Amy T Posted October 7, 2008 Posted October 7, 2008 True but ipb does have other forum competition which is free ;) Not many pay ones out there either.
TrixieTang Posted October 7, 2008 Posted October 7, 2008 Why? Competition is good. It keeps the companies on their toes. It forces them to keep up with each other, thus making the end product better for us. I really don't think IPS sees this as competition, I think Matt made that clear when he said how he feels all the social networking stuff Jelsoft's adding are the wrong way to go. I think this is a case of Jelsoft trying to beat IPB to adding social networking features that IPS isn't even planning on adding... basically vB's getting it's grave dug in the process. I admit competition can be good, but this isn't really what I'd call competition. ;)
superstrikertwo Posted October 7, 2008 Posted October 7, 2008 I think the only people IPB are really competing with are themselves. Pushing themselves to out due their previous products.
Amy T Posted October 7, 2008 Posted October 7, 2008 I find it very interesting that Matt said that and yet IPB was the first to put social networking features in. They have friends and profile comments thats part of social networking - and the must important parts as well. What else is there really?
Josh Posted October 7, 2008 Posted October 7, 2008 I find it very interesting that Matt said that and yet IPB was the first to put social networking features in. They have friends and profile comments thats part of social networking - and the must important parts as well. What else is there really? The ability to comment on profiles is not social networking, it is just a feature commonly used on social networking sites.
Amy T Posted October 7, 2008 Posted October 7, 2008 They are still the essential part of a social network to me. Remember when cjvj made the friends and comment mod for ipb shortly before it was added to the system it was called social network mod. Also what features are not in ipb that are in social networking? Besides for allowing members to have their own profile skin which I think would be cool as long as they were premade skins like bebo has.
Rikki Posted October 8, 2008 Posted October 8, 2008 It's about the focus. A forum is discussion-centric. Posts and topics are central, and everything surrounds them. Social networking sites are member-centric; they're all about the relationships between users. It's not just about this feature is social networking, or that feature is forums. It's about the overall focus of the product/site, and the way information is presented.
Aleks Posted October 12, 2008 Posted October 12, 2008 It's about the focus. A forum is discussion-centric. Posts and topics are central, and everything surrounds them. Social networking sites are [i]member-centric[/i]; they're all about the relationships between users. It's not just about this feature is social networking, or that feature is forums. It's about the overall focus of the product/site, and the way information is presented.Excellent! P.S. I hate LJ :rolleyes:
xecutionx Posted October 18, 2008 Posted October 18, 2008 I'm dying for the IPB 3.0 beta release. Can't wait to test the new feature set.
Malefickus Posted October 19, 2008 Posted October 19, 2008 I predict it will be out "When it's ready!"
Dr. Adam Posted October 20, 2008 Posted October 20, 2008 I'm dying for the IPB 3.0 beta release. Can't wait to test the new feature set. I'm tired of waiting myself.
TrixieTang Posted October 22, 2008 Posted October 22, 2008 I'm tired of waiting myself. Find something to do to pass the time.
Jaggi Posted October 23, 2008 Posted October 23, 2008 I'm tired of waiting myself. techincally speaking there hasn't been a official release date so you can't be tired of waiting for it since you should only be waiting after the release date has been released at which case you might have it already :P .
TrixieTang Posted October 23, 2008 Posted October 23, 2008 techincally speaking there hasn't been a official release date so you can't be tired of waiting for it since you should only be waiting after the release date has been released at which case you might have it already :P . I think my brain just exploded...
Brandon D Posted October 23, 2008 Posted October 23, 2008 :blink: You don't need a release date to look forward to the release of a product as long as there WILL be a release. And yeah, I'm getting pretty excited as well. While I am of course excited for the hosted copy, I think after playing with it for a couple days it'll become tantalizing, teasing me by hiding the code and ACP from me. Despite having already seen IPB3, I'd probably be more excited for the public beta release than the showing of the hosted copy :D
Josh Posted October 24, 2008 Posted October 24, 2008 I think my brain just exploded... Jaggi has that effect on people ;)
Lindsey_ Posted October 24, 2008 Posted October 24, 2008 Despite having already seen IPB3, I'd probably be more excited for the public beta release than the showing of the hosted copy :D How have you already seen it ? LOL
bfarber Posted October 24, 2008 Posted October 24, 2008 If you re-read his post (it's kinda confusing), he's saying that he's excited for the hosted copy, and even then will still be excited to get the downloadable copy, despite the fact that he would have seen IPB3 by that point. Re-read his post a couple times, you'll get it. To my knowledge, Retaliation.SG has not seen IPB3 yet. ;)
FrostedPopTart Posted October 24, 2008 Posted October 24, 2008 I bet Brandon is tired of IPB3 and ready for the next version by now after staring at the code for so long.
Brandon D Posted October 24, 2008 Posted October 24, 2008 Yeah, I meant what bfarber said. That sentence was a continuation of the thought in the previous sentence. I wish I could say I've seen IPB3 =p
Alex Posted October 24, 2008 Posted October 24, 2008 Actually, he's tired of looking at IPB2 code after working on IPB3 for so long ;)
King Sherry Posted October 24, 2008 Posted October 24, 2008 Actually the new release of Invision Power Board 3.0, Blog and Gallery etc.. will be released in New Year night. December 31st 2008 the new release of IP.Board will be released.
hollland Posted October 24, 2008 Posted October 24, 2008 I predict it will be out "When it's ready!" I predict the same too
Olivier Turbis Posted October 24, 2008 Posted October 24, 2008 I prefer to wait and have a kick-ass 3.0.
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