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🍂🍁 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. This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 Current Happenings Version Five! 🎉 Our first detailed view of version 5 is out! Ehren has shared the first of many blogs unpacking the exciting improvements in this new version. These visuals walk us through the new sidebar layout and new view modes for the forum index and topic pages. 🤩 Join in the excitement! We would love to hear your thoughts too! 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. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Hello, I've decided to get back into IPS. I used to work on other platforms for a while, but now I'm returning to the world of IPS. Unfortunately, we lost the IPSMake.com domain, but our new address is https://ipstheme.com/. IPSTheme is known for offering excellent designs since 2010. I aim to create unique and impressive designs on this platform. I also plan to offer my XenForo designs to IPS users. This will enable the IPS community to benefit from higher-quality designs and enhance the overall appeal of the platform. If you'd like to see my XenForo designs, you can visit this link: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/authors/osman.87294/ If you're interested in joining this exciting journey and contributing to the success of IPSTheme, please feel free to get in touch with me. Together, we can work on fantastic design projects. Best regards Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Welcome to Invision Community 5! Over the coming weeks, we'll be exploring a bunch of new features and improvements coming to our user interface including our brand new theme editor, a new mobile UI, dark mode and performance improvements thanks to a reduction in both JavaScript and CSS. To kick off this series, let’s take a closer look at the new sidebar layout and new view modes for the forum index and topic pages. Sidebar Layout Traditionally, Invision Community has shipped with a horizontal header and navigation bar at the top of the page, which is still available in version 5. We're introducing a brand new (and optional) sidebar layout, which can be enabled or disabled easily from within your theme settings. The sidebar not only provides convenient access to your applications, activity streams and search bar, but you can now add links to nodes for even easier access to popular or commonly used areas of your community. For example - a category from your forum, an album from the Gallery, or a product group from Commerce. Sidebar-zoom.mp4 Forum Index: Feed view One of our goals for version 5 was to re-imagine new ways for your visitors to consume content, and the sidebar layout is just one of our solutions. Table view has been the typical way of displaying forums, providing visitors with a simple summary of the most recently active topic. Grid mode introduced cover photos to forums and is a great way to make your page more visually engaging, while fluid view allows visitors to filter through a list of topics to easily focus on multiple areas of the community. Joining these view modes in version 5 is our new Feed view. Optional cover photos and featured forum colours allow you to personalise each forum, and a list of recently active topics with snippets of the most recent reply allow you to easily see what each forum is focusing on at a glance. The topic list drops below the cover photo and converts to a scrollable list on small devices. It's our fresh take on content display, and we can’t wait to hear your feedback! Topic pages: Compact view In addition, Invision Community 5 also introduces a new, compact layout option for topics. We wanted to create a layout which placed focus on your content while still keeping all of the authors profile information easily accessible within a mini profile. Stats, rank, badges, reputation points and more can be found by tapping the icon at the top of every post. The mini profile strip has also been added to other areas of the software too, such as comments and reviews in applications like Gallery and Blogs, and will appear on the mobile layout when the traditional "table view" is used in topics. Switching between the new compact view and the author sidebar view takes just seconds giving you complete control over your community. Mini profile.mp4 As part of this view, you also have the choice to feature/pin the original post to the top of every page, making it a breeze for your visitors to easily understand the context of replies without navigating back to page 1. Pinned posts have a slightly larger font-size to distinguish them from replies, and we've thoughtfully truncated them on pages beyond the first to keep scrolling to a minimum. The new sidebar layout and view modes offer a fresh and innovative approach to navigating and interacting with your community. We’re really keen to hear your thoughts on these new views and whether you’ll be unleashing them on your own sites! We appreciate that no two sites are the same, and those who are a fan of the classic header look will benefit from quick styling tools and a visual way to re-arrange the header elements which we’ll cover in a later blog. We’re looking forward to showcasing a whole bunch of new features over the coming weeks - so stay tuned, and we’ll see you then! View full blog entry Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

