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🌼  🐣 Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! 🐣  🌼
Thank you for checking out this weekly round up post. I hope you have had a great week. To those who celebrate, I wish you a Happy Easter this weekend! In the comments below, feel free to say hello and let us know how this week is treating you. 
From the Invision Community team...
 
Current Happenings
New Version
Our April release is out and ready for you to upgrade your community. As you know, we recommend that you keep your community up to date each month to keep it running smoothly and so you can enjoy the latest updates.
Review the release notes to see what is included in the April release, version 4.7.9.
Key changes:
Gallery, Events & Clubs: Improvements From Your Feedback Live Topics iPhone notifications, web app and more now available with Apple's latest IOS update. PayPal & Maxmind API updates in Commerce  
@Charles and I talked about the release in our April Release Chat this past Tuesday.
You can watch the video and participate in that discussion in the converted live topic. 
  
On Deck
Our new Courses and Lessons application is coming along great. We hope to have a sneak peak ready next week. 🤞
 
Statistics and reporting improvements are nearing completion and we will talk about what is included in our upcoming Statistics and Reporting live topic event. 
 
Bounce Management is coming in May. For Cloud customers, we are adding the ability for you to view reports on bounced/complaint emails, take action on member accounts (purge them or mark them as no notifications), and unblock emails that our platform may be refusing to email. 
 
Finally, for those that like to see what we are up to line by line, here is the changelog for the week.
Changelog

 

Yes, feel free to contact me or reach out to sales and we can chat about it.

🌸 Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! 🌸
Thank you for reading our weekly post! This week was a bit quiet as it was clean up and planning week. Q1 has been a success and we are excited to be starting the last of our Q2 deliverables so we can get those out for you to enjoy. Along with that, the team’s focus has been on fine-tuning plans for the second half of the year and beyond, along with some client projects. Not always much to share with you all yet but these are important weeks for us as a team. 
 
To help you catch up on a few things this week… 
 
Current Happenings
The latest beta version of the April release is out!
As with all beta releases, upgrading your community is at your own risk. Please make sure you backup before pressing that button! This beta specifically contains changes to the PayPal and Stripe integrations. Please proceed with caution if payments are core to your community. 
 
The April release will be ready next week.
Review the release notes to see what is included in the April release, version 4.7.9.
Key changes:
Gallery, Events & Clubs: Improvements From Your Feedback Live Topics iPhone notifications, web app and more now available with Apple's latest IOS update. PayPal & Maxmind API updates in Commerce  
Join us this coming Tuesday for our April Release Chat!
We will be using our new our Live Topics feature. 
 
On Deck
Bounce Management is coming in May. 
For Cloud customers, we are adding the ability for you to view reports on bounced/complaint emails, take action on member accounts (purge them or mark them as no notifications), and unblock emails that our platform may be refusing to email. Cloud customers can catch that conversion here:
 
Peeking Ahead 
Statistics and reporting improvements are nearing completion and our Courses and Lessons applications are progressing nicely. 
 
Finally, for those that like to see what we are up to line by line, here is the changelog for the week.
Changelog

 

We deployed WebP support today for both US and EU regions.
This was honestly an oversight on our part and I want to thank @Dll for pointing out that WebP was not properly enabled.

An issue was fixed today impacting communities in the EU region using video transcoding services. The transcoding services were not properly recognizing requests for transcoding a video as US vs EU and therefore failing.

🌸 Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! 🌸
Thank you for checking out this weekly round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week! In the comments below, feel free to say hello and let us know what you are working on. As for us, let’s dive into that below.
 
