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  • Vala LMS is an online course marketplace with a pile of features that help you run your online education business easily. This product helps instructors and students get in touch and share knowledge.

    Instructors will be able to create unlimited video courses, text courses, projects, quizzes (coming soon), files, etc. and students will be able to use the educational material and increase their skill level.

    Vala LMS is based on real business needs, cultural differences, and advanced user research, so the product covers your business requirements efficiently.

    check it out: https://ic5.valacoding.com/index.php?/courses/

     

    Why CHOOSE Vala LMS?

     

    • A comprehensive solution for online education businesses

    • Based on real business needs and requirements

    • Multiple content types (Video courses, text courses)

    • Public & private classes

    • Quiz & Certification (coming soon)

    • Single & multiple instructors

    • User permissions

    • Commissions

    • Add reviews to course/lessons

    • Add comments to course/lessons

    • Add clubs to courses

    • Define lesson level

    • Define course language

    • Add demo

    • Add free lessons to the paid courses

    • Show Overview of courses

    • Statistics

    • Multilanguage

    • Fully responsive

    • Fully customizable

    • Course Club

    • Course Statistics & Analytics

    • Course Access Period

    • Manual Enrollment

    • Assignment & Homework

    • Course Notifications & Reminders

    • Course Capacity

    • Course FAQ

    • Course learning material

    • Course knowledge prerequisites

    • Course prerequisites

    • and more ...

    Just try it and see what this app can do. We look forward to your suggestions

     

     

    Upcoming Feature:

    • QUIZ
  • Story V5

    Vala Story is an app that allows members to share their moments, interests, joys, portfolios, etc. with others through images and videos by allowing formats on your board and making them more interactive with titles and links.

    Demo and Showcase: http://ips.valacoding.com/index.php?/calendar/ 

    Vala Story has powerful ACP settings and tons of customization options and member settings as well. let's take a look :

    ACP Options :

    • Main Settings:
    • Select story type [ Image / Video / External videos/images (Does not include YouTube direct links and social media links)]
    • Set the daily number of submitted story
    • Show stories from x days ago
    • Set maximum stories to show
    • Specify allowed image formats
    • Specify image file size
    • Specify allowed video formats
    • Specify video file size
    • Set duration of the story show time
    • Set maximum image story Height/Width'
    • Set menu item icon
    • Permission Settings
    • Allow groups to submit
    • Allow groups to view
    • Allow groups to delete a story
    • Allow groups to share a story
    • Allow groups to change the status of a story
    • Submit Form Settings
    • Allow members to set the appearing time of a story
    • Allow members to insert titles for a story
    • Allow members to insert links for a story
    • Allow members to use external links instead of uploading file
    • Default Widget Settings (Each widget can use the default or its own custom settings)
    • Select skin (SnapGram, FaceSnap, SnapMessenger, and Custom)
    • Use the last story image as an avatar
    • Show stories as a list
    • Enable open effect
    • Enable cube effect
    • Enable Auto full-screen
    • Enable Pagination arrows
    • Enable Back button
    • Enable Back native
    • Enable the Previous tap
    • Enable seen mod (seen stories are displayed with opacity)
    • General Style
    • Seen item opacity
    • Story viewer background
    • Story viewer font color
    • Title font color
    • Title background color
    • Carousel Display Settings (shows stories as a slideshow)
    • Space between elements
    • Enable carousel navbar
    • Enable loop
    • Enable lazy load
    • Enable autoplay
    • Set autoplay timeout
    • Enable auto-play hover, pause
    • Skin Style
    • 3 predefined skins (SnapGram, FaceSnap, SnapMessenger)
    • Custom Skin
    • Change the border color of each skin
    • Change the font color of each skin
    • Size Settings (size of show box)
    • Media size type (Cover, Contain, Fill)
    • Desktop width/height
    • Mobile device width/height
    • ACP Stories Setting
    • Disable/Enable member status
    • Admit/Ban member
    • Add the stories to the featured list (use this option in fetching data)
    • Remove member stories (all stories)
    • Share again a story of members
    • Disable/Enable a story of a specific member
    • Remove a story of specific member

     

    Members Options

    • Add/Delete/Disable/Re-share a story
    • Specify which group can view their stories (All visitors, Only members)
    • Enable/Disable their status

    Widget Types

    • Showing all members
    • Showing followers stories
    • Showing the following stories 
    • Show stories for each member on the profile page

    Widget Options

    • Add title
    • Enable the member to add a story button on the widget's title bar (left side)
    • Specify the number of stories to show
    • Select featured stories 
    • Sort by last updated (Ascending, Descending)
    • Widget max-height (auto, X pixel)
    • Items display direction (Row-carousel mode, Column-list mode)
    • Custom carousel setting (use this for customization of the default setting)
    • Story Settings (Default, Custom) (you can change the default setting for each widget)

    Notification extension added in version

    • These notifications will be sent if the members you have followed post a story.
    • Notification settings in ACP and member accounts are the same as the default IPS applications

    Number Of Views added 

    Reaction Extension added

  • Who Viewed is an application that tracks and displays users who view content. Easily adjust specific apps, tracked member groups, and who can see the list.

