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Mat Barrie

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  1. BLTYNR, it sounds like you're referring to "iMediaPro Radio" when you refer to the "free one with requests hooks". When iMediaPro was available, it wasn't free. It actually costed more than Anthony's, despite it being illegally rebranded Bouncy Radio. I wouldn't recommend using it, as you'd be liable to receive a warning from Anthony if you did. It also means your request hook from it might actually work without too many modifications, since it's the same product ;)

  2. Again, do not want. It's an ACP link. It's not just yourself and your admins that use it, it's every IP.Board admin in the world. And no, we don't want yet another setting for whether the ACP link should open in a new window or the current one - it's hard enough finding anything now amongst the thousands of settings. Use your hook.


  3. Sorry what do you mean? i didnt quite understand you




    He means it's not your decision whether links open in a new window or not. It's the user's decision. The W3C seems to agree with this, since XHTML 1.0 and higher have explicitly removed pretty much any way of forcing a link to open in a new window. Since IPS likes IPB to validate against the HTML and CSS spec, they don't really like the "open in new window" thing. That said, there is a feature to enable links to open in a new window which uses a piece of javascript hackery, but personally I refuse to use any site that turns it on.

    Of course, on a complete tangent, I'm not sure whether he misunderstood you - I notice you said something about ACP links. Do you mean the "login to ACP" link in the black mod/admin bar at the top of the screen? I'm going to say I prefer it as is. If I click it, it's because I wanted to visit the ACP to the exclusion of the board. If I middle click it, then I wanted it in a new tab. If I control click it, I wanted it in a new window. If they set it to open in a new window, it actually removes options from the user/admin as they can no longer opt to open it in the current window. So that's a big "-1" from me to that suggestion.

  4. Please get back topic icons in forum view!!!


    I'm really disappointed that IPB 3.x lost that feature.


    In my forum topic icons are much appreciated both by mods and users because they differentiate posts "at a glance".


    So I prefer don't update to 3.x and remain with 2.x.


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    Since so few people actually use them, I don't agree with shoving it back in again after they shoved it to the side due to lack of use.

    But, if you want to add it back yourself, go read http://community.invisionpower.com/resources/articles.html?record=449

  5. Hello, for some reason our chat is not coming up on our site. It was working before but I don't what is going on



    http://www.nvgaonline.com



    The invision admins installed the chat!!




    You appear to have been upgraded to 3.0.5. I can virtually guarantee that if IPS upgraded you, they overwrote the chat files with the out of the box ones that support only ParaChat and AddonChat.

    Reinstall it.

  6. i think for an extra fee you can get business support service which give you 24/7 web/phone support.




    That extra fee is an additional 100% Jaggi. Not something to scoff at.

    However if the OP is making money off their forum, and losing money when it's down, they should seriously consider it.

  7. So wouldn't it be simpler to check if a (successful / working) media tag is contained between two other tags, and just output it differently?




    No. No it wouldn't. Remember, all BBCode is custom BBCode, so none of them are treated in any special fashion by the parser. What you're suggesting would require the post parser specifically look for media tags, which might fail if you happen to rename them or something, and parse it differently. That's bad.

  8. The problem with what you need is that there'd have to be a huge matrix of settings to handle that. Each bbcode would need it defined how it interacts with each other bbcode. For example, you'd need to define which bbcodes are parsed inside of code tags, which are parsed inside of quote tags, which are parsed inside of url tags, etc. And then since all bbcodes are custom bbcodes, and new ones like iframe could be added, each new bbcode would again need it defined how bbcodes inside of that work. It's a lot of stuff to check.




    Not really. You know how we've already got "don't parse other BBCode inside of this BBCode"? Just add an extra one, "don't parse this BBCode inside of other BBCode", because to be honest you probably don't want a video parsing inside of anything else.

  9. Brandon, I have installed and uninstalled this program more than a few times and this isn't the first IPS Application that I have had trouble with. I have encountered this same error wit IP.Shoutbox which is why I don't use it. I'm starting to have doubts about these add-ons. The only problems I haven't had installing have been the IPB upgrades (which IPS handles the upgrades) and the installation of IP.Content. Everything else seems to fly out the window.



    This isn't meant to be negative but there's obviously a problem, as far as when I try to install it on my site.




    Well, actually, that means that this is the first IPS application you've had trouble with. IP.Shoutbox is a community project. This means IPS' only involvement is lending special support to the developers, project hosting, and their name. It's not something that Brandon or Matt spend 8 hours a day working on.
  10. Enkidu: Presumably they mean they've called phone support three times. If I'm not mistaken, hosted customers do have phone support for critical issues. They're probably just not logged into the forums with the same email/password as the client area.

    CHMB; if you go into the client area and you don't see the email you sent them there as a ticket in the "Your Tickets" area, they don't have an open ticket in which case you'd need to resubmit it. Something that often catches people out (as stoo mentioned) is that after you click "Submit" on the ticket screen, you then have to scroll to the bottom and click submit again as it offers KB articles before it lets you submit your ticket.


  11. I had no intention to provide any pointless suggestion. If so, feel free to delete this thread.




    No no, that's the only one I disagreed with. The bug with the status text is minor and not really annoying, same with the "please bear with us if you see display difficulties in our 2 year old site". But categorisation could do with a bit of an overhaul.

    The dashboard idea is definitely something I could get behind too - there's way too many clicks to most things, so it'd be handy to log in and go "oh, I need to renew blog. and my ticket has a reply".

  12. If you are an existing customer, please log into your client center and follow the instructions for upgrading your IPS forums account, found at the bottom of the first page you see.





    Newwwp. This hasn't applied since 2006. %7Boption%7D I suggest:

    If you are an existing customer, please log into the IPS forums with the same email and password you used to purchase the software. If you continue to experience difficulties, please contact account assistance for help.


  13. what hosting company wouldn't allow vbulletin hosting?


    did they allow any type of discussion board being hosted?


    sounds a bit ridiculous to me to single out vbulletin



    sorry to get off topic




    If you actually read what Rikki said, he indicated that they forbid any non-IPB discussion software being hosted. Of course, if we logically extend that why is not Joomla, Wordpress, Moveable Type, Coppermine, aMember, etc, forbidden as they also compete with IPS products. It just seems a bit silly.
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