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"Pixar uses a different tone and voice for each social network, which is a strategy that you don't see very often." https://futuresocial.beehiiv.com/p/pixar-social-media-strategy My thoughts: Nobody expects a community of one admin to be able to custom craft a different social media strategy per channel. However, Pixar did a per channel breakdown, which I thought was key and could help community managers pinpoint the channel they want. For example, if you're not targeting social trends or Gen Z, then skip TikTok.

Every year about this time, every webmaster and admin forum asks its members to share their New Year Resolutions for the next year. In over 15 years worth of admin forums, we haven't evolved this question. It's the same question, with often the same answers, every year. This year, I want to challenge community managers with a twist: what are your anti-goals and no goals? Anti Goals: the constraints that keep you aligned with your values No Goals: distractions or non-goals to keep you focused on what truly matters For example, say you’re striving to increase community engagement. Your goal might be to grow active participation by 10%, but your…

There's a nuance to this question. I didn't ask what do you plan to do differently for your community, I asked what do you - specifically, as an individual - plan to do differently in 2025? What skills do you want to learn? What efficiencies do you want to implement? What time do you want to allocate more thoughtfully? Running an independent community often means understanding ourselves the most. We are often the biggest reasons for our community's success, its potential failure, its sails to speed faster and its anchors to drag slower. How are we managing ourselves in the new year, before we manage our community?

Of course, with an impending release of a major new version of Invision, app development was always going to slow down. But is there a serious problem now? Last year when Invision closed their Marketplace, it felt like a mistake to me. But having been a client of Invision for only a few months at the time, I did not comment because my knowledge of the product was too shallow. I claim no great depth now, but I have observed both the instant change when the Marketplace closed, and the pessimism from developers about the future since the beta release of v5. And although I do not properly understand the technicalities of it, the removal of hooks seems have caused a high …

This is a question about behavioral design. Imagine that you're a member of a popular forum that you enjoy, but it's been a few weeks or months since you last visited. When you come back, you're swamped with both catching up on topics that you previously followed. What do you do? Do you try to read through all of the threads? Do you read through some of the threads? Would you trust an AI summary? Scan through the posts marked as helpful?

https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/480706-storage-settings-multiple-file-storage-locations-will-be-deprecated-in-a-future-release/page/3/#findComment-2985506 If you run a media rich forum (or just want to scale your storage for the future), IPS is *officially* expanding its support to Backblaze in the near future. IPS has always allowed Amazon S3 and has allowed clients to drop in S3 compatible storage in the past, but this is the first time they've publicly talked about their Backblaze can be a significantly cheaper alternative to Amazon S3 since it's part of the Cloudflare alliance. As long as your egress is less than x3 of your storage, you pay no …

For those of you who have an existing community and are ready to upgrade to Invision Community v5 once it becomes available, what are you communicating? Are you walking them through what features are being deprecated (like username sign-ons)? Are you showing them theme changes?

This is not a custom request... just yet! 🙂 But I'd like to know if any author is working on a IPS V5 replacement/update for the Status Updates. I guess I'm not the only one who would like to keep existing Status Updates and keep that section going, so I wonder if there will be a third party app that one could buy from this marketplace or directly from the author. While not opposed to commissioning something like this, I have so many custom apps that will require updates, that any (paid) apps made for everyone's consumption would help, particularly when it comes to deprecated areas which is shared problem by many.

IPS is starting to roll out general upgrade information directly in the ACP Dashboard to prepare admins for the upgrade to v5. It's a good warning about major changes and deprecations, so you're not surprised.

And just when we thought 4.7 was feature frozen because all of the work is being committed to v5, IPS surprises us with Report Center improvements. My personal favorite of this feature update is that you can create email templates, to notify the user who reported the content of the resolution. Was the content actually investigated? Was the content actually removed? Invision Community 4: A more professional report center - Invision Community - Invision Community

From Feverbee / Richard Millington One of my personal critiques about this Maslow-inspired hierarchy is that it presumes you must always build your community in layer by layer. Communities can actually focus on any one of those layers on its own merits, but your circle of impact will become much tighter and more focused.

Angela Jin, former Head of Programs & Contributor Experience at Automattic, reflects on her departure from Automattic and the WordPress community, expressing concern over the recent changes to the WordPress Code of Conduct, which she believes can be weaponized against community members. https://angelasjin.com/2024/10/21/on-community-code-of-conducts/

Hi, I am Dilip, been running forums and blogs for around 15 years now. Somewhere around 2010, I started learning graphics to meet my needs for Logos, Banners, custom emojis, node icons, simple animated videos and more. Been offering graphics services since ~ 2015 I do a decent 2D and some 3D as well. You can check the Showcase thread on my forum for some recent works I made this video to promote my services this Holiday season Feel free to ping me if you have any graphics needs. Will do my best to give you the best possible image / video.

https://preview.invisionalpha5.com/topic/202-alpha-16-released-beta-next-week/ Four months of alphas and 16 releases. IPS considers their beta release to be more like an early release candidate with the amount of work they've put in to alpha.

Hello Everyone, I am currently setting up my forum and looking for some well built IPS4 deployments that could serve as design and implementation inspiration. If you could kindly point me to some well done IPS4 communities, I would appreciate it a lot.

Want to encourage positive behavior in your online community? Great incentives can boost engagement, but it's easy for reward systems to go off track. The key is to keep things simple and think ahead. Economist Steven Levitt suggests creating straightforward incentives that are tough to game. Before launching a reward, try to imagine how someone might exploit it—then tweak your plan to avoid those traps. One fun approach is to include real-life “easter eggs” in your community interactions—little surprises or rewards for those who go above and beyond or find clever ways around challenges. This not only keeps things engaging but adds personality to your community. How …

Ever tried to fix a problem, only to realize your solution made things worse? That’s the Cobra Effect in action. The term comes from a story in colonial India, where a bounty for dead cobras led to people farming cobras instead. When the bounty was canceled, they released the snakes, and the problem got even worse. The Cobra Effect is all about how rewards or incentives can backfire. For online communities, it’s easy to see how this can happen. Think about offering incentives for user engagement—like rewards for posting frequently. Suddenly, you might find users spamming the forums with low-quality posts just to earn those points. Or, what if a new rule to reduce neg…

In 2018, KFC’s UK stores ran out of chicken—yeah, you read that right. Instead of ignoring the blunder, they issued a bold, funny apology by rearranging their logo to spell exactly what you’d say when you run out of chicken. It was a great example of the Pratfall Effect, where admitting a mistake makes a brand more likable if they already have a good reputation. This move turned a potential PR disaster into a story people loved. For online communities, mistakes are inevitable. Maybe a glitch messes with user posts, or an update doesn’t go as planned. How can community managers apply the Pratfall Effect to earn forgiveness and even strengthen their community bond? Sho…

Netflix has made some big changes recently, like cracking down on password sharing and offering an ad-supported plan. But these changes have tested their customers’ loyalty. It turns out that when users feel they’re losing something—like the ability to share accounts or the ad-free experience—they react strongly. This ties into a psychological concept called Loss Aversion, where the pain of losing something feels twice as strong as the joy of gaining something new. Even when Netflix's cheaper plan came along, many users resisted. Why? Because giving up ad-free streaming felt like a step back, even if it saved a few dollars. Online communities face similar challenges.…