    Supports: Forums, Pages, Download, Blog, Gallery, Calendar and Videobox.

  • Popp Theme

    A new template for your forum straight from the author. It has many built-in functions. It will be enhanced with additional features in future updates.
    ( IPS version 5 )

     

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  • Active Viewers is an application that displays the list of members currently viewing specific content on your site with AJAX updates, helping users see who is engaging with discussions or browsing category.

    Key Features:

    • Displays the list of members currently viewing specific content (Supports: Forums, Downloads, Pages, Blog, Gallery and Videobox).
    • In category view, shows the total number of users viewing each post.
    • Specify which member groups can use this feature.
    • Polling interval is configurable.
    • Polling pauses when the user is idle.
    • 2 display layouts for the online members list.

    This application does not work on IPS Cloud

  • Coded with ♥ 

    Chatbox+ is an application that uses Ajax calls to the server to get new messages. Supports room chat, club chat and the private one-2-one chat. The chat boxes can display in widget, new page, or floating on the bottom right to allow member easy to chat with each other.

     

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     ‼️ Using the Chatbox on Cloud may result in limited connections and potential blocking of Ajax requests.

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    Features:

    Private one-2-one chat:

    • Chat boxes display on bottom right allow member to chat with each other.
    • Multi chat at same time.
    • Permission for who can use the private chat.
    • Ability to select skin for each box.
    • Load more messages on scroll up (or down).
    • Easy to find member name to start the chat.
    • Sound notification for new message.
    • Report messages.
    • User online status.
    • Minimize and close chat boxes.
    • Ban settings.
    • Supports Clean Text Input with emoji, Youtube, URL, images, audio files, GIPHY
    • Supports Lazyload images.
    • Interval in milliseconds.
    • Flood control.
    • Message length limit.
    • Permission to edit/delete messages.
    • Fully responsive - will adapt to mobile, tablet, desktop.

    Group Chat

    • This feature is an extension of Member Chat to allow users to create a group and invite people to chat.
    • Option to set maximum users in a group.
    • Users can leave group whenever they want.
    • Displaying users list in a group.
    • System notification when user joins/leaves group.
    • Group owner can rename the group.
    • Permission for who can invite people to join group. 

    Rooms & Clubs Chat

    • Admin can create multiple rooms, display rooms in widgets, or a new page.
    • Club owner can create a room.
    • Announcement & Rules for each room.
    • Online Users list.
    • Allow guest to join and chat with their custom nickname and random avatar.
    • Show online users in the panel or popup.
    • Auto idle after X minutes.
    • Auto schedule: You can now set specific times for your room to automatically open and close. 
    • Global Chat:
      • Show room in a a floating popup on the bottom of the pages so users can chat anywhere.
      • Toggle show/hide the popup.
      • Option to hide popup chat on mobile.
    • User controls:
      • On/Off sound notification.
      • Open chat in a popup.
      • Select skins.
    • Moderator controls:
      • Edit Announcement.
      • User blocking system:
        • Display moderator who blocked the user.
        • Ability to add the reason.
        • Auto unblock user after X minutes.
      • Clean room (delete all messages).
      • Quick edit/delete a message.
    • System messages to notify when:
      • New content posted from 3rd-party apps, supports:
        • Forums (new topic, new reply)
        • Downloads (new file, new comment, new review)
        • Pages (new article, new comment, new review)
        • Gallery (new image, new comment)
        • Blogs (new entry, new comment)
        • Calendar (new event, new comment)
        • Status updates, status replies
        • New registration.
        • Videobox (new video, new comment, new review)
        • Musicbox (new song, new comment)
        • Tutorials (new article, new comment)
      • New announcement.
      • New donation.
      • User joined/left room.
    • Auto Messages (Chat Bot)
      • Create multiple messages with cycle time in seconds.
      • Select a member as a Bot to post the messages automatically every X seconds.
      • The auto messages run on client-side, will not be saved to database for the best performance and saving database.
    • Archive messages:
      • Permission for who can view archive messages.
      • Search messages by member name, guest name, content, time.
      • Sorting messages by time, content, chatter name.
      • Edit/Delete/Report message.

