Matt

Yeah, I agree. We picked jQuery a good while ago. If we were starting from scratch, we might pick something lighter now.

As JS continues to modernize and become more usable as a core scripting language, I feel like we'll see jQuery at the very least become superseded by something lighter and more powerful.
But there's never likely a time where we'll move to just raw JS for complex applications. Some type of library will always be needed for the reasons Matt said.
Those libraries will likely become lighter and faster, but they'll still exist.

I feel like anyone who lived through 1999-2006 feels the answer to "Do we need jQuery" is a strong yes.
Of course, we could remove jQuery.
What jQuery does is make life simpler for developers (as well as resolve a lot of cross browser quirks so developers don't have to think too hard about that). What that blog effectively advocates is the reversal of the number one rule of programming "be lazy". Functions and methods are reusable for a reason.

For an app as broad and as complex as ours, replacing jQuery with vanilla javascript isn't really viable. We have tens of thousands of lines of javascript code which will multiply into millions without reusable compact methods.

For a single page website, you probably could just about tolerate it, but honestly I question the effort even then; other than to feel happy as you sip a soy latte while stroking ones hipster beard before adding "Built with ❤️ in vanilla Javascript" in the footer.

That's a bug. Can you please submit a ticket so we can get that fixed? Thanks!

I'll bring it up with the team. It sounds reasonable to me.

I do like the idea of node specific widgets thought.

We should have something to announce in a few weeks.

There's nothing that I know of. Video is pretty hard generally, it needs to be transcoded into a streamable format (and of course, not all devices agree on the streaming method). To add in a broadcast live video functionality is probably beyond the limitations for the average hosted forum.

When it's come up in the past, we generally recommend that they leverage YouTube's live functionality and paste the video into a post. I believe you can schedule live videos in YT and get a link to embed before the event.

We're currently revamping the spam defence system to make it more accurate and to catch more spam. We'll announce the changes soon.

Good to hear someone talking about benefit rather than just features.
 

May I ask what the business case is for using webp? How much time will it shave off your loading time and what benefit will it have on conversion?
I have seen many requests for webp in many systems and most are to get some adjustment to ratings in some system that measure loading times and best practices.
So, why do you want it, and why are your users asking for it?

I've filed a bug report (5225) to check into this, thanks!

I've filed a bug report (5226) for this, thanks!

We're currently revamping the spam defence system to make it more accurate and to catch more spam. We'll announce the changes soon.

There's nothing that I know of. Video is pretty hard generally, it needs to be transcoded into a streamable format (and of course, not all devices agree on the streaming method). To add in a broadcast live video functionality is probably beyond the limitations for the average hosted forum.

When it's come up in the past, we generally recommend that they leverage YouTube's live functionality and paste the video into a post. I believe you can schedule live videos in YT and get a link to embed before the event.

Let's discover this together.

Most things are roughly in the same place.

We have four main areas now, support, community, marketplace and developers.

Support is where you seek to either give feedback on our features, or get help with your own Invision Community.

Community is a place to hang out with other Invision Community owners to get advice, tips and support outside the scope of our technical support.

Marketplace handles all the marketplace things and likewise Developer contains the resources needed for developing add-ons to Invision Community.

Thanks Nathan, we'll get that fixed.

I do like the idea of node specific widgets thought.

We're currently revamping the spam defence system to make it more accurate and to catch more spam. We'll announce the changes soon.

We're currently revamping the spam defence system to make it more accurate and to catch more spam. We'll announce the changes soon.

Let's discover this together.

Most things are roughly in the same place.

We have four main areas now, support, community, marketplace and developers.

Support is where you seek to either give feedback on our features, or get help with your own Invision Community.

Community is a place to hang out with other Invision Community owners to get advice, tips and support outside the scope of our technical support.

Marketplace handles all the marketplace things and likewise Developer contains the resources needed for developing add-ons to Invision Community.

I would suggest double checking that the theme templates have not been modified, if you're using a copy of the default them. If you're using a theme from the marketplace, etc... it may  be out of date so checking that or speaking with the author may assist.
To check if the templates have been modified, can go to Themes and uncheck "Unmodified" in the filter option, as seen below:

Much thanks!! Found it!

For information...when you had the site offline earlier, the main home page displays as follows - offline message all the way off the left. Accessing /forums at the time showed the message correctly.