I'm currently building a new website which lead me to trying out a bunch of different CMS systems including
wordpress
joomla
drupal
typo3
woltlab suite (articles)
xenforo + xenaddons article management system
winter cms
I came to the conclusion that invision community despite originally being a forum software ironically has the best content management system. (Pages Application)
Paired with the "Axen Article System in Pages Plugin" + some custom Tweaks it allows me to run multiple independent article/blog sections, each with different custom fields and blocks on my website.
Something i simply cannot do with some of the other contenders.
With others like wordpress it's possible but you end up with a complex mess + plugin dependency hell.
Also if i want to add a forum/community features it's very simple with invision community. Not even possible with wordpress or joomla to the same extent.
But now it came to my attention that Invision Community 5 will remove many hooks. I've been told to a point where you can barely extend existing apps (like the pages/cms application) anymore.
Is this true? I think the pages/cms application is great, but if you cannot tweak/extend it to your needs with plugins i think it's also pretty useless unfortunately.
Sure in some cases customizing the templates will be enough but in others you will need features not included by default.
I'm really worried because NOTHING currently available beats/matches invision community but if you guys remove extensibility through plugins this will maybe force me to migrate CMS applications to wordpress.
By the way i've already been an ikonboard user.
So i'm using your products (on and off) for a long time now.