As we close out another year with Invision Community, I wanted to take this opportunity to review the progress we’ve made and look ahead to next year and beyond.

It's certainly been another busy year with over 1,300 improvements, fixes and new features.

We listen to your feedback and meet each month with many community management teams. These conversations help us understand what it takes to build and grow a strong community.

This year was about listening closely to that feedback and then turning that insight into practical improvements across the platform.

We launched major new features, reduced friction, improved insight, added new integrations and API endpoints, improved the mobile experience, and made numerous core platform updates.

Let’s take a look at the highlights.

A more app-like mobile and modern web experience

This year, we continued to close the gap between web and native app expectations by making Invision Community feel faster and more natural to use on every device.

Improvements included smoother loading states, familiar mobile interactions, and clearer notification prompts, resulting in an experience that feels modern.

We continued to remove client-side scripting in favour of native CSS solutions to improve loading and interaction speeds.

The mobile experience improvements included:

• Pull to refresh in iOS

• Loading animation

• Installation prompt banner

• App icon notification count badges

• Easier to use, enable notification prompts

• Mobile app-like menus

Deeper integrations and extensibility

In 2025, we expanded how Invision Community integrates with the workflows you rely on every day.

New APIs, webhooks, and automation made it easier to move data, trigger workflows, and integrate your community into existing systems.

The integration improvements included:

• New endpoints for Zapier

• New REST API endpoints

• New Webhooks

• Mailchimp integration

• iFramely integration

Driving discovery and engagement

Continued growth is essential to the health of your community. In 2025, we continued to invest in helping members find value faster and stay engaged for longer.

We also introduced our new feature, Quests, which bridges the gap between in-person events and communities by enabling gamification across both.

The complete list of improvements is:

• Quests

• Customisable welcome emails

• Auto follow clubs

• New email advertising and promotion tools

Clearer insight into community health

To help tell the story of your community and find actionable insights, we created a new suite of community health metrics.

For example, tracking 'first response time' provides a clear indication of how quickly new interactions are acknowledged within your community. A 'good' first response time might be within the first few hours of an inquiry, as quick responses often lead to higher engagement and satisfaction.

These new metrics cover everything you need to create your reports, with new tools to export multiple charts into CSV files with a few clicks for your own tools to analyze.

The new insights include:

• Author diversity

• Responsiveness

• Engagement

• First response time

• Daily active users / monthly active users

Stronger core platform foundations

Throughout 2025, we continued to improve on the core of the Invision Community platform, focusing on the everyday things that keep communities running smoothly.

Updates across content management, permissions, and moderation controls reduced friction and improved consistency across even the largest and most active communities.

• Auto-splitting large topics

• Profile photo gallery

• Auto lock topics

• Default pages per group

• Recommended tags

• Turnstile captcha

• Page Editor roll back

Looking ahead

As we look to the future, our focus remains on strengthening the foundations of the community platform to help yours grow.

We will continue to expand AI in thoughtful ways, not to replace humans, but to support moderation and surface relevant content.

At the same time, we’re committed to simplifying the platform to sharpen the feature set around what matters most: discovery, engagement, trust, and moderation.

The goal, as always, is a platform that is powerful but not complex.

To help us shape the journey ahead, we invite you to share your own ideas and hopes for 2026. What features or improvements would you like to see?

Your feedback is invaluable as we strive to create a community platform that meets your needs and ambitions. Feel free to join our community to share your 2026 wish list.

We're excited about the future, and we're glad to have you with us!

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I am truly impressed by what you have managed to achieve this year, congratulations to the entire team. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that next year will be just as successful as this one.

Thanks for continuing to improve the best in this platform.

Developing something for so many different community owners, who create experiences for millions of people, isn’t easy. We all have different tastes and expectations.

My one recommendation is to let us control more of what’s shown to our communities. Many of the “stats” such as view counts are leftovers from Web 1.0 that are actually a disservice. A global option to disable would be great.

Hooray for Invision! Happy Holidays everyone.

2 hours ago, PanSevence said:

I am truly impressed by what you have managed to achieve this year, congratulations to the entire team. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that next year will be just as successful as this one.

Thanks! It’s been quite a year.

23 years passed and never ever got disappointed

I've been using Invision Power Board Software for over 2 decades now to power my online community, and I couldn't be more thrilled with the results. The platform's intuitive interface and robust customization options have transformed what used to be a clunky forum into a vibrant, engaging hub where members flock to discuss, share, and connect. From seamless mobile responsiveness to advanced moderation tools that keep spam at bay without stifling conversation, every feature feels thoughtfully designed for real-world use. The dedicated support team has been a lifesaver during migrations and tweaks, responding promptly with solutions that fit my needs perfectly. Overall, Invision has not only met but exceeded my expectations, making community management a joy rather than a chore—it's the backbone of my site's success, and I'm hooked for the long haul.

Congrats on a successful year. Can’t wait to see what’s in store for 2026! 👏

Congratulations to all involved and a huge thank you to the Invision Community team. I too look forward to what 2026 brings!

Thanks for all the hard work and prompt support when needed. We have not looked back at our clunky old Drupal site! 🙂👍🏻

Thank you much for the great work you have done and your dedication to make this platform an enjoyable place to be. Keep going.

On 12/23/2025 at 11:10 AM, Matt said:

As we close out another year with Invision Community, I wanted to take this opportunity to review the progress we’ve made and look ahead to next year and beyond.

It's been an amazing year for Invision. Thanks all for your work

I’m pleasantly surprised by the pace of V5 development. I’m planning to update my forum in 2026. Is there already any information on when version 5.1 will be released?

Hi @Grafidea,

There is no ETA on when 5.1 will be released as of yet. We're up to 5.0.14 at the moment.