What’s New on Invid.au — November 2025 Dev Update

🎉 What’s New on Invid.au — November 2025 Dev Update

Big improvements, cleaner experiences, and a faster platform — here’s everything we’ve shipped in the last couple of months.

Over the last 6–8 weeks, Invid.au has gone through one of its biggest upgrade cycles yet. From major forum improvements to a complete overhaul of push notifications, match chat, mobile parity, admin tools, security upgrades and more — the platform is faster, cleaner and more powerful than ever.

Let’s jump in. 👇

Smarter Forum Notifications (No More Spam)

We completely reworked forum notifications to avoid spamming users:

• Grouped notifications (e.g., "3 people replied to your thread")
• Distinction between direct replies and thread participant activity
• Watchers only receive a push/email if there is no recent unread notification
• Expo push notifications integrated with the forum system

Much cleaner. Much smarter.

➕ Quote & Reply Integration

Replying to posts now auto-inserts a clean blockquoted snippet — easier conversations, fewer messy walls of text.

🎮 PUG System Improvements

The PUG/match flow received several fixes and stability upgrades:

🧩 Lobby Reset & Match Flow Stability

• Fixed the rare bug where a match could revert back to map voting
• Improved state locking so a lobby can’t “fall backwards” in its lifecycle
• Better Redis-based recovery after disconnects
• Improved countdown detection when rejoining a lobby

💬 Match Chat Consistency

Match chat now:

• Loads correctly when joining mid-match
• Syncs message history reliably
• Works on web only at this stage

🎟️ Support Ticketing System

A huge new feature:

• Users can open support tickets
• Admins can manage Open / Closed / On Hold
• Users receive notifications for replies
• Clean UI built into admin dashboard
• Email + Push integration

This brings Invid.au much closer to a full service platform.

⚙️ Security, Stability & Infrastructure

🔒 Fixed SSRF Vulnerability in Server Status Endpoint

The /server-status controller now only reads whitelisted community servers and cannot be abused for internal network scanning.

🔍 And a bunch of smaller fixes

• Realtime lobby list now updates
• Faster inbox handling
• Cleaner MySQL queries across some features
• More efficient DM unread tracking
• Fixed forum activity merge on profile pages
• Better admin logging
• Improved error handling in match and voting controllers

🎯 What’s Coming Next

Here’s what we’re working on next:

• ✓ Mobile match chat UI
• ✓ Online status tracking for mobile (Redis presence)
• ✓ Achievements system (modular, backend-ready)
• ✓ Team banners + image resizing pipeline
• ✓ Community server live viewer counts
• ✓ Full homepage redesign with banners + match feed
• ✓ Mobile ios and Android APP

Big system upgrades are now done — next up is polish and new player-facing features.

❤️ Thanks for being part of Invid.au

The platform is growing faster than ever, and your testing, feedback, and bug reports have been massive in shaping what we’re building. The last two months laid the foundation for some huge updates to come.

If you spot any bugs or want to suggest a feature, hit Support in the menu — we’re listening.

See you in the servers. 🏆🔥