    Other features:

    • Input message:
      • Clean text: only supports URL, image URL, Youtube URL, GIF from GIPHY, upload image
      • Editor: You can use full formatting from Editor: color, bold, size, emoticons...
    • Many stylish designs available:
      • Standard 
      • Bubbles 
      • Condensed 
    • Donation & SuperChat (requires IPS Commerce) 
      • Allow users to donate directly in the room. 
      • After making a payment, the message will be highlighted in a different color.
      • Ability to select permission for who can donate.
      • Select a donation goal from Commerce.
      • Easy to setup the color for SuperChat based on the donation amount.
      • Sending system notification when someone donates to the room.
    • Tools for admin:
      • Delete all system messages
      • Delete all room's messages
      • Delete all conversation
      • Import messages from the Chatbox FREE
    • Extra features:
      • Report center integration allows users to report bad massages.
      • Auto loads old messages when scrolling down (or up).
      • Highlight the message row if someone mentions you.
      • Flood control, max messages, limit characters, sorting messages...
      • Display number of online users in Chat menu.
      • Display counter of characters when typing message.
      • Support IPS Link Filter for disallowed/allowed links.
      • Ignored Users.
      • Lazy load images.
      • Fully responsive.
  • Codey Theme

    A new template for your forum straight from the author. It has many built-in functions. It will be enhanced with additional features in future updates.

    ( IPS version 5 )

     

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  • Introducing our Server List Monitoring App for Invision Community 5—a straightforward solution to keep your forum updated with real-time game server data.
     

    What It Does:
    This application adds a server list monitoring feature directly into your forum. It uses GameQ to fetch live server data and even supports Discord servers.
     

    Key Features:

    1. Responsive Design:

      • Desktop users see a clean table layout.
      • Mobile and tablet users enjoy a sliding card view for easy browsing.
    2. Custom Buttons:

      • Add as many custom buttons as you need.
      • Each button can have its own title, redirection URL, and Font Awesome icon.
    3. Custom Connect URL:

      • Specify a unique connect URL for each server to make joining games easier.
    4. Real-Time Data:

      • View current player counts and server status.
      • Fully supports Discord servers too.
    5. Statistics Footer:

      • Automatically display key stats like last refresh time, total players, and server occupancy.
    6. Flexible Settings:

      • Customize exactly what information you want to display for your community.
    7. Wide Compatibility:

      • Supports all server mods that GameQ offers.
         

    This app is designed to be easy to use and configure. It will be actively maintained and receive updates with even more functionalities.

    View demo of the application at: https://ic5.csowicze.pl/

     

    For any questions contact me on:

    Discord: mesharsky
    Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/id/mesharskyh2k/

  • 🚀 Topic Utilities is a powerful application designed to streamline forum discussions with automation and moderation tools. Whether you're managing an active community or optimizing engagement, this app provides essential features to keep discussions organized and efficient.

    Key Features:

    Auto Welcome – Automatically creates a welcome topic when a new member registers, helping foster engagement.

    Auto Reply – Automatically respond to new topics with a predefined message, perfect for support forums to confirm message receipt.

    Restrict Consecutive Posts – Prevent users from posting multiple consecutive replies. A user must wait for another member to reply before they can post again in the same topic, reducing spam and encouraging balanced discussions.

    Topic Rules – Define and display custom rules for specific topics, ensuring users understand and follow guidelines before participating.

    Auto Pin – Automatically pin a topic when it reaches a predefined number of replies, keeping important discussions visible.

    Auto Lock – Automatically lock a topic when it reaches a set number of replies. Useful for limiting discussions in announcements, event promotions, job postings, or special offers to avoid irrelevant comments.

    Change Author – Change the author of a topic to another user, useful for content management or ownership transfers.

  • Advanced Messenger enhances private messaging with powerful features:

    • Reactions – Send reactions in private conversations, making interactions more engaging and expressive.

    • Signature – Allow users to showcase their personal signature in private messages, adding a personalized touch to conversations.

    • Auto-Reply Messages – Allows users to configure an auto-reply message which is sent as an automatic response to incoming conversations.

    • Restrict Consecutive Messages – Prevent users from sending multiple messages in a row without receiving a reply.

    • Message Notes – Allows users to attach notes to messages, visible to all participants in the conversation. This feature helps highlight important information, reminders, or additional context within discussions.

    Upgrade your messaging experience with better engagement and control 😬

  • TMDB EasyPost – Create Movie & TV Show Topics Instantly from TMDB!

    TMDB EasyPost is the ultimate tool for creating captivating topics about movies and TV shows from TheMovieDB (TMDB) with just a URL! Perfect for movie communities, review websites, and entertainment forums, this app simplifies content creation, helping you engage your audience with rich, detailed posts.

