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Wersja Invision Community 5 została wydana ponad rok temu, jednak nasza strona internetowa wciąż koncentrowała się na wersji 4-tej i jej funkcjonalnościach. Zamiast przedstawiać pełen potencjał jaka oferuje platforma Invision Community. Mamy przyjemność współpracować zarówno z dużymi markami, jak i z zaangażowanymi, niezależnymi właścicielami społeczności. Klienci powierzają nam rozwój strategii oraz tworzenie funkcji dopasowanych do potrzeb rozwijających się społeczności. Co więcej, w przypadku wielu projektów dla klientów biznesowych forum stanowi tylko jeden z elementów większego ekosystemu. Niektóre społeczności skupiają się wokół wydarzeń, inne wokół treści, a jeszcze inne wokół platform dla twórców i influencerów. Naszą największą siłą jest szeroki zakres funkcji dostępnych od razu, elastyczność rozbudowy oraz zespół ekspertów pracujących wewnętrznie. Hasło jakie przedstawiamy - „Społeczność w centrum, zbudowana z myślą o czymś więcej” będzie coraz mocniej widoczne wraz z rozwojem strony. Wierzymy, że nasza platforma pozwala tworzyć znacznie więcej niż tylko forum. W najbliższym czasie przeniesiemy nawigację społeczności bezpośrednio do jej sekcji. Na ten moment, dostęp do strumieni może być nieco utrudniony przez ich umiejscowienie w głównym menu. Źródło: invisioncommunity.com Tłumaczenie: INVTeam

This is an important security update addressing two issues. Cloud customers already have this update applied; you may need to run the upgrade process when you next visit your community. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

This is an important security update addressing two issues. Additionally, this release adds support for PHP 8.2 and fixes issues with using Stripe in the AdminCP. Invision Community 4 will be discontinued on 31st December 2026, with security updates provided until then. Cloud customers already have this update applied; you may need to run the upgrade process when you next visit your community. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

It’s been a busy start to the year here at Invision Community, and we wanted to share a few updates on what’s coming next. We’re always evolving alongside the needs of modern communities, and we’re really excited about where things are heading in 2026. Invision Community 4 Invision Community 4 has had a great run since launching back in 2015, and it played a big part in getting us to where we are today. With Invision Community 5 now established for well over a year, it’s become the clear path forward for the platform. With that in mind, we’ll be bringing v4 to the end of its lifecycle. After December 31, 2026, v4 will no longer receive updates or support. Until then, we’ll continue providing critical fixes and security updates. If you haven’t upgraded yet, now’s a great time to start planning your move to v5. We’re here if you need help along the way. You can see most of the bigger features here. Providers Directory We’ll also be closing the Providers Directory at the end of the month. The way people connect with third-party developers has changed quite a bit, and the platform itself now covers more out of the box than ever before. Because of that, the directory is no longer something we need to maintain. Profiles will stay visible until the end of May so you have time to grab anything you need. New Website Behind the scenes, we’ve been working on a refreshed website that better reflects what you can actually build and achieve with Invision Community. While v5 has been out for a while now, our current site still feels rooted in an earlier version of the platform. This update brings everything in line with where we are today. It also includes a long-awaited documentation refresh. You can expect to see this go live next week. Community Restructure As the platform has grown, so have the different ways people use it. Cloud customers often have very different needs from those running self-hosted environments, and we want to make sure each group has a space that makes sense for them. We’re updating the community structure to better reflect that. You’ll see clearer separation between different types of discussions, along with a better balance between technical topics and broader community management conversations. The goal is to make it easier to find what you need and have more relevant conversations. New Features Our development team is busy working on a major new release due later this year. I can’t say too much, but it’s already shaping up to be a great update with lots of new features that will give more flexibility in what you build your community around and improvements to essentials such as retention. Invision Community Classic We know many of you are still using Invision Community Classic, and while usage now represents a small percentage of our overall business, that doesn’t mean we’re going to pull the plug. We’ll continue supporting Classic with ongoing updates, including bug fixes and new features. And if you’re ever curious about what’s possible with our cloud platform, it’s there when you’re ready, with more functionality and no worries of hardware, environments and configurations. We’ve got a lot planned for this year, and really we’re looking forward to sharing more with you soon. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Invision Community 5.0.17 SPRINGS into life This is our monthly updates and improvements release. You can see the full changelog here. Along with the usual fixes, we've got new features in this update: PagesWorkflow Manager(Creator Pro, Team, Business, Enterprise) This is an exciting one!. Workflow Manager is designed to streamline and automate repetitive actions. This range of Pages updates are designed to save time and reduce repetitive tasks. Each database has a "Workflows" menu item in the AdminCP. Each created workflow is displayed as a single button. You can define the properties of the button, and you use "Match Criteria" to determine when the button should show, and "Actions" to determine what it does when clicked. For this series of screenshots, I have two workflows set up, one to approve and one to reject the article. The status field itself is configured so it cannot be changed outside of a workflow. Available Match Criteria Item Status - pinned/featured/hidden/etc. Custom Field value (uses OR logic, not AND) (match criteria is the same for both workflow actions) Available Actions Assign an item Post a comment Change the item status - pinned/featured/hidden/etc. Notify the item author Notify specific members Change the value of a Custom Field This configuration gives us two new buttons on the article. Let's click approve this and send a message to the author. There's a huge number of Workflows that could be implemented. Let us know what flows you're thinking about automating. Reusable Template BlocksThis new block type allows you to define a set of input fields and a template to reuse multiple times. Create your new block with the template structure of your choice. On the front-end, you can add the new block to the page using the Page Editor. Fill in your fields for this block location and hit save! You can use the same block as many times as you wish on the same page. This screenshot shows two blocks using the same pre-defined template. Field TemplatesCustom display formats for fields can now be saved as a template. This allows multiple fields to share the same display formatting without copying and pasting the setting on each field. This also has the advantage of being able to update templates using the Pages template manager. Status FieldA minor, but time-saving, new feature is the status field. Out of the box, it allows you to specify the statuses and an associated color which are automatically displayed on the record without any further configuration. Status fields are integrated with the new Workflow Manager, allowing these fields to be automated. Other smaller, but notable changes: We added a new setting to allow archived topics to instruct search engines not to index them (they're also removed from the sitemap). Continued modernization by removing reliance on 2 more JavaScript libraries. Further improved accessibility on the registration form (password strength is now announced by screen readers). Focused Beta Testing We'd love it if you could pay some extra attention to these areas during the beta process. Removed underscore.js usage in favour of native JavaScript equivalents Underscore was used extensively in our code, leading to widespread adjustments to remove reliance. Please let us know if you see any JavaScript errors. Preparing for jQuery 4.0 We have made many changes to remove reliance on deprecated jQuery functionality to prepare for jQuery 4.0. Please let us know if you see any JavaScript errors. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

This is our April maintenance and enhancement release. Key changes include: New: Pages improvements: Workflow Manager ( Creator Pro, Team, Business, Enterprise ) Reusable Blocks Field Templates Status Field Updated: Ability to noindex archived topics. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Happy Valentines day, here's a gift from us to you!For those of you not celebrating this weekend, why not check out 5.0.16 Beta 1! This is our monthly updates and improvements release. You can see the full changelog here. Along with the usual fixes, we've got some notable changes in this release: You can now use profile completion as a trigger for Achievements, awarding points or badges to those who have filled in all of their profile information. Events can now be removed from search when they're in the past. This functionality can be enabled on a per-Calender basis. User accessibility improvements: Updated aria labels, tab index values, form fields and buttons. Updated dialogs to be usable via keyboards (you may notice they're quicker to open, too!). Made more progress removing old unused JavaScript libraries, templates and controllers, helping to reduce the amount of JavaScript we use when loading a page. Watch this space for more in future. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

This is our March maintenance release. Key changes include: New: Achievement action for Profile Completion. Updated: User interface accessibility for screen readers. Updated: Past events can now be removed from search results. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

