Management Matt Posted August 24, 2023 Management Share Posted August 24, 2023 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. The "Why" We believe in the power of independent communities. Technology has changed over the two decades we've been building community tools and despite the advances in technology a key problem independent communities still have is re-engaging existing members and finding new audiences. Social media has diminishing returns, and search results continually down-rank user-generated content. Reaching new audiences has never been more challenging. Community Hive solves that by providing a single platform to showcase your content to new and existing audiences. We don't keep your content; the only way to engage is to visit your site, ensuring you retain complete control and ownership. Regular updates via email and push notifications reach your existing members wherever they are. As our attention spans shorten and our online time becomes more cluttered, checking in with each community becomes more of a struggle. Independent and forum based communities fight for attention with social media, and owned platforms like Discord and Slack. Allowing your members to follow your community with Community Hive gives you increased visibility and discoverability and helps level the playing field. The Platform Community Hive has a familiar feed view with two main areas. "Following" shows a feed of communities you already follow to ensure you see more of what you like. This feed learns over time what content you favour and ensures you see more of what you like. The "Discover" tab shows you a feed of content from communities outside of your following list, which is a great way to discover new online communities to join. Following is easy; you don't even need to register on the community to add it to your followed list on Community Hive. Robust account management makes it easy to unfollow communities and set your desired audience classification preferences. Community Hive is mobile-first with push notifications and is ready to be added to your phone's home screen as an app. Integration Community Hive will launch with integration for several platforms such as XenForo, Squarespace and WordPress. Invision Community integration has several tools to nudge your members to add your community to Community Hive with buttons in key follow areas. Following from a community only requests your email address. You can optionally set a password later on Community Hive to enable your feed to be viewed on multiple devices. Clicking "Follow on Community Hive" from an Invision Community when you have an account with that community. Clicking "Follow on Community Hive" from an Invision Community when you do not have an account with that community. Community Hive will be launched in beta alongside Invision Community's September 2023 release, with integrations released for other platforms. You can visit Community Hive now and join in the discussion on the Community Hive forums. We look forward to seeing you there! View full blog entry georgebkk, Noble~, Chris Anderson and 5 others 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris027 Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 This seems cool, but I’d like to ease into it. Can we disable the Community Hive button? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Charles Posted August 24, 2023 Management Share Posted August 24, 2023 Just now, Chris027 said: This seems cool, but I’d like to ease into it. Can we disable the Community Hive button? It only shows if you enable Community Hive on your own community. Matt, Markus Jung and Chris027 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheersnGears Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 Super duper excited about this! I may break my rule of not using beta releases just to get into this early. Charles, georgebkk, Stuart Silvester and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmpireKicking Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 So in terms this can help your own community and also is it easy to just get a feed going to your site over to hive without the need of going to hive to create a feed? Matt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Charles Posted August 24, 2023 Management Share Posted August 24, 2023 13 minutes ago, EmpireKicking said: So in terms this can help your own community and also is it easy to just get a feed going to your site over to hive without the need of going to hive to create a feed? You activate Community Hive in your Invision Community AdminCP. Once you do, you can then go to Community Hive to set your categories and indicate what age-group your community is targeted for. You can also control what types of content is shown on Community Hive. Community Hive is designed to send traffic to your community. It does this in a few ways: Content is only shown as a snippet so visitors must go to your community to read the full content. There are algorithms in place to learn what is popular and move it up your feed. Following your community on Community Hive does this via sending a visitor to your community first. This allows you the opportunity to capture the visitor to become a member on your community. If they are not ready to join, they can also follow anonymously. If they join later, they can link up their existing Community Hive account. Visitors cannot interact with your content on Community Hive. They have to go to your site. Happy to talk about Community Hive's integration with Invision Community here. But, if you have questions about Community Hive in general, please visit https://talk.communityhive.com to discuss. Cedric V, Noble~, Miss_B and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cedric V Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 Beautiful. If only other forum software developers were so innovative... Looking forward seeing more communities entering the Hive. 🙂 Noble~, Charles and CheersnGears 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Matt Posted August 24, 2023 Author Management Share Posted August 24, 2023 8 minutes ago, Aerodynamic said: If only other forum software developers were so innovative... It's ok, we'll create their plugins for them. Ryan Ashbrook, WP V0RT3X, Noble~ and 7 others 2 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheersnGears Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 Will there ever be an app form of Hive? I could see this becoming a way for users to scroll all their subscribed sites from their phones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Charles Posted August 24, 2023 Management Share Posted August 24, 2023 2 minutes ago, CheersnGears said: Will there ever be an app form of Hive? I could see this becoming a way for users to scroll all their subscribed sites from their phones. Best to post Community Hive specific questions on https://talk.communityhive.com/ 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cedric V Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 11 minutes ago, Matt said: It's ok, we'll create their plugins for them. Thanks. At this point I wouldn’t expect otherwise. 😄 Matt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WP V0RT3X Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 I really like the Idea, but how about the languages? Is it for english communities only, will there be a filter if you only want to see content in your native language? Markus Jung 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Charles Posted August 24, 2023 Management Share Posted August 24, 2023 6 minutes ago, WP V0RT3X said: I really like the Idea, but how about the languages? Is it for english communities only, will there be a filter if you only want to see content in your native language? Happy to discuss that on Community Hive 🙂 https://talk.communityhive.com/topic/11-multi-language-support/ BomAle and WP V0RT3X 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikki Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 Do my eyes deceive me or did you build a React app? Matt, Jim M, Randy Calvert and 2 others 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Calvert Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 5 minutes ago, Rikki said: Do my eyes deceive me or did you build a React app? This comment earned a reaction. 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesuralem Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 I have a hard timing figuring out the whole implications but it is definitely innovative ! Is there a language specific option/filter for those of us who manage non English communities ? Markus Jung 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Charles Posted August 24, 2023 Management Share Posted August 24, 2023 There is a topic on https://talk.communityhive.com about languages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noble~ Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 I like the looks of this, great idea.😀 Cedric V 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean_ Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 Love the idea. It's just another site/forum/place to sign up to. You've got to drive people to this place... I've joined to get an idea. But, my god, we've got to beat FB somehow. FZ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Erickson Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 1 hour ago, Dean_ said: Love the idea. It's just another site/forum/place to sign up to. You've got to drive people to this place... I've joined to get an idea. But, my god, we've got to beat FB somehow. That is the whole purpose of Community Hive! Every interaction with it intends to drive customer/clients/users BACK to your community. It does not want to be the center of attention! CheersnGears and Noble~ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikki Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 Could someone help @Charles figure out the CORS error I'm seeing? Access to fetch at 'https://communityhive.com/webapi/feed' from origin 'https://www.communityhive.com' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Charles Posted August 25, 2023 Management Share Posted August 25, 2023 Go to https://communityhive.com not www. The next update will force redirects from www. to just the root domain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikki Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 4 minutes ago, Charles said: Go to https://communityhive.com not www. The next update will force redirects from www. to just the root domain. Ah - the logo at the top links to www. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexWebsites Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 Nice job, looks great! Any thought to additional future categories? Powersports (maybe that is under Cars) as an example and maybe Outdoors (for hunting, fishing, etc). G17 Media and BomAle 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Charles Posted August 26, 2023 Management Share Posted August 26, 2023 5 hours ago, AlexWebsites said: Nice job, looks great! Any thought to additional future categories? Powersports (maybe that is under Cars) as an example and maybe Outdoors (for hunting, fishing, etc). Feel free to post on talk.communityhive.com with any suggestions you have AlexWebsites 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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