Bionic Rooster

🤔-Thinking about the bug
👀-Looking for the solution to the bug
📰-Writing the fix for the bug
➡️-Exiting when he realised the bug fix didnt work
👤-Hiding in the shadow to see if anyone notices
 

🍂 🦃 Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! 🍎🍂
Thank you for checking out our weekly, round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week. 
 
Current Happenings
Invision Community Version 5 news is all the rage! 🎉
Follow the Invision Community Insider Forum and our Invision Community Blog to be among the first to see those updates each week. 
Aren't those videos awesome?!  🤩 
 

New Version
The official November release was made available last week. Upgrade your community now.
Here is what is included in November release, version 4.7.14. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/
 
Looking Ahead
As we near the holiday season, we will post announcements for our holiday hours. Expect delays for general support. Our team is, however, available for urgent requests and system monitoring. 
 

Changelog
For those that like to see what we are up to line by line, here is the changelog for the last two weeks for version 4. 
 
 

This looks soooo good! 
I can't wait to get my hands on this! 

Every IPS client at launch of v5 immediately changing all of their color schemes just to play with the theme editor.  
Nice job with the theme editor controls.  There are so many options to customize the theme.  
I'm personally most excited about mobile views and header controls to control the placement of logos, menus, and breadcrumbs.  Menus and above the fold placement is especially important for a mobile world, and we need to be judicious with how space is allocated.  

Welcome to the third video of our sneak peak series! Today, we're really excited to introduce you to the new Theme Editor!
Built entirely from scratch, the new editor provides an instant, live preview of your theme, as soon as you modify a setting. It's a zero-code approach to creating themes, and has been designed to ensure your theme adheres to your color scheme and looks great on every device, with very little effort. Let's take a closer look!
 
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To the left of the editor, you’ll see a live preview of your community. You can navigate to any page, as if you were browsing your site normally. At the top left of the editor, you’ll find icons which change the theme between the light and dark color schemes. Below that are buttons which change the viewport size, from desktop, to tablet, to mobile. This is a really convenient way to ensure your theme looks great on every device, without needing to manually resize your browser window.
Lets take a closer look at the Color Palette.
Editing colors in version 4 was a fairly time consuming process. For example, modifying the color scheme from the default blue to another color meant that 26 theme settings needed to be changed. In contrast, the Version 5 theme is powered by just 3 colors: Primary colors are responsible for styling the main elements on your page, such as the Start new topic button. Secondary colors control minor elements, such as pagination links, while the Base color is responsible for controlling the overall tint on your site.
Clicking on these colors opens a color picker. Let’s change this blue color to yellow.
 
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You’ll notice two things have happened here. First, the preview window updated as soon as we modified the color. All elements which were previously blue, now use yellow, such as the Start new topic button. Secondly, the text color in our button has changed from white to black. This is our automatic contrast feature and it ensures our text is easy to read on our new yellow background, since white text may be more difficult to read for some viewers.
Below the color picker is a text box, with our color displayed in HSL. You can paste your own colors in this box, in any color format and that color will be applied to your elements.
 
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The Base color controls the tint of your backgrounds and text colors. Let's try a few examples to demonstrate how easy it is to recolor your theme.
 
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Next up are Logos! Invision Community 5 has three logo types: a text logo, an image logo for desktops and an image logo for mobiles. Let’s edit our text logo.
 
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After changing the text to “Theme Editor Demo”, we can see that the logo in our preview window updates instantly with our new text. Below that, we have multiple options to help us style the text logo, such as font-family These fonts are a combination of system fonts and web fonts. The web fonts are hosted locally on your site for optimal performance. Additionally, we can also change the font-weight and font-size. We might want a different font-size for mobile logos, so that can be edited too. We can see a live preview by changing our viewport to the mobile option.
If you’d prefer to use an image logo, you can assign it using the Image Logo options. Image logos are made up of 2 upload fields, one for the light theme and one for the dark theme. Below these upload fields, a slider lets you resize your logo so it fits neatly.
 
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Layout options let you assign the default layouts in your community. In our first sneak peak video, we showcased the new side panel layout, feed view for forum categories, and compact view for topics. These can all be enabled via the theme editor using a simple select menu.
 
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Lets explore some Color options! In the Header panel, we can see a list of elements we can customize. Clicking on an element opens the Swatch List, which is a list of 22 colors that are powered by the Base, Primary and Secondary colors from earlier. We have 6 "light" base colors, 6 "dark" base colors as well as various shades of our primary and secondary colors. Clicking on any of these swatches will apply that color to your element.
But what if none of these colors suit your requirement? That’s where the Color Picker comes in handy. Here, we can easily choose any color, or even paste in our own color like before.
 
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A major hurdle with themes in version 4 was customising the header. Depending on the complexity, this would typically involve modifications to both the CSS and HTML. That is a thing of the past with version 5! If we flick over to our Settings tab, you’ll see a brand new interface for customising the header. A new drag and drop feature allows you to easily reposition header elements without touching a single line of code.
 