Current Happenings
We are beginning some spring cleaning in Our Community. I hope you enjoy this first round of changes and those that will appear in the coming weeks. 🧹 
 
Deprecation Communication
Deprecations are important to keeping our software clean and modern as needs change and the software evolves. We want you to know when deprecations are happening and how to prepare for those. When a new deprecation is announced or a removal is completed, we will communicate those in four ways:
Release notes: This is a simple description with a link to our new Deprecation Tracker. Deprecation Tracker: This will give a bit more information and any actions or advice from us regarding the change. Topic: To allow for a place to ask your questions, we will share in a topic. AdminCP notification: This will appear as a banner in your AdminCP. We recommend that you follow these areas in Our Community so you are notified of changes. There are new announcements and removals in the March release so check those out.
 
New Version
Our March release is out and ready for your community. As you know, we recommend that you keep your community up to date each month to keep it running smoothly and so you can enjoy the latest updates.
As a reminder, here is what is included in this March release, version 4.7.8. 🍀
https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/
 
On Deck
Live Topics is set for beta release in … April! 🤩 🎉 We are looking forward to hearing how you use live topics and how it evolves in its future versions.
If you want to see Live Topics in action and like to hear Charles and I talk about the release (or just talk in general 😉) follow and add the April Release Chat to your calendar. Hope to see you then.
 
Also in the upcoming April release, Commerce, Clubs, Gallery and Events will all get some attention. 
 
Peeking Ahead 
Progressing along nicely are our statistics and reporting improvements. A blog entry will be posted soon.
 
We are in the beginning stages of development for our Courses and Lessons application. If you want to help shape this feature, share your ideas and use cases with us. https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/472307-courses-and-lessons/#comment-2934996
 
Lastly, for those that like to see what we are up to line by line, here is the changelog for the week.
 
Changelog
 
Hope you enjoyed this week's Invision Insight round up. See you next week. 🙂

For those of you with communities in our EU region:
We deployed an upgrade today that will see about 20% increase in data query performance.

The fix for this is not in 4.7.8 but we're working on a fix asap

We have soft launched this service at $129/month plus an implementation fee that varies a bit based on needs. We will post more information soon!

Hi Marco, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
It looks like the nulled version you found is Invision Community 4.4.9.2 from January 2020. It does not contain any of the cloud exclusive features. We do not ship any of the cloud application, and even if they had the files they could not connect to our network that powers those features as none of that functionality is exposed to the outside internet. You would just get a connection error.
I understand your frustration but this person has effectively stolen our work. This is a criminal act. You would not observe someone stealing a car and think "wow, they got a car for free, why am I still leasing?" and then pick up a brick and stroll towards the nearest car. 😆
Piracy is an unfortunate side effect of offering a downloadable product. Most of the time a person uses a stolen credit card to get the files and then re-distributes them. This costs us twice, in the stolen download and then in chargeback and payment processing fees.
We have learned over the years that it is pointless to try and sign any downloads. We used to store hidden data in JPG EXIF but most warez sites take 2 or 3 copies from different people and then use diff to see what looks different between versions and then simply remove any signed files or data.
We do follow up piracy but it's a long slog as most hosts are uninterested or the person using the nulled version jumps from low cost host to low cost host.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but a public key is intended to be exposed. It's the private key which shouldn't be. 
What you should be doing though, is setting restrictions on the key inside your Google account to stop unauthorised use.

Nearly all use our email sending. I think you two are outliers 🙂

Do you mean the "From" address? Right now they are all from noreply@invisioncloudcommunity.com but the "on behalf of" address is your address.
We can look into it but the problem is the return path. We have to ensure that bounce/spam reports come back to us for processing.

I wanted to let everyone know that we will soon be eliminating page views as a limiter on all our current offered packages.
Advancements in our underlying infrastructure have made it not as important to meter based on traffic.

Is there a thread, blog post or announcement on this community which doesn't end up with this same circular argument anymore? 
It's very tedious. 
 

Is there a thread, blog post or announcement on this community which doesn't end up with this same circular argument anymore? 
It's very tedious. 
 

Is there a thread, blog post or announcement on this community which doesn't end up with this same circular argument anymore? 
It's very tedious. 
 

Is there a thread, blog post or announcement on this community which doesn't end up with this same circular argument anymore? 
It's very tedious. 
 

