If you run a busy community, you'll know how important Achievements and tagging are to encourage member activity and to keep a large amount of content organised.

We've had a lot of feedback on two areas. First, some members quickly worked out that they could boost their points by repeating the same action over and over, like liking post after post. Second, the tagging system we rebuilt in Invision Community 5.0 keeps your tag list focused and tidy, but it needed more flexibility. Some tags should be reserved for staff, and members have no way to suggest one that's missing.

Invision Community 5.1 gives you more control over both, with point limits and staff boost for Achievements, and restricted tags and tag suggestions.

Keep points fair with limits

Achievements have rewarded members with points, badges and ranks for years, and for most communities they work great. However, every so often a member discovers that reactions earn points, and suddenly every post in the topic has a like from them. Their rank climbs, and the members who've spent months answering questions slip down the leaderboard.

In Invision Community 5.1, you can cap how many points a member earns from any achievement rule within a set number of days. For example, you might allow a maximum of 50 points a day for giving reactions.

This will make the Achievements system fairer and more accurately show who offers the community the most value.

Give staff reactions more weight

A like from a moderator or someone on your team may mean more than most. It tells the author that someone who knows the community well thinks their post is worth reading.

Staff boost lets you recognise that. When a staff member reacts to a member's content, you can award extra points on top of the usual amount.

Control who can use each tag

Since Invision Community 5.0, your team decides which tags are created, which keeps the list clean. However, once a tag exists, any member can apply it, and a tag like "Official" or "Announcement" only means something if the right people are using it.

You can now choose which member groups can apply a specific tag. Want "Official" or "Staff pick" to stay with your team? Restrict it to those groups.

Everyone can still see restricted tags and browse content by them. The tag picker only shows members the tags they're allowed to use.

Let members suggest new tags

Your members often spot what's missing before you do. The trouble is that open tagging lets them instantly add duplicates, misspellings and similar phrasing, and closed tagging leaves them with no way to fix it at all.

With a new group permission, members can suggest a tag straight from the tag field when the one they need doesn't exist yet. Suggestions arrive in the AdminCP with a notification. Approve one and the tag is created and applied to the content in a single step.

In addition, if your community has built up a long list of tags, the tag field now switches to autocomplete once you pass 100, which loads faster and saves members scrolling to find the one they want.

A few ways to use it

• Protect official labels. Restrict tags like "Announcement", "Official" or "Staff pick" to your team, so members can filter by them with confidence.

• Curb reaction farming. Cap points for giving reactions at a sensible daily amount, so ranks reflect real participation.

• Reward great answers. Use staff boost so a reaction from a moderator gives the author a noticeable lift.

• Grow your taxonomy with your members. Let trusted groups suggest tags, then review them weekly and approve the ones that stick.

Put together, these changes help your points and tags keep their meaning as your community grows, so the members doing the real work get the credit, and your content stays easy to find.

These features are coming to all package levels, and we're looking forward to seeing how you put them to work in your own community.

Courses have been part of Invision Community since 2023, giving communities a way to run structured learning with sequential modules and lessons, quizzes, required courses for specific groups, and paid courses through Commerce.

In Invision Community 5.1, Courses get many new features and improvements that turn it into a proper learning space.

Courses can now be organised into categories and run entirely from the front end; each course can have its own discussion forum and files; members can leave reviews and ratings; and anyone who finishes earns a badge and a printable certificate.

If you run staff onboarding, paid training, product education or a volunteer programme, this is the release where Courses really come into its own.

Organise Courses into categories

Courses now live in categories, each with its own name, description, cover photo and permissions. You can keep staff-only onboarding separate from public training, or put free introductory courses in one place and paid advanced tracks in another, without piling everything onto a single page.

The Courses home page lists your categories first, and members with permission can add a course straight from there.

Build and run Courses from the front end

Creating, editing and publishing courses, along with managing modules and lessons, all happens on the community itself now. Instructors don't need AdminCP access to build and maintain a course, while admins keep control of settings, categories and enrolment tools in the ACP.