We're back, refreshed from the holidays and looking forward to warmer weather! This is our monthly updates and improvements release. You can see the full changelog here. Along with the usual bug fixes and improvements, we've also got the following new functionality: Email TemplatesWe've refined and polished the email templates. If your email client supports it (Apple Mail and versions of Outlook), they'll also natively support dark mode. If your email templates have been customised, they will need reverting to enable these refinements. ModernizationWe've been working on modernizing components of our UI, refining it and removing JavaScript that's no longer needed with modern browsers. Mobile Menus New navigation panes also support swipe-to-dismiss on supported devices. 535401432-6fd55df0-47ee-4502-b17f-1c52d44d2d51.mp4 Navigation Dropdowns Navigation dropdowns can now be configured to open on hover instead of a click. 529472249-5149764e-e158-4a2c-a965-0aa9cdb485e1.mp4 StatisticsWe're always looking at ways to improve the analytics and statistics in Invision Community. This month, we're adding two new reports Total Member Visits shows the frequency with which members return in a set timeframe. In this example, you can see that 1 user has returned to the community between 6 and 10 times since the start of the month. Points by Member allows you to look at which of your members are earning the most points during a specific time period. The less exciting stuff!We're introducing a new section for beta releases covering areas where we would like to focus testing. These areas could be anything from small but central changes to new features. Focused Beta Testing Fix issues with event date/time filters and timezones Events in non-UTC time zones are displayed on the correct day. Fix issues with saving forms with toggled fields Submitting forms with fields that toggle other fields. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

This is our February maintenance release. Key changes include: Statistics Improvements Added 'User Visit Frequency' statistic. Added 'User Achievement Points' statistics. Refined email layouts**, including dark mode support in supported email clients. User interface improvements to navigation dropdowns, mobile menus and tooltips. ** If your email templates or email wrapper template are customised, you will need to revert them to enable these changes. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

As we close out another year with Invision Community, I wanted to take this opportunity to review the progress we’ve made and look ahead to next year and beyond. It's certainly been another busy year with over 1,300 improvements, fixes and new features. We listen to your feedback and meet each month with many community management teams. These conversations help us understand what it takes to build and grow a strong community. This year was about listening closely to that feedback and then turning that insight into practical improvements across the platform. We launched major new features, reduced friction, improved insight, added new integrations and API endpoints, improved the mobile experience, and made numerous core platform updates. Let’s take a look at the highlights. A more app-like mobile and modern web experienceThis year, we continued to close the gap between web and native app expectations by making Invision Community feel faster and more natural to use on every device. Improvements included smoother loading states, familiar mobile interactions, and clearer notification prompts, resulting in an experience that feels modern. We continued to remove client-side scripting in favour of native CSS solutions to improve loading and interaction speeds. The mobile experience improvements included: Pull to refresh in iOS Loading animation Installation prompt banner App icon notification count badges Easier to use, enable notification prompts Mobile app-like menus Deeper integrations and extensibilityIn 2025, we expanded how Invision Community integrates with the workflows you rely on every day. New APIs, webhooks, and automation made it easier to move data, trigger workflows, and integrate your community into existing systems. The integration improvements included: New endpoints for Zapier New REST API endpoints New Webhooks Mailchimp integration iFramely integration Driving discovery and engagementContinued growth is essential to the health of your community. In 2025, we continued to invest in helping members find value faster and stay engaged for longer. We also introduced our new feature, Quests, which bridges the gap between in-person events and communities by enabling gamification across both. The complete list of improvements is: Quests Customisable welcome emails Auto follow clubs New email advertising and promotion tools Clearer insight into community healthTo help tell the story of your community and find actionable insights, we created a new suite of community health metrics. For example, tracking 'first response time' provides a clear indication of how quickly new interactions are acknowledged within your community. A 'good' first response time might be within the first few hours of an inquiry, as quick responses often lead to higher engagement and satisfaction. These new metrics cover everything you need to create your reports, with new tools to export multiple charts into CSV files with a few clicks for your own tools to analyze. The new insights include: Author diversity Responsiveness Engagement First response time Daily active users / monthly active users Stronger core platform foundationsThroughout 2025, we continued to improve on the core of the Invision Community platform, focusing on the everyday things that keep communities running smoothly. Updates across content management, permissions, and moderation controls reduced friction and improved consistency across even the largest and most active communities. Auto-splitting large topics Profile photo gallery Auto lock topics Default pages per group Recommended tags Turnstile captcha Page Editor roll back Looking aheadAs we look to the future, our focus remains on strengthening the foundations of the community platform to help yours grow. We will continue to expand AI in thoughtful ways, not to replace humans, but to support moderation and surface relevant content. At the same time, we’re committed to simplifying the platform to sharpen the feature set around what matters most: discovery, engagement, trust, and moderation. The goal, as always, is a platform that is powerful but not complex. To help us shape the journey ahead, we invite you to share your own ideas and hopes for 2026. What features or improvements would you like to see? Your feedback is invaluable as we strive to create a community platform that meets your needs and ambitions. Feel free to join our community to share your 2026 wish list. We're excited about the future, and we're glad to have you with us! View full blog entry Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

