Tarun

​Yes that's correct. What I will be looking at is whether Paypal's IPN can be used within the plugin to automatically update the donation totals.
Thank you

The donate button on my site is showing as "donate" instead of "Donate". How would I be able to fix this excellent plugin of this very minor issue? This is also an upgrade from 3.4 and the Donate plugin used there to the latest IPS and this new plugin installation.

​Edit your theme, go to Custom tab and change "Javascript include location" to "Just before </body> tag".

I don't see much change either. Things did improve. It would be nice to expand and see where these issues are.
Also, 89 requests seems rather high. I'll poke around with the url and see what I can find that can be done to help improve the speeds and such of your site and post again later, possibly editing this post.
With what I see just taking a peek, turning this image linked below into a jpg will help reduce load times and file size. From 422KB to 37KB as a jpg when I tried with: http://image.online-convert.com/convert-to-jpg
http://hoitajat.net/images/aihekuvat/etusivu.png Many things need image dimensions set, too which will improve your scores. gzip doesn't look to be enabled? Twitter looks to need an update to load asynchronously. Optimizing your images (pngs) and compressing them will also help reduce page size and improve load times.
Page load time: 8.08s Total page size: 2.65MB Total number of requests: 89 A lot of the page needs optimizations and work, but the .htaccess did improve what it could a bit.
 
I hope this helps you get your page optimized.

Thanks. That image was huge, you are right.

I don't see much change either. Things did improve. It would be nice to expand and see where these issues are.
Also, 89 requests seems rather high. I'll poke around with the url and see what I can find that can be done to help improve the speeds and such of your site and post again later, possibly editing this post.
With what I see just taking a peek, turning this image linked below into a jpg will help reduce load times and file size. From 422KB to 37KB as a jpg when I tried with: http://image.online-convert.com/convert-to-jpg
http://hoitajat.net/images/aihekuvat/etusivu.png Many things need image dimensions set, too which will improve your scores. gzip doesn't look to be enabled? Twitter looks to need an update to load asynchronously. Optimizing your images (pngs) and compressing them will also help reduce page size and improve load times.
Page load time: 8.08s Total page size: 2.65MB Total number of requests: 89 A lot of the page needs optimizations and work, but the .htaccess did improve what it could a bit.
 
I hope this helps you get your page optimized.

Draffi, yes. However you will need to remove the top segment of IPS 4 .htaccess code. Only use the segment from the ## Begin - Expires caching to the ## End - Expires caching. I use this same code on my Lunarsoft frontpage.

1.0.1 is now available
No changes have been made to the file contents of .htaccess and the htaccess.txt is a direct copy of .htaccess.
 
Changes:
Included htaccess.txt Included changelog.txt Included Readme.txt

Thanks for the quick update and fix!

​Although not an issue for me, it may be beneficial to include it as standard and prevent unnecessary support topics/posts regarding it

​You need to show hidden files on your computer/server.

​Yep that's the actual bug. There is no equivalent value in the language files. I should have this patched a new version out some time today.

Plugin has been updated with 2 new bug fixes.

This is a custom .htaccess to use on the IPS Community Suite Forums. It helps to improve your forums Google Page Speed and YSlow scores.
The top segment is the same .htaccess that is generated by the IPS Forum software.
The bottom segment is based upon research of several websites and the references listed below. Please be careful when using this file because the contents may be incompatible with your server setup. Preventative measures have been taken to ensure that it should be safe to use in any Apache based environment.
Google recommends a minimum of one week: https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/LeverageBrowserCaching
GTmetrix recommends a minimum of one month: http://gtmetrix.com/leverage-browser-caching.html
 
This file is provided as-is and works with Apache based systems only. Server configurations may vary and there may be unexpected results, preventative measures have been included to try and keep any problems from occurring.
This resource is not supported. Help will be offered to the best of my ability and the community's help and feedback are welcomed. Contributions to improve the overall performance gained by this file are encouraged.
 

Looks to be a bug. I'll put together another version and upload as soon as I can.

Agreed. If your forum is one language only this would help to make the skin look cleaner. Especially if you hide skin choices.

I've thought about this a few times before.

I wonder if there should be an option added to hide the language chooser (especially if you only have one language anyway) , I know you can simply skin it out ;) , in fact I've added a quick article on doing this for 3.0. (as I have done for other versions at the time), but the same thing could be said for the skin chooser too, and there is an option to disallow anyone (easily, at least) choosing skins by hiding it.

I'm merely thinking along the lines of tidiness as with only one language present, it does not appear serve a real purpose as far as I can tell. :)

From the service I've gotten so far, basically IPB is straining the boundaries for it not being possible for them to improve their customer service. I cannot believe how helpful and knowledgeable they are in all their documentation, support (from tickets, and various forums); and I basically can't be anymore satisfied. I just wanted to share it with you guys. Just all the possibilities they give us and the amazing board to start out with, it astonishes me to no end. Things like iCommerce and auto-pm modifications are just great and I seriously think this is one of, if not the best software, customer support/forum company on the web. ;)

While you can close/collapse the entire sidebar, it would be really neat to be able to collapse select items like how you can collapse the forums. Say you didn't want to see Recent Blog Entries but wanted to see Recently Added Topics. Just click the little minus by Recent Blog Entries and collapse it, while still being able to see the rest of the sidebar items.

