Jump to content

Michael

Clients
  • Posts

    23,640
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    114

 Content Type 

Downloads

Release Notes

IPS4 Guides

IPS4 Developer Documentation

Invision Community Blog

Development Blog

Deprecation Tracker

Providers Directory

Forums

Events

Store

Gallery

Posts posted by Michael

  1. @Patrick Shaw
    The key word in my statement is 'regular' paying customers. Perpetual or Lifetime licenses aren't offered anymore, and haven't been in years; they're not the norm anymore. IPS has done more than most companies would with such customers. As stated, they're not taking anything away from customers with these licenses, your forums will continue to operate just as they do today. They're just offering something completely new and only giving it to the folks who use the only licenses they offer now, I don't think that's such a terrible thing. People who own Perpetual or Lifetime licenses (of which I am also one) have a pretty good thing that a lot of others wish they could get, it's kind of greedy to want even more than the benefits you already get IMO.


  2. That argument is on pretty shaky ground. You might, in that case, start charging extra for FURLs, AJAX skins, or any other progression in the software... as far as I'm concerned, my license entitles me to use IPB and it's features in all future versions, forever... You're moving the goal posts in order to sheppard legacy customers into your newer pricing bracket...



    ... and yes, I do pay my annual support fee already.



    There's a difference between these features of the software you mentioned and this new service: those don't require IPS to have the additional expense of running a new server to store this central repository. If IPS has to be the ones to build and maintain this system, and pay for anything involved in keeping it running, then it makes sense that only those who are still actually regular paying customers get access to that.
  3. When we are developing an app and we are getting to the point where we are ready to build all of the XML files in order to package the app for redistribution, there are several pages we have to visit to create these files. In addition, on each page we visit, typically the option we have to click to build that particular file will build a lot more than what we actually want.

    Consider this scenario: I am working on an application that has language strings (both admin and public), modules, CSS, skin templates, settings, and bbcodes. Each of these items has its own XML file. In order to create that file, I turn on IN_DEV and go to a different page in the ACP to find what I need to do. For example, to create the XML of the language strings, I go to the Manage Languages page and use a form at the bottom to export the XML file for my app. Doing that not only creates the XML for my app, but for ALL apps. Next, if I want to create the XML for my modules, I go to the Applications & Modules page, click on my app, and then click the Export button there. That one, oddly enough, asks me to save the XML file on my computer instead of putting it into the application directory. To export my settings I go to the Settings page and click the Export All link there, again exporting stuff for every app instead of just the one I want to package.

    What I'd like to see is a place on the Applications page where I have a single link where I can click to export all of the XML data for that app, and for just that app. There's too much running around that's needed to create all of these XMLs at this point.

  4. You can't compare the response time on a single IPS ticket registered at a time when they have just released a new major version to a random vBulletin ticket, that's apples to oranges. Are the response times from IPS a little longer than typical right now? Yes, they are. This would not be a good time to judge what the 'typical' response time for IPS on their tickets would be. Things will improve as time goes on.

  5. I think, personally, that this shouldn't be a site-wide setting that changes the behavior for all members, but rather it should be something individual members set as a preference in their My Settings pages. Clearly as we can see from this topic, we have some folks who really like external links opening in a new window, and some who always want to control whether or not this happens. As it is on this site, the powers that be decided that they would leave this setting to No, and so that means that all of us members here have to live with that.


  6. just curious


    IPB use manay ajax around, but why make this NOT ajax?


    do you try to "avoid" from letting it conflict with shoutbox?



    fresh is of course a big deal, otherwise why IPB use ajax so much XD?



    It's not like they went out of their way to have it not use ajax, I just think they didn't forsee that folks would want to have it work like a Shoutbox (since that's not what it's intended to be).

  7. Yes I know, but then you have to write title for new topic, you have to select new categeory where you want to move posts etc. Multi-post moderation would makes it with one click.



    How would it do it with one click? IP.MindReading? It would have to in order to figure out with one click which posts you wanted to move and what you wanted to call the new topic you're moving them to.
  8. When you're in a topic and you choose the topic moderation option to delete that topic, you not only get a javascript prompt asking you to confirm this, but upon accepting that you go to a second page where you have to once again confirm you want to delete the topic. Did folks have a problem with the old way, where you only got one confirmation screen? The new way seems like overkill to me.


  9. Just done a search for Tracker in this topic but nothing found...



    So I would like to suggest that the View New Content link shows new Tracker posts too aswell as Help Files, Forums, Members, Blogs, Calendar and Gallery :)



    That would be a suggestion for IP.Tracker, IP.Board has the functionality built in to it to allow this already, apps (like IP.Tracker) just need to tie into that.
  10. It's almost certainly not a bug, or else we'd have the problem here, and the IPS staff would be flooded with tickets from others having this same problem. You're going to need to have the root admin submit a ticket for this.

×
×
  • Create New...