allowing your members to not only interact in real-time with the rest of your community, but also continue the conversation far beyond the events conclusion. As part of Invision Community 5, Live Topics will ship with a brand new design, rich-text editors and dynamic reactions. Let’s take a look at all three improvements, starting with the new design. Fu…
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This topic only applies to those on our cloud services. As we prepare to launch improved spam management, we are also making changes to traffic control. We have many tools in place to stop malicious traffic on our network. These tools stop day to day bad actors and can also handle situations where we get a huge flood of traffic in a denial of service attack. It is always a balancing act to stop bad traffic while allowing good traffic. There have been some situations where real users were getting blocked because they were getting caught up in a suspicious IP range, for example. When you were caught in a block, all you got was a permission denied …
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We would like to take this opportunity to inform you of an important decision we've made with regard to the Invision Community Marketplace. After careful evaluation and consideration, we have decided to discontinue the Invision Community Marketplace, effective October 30, 2023. Over the past several years, we have noticed a decrease in usage of the Marketplace, with a staggering 75% decline in sales. In addition, we have observed a growing trend away from off the shelf customizations towards bespoke tailoring of a community by working more closely with developers. While it has been a platform for many dedicated and talented contributors to share their work, we belie…
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Our May update brings Email Bounce Management to our Invision Community cloud platform. In this blog entry, I'll go over what it is, why it's important, and how you can use it when needed. What is it? For those who may not know, an email bounce occurs when an email message is sent and the recipient either doesn't exist (hard bounce) or they have blocked the sender (you!) in a spam complaint (soft bounce). When an email message bounces we block that address at the cloud level so it cannot receive new messages from any community. This is considered good practice for email service providers, and ensures that we maintain a low bounce rate when sending emails on…
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Invision Community offers fantastic ways of customizing the user experience for your members, and today, we’re excited to introduce some new and really simple ways of customizing Invision Community 5 even further using our new icon tools. Icon Picker Lets begin with our brand new icon picker. Containing both Font Awesome icons and emojis, the new picker allows you to easily search and assign icons to specific areas throughout your site. Lets take a look at some examples! icon-picker.mp4 Navigation icons Adding icons to the navigation list has been a highly requested feature, so we're happy to announce that you can now use this new p…
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Bring your community to life with the latest live community features coming to Invision Community 5. Last year we introduced new features that immediately showed who was currently reading a topic and who was replying. This feature leveraged new technologies to connect members with each other instantly. In this blog post, we'll delve into the latest live community features for Invision Community 5 and explore how they enhance our sense of togetherness within our communities. We'll examine how these features instantly notify us about new events, updates, or interactions and how they contribute to a shared sense of presence. These features go beyond the static…
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Whether you have hours to browse a community or are short on time, scrolling through a very long topic can be more than a little frustrating when you want to follow the topic's core journey. Recently, we discussed another feature designed to help support-based communities find helpful answers quickly, but what about social topics that do not have a simple question-and-answer format? We've all come to a lengthy topic for the first time and found it a little intimidating to find the most relevant content among hundreds of posts, which don't always further the topic. These off-topic posts are important because they help social cohesion and build relationships betwe…
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🍂 🦃 Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! 🍎🍂 Thank you for checking out our weekly, round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week. Current Happenings Invision Community Version 5 news is all the rage! 🎉 Follow the Invision Community Insider Forum and our Invision Community Blog to be among the first to see those updates each week. Aren't those videos awesome?! 🤩 New Version The official November release was made available last week. Upgrade your community now. Here is what is included in November release, version 4.7.14. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/ Looking Ahead…
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Long ago, back in the dark ages, forums used the number of posts a member made and how long ago they joined to demonstrate trust and experience. Is simply posting a lot and being a member for a long time the best way to know which community members are experts? And is there a better way? We think so. What makes an expert, and why are they important? Community experts are the keystones to any thriving community. You probably recognise a handful in your community. They tend to be active regularly, are often the first to try and help others with their questions and help set a positive example within the community. Wouldn'…
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Forum platforms have a wide range of uses, from helping with support to sharing knowledge, ideation and social interaction. Topics can span years, and once the initial explosion of replies has passed, the topic lives on in local search and search engines for future viewers to discover and get value from. However, it's not always easy to get the best content from a very long topic. You may have noticed that when you come to a topic seeking an answer, some replies are less than helpful. How do I fix my Apple Watch? Like this! It's common to find a lot of social content mixed in with useful replies. Jokes, GIFs and off-topic musings are all gre…
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Welcome to the third video of our sneak peak series! Today, we're really excited to introduce you to the new Theme Editor! Built entirely from scratch, the new editor provides an instant, live preview of your theme, as soon as you modify a setting. It's a zero-code approach to creating themes, and has been designed to ensure your theme adheres to your color scheme and looks great on every device, with very little effort. Let's take a closer look! Paragraph 1.mp4 To the left of the editor, you’ll see a live preview of your community. You can navigate to any page, as if you were browsing your site normally. At the top left of the editor, yo…
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🍂🍁 Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! 🍁🍂 Thank you for checking out our weekly, round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week. This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 Current Happenings Version Five News is Flowing! 🎉 Ehren has more to unpack about this new version. Dark mode, accessibility, performance, oh my! 🤩 Check it out for yourself 👇 Marketplace Closure Reminder that our Marketplace Closure is set for October 30th. Information can be found in the following two blogs. Changelog For those that like to see what we are up to line by line, h…
