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This isn't 100% related to the first message, but also not enough to warrant a new topic, imo.
The homepage canonical is set to the url without the forward slash at the end, which looks to be the case for all Invision Community homepages. I don't believe it influences indexability, but thought it was worth sharing.

The product is real and it's coming.  I've been fortunate enough to play with the early alpha version and it's chugging along very nicely.  The new editor is sweet and the UI update is slick.  There are certain areas still under heavy development.  It's not ready for prime time yet, but I've seen many bugs squashed and lots of great polishing being done to the stuff they've already announced.  

That's always a risk with sharing tentative dates and timelines. Over sharing can cause issues as well since things can change before being finalized. Along with that, you never know what setbacks (or opportunities) will pop up.
I'm always checking for the next update (we were spoiled last fall), but with such a major overhaul, let's let them cook. 
Reading between the lines, it feels like there are some updates being made to core features that should help IC5 hang with some of the more well-known CMS's out there.
The initial goal I saw was releasing a beta before the end of 2023 with a Q1 2024 release. Planning to be an early adopter, I shared with my community an update would be coming in 2024 and hopefully before the college football season in September.
Either I'm clairvoyant or I've been involved with too many development projects 😂
I hope this didn't come across the wrong way. It can be very difficult to provide regular updates when there's so much liable to change.

That is until the AI decides to change things!

That's always a risk with sharing tentative dates and timelines. Over sharing can cause issues as well since things can change before being finalized. Along with that, you never know what setbacks (or opportunities) will pop up.
I'm always checking for the next update (we were spoiled last fall), but with such a major overhaul, let's let them cook. 
Reading between the lines, it feels like there are some updates being made to core features that should help IC5 hang with some of the more well-known CMS's out there.
The initial goal I saw was releasing a beta before the end of 2023 with a Q1 2024 release. Planning to be an early adopter, I shared with my community an update would be coming in 2024 and hopefully before the college football season in September.
Either I'm clairvoyant or I've been involved with too many development projects 😂
I hope this didn't come across the wrong way. It can be very difficult to provide regular updates when there's so much liable to change.

We will show more on pages once we are in a position to do this. But of course we believe the design has been improved on. After all, why would we develop it otherwise 🙂 
Im not sure what you mean here. We have never supported 3rd party items. If you mean can 3rd party developers develop for the platform still, then yes. In fact we have had blogs out showing how to do so.
And you will 🙂

That's always a risk with sharing tentative dates and timelines. Over sharing can cause issues as well since things can change before being finalized. Along with that, you never know what setbacks (or opportunities) will pop up.
I'm always checking for the next update (we were spoiled last fall), but with such a major overhaul, let's let them cook. 
Reading between the lines, it feels like there are some updates being made to core features that should help IC5 hang with some of the more well-known CMS's out there.
The initial goal I saw was releasing a beta before the end of 2023 with a Q1 2024 release. Planning to be an early adopter, I shared with my community an update would be coming in 2024 and hopefully before the college football season in September.
Either I'm clairvoyant or I've been involved with too many development projects 😂
I hope this didn't come across the wrong way. It can be very difficult to provide regular updates when there's so much liable to change.

A canonical basically just says "this is the main page, index this." in cases where there may be query string, URL formats, etc... Therefore, what you see there really is correct. Invision Community actually redirects / to no slash so it would not be possible to reference the /.

This isn't 100% related to the first message, but also not enough to warrant a new topic, imo.
The homepage canonical is set to the url without the forward slash at the end, which looks to be the case for all Invision Community homepages. I don't believe it influences indexability, but thought it was worth sharing.

We haven’t implemented this yet. 

It does.

Dear users living in the past, please be made aware of this. Love, Administrators.
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Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention! I can confirm this should be further reviewed and I have logged an internal bug report for our development team to investigate and address as necessary, in a future maintenance release.
 

It’s honestly not worth the time/effort to try and support them anymore. They have made it WAY to complex and burdensome to continue with.

So my first thought when I watched this video was: "looks nifty and sleek, and I'm sure this will be super useful to a lot of website, but I don't see how I would use it."
Now all of a sudden I realized, this could be a way for me to 'bookmark' topics I know I intend to respond to but not right now, only later when I have the time. It would also send the signal to the person who posted the topic that I have taken note of their question and intend to answer it later. 
Interesting. Can't wait to play with it. 

We have released a patch to address this issue. Please go to AdminCP > System > Support and apply the patch from the first/top left box. If you do not see an option to install the patch, you already have the latest release.

That’s what bread crumbs are for and why they’re so important 🙂
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/breadcrumb

We have released a patch to address this issue. Please go to AdminCP > System > Support and apply the patch from the first/top left box. If you do not see an option to install the patch, you already have the latest release.

This is another super helpful addition. Thank you!

This is another super helpful addition. Thank you!

This is another super helpful addition. Thank you!

This is another super helpful addition. Thank you!

This is another super helpful addition. Thank you!

This is another super helpful addition. Thank you!

Forum moderation management used to be straightforward. It was commonplace to assign a moderator to a single forum. They would be responsible for enforcing the rules, removing spam and generally modelling the behaviour you wanted to see within your community.
As community management has matured and moderators are tasked with roles based on knowledge, help and support, there is a need for more nuance in managing topics within your community.
For example, you may have specialists or teams of specialists who help answer questions about development, sales, or support. Topics that require this help may be posted anywhere within your community.
Indeed, this feature was inspired by a need in our own support community to ensure customers get the right help from the right team member. We have questions on feature sets, purchasing, and support requests, each requiring a different team member. It is not enough to hope that the right person sees the topics; they must be assigned to ensure excellent service.
 
What are the benefits of this feature?
The ability to assign a topic to a single moderator or a team of moderators ensures that each topic gets the best outcome regardless of where it was posted.
Having topics assigned helps moderators deal with issues quickly, as there's clarity over which moderators should handle the topic. It also helps keep your community team accountable by having the ability to monitor their workload and get statistics on the time it takes for your team to reply. These statistics also help the community lead assess quality control.

 
How do you use this feature?
There are two ways to assign a topic to a moderator or team of moderators. You can assign a topic when replying to it or do it from the topic's action menu.
Once assigned, the assignee can review their assigned topics via the Moderator Control Panel and see which are assigned to them via the list of topics. Each moderator will receive a notification informing them they have a new assignment.

Those with permission to assign topics to others will see all the assigned topics and who they are assigned to when reviewing the list of topics.

The Admin CP contains a list of all assigned topics and also allows you to create and manage teams of moderators, such as "Sales Team" or "Developers."

Finally, once the topic has been managed successfully, the moderators can remove themselves from the assignment completing the task.
Assigning a specific topic to a single person or team in a busy online forum is a strategy that can enhance the effectiveness of the forum's management. It promotes efficiency, expertise, consistency, and accountability, which are vital for maintaining a vibrant and respectful online community.
We hope you are looking forward to this feature and look forward to any comments you may have.

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We're on it, dont worry 🙂