Hump Day: we're on 4.6.8 Beta 1 🎉

[Jordan Miller]

Happy Hump Day, team! 

I'm pleased to announce our community is currently on 4.6.8 Beta 1. 🎉 

4.6.8 will be available for all in the near future. 

Key Changes:

• SEO improvements with improved crawl efficiency
• New achievement actions for Commerce and Downloads
• Achievement ranks and points added to the member CSV export
• Achievement filters added for bulk mail and group promotion
• New REST API endpoints for reporting and reacting to content
• Audio files now play in-browser
• New emails for when a new rank or badge is earned
• JSON-LD improvement for Pages and Gallery
• New statistic graphs for many areas including: moderator activity, deleted content, reports, warnings, follows, member preferences, spam defense, QA topics, solved topics by forum and achievement badges by member or member group.

See the full list of changes on our Release Notes page. 

In addition to the SEO improvements (learn more about that here), there are some new stats & reporting metrics updates to the platform to help you maximize community growth. Some of those include:

• New Moderation reports (teaser: # of warnings given)
• New Achievements metrics (teaser: members with the most badges)

Why is this important? 

Gathering information, then understanding what to do with it, is essential for sustainability. Reporting tools available in the Invision Community platform can help you better understand the inner workings of your community and decide whether your current setup is leading you towards or away from your bottom line.

Be on the lookout; we have a couple of blog posts on the way that dive deeper into the metrics as well as the Achievements refinements mentioned in the Key Changes.

Have any questions about 4.6.8? Drop us a line in the comments - we'd love to hear from you!

[Matt]