Mark

Very useful features 

The admin cp!!!
nice
 

Nice additions, thank you IPS!

This is awesome!  You guys are truly giving us some awesome stuff to look forward to in 4.2.  Can't wait

No

No

Yep

No

Yep

With this approach, they're removed from view immediately (unlike hide, or 3.x's "soft delete") - they only show in the ModCP and are automatically removed from the database after some time.
Unlike other approaches which are variants on hiding content from the public, this is intended to be a safety net in case you want to undo a delete.

With this approach, they're removed from view immediately (unlike hide, or 3.x's "soft delete") - they only show in the ModCP and are automatically removed from the database after some time.
Unlike other approaches which are variants on hiding content from the public, this is intended to be a safety net in case you want to undo a delete.

Waiting desperately.. will social groups be gifted to us ??

Yes, but it's not so out of place. See the 3rd screenshot in the blog entry :)
 
 
 
You can set it so users can see only questions they asked - but not see all and only reply to questions they asked.
 
 
Absolutely :)

The admin can choose what options are available for recovery:
Send the user an email with a link which will allow them to reset the system Contact the admin to reset it from the AdminCP You can offer both or either (or neither) option.
If the admin themselves locks themselves out, there is a constants.php constant you can set to turn the whole system off to let yourself back in.

The admin can choose what options are available for recovery:
Send the user an email with a link which will allow them to reset the system Contact the admin to reset it from the AdminCP You can offer both or either (or neither) option.
If the admin themselves locks themselves out, there is a constants.php constant you can set to turn the whole system off to let yourself back in.

I have to voice disagreement. In the current atmosphere of online services, any hint of a data breach can be overwhelmingly crippling. Being able to "double lock the door" with accounts that have elevated access to the forums, even if its just mod tools (which can allow access to confidential conversations), is extremely helpful. 2FA is now a web standard for services that deal in any sort of personal information, which many of our communities do. This is a welcome addition, and the way it was implemented by IPS was extremely thoughtful in terms of the various use cases. When you say very few people need this, I'm not sure what group you are talking about. Any community of any significant size is going to be targeted at some point or another for vulnerabilities. It could be as simple as a mod who reused a password and account name from another company who got hacked and had usernames and passwords dumped who gets exploited. This helps protect against that, and I'm grateful for it being in IPS4.

Awesome! I use Google Authenticator on a lot of my sites. I also use Authy as well. I look forward to the next update!

Renewal prices are staying the same.

Renewal prices are staying the same.

Renewal prices are staying the same.

I'd like to see support for 2-factor authentication (via text message) with the ability to enable this option for specific groups (e.g., admins and moderators must authenticate via text message while members may choose to enable/disable on their own accounts).

Congratulations team. With this update i'll renew my old license. Very simple and elegant.