Earlier this summer, Paul shared the results from our first two Product Stories experiments. We’ll have more to share from follow-up experiments soon, but today, we wanted to share a new feature with you – secure, passwordless login for forums.
Login help requests make up 20% of Threadloom...
This is the July edition of my 2020 Community Management series to help Invision Communities of all sizes build successful communities. Today’s article brings real-world guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO) to online communities in effectively managing their communication...
In last week’s blog post, I shared about an experiment that we ran last year with AZBilliards, Home Theater Forum, TalkBass, and Windsor Peak Press. To recap, we created a new site called Product Stories with a product-focused presentation of forum discussions. The initial results were...
“Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on.” -from the 2001 movie Blow
When ad revenue is high, we can overlook other ways to monetize our communities. Many of...
Note: This is reprinted from the original on my Medium profile here, since I thought people on TAZ may appreciate the article too.
As nearly everyone in the web development world is aware, WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world. Responsible for powering 35% of the web and growing, the...
Synoptek, a California business that provides cloud hosting and IT management services to more than a thousand customer nationwide, suffered a ransomware attack this week that has disrupted operations for many of its clients, according to sources. The company has reportedly paid a ransom demand...
XenForo 2.1.6 Released
XenForo 2.1.6 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo 2.1 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability.
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XenForo 2.1.6 Released
XenForo 2.1.6 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo 2.1 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability.
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Upgrade directly from within your...
XenForo Importers 1.3.0 Released
XenForo Importers 1.3.0 is now available for all licensed customers to download. If you have already successfully completed your import, you will not need to upgrade.
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Almost every single day, we receive feedback on our popular clubs feature. Some of the requests are big in scope, and some a little smaller.
Following on from our previous blog entry for Club Pages, we’re pleased to announce a collection of smaller, but no less useful improvements.
Improved...
Invision Community has supported member referrals via the Commerce app since Commerce was called Nexus all those years ago.
Community owners have been able to see at a glance who is spreading the word and members have received the kudos associated with a growing referral count in return.
When...
Microsoft today released updates to plug three dozen security holes in its Windows operating system and other software. The patches include fixes for seven critical bugs — those that can be exploited by malware or miscreants to take control over a Windows system with no help from users — as well...
Recently, we've had a few questions regarding our progress towards version 2.2 of XenForo, so it feels like the time is right to post an update to keep you all in the loop.
First things first, we have to say that 2.2 isn't as far along as we would have liked. However, it is now our primary...
XenForo Importers 1.2.5 is now available for all licensed customers to download. If you have already successfully completed your import, you will not need to upgrade.
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Some of the changes in XFI 1.2.5 include...
Responding to incidents of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online has been a priority at Cloudflare from the beginning. The stories of CSAM victims are tragic, and bring to light an appalling corner of the Internet. When it comes to CSAM, our position is simple: We don’t tolerate it. We abhor...
You'd be forgiven for thinking that RSS feeds belong in some bygone era of the web where Netscape was king and getting online meant listening to your modem scream at your phone line.
There's certainly a lot of newer web technologies to share data, but the venerable RSS feed still has a place...
Without a doubt, clubs is one of the most popular features added to Invision Community in recent times.
Invision Community clubs allows you to run sub-communities on your site. We've seen clubs used in many ways, including managing geographically local groups and clan groups for large gaming...
Invision Community has come a long way over the past five years.
We've added many new features and invigorated the front-end user experience to keep it current and in-line with modern interfaces.
One area that has remained largely the same is the Admin Control Panel.
When we released Invision...
Today, we’re excited to open source Flan Scan, Cloudflare’s in-house lightweight network vulnerability scanner. Flan Scan is a thin wrapper around Nmap that converts this popular open source tool into a vulnerability scanner with the added benefit of easy deployment.
We created Flan Scan after...
Microsoft today released updates to plug security holes in its software, including patches to fix at least 74 weaknesses in various flavors of Windows and programs that run on top of it. The November updates include patches for a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer that is currently being...
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