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    Spam service

    in Feedback

    Posted

    I'm very happy with the net result of all this debate. The legacy licence holders keep the benefits of their licence but still have access to future services at an equitable and fair rate (without losing their aforementioned long standing benefits i.e. I'll always be able to use IPB even if I run out of money and stop paying for support/spam monitoring).

    Thumbs up to the powers that be for taking the time to work it out carefully.

    Now I have spoken, you can close this thread :D

    My feedback on IPB's SEO measures

    in Feedback

    Posted

    As I'm totally reliant on organic search engine traffic, I've been keen to get my hands on the new IPB 3 and have been closely watching the development of it over the last year or so... and after some hiccups, IPS have put together a functional set of SEO measures. I initially had a few reservations when I got my hands on the Release Candidate and went live with it on my live board, such as the huge negative indents in the CSS... however, after observing the effects on my installation and my search ranking over the last couple of months, I only have positive things to say.

    I tweaked my furlTemplate.php a little to change the name of/remove a couple of directories. I also removed a superfluous repetition of the board name in the h1 tag. I also had to add a few more instances in the robots.txt file to cover some dupe content issues. I'm still having to add code to generate a 404 header for error pages/deleted topics... but other than that, IPB's out of the box SEO is really quite good... and the skins are far easier to work with than they were in previous versions, and now seem to have pretty good semantic mark up.

    Introducing Spam Monitoring Service

    in Feedback

    Posted

    It may be unacceptable (and it is) but there's nothing we can do about it. IPS are keeping their promise to legacy customers... and just making them feel second class to newer customers by withholding a new 'service' from us if we don't play along and give up our licenses.

    What a total disgrace... and what a shabby way to treat me. I've been a loyal customer and saw a future in IPB so I forked out for the Perpetual. I also continue paying support fees and participate actively in Beta testing... yet I'm still excluded. Explain why you won't make it available for a fee equivalent to the difference in cost (over and above my annual support fee)?

    Introducing Spam Monitoring Service

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    Posted

    Right... it's not about the money, an extra 20 bucks a year is nothing... but I shelled out considerably more than that for a Perpetual license AND I'm still paying a support fee...
    So, as there is no option to use this new service as an addon for a small extra fee, the only conclusion is that I am being forced to give up my Perpetual license... i.e. the goal posts have been moved.

    I'm not the type of customer to complain. I am a businessman too and I recognise a business has to move forward, evolve and make money... but I feel shafted enough to complain about this and I guarantee there will be more Perpetual licence holders that feel the same when they log in and read your announcement.

    Introducing Spam Monitoring Service

    in Feedback

    Posted

    From where I'm standing, the outlay I made for the Lifetime/Perpetual license was a waste of money... because I'm still paying an annual support fee, and now I'm still excluded from ongoing developments...

    So, I find myself wondering why I purchased that perpetual license in the first place... and wondering why I'm still paying the annual fee... because no matter how you word it, you're forcing me to give up my Perpetual license in order to continue benefiting from IPB developments.

    Introducing Spam Monitoring Service

    in Feedback

    Posted


    @Patrick Shaw


    The key word in my statement is 'regular' paying customers.



    And the key point I am making is that I'm already a 'regular' paying customer. I have the option to continue using IPB weather I pay for support or not... but I *DO* continue paying (and am happy to do so, no free lunch and all that).

    So, as I am an +Active Customer, who pays his fees (even though I don't need to be to continue using IPB under my license terms), why am I excluded from this?

    Introducing Spam Monitoring Service

    in Feedback

    Posted


    We are not taking anything away from Perpetual or Lifetime license holders and are keeping our promises to them as they were made at purchase time.



    That argument is on pretty shaky ground. You might, in that case, start charging extra for FURLs, AJAX skins, or any other progression in the software... as far as I'm concerned, my license entitles me to use IPB and it's features in all future versions, forever... You're moving the goal posts in order to sheppard legacy customers into your newer pricing bracket...