As we close out another year with Invision Community, I wanted to take this opportunity to review the progress we’ve made and look ahead to next year and beyond. It's certainly been another busy year with over 1,300 improvements, fixes and new features. We listen to your feedback and meet each month with many community management teams. These conversations help us understand what it takes to build and grow a strong community. This year was about listening closely to that feedback and then turning that insight into practical improvements across the platform. We launched major new features, reduced friction, improved insight, added new integrations and API endpoints, improved the mobile experience, and made numerous core platform updates. Let’s take a look at the highlights. A more app-like mobile and modern web experienceThis year, we continued to close the gap between web and native app expectations by making Invision Community feel faster and more natural to use on every device. Improvements included smoother loading states, familiar mobile interactions, and clearer notification prompts, resulting in an experience that feels modern. We continued to remove client-side scripting in favour of native CSS solutions to improve loading and interaction speeds. The mobile experience improvements included: Pull to refresh in iOS Loading animation Installation prompt banner App icon notification count badges Easier to use, enable notification prompts Mobile app-like menus Deeper integrations and extensibilityIn 2025, we expanded how Invision Community integrates with the workflows you rely on every day. New APIs, webhooks, and automation made it easier to move data, trigger workflows, and integrate your community into existing systems. The integration improvements included: New endpoints for Zapier New REST API endpoints New Webhooks Mailchimp integration iFramely integration Driving discovery and engagementContinued growth is essential to the health of your community. In 2025, we continued to invest in helping members find value faster and stay engaged for longer. We also introduced our new feature, Quests, which bridges the gap between in-person events and communities by enabling gamification across both. The complete list of improvements is: Quests Customisable welcome emails Auto follow clubs New email advertising and promotion tools Clearer insight into community healthTo help tell the story of your community and find actionable insights, we created a new suite of community health metrics. For example, tracking 'first response time' provides a clear indication of how quickly new interactions are acknowledged within your community. A 'good' first response time might be within the first few hours of an inquiry, as quick responses often lead to higher engagement and satisfaction. These new metrics cover everything you need to create your reports, with new tools to export multiple charts into CSV files with a few clicks for your own tools to analyze. The new insights include: Author diversity Responsiveness Engagement First response time Daily active users / monthly active users Stronger core platform foundationsThroughout 2025, we continued to improve on the core of the Invision Community platform, focusing on the everyday things that keep communities running smoothly. Updates across content management, permissions, and moderation controls reduced friction and improved consistency across even the largest and most active communities. Auto-splitting large topics Profile photo gallery Auto lock topics Default pages per group Recommended tags Turnstile captcha Page Editor roll back Looking aheadAs we look to the future, our focus remains on strengthening the foundations of the community platform to help yours grow. We will continue to expand AI in thoughtful ways, not to replace humans, but to support moderation and surface relevant content. At the same time, we’re committed to simplifying the platform to sharpen the feature set around what matters most: discovery, engagement, trust, and moderation. The goal, as always, is a platform that is powerful but not complex. To help us shape the journey ahead, we invite you to share your own ideas and hopes for 2026. What features or improvements would you like to see? Your feedback is invaluable as we strive to create a community platform that meets your needs and ambitions. Feel free to join our community to share your 2026 wish list. We're excited about the future, and we're glad to have you with us!Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Christmas has come early. 5.0.14 Beta 1 is now available! This is our monthly updates and improvements release. You can see the full changelog here. Along with the usual bug fixes and improvements, we've also got the following new functionality: Iframely Integration Iframely is a uniform delivery service for rich media embeds. It has over 1900 different services it is compatible with, and allows many services to be delivered easily as an embed inside a post editor when pasting a link. While Invision Community works well with oEmbed providers, there are some services that do not use this protocol or put it behind a complicated application process, as Meta does for Facebook and Instagram. Now, IFramely removes that complication and allows you to embed Facebook and Instagram content without the need to create a Meta app and get through an approval process. There is a generous free tier, and all you need to do is create an account and paste in the API key hash provided. Assignment Updates ☁️Our assignments feature gets two new useful features: auto-closing after X days, and a daily reminder notification on open assignments. These are two popular requests, and we're pleased to get these into the December release. Let us know how you get on! Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

