Christmas has come early. 5.0.14 Beta 1 is now available!

This is our monthly updates and improvements release. You can see the full changelog here.

Along with the usual bug fixes and improvements, we've also got the following new functionality:

Iframely Integration

Iframely is a uniform delivery service for rich media embeds. It has over 1900 different services it is compatible with, and allows many services to be delivered easily as an embed inside a post editor when pasting a link.

While Invision Community works well with oEmbed providers, there are some services that do not use this protocol or put it behind a complicated application process, as Meta does for Facebook and Instagram.

Now, IFramely removes that complication and allows you to embed Facebook and Instagram content without the need to create a Meta app and get through an approval process.

There is a generous free tier, and all you need to do is create an account and paste in the API key hash provided.

Assignment Updates ☁️

Our assignments feature gets two new useful features: auto-closing after X days, and a daily reminder notification on open assignments.

These are two popular requests, and we're pleased to get these into the December release.

Let us know how you get on!

Iframely Integration is nice.

Edited November 20, 2025Nov 20 by beats23

Man.. #6050 takes away all the purpose of my application.

4 hours ago, Nuclear General said:

Man.. #6050 takes away all the purpose of my application.

Which is generally a good thing to be honest. The less 3rd applications needed, the better.

Great update, iframely is definitely a good thing!

I'm just wondering.

If for any reason Iframely change their stance in the future and stop offering this service, say for example, like that "Photo bucket" company, will all the Iframely links posted on the website become dead links like "Photo bucket"?

1 hour ago, beats23 said:

I'm just wondering.

If for any reason Iframely change their stance in the future and stop offering this service, say for example, like that "Photo bucket" company, will all the Iframely links posted on the website become dead links like "Photo bucket"?

Yes, potentially. But then we've been here before with many services. There's few guarantees in life, but they are an established company and in a worst case scenario, it wouldn't be difficult to replace the embed code in the database with a link to the original content.

3 hours ago, Cedric V said:

Which is generally a good thing to be honest. The less 3rd applications needed, the better.

Great update, iframely is definitely a good thing!

Not a good thing. Less revenue for 3rd party developers to make money. Now it’s a waste of time and effort.

40 minutes ago, Nuclear General said:

Not a good thing. Less revenue for 3rd party developers to make money. Now it’s a waste of time and effort.

That’s true, but you want to see it from the perspective of the client. 😉

1 hour ago, Nuclear General said:

Not a good thing. Less revenue for 3rd party developers to make money. Now it’s a waste of time and effort.

To be honest, when that customer pointed out that new members see everything as unread and it made no sense, we all wondered how no one else had pointed that out in 20 years because it makes more sense from a new member's point of view to have everything read and then you can track what you care about instead of every single thing in the community demanding attention right away.

Same reasoning applies to keeping the “Mark all content as read“ in a prominent position. The way it is now, many will just not mark anything read and lose track of what is going on.

Edited November 21, 2025Nov 21 by opentype

I would love to see Unsplash added as an integration. Their images are much nicer, better choice and better quality than Pixabay and they have an API. Have suggested this before in the feedback forum for IPS4.

Edited November 21, 2025Nov 21 by The Old Man

15 hours ago, Matt said:

Iframely Integration

Iframely is a uniform delivery service for rich media embeds. It has over 1900 different services it is compatible with, and allows many services to be delivered easily as an embed inside a post editor when pasting a link.

While Invision Community works well with oEmbed providers, there are some services that do not use this protocol or put it behind a complicated application process, as Meta does for Facebook and Instagram.

Now, IFramely removes that complication and allows you to embed Facebook and Instagram content without the need to create a Meta app and get through an approval process.

Will this be integrated better than the current embeds. Sounds like a dig, but it’s not.

My minor gripe is with X embeds.

They don’t currently adapt to dark and light mode.

Also for some reason say you click into the embed, takes you to X, browser back and it’s just the X post at the top left of the screen. You have to back again to get back to the forum.

First world problems I know, but just curious.

I’m already sold on the basis of not having to mess around with Meta apps though.

2 minutes ago, Day. said:

My minor gripe is with X embeds.

It would be nice to be able embed X timelines again! I tried it with CNN and it doesn't work. The light and dark checkbox seems to make a difference on posts though on their preview page.

15 hours ago, Matt said:

It has over 1900 different services

They don't have Invision Community! They are missing out.

Edited November 21, 2025Nov 21 by The Old Man

An iframely tutorial would be nice.

Several people on one of my sites post FB links to Reels. Obviously now they are just links.

I set up iframely yesterday, and new posts still post just the link.

16 hours ago, Matt said:

Iframely Integration

Very nice. Thank you

16 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

An iframely tutorial would be nice.

Several people on one of my sites post FB links to Reels. Obviously now they are just links.

I set up iframely yesterday, and new posts still post just the link.

Did you register an account to have the API? And of course the editor permissions need to be checked also. Although those should be enabled by default.

Genuine question, is Iframely cloud exclusive?

21 minutes ago, ClawOfWinterfell said:

Genuine question, is Iframely cloud exclusive?

Iframely is available for all tiers.

2 hours ago, Cedric V said:

Did you register an account to have the API? And of course the editor permissions need to be checked also. Although those should be enabled by default.

yes, yes, and yes 😄

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can someone provide a link from FB that should automatically convert if iframley is set up correctly?

23 hours ago, Matt said:

Iframely Integration

The limit is 1000 embeds created or 1000 views?

22 minutes ago, RevengeFNF said:

The limit is 1000 embeds created or 1000 views?

1000 views would be gone within no time. So the API counts as 1 hit per link/embed item. Which means your members can embed 1000 items a month.

But only three months.

It’s not 1000 items, nor 1000 page views.

What is a Hit?

On Iframely, a “hit” refers to the usage of a URL on the platform, whether for resolving or displaying content.

If a URL is active on Iframely within an hour, that hour counts as one billing hit. It doesn’t matter if you use Iframely for viewing content or making API requests. Hits are hours. The maximum number of hits for a URL in a day is 24, even if it’s viewed a million times or resolved 10,000 times over API in an hour.

How do page views relate to hits?

The number of visitors and page views you get doesn’t affect Iframely’s billing directly. It’s more about how long your content remains popular. Each URL can result in as few as one hit when you simply fetch raw data through the API and up to a maximum of 24 hits per day when displaying media using Iframely helpers. In today’s fast-paced online environment, articles usually stay relevant for just a few days, so your URL is likely to be most active during that time.

So, each embed can apparently create up to 24 hits per day. An active topic with lots of embeds can consume the 1000 hits quickly I would presume.

29 minutes ago, opentype said:

It’s not 1000 items, nor 1000 page views.

So, each embed can apparently create up to 24 hits per day. An active topic with lots of embeds can consume the 1000 hits quickly I would presume.

I think it's a bit different with forums though. So let's assume your forum has a bunch of threads with YouTube/X/etc. embeds. Iframely runs on those threads to render the embeds. An example: 20 threads with embeds exist in total. On an average day, only 5 of those threads get any traffic. Each of those 5 threads is viewed across 4 different hours in the day: 5 active threads × 4 hours = 20 hits/day. Time to reach 1,000 hits: 1,000 ÷ 20 = 50 days. For a very busy forum: 200+ threads with embeds. On any given day, 40 threads with embeds get touched by users. Those 40 threads are active across, say, 12 hours/day (people online all day). Hits per day: 40 × 12 = 480 hits/day.

So for most communities, the free plan will be enough. Although I do suggest to try it out for a month and see if there's value for your community. Not everyone will really need this.

Just me?