Ips News 4.xInvision Community October: native mobile menus, auto-follow and more

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The Invision Community October release is packed with improvements, updates, and new features, including app-like mobile menus, a curated profile photo gallery, and a popular club request.

Mobile app-like menus

Our October release features redesigned dropdown menus with an app-like design on mobile devices, improved accessibility, and smoother performance.

Dropdown menus have received a significant redesign, resulting in a native, app-like experience on touch devices. Menus transition into view, occupying a larger area of the screen, which is great for accessibility. They can be dismissed by swiping the menu off-screen in a downward direction or by tapping the blank area above the menu.

These menus have also received accessibility improvements on desktop devices. They can be toggled using the Return/Spacebar keys, tabbed into using the Tab key, and dismissed via the Esc key. A huge win for visitors who are unable to comfortably use a mouse (or prefer to use a keyboard) while browsing your community.

The new dropdown system offers performance improvements for all devices and leverages modern HTML and CSS features, including the popover attribute, opening/closing transitions, and anchor positioning.

Combined, this makes browsing on mobile via browser or PWA feel like a truly native experience.

Curated Profile Photo Gallery

We work with many communities that are extremely privacy-focused, including those in the medical space and communities working with young, vulnerable people.

In these spaces, external uploads are disabled to reduce the risk of exposing personal information, preventing potential harassment, and helping protect members from being identified outside the community.

This means profile photos remain limited to the default letter image, which doesn't allow for much personalisation.

Our Invision Community October release introduces a user photo gallery that allows the community team to upload a curated library of images, which members.the community can then select

By using only community-approved photos, this ensures that profile images remain safe, consistent, and non-identifying, while giving members a sense of individuality and belonging.

Club Auto Follow

Clubs are individual micro-communities that often have a very focused membership who don't want to miss out on any updates.

While our follow and notification system is very robust, most people who join a club want to automatically follow any new items that are posted, such as forum topics.

With our October release, you can now set clubs to "auto-follow". When set, any new members who join are automatically added to the follow lists of all content areas, such as forums, ensuring they receive notifications when new topics are posted.

This feature is a great way to ensure your club members are always up to date.

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As always each release contains many other minor fixes and improvements. We hope you enjoy these updates!

Some features not available for all plans:

• Mobile app-like menus are available for all plans.

• The private photo gallery feature is available for Team, Business and Enterprise plans.

• The club auto-follow feature is available for all plans.