Happy Hump Day, team!

Last week, I shared a preview of some of the live community updates we're releasing. Our own community is already integrated with some of them, including who's typing a response, who's viewing a topic and sentiment analysis. Read more about them here:

 

There's another new feature that I want to touch on: video streaming.

Pretty soon, we'll be offering the ability to upload and then stream video content straight to your Invision Community-powered community. This is a great opportunity to offer video content directly onto your community and dissuade members from leaving to check things out on other streaming platforms like YouTube. 

Speaking of YouTube, have you seen my interview with Invision's founders? 😆  One day soon we'll be able to share these video interviews right here!
 

 

There's going to be some exciting implementations to spark community engagement regarding these video streams, but more on that to come  🙃 🙃 🙃.

Feel free to leave any guesses in the comments. 

 

While I've got you, here's a roundup of updates/fixes made to the platform by our talented dev team. Nicely done!

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- Fixed an issue where widgets may not be available even with enabled apps.
- Added a solved/unsolved filter for activity streams.
- Fixed an issue where status updates where appearing as search results even if the user had no permissions to view profiles.
- Improved the fluid-mode per forum filters to remove a page reload, and to reverse the filter checkbox status to make it clear which are being viewed.
- Fixed an issue where managing MFA in the Account Settings would result in an IN_DEV CSRF key warning.
- Fixed some issues with the online status indicator in account settings.

Excited to expand even more on the live community features, plus video streaming, in the near future.

It's worth mentioning this video streaming will be available on select standard plans. However, self-hosters, fear not! We have a really cool new feature for you dropping in June that I will touch on very soon. Here's a hint: heads up!

Thoughts? Drop us a line in the comments and join the conversation; I'd love to chat with ya.

We can only skip the news, if it is indicated to whom it applies. 

Scenario A:

• “Streaming is coming (to enterprise plans)”
• I am not not on that plan, so moving on.

Otherwise it will be scenario B:

• “Streaming is coming!”
• Getting exiting.
• Having to research the details.
• Finding out to whom it applies.
• Being frustrated. 

So, it’s very much about how the news are presented. 

1 hour ago, Matt said:

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We are fortunate to work with some of the worlds biggest brands, such as LEGO, Squarespace, SEGA, Mattel, etc. Working closely with the community managers from these brands allows us to really understand the tools needed to manage and moderate at scale.

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We are not going to stop talking to all of our customers when announcing new features.

Are you asking us to believe that you communicate with the "worlds biggest brands, such as LEGO, Squarespace, SEGA, Mattel" through the medium of this forum? That's not the case is it because they will have their own account managers.

17 hours ago, Jordan Miller said:

However, self-hosters, fear not! We have a really cool new feature for you dropping in June that I will touch on very soon. Here's a hint: heads up!

So… what do we think this will be? The clue is pretty cryptic. New user profile features? Photo recognition stuff? Dynamic floating heads appearing on the front end? 😛

Looking forward to hearing more about it!

1 hour ago, Square Wheels said:

Sadly, I suspect they will do away with us in the next couple of years.  Hopefully Xenforo continues to improve and doesn't go this route also.

I'll make a prediction. IPS 5.0 will be for cloud users only, whilst maintaining 4.x for us cheapskates. (for a bit maybe)

Edited May 12, 20224 yr by marklcfc