It’s been four months since Invision Community 5.0.0 was released and we’ve had a lot of feedback over those months which has fed into a number of improvements.

While we have a number of bigger features in the pipeline, sometimes the smaller improvements which improve your time on the community can have a bigger impact.

Let’s take a look at those changes.

Tag usage chart filters

Our re-imagined tagging system brings content from across the suite into a single page offering opportunities for secondary categorization. The AdminCP statistics chart for tag usage was updated with a customizable filter so you can drill down by app and sections allowing you to look at tag usage in specific forums or galleries rather than across the community.

Recommended Tags

While we recommend that communities use as few tags as possible to make tagging more effective, it can be possible to end up with dozens of tags even though your community may use the same handful for most of their content. You can now surface any tag to the top of the list by making it a recommended tag. This also has the benefit of nudging your community to use your preferred tags.

Forum Collections

There are many places in the AdminCP where you’re asked to select many forums. It might be when you’re creating a saved moderation action and want to choose which forums it can be run on.

Most communities tend to have logical groupings. On our forum here, we have feedback and ideation sections, along with support sections. We often have to select the same forums when setting up moderation, announcements or even default streams. We have to click the same four or five forums each time and if we ever removed or added a forum, we’d need to remember to go and add that in manually.

Forum collections allow you to create groups of forums. In our example, you may create a grouping of all support forums. Once set up, you can select that single grouping instead of manually selecting the forums you need. They even update when you add or remove forums.

Turnstile CAPTCHA

The venerable Google hCAPTCHA has served us well. For many years we’ve been identifying traffic lights and motorcycles for reasons no one really knows when we have the temerity to use a public WiFi connection. As much fun as it is working out if two pixels into a new square means it should be clicked or not, the truth is that hCAPTCHA isn’t as effective as blocking bot traffic as it once was.

Cloudflare’s Turnstile CAPTCHA is a very effective (and free!) solution. It’s much less obtrusive too and in most cases you don’t need to do anything. It’s now an option and we recommend you check it out.

This wraps up the most recent improvements to Invision Community 5. Which are you looking forward to the most?

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Thank you for your hard work everyone. It's a game changer when you compare to other software. 😁

Thank you

Will the stats, or at least some of them, ever be available on the front end?

3 hours ago, Square Wheels said:

Thank you

Will the stats, or at least some of them, ever be available on the front end?

Where would you like to see them?

28 minutes ago, Matt said:

Where would you like to see them?

If I can pick and choose, it would be great if members had access to them. So anywhere on the front end, I usually move things around to keep the menu small.

23 hours ago, Matt said:

It’s been four months since Invision Community 5.0.0 was released and we’ve had a lot of feedback over those months which has fed into a number of improvement

Thank you.

The Tags alone are fantastic.

Can you provide a better example on how to use the forum collections / group? I do not see where the Forum Group options can be selected.

Right now, it's supported when creating Saved Actions (ACP > Forums > Saved Actions), when creating new streams (ACP > Content Discovery > Streams) and when making announcements in the ModCP.

20 hours ago, Square Wheels said:

If I can pick and choose, it would be great if members had access to them. So anywhere on the front end, I usually move things around to keep the menu small.

I just commented in today’s announcement that it would be handy to have the data able to be exported as a widget. Then we could just use it anywhere we wanted… either in a sidebar somewhere or on a dedicated page.

I am excited to see more development on your tags system. But right now it feels cumbersome to use. I understand that we sometimes dont want users creating typing in their own tags but at the same time, scrolling through a long list to individually pick one is very annoying. I am hopeful for something like a tab complete feature.

The tags are a significant change. We used closed tags on IPS 4, and so we listed the tags in each DB we wanted to use them in. Are there plans to have tag sets or categories? We could do this by a naming convention, as they are listed alphabetically, but creating separate sets would suit us better.

This is not something we have at present, but please do feel free to add a feedback post with exactly what you would like to see

3 minutes ago, Marc said:

This is not something we have at present, but please do feel free to add a feedback post with exactly what you would like to see

Ideally categories of tags with group permissions. So we could assign a category to a particular forum, database, gallery.

Edited August 20, 2025Aug 20 by Alex Duffy