We're really pleased with 4.2 - It's a nice step forward particularly in terms of features and the revised AdminCP etc. Too early to tell about speed / improved SEO etc, obviously, but hopefully we'll see what others are reporting.

One minor thing, though - The theme on this forum is subtly different to our new base theme. Is it available for all, or is it reserved for the IPS forum? There are some really nice features on here that we'd love to integrate.

55 minutes ago, NorfolkBroadsNetwork said:

Is it available for all, or is it reserved for the IPS forum? There are some really nice features on here that we'd love to integrate.

This theme is designed for the ips team, just for their use. Which feature do you like? 

These are the bits I like particularly -

• The grid view filter etc is cool and I think our users would love it.
• Not having the Unread Content button at the top right has been a sore point for some,
• Mainly the new look of the two-layer menu is the thing I really like. Ours looks dated in comparison to this so it'd be nice to have.

I guess to a certain extent we probably just need to buy a theme with this stuff integrated, trouble is a good percentage of our members are older and fear change. We'd want to keep it looking fairly stock, but just a bit slicker.

31 minutes ago, NorfolkBroadsNetwork said:

These are the bits I like particularly -

• The grid view filter etc is cool and I think our users would love it.
• Not having the Unread Content button at the top right has been a sore point for some,
• Mainly the new look of the two-layer menu is the thing I really like. Ours looks dated in comparison to this so it'd be nice to have.

 

1.- Grid and fluid view are included in 4.2 for everybody

2.- I also hate "unread content button" so my site doesnt have it,you can remove it if you want

3.- Yes, thats a exclusive design of ips

6 minutes ago, SammyS said:

1.- Grid and fluid view are included in 4.2 for everybody

2.- I also hate "unread content button" so my site doesnt have it,you can remove it if you want

1) Okay - How do we use that? I kind of want it on the forum home page really.

2) No, they want it. I guess I could add it, but just annoying that it's not there by default.

3) Shame really. Looks WAY better.

I assume everyone else on a stock build has 'Default' as the F/E theme and '4.2' for admin cp?

11 minutes ago, NorfolkBroadsNetwork said:

1) Okay - How do we use that? I kind of want it on the forum home page really.

1.- In my personal case it shown up after upgrading my forum and my theme to 4.2. I didnt have to do anything

Anyway, you can go to admiCP --> community --> forum settings so you can chooce which view your members can choose

Ah, cool. Yeah - Got it.

Have moved to 4.2 as our stock theme. I'm guessing we didn't get switched automatically as our base theme had a few CSS tweaks.

I am impressed with the product now, though. Looks really slick.

Yeah, IPS is cool again 

Enjoy iy!

I like the newest Pages, it's cool CMS, big progress since old IP.Content very stylish and modern.

Sure is... It's to the point I feel almost complete... I just needed to increase speed. I got that covered with lazy loading videos and disabling everything else  

Just need to get that plugin bug fixed and voila I'm done until something shiny catches my attention....dare I say 4.3.... hehe you all know in a year we'll be talking about it

12 minutes ago, JankaR said:

I like the newest Pages, it's cool CMS, big progress since old IP.Content very stylish and modern.

What I like about the overall look is this.... It makes all pages work as standard and look good. Before 4.2 I had to try really hard to make the pages look good. Now they default to amazing. So what more is to say

I can be IPS's harshest critic or nicest up talker... they sway me towards being nice with all these jazzy functional things...

Yeah, we need lazy loading videos and images now with letter profile photos out there. It might help speed wise.

I don't know what else we could do to improve the site speed and make it as fast as IPB3 was.

 

6 minutes ago, Netherlord said:

What I like about the overall look is this.... It makes all pages work as standard and look good. Before 4.2 I had to try really hard to make the pages look good. Now they default to amazing. So what more is to say

Yeah, my database of articles about gemstones looks good

 

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