This is our December maintenance release updated (01/14/26) with an important security fix.Key changes include:New: Iframely.com Integration for embedding Facebook, Instagram and others.Updated: AssignmentsAdded auto-closing after X days.Added daily reminder notifications of open assignments.Clou...Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

The Invision Community November edition includes numerous improvements, including customizable welcome emails and a new feature to keep your community running smoothly. Auto-splitting large topicsWhile most topics run their course over a small number of pages, some continue to receive daily replies for years, growing to quite a size. Many communities have breakout areas where people enjoy simple forum games or trivial social updates that help bond community members together. However, when forums reach hundreds or thousands of pages, they can struggle a little and may take a little more time to show. We all know how vital page loading speed is to both SEO and user experience, so we have a solution that doesn't disrupt the conversation flow. When a topic nears 100,000 replies, the moderating team will see a message indicating that the topic is approaching the split threshold. Once it exceeds that threshold, the original topic is locked, and a new topic is opened automatically via a background task. Each topic will list all the various parts of the topic in the sidebar and in a block on the topic itself. This allows the conversation to continue, and signposts where the older parts of the conversation are for those who wish to revisit them. The result is a fast-loading topic that preserves all the history. Welcome EmailsThe first point of contact after joining a community is crucial to the onboarding process. Invision Community has always sent a generic "Thanks for registering" email, but it's not particularly useful outside of informing the user that the process has been completed. Now, in our November release, you can easily add content to that email to tailor it to your community. You can add a message that fits the tone of your community, or signpost key areas to help acclimatise members. What else?Of course, every monthly release includes numerous bug fixes and minor improvements. This month, we've focused on the posting editor to address some issues and add some minor quality-of-life improvements. View full blog entry Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

The Invision Community November edition includes numerous improvements, including customizable welcome emails and a new feature to keep your community running smoothly. Auto-splitting large topicsWhile most topics run their course over a small number of pages, some continue to receive daily replies for years, growing to quite a size. Many communities have breakout areas where people enjoy simple forum games or trivial social updates that help bond community members together. However, when forums reach hundreds or thousands of pages, they can struggle a little and may take a little more time to show. We all know how vital page loading speed is to both SEO and user experience, so we have a solution that doesn't disrupt the conversation flow. When a topic nears 100,000 replies, the moderating team will see a message indicating that the topic is approaching the split threshold. Once it exceeds that threshold, the original topic is locked, and a new topic is opened automatically via a background task. Each topic will list all the various parts of the topic in the sidebar and in a block on the topic itself. This allows the conversation to continue, and signposts where the older parts of the conversation are for those who wish to revisit them. The result is a fast-loading topic that preserves all the history. Welcome EmailsThe first point of contact after joining a community is crucial to the onboarding process. Invision Community has always sent a generic "Thanks for registering" email, but it's not particularly useful outside of informing the user that the process has been completed. Now, in our November release, you can easily add content to that email to tailor it to your community. You can add a message that fits the tone of your community, or signpost key areas to help acclimatise members. What else?Of course, every monthly release includes numerous bug fixes and minor improvements. This month, we've focused on the posting editor to address some issues and add some minor quality-of-life improvements.Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Your November release is ready for testing! A version that ends in .13 released just before Halloween is some coincidence. Let's hope it's lucky for all! This is our monthly updates and improvements release. You can see the full changelog here. Key changes include: New: Automatically lock large topics and start a new one. New: Ability to customise or disable the "Welcome" email when a member registers. Updated: Editor QoL improvements. Let us know how you get on! Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

