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We're with @Cedric V and @Dreadknux . Its a fantastic update and great to see it - something over the years I've really been behind, as Achievements adds real value to the software. We've been waiting to press the button on a potential move to Cloud, just would love to have seen this in Creator and Creator Pro instead. Obviously self-hosted would be perfect but I would think many more companies and websites could harness these tools in Creator packages, given it is so entwined with Achievements that is part of the base package. Will keep fingers crossed, but until then, well done team - great software update.

I echo everyone's excited thoughts and would love to be able to test it too.

Tables, tables and more tables, couldn't agree more! Only type of 'button' that I've been asked for more regularly than anything else and a very logical, common sense fit to any website using this editor box. Other than that, its great to see all the improvements and I'm sure it'll be well received across the board 😄👏

That's some seriously good work on how you've made it far easier to customise all different types of icons. These bits usually are the visual bits that massively matter to people popping into your community and hoping they stick. Love it ❤️ As some of my past messages here have revolved around Achievements and knowing that it is a very powerful tool if you find a way to use it with your members, are we expecting to see updates to the Rules as well to allow us to create more unique ways to then use these said badges? I'm super hopeful that given its been out for a few years, with this seriously cool update above, that Achievements deserves to get a 2.0 update as the foundation layer that is live today has so much potential.

UI and UX is probably one of the most important things out there so I'd have to strongly agree to see if we can find a way to get prompts on screen to help the user 'download the app' to their Apps screens. Otherwise Apple users won't know the feature exists. I'll still be pushing it hard for our members as we've been waiting for a way to get push notifications out to Apple users, luckily I have quite a few members on WhatsApp so I can persuade them via that 😅

I did get an email a few weeks back about Apple now updating their push notifications so was hoping this would be implemented here soon. Many thanks for getting this sorted as it should help most sites here with their engagement 🙂 Hopefully I can ask a relatively quick and simple question whilst we're here - does the notification automatically remove itself from the tray once clicked on, like all other push notifications for other stuff on mobiles? Reason I ask is because I notice the Android ones always stay on devices but not sure if thats down to software here or maybe browser specific e.g. Chrome? Thanks again.

Thanks @Olivia Clark, I'm increasingly finding myself over time looking out for the regular updates so I'd much prefer you keep them coming 😄 I thought I'd share that I like to separate the regular updates into pots more so across each individual module/application area that you support so it helps me to understand what could be next down the line. Not saying I use the exact pots from the below pic but its close enough. I then separate out to see if we're seeing enhancements; big or small and bug fixes for each one. That way I know when to potentially be asking about certain updates in other areas across IPS. Thanks again Olivia 🙂

Hi, I didn't expect to be around but I was for some of it whilst it was on mute. Here's some feedback if it helps 🙂 Mid-Live on Live Topics: It had already started and my question had been answered so it I went to press the green timing as i expected to go to the answer but it didn't do anything. Then tried to look at the time I needed on YouTube (the Youtube video wasn't auto playing so i initially thought it had finished). I started the video so it immediately went to live but then realised I couldn't just jump to 6.10 for some reason as the timer was a minus from Live. Therefore if you miss the start it felt like just waiting til it had finished to find my answer. The questions box below the live YouTube feed looked smart and a great way to see each conversation live. It definitely like watching a live podcast that was semi-interactable. Like @opentype I tried to watch some of it after it had finished but it forced me out so this could make the user less inclined to watch the rest because it wasn't obvious where it all went. Post Live reading Topic: Like @Rikki, its difficult to see multiple questions and responses on the topic. I can't believe I'm saying this as Discord annoys me 😅 but the way they have used their 'topics' which are just like FAQs would be so much easier to follow for something like this (not other stuff btw!). A bit like the collapse/expand function that I've seen on @opentype's Pages template for FAQs. When you click the side question it separates it out but navigation is slightly weird to get back to the overall chat. Infact, the 'live' view of questions would work great if the view was recreated in the Forum module. I think its still impressive that it moves the conversations to the Forum application virtually straight away, hopefully its just the format/view that is the issue. Actual event question response: I don't want to derail the thread as it still feels like a main thread for Live Topic feedback but I'll just give a small response on it. Please don't take it personally when I say I didn't learn anything new from the response. I know you were going to do an update at some point for Achievements but may have been more meaningful to talk about the specifics I raised on my reply to Olivia pre-event. Ironically Points got mentioned...although I never mentioned it 😅 as I'm not concerned about that at all (because I already get why they are 'hidden' from users and agree why you did it). Main takeaway was more about two things: How you tackle releases, what is expected in them e.g. enhancements vs bug fixes vs big overhauls. Monthly releases usually mean small improvements but I think at the moment its more heavily weighted to bugs more than anything else. Be good to get an understanding on what you try to aim for each month. Do we need to change our expectations of what is defined as 'quick' changes? I raised the question as its been well over 1-2 years for one key module to get any updates, small or large, but I think you intimated that its not been long since you did an Achievement update? If thats the case that might help us re-align our expectations of the products modules perhaps? Hope this all helps in some ways, and happy to make it into a separate thread if my feedback/questions are better that way. Much appreciated 🙂

Congrats Jordan! Thanks for all your updates you've brought to us over the years and good luck for the future 😄

Thought i'd loop back around to this one as we've just gone live with some 'Memberships' and whichever one they select, they receive points and a Medal (Badge) to go on their profile. More than expected have appreciated the medal on taking up a Membership. I think it would be great to keep building on Achievements and understanding the roadmap for upcoming features and enhancements to it so we can keep ahead in our own planning.

Hi @Jordan Miller, did this feedback help towards anything coming soon for polls at all?

I think we mean the same thing but I said it in a very different way 😄 I completely agree it is weird...I was trying to keep my expectations low to start with though!! 😁

I look at polls probably way more as a key feature of Invision more than most. So much so, I use the Poll Wall plugin that is available on third party to separate all polls from the forums sections as poll make you do something different to just posting a discussion point. The way we currently create polls are very cumbersome, mainly due to the amount of info needed as it is linked to a topic thread. Multiple headers can confuse even me at the best of times. Solution wise, Polls should be a separate creation to a 'Topic', even if once posted it looks very similar to one like it does today. Many places in social media can make a poll in seconds (like your Invision Twitter poll @Jordan Miller 🙂), so we need to reduce those steps to enable greater throughput. To support all of this, it would then be ideal to have dynamic widgets at your disposal. A slider, with multiple polls selected would be a great engagement tool to entice people to interact with your site. Rather than a static poll that you can only select one per block. And like @Adriano Faria said above, greater integration with pages is the key. You've already built engagement links in the new Achievements, which is a super start. We just need to make them more visible and usable.