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Hi All, Due to some issues with streaming Zoom to Youtube, we will be rescheduling the April Release Chat. Once the team has a chance to troubleshoot and fix, we can post a new date. Thank you for your understanding!
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We are getting many requests from clients looking for extra services from us. We are developing a enhanced services add-on package that we hope would do that. This would be a monthly addition to your current package plus an initial setup fee. Right now the inclusions being considered are: Custom SSO setup Ongoing SSO maintenance Theme design Ongoing theme design maintenance 2 onboarding Zooms 2 Zooms per year Priority email support Second package for use as a staging site. Ability to duplicate live site to staging. Private forum on community for direct Q&As and previews with us. Pricing is not yet firmed up b…
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We are currently in the beginning stages of developing a Courses and Lessons application within Invision Community. This will only be available on our cloud services as a value addition. We receive regular requests for Learning Management System (LMS) capabilities in Invision Community and the Courses app will start us down that path. The Courses app is not going to try to be a full LMS. Not trying to run a university here 🙂 But we do think there is value in offering basic LMS capabilities within a community context. Some features we are already doing: Ability to create Courses with multiple Modules Modules can have multiple content items that …
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🌸 Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! 🌸 Thank you for reading our weekly post! This week was a bit quiet as it was clean up and planning week. Q1 has been a success and we are excited to be starting the last of our Q2 deliverables so we can get those out for you to enjoy. Along with that, the team’s focus has been on fine-tuning plans for the second half of the year and beyond, along with some client projects. Not always much to share with you all yet but these are important weeks for us as a team. To help you catch up on a few things this week… Current Happenings The latest beta version of the April release is out! …
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🌸 Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! 🌸 Thank you for checking in. I hope you have had a wonderful week! To those in the US or my neck of the woods (as some would say), Happy Spring! I enjoy this time of year and getting outdoors but I know those with allergies may feel differently. How about you? Does spring give you a spring or pep in your step or not so much? From the Invision Community team, this week ... Current Happenings Our April beta is ready for you! As with all beta releases, upgrading your community is at your own risk. Please make sure you backup before pressing that button! This beta specifically co…
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Hi, I would like to point out in advance that I am starting this topic to hear the official position of IPS, not to make fun of etc. You constantly negate external infrastructures in favor of your cloud. And how will you explain your TOTAL DOWNTIME 12h 42m in the last 7 days? I would like to add that my dedicated server has had 100% UPTIME for a year. But if I was paying that much money for a cloud and seeing a 500 error for 8 hours, I would have given up on the service pretty quickly. Now let's imagine that during downtime some big business forum has important Live Topics?
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We deployed WebP support today for both US and EU regions. This was honestly an oversight on our part and I want to thank @Dll for pointing out that WebP was not properly enabled.
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🍀 Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight!🍀 Thank you for checking out this weekly round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week! To those who celebrate, Happy St. Patrick's day to you. I hope you are wearing green 😉 In the comments below, feel free to say hello and let us know how this week is treating you. From the Invision Community team... Current Happenings Changes for Gallery, Events and Clubs in the upcoming April release has been shared in a recent blog. Feel welcome to join that discussion. Enhanced Services Add-on We are now selling our new Enhanced Services Add-on for our cloud plans. If this inter…
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🌸 Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! 🌸 Thank you for checking out this weekly round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week! In the comments below, feel free to say hello and let us know what you are working on. As for us, let’s dive into that below. Current Happenings We are beginning some spring cleaning in Our Community. I hope you enjoy this first round of changes and those that will appear in the coming weeks. 🧹 Deprecation Communication Deprecations are important to keeping our software clean and modern as needs change and the software evolves. We want you to know when deprecations are happening and how t…
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Happy Hump Day. Identifying what members are frequently searching for is an important job for community managers. Built directly into the statistics panel of your ACP is a section that includes the most-searched-for keywords. Understanding what people search for helps you: Improve upon those items Create more content around the term(s) Provide further clarity for people who search for the word or phrase in the future Because of the importance of search, we made some major improvements! You may have noticed Invision Community introduced an update to our Search Bar user interface. @AlexJ certainly did 😜. Previously, the …
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An issue was fixed today impacting communities in the EU region using video transcoding services. The transcoding services were not properly recognizing requests for transcoding a video as US vs EU and therefore failing.
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Doing an unannounced quick demo of Live Topics!
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For those of you with communities in our EU region: We deployed an upgrade today that will see about 20% increase in data query performance.