This is our November maintenance and enhancement release.Key changes include:New: Automatically lock large topics and start a new one.New: Ability to customise or disable the "Welcome" email when a member registers.Updated: Editor QoL improvements.Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Cancel your evening plans, because 5.0.12 Beta 1 has just been released! (The plans I'm not cancelling) It's almost time for pumpkin carving, heavily sweetened coffees and raking up leaves for months, but first our October release is ready for testing! You can see the full change log for 5.0.12 here. Along with a good number of bug fixes, we've squeezed in a major update on dropdown menus. I know that doesn't sound exciting but it means we can have native feeling menus when using a mobile device via the browser or PWA. It really does make it feel more app-like. It's also a major technical change so please give all menus a good test, both on desktop and on mobile. Ehren and Matt spoke a lot about webcomponents and popovers. 🤷‍♂️ Let us know how you get on! Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

The Invision Community October release is packed with improvements, updates, and new features, including app-like mobile menus, a curated profile photo gallery, and a popular club request. Mobile app-like menusOur October release features redesigned dropdown menus with an app-like design on mobile devices, improved accessibility, and smoother performance. Dropdown menus have received a significant redesign, resulting in a native, app-like experience on touch devices. Menus transition into view, occupying a larger area of the screen, which is great for accessibility. They can be dismissed by swiping the menu off-screen in a downward direction or by tapping the blank area above the menu. mobile.mp4These menus have also received accessibility improvements on desktop devices. They can be toggled using the Return/Spacebar keys, tabbed into using the Tab key, and dismissed via the Esc key. A huge win for visitors who are unable to comfortably use a mouse (or prefer to use a keyboard) while browsing your community. keyboard.mp4The new dropdown system offers performance improvements for all devices and leverages modern HTML and CSS features, including the popover attribute, opening/closing transitions, and anchor positioning. desktop.mp4Combined, this makes browsing on mobile via browser or PWA feel like a truly native experience. Curated Profile Photo GalleryWe work with many communities that are extremely privacy-focused, including those in the medical space and communities working with young, vulnerable people. In these spaces, external uploads are disabled to reduce the risk of exposing personal information, preventing potential harassment, and helping protect members from being identified outside the community. This means profile photos remain limited to the default letter image, which doesn't allow for much personalisation. Our Invision Community October release introduces a user photo gallery that allows the community team to upload a curated library of images, which members.the community can then select By using only community-approved photos, this ensures that profile images remain safe, consistent, and non-identifying, while giving members a sense of individuality and belonging. Club Auto FollowClubs are individual micro-communities that often have a very focused membership who don't want to miss out on any updates. While our follow and notification system is very robust, most people who join a club want to automatically follow any new items that are posted, such as forum topics. With our October release, you can now set clubs to "auto-follow". When set, any new members who join are automatically added to the follow lists of all content areas, such as forums, ensuring they receive notifications when new topics are posted. This feature is a great way to ensure your club members are always up to date. As always each release contains many other minor fixes and improvements. We hope you enjoy these updates! Some features not available for all plans: Mobile app-like menus are available for all plans. The private photo gallery feature is available for Team, Business and Enterprise plans. The club auto-follow feature is available for all plans. View full blog entry Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