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It’s an incredibly fun tool to play with, and we’re really excited to hear what you think!
Below the drag and drop area, we can customise the header further by using sliders to adjust its height, or we can enable navigation icons with a single click. Body settings let you can customise global elements such as the body background color, text colors, the max-width of your site, the font-family, font-size and more.
Editing Content boxes has always required code modifications in the past. Using this new editor, we can adjust not only the colors of the boxes, but also the borders and shadows. Theme editing has honestly never been this easy!
 
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And there you have it! Our brand new theme editor. With a few simple clicks and drags, we've been able to create a customised theme that looks great on desktops and mobiles, with a new color scheme, new logos, a customised header, new page layouts and restyled content boxes - all without touching a single line of code.
Speaking of code, for those of you who want to apply more advanced customisations, we’ve added a really convenient way to access your custom CSS file, via a new dialog box.
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And last but not least - the new theme editor is fully responsive, so even if you’re away from the desk, so you’ll be able to change colours and settings, upload new logos, redesign your header and even add your own code!
 
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Developing this new editor has been a lot of fun, and it’s even more fun to use. Themes have never been easier to edit and we're really excited for you all to get your hands on it so you can have a play for yourself - but for now, let us know what you think the comments, and we’ll see you next time!

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🍂🍁 Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! 🍁🍂
Thank you for checking out our weekly, round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week. 
This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 
 
Current Happenings
Version Five News is Flowing! 🎉
Ehren has more to unpack about this new version. Dark mode, accessibility, performance, oh my! 🤩 
Check it out for yourself 👇

 
Marketplace Closure
Reminder that our Marketplace Closure is set for October 30th. Information can be found in the following two blogs. 
 
Changelog
For those that like to see what we are up to line by line, here is the changelog for the last two weeks for version 4. 
 

It is a common misconception that we are doing "cloud-exclusive features." Invision Community sells its services in various package levels like you will find in literally any other software or service you buy out there. We offer the following packages:
Classic (self-hosted) Beginner Creator Creator Pro Team Business Enterprise All of those packages offer different levels of features, support, service, and consulting. For example, our Courses feature is available on:
Creator Pro Team Business Enterprise As you can see, Courses is not a "cloud-exclusive feature" but it is exclusive to specific package levels. Another example might be AI based image moderation which is only available on Business and Enterprise packages.
So we are not drawing a line specifically between Classic (self-hosted) and other packages (cloud). There are many differentiators between all the package tiers which is a totally normal way that software and services are sold.
From media streaming to your mobile phone plan right down to your internet service, offering different package for people to choose from offers flexibility of choice in terms of both price and options.

Getting some great quotes for the marketing material, thanks!

And at the same time, it gives you the possibilities to explore new applications, new content delivery material when you were not using those applications previously. So if anything, it gives you more freedom to expand your community. 🙂

That’s not how it works. 
The catch ups only apply on the monthly option as it’s basically a finance for the yearly. With yearly there is no catch up. You can let a yearly renewal expire for say 6 months and then reactivate it later for the normal yearly.
The monthly option was put in place to make it more approachable but we’re considering removing it because of all this catch up hand wringing that people come with it. 

Yes, it would keep working. Just keep in mind that you would be way out of date so it might be risky.

Surprise leaks from the video:
Change in location to Mark site read Easier access to Subscriptions Iconography for +Create and Report Not yet identified features related to Helpful Check out my in-depth commentary (with screenshots!) on Invisioneer.org, where I break down what clients can expect not just in the upcoming release but potentially as a larger theme on v5 (hint: start making suggestions about Subscriptions!):
https://www.invisioneer.org/forums/topic/217-deep-dive-a-very-brief-look-at-invision-community-5/

Finally, I launched MarketPlace at valacoding.com.
Buyers:
On this site, as a buyer, you can order products and install/update them directly in your ACP as before you did in IPS Marketplace!! 🙂 . In addition, if a new version of the apps is released, they will be displayed in the ACP just like the IPS apps and you will be informed about new released versions.
All clients who have purchased my products must register on the site and send me info about the products (product name, order code provided by IPS) and the username registered on the valacoding.com site so i can update them.

for example :
Username
-Laxeri theme
****-****-****-****
-Menu plus
****-****-****-****
.
.
.
Note:  users who have already purchased products through IPS do not need to register a new order for those products. they just need send us the information that i mentioned above
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Sellers:
As a seller, you can submit your products and enter the product link to your site.
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if you have any question, just PM me 
Please send any comments to my email address or PM. I welcome and will definitely check it out.

Best Regards
M. Vala (ReyDev)
valacoding.com

🍂🍎 Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! 🍏🍂
Thank you for checking out our weekly, round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week. 
 
This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 
 
Current Happenings
Newest Version 5 Teaser is here! 🎉
Matt has given me the privilege of posting our new teaser here first! 👏
Check it out and let us know what you think.  🤩 
 
New Version
The official September release was made available last week. Upgrade your community now.
Here is what is included in September release, version 4.7.13. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/
Key improvements include:
New Spam Prevention Features Introducing Community Hive  
Release Chat
Our September release chat is scheduled for Wednesday. Join us live or catch the video and discussion in the converted topic after the event. 
 
Marketplace Closure
As a reminder, our Marketplace Closure announcement was made last month. Notices are added to the AdminCP with the September release. 
Last week, we have shared our new 'license key' system to allow you to transfer your purchases to the third-party developer website in a privacy-conscious way. You can get more details and ask any questions in that post: 
 
Changelog
No version 4 Changelog to share this week.

☀️🍎 Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! 🍏☀️
Thank you for checking out our weekly, round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week. 
 
This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 
 
Current Happenings
Version 5 Teaser Announcement!! 🎉
We shared our first official look at version 5 this week!  Check it out and join in on the excitement for what's to come.  
 
New Version
The official September release is available. Upgrade your community now.
Here is what is included in September release, version 4.7.13. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/
Key improvements include:
New Spam Prevention Features Introducing Community Hive  
Introducing Community Hive
We are proud to introduce our new free-to-use service in beta! We have received super helpful feedback from many of you and we are making changes daily! Thank you to those of you that are on this ride with us! 
 

Release Chat
Our September release chat is scheduled for Tuesday. Join us live or catch the video and discussion in the converted topic after the event. 
 
Marketplace Closure
Our Marketplace Closure announcement was made last month. Notices are added to the AdminCP with the September release. 
New this week, we have shared our new 'license key' system to allow you to transfer your purchases to the third-party developer website in a privacy-conscious way. You can get more details and ask any questions in that post: 
 
Changelog
Finally, for those that like to see what we are up to line by line, here is the changelog for the week for version 4. Changes are limited for now as we focus attention on version 5.
 

It's ok, we'll create their plugins for them.

☀️ Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! ☀️
Thank you for checking out our weekly, round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week. Below are a few announcements to bring to your attention. 
 
Current Happenings
For our Cloud customers, I did want to draw your attention to our post: Changes to traffic control. Please ask any questions that you have there. 
 
Our Marketplace Closure announcement was posted this week. We will follow up with more information.
 
On Deck
We have postponed our next release a bit which now makes it our September Release. Spam Improvements and bug fixes are to be expected. You can check out our Spam Improvements Blog for more information. 
Changelog
With that said, changes for version 4 are limited for now but for those that like to see what we are up to line by line, here is the changelog for the week for version 4. 
 
 

This topic only applies to those on our cloud services.
 
As we prepare to launch improved spam management, we are also making changes to traffic control.
We have many tools in place to stop malicious traffic on our network. These tools stop day to day bad actors and can also handle situations where we get a huge flood of traffic in a denial of service attack.
It is always a balancing act to stop bad traffic while allowing good traffic. There have been some situations where real users were getting blocked because they were getting caught up in a suspicious IP range, for example.
When you were caught in a block, all you got was a permission denied page and that was it. This is what we want for bad bots or attacks, but for real people that is no help. So today we are launching a new system where you will be presented with a captcha (or similar) challenge to bypass a bot-focused block.
This will allow you, and your visitors, to continue browsing your community if you are caught in a block you should not be in. It also lets our firewall and other systems learn and do a better job of blocking bad traffic while allowing people in.
Please let us know if you experience any issues, inability to access a community, or you are prompted more than once for the challenge to access.
In normal operations, you should really never get the challenge prompt so please also let us know if you see it more frequently.

It's mostly focused around post-registration content detection.

☀️ Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! ☀️
Thank you for checking out this quick, round up post. It's hard to believe that we are entering into a new month! I hope your week as been pleasant. 
 
Current Happenings
The August release will be ready late this month just as it was in July. A few of you have asked about Spam improvements. Those will be in an upcoming release ... August if we are lucky. 🤞
 
Our update is brief again this week. Version 5 has been a big focus for our team so far this year and we are making great progress! We will begin sharing non-technical updates soon and once we do, I'll share those here.
 
Changelog
With that said, changes for version 4 are limited for now but for those that like to see what we are up to line by line, here is the changelog for the week for version 4. 
 
 

Low news now is good news for later 🙂 

☀️ Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! ☀️
Thank you for checking out this quick, round up post. I hope you have had a lovely week.
 
Super brief update today - Version 5 has been a big focus for our team so far this year and we are making great progress! We will begin sharing non-technical updates soon and once we do, I'll share those here.
 
Changelog
With that said, changes for version 4 are limited for now but for those that like to see what we are up to line by line, here is the changelog for the week for version 4. 
 

Join us as we discuss the June 2023 release of Invision Community.
If you cannot attend, catch the video and discussion in the converted live topic in our Invision Community Insider forum.
 
We will share what is being included before the event. 
Post your question in the comments and we will answer them live!