Jordan Miller

Indeed. So far all good! 

Great post, @Matt!!
Happy to see the Health Club get a shout-out 🥲 

I love it when the comments are better than the blog itself. 
 
Outstanding contribution! Thanks Chris. 

Although there are lots of settings and features built into the suite to programmatically encourage "connectivity", it takes a great deal of finesse to keep both the early adopters and those that join later "truly" connected.
If a site admin "wings it", then...

It will likely lead to a "very" bumpy ride for one-and-all.
It takes thought and experimentation to hit upon how to create an overall environment that encourages members to connect with each other at the various stages of a site's development and long-term existence.
Eliciting feedback from early adopters is important but there is no guarantee that the first cohort's personality and interests will mirror that of future members. As such, it's wise not to build-out a site utilizing their input exclusively.   One should continuously elicit input from folks that have been around for varying periods of time. When you get a handle of the needs of your overall membership new and old you will have a better sense of how to guide the community towards ever more connectivity around areas that matter to the group as a whole.
As people's interests change (and you factor in short-lived trends) a site needs to constantly figure out how to address those changing interests and possibly differences in how members engage with each other. This is especially important if a site caters to a demographic that encompasses multiple generations and geographic regions.
Adopting a top-down approach to community engagement is unlikely to work much past a site's launch. A site admin should refrain from thinking this is "my site" and instead of think of it as "our site". What should "we" do to make this site far more engaging for all of us in comparison with our competitors?  Does "our" content "engage" and "inform", and does it feel like a place to hang out and make "real" connections with others.
Instead of admins setting the tone for a site by ensuring members adhere to a complex set of community standards one might consider changing their roles to be facilitators. They could be utilized to facilitate great dialog and introduce various members to each other they think might benefit from getting to know each other and elicit great conversations.
Getting to know other members in meaningful ways may require revealing a little more about oneself than just one's screen name. Profiles with just the right kind of fields filled out can go a long way towards helping ferret out fellow members with similar interests. This is a feature that often isn't utilized to its fullest extent as the value proposition isn't properly communicated to one-and-all from my observations of this site as well as others.
I've had 12,719 profile views here but as very few other people have filled out their profiles, I've followed suite and left mine almost blank.  People appear to want to know more about other fellow members here, but IPS has chosen not to promote the use of profiles.
Being in regular contact with your entire community (not just your early adopters and power users) is important. This will better allow you to find common ground amongst your entire membership. You might have to make a special effort to draw some folks out but it's worth it in the long term.  Many new members are a bit shy at first but in time may become quite active when they reach a certain comfort level. Who knows, some of these folks might be some of your best contributors in the years to come.
Society seems to instill a strong sense of independence in the populace.  Although that has many positives there are negative aspects as well.  One being that we are often reticent of asking for help from others.
Collectively we can accomplish so much more than what we can do individually, so don't be afraid to ask for assistance from your membership to help create a "community". You might be surprised by how many folks will offer to lend a hand if it is being used in a truly useful fashion and a task can be completed in a short span of time.
@Matt made some great points above, I would recommend folks check out more of his blog postings along with Joel R and Jordan Miller.
 
 

🥲 Thank you!! 

Don't do it! 🙈

Love this, @Matt! 

Awesome work, @Matt!! Looking forward to us releasing this update into the wild. SEO improvements ftw 🙌 

Awesome work, @Matt!! Looking forward to us releasing this update into the wild. SEO improvements ftw 🙌 

These are the types of updates that make me feel I made the right decision switching to Invision for my sites. I'm an SEO by trade, so baking this functionality into the software, and continuing to improve it, are essential for me.
Thank you!

Thanks, I have just added few keywords for the new features

We are aiming for a monthly release schedule from now on.

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Hello Dears
It's great to have an almost certain timeline for future releases, as I've already discussed with Jordan.
For example, we now know that version 4.6.7 is scheduled to be released in the first half of October.
Or, for example, we implicitly know that version 4.7.0 is scheduled to be released on Jordan's birthday on 2022.4.7! 🎉
If there is a sidebar widget (or any other better idea) on the forums page that indicates the release date of newer versions, it would be great, and community leaders can plan for that.
For example, pay attention to this design (sidebar widget) :

Thanks for reading, Sajjad. 😉

Nice idea 👍 

Or more easily achieved - Jordan uses the tag system to tag the topics as "Hump day" and you use existing stream functionality.

Nice post, @Matt! (Not a stock reply)

Nice idea 👍 

Nice post, @Matt! (Not a stock reply)

Nice post, @Matt! (Not a stock reply)

Cool!

I am using the category tool (it isn't perfect by a long shot, eg the forum structure of invision is far superior), it's more the exclusivity I'm personally interested in. Kind of got a red club vs blue club situation that I want to foster.

We are always open to suggestions :] Also nice suggestions. I believe there's a plugin in the Market Place that can help you out with the categorizing if you're looking for a solution stat! 

Very near future 🤫 🙃