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Welcome to Invisioneer
We help online community managers and forum administrators build great online communities. Discover one of the largest, free resources for online community management. Discuss, Learn, and Be Inspired.
Good communities become great at Invisioneer.
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Discuss
Converse with other forum admins, community leaders, and Invision Community (IPS) clients.
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Browse
Browse, shop, and be inspired in the third-party Marketplace Directory for Invision Community (IPS) to find themes, mods, and more.
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Learn
Educate and empower yourself with some of the world's largest databases of community management resources.
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Great things happen when talent comes together!
We're proud to be the new home of the Marketplace Directory, the free third-party listing site for Invision Community (IPS) themes and mods. Browse, shop, and be inspired by the amazing contributions of the Invision Community third-party.
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Advanced Messenger
Advanced Messenger enhances private messaging with powerful features:
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Reactions – Send reactions in private conversations, making interactions more engaging and expressive.
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Signature – Allow users to showcase their personal signature in private messages, adding a personalized touch to conversations.
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Auto-Reply Messages – Allows users to configure an auto-reply message which is sent as an automatic response to incoming conversations.
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Restrict Consecutive Messages – Prevent users from sending multiple messages in a row without receiving a reply.
Upgrade your messaging experience with better engagement and control 😬
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TMDB EasyPost
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:
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Chatbox FREE
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.
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Garage This OR That
Garage This OR That is a fun game based upon the Garage application. Its will randomly select vehicles from the garage and put them up against each other for users to go and vote on which one they like better.
Features:
- Keep track of wins and losses.
- Widget to show a leaderboard of top vehicles.
- Show in vehicle's garage listing their score, losses, and loss ratio.
- Algorithm attempts to prioritize those with lower scores to keep vehicles showing fresh.
Coming Soon:
- See what top makes/models are in your garage.
- Detailed user breakdown of what makes/models they beat most and lose to most.
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Garage
Garage allows users to create online "garages" on your community. Users can share information about their cars, upload photos, and other users can make comments.
Features:
- Organize vehicles into like categories.
- Create your own Make/Model lists or allow for open insert by the user.
- Create custom fields for vehicles (e.g. vehicle trim, color, engine, etc... the sky is the limit!)
- Users can upload multiple photos to their vehicle.
- Comment with other users.
- Share their vehicle in a topic via an embed.
- Statistics related to all vehicles, most popular make/model, and more.
- Vehicle content is searchable.
If you utilize DevFuse's Collection application in version 4, you can purchase the following migration application to transfer the data:
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UStatus
UStatus is an application that allows members to post status updates on their profile pages, serving as an alternative to the old Status Updates feature in v4. It is easy to set up and features an intuitive user interface for a seamless experience.
Main Features:
- Post status updates on profile pages.
- Comment on others' status updates.
- Give reactions to status updates.
- Allow posting status updates on other members' profile pages.
- Notifications for new comments, new status updates, reactions.
- A widget to display all members' status updates.
- Ability to import old data from v4 Status Updates.
- Support the Friends application with the permission "Who can post on your profile: everyone, friends only, nobody"
Demo:
https://demo.ipsappzone.com/profile/1-admin/?&tab=node_ustatus_Ustatus
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Topic Utilities
🚀 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 Reply – Automatically respond to new topics with predefined messages, perfect for welcoming users, providing guidelines, or delivering important announcements.
✅ 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.
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Pro Stats
This app allows using Widget to display the statistic in your site. Members could see and update the newest information on that.
Features:
- DISPLAY STATS IN TAB VIEW
- DISPLAY STATS IN GRID VIEW
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Manage stats in widget's settings:
- Easy to add/delete stats.
- Drag & drop to reorder the position quickly.
- Clicking on stats to options: title, categories, thumbnails.
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Supports IPS official apps: Forums, Downloads, Pages, Nexus, Gallery, Calendar. And 3rd party apps that meets the requirement for IPS4 Content, such as: Videobox, Musicbox, Tutorials, etc.... with the following stats:
- New content
- New comments
- New reviews
- Most viewed
- Hot Topics
- New Members
- Top Reputations
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Other:
- Auto-update stats every X seconds.
- Widget title.
- Thumbnail style (square or round).
- Fully support AJAX.
- Fully support responsive design.
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Hide it
The Hide it application allows hiding content from posts in Forums, Pages and Downloads. It supports selectively hiding specific sections or entire posts.
This application does not work on IPS Cloud because it requires editing PHP files.
Features:
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Select databases and categories for hidden content.
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Specify user groups for hidden content.
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Options for hiding specific content: links, images, attachments, code, or the entire post.
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Options to unhide content:
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Give a reaction
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Leave a comment
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Reaction or comment
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Reaction and comment
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Reload content in ajax after giving reaction to unhide content without reloading page.