    ... and yes, I do pay my annual support fee already.

    IPB 3.0 and SEO

    in Feedback

    Posted


    Google has an express requirement for sitemaps.



    Nonsense. Google only state that a sitemap will assist in the discovery of pages that are buried deep in a website.

    Re: SEO... the IPB developers have always been resistant to making basic search optimisation tweaks. The new IPB 3 is a big step forward, thanks largely to a lot of customer nagging. A sitemap would be nice.

    I personally choose not to rewrite URLs because my dynamic URLs have always ranked very well and the risk of redundant or broken re-written URLs is still too great IMO

    If you're looking for a robots file, here's mine (from my IPB 2.6 installation with a couple of tweaks for IPB 3 and does not take re-written URLs into account)...

    User-agent: *

Disallow: /forum/style_images/

Disallow: /forum/lofiversion/

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=idx

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=Login

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=rssout

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=Search

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=Shoutbox

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=Reg

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=Msg

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=Mail

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=Forward

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=Track

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=Post

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=post

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=Print

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=ST

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=boardrules

Disallow: /forum/?act=boardrules

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=Help

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=Stats

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=stats

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=Members

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=Online

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=calendar

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=SR

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=SF

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=ICQ

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=MSN

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=AOL

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=AIM

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=SC

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=task

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=findpost

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=UserCP

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=usercp

Disallow: /forum/index.php?&act=

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=report

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=buddy

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=legends

Disallow: /forum/index.php?CODE=

Disallow: /forum/index.php?automodule=blog

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=attach

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=Attach

Disallow: /forum/index.php?&&CODE=

Disallow: /forum/index.php?&debug=1

Disallow: /forum/index.php?act=Profile

Disallow: /forum/index.php?showuser

Disallow: /forum/index.php?s=

Disallow: /forum/index.php?autocom=shoutbox

Disallow: /forum/index.php?autocom=rssr

Disallow: /forum/index.php?autocom=chatsigma

Disallow: /forum/index.php?autocom=chatpara

Disallow: /*&view=getnewpost$

Disallow: /*&view=getlastpost$

Disallow: /*&view=old$

Disallow: /*&view=new$

Disallow: /*&view=getfirst$

Disallow: /*&view=getprevious$

Disallow: /*&view=getnext$

Disallow: /*&view=getlast$

Disallow: /*mode=linear

Disallow: /*mode=threaded

Disallow: /*mode=linearplus

Disallow: /*&st=0

Disallow: /*&p=

Disallow: /*&pid=

Disallow: /*&gopid=

Disallow: /*&hl=

Disallow: /*&start=

Disallow: /*&showtopic

Disallow: /*autocom=gallery

Disallow: /*reportimage

Disallow: /*postcomment

Disallow: /*forum/index.php$

Disallow: /*forum/index.php?$

Disallow: /*forum/index.php?showforum=2$

Disallow: /*forum/index.php?showforum=83$

Disallow: /*app=

Disallow: /*module=

    View New Content

    in Feedback

    Posted

    Right now, if I want to compile my weekly email of the week's active topics, I'm having to create a new member so I can log in a see all the unread posts for that fake member... hardly an ideal way to search for the weeks posts when I'm the admin.

    A simple yes or no answer would suffice... is it now no longer possible to search for the last week's topics? I don't mind being told I'm an idiot if I've missed the button. None of my members can see it and they're complaining bitterly that the function has gone.

    View New Content

    in Feedback

    Posted

    Can anyone confirm... is there now NO WAY to search for posts made in the last week/fortnight/month?... If not, this is going to make it very hard for me to put together weekly/monthly digest emails if I can't search in that way.

    Profile Spam?

    in Feedback

    Posted

    You can also disable guests (and therefore bots) from viewing profiles, making the profile spam pointless. This is a setting available in ACP.
    While we're on the subject, also set signatures to be invisible to guests, further reducing the incentive to spam your forum.

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