We've been dropping hints about various development features that haven't yet made their appearance in our previous blog entries. Now that hooks are no longer a possibility, we've expanded our Extensions system to allow developers to integrate with other areas within the framework. This blog entry will give an overview of our new Extensions. We are working on updating our developer documentation to include these changes. AccountSettings Allows you to add tabs to the Account Settings page. This extension contains two methods: getTab Returns the key for the tab (or null to hide) getContent The tab content Loader This extension was created primarily to allow you to load Javascript and CSS files in areas outside of your application, but has since been expanded to include other functionality. It is essentially an extension on the Dispatcher. Available methods: css Returns an array of CSS files to load js Returns an array of JS files to load checkForRedirect Redirect users to another location. This is especially useful for custom applications that would have previously bypassed an existing controller. customError Show a custom error message to the user instead of the standard IPS error messages. SearchContent This is used to allow your application's content to the Search Index. Previously, the framework relied on the ContentRouter extension for this, and the use of the \IPS\Content\Searchable interface. The interface has been removed, and searchable classes are determined by the new extension. The SearchContent extension contains one required method, supportedClasses. You can also use this extension to override our default search logic for your content. Other New Extensions LoginHandler Allows you to create additional Login methods UIComment/UIItem/UINode/UIReview UI Extensions, described here, here, and here UserMenu Allows you to add content to various menus. Additional information can be found here. New Commerce Extensions The following new extensions have been added to Commerce: Gateway Allows you to create new payment gateways LicenseKey Allows you to add new methods for generating and managing license keys Payout Allows you to create gateways for payouts Deprecated Extensions The following Extensions are no longer supported and have been removed: BBCode ContentModeratorPermissions (use ModeratorPermissions instead) CreateMenu (replaced by UserMenu) IncomingEmail MemberForm Reminder: Send us your Feedback Send us your questions or use-cases by submitting a topic here. Please note that this is a private forum; you will not see topics posted by others, so you are free to share code samples if necessary. We will review your questions, and then aggregate them into an FAQ. The deadline for your question to be considered for the FAQ is October 15. After that you may still submit questions in the Contributor forum, where we will do our best to respond. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

🍂🍎 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. This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 Current Happenings New Version The official September release was made available earlier this month. Here is what is included in September release, version 4.7.13. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/ Key improvements include: New Spam Prevention Features Introducing Community Hive Charles and I talked about the release in our September Release Chat as well as our excitement for version 5 this past Wednesday. You can watch the video and participate in that discussion in the converted live topic. Changelog Finally, for those that like to see what we are up to line by line, here is the changelog for the week for version 4. Changes are limited for now as we focus attention on version 5. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

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Join us as we discuss the September 2023 release of Invision Community. If you cannot attend, catch the video and discussion in the converted live topic in our Invision Community Insider forum. Do you have a question about the release? Post your question in the comments and we will try to get to them live! Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

We strive to ensure our cloud platform leverages the latest, most advanced, secure and performant technologies available. To achieve this, maintenance is of course regularly necessary. While the vast majority of updates and maintenance are performed seamlessly behind the scenes, there are occasions where a brief outage may occur. On September 20 @ 10:00PM (EDT), an upgrade to our EU infrastructure will be performed. The maintenance window will be one hour, however, we expect service interruption, if any, to only last a few moments. Please note that this does not impact all EU customers; only those who are served by our EU platform. Thank you for your patience and, as always, you may find up-to-date information on our Status Page. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

🍂🍎 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. This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 Current Happenings Newest Version 5 Teaser is here! 🎉 Matt has given me the privilege of posting our new teaser here first! 👏 Check it out and let us know what you think. 🤩 New Version The official September release was made available last week. Upgrade your community now. Here is what is included in September release, version 4.7.13. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/ Key improvements include: New Spam Prevention Features Introducing Community Hive Release Chat Our September release chat is scheduled for Wednesday. Join us live or catch the video and discussion in the converted topic after the event. Marketplace Closure As a reminder, our Marketplace Closure announcement was made last month. Notices are added to the AdminCP with the September release. Last week, we have shared our new 'license key' system to allow you to transfer your purchases to the third-party developer website in a privacy-conscious way. You can get more details and ask any questions in that post: Changelog No version 4 Changelog to share this week. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

