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CPU Saving Feature

January 13, 2006 by Guest Labonte18
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After yet another mention on national radio today... I find that I have incredible spikes in users. From 15 users online to 218 in seconds. Of the 218, 90% of them were guests. Server handled it rather well, actually... Once I went in and turned search off (That one just eats up resources) everything was fine... But it got me to thinking.. I don't want to turn guest access off to my board, but I also don't want to have my regular members locked out because we get a mention and get whacked with an ungodly number of users at a single time. Would it be possible to set a maximum number of guest users that could be online at any given time? This would give priority to a…

Last reply by Labonte18, January 13, 2006
Apply / Install Modifcations

January 12, 2006 by Guest Keven Fox
2 replies

1.8k views
I saw this with SMF, which I've tested quite a bit. I would love to see this with IPB since obviously I prefer this software. I never go with the stock software I always use at least a few modifcations for it.

Last reply by Ipstenu, January 12, 2006
Delete your own thread in some forums

January 11, 2006 by Guest beddows
0 replies

1.9k views
We have a buy & Sell forum on our forums. We do not allow people to delete their own threads normally, but we would like them to be able to in thisi section once they have sold an item or bought one. It would be nice to have an option in the individual forum settings for "ability to delete threads you have started". Maybe own posts as well that would overide individual user permissions for that forum.

Last reply by beddows, January 11, 2006
pre-release development packages?

January 11, 2006 by Guest BRamburn
0 replies

1.3k views
Ok I just realised this, ipb releases these cool new boards every 2-4 months changing the core, template or other things. once released it will take a business approximately 48-36hours to recustomize their skin, modification, etc... I was wondering if ipb team would be able to release a package with information of what has changed 2-4 days before, like for example the CSS will differ from version 2.x to 3.x so if ipb releases a small document informing users of change before hand so that they can start getting things ready and assure the business' dev team that most things will work as they will want to keep up with competition by keeping up 2date with technology …

Last reply by BRamburn, January 11, 2006
Custom Profile Fields: Limit Scope of Topic View Display

January 11, 2006 by Guest ChrisA
0 replies

1.5k views
Basically this suggestion comes from the fact I would like one of the custom profile fields on my forums to be included next to each members posts, but only in one specific sub-board on my forums. So it would be nice for example if I could use a bit of HTML logic in the routine for outputting the custom profile field displays into the skin like so: <if="ibp.input['showforum'] == 3">XBOX Live Gamertag:<br />{content}<br /></if> Hope that makes some sense - this is based on a query I posted here :)

Last reply by ChrisA, January 11, 2006
Spam- Bot trouble, guest posting enabled

January 11, 2006 by Guest Shining
0 replies

1.4k views
I think this would be a great idea, cause I' ve the same problem: http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=203561

Last reply by Shining, January 11, 2006
Help Me!

January 10, 2006 by Guest Kushinka
1 reply

1.8k views
when i click a forum it takes me to an error screen saying, Board Message Sorry, an error occurred. If you are unsure on how to use a feature, or don't know why you got this error message, try looking through the help files for more information. The error returned was: Incorrect use of one of the board files help me fix this i may have posted this in a wrong place :D

Last reply by Swift47, January 10, 2006
More useful 'mini profile' fields

January 10, 2006 by Guest //Nathan
1 reply

2k views
Honestly, who cares about member number? Some people care about join date and post count, but how important are these really? Why not trade them for age, gender, and country (reserving the Location for something more local). I realize there are mods to do this, but I think forums with these mods installed look and feel better. The mini profile should tell you a little more about the person, at a glance, than they do now. I think, at least, country should be a required field. Knowing some people here are from the UK greatly explains some posts that don't make any sense to me as an American. I see they're British - OK, that answers it. I don't mean to sound preju…

Last reply by bfarber, January 10, 2006
Help me

January 10, 2006 by Guest tiendat
2 replies

1.8k views
I need a link of new IPB to download, can you help me. thank you!!!

