Mat Barrie

I can't answer that. You most likely can, but to be sure I'd fire a ticket in to sales or something and see what they say.

And it appears you're all good again :)

They still fraud check it if I'm not mistaken. You'll have to wait until it's been checked. Anyways, you're better off emailing the sales or accounts guys than asking in public - they generally won't talk about anything account specific here (naturally).

Don't ever make statements like that - if the OP were to follow that advice, and it runs afoul of IPS, then who do you think they're going to blame? It's best to leave making statements like that to the folks that develop and sell the product, for your protection and the questioners.

Where it seems a lot of people (and IPS developers) would like them. You can feel free to install a hook (no file edit of .php files whatsoever - this is IPBoard 3, stop doing that, seriously) to put them back. There's no reason for IPS to continue supporting a feature almost no-one uses. To be honest, topic prefixes would be more useful (and often requested too). Their biggest mistake sure as hell isn't hiding post icons away.

I think the OP forgot that organisations like Nvidia and Yahoo use the product. After all, they're organisations of one, right? Right?

I spent the entire time waiting for your video to get to the point, and I still didn't get it. The only thing I could get from the video, 3 and a half minutes of it, is that you like waving your mouse pointer around icons, and somewhere on the internet is a site that uses post icons for every thread. For bonus points, I then went on to my own IP.Board 3.0.3 installation and created a thread with a post icon, so I could see if you did have a point. You did not. So, could you perhaps explain what your problem is, without Youtube this time? Because it sure isn't deprecated post icons (which are right... there...)

Which is fine, since the Lounge is not a tech support forum anyway.

Yeah, most dedicated server companies.

Were you asking if you could change it or re-style it to blend in better with your skin?

They probably won't reply to this sort of thing in public. Try sending a ticket. The worst they can say is "no".

In v1.3, that would change the little "(U)" into "®". But really, that's it.

You know Tom, I don't know where this mythical documentation for every product in existence you refer to is. You refer to every product you have including a manual, yet... well, lots of software doesn't. I'll do a quick inventory of a sampling of my start menu now (I'll include the OS itself even). I'm excluding "F1 Help" since that's essentially inline help. Microsoft Windows - No Manual. Google Chrome - No Manual. Microsoft Office - No Manual. Microsoft Visual Studio - No Manual. MYOB Accounting - Quick Start Guide. Beyond Compare - No Manual. Apple iTunes - No Manual. Kayako SupportSuite - Manual Available! Microsoft SQL Server - No Manual. Seapine Surround SCM/Testtrack Pro - Manual Installed! Stardock Multiplicity - No Manual. As you can see, lots of stuff with no manual. And you're also completely ignoring what they've said many times - that the majority of their customers prefer articles, guides, inline help, etc over the three hundred page book they printed last time. It doesn't make commercial sense to write an entire manual for three people.

Hey Alex, fix the links in your sig ;)

Couldn't you flip it around and do a short list of forums to put in a MySQL NOT IN() clause?

No. No, there is not.

Disagree entirely with the auto-update. It's just too much of a security risk for IPB to have write access to executable files. Think about it. What happens if someone finds a security hole in IPB? They then have the ability to upload files to the disk of the server in writeable locations! How about if someone manages to exploit IPS' server itself (it's happened before)? Well, they can then deploy an "upgrade" to IPB which deploys malware to tens of thousands of web servers across the globe! Down with auto-update.

Apparently it's something to do with a new change where now new purchases are reflected immediately without you having to logout and on again.

Just a note, this isn't a tech support forum - if you want help, you need to put in a ticket or post in p2p support. Anyways, I can't understand why you'd disable the CAPTCHA - you're opening yourself up to tons of spam.

Not really, they just use the query string to hide and show categories.

Have you got the email to say it's been approved yet?

You know, I don't think he can change anything on this forum.

Wildcard selects are generally frowned upon as they require additional resources for the server to handle (minimal, but still). What would probably be better is to not add custom fields to the members table, but rather to use the actual custom profile fields feature, as all custom profile fields are pulled into the select query in topic view (if I'm not mistaken)

Oh, no one's saying don't make hooks, etc. Just saying that it's not something IPS could really add to the core product without it getting to the point where you install IPB and are faced with 39,742 settings in 242 categories. Hooks/mods are the right answer for making this kind of thing easier.

Sort of. Some of them require their code in weird places. For example, Google asks you to put their code in the page FOOTER, whereas I've never seen Hitslink code anywhere but the header, and Statcounter code outputs a button so you put it wherever you want the button to be. You can see how this could go badly.