The Invision Community October release is packed with improvements, updates, and new features, including app-like mobile menus, a curated profile photo gallery, and a popular club request. Mobile app-like menusOur October release features redesigned dropdown menus with an app-like design on mobile devices, improved accessibility, and smoother performance. Dropdown menus have received a significant redesign, resulting in a native, app-like experience on touch devices. Menus transition into view, occupying a larger area of the screen, which is great for accessibility. They can be dismissed by swiping the menu off-screen in a downward direction or by tapping the blank area above the menu. mobile.mp4 These menus have also received accessibility improvements on desktop devices. They can be toggled using the Return/Spacebar keys, tabbed into using the Tab key, and dismissed via the Esc key. A huge win for visitors who are unable to comfortably use a mouse (or prefer to use a keyboard) while browsing your community. keyboard.mp4 The new dropdown system offers performance improvements for all devices and leverages modern HTML and CSS features, including the popover attribute, opening/closing transitions, and anchor positioning. desktop.mp4 Combined, this makes browsing on mobile via browser or PWA feel like a truly native experience. Curated Profile Photo GalleryWe work with many communities that are extremely privacy-focused, including those in the medical space and communities working with young, vulnerable people. In these spaces, external uploads are disabled to reduce the risk of exposing personal information, preventing potential harassment, and helping protect members from being identified outside the community. This means profile photos remain limited to the default letter image, which doesn't allow for much personalisation. Our Invision Community October release introduces a user photo gallery that allows the community team to upload a curated library of images, which members.the community can then select By using only community-approved photos, this ensures that profile images remain safe, consistent, and non-identifying, while giving members a sense of individuality and belonging. Club Auto FollowClubs are individual micro-communities that often have a very focused membership who don't want to miss out on any updates. While our follow and notification system is very robust, most people who join a club want to automatically follow any new items that are posted, such as forum topics. With our October release, you can now set clubs to "auto-follow". When set, any new members who join are automatically added to the follow lists of all content areas, such as forums, ensuring they receive notifications when new topics are posted. This feature is a great way to ensure your club members are always up to date. As always each release contains many other minor fixes and improvements. We hope you enjoy these updates! Some features not available for all plans: Mobile app-like menus are available for all plans. The private photo gallery feature is available for Team, Business and Enterprise plans. The club auto-follow feature is available for all plans.Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

This is our October maintenance and enhancement release.Key changes include:Updated: Dropdown menu system.New: Profile Photo Gallery (Team, Business, Enterprise).New: Club members auto-follow content areas when they join a Club.Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Leaders must show upVisible, active leadership sets the culture, drives trust, and sparks engagement. Communities reflect their leaders. If leaders are present, transparent, and approachable, the community thrives. If leaders are absent, culture drifts toward noise, conflict, or apathy. Members look for cues from the top. People follow your lead. Show how you want others to behave. Culture is contagious. Silence leaves space for chaos. Engagement sticks. People stay when leaders make them feel valued. Communities succeed when leaders act as participants. Be an active leaderLeadership isn’t about dropping in with polished statements and disappearing. It’s about being part of the daily rhythm. Members need to see you asking questions, joining conversations, and sharing in the wins. That visibility signals that participation matters. You don’t need to be online every hour. What matters is consistency and authenticity. Share weekly updates or thought-starters. Reply to posts, not all, but enough to be noticed. Rotate leadership visibility across your team to avoid burnout. A few minutes of genuine presence beats hours of distant oversight. The psychology of participationWhy do members hold back? Fear of being ignored, embarrassed, or excluded. Why do they engage? Because they see leaders modeling the behavior, they trust it’s safe, and they feel appreciated when they contribute. When people know participation is encouraged, safe, and celebrated, they’ll step forward. As a leader, you can create those conditions: Social proof: Model the behavior you want. Members will mirror it. Safety: Welcome all questions and feedback. Set the tone that mistakes and disagreements are okay. Recognition: Say thank you. Highlight wins. Shine a light on contributions. Make it clear: “You belong here.” Build trust, Keep itTrust doesn’t come from titles. It comes from consistency, transparency, and how you handle tough moments. Community members notice if you respond, if you explain, and if you live by the same rules as they do. Show up reliably. Build a rhythm members can count on. Be transparent. Share decisions, admit mistakes, and explain why. Tackle conflict. Don’t go silent. Address issues calmly and fairly. Empower members. Share ownership. Let others lead projects or groups. Model fairness. Apply the same rules to yourself as everyone else. Trust is earned daily. Managing vs ParticipatingManaging Participating Community Leadership Enforcing rules Building relationships Show up consistently One-way announcements Two-way conversations Foster peer connections Distance unless crisis Everyday presence Recognize contributions publicly Members as “users” Members as partners Communicate openly and transparently Traditional management looks like top-down control. Community leadership is different. It’s collaborative and participatory which is closer to hosting than managing. Leaders who join the journey create stronger, more resilient communities. Real-World Examples Salesforce Trailblazers: Executives engage directly with members, answer questions, and empower MVP volunteers. The result? A 3M+ member community that drives product success. Stack Overflow: Founders participated daily, modeled quality interactions, and gave ownership back to the community. Trust was earned through transparency and responsiveness. Wikipedia: Leadership facilitated consensus instead of dictating decisions. Community-driven policies created long-term resilience. Share community ownershipCommunities flourish when leaders actively nurture and partake in the world they’re building. Your leadership team’s job isn’t just to set rules or watch from the sidelines. It’s to model the behavior you want, build trust through transparency, and share ownership so the community becomes stronger than any one person. Communities succeed when leaders lead by doing.Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

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Leaders must show upVisible, active leadership sets the culture, drives trust, and sparks engagement. Communities reflect their leaders. If leaders are present, transparent, and approachable, the community thrives. If leaders are absent, culture drifts toward noise, conflict, or apathy. Members look for cues from the top. People follow your lead. Show how you want others to behave. Culture is contagious. Silence leaves space for chaos. Engagement sticks. People stay when leaders make them feel valued. Communities succeed when leaders act as participants. Be an active leaderLeadership isn’t about dropping in with polished statements and disappearing. It’s about being part of the daily rhythm. Members need to see you asking questions, joining conversations, and sharing in the wins. That visibility signals that participation matters. You don’t need to be online every hour. What matters is consistency and authenticity. Share weekly updates or thought-starters. Reply to posts, not all, but enough to be noticed. Rotate leadership visibility across your team to avoid burnout. A few minutes of genuine presence beats hours of distant oversight. The psychology of participationWhy do members hold back? Fear of being ignored, embarrassed, or excluded. Why do they engage? Because they see leaders modeling the behavior, they trust it’s safe, and they feel appreciated when they contribute. When people know participation is encouraged, safe, and celebrated, they’ll step forward. As a leader, you can create those conditions: Social proof: Model the behavior you want. Members will mirror it. Safety: Welcome all questions and feedback. Set the tone that mistakes and disagreements are okay. Recognition: Say thank you. Highlight wins. Shine a light on contributions. Make it clear: “You belong here.” Build trust, Keep itTrust doesn’t come from titles. It comes from consistency, transparency, and how you handle tough moments. Community members notice if you respond, if you explain, and if you live by the same rules as they do. Show up reliably. Build a rhythm members can count on. Be transparent. Share decisions, admit mistakes, and explain why. Tackle conflict. Don’t go silent. Address issues calmly and fairly. Empower members. Share ownership. Let others lead projects or groups. Model fairness. Apply the same rules to yourself as everyone else. Trust is earned daily. Managing vs ParticipatingManaging Participating Community Leadership Enforcing rules Building relationships Show up consistently One-way announcements Two-way conversations Foster peer connections Distance unless crisis Everyday presence Recognize contributions publicly Members as “users” Members as partners Communicate openly and transparently Traditional management looks like top-down control. Community leadership is different. It’s collaborative and participatory which is closer to hosting than managing. Leaders who join the journey create stronger, more resilient communities. Real-World Examples Salesforce Trailblazers: Executives engage directly with members, answer questions, and empower MVP volunteers. The result? A 3M+ member community that drives product success. Stack Overflow: Founders participated daily, modeled quality interactions, and gave ownership back to the community. Trust was earned through transparency and responsiveness. Wikipedia: Leadership facilitated consensus instead of dictating decisions. Community-driven policies created long-term resilience. Share community ownershipCommunities flourish when leaders actively nurture and partake in the world they’re building. Your leadership team’s job isn’t just to set rules or watch from the sidelines. It’s to model the behavior you want, build trust through transparency, and share ownership so the community becomes stronger than any one person. Communities succeed when leaders lead by doing. View full blog entry Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu