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The goal of every client here in the Invision peer community, myself included, is to launch and run successful communities. Whether I’m going to be able to achieve that success in the new year depends entirely on trying these 10 steps. I know if that if I stick to these steps, then my community will grow – and I know if you follow along, your community will too. 10. Ignore Google Google makes me laugh; Google makes me cry; Google makes me want to pitch myself into the freezing icy waters of the San Francisco bay. But focusing on Google’s up-and-down volatility isn’t what is going to make my community successful. It’s a distraction, and at worst, a wrong commitm…

Posted by Dr-Pete On January 13th, MozCast measured significant algorithm flux lasting about three days (the dotted line shows the 30-day average prior to the 13th, which is consistent with historical averages) ... http://d1avok0lzls2w.cloudfront.net/uploads/blog/jan-2020-core-1-14979.png That same day, Google announced the release of a core update dubbed the January 2020 Core Update (in line with their recent naming conventions) ... http://d1avok0lzls2w.cloudfront.net/uploads/blog/jan-2020-core-2-16190.png On January 16th, Google announced the update was "mostly done," aligning fairly well with the measured temperatures in the graph above. Temperatures set…

Posted by brodieclarkconsulting I recently finished a project where I was tasked to investigate why a site (that receives over one million organic visits per month) does not rank for any featured snippets. This is obviously an alarming situation, since ~15% of all result pages, according to the MozCast, have a featured snippet as a SERP feature. The project was passed on to me by an industry friend. I’ve done a lot of research on featured snippets in the past. I rarely do once-off projects, but this one really caught my attention. I was determined to figure out what issue was impacting the site. In this post, I detail my methodology for the project that I deliver…

Every single day, your members are searching your community for answers or interesting conversations to join. Wouldn't it be great if you could learn what is being searched for to identify hot issues, commonly asked questions and discover trends? We thought so too, which is why Invision Community 4.5 comes with search statistics. For the first time, Invision Community gathers anonymized information on what your members are searching for so you can use this to highlight more relevant content and shape strategic decisions with your community's structure. Search statistics help you track searches performed on your community When a member searches, thei…

XenForo 2.1.7 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. Most importantly, this release fixes a security vulnerability in XenForo. Only XenForo 2.1.0 and above are affected. The issue is a XSS vulnerability. XSS (Cross Site Scripting) issues allow scripts and malicious HTML to be injected into the page, potentially allowing data theft or... XenForo 2.1.7 (Includes Security Fix) and Media Gallery 2.1.7 Released Continue reading...

Posted by Matthew_Edgar When it comes to the forms your site visitors are using, you need to go beyond completions — it's important to understand how people are interacting with them, where the strengths lie and what errors might be complicating the experience. In this edition of Whiteboard Friday, Matthew Edgar takes you through in-depth form tracking in Google Analytics. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab! Video Transcription Howdy, Moz fans. My name is Matthew Edgar. Welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. I am an analytics consultant at Elementive, and in this Whiteboard Friday what I wa…

Greetings everyone, Today we’re announcing the release of phpBB 3.2.8. This release is dedicated to the memory of Maria Wilhelmina Theodora 'Marian' Verhoog-Wienk [08 October 1958 - 18 September 2019], who you may know as marian0810. Rust in vrede, Marian. This version is a maintenance and security release of the 3.2.x branch which fixes three security issues, introduces further hardening, and resolves various issues reported in previous versions. Previous versions of phpBB did not properly enforce form tokens on two seperate pages which could have been used to trick users into carrying out unwanted actions. We’d like to thank kevinoclam (via HackerOne) and Yuval…

Hello, Today, Monday September 23rd from 9:00 PM (UTC) until 11:00 PM (UTC) we will be performing some maintenance on the infrastructure that powers www.phpbb.com and several subdomains of phpbb.com. This downtime applies to our various sites, including, but not limited to: https://www.phpbb.com https://area51.phpbb.com https://tracker.phpbb.com https://wiki.phpbb.com This downtime will not affect any other installation of the phpBB software other than www.phpbb.com. However, the version check in your administration control panel might give a temporary error message. Many thanks, The phpBB Team Continue reading...

