Charles

We will soon let those on the alpha testing group share their test sites for more feedback. Not much longer now - it's all coming together - which (hopefully) those in the alpha group can confirm 😄

That’s a shame that they’re so negative over there. If you look beyond a “forum script” there’s so much a community can be.

We would love to have multiple language packs b default but unfortunately translations are hard. We tried auto-translation software but the lack of context confuses it. Our plan is to eventually gather statistics on what the popular languages are and look into hiring someone to maintain translations.

The TL;DR version: We actually provide the service you pay for through constant updates and communication. You don’t see people on our community wondering why we do not communicate or release an update in years. While there are countless differences in goals and vision, we cost more because we do more. Ask yourself: do you want ye olde forum script that you see people begging for updates on or a living company behind an evolving product?

We will be inviting another batch of testers in next week. Keep an eye on your notifications for the invite!

Right now we are asking the testers not to share links to their test sites until we get another alpha build or two out.

That's strange that you are seeing no CSS on your screenshot as that is all loaded via CDN.

We do not plan to change the package requirements.

We made a change a few hours ago to reduce the challenges. Are you still seeing people being prompted?

Live Topics is available for all customers on the following packages: Creator Creator Pro Team Business Enterprise Live Topics is not available on: Beginner Classic Feel free to reach out if you have questions on upgrading.

Invision Community 5 is still several months away from a release. We will keep posting blog entries about its development over the coming weeks. Those entries will keep you informed.

Actually it's not a pity seeing as we have that already and are making it better.

That could be true from an SQL perspective but... it's probably more performant to ask yourself why any community needs 100 subforums. Think about usability from a human perspective.

AI and LLM and all that could be another good metric but community-based metrics are useful too. For example, someone may post a long-winded rant and I might reply "ok." AI and such would see that as a useless reply. But, in context, a human would see it's a funny, sarcastic reply and it might get lots of likes or other engagement. So you need both AI and actual I working together to create useful data.

Curious what sort of community features others do out of the box that you think we should include.

Two years later and people still don't know how to get back to the top of a web page on their devices? The Internet must be a confusing bottom-of-page place.

You might want to wait until v5 exists before giving feedback on it 😉

Again, please see Matt and my post above. You’re still comparing things the wrong way. I explained it as package limits earlier.

It is a common misconception that we are doing "cloud-exclusive features." Invision Community sells its services in various package levels like you will find in literally any other software or service you buy out there. We offer the following packages: Classic (self-hosted) Beginner Creator Creator Pro Team Business Enterprise All of those packages offer different levels of features, support, service, and consulting. For example, our Courses feature is available on: Creator Pro Team Business Enterprise As you can see, Courses is not a "cloud-exclusive feature" but it is exclusive to specific package levels. Another example might be AI based image moderation which is only available on Business and Enterprise packages. So we are not drawing a line specifically between Classic (self-hosted) and other packages (cloud). There are many differentiators between all the package tiers which is a totally normal way that software and services are sold. From media streaming to your mobile phone plan right down to your internet service, offering different package for people to choose from offers flexibility of choice in terms of both price and options.

Schrödinger's Redis.

That’s not how it works. The catch ups only apply on the monthly option as it’s basically a finance for the yearly. With yearly there is no catch up. You can let a yearly renewal expire for say 6 months and then reactivate it later for the normal yearly. The monthly option was put in place to make it more approachable but we’re considering removing it because of all this catch up hand wringing that people come with it.

Yes, it would keep working. Just keep in mind that you would be way out of date so it might be risky.

There's a LOT in v5: https://invisioncommunity.com/developers/devblog/

We do not really have any plans to add API-based AWS SES support but you can certainly use SMTP right now.