Last reply by Brandon C, January 10, 2006
RSS import as single topic AND "select all" for moderator

January 10, 2006 by Guest squidfish
0 replies

1.5k views
Hi there, I have 2 suggestions for the next version: 1) RSS Import as single topic What I am finding with my imported feeds is that the text is very brief...perhaps 3 lines of text and a link. It is very slow opening each topic and reading them one by one! Honestly who can be bothered when there is so little text? So my idea is that you be given the option to import each RSS feed as a single topic....and, if you go for this option, then each new feed entry is simply appended to the exisiting topic as if it was a "reply". There are different ways this can be done. A extra cool way (which would be more work of course for Matt) would be so that the title of the to…

Last reply by squidfish, January 10, 2006
Change skin colors, per user

January 10, 2006 by Guest //Nathan
0 replies

1.4k views
What if the default skin didn't have color values, but user-inputted values? I don't understand what makes a skin a skin, but I'm looking at IPB from a user perspective, and I don't see why, for example this light blue around the posting window, couldn't be, rather than a reference to a hexadecimal color, be a reference to a variable set by default by the admin but changeable by each user. Same with the headers, it's just one color gradient to the other... why not define two colors or one color and "lighter" or "darker"? I think it would be great for each user to be able to choose what colors the board shows up in. And it sure beats having a skin for each color someo…

Last reply by //Nathan, January 10, 2006
xhtml

December 16, 2005 by Guest cvxdes
7 replies

2.7k views
It'd be nice to see xhtml in later versions... :) ;)

Last reply by briansol, January 9, 2006
A New Installer

January 5, 2006 by Guest SnakEyez
16 replies

4.5k views
Personally I have been very happy with Invision Board as a product, but the ugprading procedures are about as bad as they come. The instructions users see is: "Upload all the files contained in the "upload" folder of the download distribution EXCEPT conf_global.php" I hate to sound like this but this is something I really expect from a free product and not a paid one. I mean is it really necessary to update every single file, images included, every single time there is an update from one version to the next (ie: 2.1.3->2.1.4). I just think there could be something done to make the process run a little smoother and easier.

Last reply by FCB-Mo, January 9, 2006
Safe HTML

January 8, 2006 by Guest shazam521
1 reply

1.7k views
I would like to say that this suggestion is to allow HTML to be enabled, but to deny HTML that hasn't been accepted by the Administration as 'SAFE'. If I rember rightly, phpBB (free software) has a feature that is very much the same as this request. I would like to see however that it would be even better if the HTML was able to be set by member group/Permission Masks. So for exameple say that the admin's allow all members to use the <b> - <i> - <center> - <img> tags, that would appear in a area that allows "All members to post using these tags". In another area, you set that only Administration members can post using (ONLY FOR EXAMPLE) <…

Last reply by Jordan2863, January 9, 2006
Bad Behavior

January 4, 2006 by Guest Ipstenu
4 replies

2.5k views
I've spent a couple days fighting spam on a wiki and a blog and finally came up with using Bad Behavior to stop the dipsticks from bot-spamming. Then after reading about someone's DDoS recently, I wondered if this would be applicable for IPB. The basic concept of Bad Behavior is that it's a PHP script to prevent spambots from getting to your site based on their HTTP requests. On top of that, it's designed to stop any malicious software, be it spam, a a search bot or system crackers. And at first blush, I think that may be helpful for some people. The 'generic' version takes away the logging ability, but it's still possibly helpful. I've hesitated at installing it …

Last reply by Coastie, January 9, 2006
Preloaded skins!

January 8, 2006 by Guest flcl
3 replies

2.4k views
Come on, you know that your want IPB to come with preloaded skins! they dont have to be complex skins it can just be skins that are different colors, like red, yellow, black, ect. (w00t)

Last reply by Jordan2863, January 8, 2006
[REQ] Completely change skin caching/reversion behaviour on upgrade

January 8, 2006 by Guest rct2·com
0 replies

1.6k views
There seems to be many people struggling with upgrades in the skinning domain. They lose customizations when they choose 'revert' on the upgrade pages. I really don't understand at all why that is offered as an option on upgrade! They don't revert, but then report bugs after upgrading because they don't have some necessary upgraded skin bits. They cannot fix this because they don't have a default skin to use instead. They produced their custom skin by editing the default and/or have deleted it. Long ago, they moved boards about in their filespace (or between servers), and folder permissions stop the any of the skins from recaching properly. I'd like to suggest the followi…

Last reply by rct2·com, January 8, 2006
[REQ] Optimize the CSS cache

January 8, 2006 by Guest rct2·com
0 replies

1.7k views
THere are an awful lot of blank lines and /* */ comments in the default .css cache files. This is all inherited from the database version. In addition, in Skin Manager, I like to add my own comments when skinning so I can see where I have changed default CSS. It would be good if these files were optimized when they are produced so that they have any 'bloat' removed. There is code in v2.1.4 that isn't called as far as I can see which *almost* does the job. It optimizes the database versions rather than the files, but I don't see any buttons in AdminCP to make it run.