I've never heard of this, but then again I couldn't care less what Alexa thinks about a site.

In IPB 2.3.6 we had an option to list active topics for "today", "past week", "past month" and so on. This feature seems to have been removed in 3.0.1 and our members are vouching for that feature. I don't know why that feature has been removed. The only option in IPB 3 is to list the active topics in the past 24 hours. The filter option to get the active topics beyond that is not available in the results page. I have attached a screenshot of that option from 2.3.6. I hope this feature will be added in the future release.

Huh? :blink:

I believe that part of the concerns stem from this statement:




To me, that says those who are Perpetual License holders and are +Active Customers qualify for this new service. At least, that's how it comes across to me.


I purchased the Perpetual License as it was the best one available at the time for me. I wouldn't have to worry about staying on top of updates and fees. However, ever since I made my purchase I have opted-in for paying for the $30/year fee for support/etc. Even though I've rarely needed support (three tickets in the three or so years I've had it, two being with IP.Board 3's release) I felt it was the right thing to do by paying the recurring fee. The reason I say this is that it shows I'm an active customer who is continuing to show support for IPS. Sure, paying is optional for support with this license (if you want support) but I also believe it shows appreciation for the products IPS distributes. I believe that if a product is truly of outstanding quality and dependability, then a person should have no issues showing support to the developers financially.

A bit long winded but I hope I'm getting my point across. :P

No, and I do appreciate that. I should've mentioned that in my post - I think everyone would have been more upset if there had been absolutely no avenue to move aside from purchasing a whole new licence!

I like the security that my perpetual gives me. I know that's kind of ironic as I bought a perpetual instead of a yearly licence and IPS could've folded a year in and I'd have lost money (but thankfully, that didn't happen!), but I like the fact that I can log in at any time, no matter what my current financial state is (which is currently dire - thanks recession) and I am always able to upgrade my software so that my board is as secure as it can possibly be.

I understand that the spam service is a subscription type service, so once your support ended, so would the service? So I understand that if my financial situation decreased further and I was unable to renew the service, it would leave me open to being unprotected by the service - but I do see the spam service as an added benefit and therefore, not quite as important as having access to the latest software.

I'm not sure I'm saying it clearly (I've had a very long day, sorry) but if push came to shove, I would hold the software in higher regard than the extra services - so risking my access to the software in return for the services concerns me. I know I'm looking on the bleak side - as it shouldn't be a risk, and it'd be great if I could be completely sure that I could afford the service renewal year in, year out - but just in case I can't, it would worry me to move.

From another slightly pessimistic point of view, what if I don't get on with the service? In that scenario, I will have given up my already-paid-for updates to the software for a few months with a service that I would no longer use.

I will think on, but those are my knee-jerk concerns. :)

I know that 9 pages in, nearly everyone else will have covered the points I'm about to make, but I do wish to explain how this has come across to me. I am a perpetual licence holder, which I bought in 2005.

What worries me is that I feel that there is an effort going on to force me out of my perpetual licence. The biggest issue in this is that we are not at all eligible to purchase the service - nor, it appears, any future service.

It concerns me that there will be many other things released in the future which will be classed as a service, as a way of excluding perpetual and lifetime licence holders from useful extras to the software (thereby convincing people to relinquish their licences).

I am also concerned that not being able to buy such services might somehow compromise my board. I know it's an extra to the software, but spam is a very serious issue and I find it worrying that I won't be able to have any sort of access at all to a module that could prevent a significant spam attack.

I will stress that I don't think that IPS are unscrupulous at all, but I imagine some people might also be worrying that if a spam module provides enough robust protection against spam but there is a problem in the standard software and people are getting heavily attacked (like what happened in the later 2.3 series), IPS won't be as swift to respond to patching the software.

I stress, I'm not saying that *will* happen, but you can understand how that might cross people's minds. After all, four years ago, it would've been unthinkable that IPS wouldd be launching extra services in the manner they are now.

Overall, I feel that I'm being forced out of my perpetual licence. If we'd been able to pay an extra cost to obtain the service, then I understand that there might have been complaints but I can understand the difference between lifetime, perpetual and standard and if you wanted to make an offer to standard holders, that's understandable (honestly, I've been waiting for this for months because I could see where you were going with some of your forum posts last year).

But the crux is that we can't get the spam service at all without relinquishing what we currently own and have paid for...and I find that slightly odd. It also concerns me that this won't be the first service released, nor the only effort to make us give up our licences.

I bought the licence that was available to me at the time. I didn't buy a perpetual licence to screw IPS out of money or to upset IPS or to make IPS hate me. I also didn't force IPS to sell perpetual licences - I bought what IPS offered.

I would be happy to pay additional costs for services - if I felt that they would be a benefit to my site - and it seems a shame that they're not available to purchase as add-on modules at all.

I love IPS's software and I always have done, and I don't ever want to have to change from using Invision...but I am being increasingly upset at the way I'm being treated by the company - a company who I've never hassled via the support, who I've only ever said good things about and have always strongly recommended to people.

Lifetime and perpetual owners are still your customers - we run your software (and probably have done for years, so our users are used to your product and we probably don't wish to switch), so we're the best people to try and sell things to because we're a captive market. Excluding us entirely just makes me feel unwanted and it feels like you're trying to trick us out of what we already own. I respect you guys more than that, and it's horrible that that's how it's coming across. You can't mean it to be like this, surely? :(