Mike G.

The site looks amazing. Fantastic work, @Jimi Wikman! Thanks for sharing. Mine's down at the moment, but if I get it renewed I'll share it here as well.

I'd consider 3rd party plugins and themes to be one of the most important areas to look at. I phased out all of mine with the exception of a few article templates and a competition plugin, which the community is aware will end when the upgrade comes). I expect many of the popular plugins and themes to be upgraded, but I think it's worth preparing to be without them, at least for the start. Deciding on your mainstays with tags is worth planning on advance as well, primarily the ones that can be used across multiple areas of your community (news, categorization, tags that are used regularly). A lot of the magic will come through exploring the new pages and editor options, but you can't really prepare for the awesomeness on the way - I think that'll come as you feel your way through the software. It's just a good time to do some spring cleaning in general and possibly consolidate inactive forums if you have a lot. I come across a lot of forums where the threads in those forums would be better suited as a tag in a more general forum.

Thanks for all the thought and innovation put into the new pages functionality. P.S. Dr. Seuss would be proud of that video.

... I see what you mean. Thanks for this 😁

I expected some improvements, but I was cautiously optimistic about how much of an improvement it could be. This massively exceeds my expectations and it's that bridge that will really help unify everything - which has been my biggest challenge to figure out. Thank you. P.S. Even more impressive is how the team is able to not talk about it in advance.

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.

This is another super helpful addition. Thank you!

This is a very pleasant surprise and something that I planned on looking into in the future. Thank you. You all are amazing.

I can't wait to see what new pages are added to the story! 🙈

Hey @Joel R, I hear you on that front and I don't think there's a right or wrong answer regarding the AI-generated summaries. Maybe "Topic summary" isn't the best terminology if it's causing some confusion. The way I'm looking at the Topic Summary is as if it were a 'Cliffs Notes' version of the topic. Also, to quickly touch on the point that I bolded above - If used the way its intended, the new Helpful classifier should help users get to the most accurate solutions quickly. I think the AI Topic Summaries is absolutely worth more discussion and consideration, but it's something that needs to be done right if or when it is implemented.

Similarly to the Helpful button, I'm really looking forward to this change for a myriad of reasons. Brilliant thinking on having it work on a forum-by-forum basis. Since that's the case, would it work with club forums as well? Thanks for everything! ❤️

The 'Helpful' option is one of the features of Invision Community 5 that I'm most looking forward to. I expect it to give a lot of communities a nice organic boost. I love the implementation. 🔥 Once again, great work!

It's a better user experience, easier navigation, quicker to access content, requires less scrolling, has a much-improved mobile experience, showcases helpful replies, and so on. From my point of view, it's very SEO-friendly.

This looks absolutely amazing!