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Matt Mecham
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Founder Invision Community. Two kids and 10 pairs of running shoes.
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Can you start from a stock Invision Community 5 installation and have it themed, customized, and a new homepage built in under an hour without relying on custom templates and coding?
Invision Community 5: A video walkthrough creating a custom theme and homepage
Can you start from a stock Invision Community 5 installation and have it themed, customized, and a new homepage built in under an hour without relying on custom templates and coding? Yes, and Jimi…
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December 13, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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The main concept for Invision Community 5 was to reduce the complexity of power-user tools like theming and page building and build new tools to help busy community teams organise, moderate and identify trusted members.

Did we achieve that?
Five Invision Community 5 features your team will love
There's a lot for your members to love with Invision Community 5, and we recently covered five of the best features. Today, I want to discuss five features your team will love. One of the main…
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December 5, 2024 at 9:21 PM
X is really circling hell now. Elon sharing anti vaccine memes. Outright hatred and racism everywhere from blue tick accounts.

Ugly and awful.
November 28, 2024 at 1:48 PM
This is the path that meant I had to take a 4km diversion on my run today. 😂
November 28, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Going to write an article titled something like “the case for, and the case against AI in communities.” What would you like to see covered?
November 25, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Met a friend during my run today.
November 21, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Bluesky or Threads? 🤔
November 20, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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You’ve gotta give Elon Musk some credit: Sure, he transformed Twitter into a haven for misinformation where the worst people on earth can pay to be first in your replies, but at least it doesn’t work
July 1, 2023 at 11:01 PM
I am enjoying this phase of Bluesky's lifecycle before the hustlers and grifters show up with threads and templates.
April 27, 2023 at 9:43 AM
Being an adult means non-stop side quests.
April 27, 2023 at 9:41 AM
My twitter timeline is full of people asking for invite codes. I’ve used the only two I had. Who can I persuade to get me a reload? 😇
April 25, 2023 at 7:30 PM
Yes. It is.
is this The Good Place?
April 25, 2023 at 5:32 PM
I'm now "verified" and it took a few minutes to add a TXT entry to a domain DNS I own.

This is a much better system. DNS is pretty secure and a great way to verify people.
April 25, 2023 at 4:05 PM
The Bluesky web app is very stable

https://staging.bsky.app
April 25, 2023 at 2:04 PM
Latest addition to my office. The venerable Spectrum ZX81. One of the first affordable home computers back in 1981.
April 24, 2023 at 7:19 PM
Communities in 2002. No verified costs. No algorithms. No evil overlords (maybe a grumpy forum admin or two though).
April 22, 2023 at 9:36 PM
The old Amiga 1200 joins me on my main desk. It’s taken a while to get this rebuilt but it’s been worth it.
April 21, 2023 at 4:23 PM