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Happy Hump Day! 🌈 In case you missed it, we've officially rolled out 4.7.0 Beta 5. It includes our new Alerts System (which has been a big hit)! Read more about the Alerts System at the blog post below 👇 There have been some pretty great ideas regarding how to use the Alerts System in the comments on that blog post. 👆 I'd love to take the opportunity to chat with you and hear your ideas on ways we could better improve this for all. What are some features / ideas you have to better the Alerts System? @Randy Calvert mentioned these in the comments on the blog post: @Dean_ mentioned this: By t…
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Happy Hump Day, team! Back by popular demand. 😎 I want to put a few of our forthcoming live community features onto your radar. These new live features are designed to encourage members to further engage with the community. Check these out: Who’s Typing We just implemented a live Who’s Typing feature into our own community. If you're quick, you’ll see a member typing a reply in real time when going to submit your own reply at the form located near the bottom of the topic. Who’s Viewing We implemented a live Who's Viewing feature into topics on our community as well. This may sound familiar to you - we already create…
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Happy Hump Day, team! There's a new feature available to all included in 4.7 Beta 1: we added solved & unsolved filters to activity streams. 🎉 What does this mean? You can now sort through and stay up-to-date on any solved/unsolved content items by setting up a custom activity stream. Why is this important? This is particularly useful for community support forums where clients and members are searching for solutions to questions that have already been answered. Or, perhaps a developer is in search of questions or problems that are unsolved. Here is a view of an activity stream showing all solved content. You can create a mo…
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Happy Hump Day, team! Wanted to share something extra special with you. We launched an Invision Community swag store! We'll periodically add new items here, including exclusive designs. For now, we started with items repping our logo. 😎 Our team had first dibs and, not going to lie, we're all looking pretty darn spiffy. People still say spiffy, right? Anyway... we'd be honored if you wanted to rock Invision Community offline. If not, totally cool, too! Our shop does ship internationally by the way. 😊 Check out all the items by clicking the link: shop.invisioncommunity.com You're going to look so good! While I've go…
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Happy Hump Day! Our forum app is a fan fav. There are so many advantages to running a forum versus using social media exclusively (more on that to come). What would you say is your favorite existing feature of the forum app? Me personally? I love the fluid view mode. 😍 It allows me to quickly see what topics I want to consume first, then dive in deeper if I want more. Super handy! Curious to know which one's your fav? If you have any idea to enhance the forums app with a new feature, please feel free to drop it in @Matt's topic. And while I've got you, check out this lengthly list of updates and fixes from the team …
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Happy Hump Day, team! We just released IPS Community Suite 4.6.12.1 - which includes a couple of key things I want to put on your radar JIC. Fluid view There's a new fluid view inside child forums which is pretty nifty 🤓. Essentially, you can have a fluid view per forum or category so you can stream the forum's topics with any child forum's topics in a single view. @Matt wrote a blog post about it with all the details👇! Keeping communities safe We fixed a security issue our internal teams identified. It is specific to those that use the REST API and also uses a CDN to cache page output. 😮💨 You can check out all the latest and gr…
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Hey team, happy Hump Day! Can you believe we're in the final days of March? Where is the time going 😳. I am going to use this opportunity to shamelessly promote a blog post I penned about why forums stand the test of time. If anyone can attest to this, it's you all. 🥲 Please feel free to go ahead and give the blog post a read and comment; it'd be greatly appreciated (currently there's 0 replies 😿). And speaking of blog posts, stay tuned for a really special one out soon! It's an interview with the founders of Invision Community. 😊 I also want to highlight @Matt's topic about features. Super fun to read everyones' responses. If you haven't alr…
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Hey team, Happy Hump Day! I just recently penned a blog entry on our new reporting and metrics added into 4.6.8 (out now btw 🎉). It got me thinking about another means to collect data directly from your members is our polls feature! I think the poll system in topics is an underrated gem of our platform. It's engaging, easy to participate with and provides real results. You can even share the poll for others to partake in (and its results) across any page of your community using the poll block inside the Block Manager. It's a pretty nifty feature we don't talk about enough! Would love for you to participate in this poll and also hear from you! A…
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Happy Hump Day! We officially launched 4.6.11 Beta 1 into the world. 🎉 It's a maintenance release, but still worth your undivided attention! I can't reveal much yet, but we have some very exciting features on the way. 🤫 Feel free to speculate in the comments 🙃 Here's a look at 4.6.11 Beta 1's release notes: As always, here are a list of updates and fixes done in the last week. - Fixed the duplicate stream subscription emails. - Fixed an issue where a customer may not be able to pay for a custom product. - Added a new 'block' feature to blocked words when posting. It will prompt the author to revise their content to remove t…
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Happy Hump Day, team! During my community building journey, I've seen a lot of fellow community managers feel frustrated that their communities aren't getting enough engagement. Wondering... what are some of the best ways to engage with your community to generate activity? Based on my own experience, here are a few things I personally lean into: Being visible As your community’s leader, it’s important to be accessible to your members. Post frequently and know Create content that invokes an emotional response It's one thing to make content, it's another to create valuable content. Value is quantified by whether it produces some …
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Happy Hump Day, team. I saw a lot of really great topics in the Feature Suggestions forum recently. It's the inspo behind today's Hump Day post. If you could dream up one single feature, what would it be? The challenge here is to think of and share one (I know a bunch probably come to mind 😆), but if you had to single one out what is it? Inquiring minds would like to know. 🤓 Sound off in the comments! --- As always, here is a list of updates and fixes since last week's Hump Day post: - Fixed a missing language string in the related content widget. - Fixed an issue where banned and spammer member filter options were showing for bulk mai…
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Happy Hump Day, team! To celebrate Invision Community's 20th anniversary, we're working on a series of content to reflect on our time online. Did you notice the revised logo up top? 👀 Seen @Matt's 20th anniversary blog post yet? I wanted to put our next anniversary item on your radar. It's a throwback IP.Board using version 3.1.4. We actually wanted to see if we could get the first version ever online, but the requirements are so outdated that we couldn't 😂 . This is still a nostalgic trip down memory lane. Feel free to register an account and comment. Poke around a few of the topics (there's some throwback content in there!). Does this bring …
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Happy Hump Day! We just released 4.6.10 🎉. If you want all the details regarding what it entails, please visit our newly-updated Release Notes page. I also dedicated a Hump Day post to a Beta version. Let us know what you think of this latest update. 😃 Webhooks video I just published a post on integrations (which I'd love for you to read and comment on when you can). It includes a video I did with one of our very talented developers, @Daniel F. This video was made specifically with developers in mind, so please give it a watch and subscribe to our YouTube channel! Here's a little list of updates made to the platform in t…
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Happy Hump Day, team! Just wanted to put it on your radar that version 4.6.10 Beta 1 is officially out. 🎉 There's a few notable changes (among the many) that I want to give a special mention: Support for IndexNow, a new way to inform search engines of new content. IndexNow is an easy way for websites owners to instantly inform search engines about latest content changes on their website. You can read more about it here. New Webhook trigger points. Webhooks allow other services and applications to stay in sync with your community data or to perform an action after a specific event occurs in your community. Read more about them here…
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Hey team, happy Hump Day! I'm super excited about our new theme service and wanted to share the news with you. I come in peace! With that said, I want to be transparent with you that this theme service is for those on one of our standard plans. If you've been contemplating moving from self-hosted to our hosting, give me a shout and I'll personally help you get set up. 😇 I wrote a blog post about the importance of branding, so just want to put that on your radar. I can personally attest to the power of awesome branding (if I do say so myself). I run a community, and members tell me all the time how much they love the theme / branding. It was created by our…
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Happy Hump Day! I've been working on a new blog post about the dos and don'ts when it comes to community moderation/guidance. Before I share it with you on Friday, I'd love to know your thoughts! What is something you should do when moderating your community. How about something that you ought to avoid? Something that immediately came to mind for me is moderating on the offense versus the defense. Generally speaking, most view moderation as a restrictive tool that takes power away from the community. A member posts profanity? Moderate! A topic goes live in the wrong section? Moderate! A spam bot infiltrates the latest blog entry? Moderate, moderate, moder…
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Hey team, happy Hump Day! It's officially the last one of 2021. 😢 But there are many more to come (don't all cheer at once) 😆! New Year's Resolutions tend to be hit or miss for many. I personally love them because I love moments in life where we can set a new goal during a time of renewal. The beginning of a new year feels transformative. Please share your New Year's Resolution(s) in the replies. It doesn't necessarily need to be community-related. I think if you accomplish a goal, it will translate to a better community anyway; everyone wins! We can fire up this topic in a year from now and see how things went. I'll start: mine is to be more f…