     Key Features:

    • 🚀 Instant Post Creation: Generate fully detailed posts from TMDB URLs in seconds.
    • 🌍 Multi-Language Support: Import movie details in any ISO-639-1 language supported by TMDB
    • 🎯 Multi-App Integration: Seamlessly publish to Forums, Pages, Downloads, and Videobox.
    • 📊 Rich Content: Automatically includes poster, trailers, cast, crew, genres, backdrops and more.
    • With TMDB EasyPost, creating professional-looking movie and TV show topics has never been easier. Delight your audience and grow your community effortlessly! 🎬🌟

    🫱Demo:

  • This is very simple chat system with the basic features:

    • Ajax chat, auto update.
    • Display as a widget, so you can place it in sidebar or top page.
    • Sound notification. User can toggle on/off.
    • Admins/Moderators can block users.
    • Load more messages when scrolling end (or top).
    • Rules.
    • Supports emoticons, URL, Images (GIF, PNG, JPG)
    • Supports GIPHY to finds GIFs and Stickers by using /giphy command (Eg: /giphy happy new year)
    • Supports Youtube, playing video in iframe and popup 
    • @mention by clicking on usernames.
    • Flood control.
    • Bad word filters.
    • Time format.
    • Display newer messages in top or bottom.
    • Permissions for viewing, chatting & management.
    • Edit/Delete messages.

    Demo: https://demo.ipsappzone.com/bimchatbox/

  • By Maxius
    Hello, I got a client who wants to relaunch his old forum which was online since early 2000s and was online until around 2021 and then it all went offline. The original domain was lost to squatters and is unrecoverable. However the domain is blank and all indexed content from search engines has been dropped. Client thinks about migrating to IPS and relaunching it on another domain (which at the time of speaking is already 1.5 years old). The forum has around 300k posts and 15k topics. So I
  • By JoelR
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  • By JoelR
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/03/18/hamster-forum-local-residents-websites-shut-down-new-laws/ Britain’s Online Safety Act, a sprawling set of new internet laws, include measures to prevent children from seeing abusive content, age verification for adult websites, criminalising cyber-flashing and deepfakes, and cracking down on harmful misinformation. Under the illegal harms duties that came into force on Monday, sites must complete risk assessments detailing how they deal
  • By JoelR
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/03/18/hamster-forum-local-residents-websites-shut-down-new-laws/ Britain’s Online Safety Act, a sprawling set of new internet laws, include measures to prevent children from seeing abusive content, age verification for adult websites, criminalising cyber-flashing and deepfakes, and cracking down on harmful misinformation. Under the illegal harms duties that came into force on Monday, sites must complete risk assessments detailing how they deal
  • By JoelR
    I'm going to make a bold claim and say that this topic has the most redactions in the history of IPS  https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/481831-you-forced-my-bill-from-80-a-year-to-200-a-year-wtf/ This topic has given me faith that forum drama is alive and well, and filled with fiery [REDACTED] 🤣 Also, ironically, the post has earned IPS several 5 star Trustpilot reviews so ... All's well that ends well? 
  • By JoelR
    This is something that I struggle with.  I may have done an amazing thing with my community.  Maybe we hit a new milestone.  Maybe we hit a major achievement.  Maybe we've been quietly building one of the world's largest dictionaries contextualized for online communities: https://invisioneer.org/index.php?/cmxdictionary/ In my head, I have already acknowledged those milestones as another step in my community journey, so nothing more is needed. It's one of many achievements laying before me.
  • By JoelR
    Own time upfront payment of $2000 for a domain for 100 years which ... doesn't seem that bad, especially when you think about how much renewal costs have increased on domain names.   https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wordpress-offers-new-100-year-domain-name-registrations/540195/ I'm waiting for IPS to offer the 100 year license, so we can have a forum to last as long as that domain.  😀
  • By Square Wheels
    Hi, I miss the friendly number format app.  It seems that is too hard to redo for the entire suite. Would anyone be willing to create a custom widget that would pull this info? https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/481794-friendly-number-format/#findComment-2992016 Thanks
  • By JoelR
    If you follow the news, one of the biggest and most consequential changes to the entire globe is the election of President Trump in America.  And even if you live in another country, his election will likely have ramifications.  Over the weekedn, the United States VP JD Vance criticized Europe for censoring social media, interfering in elections and violating the rights of Christians. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/14/vance-slams-europe-on-free-speech-migration-in-first-international
  • By JoelR
    Valentine's Day is coming up this weekend, which is a perfect excuse to host a "Love Your Members" theme, contest, or event.   There are plenty of fun celebrations throughout the year, anchored by big seasonal ones such as Valentine's and Christmas.  These are "easy" themes.  The dates and context behind these holidays are well-known, well-understood, and easily adoptable.  But it's also heavily overused and generic.  Every forum tries to do a Christmas thing. Every forum tries to do
  • By JoelR
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  • By JoelR
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