Wolfie

You mean the search and replace function?

Shhh.. Don't look in the client center. ;) Also, if you do, do NOT tell anyone what you find there.

+ from me Definitely would be nice, especially when deleting a number of spam posts but trying to keep the acceptable posts from a member or with certain keywords in it.

It finally made it to the top. :D There's an article on the resource site for adding it back in. I'd like to see it added back in by default (maybe 3.0.2?).

Matt is trying to get it out as soon as he possibly can. My own personal prediction will be 2 betas and maybe 1 RC before it goes final. Time wise, I'm guessing about 3 or 4 weeks from now. I'm hoping that I'm over estimating because I know a lot of people are looking forward to SM being released. But even at a week per release, Beta 2 would come out on maybe the 15th, RC1 on the 22nd and then final on the 29th. That's still close to 3 weeks from now. Keep in mind that the dates I listed are for example purposes only. I do not know of any actual dates planned for beta/rc/final releases. If you plan for it to be a month then you'll be happy if it comes out sooner. If you help to test it out (to try to find any bugs that others may not be finding), then it can help speed things up. Bugs found sooner get fixed sooner and then fewer bugs later on, it moves more swiftly towards a final release.

So what you did was get nasty and rude first to respond to what you knew would happen? That's not responding before the attack, that's starting it. Have you tried doing searches for the posts? I've seen a number of threads where people express unhappiness with something and the topic remains. So for your claims of threads disappearing, I believe you are imagining things. I'm referring to details like when the ticket was submitted and then each post in the ticket after that (ie, who made the next update to the ticket and when). Also when you commented here about the ticket, etc. I doubt IPB will refund your money. If they do, then you would certainly need to thank them for the kindness. I can tell you that with the problems I've been hearing in regards to vB, you would be regretting your choice to move there. Now seriously, tell the problems you're having. Not brief complaints but descriptions and examples and details.

Or he may be doing what a good businessman does. He may be trying to get to the source of the issue so that it can be resolved and try to provide the level of customer service that the client thinks has been denied to him.

@ bobage24 You talk about their lack of customer service and how they don't listen? I'm not used to my ideas being taken seriously but just the other day when I mentioned about adding something (thinking v3.0.2 or later), a few hours later, a reply was made saying it was done. Simple but useful feature that I thought of and so I mentioned it and poof, it got added into 3.0.1 in the blink of an eye almost. In all the posts you've made, one thing is rather evident and Charles pointed it out. You seem to have a chip on your shoulder. If you have specific issues that are upsetting you, then just name them in a non insulting way. You claim that posts that complain about service get deleted? Describe some of those threads that you're talking about. The long time it took for them to address your issue? If you want to prove it, then post all the details about it. Charles even told you that when you posted here about the situation, you didn't do anything wrong because sometimes they overlook a ticket and that's a good way to get their attention. Personally I would have called and reported the matter as being an emergency because if your site is unusable, then that's definitely an emergency. What else is bothering you? Charles has invited you to contact him if you have any issues so that he can try to fix it for you. He's invited you to email him, PM him and I think even invited you to post it here, that way he'll know what's bothering you (specifically) so that it can be addressed. If something is bugging you, open up about it, perhaps it's something of a misunderstanding or a mistake made that Charles or someone else could clear up for you so that you know that there are no hard feelings. I'm not saying this in any bit of a rude way either. I'm saying this in a serious manner. Really, tell what is bothering you. I was also being serious in my first reply. When you expect people to be your servants because you paid some money, you are expecting a form of slavery. It doesn't matter how much someone gets paid to do a job, they still have feelings and kindness goes a long way.

Here's what I see when read comments and the way of thinking that you have made very clear. Slavery. You think that if you pay someone money, they become your servants to use and abuse because "it's their job". That sort of mentality has done nothing but caused problems and I can tell you right now, you show that sort of attitude in the real world and there are businesses today that will politely ask you to leave the premises before they call for security (or the cops) to escort you away. If you throw a temper tantrum to the police about how you are paying the business to kiss your tail, then they'll just throw you in jail for disorderly conduct. Show that same attitude to a judge and I can assure you that you'll be in for a really harsh lesson about kindness and respect.

Sometimes security can be annoying, but there is acceptable annoying and just pure annoyance. Which is why I mentioned the idea of it being a report once every 24hrs per IP address (or perhaps once every 24hrs per IP address for every credential used would be better). That way if you're not using the ACP and then notice 2 or 3 members have signed into the ACP, all from the same IP, then you know there's an issue. But if someone is doing stuff in it, you won't get notified several times a day for that same login/IP combination.

Most definitely, especially with the member editing mask already forbidding things like adding/editing/deleting admin level access. Would also be nice if it were separate from the forums permission masks. :D Could be added to member groups (although adding the masks wouldn't grant ACP access, only permissions if the person is given ACP access).

You mean like I'm trying to do with the secondary groups? That would be nice. Doubt it'll make it into the 3.0.x series. But definitely for that if it will allow me to set a group to Admin (but very limited access) and then grant them permissions based on the masks I apply to them. Could even have some pre-defined masks (to get you started), such as member editing, forum editing, emoticon/bbcode and skin/language.

#6 https is an option for forum login. If used for ACP, that too should be an ACP setting. Not all installs support SSL and for those that do, they may not necessarily have a certificate. #7 Would just be plain annoying, especially if you are the one doing it and you do a few things, get busy with other stuff, sign back in, sign out and back in, test ACP with another account, etc. Perhaps as an option and to prevent annoyingness, have it report once per IP during a 24hour time period.

You can do that by means of restricting the groups themselves. I was planning to make it so that as I gave an admin more responsibility/trust, I would add another secondary group to their name to open up more functions to them. However, it works in reverse, where you would have to set up groups that REMOVE/DENY access for a function/set and apply it to them before hand and then remove the things you want to grant them access to. Be nice if it worked where it would give access instead of denying it.

Sometime between 2040 and 2050, depending on When It's Ready

What Lee69 said, empty your temporary internet files and try refreshing.

Must be your browser, it's appearing fine for me. What browser are you using?

You should go ahead and get a license now, that way you can help beta test it and help it fix that much sooner.

Or could be sometime in 2010. :D

So set up the trash can to only allow you to see it and perform actions in it. :)

You mean the new skin that IPB said would be included with a future release. :)

How about some real fun.. #show_users#, to list ALL of the members on the board. I'm sure that would be way fun for boards with 1,000 or more members. :D Being serious though. #show_modules# and #show_hooks# could be helpful to those who make mods/apps/hooks.

Okay there is bbcode that can be limited to certain member groups. How about being able to limit which groups can use certain groups of emoticons? The way I imagine it being set up and working would be like this. Inside of a emoticon folder, a permissions folder can be added. In the settings, that the different member groups allowed to use those emoticons would be selected. They could use not only those emoticons but the emoticons of the parent folder as well. This would require an extra step of security too. If someone tries to link directly to the image inside of a post, if they don't have permission to use that image (emoticon), then it would deny them access to it. Also, if it finds that image is an emoticon that is enabled, it should convert the takes to the emoticon instead (ACP setting, in case the admin doesn't want this to change the tags).

For the reason that Andy mentioned, it might be better to leave it in the ACP. But to make it easier, a direct link would just require you to sign in, other than that, it's not really that much different.

So I had this idea. Install a forum, put some real data on it (ie, not just a few posts saying "this is a post", but the members can be fake or have fake email addresses). Then backup the database, upload all the files for all the add-ons (blog, downloads, gallery, links, shoutbox, subscriptions, tracker) and some of the hooks. Then clone that folder to another folder (as a backup). Then arrange it so that someone (or a select group of people) would be in charge of the setup. If someone wants to be taught how to use certain features, they would be given an account and shown how to use something. They could be taught how to install an application/hook then how to configure the options. Shown how to uninstall the same things, what changes happen upon the install, etc. Then when it's over, one of the 'admins' (someone who is helping to run it) could just press a button and have it all reset again. In short, a training board. Or allow someone to sign up and create a training board where they could have a preloaded board that would be available for up to 2 hours. If they want another training board, they can just reapply with no problems. This could let an admin create a training board and then walk someone through different parts of the ACP (or mod options, etc) in order to let them try out different options/functions, without worry of messing something up. Also, during that 2 hours, the member should have a reset button that they could press to reload all the data. The reason for the 2 hour limit is that it shouldn't take that long to take a tour through some functions, the member could always get a new demo pre-loaded board and then continue where they left off. It should be available only to those who own an active license (including those who pay for hosting), ie not available to alternate contacts.