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Those are related to the ads on your website, not Invision. 

Those are related to the ads on your website, not Invision. 

*Unless you're a big AI company (allegedly) 🤐

*Unless you're a big AI company (allegedly) 🤐

*Unless you're a big AI company (allegedly) 🤐

It doesn't work that way. It's based on when the user logs in, so won't award it to someone purely for registering a year ago and not logging in since. 

This wouldn't make sense and would probably be unhelpful in search as those posts attributed to a default single author would actually have been written by multiple people. 
I think having no author details is the best thing to do with it.

This wouldn't make sense and would probably be unhelpful in search as those posts attributed to a default single author would actually have been written by multiple people. 
I think having no author details is the best thing to do with it.

Is the person in the UK logged in? If not, they'll be getting a cached view, which on the Invision cloud is 10-15 minutes, which would explain the delay?

We're seeing the same things in the EU data centre. It's so frequent at the moment, and very frustrating, particularly as support replies essentially amount to 'it's not happening now, so I can't investigate'. 
We'll be heading back to self-hosted if it continues, sadly. 

You could take a free trial to have a look?
https://invisioncommunity.com/clientarea/free-trial/

You would be best to post up exactly what you would like to see within the feedback area, if you are looking for additions to how this is managed 🙂 

You can block ai scrapers to stop that happening.
https://www.iubenda.com/en/help/137640-block-openai-bard-crawlers

I still think that a summary will rob the community of its character and voices. 
It’s still important to see the author next to their content IMO. 

Ask them if they have an ad blocker, and if so to try with it switched off.

🍂 🦃 Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! 🍎🍂
Thank you for checking out our weekly, round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week. 
 
Current Happenings
Invision Community Version 5 news is all the rage! 🎉
Follow the Invision Community Insider Forum and our Invision Community Blog to be among the first to see those updates each week. 
Aren't those videos awesome?!  🤩 
 

New Version
The official November release was made available last week. Upgrade your community now.
Here is what is included in November release, version 4.7.14. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/
 
Looking Ahead
As we near the holiday season, we will post announcements for our holiday hours. Expect delays for general support. Our team is, however, available for urgent requests and system monitoring. 
 

Changelog
For those that like to see what we are up to line by line, here is the changelog for the last two weeks for version 4. 
 
 

We're seeing the same things in the EU data centre. It's so frequent at the moment, and very frustrating, particularly as support replies essentially amount to 'it's not happening now, so I can't investigate'. 
We'll be heading back to self-hosted if it continues, sadly. 

We're seeing the same things in the EU data centre. It's so frequent at the moment, and very frustrating, particularly as support replies essentially amount to 'it's not happening now, so I can't investigate'. 
We'll be heading back to self-hosted if it continues, sadly. 

Glad to see I'm not the only one.  
I've abandoned hundreds of posts on my community on mobile because I haven't been able to delete quotes.

We're seeing the same things in the EU data centre. It's so frequent at the moment, and very frustrating, particularly as support replies essentially amount to 'it's not happening now, so I can't investigate'. 
We'll be heading back to self-hosted if it continues, sadly. 

Welcome to the third video of our sneak peak series! Today, we're really excited to introduce you to the new Theme Editor!
Built entirely from scratch, the new editor provides an instant, live preview of your theme, as soon as you modify a setting. It's a zero-code approach to creating themes, and has been designed to ensure your theme adheres to your color scheme and looks great on every device, with very little effort. Let's take a closer look!
 
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To the left of the editor, you’ll see a live preview of your community. You can navigate to any page, as if you were browsing your site normally. At the top left of the editor, you’ll find icons which change the theme between the light and dark color schemes. Below that are buttons which change the viewport size, from desktop, to tablet, to mobile. This is a really convenient way to ensure your theme looks great on every device, without needing to manually resize your browser window.
Lets take a closer look at the Color Palette.
Editing colors in version 4 was a fairly time consuming process. For example, modifying the color scheme from the default blue to another color meant that 26 theme settings needed to be changed. In contrast, the Version 5 theme is powered by just 3 colors: Primary colors are responsible for styling the main elements on your page, such as the Start new topic button. Secondary colors control minor elements, such as pagination links, while the Base color is responsible for controlling the overall tint on your site.
Clicking on these colors opens a color picker. Let’s change this blue color to yellow.
 
