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Anonymous Posting For a very long time Invision Community has allowed community owners to choose how open or private their communities should be. Communities could optionally allow guests to post without registering, they could allow the use of pseudonyms or they could require the use of real...

Sign in with Apple is built on similar technologies as other login buttons such as those already available in Invision Community from Facebook, Google and Microsoft. The difference is Apple’s unique focus on privacy. On certain community types users can be reluctant to sign up when they fear...

https://invisioncommunity.com/news/product-updates/45-commerce-trials-r1201/

We're getting really close to releasing 4.5! This blog entry looks at a new "expanded" mode for listing topics inside a forum, and also a revamp of our existing grid view. https://invisioncommunity.com/news/product-updates/45-forum-view-updates-r1193/

If you want to connect your community with over 2000 web apps, such as Google Docs, Twitter, Facebook, Slack, Trello, Facebook Ads, ActiveCampaign, Zendesk, Asana, Salesforce, Hubspot, Discord, Stripe and more without writing a single line of code, check out our latest Invision Community 4.5...

A topic is more than a collection of posts; it's a living entity that ebbs and flows over time. Evergreen topics can see month-long gaps between posts and longer topics spanning numerous pages can end up hard to navigate through to find useful content. With this in mind, we've added numerous...

We've had a formal "QA" mode in Invision Community for a while now, but we were often asked for a simpler way to mark a post as the solution without allowing up/down voting of replies and changing how the forum listing looked. Happily, this has now been added to Invision Community 4.5...

I get a notification! You get a notification! Everyone gets a notification! (Unless you turn them off) As we get ready for the release our mobile app, we've reworked notification settings to reduce confusion and allow mobile app notifications to be chosen. Along with this, we also snuck in a...

We all love stats, but how useful are they are identifying trends? (That's rhetorical :D) We figured that we should make stats a little more useful by allowing you to view trends. (The full blog entry is...

4.5: User Interface Improvements Invision Community has certainly changed a lot over the years as we've moved through major updates and large user interface changes. While large scale changes offer a dramatic difference, it is sometimes the smaller changes that bring the most satisfaction when...

4.5: Simple Stock Photo Picker We have come a long way since the late 90s when someone had the genius idea of using a small yellow smiling face image instead of the more common colon-bracket representation of a smiling face. In Invision Community, there are various places that photography can...

https://invisioncommunity.com/news/product-updates/44-turbo-charging-loading-speeds-r1109 4.4: Turbo charging loading speeds It might seem a little odd starting a blog on increasing Invision Community's speed with the word "lazy", but I'll explain why this is a good word for performance...

https://invisioncommunity.com/news/product-updates/44-increase-visitor-registrations-with-post-before-registering-r1106/ 4.4: Increase visitor registrations with Post Before Registering It's very easy to focus on a single metric to gauge the success of your community. It's very common for...

4.4: Application manifest and icon management Who remembers the earlier days of the internet? Back when you popped your logo at the top left of your site and you were largely done? Invision Community has continually developed to account for all the new services that have been built during our...

As we come close to wrapping up development of Invision Community 4.3, we wanted to let you know of a few smaller improvements we've made to increase engagement to your community. Email Despite fancy new things like social media and push notifications, trusty old email has been proven to be...

We've recently spoken about how we've brought our Gallery and Blog apps bang up to date with interface overhauls to bring them inline with the high standards our customers expect. Keeping this in mind, we're thrilled to announce that we've taken Commerce right back to 2009. This needs an...

No man is an island" wrote John Donne. He wrote that a good 200 years before computers were invented, but it rings true for any well written framework like Invision Community. The included REST API allows developers to fetch data from Invision Community and also allows data to be added. This...

4.3: Promote to Facebook Pages and Groups Social media promotion should be a part of any marketing strategy. Curating interesting content from your community and sharing to social media channels like Facebook and Twitter is a great way to drive traffic to your site. Invision Community 4.2...

Viewing and editing a member is probably one of the most frequently used features of the AdminCP. With the design unchanged for many years, and the tabbed interface starting to grow unwieldy, it was due for some love. We have not only dramatically improved the design but added many new features...

Videos are everywhere. We shoot them on our smart phones, share them to social media, messengers and more. Up until now, the only way to share a video to Invision Community was to use a service like YouTube or Vimeo. If you uploaded a video file it would be treated like an attachment, and if...