Olivia Clark Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 🍂🍎 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 Newest Version 5 Teaser is here! 🎉 Matt has given me the privilege of posting our new teaser here first! 👏 Check it out and let us know what you think. 🤩 New Version The official September release was made available last week. Upgrade your community now. 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 Release Chat Our September release chat is scheduled for Wednesday. Join us live or catch the video and discussion in the converted topic after the event. Marketplace Closure As a reminder, our Marketplace Closure announcement was made last month. Notices are added to the AdminCP with the September release. Last week, we have shared our new 'license key' system to allow you to transfer your purchases to the third-party developer website in a privacy-conscious way. You can get more details and ask any questions in that post: Changelog No version 4 Changelog to share this week. David N., Alzar, Miss_B and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Matt Posted September 15 Management Share Posted September 15 How’s the music on this one @Dll? Joel R, Daniel F, AlexJ and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel R Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 @SeNioR- we need full screenshots again! I'm old and my eyes are tired! igniteyourfeelings, SeNioR- and Matt 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igniteyourfeelings Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 So far everything is looking good but i wonder, if the plugins are deprecated, will IPS replace some of them like "group legend, general statistics" ( these are the first that got into my mind ) and implement them into the v5 by default. Also, for v5, are we going the see some updates over the guides section avaible at IPS ? ( about creating an app, more about theme editing ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel R Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 Some thoughts: - How is 'Community Expert' defined? Automated or manual? - Email notification can be opt in / opt out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Matt Posted September 16 Management Share Posted September 16 12 hours ago, Joel R said: Some thoughts: - How is 'Community Expert' defined? Automated or manual? - Email notification can be opt in / opt out? Automated using various metrics. Yep. David N. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
media Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 I think you guys need to improve your company logo a little bit, does not look great in the video... 🙂 Rikki 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dll Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 On 9/15/2023 at 6:55 PM, Matt said: How’s the music on this one @Dll? You've moved out of the eighties, so it's a start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Matt Posted September 18 Management Share Posted September 18 1 hour ago, Dll said: You've moved out of the eighties, so it's a start. Hey, the 80s was peak civilisation. Marc Stridgen, Dll, Phuturism and 2 others 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin MORGAN Posted Tuesday at 06:03 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 06:03 AM Do you have an approximate date for v5? For example: December, 2023. @Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Percival Posted Tuesday at 07:29 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 07:29 AM @Matt Looks nice but will v5 contain framework changes which you mentioned 2 years ago... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Stridgen Posted Tuesday at 10:10 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 10:10 AM 4 hours ago, Kevin MORGAN said: Do you have an approximate date for v5? For example: December, 2023. @Matt This is not something we are able to announce at present. We will of course have information soon ™ 2 hours ago, Percival said: @Matt Looks nice but will v5 contain framework changes which you mentioned 2 years ago... ? I have taken a look at what you linked there, but its not clear what framework changes you are referring to. There is however a large amount of framework change generally, if thats the question you are asking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Matt Posted Tuesday at 11:24 AM Management Share Posted Tuesday at 11:24 AM No dates, but we're unlikely to release a major new version around a public holiday when our team are enjoying time away with their family. You'll definitely see more of Invision Community 5 this year. In terms of the JS bundling changes, the answer is 'no' but not 'never'. We want Invision Community 5 to be the start of something new, and we'll be converting JS over to native and changing how things are bundled over the early part of its lifecycle. We didn't want to add another 6-9 months onto its development schedule to rewrite all the JS which is a massive undertaking and offers very slim benefits to almost everyone outside of Google speed tests. Percival and David N. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virap1 Posted Tuesday at 02:08 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 02:08 PM 2 hours ago, Matt said: very slim benefits to almost everyone outside of Google speed tests. It would be a great benefit personally for me and I am sure for many others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Calvert Posted Tuesday at 02:17 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 02:17 PM 7 minutes ago, virap1 said: It would be a great benefit personally for me and I am sure for many others. Out of curiosity, how is a rewrite specifically benefitting you outside of what Matt noted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hpcrazy Posted Wednesday at 05:35 AM Share Posted Wednesday at 05:35 AM Looking forward to the 5.x Versions. I am with IPB since the 2.x versions. So I assume it will be a great update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virap1 Posted Wednesday at 11:10 AM Share Posted Wednesday at 11:10 AM (edited) 20 hours ago, Randy Calvert said: Out of curiosity, how is a rewrite specifically benefitting you outside of what Matt noted? Meeting and passing any and all technical and content standards and suggestions from google is indeed a high priority because those recommendations and indicators are there for a google reason from people who decide what ranks and how it ranks. Since the rewrite is directly linked to the G speed test, it is also an important for me. Edited Wednesday at 11:14 AM by virap1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David N. Posted Wednesday at 02:57 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 02:57 PM This looks like a great update, I can't wait. 😃 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beats23 Posted Wednesday at 06:03 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 06:03 PM Looks cool. I look forward to testing it on your beta website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abobader Posted Thursday at 10:58 AM Share Posted Thursday at 10:58 AM Yes, always good news to use new build of the software, the only consideration for 3rd party apps we had already. @Matt Do the dev's already have info about the new coming v5, if not, when, so we can start working with them either for the update or doing new apps. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Stridgen Posted Thursday at 12:42 PM Share Posted Thursday at 12:42 PM I'm sure Matt will respond to you also there, but if you take a look at the main page, you will see there have been quite a few blogs already on the dev side of version 5 🙂 abobader 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Matt Posted Thursday at 12:46 PM Management Share Posted Thursday at 12:46 PM 1 hour ago, abobader said: Yes, always good news to use new build of the software, the only consideration for 3rd party apps we had already. @Matt Do the dev's already have info about the new coming v5, if not, when, so we can start working with them either for the update or doing new apps. Thanks. We've released some news on Invision Community Five, but third party developers won't have enough information to get started on updating their apps. We're at the peak of the mountain now and ready to start showing more in the coming weeks. I am really excited to start showing off the culmination of just under six month's work from our team. Gary, Miss_B, Myr and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeNioR- Posted Thursday at 06:52 PM Share Posted Thursday at 06:52 PM Screens: Joel R, Ramsesx and David N. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David N. Posted Saturday at 02:11 PM Share Posted Saturday at 02:11 PM On 9/20/2023 at 1:10 PM, virap1 said: Meeting and passing any and all technical and content standards and suggestions from google is indeed a high priority because those recommendations and indicators are there for a google reason from people who decide what ranks and how it ranks. Since the rewrite is directly linked to the G speed test, it is also an important for me. Apparently its no longer a huge priority: “If you don’t have anything better to do on your site, go do Core Web Vitals. Most sites won’t see benefit playing around with it,” (Gary Illyes, Analyst on the Google Search team) Source: https://searchengineland.com/ama-google-gary-illyes-seo-takeaways-432325? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opentype Posted Saturday at 03:09 PM Share Posted Saturday at 03:09 PM 51 minutes ago, David N. said: Apparently its no longer a huge priority It never really was. Google just follows the user. If a site offers the most relevant content for a search query, then it’s what the user wants to see, whether it takes 500 milliseconds longer to load or not. Only if different sites have exactly the same ranking otherwise, then maybe your ranking position changes a bit. But in general, search results are not ordered by speed. That would be ridiculous. Optimizations are still useful of course, but there is no reason to obsess about them. There are much more impactful changes to be made on the site itself, e.g. how to name pages/forums/topics, how to structure a menu and so on. Esther E., SeNioR-, Matt and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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