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You’ll notice two things have happened here. First, the preview window updated as soon as we modified the color. All elements which were previously blue, now use yellow, such as the Start new topic button. Secondly, the text color in our button has changed from white to black. This is our automatic contrast feature and it ensures our text is easy to read on our new yellow background, since white text may be more difficult to read for some viewers.
Below the color picker is a text box, with our color displayed in HSL. You can paste your own colors in this box, in any color format and that color will be applied to your elements.
 
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The Base color controls the tint of your backgrounds and text colors. Let's try a few examples to demonstrate how easy it is to recolor your theme.
 
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Next up are Logos! Invision Community 5 has three logo types: a text logo, an image logo for desktops and an image logo for mobiles. Let’s edit our text logo.
 
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After changing the text to “Theme Editor Demo”, we can see that the logo in our preview window updates instantly with our new text. Below that, we have multiple options to help us style the text logo, such as font-family These fonts are a combination of system fonts and web fonts. The web fonts are hosted locally on your site for optimal performance. Additionally, we can also change the font-weight and font-size. We might want a different font-size for mobile logos, so that can be edited too. We can see a live preview by changing our viewport to the mobile option.
If you’d prefer to use an image logo, you can assign it using the Image Logo options. Image logos are made up of 2 upload fields, one for the light theme and one for the dark theme. Below these upload fields, a slider lets you resize your logo so it fits neatly.
 
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Layout options let you assign the default layouts in your community. In our first sneak peak video, we showcased the new side panel layout, feed view for forum categories, and compact view for topics. These can all be enabled via the theme editor using a simple select menu.
 
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Lets explore some Color options! In the Header panel, we can see a list of elements we can customize. Clicking on an element opens the Swatch List, which is a list of 22 colors that are powered by the Base, Primary and Secondary colors from earlier. We have 6 "light" base colors, 6 "dark" base colors as well as various shades of our primary and secondary colors. Clicking on any of these swatches will apply that color to your element.
But what if none of these colors suit your requirement? That’s where the Color Picker comes in handy. Here, we can easily choose any color, or even paste in our own color like before.
 
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A major hurdle with themes in version 4 was customising the header. Depending on the complexity, this would typically involve modifications to both the CSS and HTML. That is a thing of the past with version 5! If we flick over to our Settings tab, you’ll see a brand new interface for customising the header. A new drag and drop feature allows you to easily reposition header elements without touching a single line of code.
 
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It’s an incredibly fun tool to play with, and we’re really excited to hear what you think!
Below the drag and drop area, we can customise the header further by using sliders to adjust its height, or we can enable navigation icons with a single click. Body settings let you can customise global elements such as the body background color, text colors, the max-width of your site, the font-family, font-size and more.
Editing Content boxes has always required code modifications in the past. Using this new editor, we can adjust not only the colors of the boxes, but also the borders and shadows. Theme editing has honestly never been this easy!
 
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And there you have it! Our brand new theme editor. With a few simple clicks and drags, we've been able to create a customised theme that looks great on desktops and mobiles, with a new color scheme, new logos, a customised header, new page layouts and restyled content boxes - all without touching a single line of code.
Speaking of code, for those of you who want to apply more advanced customisations, we’ve added a really convenient way to access your custom CSS file, via a new dialog box.
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And last but not least - the new theme editor is fully responsive, so even if you’re away from the desk, so you’ll be able to change colours and settings, upload new logos, redesign your header and even add your own code!
 
