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As we move closer to releasing Invision Community 5, I wanted to review a few key features I believe your members will love after you upgrade to Invision Community 5. The all-new editor We have to start with the brand new editor, recoded and redesigned from the ground up. The new editor is not just faster and leaner, but also remarkably user-friendly, ensuring an upgraded experience for your members in Invision Community 5. Your members will love the streamlined toolbar that no longer hides buttons on smaller devices. They'll also appreciate the new emoji and icon panel, which allows them to insert over 1,700 icons to enhance their posts. Content boxes, r…

Hello there, I am Immortal, you can't kill me and I don't die. 😛 I enjoy posting on forums and I have various interests from gaming and watching TV shows to going on trekking. I work as a content writer. Good to be here.

Here’s a simple SEO guideline for newbies to help you get started: 1. Understand SEO Basics What is SEO?: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the practice of optimizing your website to rank higher in search engine results. Importance: Higher rankings lead to more visibility and traffic. 2. Keyword Research Identify Keywords: Use tools like Google Keyword Planner, Ubersuggest, or SEMrush to find relevant keywords for your niche. Long-Tail Keywords: Focus on specific phrases that are less competitive but more targeted. 3. On-Page SEO Title Tags: Include your primary keyword in the title tag. Meta Descriptions: Write compelling meta descriptions that includ…

I've always wanted to build my own forum software. I've considered doing it as a way to teach myself a programming language. If you could build a forum software, what would you use?

In the old days a person could create a forum and drop a few links and almost instantly get users sign up. There were several niches that if you started a community in the niche the site would explode if you put a little work into it. I seen it happen time after time. That was in the peak of forum popularity. It's much harder to get a community off the ground today. It can be done. You have to work hard at it. Gone are the days of old and that's a good thing. Forums that have staff that actively contribute topics are more attractive to people that find the site. If you care about your forum community it will show. User will sign up and soon the community you nur…

Today is a new day. It's time to dedicate some time to your website. What did you do today to promote your site? Did you add content to keep your members interested? Owning a forum community or any website means you have to dedicate time to creating content and promoting the site.

Now that I've been using Invision Community for a few weeks I am getting deeper into the apps that come with it. Tere is so much being offered it's almost overwhelming. I decided to see what I could do with pages the CMS. I was looking in the app at how the basic articles system was set up. Using that as a guide I created a link directory. I bought the scripts that are used here for the link directory. At the time I wanted a solution so that I could replace the one I used when we were on xenforo and the one used here was avaialble. I actually had a license for it so the renewal wasn't bad. In any case I converted SEO Forum to IPB a couple days ago. I then upgraded it…

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What forum software have you used that is odd? Odd in terms of no one else is really using it and you just wanted to do something unique?

Over the next few days you will see some improvements for static resources served on our network. Static resources are items like images, videos, JavaScript, CSS, and any other file attachments. These changes do not yet apply to your actual dynamic community pages. We will follow up with more updates on improvements we are making there. Brotli Compression When your browser supports it, all static files will use Brotli compression. Brotli offers a higher compression which often results in faster page load times. WebP Images WebP is an image compression format that offers higher compression for images which also results in faster load times…

Over the next few days you will see some improvements for static resources served on our network. Static resources are items like images, videos, JavaScript, CSS, and any other file attachments. These changes do not yet apply to your actual dynamic community pages. We will follow up with more updates on improvements we are making there. Brotli Compression When your browser supports it, all static files will use Brotli compression. Brotli offers a higher compression which often results in faster page load times. WebP Images WebP is an image compression format that offers higher compression for images which also results in faster load times…

Previously we rolled out Summarize on your Discourse with one-click!. Today we are doing it for AI search. Discourse AI - AI search is now available for Standard, Business, and Free tiers without the need for a 3rd party Large Language Model (LLM) provider. This means Discourse is now providing a hosted open-weights LLM for customers to enable Summarize. How do I enable AI search? You have the power to enable or disable AI search at any time from the What's New section. All related customizations are available within the Discourse AI plugin settings. What does being an experiment mean? This means that the AI feature is subject to change at any time, including its feat…

Previously we rolled out Summarize on your Discourse with one-click!. Today we are doing it for AI search. Discourse AI - AI search is now available for Standard, Business, and Free tiers without the need for a 3rd party Large Language Model (LLM) provider. This means Discourse is now providing a hosted open-weights LLM for customers to enable Summarize. How do I enable AI search? You have the power to enable or disable AI search at any time from the What's New section. All related customizations are available within the Discourse AI plugin settings. What does being an experiment mean? This means that the AI feature is subject to change at any time, including it…

XenForo 2.4 is coming soon. https://xenforo.com/community/threads/coming-soon-xenforo-2-4.225302/ Share your thoughts about it. What do you look forward to with this upcoming release?

What's your forum software? If it was discontinued today and you were forced to move platforms, which would you move to? How easy would it be to transfer?

Do you have a custom forum theme? Would you ever design and create your own custom forum theme? Or would you rather pay a designer to do it for you?

Got an alert that Invision Community beta 5 was released. Upgrade to it on the beta site. Conversions now work. Going to convert a small site to see how it goes. I was waiting for this. Once the converters were turned on in the beta 0v version 3.x it wasn't long after that it went gold. Head over to https://testing123.info to play with it.

Do you think polls on a forum are often forgotten? I know most platforms hide them behind a button, which I think adds to the effect of many people not realizing that the feature is there. Do you often neglect to create polls?

In your opinion, what is the worst forum software out there? Why do you feel this way?

Hi Everyone, This is Debashis, from India. I am professionally an aerospace electronics engineer. In my spare time, I like to browse forums, listen to music, play games and watch movies/series. Super excited to spend my time here. Thanks for having me. :)