☀️🍎 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. This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 Current Happenings Version 5 Teaser Announcement!! 🎉 We shared our first official look at version 5 this week! Check it out and join in on the excitement for what's to come. New Version The official September release is available. Upgrade your community now. Here is what is included in September release, version 4.7.13. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/ Key improvements include: New Spam Prevention Features Introducing Community Hive Introducing Community Hive We are proud to introduce our new free-to-use service in beta! We have received super helpful feedback from many of you and we are making changes daily! Thank you to those of you that are on this ride with us! Release Chat Our September release chat is scheduled for Tuesday. Join us live or catch the video and discussion in the converted topic after the event. Marketplace Closure Our Marketplace Closure announcement was made last month. Notices are added to the AdminCP with the September release. New this week, we have shared our new 'license key' system to allow you to transfer your purchases to the third-party developer website in a privacy-conscious way. You can get more details and ask any questions in that post: Changelog Finally, for those that like to see what we are up to line by line, here is the changelog for the week for version 4. Changes are limited for now as we focus attention on version 5. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Hello and thank you for your interest in Invisionary Themes & Design! My name is Graham Smith and I'm a freelance web designer, occasional developer and web hosting/server admin. I reside in the UK and have been creating websites since 2000, both for myself and also for a small number of special clients including television/film actors, supporting local charities and community organisations. I've been using and creating themes and plugins for Invision Community (IPS) since it launched over 2 decades ago, starting out with the predecessor to IPS known as Ikonboard and also Simple Machines Forum (SMF) as platforms for my online communities. I now develop my own themes for Invision Community and am known for: Curious? Invisionary.tech is the place to experience my themes, try out some variations, get support and purchase from a growing range of innovative and original themes and plugins available for Invision Community (IPS/IPB). It's completely free to sign up! Re: IPS Marketplace Closure October 2023 Already have an active purchase for one of my paid products via the IPS Marketplace? For continued support, updates and access to exclusive client offers, register an account over at Invisionary.tech if you haven't already, and then contact me to confirm the details of your original Marketplace purchase (your license keys can now be found here). Look out for more themes coming soon! Graham P. Smith Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

We offer data conversion/migration services for both "vanilla" and custom imports. This includes importing forum software others do not support, including 3rd party add-ons and plug-ins. See https://driven2services.com/threads/to-invision-community-ips-community-suite-conversion-and-migration-services-pricing.42/ for a small sample of the import types we've migrated. We've handled hundreds of conversions, including communities with over 50 million posts, to/from numerous different forum and CMS software packages. Need a community manager or community administrative services? We have over two decades in this field and could be happy to discuss your needs and the options available to help your community thrive. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

As you may know, Invision Community 5 is currently in development, and progress has been great, with many areas starting to come together. Almost all of the significant code restructuring has been completed, with much progress on the UI and the new theme bearing fruit. A fair few new features are complete, but some aren't quite ready to show, as they need a little love from Ehren. I wanted to share a little teaser of Invision Community 5; how many new things or changes can you spot? The small print Please remember that the features, functionality and UI shown in this little teaser are pre-beta, so they are subject to change. The features and functionality shown here aren't all that has been completed; many new features are 'code-complete' but waiting for some UI polish before we're ready to share more. Essentially, what you're seeing is a work in progress. We don't have a release timeframe in mind yet, but we'll let you know when we do! Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

