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Invision Community Insights: These are our weekly, round-up posts sharing a highlight reel of what was happening this week.
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Hey team, it's that time of the week again 🤯 I wanted to take this opportunity to highlight a few new topics created by you all that have been a lot of fun to read and think about while I do the dishes. But before we get to that, check out this list of fixes and updates our development team smashed out in the last week alone: - Added a Delete query as an upgrade step to remove old 'best_answer' notifications. - Fixed an issue where Content Item Controllers returned 200 by default when they should return 404 or 403 (not found or forbidden). - Fixed some language evaluation issues when PHP 8 is used. - All buttons in #elUserNav now use th…
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Hey team, we just released a new update: 4.6.3 is officially live! Our Community is currently on it 👏 Per @Matt, we made a few key and immediate updates to... Anonymous posting Reaction achievement extension Milestones in achievements If you are experiencing any troubles upgrading, drop us a line. --- We also have a lengthly list of additional updates made since last week's Hump Day post 🤯 - Fixed an issue where the member's "solved count" would not show in QA forums. - Fixed an issue where it wasn't possible to add products to the registration form. (Commerce) - Fixed a PHP8 issue where an error may occur if you…
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Happy Hump Day, fam. Today's a big day (I know I always say that every Hump Day but... ) *Says in a whisper* We've officially soft launched 4.6 🤫 🎉 It's a soft launch because, well, you know how things can go 🔥. However, we're pretty darn satisfied with this rollout. Possibly The best ever. A more formal announcement will arrive in the near future. Right now, 4.6 is available for those on Cloud or those who've tested out our several Beta releases. In case there's a glitch in the matrix, please make a backup of your community before upgrading. If you need a refresher, @Matt laid out what is new in 4.6 in our latest blog post. Speaking of,…
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Hey team, just wanted to swoop in and offer a friendly reminder that our 4.6 Live Event on Zoom is tomorrow (Thursday, June 24th) at 12 pm ET. It's going to be a good time! Check out the different time zones here: https://dateful.com/eventlink/2656540285 You'll be able to submit questions that we'll work on answering live on Zoom. Expect for a little roundtable talk between myself, @Charles and @Matt. We'll touch on all things 4.6 and dive into a few of them in greater detail. We also have a little announcement we'll reveal during the event 😏🤫 Keep this handy: ZOOM LINK Now get ready for your mind to be blown regarding all of the hard…
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Another fine Hump Day, folks! Hope you're having a great week. Yesterday, we announced 4.6.0 Beta 1. We've already added a few updates/fixes, and in less than a day we rolled out 4.6.0 Beta 1.1 (which is now available for download! Per the sound advice of @Nathan Explosion, I'd like to remind you that this is a Beta; please make a backup of your community and all its data before updating). I want to give @Pavel Chernitsky a shout-out for saying this in the announcement post: The team worked really hard on this release, so that is greatly appreciated! 🥲 Last week when I shared that precious photo of @Charles and I working together in Vegas on our…
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Since soft launching 4.6 last week, we've been busy implementing a ton of fixes, updates and... changes. We're always looking to improve things, so if you've discovered anything buggy, or just want to share a comment / concern, please feel free to share with us so we can optimize. There are more changes to come, too! We're working on a website refresh at the moment. The current design and content is great! We're building upon that and re-thinking some of the wording and visuals. It's going to be extra spicy 🔥 Going to keep my Hump Day jargon to a minimum (no promises next week 😏). Check out the huge …
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Friday? Booo. Saturday? Blahhhh. Sunday? Who needs it! Welcome back to another fine edition of Hump Day, the best day, and today's is a doozy. We've officially launched 4.6 Beta 3! 🎉 It's available for download or per request if you're on Cloud. We're pretty confident things will be stable, but don't take our word for it; please make backups before updating. The official release will make its red carpet debut in the very near future. What's changed from Beta 2 to Beta 3? @Matt passed along these changes (see below). It's worth mentioning these updates are our new team members, @Christopher Pei and @Marshall Slemp, first bug fixes. 👏 …
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Happy Hump Day, fam! Before we dive into the goodness, I just want to say thank you for being a part of Invision Community. It's been really fun to see community members and the IC team become even more unified as we've rolled out 4.6. 🥲 Speaking of...(!!!) 4.6 Beta 2 is now live! 🎉 It's worth reminding you this is the third Beta version (it follows Beta 1 and Beta 1.1). We collected a roundup of changes needed and spent the last week implementing updates. Not only did @Matt write an epic blog post about what you can expect to see in 4.6, he also relayed this list of fixes 🤯 Added a no search results message when searching Pixabay and Giphy.…
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Invision Community is growing at a rapid rate! To help us keep up with all of the epicness, we've brought on two new developers (4.7 we see you 😏). Drum roll please... @Christopher Pei @Marshall Slemp Welcome to the team, gentlemen! It'd be greatly appreciated if you showed our new dudes some love in the comments! Related:
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Hey team, it's been 84 years (if you know you know), but... We're excited to announce that Invision Community 4.6.0 Beta 1 is officially live! 🎉 @Matt has a blog post on the way detailing all of the amazing additions, including how many commits and lines of code that were changed. A lot. The answer is a lot. Just to refresh your memories, some of the biggest changes/additions include: Achievements (Points!) Web app and Push notifications Anonymous Posting when posting as a member Highlight Topics with replies from specific Groups Spam Improvements (And more!) It's available per request for Cloud customers or, if y…
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Hey team, another fine Hump Day is upon us. A couple orders of business before we dive into the latest round of 4.6 fixes and updates: 1.) Have you voted in the Star Trek vs Star Wars poll? V V important. 2.) We'd love to feature your community! In case you missed the giant green bar at the top of the page (😆), check out this topic. We want to showcase your wins and successes and hopefully entice others to join Invision Community. If you feel a little uncomfortable to write a few sentences out for whatever reason, please reach out to me. I'd love to help you. 🙏 4.6 (with Achievements) is most definitely still in the works, as is …
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Hey team, I’d love for you to give a warm welcome to Invision Community’s new developer, @Matt Finger You want some sweet sweet Achievements addons? Then be extra nice to him 😉 So you can get to know Matt F better, I held a mini-interview with the 20-year-old developing prodigy. I said what I said. When he’s not coding, he’s cooking, fixing things (like cars, bikes, electronics, etc) and reading up on science, physics and philosophy. After asking him about his hobbies, I cut to the chase and asked him about his passion for coding and a few of his past experiences with it. He flexed his knowledge of philosophy right away. 🤯🤯🤯 He continu…
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Happy Hump Day, fam! Been receiving a lot of messages about 4.6 and Achievements. We're near the finish line (I know that's annoying to hear but we're close!). Why the wait? We absorbed a ton of useful feedback from you and are implementing it 👏 Achievements is turning out even more epic than what we launched here a few weeks ago 😭. It'll be worth the wait (again, annoying I know, but sit tight). Our talented team of Code Yodas™ (aka our developers) implemented some cool additions that'll make their red carpet debut in 4.6. 📸 The ones we're highlighting today are the improved appearance of Notifications Settings and Top Files reporting in the ACP. Sh…
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HAPPY Hump Day! A lot has gone down in the last week or two. In case you need a little refresher, we recently soft-launched Achievements. It'll be available for all in the coming weeks, but for now you can get a taste of it here in our own community. The response has been insanely epic 👏 The feedback even more so 🤯 I personally took notes of all the feedback provided. We've already started implementing some key changes (shout-out to our super talented development team!! Show them some love in the comments), including: Explanation for how you earned a badge Current position / max number of ranks shown so you know how far you have to go …
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Ahh another addition of Hump Day! A lot has changed since last week's HD. 🤠 In case you've been living under a very large rock, Invision Community announced/launched our latest feature: Achievements! Read our Blog Post about it here. This also means that this community is officially on our latest update: 4.6. This update will be available to you all in the coming weeks! In the comments of the announcement blog post, @Matt posted some additional visuals for you to digest. I'm going to include them here as well! --- Here's an example of me manually giving a badge and/or points. Here's the dialog the moderators can us…
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Wassup my IC fam?! Not to make this Hump Day topic about me, but, well... happy birthday to meeee 😂 🎂 I'm 33 today (April 7). Birthdays are always a great time to reflect on the past year. For ALL of us it's been a year of facing challenges and enduring. Becoming part of the Invision Community team, and becoming more integrated in this community, was easily one of the highlights of my entire year. Love you guys!! 🙏 Alright, alright, enough about me (😏), check out a mini-roundup of new 4.6 changes below. The list is dwindling down because we're inching near the finish line! Oh and you didn't hear it from me, but we'll be formally announcing Achi…
