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Invision Community v5 takes a fresh approach to tagging and content discovery. It overhauls the concept to bring content across different sections together with a beautiful new tag page. Tagging is a powerful concept but underused with Invision Community 4 due to overly complex interfaces in different areas of the suite, a confusing open tagging model option and no real benefit in content discovery beyond a simple list of content items. A driving force behind Invision Community 5 is the question of how we can help time-pressured community members find the content that most interests them. Invision Community has robust taxonomy through forum and category str…
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That's a Wrap: The MozCon 2024 Day Two Recap
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And… that’s a wrap! Catch up on the second and final day of MozCon 2024 in this day-two recap. Continue reading...
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xenforo XenForo & Add-ons 2.3.0 Release Candidate 1 Released (Unsupported) (Includes Security Fixes)
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[HEADING=1]Security Fix[/HEADING] Today we are advising all customers running XenForo that a potential security vulnerability has been identified. All affected customers running XenForo 2.3.0 should upgrade to XenForo 2.3.0 Release Candidate 1, including XenForo Media Gallery 2.3.0 Release Candidate 1 if needed. If you also have active installs of XenForo 2.2 or XenForo 2.1 you should refer to the earlier thread with details and patch. The issue relates to a potential cross-site request forgery... Read more Continue reading...
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xenforo XenForo 2.1.15, 2.2.16 and XenForo Media Gallery 2.1.9, 2.2.6 Released (Includes Security Fixes)
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[HEADING=1]Security Fix[/HEADING] Today we are advising all customers running XenForo that a potential security vulnerability has been identified. All affected customers should either upgrade to XenForo 2.1.15 or XenForo 2.2.16. If you are a XenForo Cloud customer, a fix has been rolled out automatically, and no further action is required to address this issue. If you are running a pre-release version of XenForo 2.3, you should follow the instructions in the announcement thread for the XenForo 2.3.0... Read more Continue reading...
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Diving Into the Future of Digital Marketing: The MozCon 2024 Day One Recap
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Dive into the future of digital marketing, and discover the key takeaways from our speakers in this day-one recap of MozCon 2024. Continue reading...
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vBulletin 6.0.5 is now available for download by self-hosted (download) customers. vBulletin Cloud sites will be automatically updated in the upcoming weeks. [HEADING=1]Front End Changes[/HEADING] [HEADING=2]Global Advertising Management[/HEADING] In previous versions, each ad was unique to the Ad Location. Unique ad lists made reusing Ad code difficult across modules. Starting in vBulletin 6.0.5, Ad Locations will list all available Ad units/templates in the system to make reuse easier. [HEADING=2]Email Handling[/HEADING] Outgoing notification emails will include a global one-click unsubscribe link, which complies with requirements set by many email provid…
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Moz AI: Introducing Augmented Intelligence
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Today, we’re excited to announce Moz AI — a new set of AI-enabled tools and features you’re going to see across our products. We believe that AI-enabled tools can make you even more results-oriented, impactful, and essential. Learn more about how to use these tools in this blog post. Continue reading...
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A preview release of vBulletin 6.0.5 is now available for testing by self-hosted (download) customers. Preview releases are not meant to be used on production servers. [HEADING=1]Front End Changes[/HEADING] [HEADING=2]Global Advertising Management[/HEADING] In previous versions, each ad was unique to the Ad Location. Unique ad lists made reusing Ad code difficult across modules. Starting in vBulletin 6.0.5, Ad Locations will list all available Ad units/templates in the system to make reuse easier. [HEADING=2]Email Handling[/HEADING] Outgoing notification emails will include a global one-click unsubscribe link, which complies with requirements set by ma…
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vbulletin vBulletin 6.0.4 Changes and Updates
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vBulletin 6.0.4 is now available for download customers. vBulletin Cloud customers will be automatically upgraded over the coming weeks. [HEADING=2]Home Node Permissions[/HEADING] Handling the channel permissions of the Home Node has been refactored. The Terms of Service page, Privacy Policy page, and AdminCP login will always be available even if guests cannot view the Home Node. You can now assign viewing permissions per page in the AdminCP under Usergroups → Page Permissions. Page Permissions allow control over page viewing to fit your site's needs. Special Groups (i.e., Channel groups) will not be listed in the Page Permission Manager. These groups …
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The API functionality of vBulletin 6 and 5.7.5 has been found to have security issues. We have created fixes for these issues. To maintain site security, you should apply this patch as soon as possible. To do so, download the patch for your version from Customer Login and follow these steps: Upload the files to your server. Overwriting the existing files with the new ones. Run the upgrade script ([iCODE]core/install/upgrade.php[/iCODE]) that is included in the patch to rebuild your templates. Patches Released: vBulletin 6.0.3 Patch Level 1 vBulletin 6.0.2 Patch Level 1 vBulletin 6.0.1 Patch Level 1 vBulletin 5.7.5 Patch Level 3 …
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vbulletin vBulletin 6.0.4 Pre-Release Changes and Updates
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A preview release of vBulletin 6.0.4 is now available for self-hosted customers. [HEADING=2]Home Node Permissions[/HEADING] Handling the channel permissions of the Home Node has been refactored. The Terms of Service page, Privacy Policy page, and AdminCP login will always be available even if guests cannot view the Home Node. You can now assign viewing permissions per page in the AdminCP under Usergroups → Page Permissions. Page Permissions allow control over page viewing to fit your site's needs. Special Groups (i.e., Channel groups) will not be listed in the Page Permission Manager. These groups are managed internally. [HEADING=2]Paypal API[/HE…
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Google’s Surgical Strike on Reputation Abuse
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Discover the aftermath of Google's targeted crackdown on reputation abuse. Analyze significant losses, identify patterns, and investigate the impact it has had on major brands. Continue reading...
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The Psychology Behind Search: Cognitive Biases in SEO
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Discover the impact of cognitive bias on SEO and how to leverage the psychology of your audience to improve rankings, click-through rates, and brand reputation. Continue reading...
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How to Optimize E-commerce Sitemaps with 1M+ Pages — Whiteboard Friday
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Discover how to optimize your e-commerce website’s sitemap with Stevy’s six steps in this edition of Whiteboard Friday. Continue reading...
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March Core Update & Spam Updates: Four Major Trends
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Explore the aftermath of Google's March Core Update and Spam Updates and uncover four major trends shaping the search landscape. Continue reading...
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The Future of Content Success Is Social
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What good is winning the algorithm if you’ve lost the human? What would happen if you were OK with sacrificing a high ranking to get more people to thank you for how much you educated them? In this article, discover Wil’s two new approaches to SEO and content using social media. Continue reading...
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The Top SERP Features in 2024 — Whiteboard Friday
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In this Whiteboard Friday, Tom takes us through the top SERP features of 2024 by both presence and Share of Voice. Continue reading...
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AI Overview’s Dangerous Fails + a Life Lesson
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AI Overviews is meant to quickly deliver information to searchers, but it is delivering misinformation that ranges from plain bizarre to perilous to public health. Miriam rounds up some of the oddest AI overviews that have been spotted, explains why we’re being exposed to this feature and focuses on a famous reality-check anecdote. Continue reading...
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How to Leave the Best Possible Negative Review for a Local Business
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Consumer feedback is an essential gift to local businesses, helping them continuously improve customer satisfaction, but it can be both effectively given and gratefully received with a little extra care for civility on both sides. Continue reading...
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4 Insights From the Google Leak — Whiteboard Friday
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In this Whiteboard Friday, Tom touches on four particular insights gleaned from the recent Google documentation leak. Continue reading...
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5.0.6 is on it's way to the land of cloud and deployment. We've got a freshly baked beta here for you today. There are loads of fixes, and new extensions. The full list is with our release notes. Key things include: More clunky javascript removal, more beautiful CSS used for transitions More slow javascript removed, more beautiful native Javascript used (fixes lots of minor things, including slow tag selection) More editor fixes More Javascript and CSS removed to address layout shifts and reflows for that beautiful Pagespeed. Bumper extensions and listeners for developers to use including: MFA Handlers, share services, userMenu additions, loads more listener types (polls, courses, files, etc), more extensions methods for tables and clubs. No tariffs Phew. As always, this is a beta release and with a fair amount of javascript changed and removed, you may come across the odd thing so please let us know if you do.
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We’re excited to introduce our newest theme — Horizon! We’ve been testing Horizon internally for some time and are now ready to test here on Meta so we can get your feedback on how to continue improving this theme. In this topic, we’ll share the goals behind Horizon and provide guidance for how to test and share your feedback with us. Getting to know Horizon Horizon is a simple, beautiful theme that aspires to become the new out-of-the-box experience for Discourse sites. Who is Horizon for? While we hope that Horizon is a great fit for many communities, we created Horizon with specific users in mind — non-technical admins and everyday members. Non-technical admins are community admins who have limited technical expertise and no access to design or development resources. They don’t have the resources or know-how to customize Discourse’s appearance to work best for their community, but still believe that Discourse is a great fit for their community. Everyday members fall somewhere in between the one-time visitor and the elite power user. They regularly read and post in the community, and are more likely to visit Discourse primarily (if not exclusively) from their phones. We are proud that Discourse is so flexible and customizable, we want to make sure Discourse remains a great option for all communities, regardless of technical expertise or resources. We created Horizon for admins that don’t have access to design or developer resources, but still want a great looking community that your members will love. What’s different about Horizon? While our Default theme is a relatively blank slate, Horizon is an opinionated theme. That means we have made certain choices about how Discourse looks and operates while using this theme in order to provide a great overall user experience for our target users (described above). Here are some changes you might notice: Topic cards are less information dense. The most noticeable feature of Horizon is the topic card. We have pruned out as much information as we can to keep the topic list looking clean and approachable. Certain information, like a more robust list of topic participants and topic tags, are not visible on the topic card. Horizon is not intended to support additional customizations. Because we’re targeting an audience that isn’t able or interested in customizing Discourse’s appearance or behavior, Horizon is not guaranteed to work well with all theme components or customizations. That said, we’ve tested Horizon against the most popular theme components and the incompatibilities we’ve found so far are minor. We’ll work to address those over time. For now, we do not recommend activating theme components with Horizon or adding your own customizations. Horizon includes new color palettes that admins can enable to give members greater control over their community experience. Once enabled through the admin Color Palette settings, members can select from one of six theme-specific color palettes for a custom look and feel. Larger text in the reading area. You’ll notice that Horizon’s reading area (i.e. topics) has slightly larger text than the rest of the interface text. We’re experimenting with this differentiated text size with the hope that it makes topics easier to read, while keeping less important text — like sidebar links — more minimal and less distracting. Testing and sharing your feedback You can check out Horizon on Meta using the theme switcher in the bottom of your sidebar: As you test here on Meta or in your own community, you may run into issues with the visual design or incompatibilities with certain theme components or customizations. When that happens, please let us know. Your feedback will help us improve Horizon so that we can begin making it available more broadly. Please note that we may not address all feedback that we receive at this time. That doesn’t mean your feedback is invalid or invaluable — it just means we want to continue to test a certain idea or design decision to better understand how it serves the needs of our target users. Known issues / work in progress areas Here are a few areas where we’re actively working: Improving the topic timeline design. Right now it’s a little wide, we’d like to make it more subtle so it takes up less visual space and demands less attention. Identifying areas where layouts and styles aren’t applying correctly. The invite screens are one area where there are minor visual discrepancies. We’ve made a lot of these fixes already, but please keep letting us know as you find areas where things don’t look quite right. Touching up color palettes to ensure accessibility. Horizon has a more streamlined color system (and has inspired some new color palettes, e.g. Lily, Clover, Royal, Marigold, etc.). We’re working on making sure Horizon is accessible and has the proper contrast in light and dark modes. 3 posts - 3 participants Read full topic
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Join the Discourse Customer Success Team, Wednesday, April 9, 2025 5:00 PM UTC, and learn how to gain support for your community initiative—whether from internal stakeholders, team members, or the members themselves. 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM EST — Main Webinar Learn how to create a business case for your community and secure stakeholder support. 1:45 PM – 2:30 PM EST — Open Office Hours (Live Q&A) Stick around for live Q&A with the Discourse team to tackle your biggest community-building questions. Register Here Why do some communities thrive while others struggle? A key factor: community buy-in. Communities succeed when… They have leadership and stakeholder support. Members feel invested and engaged. The business case is clear and compelling. What You’ll Learn: How to build a strong business case for your community. Strategies to secure leadership and stakeholder buy-in. Bonus: Calculate your buy-in score and see where you stand! 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic
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Ever since we introduced the admin sidebar, our long term goal has been to bring a more comprehensive search to the admin interface that helps admins and moderators find exactly what they need without having to dig through many pages and settings manually. This method is so much faster than the old way, and we are excited to see if it helps you navigate the admin interface more efficiently . Finding what you’re looking for You can launch a quick search from anywhere in the admin interface with the shortcut Ctrl+/ , or on macOS, ⌘ +/ . This will bring up a window like this: You will see here that there are several different checked boxes beneath the input. These are the types of things you can search from here: Pages - Every page in the admin interface, including sub-pages not shown in the sidebar, and plugin pages Settings - Every site setting, which includes the setting description and keywords Themes - Every installed theme, whether they are enabled or disabled Components - Every installed theme component, whether they are enabled or disabled Reports - Every admin report, which includes a description of the report You can click these boxes to filter out the various types of search results. Here are some examples of each: Pages Settings Themes Components Reports You can also visit a full page version of the search by pressing Enter when results are being shown, or by clicking “Search” in the admin sidebar, which will take you to /admin/search. Enabling admin search You can turn this feature on with the experimental admin search enabled groups setting, which you can find in the Experimental config page at /admin/config/experimental: Note that when this feature is enabled, the keyboard shortcut for the admin sidebar filter is used for the search instead. Testing and sharing your feedback We are opening up this feature for feedback now, please post in this topic if you have any or if you notice any bugs that need to be fixed. At this time, we won’t be going much deeper into improvements for this search, but we will make it as good as we can in its current state. That being said, there are some known limitations or improvements to be made: There is currently no ranking of search results, they are returned in the same order as the types of results (e.g. Pages, Settings, Themes, Components, Reports) The fuzzyness of searching is pretty basic, but is usually good enough to find what you need if you vaguely know the name When you click on a setting, usually it opens a page and filters the site settings on that page, at some point we want a fancier solution which highlights the part of the page you were looking for 3 posts - 3 participants Read full topic
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Understanding the language of community metrics gives you a leg up when communicating your community’s value to stakeholders. It also helps you identify what’s working, where to improve, and how to make data-driven decisions that strengthen your strategy. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.discourse.org/2025/04/20-community-metrics-explained 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic
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