🍂🍎 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.

@SeNioR- we need full screenshots again! I'm old and my eyes are tired! 

 

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 ).

@Matt Looks nice but will v5 contain framework changes which you mentioned 2 years ago... ?

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.