Last reply by rct2·com, January 8, 2006
Calendar Title Breadcrumb

January 8, 2006 by Guest MixPix
1 reply

1.6k views
Hi all, I have a forum with about 10 different calendars, It would be really like to be able to see which calendar I'm in by looking at the navigation breadcrumb. It's kinda annoying having to scroll down to the bottom to make sure I'm in the right calendar. Example: Forum > Calendar > "Calendar Title" > January 2006

Last reply by Antony, January 8, 2006
Reports!

January 8, 2006 by Guest shazam521
1 reply

1.6k views
Okay I don't know if I am going to make any sense, I was racking my brain to even remember this Suggestion. But anyways, I would love to see a "Export Document" feature added. I like to be able to have things easy at my finger tips, and would love to be able to download a members group and have it at my finger tips if a member ask's "Why wont you let me to this"... I would love to see a exportable verison of having settings exported to something like HTML, or a Excel Document. It would be great to have it at my finger-tips, instead of me having to type it up :unsure: :blush:

Last reply by Antony, January 8, 2006
"All Topics" View

January 6, 2006 by Guest //Nathan
3 replies

1.8k views
Yeah, multiple forums are great for organization, but it's often said that a new board should not have too many forums, so as to appear busier than it is. But if you do that, when the forum takes off, the admin has quite a task on their hands, organizing everything. Why not make all the forums from the get-go, as I did... and then have a view where the member can just see all the topics from all the forums in one place? Kind of like "Today's Active Topics" but not just limited to "Today" - it would go ALL the way back. EITHER... The admin could decide what forums' topics appear in this view. Or multipe views could be set up, so one could view all topics from a th…

Last reply by //Nathan, January 8, 2006
Member's Last Post icon

January 8, 2006 by Guest • Jay •
0 replies

1.4k views
It would be quite helpful if there was an link next to topics that a member posted in which would take them directly to their last post in a topic. I find the icon which goes to the last read post doesn't work overly great for me for some reason, whether it's because the feature doesn't like members who are using several different computers, or the fact that I lose my train of thought over a topic (given the amount of topics I read & correspond in over various boards, this is a common occurance, and makes "catching up" a pain in the butt when I can't locate my last remark). Edit: Oh, I know! link it to the # in the replies pop-up window that one clicks to see w…

Last reply by • Jay •, January 8, 2006
Increase security on next version(s) IPB 2.1.x

December 18, 2005 by Guest aymelek
22 replies

7.3k views
I think that since version 1.3 i am applying third party patches to enhance security on the forum software. Some are simple sollutions and some require a bit more. Therefore i would like to make the following suggestions and comments.. First of all , the greatest danger to IPB is the board admin him or herself. It easy to be sloppy on security and post your password or sent admin passwords in PM sytem to new admins for example or post the FTP codes in admin lounge, After all it was postedn in a PM or posted in an adminlounge so who can see? You could be suprised who sees :) Treat your search engine bots as admins and u can read back on google...or else. Also man…

Last reply by .John., January 7, 2006
show how many seconds left

January 6, 2006 by Guest TCWT
1 reply

1.4k views
I like how vBulletin shows how many seconds left before you could do another search. How about adding this to IPB? ;)

Last reply by Jordan2863, January 6, 2006
did my upgrade work?H

January 5, 2006 by Guest Jordan2863
12 replies

2.6k views
Hey, I did a upgrade but I used the attached file on the critical update post. Since I did that, is my board totally upgraded? I also ran /upgrade/index.php and put the new folder in tehre. I downloaded the file, but I didn't upload anything besides the stuf in the upgrade folder. Is this upgrade complete? :charles:

Last reply by Jordan2863, January 6, 2006