
Everything posted by Matt
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Please stop removing features
We use CDNs as a caching layer. Without them, our bill would be roughly a zillion times more expensive. It's common practice. Congratulations, you are in the 1% of our customer base. Literally every single scalable service in the world (Netflix, Disney+, Amazon, etc) uses micro services from an upstream provider like AWS.
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Invision Community 5.0.0 Released
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I do not think this is true. I would consider management software to be thinks like Monday.com and Clickup. Those manage timelines and projects very well but are not places for discussions. We are building the very best community software possible. And as Lindy said, that means leveraging technologies that are not readily available on your standard Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP servers. We have gone over this a lot in the past, but we leverage CDNS, SQS, node, react and more. More to the point that the days of "sell it cheap, stack it high" self-hosting licenses are well and truly over. I think what you really mean is that we are becoming an enterprise community platform, and that has some truth in that if we can't sell lots cheaply, then we have to sell few more expensively to keep the same income to pay our team and bills. Also enterprise communities are one of few areas of growth in this industry. But that does not mean that we focus all our efforts in that direction. We have many communities of all sizes using Invision Community. We are not trying to make it unaffordable. You mention $600/month but that comes with a lot of business-level functionality, for $89/month you get a lot of functionality on our Creator package. Again though, we have committed to the self-hosting option to make Invision Community as affordable as possible for as many people as possible. Our efforts to move into the enterprise market makes this possible. While you may have to look at our Business package to get Assigned Topics, everyone gets the new UI, new Theme Editor, new Page Editor, dark mode and so much more. I would say less than 10% of all that we have built in 5 is not available to those on the Invision Community Classic license. Without Invision Community Cloud, there would be no self hosting license. The self hosting model is no longer sustainable for anyone in this industry.- Please stop removing features
In fairness, you've had since 2022 to tell that admin. We've not made it more difficult for members to log in at all, we've made it more secure.- Invision Community 5.0.0 Released
And thank you for your patience and testing! I'd loved seeing your site come together on the alpha builds. Let me know if you need any help with the upgrade, and I haven't forgotten about the status update conversion.- Invision Community 5.0.0 Released
It's been a pleasure having you along for the ride, Mike! Planning the upgrade is definitely the smart thing to do. Let us know if you need any help.- The permissions for Downloads custom fields are missing
They're in PR for v5, likely out next week with 5.0.1.- Invision Community 5.0.0 Released
- Invision Community 5.0.0 Released
A lot of effort from the entire team for sure. They've all worked so hard on this and have poured everything into it. We're all excited to see it released. We've been though some stuff together, that's for sure. Looking forward to seeing your upgraded site!- Please stop removing features
I really do not agree with this. Invision Community is a forum platform at heart, so we must focus on those tools. Status updates are barely used on most sites. I do accept that is not the case for you, but it does not mean we are 'in the past'. Our platform is great at categorising a large number of growing conversations, its primary focus is not on short form content. You might be able to create a custom app, or even a Pages Database to do this.- Happy FiveDay! 5.0.0 Soft Release now available
It's been so long doing v5 I have no clue what is going on anymore.- Invision Community 5.0.0 Released
- Invision Community 5.0.0 Released
Help has arrived and it's Stuart shaped.- Invision Community 5.0.0 Released
You will need to download the v5 files and apply them manually before running the admin/upgrade upgrader. If we used the delta upgrade system, it would pull all the v5 files and then throw an error as the code is very different.- Invision Community 5.0.0 Released
Thank you Gary, your support is very much appreciated.- Invision Community 5.0.0 Released
We're pleased to say that Invision Community 5.0.0 is now available to all customers.It's been a long journey, but we are now ready to support v5 as our primary release and offer our thanks to all of those who been involved in our beta testing program. What does this mean?We are currently in the soft release phase to help us manage the influx of feedback from those choosing to upgrade. We also have some new documentation to finish, and some website changes to make. If you're unsure what new features v5 brings, you can check out our "What's new in v5" page. Can I still use v4?Absolutely! And we would encourage you to plan your upgrade carefully. Version 5 is not a normal upgrade, it's a brand new platform with many significant changes including how themes are created, how widgets and blocks are managed and it comes with a brand new editor. We still be supporting v4 for quite some time with important bug fixes and security updates. What does the upgrade from v4 look like?It's important to know that any custom themes, applications and plug-ins will not work on version 5. These items are not deleted, but they are disabled. You will need to recreate any custom themes, and contact the authors of any third-party applications to see if they have updated versions ready to use. Upgrading for Invision Community Cloud CustomersYou will see a new section in your client area. Clicking "Request Upgrade" will show you some very important information which you should ready carefully and review before continuing with the upgrade. Please note that you need to be on the latest version of Invision Community 4 before you can upgrade to v5. Upgrading for Invision Community Classic CustomersThose who host their Invision Community remotely will see a new button when managing your purchase. What's next?Invision Community 5 is the very beginning of our brand new platform and we can't wait to start evolving the new features set to better serve your community needs. Please post your feedback in the feedback forum. Let us know what you think!- Happy FiveDay! 5.0.0 Soft Release now available
The long awaited day is now here: 5.0.0 is now available! We feel that we're ready to fully support v5 and the time has come to make that first release of 5.0.0. While there are outstanding bugs, we felt it was the right time to move it beyond a perpetual beta and into the limelight as our primary version. We're considering this very much a soft launch in that we've still got new documentation to finish, and some large website changes but we didn't want to hold up the release for those. Thank you all so very much for your months of testing, feedback, help, support and time. You have been invaluable in moving this project forward. We started alpha testing way back in June 204 and this is probably our most tested release, and we have you to thank for this. While today marks the release of 5.0.0, it's really the starting line for us and we can't wait to build on it and see it evolve over the next year. We're not slowing down the pace, and I would expect 5.0.1 to follow pretty soon. We made it! We'll keep this club open for a while, but you can now post your feedback in the main forums. If you have any old Alpha 5 demos, these will expire soon but if you needed a short extension to get data off it please let us know.- 5.0.0 Beta 14.2
Changed Beta Release to No- 5.0.0 Beta 14.2
Changed Current Release to No- 5.0.0
This is the latest version of Invision Community 5.- The 14th Beta is already here
A little update is on its way into the cloud to fix a few issues: Fixes issues with last post timestamps Fixes an issue when attempting to access security settings Fixes an issue with the Search API Fixes an issue with cloud email Fixes issue where logos were disappearing in the theme editor- 5.0.0 Beta 14.2
Changed Long ID to 5000048 Changed Release Date to 02/03/2025- Status updates have been removed in v5
Yes, at some stage we'll put that into an upgrade step as an option.- Beta 14.1 logo problem
I'll do a patch today for this.- Please stop removing features
Removing features is never easy and it's something we don't take lightly. I understand the argument that we could just leave everything the way it is, but that won't help us progress. And progress we must. We have finite development resources, this means that we have to focus on toolsets which are needed for the current age. We announced the username log-in deprecation in 2022. It's not something new with v5. All we have done is followed up on the deprecation. Status updates were put into Invision Community during the boom time for social media where we felt we needed to add social tools to remain competitive. However, on most communities these are unloved areas of the community full of throw away comments and unanswered questions. I know that a small number of communities thrive on status updates which is why we've kept the data and our considering migration options. In the mean time, the third-party developers have stepped up with different solutions. Finally, a reminder that v4 will remain a viable platform for quite a while yet so there is no urgent rush to upgrade to v5 if you need more time to plan your upgrade and find solutions to deprecated features. - Please stop removing features