IPS Community Suite 4.0 is nearly here, and we'll be distributing betas very soon. But 4.0 is really just the beginning; with the new tightly integrated, one-version suite of applications, we're already starting to think about all of the features we'd like to add in the future. This brings us nicely to the final 4.0 feature we'd like to talk about: the upgrade system.
In 4.0, when a new version …
If you like living on the edge and testing new products we would love your help in testing IPS Community Suite 4.0!
We now have pre-release versions available for download if you are an active Community Suite license holder. Pre-Release vs. Beta
This is a pre-release which means we are not quite done adding/changing some areas of the Suite. It also means that you cannot upgrade between each p…
The IPS Community Suite 4.0 preview site is open and ready for you to start browsing our new software!
We have had the site quietly open for a few weeks now getting feedback and addressing issues. We want to make sure everyone is aware so you get a chance to look at what's new.
Register and have a look around at what's new. Read our updates forum to check out videos demoing the system. Get inv…
IPS Community Suite 4.0, the most significant update to IP.Board and the rest of our apps we've ever made, is fast approaching a state where we'll be ready for a public preview and, soon after that, public beta testing!
We know most of you are just as excited as we are about this and can't wait to try it out.
With 4.0, we've made some significant leaps in terms of modernization, and it's possi…
I want to briefly show our new cover photo support. Cover photos allow users to upload an image to represent something in the community; we currently support them in profiles and calendar events and may roll out support to other areas later.
Here's a video of it in action for a calendar event.
It's really simple to use, and of course still works responsively like the rest of our default them…
We've previously shown how responsiveness works in the AdminCP, but I'd like to briefly introduce responsiveness on the front end, and pick a few views to show you as examples (this will be a screenshot-heavy entry!) What is responsiveness?
Before we get to that, allow me to recap what responsiveness is. Responsive design is a method by which you design one page in such a way that it adapts for…
Profiles are one of the key sections of a community, as everyone knows. They are what represent your users; where their information is shown and their content is gathered. When users contribute quality content to your community, their profile is where other users go to find it in one place. In short, it's an important area.
In IPS4, profiles have had a complete makeover. There's a lot to cover, …
A while ago I blogged about some of the internationalization and localization changes in 4.0. One of the things I mentioned is a "Visual Language Editor" which allows you to quickly change any of the verbiage used throughout the suite just by clicking on a word of phrase.
Not only is the really useful for those who want to translate the IPS Community Suite into another language, it can also be u…
IP.Board 3.x supports "My Media", which enables you to share other content from within the community by using the "My Media" button on the editor. This results in:
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While this works, it has a few shortcomings: The styling of the block isn't really designed for each type of content it might show
Users have to…
One of the most distinctive uses for a forum is that of a 'knowledge community', where users visit in order to get help with a problem or question. Our own Pre-sales forum uses this model, but we also have many customers who run forums that are almost exclusively knowledge-based (such as Roxio and Evernote).
IP.Board 3.x introduced the concept of a "Best Answer" flag, allowing topic creators and…
One of IPS Community Suite 4's main goals was to overhaul the user interface. We wanted to go further than just a few cosmetic changes to the theme, we wanted to examine each part of the user interface and see what could be improved. The community suite has a lot of functionality and there's a lot of tools that we all use regularly so we felt that any improvements on these common areas would be ve…
Effective moderation features are essential for online communities. Forums, blog entries and member-to-member messaging are particularly attractive for spam bots and nuisance users alike. IPS Social Suite has always been best in class when it comes to moderation features with features like the free IPS Spam Service that are completely unmatched by other web applications. Over this series of 5 blog…
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