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🍂🍎 Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! 🍏🍂 Thank you for checking out our weekly, round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week. This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 Current Happenings Newest Version 5 Teaser is here! 🎉 Matt has given me the privilege of posting our new teaser here first! 👏 Check it out and let us know what you think. 🤩 New Version The official September release was made available last week. Upgrade your community now. Here is what is included in September release, version 4.7.13. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/ …
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As you may know, Invision Community 5 is currently in development, and progress has been great, with many areas starting to come together. Almost all of the significant code restructuring has been completed, with much progress on the UI and the new theme bearing fruit. A fair few new features are complete, but some aren't quite ready to show, as they need a little love from Ehren. I wanted to share a little teaser of Invision Community 5; how many new things or changes can you spot? The small print Please remember that the features, functionality and UI shown in this little teaser are pre-beta, so they are subject to change. The features and funct…
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🍂🍁 Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! 🍁🍂 Thank you for checking out our weekly, round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week. This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 Current Happenings Version Five! 🎉 Our first detailed view of version 5 is out! Ehren has shared the first of many blogs unpacking the exciting improvements in this new version. These visuals walk us through the new sidebar layout and new view modes for the forum index and topic pages. 🤩 Join in the excitement! We would love to hear your thoughts too! Changelog For those that like to see wha…
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The Marketplace is closing on October 30th 2023. If you haven't already read the announcement, please read it first. As our Marketplace prepares to close its doors, we want to ensure a seamless transition for our customers. To facilitate this process, we're introducing a new 'license key' system to allow you to transfer your purchases to the third-party developer website in a privacy-conscious way. On the 'My Purchases' page, you'll find an improved layout displaying each resource you've purchased from the Marketplace. This includes the original purchase date, the expiry date (if applicable) and the current renewal term (if applicable). Additionally, we've …
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🍂🍎 Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! 🍏🍂 Thank you for checking out our weekly, round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week. This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 Current Happenings New Version The official September release was made available earlier this month. Here is what is included in September release, version 4.7.13. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/ Key improvements include: New Spam Prevention Features Introducing Community Hive Charles and I talked about the release in our September Release Chat as well as our excitement for vers…
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Join us as we discuss the September 2023 release of Invision Community. If you cannot attend, catch the video and discussion in the converted live topic in our Invision Community Insider forum. Do you have a question about the release? Post your question in the comments and we will try to get to them live!
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We strive to ensure our cloud platform leverages the latest, most advanced, secure and performant technologies available. To achieve this, maintenance is of course regularly necessary. While the vast majority of updates and maintenance are performed seamlessly behind the scenes, there are occasions where a brief outage may occur. On September 20 @ 10:00PM (EDT), an upgrade to our EU infrastructure will be performed. The maintenance window will be one hour, however, we expect service interruption, if any, to only last a few moments. Please note that this does not impact all EU customers; only those who are served by our EU platform. Thank you for your pat…
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Invision Community Insight: September Release, Additional Marketplace Info and v5 Teaser
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☀️🍎 Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! 🍏☀️ Thank you for checking out our weekly, round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week. This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 Current Happenings Version 5 Teaser Announcement!! 🎉 We shared our first official look at version 5 this week! Check it out and join in on the excitement for what's to come. New Version The official September release is available. Upgrade your community now. Here is what is included in September release, version 4.7.13. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/ Key improvements include…
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☀️ Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! ☀️ Thank you for checking out our weekly, round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week. This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 Current Happenings New Version Our newest beta is ready! The official September release will be available next week. As with all beta releases, upgrading your community is at your own risk. Please make sure you backup before upgrading! Here is what is slated for the September release, version 4.7.13. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/ New Spam Prevention Features Introducing Commun…
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☀️ Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! ☀️ Thank you for checking out our weekly, round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week. This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 Current Happenings New Version Our newest beta is ready! Upgrade to the official September release in a few weeks. As with all beta releases, upgrading your community is at your own risk. Please make sure you backup before upgrading! Here is what is slated for the September release, version 4.7.13. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/ New Spam Prevention Features Introducing Community…
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☀️ Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! ☀️ Thank you for checking out this quick, round up post. It's hard to believe that we are entering into a new month! I hope your week as been pleasant. Current Happenings The August release will be ready late this month just as it was in July. A few of you have asked about Spam improvements. Those will be in an upcoming release ... August if we are lucky. 🤞 Our update is brief again this week. Version 5 has been a big focus for our team so far this year and we are making great progress! We will begin sharing non-technical updates soon and once we do, I'll share those here. …
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☀️ Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! ☀️ Thank you for checking out our weekly, round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week. Below are a few announcements to bring to your attention. Current Happenings For our Cloud customers, I did want to draw your attention to our post: Changes to traffic control. Please ask any questions that you have there. Our Marketplace Closure announcement was posted this week. We will follow up with more information. On Deck We have postponed our next release a bit which now makes it our September Release. Spam Improvements and bug fixes are to be expected. You can che…
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