cooler78

Hi Mike,

I'm sorry you feel that way. We have been in business for close to twenty years and a lot has changed over that time. We've constantly evolved as a company, and constantly evolved our products to ensure that we remain relevant and competitive. This has meant changing our minds on a few things over these decades, and customers with long memories do tend to pick us up for each change; as is your right.

Everything we do is to provide you the customer with the best product and support. We're not perfect, and we do make mistakes but we come from a place of wanting to do good. When we're wrong, we'll admit it, change our policies and move on.

Some of the things you listed are just a product of our evolving company (except "killing off IP.Content", we just renamed that to Pages).

We do listen to our feedback and I'm grateful for anyone who takes the time to let us know how they feel. Just because we didn't act on it, it doesn't mean that your feelings are invalid, it just means that it doesn't fit in with our own plans to continue growing and evolving.

I'm glad you're happy with XenForo. Growing and nurturing a community requires patience, time and focus. Always remember that the people that make up your community are the most important thing, not the platform.

Thanks for dropping by today.

Funny, I find most of my problems with IPS has been a result of IPS' code and (lack of) review. Your company seems to be constantly looking for new ways to screw over its existing customers (upgrades wont run without active support, can't download without active support, breaking or removing big features of a previous release, killing off IP content, random things not working with minor upgrades, oh and that whole dis-honoring the perpetual license thing). I was a customer, but you never listened to any issues I had or gave a dam about them, so I switched to Xenforo, its been fantastic since. I still have my IPS license, and I may one day use it for something else, but I find the attitude of your company to leave a bad taste and this latest move stinks.

I'm hopeful this is an oversight that will be promptly addressed prior to release.

I presume like many many others, I have a test/development copy installed on my local PC using xampp. Here I do all my testing and development of any changes to suit my live site first. I have this development/test environment for unit, system etc testing, I have a pre-production test environment on my live dedicated server for integration etc testing and then I have my live production environment. Nothing, I mean NO ADDONS, NO TEMPLATE CHANGES etc gets to a pre-prod environment until it is completely tested on my local PC first...this is the way I am sure even IPS do it. So why in hell can't I download and test addons etc in my development/test environment on my local PC...why has IPS stopped this with v4.5 especially when everyone is developing and testing v4.5:

It seems like as IPS progresses further it becomes even more frustrating to use...it seems along with other licensing things IPS is trying their hardest to drive people away from IPS and straight over to Xenforo who make it easy to create what you need and manage your installs.