Deflection Theme for Invision 5?

[Rutabaga]

This arrived in my email today:

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Hello,

I hope this email finds you well. This is our second email notifying you of these upcoming changes. I want to express our sincerest appreciation for your continued loyalty and trust in Invision Community. Your support has had a significant impact to our growth and success, and we are genuinely grateful to have you as a continued part of our community.

As part of our ongoing commitment to providing the best possible service, we want to let you know that your current cloud plan is part of our legacy offerings being retired on October 1, 2025. To ensure our platform keeps pace, we’ve invested heavily in a modern cloud infrastructure that offers enhanced scalability, improved security, multi-region redundancy and better performance, along with service options across US and EU regions to meet compliance regulations. Maintaining two separate platforms has allowed us to support legacy users as long as possible. However, due to rising operational costs and the growing limitations of older systems, we’ve reached a point where we can no longer continue supporting the legacy platform effectively. As a result, we will be retiring our legacy offerings on October 1, 2025 and asking all legacy clients to choose a new plan for your community.

We understand that choosing a new plan is an important decision, and we are here to assist you every step of the way. To ease the transition, we are offering a Creator Pro Trial plan, available at a reduced rate of $70/month for six months. This is a trial period of the Creator Pro plan seen here which includes access to all core applications, full Pages access and more. Many of our clients choose this plan as it provides a great mix of features. This trial will give you the opportunity to try that out as you explore your long-term options. To take advantage of the trial plan, please contact us at accounts@invisionpower.com so we can move your community to that plan and grant you the discount. After six months, on April 1, 2026, it will adjust to the regular Creator Pro plan pricing, currently $169/month and will observe the Creator Pro plan features and offerings seen here. Since our offerings differ per plan, we do encourage you to review and choose the best plan for you. If you do not require all features, we can apply the discount to the Creator Trial plan, available at a reduced rate of $50/month for six months. If you choose to forgo the Creator or Creator Pro Trial plans for another plan from our current offerings, you can go to Manage this purchase, then "Upgrade my plan" to select the plan.

Should you opt not to continue with us by choosing a new plan, on October 1 your community will be turned offline and no additional payments will process from stored payment methods on your account. If you pay monthly, no funds will be returned for unused time between your renewal and the October 1 date.

Lastly, while we have you, we also wish to share our excitement about our new version of the Invision Community platform: v5. This marks a major milestone in our journey to deliver value and functionality that are largely unmatched in the industry. This update will be available to you immediately upon the transition to a new package (including the Creator Pro Trial). Please see more details about v5 - we are confident you will not be disappointed!

Thank you again for your continued business and support. We’re excited about what the future holds and look forward to supporting your success with the enhanced features, performance and modernization of v5.

If you have any questions or need assistance, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at accounts@invisionpower.com

Warm regards,
Lindy Throgmartin

 

I don't see anything about staying on the Gen 4, unless the idea is that we pay the Gen 5 price to stay on Gen 4.  That seems crazy to me.

R

[Ehren]

Some of the cloud plans are being retired in favour of new ones. You’ll be required to switch to one of the new cloud plans but you can still use the v4 software.

You’ll also be able to upgrade to v5 at any point if you wish to do so for no additional cost  

[Rutabaga]

I just heard back from the company and apparently that is correct -- we CAN stay on v4 but will pay the v5 price, which happens to be triple our current rate.

Much to ponder.

R

 

[kobayashi90]

still waiting for deflection.. its not nice to be on invision 5 still..

[Rutabaga]

Still waiting on Deflection for version 5 platform.

R

[kobayashi90]

@Ehrenany update on Deflection?

[Ehren]

I sat down today to work on polishing the Background Picker. The plan is to have 6 image options for light mode and 6 for dark mode.

That'll be done this week, and I'll actually be able to start releasing some themes - finally!

So sorry for such a long delay, it's been a wild few months.

[kobayashi90]

On 1/20/2026 at 8:26 AM, Ehren said:

I sat down today to work on polishing the Background Picker. The plan is to have 6 image options for light mode and 6 for dark mode.

That'll be done this week, and I'll actually be able to start releasing some themes - finally!

So sorry for such a long delay, it's been a wild few months.

any progress update on this? sorry i dont want to bother you too much..

[Ehren]

Deflection has now been finished and is available for early preview on the demo board, including light/dark mode and a background picker for the header.

I'll be adding it to the store later this week  

[kobayashi90]

9 hours ago, Ehren said:

Deflection has now been finished and is available for early preview on the demo board, including light/dark mode and a background picker for the header.

I'll be adding it to the store later this week  

custom header images will return right?

[Ehren]

Yep, it's a part of the theme already (via the Background Picker). The demo just uses solid colours, but there are settings to add your own images.

How does everything else seem?

[kobayashi90]

12 hours ago, Ehren said:

How does everything else seem?

not gonna lie, i am not trying to make invision look bad, but who decided to make all themes look the same because its a big difference in layout.
also my users noticed that the new one is pretty much zoomed in as before. tho ill hope my community can get over this change.
also i hope the mega footer still exists.

[Ehren]

By “zoomed in”, are they just referring to the font-size? The size was increased from 13px to 14px to improve accessibility, but you can easily change it in the theme settings if they want something smaller.

The mega footer is no longer needed since widgets can be dragged into the footer in v5. So you can add almost anything (stats, feeds, online members, custom HTML, etc). Much more versatile  

[Rutabaga]

On 2/18/2026 at 2:30 AM, Ehren said:

Deflection has now been finished and is available for early preview on the demo board, including light/dark mode and a background picker for the header.

I'll be adding it to the store later this week  

I see no evidence of this theme on the demo board link.

I see no evidence of it in the store.

We have been paying for Invision version 5 for months without being able to migrate to it, because of lack of theme.  I'm wondering whether choosing an IPSFocus theme was a bed decision.

R 

 

[Ehren]

41 minutes ago, Rutabaga said:

I see no evidence of this theme on the demo board link.

I see no evidence of it in the store.

We have been paying for Invision version 5 for months without being able to migrate to it, because of lack of theme.  I'm wondering whether choosing an IPSFocus theme was a bed decision.

R 

 

Hello,

The Deflection theme has been on the demo board for the past 5 days (you need to select it from the Theme menu at the bottom of the page) and will be available shortly for purchase.

The v5 themes are running on a completely new framework and have been coded from scratch as it's not possible to copy/paste any v4 code. The background picker is completely custom, and extra time was needed for light mode since Dimension has previously only been a dark theme, so unfortunately these things take time.

I genuinely do apologise for the delay and will do my best to have this theme available for you as soon as possible.

[Rutabaga]

23 minutes ago, Ehren said:

Hello,

The Deflection theme has been on the demo board for the past 5 days (you need to select it from the Theme menu at the bottom of the page) and will be available shortly for purchase.

The v5 themes are running on a completely new framework and have been coded from scratch as it's not possible to copy/paste any v4 code. The background picker is completely custom, and extra time was needed for light mode since Dimension has previously only been a dark theme, so unfortunately these things take time.

I genuinely do apologise for the delay and will do my best to have this theme available for you as soon as possible.

I don't think the system will let me log on.  I tried several times and requested a password reset email but nothing came.

R

Update -- I found the link at the bottom.  I'm wondering how our current forum will appear with the replaced theme, given the differences visible in the demo  Guess we'll just have to try it and see.

R