You can assign instructors to each course, the same way you assign organisers to an event. Instructors manage the content and enrolments, and everyone enrolled appears on a Members tab.

Keep course materials with the course

Each course can now have its own files library. Instructors upload worksheets, slides, templates or whatever else the lessons need, and enrolled members can download them. If someone withdraws from the course, they lose access to the files too.

Everything stays in one place, rather than sending learners off to a separate Downloads category and hoping they find the right thing.

A discussion forum for every course

Each course can have its own dedicated forum, open to enrolled members and instructors. It's a full forum with topics, replies and all the usual tools, so questions and conversation stay right next to the lessons instead of getting lost in your main forums.

This makes a big difference for courses that run over weeks or months, where a group of learners is working through the material together.

If you switch on files or discussions for a category that already has courses in it, you'll be asked whether to add them to existing courses or only to new ones.

Reviews and star ratings

Members can now rate and review courses. The average rating shows on course listings and in the course header, and a reviews tab lets people sort by newest or most helpful.

For someone deciding whether to enrol, social proof is useful. For instructors, it's honest feedback from people who've actually taken the course.

You decide whether reviews are allowed in each category, whether they need approval before going live, and which groups can leave them.

A Course page that feels alive

The course overview can now show a recent activity sidebar with the latest reviews and discussion. It appears only when there’s something to show, so a brand-new course won't look empty. New learners can see that people are engaged, and returning learners can catch up on what they've missed.

Celebrate completion with badges

Instructors can upload a badge image on the course form, and anyone who completes the course automatically receives it. Badges appear on the member's profile.

Certificates members can print

Once a member has completed at least one course, a Courses tab appears on their profile. It shows the badges they've earned, a list of completed courses, and a certificate of completion for each one, including the course name, badge, number of modules, lessons and quizzes, and the completion date.

Members can print any certificate, complete with your community name, their name, the course title and the completion date.

A finished course becomes something people can point to, which demonstrates trust and ability.

Learning where your members already are

Put together, these updates take Courses from a place to work through lessons to a complete learning experience, from browsing a category to printing a certificate.

Your members learn alongside the people they already know, and your instructors run everything without needing administrative access.

Courses is available from Creator Plus

If your community has content worth paying for, such as in-depth articles, expert answers or a knowledge base you've spent years building, you've probably wondered how much of it to give away.

The trouble is that there's no easy middle ground. Make it all free and members have little reason to upgrade. Hide it behind a subscription, and they never get to see what they'd be paying for.

News publishers have used a simple answer for years. They let readers open a set number of articles before asking them to subscribe, and it's now a model most people recognise instantly.

Limited Content Views in Invision Community 5.1 brings that same idea to your community.

It lets you give members a set allowance of topics and Pages articles, shows them how much they have left while they read, and invites them to subscribe when they're ready for more.

How it works

Limited Content Views lets you set how many items a member group can open over a period of time.

For example, free members might get 10 topics every 7 days, while subscribers get unlimited access. When the allowance runs out, members see your upgrade message instead of the content.

Topics and Pages each have their own allowance, so you can leave the forums wide open and meter only your articles, or the other way around.

You can narrow it down further to specific forums or Pages databases. Keep general discussion free and meter only your expert forum or your premium articles database.

What your members see

Nobody likes hitting a wall without warning. While reading limited content, members see a banner showing how many views they have left, what their allowance is and when it resets. A progress meter fills as they go, with an optional upgrade button right there while they're reading the content. You can place the banner in the header or as a sticky footer.

Once the allowance is used up, opening something new shows your custom message in place of the content.

We've also made sure it feels fair. Anything a member has already opened stays readable, so going back to a topic doesn't use another view. Likewise, viewing all pages of a topic only counts as a single view.

Nobody gets locked out halfway through a piece of content they started yesterday. The allowance resets after the period you choose, and members can see exactly when that will happen.

