David N.

Incredible!! This is great, only problem is that I can see myself spending way too much time toying with the custom icon making features instead of getting some work done. 🤣 @Ehren I see a couple of .mov videos in your original post. These are automatically embedded in Safari, but not in Chrome. If you want them embedded in Chrome as well, you can just change the file extension from .mov to mp4 and ... voilà. 😃 For example your icon-creator.mov does not embed in Chrome, but this icon-creator.mp4 does: icon-creator.mp4

This looks like a great feature, I can't wait to have it live. 🙂 About that sentence in the email: Shouldn't it be .... Community experts are calculated based on many metrics including etc... ?

Ok that's great thank you!

@Ehren Will it be possible to include other data (than what's visible on your video) in the mini profile strip? Two things that would greatly benefit my community are: Add the member signature in the mini profile (so that basically the signature would be hidden by default but people who need to see it would know where to look for it). Add a short bio in the mini profile (so you can know what credentials that member has). Thanks! Can't wait. 🙂

This is remarkable. Will there be a way to adjust the length of the snippets? I like the idea, but I wouldn't want them to be too long. Trying to strike a balance between enough content visible to get people interested in the conversation, but not too much so that they still have to open the topic to read more. I was going to watch a Netflix movie but I think I'll watch that video 6 times in a row instead. 😍 @Ehren for the win!!

I agree, this looks great!! Can't wait. 😃

Apparently its no longer a huge priority: “If you don’t have anything better to do on your site, go do Core Web Vitals. Most sites won’t see benefit playing around with it,” (Gary Illyes, Analyst on the Google Search team) Source: https://searchengineland.com/ama-google-gary-illyes-seo-takeaways-432325?

This looks like a great update, I can't wait. 😃

Ok I understand. However in my opinion that's an issue for visitors who are seeing this and wondering where it's coming from and whether or not it's legit.

That's fine, however I was first confused when I saw that and thought I was victim of a hack or a phishing scam (the black line at the bottom looks like a text field). The problem is that the look of that form is completely unfamiliar, and it looks like one of those fake ads that have fake buttons like "Submit" or "Verify" etc to make you click them by mistake. I feel like that the look of that form should match the branding of my site: keep the site header, use the same font I'm using on the rest of the site, same button as in the forum etc... just like the Invision Community Alert pop-ups.

I just saw the following after I clicked on member's avatar to see his profile. Is this part of the new spam prevention system?

When I see the buttons at the end of a course, I feel like I'm missing some options that would make the visitor move forward. Most people don't want to return to the course they just took or retake the same quizz again either? Most people want to either go to the next course, next module, or back to that course's list of modules, or to the library of courses.

Is there only one quizz per module, at the end of the module? (Jump to the answer in the video)

Looking great! I can't wait to get started building my first course. 🙂

I too can't wait to have a look at that! 😄

Will there be a quick guide on how to use Zoom and YouTube for Live Topics? I'm not sure if we need to subscribe to a paid plan or if that's a free service, or how to set it up?(Jump to the answer in the video)

Does anyone know if there's a way to test this on a Mac, so that I can take screenshots for my users? My iPhone 7 is too old, and Safari's Developer menu only goes to iOS 14 on my Mac.

These are all awesome news. I'm really looking forward to the Courses & Lessons app, as I will be using it right away. Can't wait! 🙂

Yes. It states 100% uptime for EU and before this incident, it was 99.99% uptime for US: https://status.invisioncommunity.com/ If it's for a serious amount of time, then yes. However as I said earlier I've never experienced anywhere near 7 hours of downtime in 20 years of using various hosting companies. That's great to hear @Matt.

I agree 100%. Same with video. Nowadays a lot of people don't bother taking a screen capture on their computer, they just take a photograph (or video) of their screen with their phone and upload that. They're huge files and I constantly have to convert them manually.

6 hours of downtime is simply unacceptable. I'm a huge fan of Invision, love the amazing software they develop and maintain for us. But when I pay 150/month for a hosted service, I expect more. In 20 years of being self hosted on inexpensive shared hosting services, I've never had more than a few minutes of downtime at a time. The fact that Invision relies on AWS and that the issue may lie with AWS is irrelevant to us, the customers. As a professional, if I can't deliver a service to my customer because Invision is down, I can't charge my customers. If my forum is down, I can't earn revenue from ads. I can't just tell the customers (or the ad network) "it's not my fault, the software cloud service I'm using was down" and continue to charge them the same amount. I have no choice but to take responsibility and suffer the loss in revenue and reputation. Invision should take responsibility here, offer $ compensation to paying customers, and deal with whatever service providers they use on their own term. As Invision customers, that's not our problem.

Very excited about this new development. I saw the preview during the last release chat and it looks very promising. I am not familiar with these technologies. I wonder what this entails and what are the associated costs (if any). Maybe someone could make an article to explain how to make this work? Does this require having a Zoom license, and if yes what kind of license? Does this require having a YouTube paid account of some kind? Does that mean the video is necessarily available on YouTube after the event or can it be made private? Is it necessary to use YouTube at all or can we just embed a Zoom meeting directly in the Live Topic?

That's a great idea! I love it. People love certification, it gives them some validation, and I can imagine more people would be willing to enroll in a training if it led to some kind of certification.

Awesome. Installed. Enabled. 5-Star review left. Thanks so much! 🙂

I love the new search bar however I find myself constantly searching for something and getting zero results only to find out that I was searching the current topic when I wanted to search the entire site. What happens constantly: I'm reading a question about XYZ. I want to search the forum for XYZ to see if there are existing topics on that subject to help that member, and I get results only from the current topic. I know I should click and choose "Everywhere" each time, but I always forget, and it takes a bit of time to change it. I wish there was a way to make it default to "Everywhere".