Is there a thread, blog post or announcement on this community which doesn't end up with this same circular argument anymore? 
It's very tedious. 
 

The way the gallery upload works, when users upload images they tend to leave the caption empty which defaults to the image filename. This is because the submit images button is active right after upload and no further boxes are displayed unless the user actually manually clicks on the images. This design pretty much urges users to not fill the caption. I would like to either be able to make the caption required or to clearly display its default value before image submission. Any ideas on that?

Honestly, in your case, you may want to think about how you work out the cost of running your site and include the value you place on your time within it. You're obviously not the most technically savvy in terms of running a web server (and I mean zero disrespect in saying that) and seem to spend a lot of time doing things on that side with varying levels of success. So, if you took all of that off of your plate, how much extra value could you add to your site with the additional time which would be available to you? Only you know the answer to that, but I think it's a worthwhile consideration. 
When you say it's slower - bear in mind that on here as an example, you're connecting to the USA, you can have your site hosted in the EU. We fairly recently moved over to the cloud, and like you are UK based with a mostly UK audience and we / our users haven't noticed any speed drop. In fact, it's probably a bit faster than our previous platform. 
People have already covered the third point, but suffice to say we've not missed having FTP access and what have you and have used the pages platform to add an ads.txt file and what have you - it's very straightforward to do. 
I'm not here to pitch the cloud to you, I've no skin in the game so to speak, but based on your posts in here and the struggles you've been having at times, I actually think you could benefit from it. 
 

Honestly, in your case, you may want to think about how you work out the cost of running your site and include the value you place on your time within it. You're obviously not the most technically savvy in terms of running a web server (and I mean zero disrespect in saying that) and seem to spend a lot of time doing things on that side with varying levels of success. So, if you took all of that off of your plate, how much extra value could you add to your site with the additional time which would be available to you? Only you know the answer to that, but I think it's a worthwhile consideration. 
When you say it's slower - bear in mind that on here as an example, you're connecting to the USA, you can have your site hosted in the EU. We fairly recently moved over to the cloud, and like you are UK based with a mostly UK audience and we / our users haven't noticed any speed drop. In fact, it's probably a bit faster than our previous platform. 
People have already covered the third point, but suffice to say we've not missed having FTP access and what have you and have used the pages platform to add an ads.txt file and what have you - it's very straightforward to do. 
I'm not here to pitch the cloud to you, I've no skin in the game so to speak, but based on your posts in here and the struggles you've been having at times, I actually think you could benefit from it. 
 

Welcome to this week's Invision Insight!
How's everyone liking the new look to Gallery?! We want to hear all of your feedback, so please visit this topic and take advantage of the testing phase so we can keep it all centralised for easy reference.
On other news, Live Topics is almost ready for its beta release! In December last year we mentioned this new feature coming to the suite and it is definitely something many communities will benefit from. I promise we will provide more details soon!
 
New Version
We have released a new beta version of Invision Community, 4.7.7 Beta 4.
For those that would like to try the beta on their communities, please follow the link below. Last week I wrote about how you can opt-in to beta releases for both Cloud and self-hosted clients.
As always, please back up your communities before upgrading to any beta releases.
 
GraphQL
The GraphQL API is here!
GraphQL describes itself as a query language for APIs that gives clients the power to ask for precisely what is needed and nothing more.
I won't go into too much detail here of course; but @Daniel F has got you covered and went into great detail to explain this new addition to Invision Community.
 
Recent Event
Our February 2023 Release Chat happened this week, but if you missed it, don't stress as you can watch the recording below. Please post your questions and we'll do our best to answer them.
 
Changelog
Here's what the dev team have been working on over the last seven days:
See you in the community and next week right here for another Invision Insight! I look forward to hearing from you all!
Thank you everyone! 🦘

I'm pretty sure that if you rewrite all the CSS you'll resolve this.

I'm pretty sure that if you rewrite all the CSS you'll resolve this.