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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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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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Welcome to this week's Invision Insight! The Team have been hard at work finishing up the Gallery refresh, which is now available for testing (more on this later). I am in the process of drafting up a new edition of community tips; publishing date yet to be confirmed. I do hope these are helpful not only to those communities that are starting out, but also to the larger and more established communities out there that are looking for ways to adapt and grow. If you haven't yet read the blog entry, I have linked to it below. If you have something you would like me to write about specifically or have subject matter you'd like me to talk about, then by all means let …
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We recently announced large updates to Gallery: You can now play with the new version of Gallery here on our site. Give it a try! https://invisioncommunity.com/gallery/
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Welcome to this year's first Invision Insight! And welcome to 2023 everyone! 🎉 After a very busy 2022, we have so much more coming to you this year! There has been so much work happening behind the scenes and I can't wait to share some of it with you in this edition. For those keen eyes, we would like to introduce a new forum in our community called Invision Insider. In an effort to keep our clients more informed on everything Invision Community, we thought it a great idea to provide a central place for all news and updates including Invision Insights, beta announcements and release webinars. You may recognise the majority of topics already in this forum, but as…
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Welcome to this week's Invision Insight! Whilst the weather gets warmer Down Under and colder to those in the northern hemisphere, we are nearing the end of our 20th year of Invision Community! So much has been achieved through the years and 2022 specifically is no exception. I felt it couldn't be a better time to approach our team to participate in this week's Invision Insight. I'll share their take below. Before we get to that though, if you didn't get a chance to attend yesterday's Content Curation event, don't fret! You can watch the video and discuss your thoughts below. Invision Community Team Insight During the week I took it upon m…
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Welcome to this week's Invision Insight! Well doesn't time just fly by?! We are a little over two weeks away from Christmas and well into the holiday season! I hope everyone's got their presents ready or at least has an idea of what to buy for their loved ones. I'm a last-minute man so I have so much time left before joining the crowds... 😅 For those following the World Cup ⚽, despite Australia being knocked out of the tournament by Argentina, my equally supported team from my roots, Portugal, has made it through to the quarterfinals! 🎉 I would love to hear what you are up to and are most excited about this time of year. To keep you in the loop with In…
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Our December Year in Review and 2023 Preview Chat is complete! Thank you to those who joined us live and thank you to those who will watch the replay. @Mattand @Charles discussed what we delivered in 2022 and shared some insights on what to expect for 2023. It’s great to hear them chat about the meaning behind our deliverables and hear their excitement for what’s to come. Watch the video, share your thoughts and let us know what questions you have! We look forward to sharing our 2023 journey with you! 🎉
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Welcome to this week's Invision Insight! We are getting so close to the silly season and whilst things may be slowing down for 2022, we are so excited for what is to come in 2023! I am really enjoying the engagement from everyone lately and I want to take this opportunity to give you some confidence or relief, whichever is more relevant. Any feature suggestions, bug fixes or reports are all actively read and reviewed, and whilst I cannot promise every single thing will be implemented, it is definitely noticed and appreciated by the team. I thought it a good idea to address this having seen a few comments on Invision Community regarding not getting an answer to y…
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Welcome to the very first Invision Insight, hosted by yours truly! 😎 I'm excited to connect with you each week to share what's happening inside Invision Community. For those that haven't yet seen me making my way around this community, I'm Gary, and I have just recently joined the Customer Service team at Invision Community. We are currently working hard to close out our 20th year in business on a high note! There are still so many things to look forward to before the year is done though, and I wanted to give you all a few things to keep your eyes out for. It truly is a testament to the hard work, motivation and dedication of the entire team, and we thank e…
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Happy Hump Day! Sort of… I have a bit of news to share with you: this will be my last Hump Day as I am stepping down from Invision Community. 😢 I am transitioning to a new role at Amazon. I’ll be creating content and engagement solutions for AWS. I’d like to take a moment to thank this community for welcoming me with open arms. When I first started my journey as an Invision Community team member, I focused on community advocacy and connecting clients with the team. We quickly realized my, um... exuberance was better suited in marketing and sales. Creating content around Invision Community opened my eyes even further to how brilliantly crafted this …
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In Invision Community's November Release Live Webinar, we discuss a few key features included in the next platform update. @Charles gave us a review of some new moderation actions and more additions to our Events App. We also covered the switch to PHP8 that is effective with this release. Also, thank you David for your question! We are excited to bring the functionality for "paid events" to the Events App. This is in the early planning stages but we are happy to tease such a wonderful addition since it is "in the works". 🎉 Do you have a question about the November 2022 release? Feel free to ask in this topic. Did you …
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Invision Community is growing! We are excited to welcome a new team member to our Customer Service team so we can better serve you! Please help me welcome …🥁… @Gary! Gary has been a long-time fan and user of Invision Community. We are excited to have his experience and fresh perspective on our team. This is what he had to say… Share with us why you wanted to join the Invision Community team. I have been a huge fan of forum software and creating websites in general for so many years and stumbled upon Invision Power Board whilst I was still in high school (circa 2004-2005). The first forum I created was on Invisionfree (that brin…
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In Invision Community's October Release Live Webinar, we discuss a few key features included in the next platform update. @Charles showcases our new Events application which now features a visually stunning overview page. He also answers a few questions clients submitted to @Olivia Clark, including how to use the app for physical versus online events, what to do if your community doesn't offer many events and more. We also talk about adding support for OpenSearch 2.1, adding application filters for new reports in the Moderator Control Panel's report center, as well as updating Graphql library to 14.11.6. Do you have a question about the October 2022 releas…
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We are hosting our first live video stream to chat about our October release. This is a trial we are doing to see if everyone likes it and may start doing them with each release. Since it's a trial, please forgive us if we mess up or are otherwise awkward 🙂 Feel free to post questions in the comments on the Event entry and we will try to cover some in the video.
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Happy Hump Day, team! Did you check out the Events blog yet? If you haven't, give it a read because... we're leaning in. 😎 The Invision Community team wants to add a few online events to our Calendar. These events will center around: Best practices regarding community management Features of the platform you'd like more clarity on Have another idea for a topic? Feel free to weigh in If interested, you will have the chance to RSVP to the event. More on that to come. We want to host events that YOU actually care about. Please take this opportunity to leave a comment with a topic you'd be interested in us covering in detail. …
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