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Welcome to this week's Invision Insight! The changelog has had a significant hit this week with bug fixes by the amazing dev team, and a special thanks to @Ehren for all the amazing UI changes! The majority may go unnoticed by the odd individual, but it has definitely made things look so much nicer. We have had a very productive week and ran a live preview of Live Topics right here on Invision Community! 🥳 More on that below. Live Topics In a nutshell, Live Topics is a hosted live chat and question and answer event that is converted into a forum topic upon completion. Check out the blog post below for more info! And if you were one of the …
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We will soon be announcing some statistics and reporting improvements that will be available to both Cloud Platform and Classic self-hosted editions of Invision Community. Look out for a blog entry on that soon! I did want to talk about one addition to reporting and statistics that will not be available on Classic and do a quick preview: per-item reports. You will be able to see a view of the popularity of a section (specific forum, gallery album, download category, etc.) or item (forum topic, gallery image, file, etc.) over a time period. For example, you could see a graph showing which hour/day/week/month had the most views in an individual topic. Right now, s…
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We are deploying updates to our backend cache layer today. This change should see decreased latency for logged in members. While a small change, multiplied over every click for every member it will make a noticeable difference. This change does not impact guests/bots (those not logged in) as those views are handled by the CDN. You may see up to 10 minutes of slowness at some point today while the change deploys.
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🍀 Welcome to this week's Invision Insight! 🍀 Thank you for checking out this weekly round up post. We would love to hear if you enjoy catching up here and how we can make these more useful for you. Feel free to say hello and let us know what are you working on this week. As for us, let’s get into what the Invision Team is up to. Current Happenings Our Live Topics feature is progressing nicely and nearing its debut in beta soon! Did you catch the live March Release Chat on Wednesday or notice the converted topic that now lives in this forum? That is the live topics feature in all its [version one] glory. 🙂 I’ll share that topic here and if you m…
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Join us for our March release chat live!
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Even though we're not quite ready to go super in-depth about Live Topics, our live question and answer event platform built into Invision Community, we're very excited to share a sneak peak! Let us know what you spot!
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I wanted to let everyone know that we will soon be eliminating page views as a limiter on all our current offered packages. Advancements in our underlying infrastructure have made it not as important to meter based on traffic.
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Welcome to this week's Invision Insight! I'm keeping things short and sweet this week! The majority of our work has been on getting Live Topics closer to a beta release. We are very excited about this feature and can't wait to share it with you! If you haven't done so already, please check out our sneak peek. Patches I have noticed some discussions lately regarding patches, and in some instances, they may be missed by community managers. Not all patches seem to be a critical issue or security risk, but it is definitely ideal to action the patch to ensure your community continues running smoothly. There are no notifications for patches at t…
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Welcome to this week's Invision Insight! How's everyone liking the new look to Gallery?! We want to hear all of your feedback, so please visit this topic and take advantage of the testing phase so we can keep it all centralised for easy reference. On other news, Live Topics is almost ready for its beta release! In December last year we mentioned this new feature coming to the suite and it is definitely something many communities will benefit from. I promise we will provide more details soon! New Version We have released a new beta version of Invision Community, 4.7.7 Beta 4. For those that would like to try the beta on their communities, pl…
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Welcome to this week's Invision Insight! It's been another great week here at Invision Community! Our February release is out and we are looking forward to the next great thing. Speaking of that, I shared last week that our Live Topics feature is shaping up and nearly ready for its beta release. Interested in our first sneak peak? Go ahead, check it out! 🙂 We are excited to hear your thoughts! This feature will be available on select plans. New Release With new features, squashing bugs and the usual amazing work put in by the Team, 4.7.7 was released earlier this week! This release officially welcomes the long-awaited Gallery refresh and G…
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Are you planning your week? Getting ready for the start of a new month? Plan to join us for (or catch the replay of) our February release chat. Happy to take your questions now so we can cover those live. 😀
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Happy Hump Day, team! Sort of. 😔 One of Invision Community's founding fathers, @Rikki, is amicably moving on from Invision Community to pursue another exciting opportunity. This is his last week with us. He has a few parting words to share with you: Rikki has been an instrumental player in Invision Community's success; we're bummed to see him go, but at the same time excited for him to spread his wings. Please leave some well wishes for Rikki in the comments! --- Speaking of the team, @Matt Finger wrote a new dev blog post touching on the PHP8 Compatibility Scanner, our Pre-Upgrade Resource Checker and a full change log for our upcomi…
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