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[M.A.D] Multiple Accounts Detector
Description:
- This app scans the database to detect members who have rmultiple accounts at your forum, and it will list the results.
Detection Method:
- The detection method is being done in 4 ways.
1) Registration Method:
- This method is based on scanning the members table for members who have registered more than one account at your forum from the same ip. The ip address in question will be displayed with the latest multiple account. When the ip address is clicked upon, it will display all the other aliases of that member.
2) Posting Method:
- This method is based on scanning the posts table for members who have posted from more than one account at your forum from the same ip. The ip address in question will be displayed with the latest multiple account. When the ip address is clicked upon, it will display all the other aliases of that member as well as the posts and topics that they have posted.
3) Ip Login Method:
- This method is based on scanning members known ip addresses, i.e. their last used ips, during the login and if a member has logged in to different accounts from the same ip, the action will be logged and displayed.
4) Device Detection Method:
- This is the most accurate method imo. Ipb adds a unique cookie to members devices when they log in to the forum. The cookie exparation date is set to one year and its unique string is associated with the users device and stored in the device table. This means if someone logs in to your forum, logs out and then logs in using another account and a different ip address, then it can tell that it was the same person. It means that person has to use same machine, same browser irrespective of the ip address he/she is using.
Search:
- All 4 multiple accounts detection methods have a quick search option where you can search the resuts based on members names.
Compatibility:
- This app is compatible with Ipb 5 only. If you are using the Ipb 4.7. version of the app you will have to uninstall it first. Then you can install this one. No data will be lost as the app doesn't add a table of its own to the dataabse, but queries the relevant Ipb tables.
Payment Method:
- Paypal Only. If you are interested in purchasing this app please contact me in private.
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PSD Cover Image Designer for Invision Community 5
Invision Community 5 makes much better use of Pages record images for your articles. These images are now shown in various aspect ratios throughout your community using the CSS “cover mode“, so parts of your images will simply be cut off! I created a Photoshop template (and PNG image as alternative) to create and test suitable cover images before uploading them. The template shows a pixel-perfect preview for all relevant aspect ratios that Invision Community 5 uses.
The template file itself is free, but access is limited to subscribers of my premium membership.
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WordPress offers 100 year domains
By JoelROwn 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. 😀 -
Friendly number format
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 -
What are your limits on 'free speech'?
By JoelRIf 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 -
On Holidays, Themes, and Events
By JoelRValentine'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 -
IPS proposes private forum boards for support tickets
By JoelRhttps://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/481595-support-tickets-v4-to-v5/ Matt proposed a replacement of private forums for support tickets, where users can only see their own topics. This seems to be a very easy and simple replacement, and it uses existing capabilities in the forum. -
On Self Management
By JoelREverybody talks about community management. But I actually think that the #1 component of success behind your community management - and this is especially targeted at independent sites, hobbyists, and solopreneurs - is self management. What I mean by this is that, before you can run your community and spend time on your community, you need to make sure you manage yourself. Literally, how well do you manage your 'real world' life before you try to manage your 'digital life'? Do yo -
Buzfeed announces new AI-powered social media platform BFIsland
By JoelRBuzzFeed announced that it's creating its own social media platform called BFisland to "spread joy." The new platform will focus on positive content, interactive storytelling, and self-expression using AI tools. Although details are unclear, the platform will be designed to improve online connections. https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/11/buzzfeed-is-taking-on-instagram-tiktok-x-with-a-new-social-platform-designed-to-spread-joy/ -
Missing content?
By Jon EricksonDid the site get restored or lose some content? I seem to be missing some content as if the site reset to a couple days ago? Links to messages are resulting in a 404 for example… -
TikTok might shut down in the US this weekend
By JoelRHow will American teenagers waste time now?? 🤣 On a serious note, there's likely to be a migration of TikTok audience - and an opportunity for community owners to refocus - to other established platforms like Google Shorts, Instagram Reels, or Twitch. And if you're sooking to stay with a Chinese owned app, the apparent replacements are RedNote or Lemon8. -
Pixar's Social Media Strategy
By JoelR"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 tren -
New Year Goals with Anti-Goals and No Goals
By JoelREvery 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-goal -
What will you do differently in the new year?
By JoelRThere'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, i
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Passion & Strategy
We take a fundamentally different approach to building great communities on the modern web. We focus on the hard questions of strategy, and believe communities of all sizes can succeed with the right passion and strategy.
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Continuous Learning
We believe in learning from expert education and best-in-class advice to inspire us. We built some of the world's largest resources for community building, and won't stop sharing the best advice from the smartest people we can find.
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Modern Perspectives
Modern communities deserve modern approach to community building. We believe in pushing everyone to a more forward-thinking approach to building great communities that thrive on the modern web.
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