Greetings everyone, We are pleased to announce the release of phpBB 3.3.0-RC1 "Bertie's holiday preparations". This is the first release candidate of the upcoming phpBB 3.3.0 feature release and introduces minor changes and new functionality. Among the biggest changes are the updated third party dependencies like Symfony that result in the minimum supported PHP version increasing to PHP 7.1 while also adding support for PHP 7.3 and 7.4. New features include increased Emoji support, support for the latest Argon2id and Argon2i password hashing, as well as refactoring of the OAuth implementation and small UI adjustments like an updated phpBB logo. The full changelog…

Greetings everyone, We are pleased to announce the release of phpBB 3.2.9 "The Rise of Bertie". This version is a maintenance and security release of the 3.2.x branch which fixes two minor security issues, introduces further hardening, and resolves various issues reported in previous versions. Previous versions of phpBB did not properly enforce form tokens on changing group avatars and handling pending group memberships which could have been used to trick users into carrying out unwanted actions. Both of these issues have been found as part of an internal code audit prior to the release of phpBB 3.3. The issues have been assigned CVE-2020-5501 and CVE-2020-5502 resp…

Today is a big day for the entire phpBB community and we hope that you're as excited as we are! With the help of over one hundred volunteers, we have improved and extended phpBB to provide the new and improved phpBB 3.3 Proteus. The new phpBB 3.3 Proteus builds upon 3.2 Rhea and is a big step towards a more modern base while maintaining a clear update path. It is now shipped with Symfony 3.4, Twig 2, and jQuery 3.4. The improvements include, among others, support for Invisible reCAPTCHA, Argon2i and Argon2id password hashing, improved reset password functionality, and minor changes to the UI. The minimum supported PHP version has been increased to PHP 7.1.3 while supp…

XenForo 2.1.5 Released XenForo 2.1.5 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. Download XenForo 2.1.5 or Upgrade directly from within your control panel Some of the changes in XF... XenForo 2.1.5a and Media Gallery 2.1.5 released Continue reading...

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. Download XenForo Importers 1.2.5 or Upgrade directly from within your control panel Some of the changes in XFI 1.2.5 include: ... XenForo Importers 1.2.5 Released Continue reading...

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 development focus and we are really excited at what we have lined up for inclusion in 2.2. The reasons for the delay are various, but there are measures in place to ensure that this should be the last... An update from XenForo Continue reading...

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. Download XenForo Importers 1.3.0 or Upgrade directly from within your control panel This is a significant release because it... XenForo Importers 1.3.0 Released and XenForo 1.5 End of Life Reminder Continue reading...

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. Download XenForo 2.1.6 or Upgrade directly from within your control panel Some of the changes in XF... XenForo 2.1.6 Patch 1, Media Gallery 2.1.6, Resource Manager 2.1.5 and Enhanced Search 2.1.3 Released Continue reading...

XenForo 1.5.24 Released XenForo 1.5.24 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo 1.5 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability. Download XenForo 1.5.24 Some of the changes in XF 1.5.24 include: When importing posts from PhpBB sanitize the BB code... XenForo 1.5.24 and Media Gallery 1.1.18 Released Continue reading...

We first documented in our XenForo 1.5 End of Life Schedule a clear timeline for the end of support and updates for XenForo 1.5. Today, we have reached the first part of that timeline and from this point forward we will no longer be providing support or updates for XenForo 1.5. XenForo 2.0 and any versions prior to XenForo 1.5 are already unsupported. At the time of writing, we will only accept... XenForo 1.5 is no longer supported Continue reading...

XenForo 2.1.3 Released XenForo 2.1.3 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. Download XenForo 2.1.3 Some of the changes in XF 2.1.3 include: Don't log when a push notification hits a 406 error as this is a temporary rate limiting issue. Update the... XenForo, Media Gallery, Resource Manager 2.1.3 and Enhanced Search 2.1.2 released Continue reading...

XenForo 2.1.4 Released XenForo 2.1.4 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. Download XenForo 2.1.4 or Upgrade directly from within your control panel Some of the changes in XF... XenForo, Media Gallery and Resource Manager 2.1.4 released Continue reading...