Pair it with subscriptions

Limited Content Views works best alongside Invision Community's Subscriptions feature. Subscriptions let you sell paid plans that move members into a group with elevated access, and that group can have a higher allowance or no limit at all.

Point the upgrade button straight at your subscription plans, and members can go from reading to subscribed in a couple of clicks.

You can also use the message members see when they run out of views to pitch your paid options directly. Explain what each plan includes, what it costs and why it's worth it, at the exact moment they want to keep reading.

If a member belongs to more than one group, they get the more generous limit. So as soon as someone subscribes and joins your paid group, the cap lifts straight away.

Setting it up

Limits live in your member group settings, next to familiar options like posting and attachment limits. For each content type, set the number of views and days, or leave it unlimited.

The upgrade button can link to your subscription plans, or anywhere else you like, such as your own landing page.

A few ways to use it

• A premium article library. Free members read 5 Pages articles a week, and subscribers read as many as they like.

• Expert forums. General discussion stays open to everyone, while a specialist forum where your most experienced members answer questions is metered for free members and unlimited for subscribers.

• A taste of everything. Give free members a small allowance across both forums and articles so they can explore, then show them your subscription plans when they're ready for more.

Limited Content Views gives members a real feel for what your community offers before you ask them to pay, and it makes the value of subscribing visible while they're reading.

We're excited to see how you use it to build your memberships.

This feature is available on all Invision Community plans and packages

Invision Community 5.1 brings a wide range of improvements to the user interface, with a particular focus on performance, accessibility, and usability.

We’ve modernized many of our existing components, reduced our reliance on third-party JavaScript, and made dozens of small refinements that make the overall experience feel faster and more intuitive.

Here are some of the highlights.

Better performance

Performance has been a major focus of 5.1.

We’ve upgraded jQuery to version 4 and have removed several third-party libraries, including UnderscoreJS. Combined with the performance improvements introduced in 5.0, this has reduced the amount of JavaScript downloaded on each page by around 250KB compared to Invision Community 4.

That means less code for the browser to download and process, helping communities load and respond faster while relying less on third-party libraries.

Several individual components have also seen significant reductions in JavaScript.

Mini profiles

Mini profiles have received a significant overhaul in 5.1. Previously, a mini profile could accidentally appear simply by moving your mouse over the trigger. They also presented a number of accessibility issues.

In 5.1, mini profiles require a deliberate click or tap to open. They’re now fully keyboard accessible and, for the first time, they work on touch devices. On mobile, you can also use a familiar swipe gesture to dismiss the profile card.

Ratings

Ratings have been redesigned to make them both more deliberate and significantly lighter. In 5.0, it was possible to submit a rating accidentally with an unintended tap or mouse click. In 5.1, rating options are contained within a simple dropdown that only appears after an intentional interaction.

The component has also received an 80% reduction in JavaScript, making it considerably lighter.

Reactions

The reactions interface has also been modernized. Previously, the reaction menu appeared when hovering over the component, which could make the interface feel a little fragile, especially when using a mouse. In 5.1, the reaction picker is opened with an intentional click and can be navigated entirely with the keyboard.

It’s also around 40% lighter in JavaScript.

Native form controls

We’ve updated a number of form components to make greater use of native browser controls. One example is the select tree. In 5.1, it uses the Popover API alongside semantic input elements. This improves its accessibility while also allowing us to reduce its JavaScript by around 75%.

Password peek

We’ve also added a password peek feature to password inputs throughout the platform.

A simple control lets users temporarily reveal what they’ve typed, making it easier to catch typing mistakes before submitting a form.

Accessibility improvements under the hood

In 5.1, screen readers receive more accurate information about interactive elements such as menus and dialogs. We’ve also replaced dozens of interactive links with native button elements where appropriate. These changes provide better semantics and more predictable keyboard behaviour, helping make the interface more usable for people who navigate communities without a mouse.

A more polished 5.1

These are just some of the changes coming in Invision Community 5.1.

Alongside the improvements highlighted here, we’ve made dozens of other accessibility improvements, performance optimizations, UI refinements, and bug fixes throughout the platform.

The result is an interface that is faster, more accessible, and more polished, while making better use of modern browser capabilities and native controls.

We’re looking forward to getting 5.1 into your hands shortly!

When someone registers, finishes a course, RSVPs to an event, or buys their first subscription, there's a short window when a well-timed email can make all the difference, such as a welcome, a next step, or a nudge towards the parts of your community they'd actually enjoy.

The trouble is that these moments happen constantly, at all hours, for every member on their own timeline. Following up on each one by hand doesn't scale, so most of them go unanswered.

Email Drip Campaigns solve that problem.

They're automated email sequences that trigger off what a member does, then reach out at the right moments on their own, without you lifting a finger.

What is a drip campaign?

A drip campaign is a series of emails sent automatically over time, triggered by a member's action. Instead of one-off bulk mailouts, each member moves through the sequence on their own schedule, receiving each email at an interval you set.

Say someone registers. You might send:

• Right away, a warm welcome and a pointer to your getting-started guide

• Two days later, an introduction to your busiest areas and how to follow them

• One week later, a nudge to introduce themselves and earn their first badge

Every member gets the same thoughtful onboarding, whether they joined at 9am on a Monday or 3am on a Saturday.

Triggered by what members actually do

Campaigns begin when a member takes an action you choose, powered by the same robust and flexible system behind Achievements.

There are many triggers, for example, you can start a campaign when someone:

• Registers and completes their profile

• RSVPs to an event

• Completes a course

• Purchases a subscription

• Joins a club

• Checks into your event

• ...and plenty more

Reach exactly the right people

Not every email suits every member. Each campaign includes member filters, so you can target properly by group, join date, activity, purchases, subscriptions, and more.

We've also rebuilt the filter interface to make putting an audience together simpler and cleaner than before.

Want to sanity-check your targeting? A built-in Check Member tool tells you straight away whether a specific member matches your campaign criteria.

Know what's working

Every campaign comes with its own statistics, showing how many members have started, how many are in progress, and how many have finished the sequence.

Each email also carries its own unsubscribe link. So if members drop off, you can see exactly which email prompted them to leave.

Given how complicated email deliverability can be, there is also a tool you can use to check specific members to ensure they are included in the reach parameters and have allowed automated emails.

Chain campaigns together

Campaigns don't have to stand alone. When a member finishes one, that completion can trigger the next, allowing you to build tailored follow-ups for different types of members.

Onboard everyone with a welcome series, then route your subscribers, club members, and course students down their own paths from there.

Ideas to get you started

There are hundreds of ways to put drip campaigns to work, and the best ones usually come from knowing your own community. To get you started, here are a few we think are worth a look.

• Welcome series, helping new members find their feet in their first week.

• Onboarding guides to walk members through your community's features over several days.

• Re-engagement, winning back members who have gone quiet.

• Event follow-up, keeping the conversation going after someone checks in.

• Course completion, congratulating learners and pointing them to their next step.

Getting started

Email Drip Campaigns are available now on selected Invision Community Cloud packages.

We'd love to hear how you plan to use drip campaigns in your own community. Let us know in the comments.

Available on selected Invision Community Cloud packages.

If your community hosts meetups, workshops, conferences, or socials, Events is set to play a much bigger part in how you run them.

Events arrived in Invision Community 5.0 with venues, online meetings and simple event management. In Invision Community 5.1, it grows into an event platform with richer discussions, proper registration, guest lists, paid tickets and QR check-in, so organisers can run the whole thing without leaving the community.

More and more, community owners are looking for ways to connect their online space with what happens in the real world. We saw it with Quests, where giving members something to work towards drove real engagement, and now, we've overhauled Events to connect your community to events you run in person.