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The Marketplace is closing on October 30th 2023. If you haven't already read the announcement, please read it first. As our Marketplace prepares to close its doors, we want to ensure a seamless transition for our customers. To facilitate this process, we're introducing a new 'license key' system to allow you to transfer your purchases to the third-party developer website in a privacy-conscious way. On the 'My Purchases' page, you'll find an improved layout displaying each resource you've purchased from the Marketplace. This includes the original purchase date, the expiry date (if applicable) and the current renewal term (if applicable). Additionally, we've added two new enhancements. First, you'll notice the purchase-specific license key (depicted as XXXX in the screenshot). This license key is accessible to the third party author and can be provided to them through their website or other means. It enables them to confirm your payment for the resource and check its activation status. Secondly, we've added a link to their profile in the Providers Directory (if applicable). You can find contact details and a link to the provider's website on their profile. We hope that these additions will help make the transition as smooth as possible. Third Party Developers Developers can now access the new 'My Sales' area, where you'll find a searchable list of resources that have had sales on the Marketplace. This list may include resources that were previously hidden. Clicking on any of these resources will display a list similar to the old 'my paid files.' Here, you'll find detailed information for each purchase, including purchase and expiry dates. Additionally, the list now includes the customer's current renewal term, which may differ from the initial purchase due to pricing changes. Furthermore, you'll notice the new license key, conveniently searchable in the top right corner. We've also made the list of purchases available in CSV format, allowing for easy integration into your own website or marketplace. Please let us know if you have any questions and we hope these new tools will ease the transition from the Marketplace. View full blog entry Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

The Marketplace is closing on October 30th 2023. If you haven't already read the announcement, please read it first. As our Marketplace prepares to close its doors, we want to ensure a seamless transition for our customers. To facilitate this process, we're introducing a new 'license key' system to allow you to transfer your purchases to the third-party developer website in a privacy-conscious way. On the 'My Purchases' page, you'll find an improved layout displaying each resource you've purchased from the Marketplace. This includes the original purchase date, the expiry date (if applicable) and the current renewal term (if applicable). Additionally, we've added two new enhancements. First, you'll notice the purchase-specific license key (depicted as XXXX in the screenshot). This license key is accessible to the third party author and can be provided to them through their website or other means. It enables them to confirm your payment for the resource and check its activation status. Secondly, we've added a link to their profile in the Providers Directory (if applicable). You can find contact details and a link to the provider's website on their profile. We hope that these additions will help make the transition as smooth as possible. Third Party Developers Developers can now access the new 'My Sales' area, where you'll find a searchable list of resources that have had sales on the Marketplace. This list may include resources that were previously hidden. Clicking on any of these resources will display a list similar to the old 'my paid files.' Here, you'll find detailed information for each purchase, including purchase and expiry dates. Additionally, the list now includes the customer's current renewal term, which may differ from the initial purchase due to pricing changes. Furthermore, you'll notice the new license key, conveniently searchable in the top right corner. We've also made the list of purchases available in CSV format, allowing for easy integration into your own website or marketplace. Please let us know if you have any questions and we hope these new tools will ease the transition from the Marketplace. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

☀️ 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. This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 Current Happenings New Version Our newest beta is ready! The official September release will be available next week. As with all beta releases, upgrading your community is at your own risk. Please make sure you backup before upgrading! Here is what is slated for the September release, version 4.7.13. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/ New Spam Prevention Features Introducing Community Hive Introducing Community Hive We are proud to introduce our new free-to-use service in beta! We have received super helpful feedback from many of you and we are making changes daily! Thank you to those of you that are on this ride with us! Marketplace Closure Our Marketplace Closure announcement was last week. We will follow up with more information this coming week. Announcements will be added to the AdminCP with the September release. Changelog No version 4 Changelog to share this week. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

