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For the past month or so, we've been working with a small number of alpha testers to get some initial feedback and to fine-tune some of the new features.
We are now ready for more feedback, so today, we take the next step in testing!
We've opened up a new Invision Community 5 preview site for everyone to use, find bugs and offer feedback. The new preview site has a feedback area and a bug report area, so please use those areas on the preview site, rather than post your thoughts here.
👉 https://preview.invisionalpha5.com/
There are two themes currently available. The first is the more 'classic' look that you will find instantly familiar. The second theme has the newer views enabled, such as the sidebar and feed mode for forums. You are welcome to switch between the two, and you can also change the layout options via your account settings. All this information is contained in the welcome topic over there.
Have fun, and please let us know what you think!
 

Correct. Passwords will transfer with the user except in events where the user is a member in both communities. In that case, the user's content is merged into the Community B user and that user will need to login with their credentials used in Community B.

For the forums, you may be able to switch these to a redirection forum type and then point it to the URL you want it to go to.
For topics, there is no built-in method to do this, you will want to likely work with your hosting provider to set up a 301 redirect via a .htaccess file or something.

Glad to hear you have everything sorted 🙂 

Your ticket is awaiting response from developers so someone will be in contact soon once they have a chance to investigate the error.

Thank you! I have transferred this to a ticket so we can better investigate what is happening here.

A quick update here:
I managed to do what I needed using Zapier and my email list provider. Still, again, I would love to be able to do it inside Invision because, in my opinion, drip campaigns are great for (re)engagement and is a feature quite easy to code because most of the functions are there.
By the way had an issue with configuring the Nginx rewrite rules so Zapier can access the API, as it forced me to dwd a htaccess file, which we know is useless on Nginx, but that's a story for some other time 🙂

The Converters application allows you to import also data from another Invision Community.
Start a new conversion and select Invision Community from the What software are you converting from? dropdown.

Its worth pointing out, this is not a case of only not being available to self-hosted customers. Its quite a common misconception about things in general. Courses is available only on Creator Pro and above, meaning it's actually not available to some cloud customers either, depending on their package.

I plan to launch a course and start a community around it, so I'd like to ask you, Invision people, if you plan to launch the Courses app for the Self-hosted version or if that's not in the plan.

If not, can any 3rd party app help me deliver courses? I'd love to reduce the use of other platforms and keep everything integrated into one.

The core applications available on self-hosted can be seen here: https://invisioncommunity.com/buy/self-hosted/
Then the Cloud offering is described here: https://invisioncommunity.com/buy
At the time of writing this, Courses is the only full application available to Cloud only. The rest are enhancements, sub-modules, or other features.

Crack on!

Make sure to capture the request in the feedback forum.  Otherwise it gets lost in the sea of support requests and can't be considered later when the devs are wandering around looking for inspiration.  🙂 

A quick update here:
I managed to do what I needed using Zapier and my email list provider. Still, again, I would love to be able to do it inside Invision because, in my opinion, drip campaigns are great for (re)engagement and is a feature quite easy to code because most of the functions are there.
By the way had an issue with configuring the Nginx rewrite rules so Zapier can access the API, as it forced me to dwd a htaccess file, which we know is useless on Nginx, but that's a story for some other time 🙂

Onboarding emails in like a drip campaign style aren't really something available in the core itself. I would suggest using Zapier to connect with MailChimp or another drip campaign / automation designed email platform that can handle this for you with ease.
Outside of that, Announcements and Alerts can be tailored to a member group so could be like a "Welcome message" and then point to a specific topic, page, whatever on your community which has more onboarding resources. I have something similar on my community where I have an alert welcoming them and then direct them to how to post photos and to introduce themselves to the community. The bad news is there really isn't a drip style to send 1 notice on day 1, the next on day 2, the next on day 3, etc... 

Maybe you could use multiple alerts that shows only to specific groups?
 

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.
 

The user who posted receive notification of comments? Including reactions?

The comment extension is ready. It is currently installed and active on my demo site. Before uploading the new version, as you know the review may take time, so it is better to test it. I am testing it. If you have time, please test it on my demo site and PM me your comments and possible problems so I can look into them.
http://ips.valacoding.com/index.php?/events/
Thanks

I just checked the marketplace stats, and with 59 mods purchased to date, I think I can have a word about this decision:
For me, the marketplace was a great way to:
See what new addons have been released and decide if I should install them on the community I manage. Keep up with the updates and install when one is available. These things will no longer be possible without the marketplace, and I will have to check ten different dev sites, install updates manually, etc.  A major drawback for me.
I don't have access to financials, but from your latest actions, I see that you want to focus on the enterprise customers that take a cloud-managed plan because that's where the money is. And also, enterprise customers only install a few add-ons. 
 

I just checked the marketplace stats, and with 59 mods purchased to date, I think I can have a word about this decision:
For me, the marketplace was a great way to:
See what new addons have been released and decide if I should install them on the community I manage. Keep up with the updates and install when one is available. These things will no longer be possible without the marketplace, and I will have to check ten different dev sites, install updates manually, etc.  A major drawback for me.
I don't have access to financials, but from your latest actions, I see that you want to focus on the enterprise customers that take a cloud-managed plan because that's where the money is. And also, enterprise customers only install a few add-ons. 
 

I just checked the marketplace stats, and with 59 mods purchased to date, I think I can have a word about this decision:
For me, the marketplace was a great way to:
See what new addons have been released and decide if I should install them on the community I manage. Keep up with the updates and install when one is available. These things will no longer be possible without the marketplace, and I will have to check ten different dev sites, install updates manually, etc.  A major drawback for me.
I don't have access to financials, but from your latest actions, I see that you want to focus on the enterprise customers that take a cloud-managed plan because that's where the money is. And also, enterprise customers only install a few add-ons. 
 

Why everyone speaking about exploits form 3rd party developers still? When someone did something like this? This is a definite exaggeration and I ask you to stop such claims.

To Marketplace developers and the Invision community as a whole, I will be happy to host an independent and collaborative Marketplace directory.  It's already in the works.
I fully support a thriving ecosystem of developers and clients: to extend, to inspire, and to push the boundaries of our platform. Technology is an important differentiator more than ever in the modern web, and working with developers (either privately or through their public mods) can help fine-tune your platform. 
 
More information and invitations will be sent out to active Marketplace devs.  You are also welcome to send me a direct PM.  
Follow this topic for any future updates.  

No, your ACP is going to show the same notification and badge as you see now if they implement their own version check.