Referencing our coming soon blog entry ... Apple was fast and has already approved our new app! Download now
A few things to keep in mind: The app will work on all IP.Board 3.3 versions for the most part but will be much smoother with the soon to be released IP.Board 3.3.2
Please submit bug reports as we will be releasing updates to address any issues often over the next few weeks. Be sure to…
UPDATE: The app is now available!
We are happy to announce that the new version of our iOS app is in the Apple App Store review process now! Once approved, the app will be available for members to enjoy for just $1.99 one time. The new app will work with all IP.Board versions 3.3.2 or newer.
This new version has a native interface, push notifications, iPad support, and multiple community suppo…
While working toward the release of IP.Board 3.3.0 and IP.Content 2.3.0, the development team took some time to refresh our developer documentation, aiming to provide useful information for our third party developers in order to help them update their work as necessary. We are still very much working on expanding and updating the developer documentation we have in place, but we wanted to go ahead…
Following on our previous blog entry about our enhancements to the IPS Community here at http://community.invisionpower.com ...
A few more things to note that you may be interested in that we recently changed. These changes are related to us getting ready to release IP.Board 3.3 and generally our continual process of review and refinement of everything we do. Enhanced Access for Expired License…
We are well into beta testing for IP.Board 3.3 and IP.Content 2.3 and so far it's going very well. Practically no bugs are being reported and often times our staff have literally 0 open general bugs in our bug tracker. That is quite an accomplishment and something of which we are very proud!
If you are an IPS Client and are comfortable beta testing we would love for you to take some time in the …
We are happy to announce that we have made a few changes to enhance the community experience here on the IPS Community. Access to Support Forums
Based on client feedback and the mass of good will from many helpful clients who want to assist others, we have opened up access to our support forums to both current, active license holders and those that may have a license but it is expired. As our s…
We released IP.Board 3.3.0 as beta yesterday to our clients and I wanted to just round-up some of the very latest SEO changes we've made this week.
We've invested a lot of effort into making sensible non-invasive changes to IP.Board to encourage search engines to spider pages we want them to spider and to remove extraneous links, potential crawler errors and non-desirable keywords. We routinely …
Ten years ago today Invision Power Services was born and we continue to go strong today providing community software to thousands of clients. Ten years on the web is practically forever and we are proud to have reached this milestone!
IPS has grown over the years to one of the leading providers of community software. To our many thousands of clients including large, well-known brands like NBC, N…
IP.Board has made use of micro formats and schema data since IP.Board 3.0. We added to this in 3.2 to include breadcrumb data in our navigation. This enabled Google to display our navigation links within search results.
The schema data has been read from our page which enables the green navigation links and post/author data.
We've further extended the schema data for 3.3 which is great news f…
IP.Board was one of the first commercial products to make use of Facebook integration to allow logged in Facebook users instant membership. We extended this in subsequent releases to include the ability to share status updates and links from the board such as topics. During this time, we also added Twitter as an authentication system and the ability to tweet out links and status updates.
You don…
Our core goals for IP.Board 3.3 where to clear up the moderator tools, make IP.Board more efficient for larger communities and improve SEO.
We've already blogged twice on our SEO improvements outlining tweaks to improve good keyword density, reduce crawl errors and improve good keyword placement.
Our own company forums are very busy and get a lot of traffic and we monitor the data via Google's…
During each release cycle we often take some time out to assess performance and look at ways to improve in this area. We're also in a unique position to have first hand experience at hosting tens of thousands of IP.Board installations via our own hosting network.
We also work closely with our clients who constantly give us feedback on how IP.Board is performing and let us know about any areas th…
