Welcome to Invision Community 5.0.2 !
Over the coming weeks, we'll be exploring a bunch of new features and improvements coming to our user interface including our brand new theme editor, a new mobile UI, dark mode and performance improvements thanks 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 5.0.2
See changelogReleased
#3786: Fix database error logging for uncaught exceptions
#3763: Catch the Exception when there's an assignment without an item
#3775: Ui polish: 5.0.2
- Issue #3771: The scrollbar in the side panel navigation column uses default styling
- Issue #3772: Some <select> menus use serif fonts in Safari
- Issue #3773: Mobile footer disappears when off-canvas menus are toggled
- Issue #3774: Fixed dialogs are vertically misaligned
- Issue #3778: Some edit forms have nested .ipsBox elements
#3720: Fix issues where advertisements did not display properly in the listing views
#3767: Fix inline code and codeblock in editor
#3765: Restore Builder interface to image widget
#3768: Add editor extension buttons to toolbars
#3769: Fix Upgrader Issue
#3675: Fix issues with cloud analytics
#3728: Fix invalid check for pagination in custom CMS database index templates
#3759: Mention "downloads" as sort option for the files REST endpoint
#3732: Fix issue where Pages does not use the global footer
#3755: Polished radio options with images
#3758: UI Polishing with improved CSS selector performance
- Issue #3749: Minor UI bugs
- Issue #3742: v5 minor UI bugs [Microsoft icon is outdated]
- Issue #3741: v5 minor UI bugs [Pagination and status badges different sizes]
- Issue #3740: v5 minor UI bugs [Extra 'li' in notification settings]
- Issue #3739: v5 minor UI bugs [Border radius not removed when full width]
- Issue #3738: v5 minor UI bugs [Custom field headers incorrect, and more]
#3761: Use default anti-aliasing for fonts
#3748: Fixes an issue where Downloads screenshots could go missing
#3730: Prevent old notifications (v4) to cause issues when notifications are loaded
#3719: Check if the content is reactable before processing it and showing it in the ACP - Points Log
#3725: Fix issue where Taggable required a containerNodeClass
#3731: Fixed screenshots in Downloads returning an error when getImageDimensions failed
#3736: Removed background color from external embeds
#3733: Updated colors of chart tooltips
#3734: Made <abbr> usable on mobiles
#3724: Review Item and Comment menus and add checks for traits where applicable
#3699: Prevent code language menus from being overlapped by other boxes
#3659: Restore ability for moderators to modify user profile photos
#3661: Fix issue where profile data was not displayed when reputation was hidden
#3697: Hide horizontal overflow
#3698: Added an underline to the link in the Background Tasks description
#3694: Fixed star/participated icon, and ensure topic titles use Link Color
- Issue #3693: Participated icons don't always display correct state
- Issue #3672: Typography > link colour
#3692: Fixed duplicated message name in <title>
#3691: Replaced "test" with correct title
#3688: Fix issue where new replies are not automatically loaded into the topic
#3687: Fix errors when adding someone to a PM
#3686: Fix issues with solved statistics charts
#3685: Fix errors when running the expertUsersNudge task
#3695: Fix upgrade error for sites with databases that downgraded to Creator
#3690: Adjust calls to loader extension for CSS/JS
#3668: Prevent scrollbar from flickering in certain conditions
#3663: Allow text align regardless of Heading and Embed Restrictions
#3669: Updated v4 CSS classes to v5-
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