Charles

is there anything in your terms and conditions that guarantees that the 6 monthly support renewal will be offered for lifetime licenses?

Of course who knows in the distant future but it would be very hard for us to change the way we structure our renewals. The 6 month renewal allows us to not only offer support and upgrades but also addon services like spam monitor (and some future ones we're planning) at no extra cost.

We don't have that specific permission level in your example however there are others that we do have.

The permissions you mentioned are for forum-level permissions. There are also individual settings in each forum settings (outside permissions setup) and at the user group level.

Personally, I don't buy "in the next week or two" promises. I've learned my lessons from experiences. :o I am more like "I will believe it when I see it" kind of person.

Well then be sure to read our blog tomorrow and hang around here for the next few weeks ;)

Mark here at IPS (handles most conversions) would be the best person to answer your question. I am sure he will see this topic tomorrow or you can email sales and ask and we can get you a proper answer.

I still have an active license of a Vb and I have to say that it's really chaotic in licensed customer forum right now at Vb. There is no way that I am going to renew my vb license in current status. I am not paying a dime to those backstabbing bastards at Vb.

And so-called manager has vanished ever since the new pricing has been announced and left few support staffs to deal with the mess. What a day.

FYI, I had two active Vb licenses. I moved one of my Vb license to IPB in May 2008 and still retain one active Vb license.

There are huge differences in Vb3 and IPB3. But, to be bluntly honest, I never rely on mods because they are always unreliable. But if you do use lots of mods, I will say that Vb will be better for you.

Though some of really important and much-needed Vb mod features are built right in IPB as official features.

Oh, and IPB has an official CMS, Gallery, Downloads, and Blog (Which I am not so fond of.) as add-on.

As for mods we are working on things to encourage more mods but, keep in mind, we have lots of features standard in IPB (like certain SEO functions and such) that require a mod for vB. So one could say you need fewer mods in IPB depending on what you're after.

New versions of Gallery/Downloads/Blog/etc. are in the works. We will be posting blog updates about it in the next week or two :)

Just a reminder: we appreciate the feedback (both positive on how we can improve) on our products but let's not become vB trolls. They have enough problems right now and if IPS were to ever have trouble we would expect a similar professional courtesy from them.

Done :)

If we run a promotion it would be for anyone - not just vB converts. There are plenty of other products out there :)

We are happy to keep a topic like this open if it does not turn into a bashing thread. We are out to offer a great community solution here and we appreciate our customers being quite happy with our products but don't want things to turn dark in the process :)


As for alternatives to addons perhaps you can post a list of which ones you are looking for alternatives? I am sure the community can give you pointers.

We are seriously considering a sale either in the license or the conversion services. In the last 24 hours between posts on the forums and in our sales email people are clamoring for something of the sort.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to lock tickets that have had no activity for over 5 days. Honestly no one has ever complained or even really noticed before :) Everyone just starts a new ticket if needed.

It's not like we are denying support to anyone - just trying to keep things tidy. We added it because people would reopen tickets sometimes months old by replying to an old email or something and it would get confusing.

Your instance is rare I would think. Most clients would not take more than 5 days to reply. If they do not reply it's almost always because ticket is resolved so the system automatically marks that status.

Tickets only auto-locked (resolved) if, after one of our staff replies, you do not make a new reply in 5 days.

It keeps people from reopening ancient tickets.

Can you provide a ticket number where you waited that long during business hours?

CSS Changes:

/public/style_css/master_css/ipb_styles.css

ul.post_controls { - background: inherit url(../../style_images/master/gradient_bg.png) repeat-x 50%; + background-image: url(../../style_images/master/gradient_bg.png); + background-repeat: repeat-x; + background-position: 50%; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: right; padding: 6px 10px 28px 6px;

I will post the list of changed files since 3.0.3 but we do suggest you simply upload all files. There are so many changed files we could have easily missed some from the list.

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It might be a good idea, maybe after the authors has been notified of problems with there hooks/mods. To put out some kind of info post showing other moder's sections of which was coursing problems and how to fix it for future reference and also how to improve our coding for the future.

cap

We were going to post our list but we want to contact the authors first. Don't want to make people look bad for a simple little bug :)

We are making a list of mods with known issues and we will definitely be contacting mod authors to see if they can optimize the mods.

We are developing one for a client now and hope to provide it in a future release of IPB.

I think this topic has devolved into a debate on the various ways one can document software products :) let's not start a huge argument about the merits of one over the other. We all agree documentation is very important and it is being actively worked on.

As IPB3 is so new we are still writing many of these documents. Anyone who has written documentation knows it is extremely time consuming. We actually have quite a bit written already in various areas that has been written over time and as things come up. We are currently working on pulling all that various information together into centralized guides. You may have noticed the new Resources area on our community here and the new capabilities of IP.Content 1.1 - we will be using those new features for our core documentation.

We have, basically, two approaches:

ACP Inline Help: This talks about the specific page you're on without having to leave the admin area. It's not to explain in great detail just to explain the overall functions of the page you're on.
Guides: A traditional article on various subjects.

The guides will have various subjects and take information beyond what the straightforward ACP Inline Help can provide. Examples may include:

• Basics of skinning
• Moderation guide
• Creation applications/hooks
• Creating a single-sign-on bridge between IPB and your applications
• Template logic
• etc.
  

Much of this is already written in the form of articles on the resource site and the many dozens of PDFs our development and support departments have written since the launch of IPB3. I am personally organizing all this varied information this week into a logical approach (quite an undertaking I might add). We will begin publishing these various documents in the next few days and continuing to expand upon them quite frequently over the next couple months.

Documentation is very important to us as it is to you. Taken another way, good documents reduce the number of tickets we receive which is good for both our clients and for us. Plus, it eliminates the need for topics like this which end up going in circles with people who, at a base level, do agree with each other. :)

It does not have read/write separation at this time but it's something we have experimented with and may make it into a release of IPB in the future.

I believe bfarber said that was a formatting thing from conversions. Will see about fixing that.

Yes, we renamed CCS to IP.Content as even we kept typing CCS/CSS at times :)

As the functionality already exists, I am sure a checkbox in the user settings for a default search view would be easy to do.

Not really:

Post count is the number under your name as in total posts made. It's just a number.

Active users is a direct query of posts made in a timeframe - it doesn't look at your cumulative post count.

Hiding members from the member list hides them from the members list as it says it should.

It does not hide them from today's top posters since that's not the members list :)

Actually the devs are just pointing out that it is indeed working as intended. The setting says "increment post number" which is working properly in that the RSS user post count does not get increased for RSS feeds.

You are referring to a totally different thing. The daily stats look at all users and show which user has made the most posts in the last 24 hours - it has nothing to do with an individual user's post count. It may be your RSS user. Of course you might not want this to happen but that has nothing to do with incrementing their post count.