Here's what's new

A proper home for every event

While you could encourage members to discuss an upcoming event in a forum and upload event photos in a separate gallery, it all felt disconnected and scattered throughout your community.

Every event now feels like its own space, with tabs for attendees, discussions and more, so everything about that event lives in one place. Organisers and attendees get a clearer picture of who's coming and what's being said, and you can automatically attach a photo gallery to events.

Set it up once on the calendar, and every new event gets its own gallery with no extra setup. Useful for meetups and conferences where photos add context to the event.

Discussions built around the event

Members can talk about an event before it happens, while it's running and after it wraps up.

You choose the level of engagement: simple comments for light conversation, or full discussions with reactions and follow options for events that need more depth.

A casual social can stay simple, while a conference or training day can support real conversation around sessions, logistics and follow-ups.

Registration that goes beyond a basic RSVP

Members have long been able to say “Going”, “Maybe” or “Not Going.”

In Invision Community 5.1, that becomes a full registration workflow.

For members you can:

• Register within the organiser's opening and closing windows.

• Bring guests, with name, email and phone collected when you need those details.

• Add or update guests after RSVPing.

For organisers and admins you can:

• Control exactly when registration opens and closes.

• View the full attendee list, including the number of guests each member is bringing.

• See guest details and download lists as CSV.

• Control who can view attendee lists with group permissions.

• Get notified when someone RSVPs.

• Review RSVP activity over time in the AdminCP.

It turns a simple yes or no into everything you need to actually plan the event, from headcount to who's bringing who.

Sell tickets with Commerce

A very popular request has been to sell tickets to events directly through Invision Community.

Happily, with Invision Community 5.1, you can sell tickets directly through your community. For most use-cases, you no longer need to rely on a third party ticketing tool taking a cut of your sales.

You can set a price per event and members complete checkout right after RSVPing. Guest names appear on invoices and purchase records, you can configure site commission and fees so organisers earn from their ticket sales, and coupons can be applied to specific events.

When QR check-in is enabled, members can print their tickets too.

Check in with QR codes

With Invision Community 5.1, in-person events get much smoother door management.

Every attendee (and every guest) gets their own QR code. Organisers can check people in from the attendee or guest list, or attendees can scan their own ticket and check themselves in.

Alternatively, you can also display a shared venue QR code so people check in on arrival. That's especially handy when the folks on the door aren't logged into the community as organisers.

Check-in times are recorded on both the attendee and guest lists.

Organisers with the right level of access

Event authors can appoint organisers and give each person only the permissions they need: edit the event, download attendee and guest lists, view the guest list, or check attendees in. The event creator always keeps full access.

That makes it far easier to run a larger event with a small team of registration desk staff, volunteers and co-hosts, without handing anyone the whole Admin Control panel.

Built for how communities actually run events

Put together, Invision Community 5.1 covers the full cycle of a community gathering.

1. Promote: a clear event page with dates, discussion, and an optional gallery.

2. Register: RSVP windows, guests, capacity, and notifications.

3. Sell: optional paid tickets without the need for a third party.

4. Manage: organisers, guest lists, and exports.

5. Arrive: QR check-in at the door.

Invision Community 5.1 builds on existing functionality by adding registration, ticketing, and a check-in layer that lets you run Events end-to-end within Invision Community.

Pages is one of Invision Community’s most powerful features, allowing easy creation of blogs, knowledge bases, documentation, bug trackers and more.

With the new Workflow Manager, it just got a whole lot more powerful.

Workflows

Workflows enable you to perform multiple actions from a single button, triggered by criteria you define. For example, staff can process, approve, reject or update records with a single click, rather than manually working through several steps.

This video walks you through setting up "Approve" and "Reject" buttons in a bug tracker.

Match Criteria

When you create a workflow, you define the match criteria that control which records show the button. In our video, the "Approve" button should only appear on newly submitted bug reports. Once a report is already approved or closed, the button is no longer relevant, so it simply does not show.

