Everything posted by Matt
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Improving the Mobile App Experience
When notifications are not delivered, and you've checked your notification settings on the site to make sure push is ticked, then it will always be the OS stopping it. That could be because you've previously blocked permissions, or it might be that you have focus mode on, or some other reason. As PanSevence suggests, try resetting permissions for the site and trying again.
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Self-Hosted or Step Child? 5.0.10
Agreed, and we made a change yesterday to make it clear on the release notes.
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Self-Hosted or Step Child? 5.0.10
First off, thank you for being a fan and a customer of Invision Community over all these years. Trust and loyalty aren't something that we take lightly, and I appreciate you taking the time to leave your thoughts. I understand your frustration. I go running a lot and am tied into the Garmin ecosystem and currenly have the Forerunner 955 watch which does everything I want it to do and more. However, I still have a pang of envy watching the newer watches get a suite of OS features which offer more insight into breathing patterns, running tolerance, running economy and so on. Those features are locked into watches costing upwards of £800, while I paid around £400 for mine, which is still a significant investment. Why do Garmin do this? To upsell to higher value items. By retaining high-end features in their premium watches, Garmin encourages some customers to upgrade to a higher-value model. Would those additional watch features make me a better runner? Absolutely not. But I still want them all the same. Am I willing to pay double for the watch? No. I have to make purchasing decisions based on my budget and realistic needs. We are not trying to be deceitful with our product tiers or pricing. We clearly state on each blog entry which product tiers these features will be available on. You'll notice it's not just "self-hosting" that won't get specific features; not all tiers will. We consider Invision Community Classic as a product tier, not a separate product. The community platform market has undergone significant changes since a decade ago, and even more so in the last five years. There is no sustainable business with licensed downloadable software anymore. As of today, Invision Community Classic accounts for 12% of our income. That's down from 25% just a few years ago. Bluntly, we'd have closed up shop or declined to the point where we have just a few team members and are unable to release updates, and we've fallen so far behind with technology that almost everyone would desert us for a more modern platform. I can't control what the market does; we can only respond to it. And we are not afraid to make changes to ensure we continue to grow. No community platform on the market has taken such a significant leap forward as we did with Invision Community v5. I'm not just talking about legacy forum products, but even major players in our industry. What does this mean for Invision Community and Invision Community Classic? We remain committed to it. We adjusted the model to focus on support and costs, making it more sustainable. However, our other product tiers are what are driving growth within the company, which allows Invision Community Classic to exist and get all the major updates v5 brings. You will see us revamp our site soon, and our marketing focus will shift to business and enterprise, as these are the strongest segments of our market. Having specific features which are primarily targeted at business and enterprise customers ensures that we offer a wide range of functionality for different budgets and needs. I know that in the past we've had a single product tier, and it is an adjustment to move into a world where not every feature comes to every tier. Still, it helps grow our business and ensures we can afford to keep Invision Community Classic. I can't tell you how you should psychologically react to this change. You've positioned it as a "stepchild," and I presume that this means you assume we love it less. Putting aside potential trauma for that stepchild in knowing this, we do not feel that way about Invision Community Classic. To us, it is one of our product tiers. Lastly, you put across the notion about servers and control and spinning up more and so on. That ship has sailed. No one wants to do this anymore. I don't want to do this anymore. Those who do and enjoy it are the exception to the rule. Other than having complete control (although your actual host, and their data centre, might argue about who has control), who really wants to be woken at 4am with a service down, or having to keep on top of server upgrades or fret about memory and how much disk space you have left on top of managing and growing your community? There's probably a handful of people left, but not enough to sustain us. We continue to adapt and grow, and we want as many to come with us as possible, but I won't apologise for restructuring our business to ensure it has a bright future.
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Invision Community 5.0.10 Released
Yes, you can post issues in the support forums. We no longer need the tracker as it's easier to move directly from the forums to a support ticket or into GitHub for our devs to review.
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Invision Community 5.0.10 Released
Can we keep this topic focused on the release please. If you find bugs, or hit issues, please post them in the support area. If you want to discuss packages and product tiers, please post them in the feedback area. Thanks!