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We offer live events, ticket sales, live streaming, and more for your forum. We also can help you run and organize your event with community managers on our team willing to make sure you are adding engagement, a new revenue model, and new video content to your platform. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Software Engineer with a passion for creating beautiful and user-friendly products. I have experience in frontend, backend, testing and UX/UI design, but my primary experience is frontend. Also I'm contributor for Invision Community making themes and apps. Apps available for sale: Player Panel Content Notes Vacation Advanced Members Advanced Server List and more! Check here. Themes for sale: Fluent Design Theme Edition Dynamic Theme You can contact me in English and Polish. If you want read more check FAQ page. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Been doing development on this platform since 2008. Most of my work nowadays are kept private as my clients that the applications to be exclusive. My services include, but are not limited to: Custom development Long-term project Move your files to a 3rd party S3 provider, such as BackBlaze or Wasabi Compatibility upgrades for "dead" projects Code optimizations You can also contact me in Norwegian (or any other Scandinavian language) 🙂 Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

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☀️ 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. This week's updates from the Invision Community team are below. 🙂 Current Happenings New Version Our newest beta is ready! Upgrade to the official September release in a few weeks. As with all beta releases, upgrading your community is at your own risk. Please make sure you backup before upgrading! Here is what is slated for the September release, version 4.7.13. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/ New Spam Prevention Features Introducing Community Hive Introducing Community Hive We are proud to introduce our new free-to-use service in beta! We would love to hear your thoughts as we continue to bring this to life. Marketplace Closure Our Marketplace Closure announcement was last week. We will follow up with more information. Announcements will be added to the AdminCP with the September release. Changelog Changes for version 4 are limited as we prepare version 5. For those that like to see what we are up to line by line, here is the changelog for the week for version 4. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

This is our September maintenance release. Key changes include: New Spam Prevention Features Introducing Community Hive Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Everyone at Invision Community is pleased to introduce Community Hive. We are creating a new free-to-use service to help independent communities reach new audiences and re-engage existing members. Community Hive delivers updates from your favourite communities and helps you explore new ones by bringing all the communities you follow into a single feed with optional email updates. The Invision Community September 2023 release will bring Community Hive integration to Invision Community and we're also releasing integrations for XenForo, Squarespace and WordPress. More integrations for popular platforms are planned over the coming months. The "Why" We believe in the power of independent communities. Technology has changed over the two decades we've been building community tools and despite the advances in technology a key problem independent communities still have is re-engaging existing members and finding new audiences. Social media has diminishing returns, and search results continually down-rank user-generated content. Reaching new audiences has never been more challenging. Community Hive solves that by providing a single platform to showcase your content to new and existing audiences. We don't keep your content; the only way to engage is to visit your site, ensuring you retain complete control and ownership. Regular updates via email and push notifications reach your existing members wherever they are. As our attention spans shorten and our online time becomes more cluttered, checking in with each community becomes more of a struggle. Independent and forum based communities fight for attention with social media, and owned platforms like Discord and Slack. Allowing your members to follow your community with Community Hive gives you increased visibility and discoverability and helps level the playing field. The Platform Community Hive has a familiar feed view with two main areas. "Following" shows a feed of communities you already follow to ensure you see more of what you like. This feed learns over time what content you favour and ensures you see more of what you like. The "Discover" tab shows you a feed of content from communities outside of your following list, which is a great way to discover new online communities to join. Following is easy; you don't even need to register on the community to add it to your followed list on Community Hive. Robust account management makes it easy to unfollow communities and set your desired audience classification preferences. Community Hive is mobile-first with push notifications and is ready to be added to your phone's home screen as an app. Integration Community Hive will launch with integration for several platforms such as XenForo, Squarespace and WordPress. Invision Community integration has several tools to nudge your members to add your community to Community Hive with buttons in key follow areas. Following from a community only requests your email address. You can optionally set a password later on Community Hive to enable your feed to be viewed on multiple devices. Clicking "Follow on Community Hive" from an Invision Community when you have an account with that community. Clicking "Follow on Community Hive" from an Invision Community when you do not have an account with that community. Community Hive will be launched in beta alongside Invision Community's September 2023 release, with integrations released for other platforms. You can visit Community Hive now and join in the discussion on the Community Hive forums. We look forward to seeing you there! View full blog entry Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu