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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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🍂🍎 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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Spam has always been an ongoing battle for community owners as spammers find new ways to circumvent existing anti-spam practices. We have seen an uptick in new ways spammers are breaking through existing defense. As such, we here at Invision Community continue to look at new ways for community managers to combat against spam. For our September release, we have added several new tools that can prevent spammers from registering in the first place and help combat them even if they register successfully. Let's take a look at these new tools and settings. Geolocation based registration filtering Oftentimes, spam attacks can originate using bots and ser…
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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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Everyone at Invision Community is pleased to introduce Community Hive. We are creating a new free-to-use service to help independent communities reach new audiences and re-engage existing members. Community Hive delivers updates from your favourite communities and helps you explore new ones by bringing all the communities you follow into a single feed with optional email updates. The Invision Community September 2023 release will bring Community Hive integration to Invision Community and we're also releasing integrations for XenForo, Squarespace and WordPress. More integrations for popular platforms are planned over the coming months. …
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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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☀️ Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! ☀️ Thank you for checking out this quick, round up post. I hope you have a great weekend. Our updates will continue to be brief. 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. 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. The August release will be ready late this month and will include our spam improvements. Our August release chat is scheduled as well. Join us live…
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Has anybody experienced problems with push notifications on phones? We set the manifest configuration in System > Settings > Web app > Manifest. This os our current situation: Push notifications (and red badge) are working fine in Desktop PWAs (chrome & edge), but not working at all in phones (iOS or Android), not notifications arriving nor badge showing. We tested on several devices without luck. Attached our current support stats: Thanks!
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☀️ Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! ☀️ Thank you for checking out this quick, round up post. I hope you have had a lovely week. Super brief update today - 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. Changelog With that said, changes for version 4 are limited for now but for those that like to see what we are up to line by line, here is the changelog for the week for version 4.
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This is one of those behind the scenes improvements that you do not know happen but we still like to tell people about. All media that is uploaded to your community (images, videos, any sort of files) is now automatically replicated to a write-only backup within 5 minutes of upload. This means that backups of your media are basically continuous now. This part is not new but as a review.... For databases, we have two levels of backups: daily and weekly. Our daily snapshots are for catastrophic recovery and are extremely robust as they are replicated internally. The weekly backups are what I call "convenience backups" which might sound strange but let me explain. …
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The longest awaited iPhone feature is almost here, native iOS notifications, and we couldn't wait to ensure it is enabled for your Invision Community. Invision Community 4.7.9 is iPhone push notification ready for when Apple release their latest iOS update later this month. This means you'll finally get notifications on your phone, even when you do not have your browser open, to alert you of new content on followed items and more. A feature Android owners have enjoyed for a while. With notifications, you can have an authentic native app experience with built-in Invision Community features such as the manifest editor. The manifest editor allows you to …
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Our June release includes enhancements to our various statistics and reporting features included within the community. Statistics are important for a community platform because they provide valuable insights about user engagement, preferences, and behaviors, which directly inform the platform's strategy and design. Furthermore, statistics enable the monitoring of the platform's growth and user retention, which are essential for maintaining a vibrant and active community. In our June release, we have made some enhancements to those features that will allow you to more quickly monitor those trends. Saved Charts In Invision Community 4.3, we introduced th…
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☀️ Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! ☀️ Thank you for checking out this quick, round up post. I hope you have had a lovely week. This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 Current Happenings New Version Our July maintenance release is available. Review the release notes to see what is included in the July release, version 4.7.12. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/ On Deck Release Chat Our July release chat will be happening this coming Wednesday. Join us live if you can or catch the video and discussion in the converted topic after the event. …
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☀️ Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! ☀️ Thank you for checking out this weekly update. I hope you have had a lovely, productive week. This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 Current Happenings New Version Our latest July beta is ready! Upgrade to the official July release 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 July release, version 4.7.12. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/ On Deck Release Chat Our July release chat will be happe…
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Our June release of Invision Community introduces several new improvements for your community to increase privacy controls and consent of personally identifiable information. In today's digital age, privacy and the protection of personally identifiable information (PII) have become increasingly important. By incorporating improved privacy and PII data features into Invision Community, we are creating a more secure and inclusive environment within your community. In this blog post, we will take a quick look at what PII is, and the new features Invision Community has to improve privacy within your community. What is PII? PII, or personally identifiable inform…
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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 lovely week and are looking forward to Independence Day celebrations! This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 Current Happenings New Version Our July beta is ready! Upgrade to the official July release later this month. 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 July release, version 4.7.12. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/ Closed fo…
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I know many of you are very curious how our cloud services work and how we manage things when we service thousands of Invision Community-powered sites on our platform. I am writing this quick post because I just got an alert from our monitoring systems and signed on to see what was happening. We use AWS WAF with both managed rules and our own, custom rule sets. With those both combined, we are able to filter a lot of malicious traffic. Sometimes people do attempt a direct attack on one of the communities we host. That is what is going on today. As I am typing this, our WAF setup is blocking 10 million requests per minute on our network. Yet, even with that …
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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 lovely week! This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 Current Happenings New Version Our June release is out and ready for you to upgrade your community. Following that, we released a version including security fixes. As you know, we recommend that you keep your community up to date to remain secure, keep it running smoothly, and so you can enjoy the latest updates. Review the release notes to see what is included in the June release, version 4.7.11 and upgrade to the lat…
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Join us as we discuss the June 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. We will share what is being included before the event. Post your question in the comments and we will answer them live!
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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 lovely week! This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 Current Happenings New Version Our June release is out and ready for you to upgrade your community. As you know, we recommend that you keep your community up to date each month to keep it running smoothly and so you can enjoy the latest updates. Review the release notes to see what is included in the June release, version 4.7.11. Key changes include: Strengthening Community Trust with Privacy and PII Data …
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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 lovely week and are looking forward to the weekend! As a reminder, during the summer, we slow down a bit on releasing new things and the releases will come a bit later in the months. Also, this year, we are working on Invision Community version 5. We look forward to sharing more about version 5 in the coming weeks and months. 🎉 This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 Current Happenings Our June beta is ready! Upgrade to the official June release later this month. …
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