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Invision Community 5: The all-new editor
HTML editing has been discussed multiple times. Here Here Here Here tl;dr modern editors can't do (tiptap, CKEditor 5, etc) due to treating HTML not as a string but as a node tree. We sanitise heavily and whitelist what can be retained to prevent bad actors breaking topics, etc so while you can save HTML with whatever you want in it in theory, you could never load it in an editor again without it stripping everything it isn't allowed to recognise.
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Invision Community 5: The all-new editor
Not even in the top 10.
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Invision Community 5.0.10 Released
5.0.10 "Final" is now out!This release fixes the following issues since the last beta: The new PWA installation instructions were not showing when using a tablet Header and footer advertisement placements were not working
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Improving the Mobile App Experience
I'll see what we can do.
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Invision Community 5: The all-new editor
Just keep in mind those colours have to be safe for both light and dark mode. Which is why we went with the colours we have. We also take on the feedback about the spoiler and code box, we may change these but keep in mind that we now have one editor for all devices so we don't want it to look like this on a mobile device.
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Invision Community 5.0.10 Released
Beta 4 is on its way!There is only one tiny change and that is to fix the issue with PWA splash screens. After upgrading, head into your AdminCP and re-upload a new splash screen image (ACP > Settings > Web App). Then delete any installed PWA on your phone, then re-add it.
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Invision Community 5.0.10 Released
Beta 3 is on it's wayThis brings a few fixes and improvements to the PWA/web app.
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Invision Community 5.0.10 Released
There are so many factors that could prevent them from being delivered. I was testing this a few weeks ago and spent hours debugging only to realise my phone had focus mode on, so no notifications were delivered. 99.99% of the time, it's the OS stopping them. I have an iPhone and I've been using the PWA for a few weeks now, and always get notifications and notification count badges.
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Invision Community 5.0.10 Released
Cloud isn't just a VPS though. It's a lot of services and micro services tied together with custom glue. Anyway: 5.0.10 Beta 2 is on its way to Cloud®This is just a little update that fixes the following: Unable to use the Page Editor on some Pages build pages Unable to edit club forums
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Invision Community 5.0.10 Released
Any downtime is frustrating and lives long in the memory but in context it's a tiny amount. Our uptime so far this year is 99.9947%. We have a lot of internal alerts that trigger when any anomalies are detected. We also have multiple clusters so it's unlikely that everything is down at one time. This site is used as a beta testing area also, which can have consequences now and again that won't affect any other cloud site.
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Invision Community 5.0.10 Released
The CSS issue is still open, the JS template issue should solved now in 5.0.10 Beta 1.
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Invision Community 5.0.10 Released
We have a lot going on, including a website refresh and documentation which is all in progress. Which issues are they?
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Invision Community 5.0.10 Released
We should really set up a proper referral program. We tend to upgrade and test betas on this site to find any issues before we release it. A few days ago things went a bit wrong and took a while to resolve. It's not a cloud issue, it's a me issue. 😇
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Invision Community 5.0.10 Released
I like the design of this Quest.
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Invision Community 5.0.10 Released
We had another issue unique to this site which popped up mid-upgrade, but it wasn't directly linked to the release.
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Invision Community 5.0.10 Released
Cancel your vacation plans and stock up on water and essentials, because 5.0.10 Beta 1 is here! We have a bumper beta for you to test out. This is probably one of the biggest updates since v5.0 was released, so perhaps approach this one with a touch more caution. We didn't, we upgraded our site straight away but we also have ✨backups✨ and strongly suggest you do too. Along with a large increase in REST/webhooks, we also have a whole bucket load of fixes and some new features which include: New: Quests Advert management improvements PWA improvements Pages rollback feature The full list is over on our release notes page. Have fun, and let me know how it goes!
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5.0.10
This is the latest version of Invision Community 5.0.10. Key changes include: New: Quests ( Team, Business & Enterprise plans ) Advert management improvements PWA improvements Pages rollback feature
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Introducing Quests: Tailored gamification and bridging in-person events with your community
Most likely :) It's used here which I like to do for a day if I have the time to shake anything out.
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Introducing Quests: Tailored gamification and bridging in-person events with your community
Quests will be in our July release (5.0.10). Sometimes we're not 100% sure when we write the blogs, so on the rare occasion we won't mention it. But now it's in, I can confidently state it'll be in our next release with a beta due very soon.