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Happy Hump Day, fam! Though we're only halfway through the week, so much has been done behind-the-scenes. We wanted to give you a little peek behind the curtain as we continue to better 4.6 (~coming soooooon~). Below is a dump of fixes in the past week 🤯 The support for web push notifications and the new, simple offline page are of particular interest to me personally. How about you? Anything stand out? Questions? - Fixed an issue with the REST API where a GET request to records with a category parameter would result in a DB error. - Added support for web push notifications. - Added a simple offline page, displayed when users have no in…
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Hey IC fam, is it just me or does it feel like every morning I wake up and it's Wednesday. No more Mondays or Fridays, just Wednesdays. The weeks are flying by 🤯 Maybe it's cause we're hard at work on 4.6 and the Achievements system. I personally had a chance to play around with Achievements and it's super powerful and sleek. Without giving away too much, it's seamless and intuitive. If you are even semi-familiar with the admin panel (which I imagine many of you are 😆) then you'll pick things up rather quick. Below is a list of new fixes we made for 4.6 in the last few days: - Fixed sitemaps not generating properly. - Fixed an issue where f…
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Happy Hump Day my Invision Community fam! Invision Community Achievements: We wanted to kick off this special post with a preview of Achievements. It's Invision Community's take on gamification with our powerful platform. It's something we're really excited to rollout this year (which does not = December 31st lol). We don't want to give away too much about it yet, but feel free to weigh in/ask questions 🙂 Fix dump: Here's what we accomplished in the past week (new changes since last Wednesday's Hump Day post): - Fixed broken 3rd party ACP permissions on Cloud…
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With the release of 3.1.1 scheduled for next week, I thought I'd take a moment and outline some of the bigger changes. We're very pleased with how well IP.Board 3.1.0 has been received and how stable it has been. We've been working hard to iron out some common issues and we've been reading a lot of your feedback. Based on that, we've made the following changes for IP.Board 3.1.1: Facebook The new Facebook APIs have been very successful in allowing registered Facebook users to log into your own forums and start contributing right away. The "like" button has also been very popular and great for driving traffic to your board. There's been a lot of feedback on these featu…
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IP.Nexus is designed to give administrators the tools to monetize their community. Not only is this about selling products and services (or accepting donations) but promoting your site as well. Many customers have asked us about a referral system. Until IP.Nexus, there would have been little incentive for members to use such a system. With IP.Nexus, not only can members refer their friends using banners you create, but they can receive commission on products and services that members they refer purchase through IP.Nexus. You can enable referrals and configure the commission percentage in the Admin CP. You can also set up the banners that members can use. If you d…
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The new IP.Board Community Directory is a great place to list your community to get more traffic and members on your site. It's free for all license holders and IPS Hosting customers to submit their community in the directory. As this is brand new it is still growing and we are taking suggestions for new categories and enhancements so please let us know how we can improve it. The directory has been online for a few weeks in a preview testing form and 206 listing have been made. These 206 listings have received over 4100 clicks: that's nearly an average of 20 clicks per listing! This is a great way to drive traffic to your community. Be sure to list your community in…
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Not only can IP.Nexus be used to sell specific items on your community. IP.Nexus can accept open donations targetted to any number of goals. Please note that the interface shown in the screenshots is not finalised and subject to change. A donation goal can be open-ended, that is, it has no target. For example, a personal community could accept donations towards the cost of maintaining the site. A donation can also have a specific target amount if you are asking donations towards a specific total. Donation goals can be managed in the Admin CP. When creating a goal you specify a name, description and if desired, a target. You can create as many goals as you like. …
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As many of you will know, search engine optimisation is a process of ongoing improvement. We made some big steps towards making IP.Board more search-friendly when we released 3.0 and we View full blog entry
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There are many areas of IP.Nexus which the user needs to be able to manage: past orders, active purchase, support requests, etc. We decided, rather than trying to shoe-horn these features into the User CP, which was not really designed for such functions, to create a new "Client Area", specific to IP.Nexus. This is what it looks like: In this blog entry we'll be talking about the "Purchases" and "Invoices" sections of this Client Area. Purchases The "Purchases" section (shown above) will list all active purchases on your account. Clicking the "View Info" button takes you to an overview page for the purchase: Here you can update any custom package fields if th…
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