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Happy Hump Day, team! We have a blog post on the way that highlights some cool metrics from 2021. I wanted to give a few of them a mention here before the blog post goes live! Shout-out to all of our Marketplace contributors! It's been really fun to see the new submissions roll in throughout the year. Thank you so much for all your hard work and creativity. It's greatly appreciated! Here are the top submitters: @Nathan Explosion @Michael.J @Miss_B @IBTheme @Kirill Gromov @ReyDev @Adriano Faria @shahed Here is a list of members who earned the most badges in the community 😃. Nicely done! @CoffeeCake @TAMAN…
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Happy Hump Day, team! Can you believe we're only a few weeks away from 2022? Since the holidays are fast approaching, I figured it'd be a great opportunity to get our community in the festive spirit. Since we've shared a lot of amazing platform updates and community management tips with you in recent weeks (pssst check out our blog posts!), I wanted to make this edition of Hump Day a little lighter. Your mission: find the elf on a shelf I hid somewhere in our community forum. 🤫 Winner gets bragging rights and a shout-out! If you find it, drop a line in the comments (but don't reveal). 😏 As always, here is a list of updates our dev team accomplis…
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Happy Hump Day! Wanted to pass along some exciting developments. We've been wanting to improve our search capabilities within the platform. We started by adding more Elastic Search functionality in a few areas on our own community. For example, in the sidebar of our topics, you'll notice the previously-existing 'Similar Content' widget. It now includes Elastic Search to offer, hopefully, a better list of related topics for you. Essentially what it's doing is looking at a topic title and finding similar words in other titles, then ranks the most relevant (previously it was pulling by tag). Here's an example. This topic includes Cloudlfare in the title. Thi…
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Happy Hump Day, team! I've been thinking a lot about what it means to nurture your existing community. Oftentimes, we're so focused on getting new members and subscribers that we forget to show gratitude for members who are already contributing/visiting. Here are some ideas to show your current members some love: Create a topic highlighting a few awesome posts. Which reminds me, shout-out to @Michael R ad @kmk for these 😊: I'm a big fan of sending a Bulk Mail newsletter to your most-engaged user groups. It's a great way to connect with your die-hards off the platform. It's a little extra leg work, but members appreciate it. …
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Happy Hump Day! We're officially inching towards the new year. 🤯 It's a great time to reflect. Invision Community introduced a bunch of new features, updates and fixes this year. Which one was your favorite? In 2021, we launched no-code automation with our Zapier integration, added web push notifications, offline support, stock replies and new reporting metrics.We also improved spam management, SEO crawl efficiency, Clubs, Activity Streams and introduced a native gamification system named Achievements (my personal fav). Achievements was even improved based off of your feedback! 👏 And don't forget about the recent Elastic Search implementations. As th…
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Happy Hump Day, team! We just released 4.6.9 Beta 1! It includes a bunch of bug fixes for our December release. Our release notes for 4.6.9 Beta 1 are pretty extensive 🤯. One of the biggies is the Elastic Search improvements (more info about that here). We also want to point out that there are new web hooks to trigger Zapier. 😊 Also want to put our new blog post on your radar 🙏 Feast your eyes on the all of the glorious fixes! Any of them stand out? Let us know what you think in the comments 😎
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Update // September 14, 2021: WE MADE IT! After months of hard work behind-the-scenes, we launched our newly-refreshed website and community theme. We have a formal blog post about it on the way, but we wanted to share this soft launch with you first 🤫. Feel free to share your feedback in the comments; we're here for you and are chatting! Earlier // May 12, 2021: Hey all, Happy Hump Day! @Charles and I joined forces here in Las Vegas this week because we're planning something super exciting. 🤐😎 After 4.6 rolls out, we're focusing on freshening up our homepage/subsequent pages and match that branding with this community. That…
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Hey team, happy Thump Day! We moved this week's edition of Hump Day to Thursday to give you a moment to read our new blog post on the Achievements upgrade included in our new release 4.6.8 (out now!). There's also a great blog post (if I do say so myself 😏) about the new stats and reporting metrics in 4.6.8 (again, out now!). Have you updated your community to 4.6.8 yet? Notice any improvements? Dug into the moderator stats? Here's a screen shot from my own community. It shows the warnings issued by our moderation team in the last month. Pretty interesting, right? I love that I can see now what the recurring warnings are so that we can come up with bette…
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