Overview

Description

Community Activity is a front-end statistics and engagement dashboard for Invision Community Suite v5. It turns the data your community already produces into a polished, public-facing experience: growth trends, a year-long contribution heatmap, top members and content, cross-application breakdowns, personal scorecards, staff-only outreach tools, and automatic engagement notifications. It complements the built-in board statistics instead of replacing them, and it looks like a native part of your community from the first page load.

Live demo: Community Activity

A Real Dashboard, Not a Buried Stats Page

• A polished single-page dashboard at a clean URL: /community-activity/

• Live headline totals: members, content, reactions, and who is online right now

• A full-year contribution Heartbeat, similar to a contribution graph, so momentum is visible at a glance

• Sections animate in as you scroll, without slowing the page down

• Light and dark mode aware, fully responsive, and motion-reduced for accessibility

Your statistics stop being an admin afterthought and become a destination.

Community Insights at Every Angle

• Growth Trends: a multi-line chart of content, members, active members, and reactions, with instant 7, 30, 90, and 365 day range switching

• Activity Patterns: when your community is most active by hour of day

• Community Mood: how members react, with a positive, neutral, and negative sentiment split

• Content Mix: what is being created across your community month by month

• Content by Area: a breakdown across Forums, Gallery, Downloads, Blogs, and more

• Top Members, Top Topics, and Busiest Forums: quick views of what and who is driving activity

• Records and Milestones: all-time high-water marks plus a celebratory Year in Review

Everything is permission-aware, so members only see content they are allowed to see.

A Personal Scorecard for Every Member

The You tab turns participation into something members care about:

• "You are more active than X percent of members"

• Personal milestone badges: first topic, ten replies, one hundred posts, best answer, and one-year anniversary

• A friendly engagement level, from Quiet Reader up to Community Driver

• Your rank this week, posts this month, most-viewed topic, most-reacted content, and your contribution breakdown

Every member gets a reason to come back and watch their numbers climb.

Smart Staff Tools That Drive Retention

When a moderator or admin opens the dashboard, a staff-only sidebar appears with practical, one-click actions:

• Needs Attention: unanswered topics, retention signals, first posts with no reply, and cooling-down forums

• Reach Out: welcome new members, win back quiet ones, catch power members who are slipping away, and congratulate anniversaries, each with a quick message action

• Spotlight: rising stars and members who are one or two posts away from a milestone

Spot the people who need a nudge before you lose them, and recognize the ones carrying your community.

Automatic Engagement Notifications

Six built-in notification types keep members coming back:

• Post of the week, personal milestones, activity streaks, weekly recap, ranking updates, and community milestones

• Never about the past. Installing the app records the current state silently and only notifies on new activity, so nobody gets flooded with alerts about old events

• You choose which types are sent community-wide

• Members stay in control and can opt out of any type

• They carry your site favicon, so they clearly feel like part of your community

Automated encouragement that never feels spammy.

Built to Be Fast and Self-Sufficient

• Aggregate-first design with a daily background task, so the dashboard stays instant even on busy communities

• A bundled charting library served locally, with no external dependencies

• Builds up to a year of history automatically, so the Heartbeat and Growth charts have data immediately

• A front-end widget with two layouts, sidebar and horizontal, for any block area

• Native AdminCP settings, group-based access control, and an in-panel support page

No external services, no tracking, and no new personal data collected. It reads what Invision already stores.

Perfect For

• Communities that want members to feel their own progress

• Forums looking to boost retention and repeat visits

• Staff teams who want actionable health signals at a glance

• Any community that wants its statistics to feel like part of the site

Community Activity gives your community a living dashboard that members enjoy, staff rely on, and that runs itself. Take a look at the demo and see it in action.