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Developing this new editor has been a lot of fun, and it’s even more fun to use. Themes have never been easier to edit and we're really excited for you all to get your hands on it so you can have a play for yourself - but for now, let us know what you think the comments, and we’ll see you next time!

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One thing that jumps out is that your choice of music hasn't improved with the new version. 

Welcome to the second video of our sneak peak series! Today we'll be taking a closer look at the new Invision Community interface, including dark mode, accessibility improvements, performance improvements and the mobile layout! Before we begin, I should mention that this is a pre-alpha version of Invision Community 5, so some areas of the design may change before the official release.
 
New traditional header design
In our previous video, we showcased our new, optional side panel which formats your navigation into a vertical list. For those who prefer a traditional, horizontal header, here it is!

A much more compact header compared to version 4, the new design condenses the navigation bar into a single row, moving all sub-navigation items into dropdown menus. A new, optional area below the text logo allows you to add your website slogan or announce events such as anniversaries or holidays, and our new search modal provides convenient access to the advanced search filters from any page on your community.

 
Accessible interface
The main content area has been designed with accessibility as a priority. High contrast text colours and larger font-sizes help to make reading more comfortable and clickable table rows (which can be enabled or disabled via the Theme Editor) allow you to navigate between pages more easily. A visible focus ring significantly improves navigation for visitors who find it more comfortable to browse with their keyboard TAB key, instead of using their mouse (ie. visitors with conditions such as Parkinson's disease, or those who have temporarily lost function due to a broken arm).
 
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Elements are highlighted while navigating with the keyboard
 
Dark mode
Dark mode has become increasingly popular over the past few years - so it's no surprise that Version 5 has been designed from scratch with both light and dark mode in mind. With version 4, it was necessary to manage two themes in order to provide a light and dark colour scheme. In version 5 though, all of that is handled by a single theme.
By default, your members will be able to choose their own color scheme preference: either light, dark, or system. System assigns a color scheme based on your system preferences - so if your device automatically switches to dark mode at night, your community will too! With that said, as an administrator, you also have the option to restrict your site to a single color scheme - so if you ONLY want to offer a dark theme, that's easily achieved.

 
 
Performance
Despite all of these new inclusions, the version 5 UI has been coded with significant reductions in both CSS and Javascript. We'll dive deeper into code reductions in a future blog entry, however two great examples are:
- Grids: which have had a 100% removal of Javascript and are powered by only a few lines of CSS, resulting in a faster rendering time, especially for users on slow connections.
- And carousels: which have had a 95% reduction in Javascript and now rely on native browser scrolling, for a much smoother experience on both desktop and mobile!
Additionally we've removed a number of helper libraries that are no longer needed with modern browsers saving even more.
 
Mobile UI
With an incredible amount of mobile visitors accessing the web, we’ve placed a huge priority on redesigning the interface to ensure it lives up to todays standards.
A new navigation bar at the bottom of the page provides convenient access to your activity feed, notifications, messages, a search panel, and navigation links. A conscious effort was made to ensure that this information was available within a single tap, and we found that a bottom bar like this was easier to interact with compared to icons in the header.

The mobile navigation bar from Invision Community 5
 
A goal of the mobile UI was to display elements that were previously only available on larger devices, while still maintaining a clean interface. For example, to improve navigation, we've added a scrollable breadcrumb list to the top and bottom of the page. To improve guest participation, we added Sign In and Sign Up links to the bottom navigation bar. These links were previously hidden within the hamburger menu, so we feel like this will really benefit those looking to improve registrations. And as demonstrated in last weeks video, profile information is now available within posts, comments and reviews on small devices.
We’re really excited for you to literally have a hands on experience with the new mobile interface of Invision Community 5, and we're interested to hear your feedback in the comments!

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@Daniel F's seo essentials addon is very handy for this sort of thing. 
https://www.ic-essentials.com/files/file/6-seo-essentials/

@Daniel F's seo essentials addon is very handy for this sort of thing. 
https://www.ic-essentials.com/files/file/6-seo-essentials/