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Organic growth on social media means you build a huge fan following and get tons of engagements without having to spend money on ads. Organic growth on social media requires patience. Unless you already have built a strong personal brand or have celebrity status, the most effective way to expand your reach is through paid advertising. While social media offers free exposure, turning that exposure into conversions demands consistent effort, strategic planning, and financial investment.

We're pleased to announce that CSAM scanning is now available at no extra cost. What is CSAM scanning?CSAM stands for Child Sexual Abuse Material. The media served by your community will be scanned to identify any matches in a central CSAM database. These lists are provided by leading child safety advocacy groups, such as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). CSAM scanning is now recommended to increase compliance in many areas, and you can rest assured that Invision Community will now block any harmful media from being shown in your community. Moderating large communities can be challenging when your members are able to upload photos, and this s…

Invision Community 5.0.2 is now available via your Admin Control PanelThis release focuses on bugs reported since the release of 5.0.1 and features many UI improvements. You can see the full list of fixes in our release notes section. This release also resolves several issues with Downloads screenshots and thumbnails. What's next?This week we'll continue to triage and manage incoming bug reports and we expect to have another maintenance release out next week to ensure that bug fixes are resolved as quickly as possible. We then expect 5.0.4 to follow within two to three weeks as we work in some larger fixes that will require more testing. If we see anything more pressing, …

Welcome to Current Projects, a monthly newsletter about what we’re currently working on at Discourse. Your questions and feedback are welcome! Kicking off Review queue improvements We are kicking off a project to make moderation easier by revamping the review queue. This will start with incremental updates to the existing moderation interface as we work toward a new, user-friendly layout for moderators. AI-powered translations We recently started working on a project to add integrations between the Discourse Translator plugin and Discourse AI to enable Discourse sites to automatically translate all topics to a user’s preferred language. Default AI spam detector The on…

Anyone please explain to me how does this forum script works? It is open source, right? How do I start using NodeBB for my self hosted forum?

I have never used it myself and I have used forum running on Discourse. I would like to use this software for my self hosted forum. How do you rate this software, is it better than other open source forum software?

How do you know if your community is having a positive effect on the broader organization it represents? Where do you turn when you have to defend the existence of your community? Metrics. They tell the story of your community’s impact. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.discourse.org/2025/02/metrics-that-matter-a-guide-to-selecting-the-right-ones-for-your-community 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

Invision Community 5.0.1 is now available via your Admin Control PanelThis release focuses on bugs reported since the release of 5.0.0 and features many editor and UI improvements. You can see the full list of fixes in our release notes section. What's next?This week we'll continue to triage and manage incoming bug reports and we expect to have another maintenance release out next week to ensure that bug fixes are resolved as quickly as possible. If we see anything more pressing, we'll release a patch which can be applied via your Admin Control Panel. As always, thank you for your testing and reports. It really does help us!

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, it’s time to show your members how much you care! Join our Customer Success Team on Thursday, February 13, 2025 6:00 PM UTC for our webinar on how to express your appreciation for your community. 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

xenForo released a new HYS for xenForo v 2.4. The core of it is highlighting chunked uploads. What is chunked uploads you ask? It is an upload system that will split large file uploads into multiple parts which makes it possible to upload files larger than what the server would normally allow. Is it useful? Yes and no. If you allow users to upload large files and had to set your php.ini upload limit high to allow it then yes it's useful. If you don't it's of no use at all. To me this is something that is available in other software for awhile now. Once again the xenForo team underwhelmed. They rest on their laurels and do nothing to innovate. If anyon…

It's been a very eventful week here at Invision Community, with the launch of Invision Community 5 and I wanted to take a minute to give an update on what has happened and what we've learned this week. Fixes and PatchesDespite being a brand-new platform, Invision Community 5 has had a very low number of critical issues, primarily thanks to months of careful testing and preparation before this release. We have made two patches this week that fix the following issues: An issue where some Cloud sites would block .svg and webp images when uploaded. An issue where updating the approval queue during the v4 to v5 upgrade could fail. An issue where the Policy Page would show an e…

The Dark/Light Mode Toggle theme component, which adds a toggle to allow users to easily switch between light and dark modes, has been merged into Discourse core and it can be enabled via the interface color selector site setting. In addition to various bug fixes and improvements, the core version differs slightly from the original theme component in that it has a third “Auto” option which makes the site’s color mode match the system preference of the user’s device. The color selector can be configured via the interface color selector site setting to appear either in the site header next to the search icon, or in the sidebar footer. Here’s a screenshot when it’s in the…

New features in 3.4.0.beta4 Redesigned emojis The emoji picker now uses icon within the composer. When typing out an emoji, selecting one will replace any partially written text. Additionally, there were several fixes to emoji menu positioning, sizing, and general behavior. Exporting user data Discourse continues to be GDPR compliant by allowing admins to export individual user data through the User exports section, which is available when selecting a specific user from admin settings. Flagging illegal content Trust level 0 (TL0) and anonymous users can now flag and report illegal content. Consistent admin settings Admin settings now only show relevant site settings i…

Discourse 3.3.4 Stable Release Discourse strongly recommends that all sites follow the default tests-passed branch of Discourse. The “stable” branch is more focused on lack of change than lack of bugs - all releases, including those on tests-passed and beta are production ready. Security Updates This release includes fixes for these security issues reported by our community and HackerOne. XSS via topic titles when CSP disabled (CVE-2024-53266) Partial DoS via inline oneboxes (CVE-2024-53851) Potential bypass of chat permissions (CVE-2024-53994) Users can see other user’s tagged PMs (CVE-2024-56197) HTMLi(XSS without CSP) via Onebox URLs (CVE-2024-56328) Stored DOM-base…

Here at Discourse, we’re always striving to make community management easier. That’s why Discourse 3.4 has introduced a more consistent admin experience, a simplified signup and login flow, mobile app improvements, and AI-powered tools to fight spam and help manage your community. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.discourse.org/2025/02/unpacking-discourse-3-4 2 posts - 2 participants Read full topic

Discourse 3.4 is now live! We’ve implemented major changes to simplify the process of managing your community. One-click AI spam detector A more consistent admin experience Simplified signup and login flow for community members AI support via ask.discourse.com DiscourseHub updates … and so much more! Check out our blog post, as well as the 3.4.0.beta4 release-notes topic for details. Discourse – 4 Feb 25 Unpacking Discourse 3.4 We’re always striving to make community management easier. That’s why Discourse 3.4 has introduced a variety of improvements from the admin to AI-powered tools to fight spam and help manage your community. …

We're pleased to say that Invision Community 5.0.0 is now available to all customers.It's been a long journey, but we are now ready to support v5 as our primary release and offer our thanks to all of those who been involved in our beta testing program. What does this mean?We are currently in the soft release phase to help us manage the influx of feedback from those choosing to upgrade. We also have some new documentation to finish, and some website changes to make. If you're unsure what new features v5 brings, you can check out our "What's new in v5" page. Can I still use v4?Absolutely! And we would encourage you to plan your upgrade carefully. Version 5 is not a normal u…

We’re excited to share that you can now save multiple drafts, making it easier and more efficient to write in Discourse! Sometimes, you need to take a break or switch projects when writing a new topic or composing a reply. Previously, you couldn’t start a new topic draft until you posted your old draft — but you can now save multiple drafts without issue. This makes it possible for you to work on more than one writing project at the same time, without tricky workarounds like writing in a PM or copying and pasting your work into another tool. All your writing can happen in Discourse, at the pace that works best for you. Saving drafts Saving a draft still works the same …

WARNING! If your database is very large, you will need a lot of extra disk space (2x database size) and should be very careful with this upgrade! We’ve just landed changes to upgrade our Docker image to PostgreSQL 15. Any site admins rebuilding Discourse from the command line will be upgraded to PostgreSQL 15 from the previous PostgreSQL 13. Note that if you held back from upgrading when the PostgreSQL 13 update happened back in 2020, you can skip that upgrade and go straight to PostgreSQL 15. If you had held back the upgrade previously, change the PostgreSQL template in app.yml from templates/postgres.12.template.yml to templates/postgres.template.yml. As with any up…

- Colin Mueller, Community Manager at Sonar, describing the impact of implementing Discourse AI to address a sudden and disruptive spam attack. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.discourse.org/2025/01/sonars-25-cent-solution-to-spam-detection 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic