Welcome to Invision Community 5!
Over the coming weeks, we'll be exploring a bunch of new features and improvements coming to our user interface including our brand newtheme editor, a newmobile UI,dark modeandperformance improvementsthanks to a reduction in both JavaScript and CSS. To kick off this series, let’s take a closer look at the new sidebar layout and new view modes for the forum index and topic pages.
Sidebar Layout
Traditionally, Invision Community has shipped with a horizontal header and navigation bar at the top of the page, which is still available in version 5. We're introducing a brand new (and optional) sidebar layout, which can be enabled or disabled easily from within your theme settings. The sidebar not only provides convenient access to your applications, activity streams and search bar, but you can now add links to nodes for even easier access to popular or commonly used areas of your community. For example - a category from your forum, an album from the Gallery, or a product group from Commerce.
Forum Index: Feed view
One of our goals for version 5 was to re-imagine new ways for your visitors to consume content, and the sidebar layout is just one of our solutions. Table view has been the typical way of displaying forums, providing visitors with a simple summary of the most recently active topic. Grid mode introduced cover photos to forums and is a great way to make your page more visually engaging, while fluid view allows visitors to filter through a list of topics to easily focus on multiple areas of the community.
Joining these view modes in version 5 is our new Feed view. Optional cover photos and featured forum colours allow you to personalise each forum, and a list of recently active topics with snippets of the most recent reply allow you to easily see what each forum is focusing on at a glance. The topic list drops below the cover photo and converts to a scrollable list on small devices. It's our fresh take on content display, and we can’t wait to hear your feedback!
Topic pages: Compact view
In addition, Invision Community 5 also introduces a new, compact layout option for topics. We wanted to create a layout which placed focus on your content while still keeping all of the authors profile information easily accessible within a mini profile. Stats, rank, badges, reputation points and more can be found by tapping the icon at the top of every post. The mini profile strip has also been added to other areas of the software too, such as comments and reviews in applications like Gallery and Blogs, and will appear on the mobile layout when the traditional "table view" is used in topics.
Switching between the new compact view and the author sidebar view takes just seconds giving you complete control over your community.
As part of this view, you also have the choice to feature/pin the original post to the top of every page, making it a breeze for your visitors to easily understand the context of replies without navigating back to page 1. Pinned posts have a slightly larger font-size to distinguish them from replies, and we've thoughtfully truncated them on pages beyond the first to keep scrolling to a minimum.
The new sidebar layout and view modes offer a fresh and innovative approach to navigating and interacting with your community. We’re really keen to hear your thoughts on these new views and whether you’ll be unleashing them on your own sites! We appreciate that no two sites are the same, and those who are a fan of the classic header look will benefit from quick styling tools and a visual way to re-arrange the header elements which we’ll cover in a later blog.
We’re looking forward to showcasing a whole bunch of new features over the coming weeks - so stay tuned, and we’ll see you then!
What's New in Version 5.0.16
Released
This is our March maintenance release.
Key changes include:
New: Achievement action for Profile Completion.
Updated: User interface accessibility for screen readers.
Updated: Past events can now be removed from search results.
#6270 Fix EditorLocations extension for Courses and Lessons
#6408 Copy Followers on Topic Split
#6450 validate the image size/position for cropping
#6452 Removed unused quickSearch controller
#6453 Converted navigation panel into web component
#6457 Removed unused controllers and JS templates
#6469 Don't run spam analysis if we're in the ACP
#6470 Added the className option to ipsHovercard
#6477 Missing email template names
#6478 Delete ips.ui.accordion.js
#6494 fix broken „stop ignoring“ link
#6496 Fix PM folder creation for new members
#6497 Fix return types for Followable::containerFollowerCount
#6500 remove the failed s3 deletion request logging
#6501 5829 - Theme editor lifecycle updates
#6505 Remove unnecessary (and incorrect) approval queue cleanup setp from the initial upgrade
#6506 Fix empty Tag Navigation Extension submission
#6508 Fix issues with broken Pages fields
#6514 Toggle the „require customer field while registration“ if it’s not shown while the registartion
#6515 Fix an issue where two pages in the same folder can be marked default
#6517 Fix an issue where merging 2 tags can result in duplicates
#6518 Reference src property of element
#6522 Fix an issue where background images in custom CSS would sometimes disappear
#6527 Converted .ipsAlert to <dialog>
#6532 Allow past events to be excluded from search results
#6533 Fix an issue where legacy builder pages with no wrapper showed a blank white screen
#6536 Fix an issue where JS language files did not always build correctly
#6538 Fix broken commerce product forms
#6542 PHPDoc Type Annotations
#6549 Restore mobile navigation bar on tablets
#6553 Validate the Tags before saving them to the DB
#6556 Fix an issue where debug log checks failed during install
#6557 Remove Log::hookDetails()
#6562 Prevent invalid voter data from breaking Polls
#6563 Fix databases not showing in the ACP for Self Hosted
#6570 Significant accessibility improvements, including an updated dialog component
#6572 fix infinite redirection loop in the theme editor
#6575 Add bulkmail notification settings to the ACP => Registration Settings Form
#6581 Fix restoring of deleted topics requiring approval
#6585 Prevent that the Node Navbar Extension can throw an exception when the node doesn’t exist
#6599 Fix IPS\Db object is not fully initialized
#6604 fix broken referrer
#6605 Fix few missing / not translatable language strings
#6613 Allow profile fields to be automatically included in member search
#6614 Implemented AchievementAction extension for profile completion
#6615 Fix an issue where some stats controllers threw a "CSRF key" error
#6617 Fix an issue where the Banned MemberFilter extension did not always calculate the match correctly
#6618 Fix an issue where an invalid card can break the invoice warnings task
#6622 Converted search modal to <dialog> with focus trapping
#6629 Accessiblity: Minimal Contact page
#6630 Remove duplicate dropColumn instruction
#6631 Fixed duplicate error code
#6633 Add missing JS language strings
#6636 Added accessible title for search dialog
#6638 Improved spacing of mobile navigation panel
#6640 remove setting of deprecated column
#6645 Fix color of summary in Stream Subscriptions in dark emails
#6653 Improved accessibility of Registration form
#6710 Update UnderscoreJS to 1.13.8
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