Ips News 4.xEvents update includes additional streaming platforms

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Last month we introduced some powerful updates with a long overdue overhaul of community events. We were very pleased by the excellent feedback received and enjoyed hearing your suggestions.

We listened and have been working hard to bring some further updates to Events.

Support for more streaming platforms

When creating a virtual event in your Events application, you may include a link to your event and the platform will advertise it with the vendor’s logo so your community knows what to expect. When your members are ready to join, choosing the “Open Event” button will set them on their way. With this update, a total of 14 third party streaming platforms are now supported.

• Zoom
• YouTube
• EventBrite
• On24
• Facebook
• Google
• Webex
• Slack
• Discord
• Microsoft Teams
• TikTok NEW!
• Twitch NEW!
• Vimeo NEW!
• SpotMe NEW!

Unobtrusive location prompts

When viewing the list of events, Invision Community would immediately prompt the user for their location. Your feedback suggested this was too intrusive and as a result members can now opt-in with the “Use my location” link and checkbox. If members do not opt in then their approximate location is used based on an IP address lookup. If neither of these options are available the results center on a default location that you can set in the admin control panel settings.

Bug fixes

As well as these changes we have also fixed a number of bugs including:

• A longstanding issue where event times could show incorrectly when members in different timezones edited events.
• Better localization to make sure all phrases are translatable.
• Some issues showing events in regions that use commas instead of periods for numbers.
• Hiding online event links after the event has passed.

We still want to make further improvements to Events and are looking forward to more updates in 2023. Let us know in the comments how you are using Events to bring together your community online and offline.