Criteria can be based on the item's status (hidden, pinned, featured, and so on) or on the value of a custom field, giving you precise control over when each workflow is available.

Actions

The next step is to configure the actions that fire when the button is clicked. You can mix and match as many as you need:

• Post a reply on the record

• Change the value of a custom field

• Change the item status (pin, hide, feature, and so on)

• Notify the item author

• Notify specific members

• Assign the item to a member or team

If any action needs input from the person running the workflow, such as writing a custom reply, a small dialog will prompt them before the actions run.

Putting it together

With the buttons configured, a single click can mark a bug report as accepted, post a public reply for the author, and fire a webhook to create an issue in GitHub automatically as every time a workflow runs, Invision Community fires an event, meaning you can connect workflows to external tools and services without writing any custom code.

Beyond a bug tracker

Workflows are available for any Pages database. An approval process for submitted articles, a content review pipeline for a knowledge base, or a simple "mark as resolved" button for a support request database are all straightforward to set up.

If you use a database to manage form submissions, a single workflow can update multiple fields and send a notification to whoever needs to take action next.

Workflows are available for Creator Pro, Teams, Business and Enterprise.

The Page Builder makes it easy to create attractive pages with widgets, custom HTML and Invision Community data. One of the most-used block types is the custom HTML block, which lets you drop markup anywhere on a page.

However, if you want to use the same design in multiple places, perhaps a feature card, a promotional banner, or a testimonial, you have to create a separate block each time and maintain them individually.

Template Blocks solve that.

How Template Blocks work

A Template Block combines a custom HTML template with a set of fields you define. Instead of hardcoding the content, your template uses placeholders. Each time you place the block on a page, you fill in the fields and the template renders with that content.

Setting one up

Start by creating a new block and choosing the Template Block type.

Define the fields you need such as a heading, an image URL, a short description, whatever your design calls for.

Write the HTML template, using the field placeholders.

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Save the block

Once saved, it works like any other block in the Page Builder. Drop it onto a page, click Edit, fill in the fields and save. Drop it again somewhere else and give it completely different content.

A practical example

Say you have a "Featured Member" card used in several places across your community. With a Template Block, you design the card once and fill in a different member's name, photo and bio each time you place it. Update the card's design and update every instance accordingly.

Template blocks can be a great way to simplify the number of blocks you have, and make it much easier to edit once on the page in the future.

We would love to hear how you use Template Blocks in your community. Share your ideas in the comments below.

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!

The Invision Community November edition includes numerous improvements, including customizable welcome emails and a new feature to keep your community running smoothly.

Auto-splitting large topics

While most topics run their course over a small number of pages, some continue to receive daily replies for years, growing to quite a size.

Many communities have breakout areas where people enjoy simple forum games or trivial social updates that help bond community members together.

However, when forums reach hundreds or thousands of pages, they can struggle a little and may take a little more time to show.

We all know how vital page loading speed is to both SEO and user experience, so we have a solution that doesn't disrupt the conversation flow.

When a topic nears 100,000 replies, the moderating team will see a message indicating that the topic is approaching the split threshold.

Once it exceeds that threshold, the original topic is locked, and a new topic is opened automatically via a background task.

Each topic will list all the various parts of the topic in the sidebar and in a block on the topic itself.

This allows the conversation to continue, and signposts where the older parts of the conversation are for those who wish to revisit them.

The result is a fast-loading topic that preserves all the history.

Welcome Emails

The first point of contact after joining a community is crucial to the onboarding process.

Invision Community has always sent a generic "Thanks for registering" email, but it's not particularly useful outside of informing the user that the process has been completed.

Now, in our November release, you can easily add content to that email to tailor it to your community.

You can add a message that fits the tone of your community, or signpost key areas to help acclimatise members.

What else?

Of course, every monthly release includes numerous bug fixes and minor improvements.

This month, we've focused on the posting editor to address some issues and add some minor quality-of-life improvements.