Matt

That's the great thing about promotes, it happens inline. You read something cool, hit Promote, tap in a few custom words (you do not need to do this, it pre-fills in relevant content) and hit promote. If you set up a schedule, it'll stack them up and send them throughout the day.

As Charles said, once we gauge interest, we can look at other social networks. I wrote the system to allow you to drop in a new class and it can then be used.
Great feature suggestion. Right now it's locked to one Facebook page and one Twitter account, but I like this idea for the future.

Thank you! Our goal here was to encourage you to promote your community on different channels and make it easy to do so. We also know that Facebook's organic reach algorithms favours media posts, so we felt that it was important to make it easy to share not only the link, but also any relevant images you may have. It all helps to be visible.
We'll have a detailed guide ready for the release of 4.2 on how to set up a Facebook app with the correct permissions. But if you do not want to use Facebook, that's fine as you can stick with Twitter and Our Picks to curate interesting content for your audience.

Nice one. Thanks! It summarizes well what to do and what not to do. 

Thanks @Matt
I'm creating a new forum, so i will pay attention

This is actually pretty good high-level advice. I think I could do a better job explaining why customers should join our forum instead of just saying "here is a link to the forum". A steady drip of technical articles is also a good idea.

Don't worry, Invision Community is in very capable hands. While I co-founded the company 20 years ago, we've come a long way since then. Along the way, we've hired some extremely smart developers who do the bulk of coding now. I still work on features and help direct the product, but I spend less time in a code editor these days, and that's a great thing. 

I enjoy writing, and if one person gets a little value or inspiration from a blog article, then it's been worthwhile. 
Really soon. A soft release helps us narrow down critical issues before we roll it out to all customers.

Don't worry, Invision Community is in very capable hands. While I co-founded the company 20 years ago, we've come a long way since then. Along the way, we've hired some extremely smart developers who do the bulk of coding now. I still work on features and help direct the product, but I spend less time in a code editor these days, and that's a great thing. 

I enjoy writing, and if one person gets a little value or inspiration from a blog article, then it's been worthwhile. 
Really soon. A soft release helps us narrow down critical issues before we roll it out to all customers.

Yes, I agree with the author that community is really can be a genuine shortcut to build anything, career, group and progressive.
Thanks!
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Don't worry, Invision Community is in very capable hands. While I co-founded the company 20 years ago, we've come a long way since then. Along the way, we've hired some extremely smart developers who do the bulk of coding now. I still work on features and help direct the product, but I spend less time in a code editor these days, and that's a great thing. 

I enjoy writing, and if one person gets a little value or inspiration from a blog article, then it's been worthwhile. 
Really soon. A soft release helps us narrow down critical issues before we roll it out to all customers.

When will it be fully released version 4.5? We are looking forward.

I wouldn't say it's nonsense. This blog entry seems more like philosophical ramblings than product marketing to me. One could write a blog entry such as this one without ever being involved in software development.

This article is great for IPS' SEO. It's also super insightful. 
It's possible to write great content and also focus on dev simultaneously. As they say, come for the content, stay for the community.
Keep up the great articles, @Matt

That's nonsense. This is a business, it doesn't make sense if you don't market the product.

Stop this pls.
You spend time on blogs and not on the dev.

Yes, this happens a lot and is a huge help.

Later this year doesn't mean the end of the year. 🙂

We want to beta test it thoroughly before unleashing it for everyone. It should only take a few months.

Note, Zapier will not affect the 4.5 release date which is coming very soon.

Baby steps... 😁
I could add a toggle for that.

Yep, more templates is on our short list for a major Pages update coming fairly soon.

Plus you gave away what you really look at in your spare time. 😄 

Interesting article, thanks for sharing! This one caught my attention: 
I think I am sometimes too focused on facts and logic. While this is a good thing in general, more emotional reactions is a good tip!

Birds aren't real.

Nicely written story! @Matt

Unsplash is good too. We might create an API for that if there's enough traction.

Baby steps... 😁
I could add a toggle for that.