3 Features in Invision 5

[JoelR]

A sneak peek at some features in Invision 5 that you might have a strong opinion about.  

What do you think about each of these?

Vertical Menu

The classic menu from v4 was always horizontal across the top of the screen, similar to most other websites and forums.  

In IPS v4, admins have the option of switching to a Vertical Menu, similar to Opera, Reddit, Edge and other popular platforms.

 

Search Box 

The Search Box on desktop actually opens up a search modal popup.  

What do you think?  Do you like the additional options before you search, or do you think this is misleading design?  

 

Card view of Forum Index

IPS introduced their fourth layout (!) for the forum index: card view. 

Users see a hybrid combination of a large thumbnail and recent topics

 

[JoelR]

Also, as an exclusive sneak peek at Invision Community 5 alpha, I put together a mash-up clip of the next generation of the community suite.  

 

 

[envy]

It would be great if they could also add this old and standard forum feature that is missing in the Invision community.

 

 also, see how the search bar expands and collapses on the navbar

everything is arranged in one line

 

developers in the house, please take note of this if you can implement this

 

[envy]

Invision Community should have a nice footer layout by default 

 

[JoelR]

Those are all great suggestions @envy, and I know users have asked about footers in the past.  Encourage you to post in the Feedback forum on the official IPS client forums (https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/)