2025: A year in review

[A Zayed]

As we close out another year with Invision Community, I wanted to take this opportunity to review the progress we’ve made and look ahead to next year and beyond. It's certainly been another busy year with over 1,300 improvements, fixes and new features. We listen to your feedback and meet each month with many community management teams. These conversations help us understand what it takes to build and grow a strong community. This year was about listening closely to that feedback and then turning that insight into practical improvements across the platform. We launched major new features, reduced friction, improved insight, added new integrations and API endpoints, improved the mobile experience, and made numerous core platform updates. Let’s take a look at the highlights. A more app-like mobile and modern web experienceThis year, we continued to close the gap between web and native app expectations by making Invision Community feel faster and more natural to use on every device. Improvements included smoother loading states, familiar mobile interactions, and clearer notification prompts, resulting in an experience that feels modern. We continued to remove client-side scripting in favour of native CSS solutions to improve loading and interaction speeds. The mobile experience improvements included: Pull to refresh in iOS Loading animation Installation prompt banner App icon notification count badges Easier to use, enable notification prompts Mobile app-like menus Deeper integrations and extensibilityIn 2025, we expanded how Invision Community integrates with the workflows you rely on every day. New APIs, webhooks, and automation made it easier to move data, trigger workflows, and integrate your community into existing systems. The integration improvements included: New endpoints for Zapier New REST API endpoints New Webhooks Mailchimp integration iFramely integration Driving discovery and engagementContinued growth is essential to the health of your community. In 2025, we continued to invest in helping members find value faster and stay engaged for longer. We also introduced our new feature, Quests, which bridges the gap between in-person events and communities by enabling gamification across both. The complete list of improvements is: Quests Customisable welcome emails Auto follow clubs New email advertising and promotion tools Clearer insight into community healthTo help tell the story of your community and find actionable insights, we created a new suite of community health metrics. For example, tracking 'first response time' provides a clear indication of how quickly new interactions are acknowledged within your community. A 'good' first response time might be within the first few hours of an inquiry, as quick responses often lead to higher engagement and satisfaction. These new metrics cover everything you need to create your reports, with new tools to export multiple charts into CSV files with a few clicks for your own tools to analyze. The new insights include: Author diversity Responsiveness Engagement First response time Daily active users / monthly active users Stronger core platform foundationsThroughout 2025, we continued to improve on the core of the Invision Community platform, focusing on the everyday things that keep communities running smoothly. Updates across content management, permissions, and moderation controls reduced friction and improved consistency across even the largest and most active communities. Auto-splitting large topics Profile photo gallery Auto lock topics Default pages per group Recommended tags Turnstile captcha Page Editor roll back Looking aheadAs we look to the future, our focus remains on strengthening the foundations of the community platform to help yours grow. We will continue to expand AI in thoughtful ways, not to replace humans, but to support moderation and surface relevant content. At the same time, we’re committed to simplifying the platform to sharpen the feature set around what matters most: discovery, engagement, trust, and moderation. The goal, as always, is a platform that is powerful but not complex. To help us shape the journey ahead, we invite you to share your own ideas and hopes for 2026. What features or improvements would you like to see? Your feedback is invaluable as we strive to create a community platform that meets your needs and ambitions. Feel free to join our community to share your 2026 wish list. We're excited about the future, and we're glad to have you with us!

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