Invision Community 4: SEO, prepare for v5 and dormant account notifications Matt November 11, 2024Nov 11
Posted January 31Jan 31 One difference that I find quite noticeable between v4 and v5 is the format of the Activity Stream line it for a Forum topic reply doesn't include the author.In v4 it displays as "Member A replied to Member B's topic in Forum C"In v5 it displays as "Member A posted a post in a topic in Forum C"I'd imagine this is easy enough to customize in the templates of v5 for a client, but maybe the default should to have the topic author identified somewhere in the Activity Stream item, either like it was in v4 or to the right of the topic name?The supporting reasoning is simply that certain authors of a topic will garner more attention and therefore more engagement. Once people start replying, we don't know who the author is without opening it. Just a small detail, but at least for my sites I can see it making a difference in engagement levels.Example: