Matt
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Allow me to move this into our feedback area where customers and visitors can leave replies without need the need moderator approval.
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Welcome Joseph! We're very pleased to have you as a customer. If there's anything you need, please let me know.
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Thank you all so much for your comments. I'm genuinely thrilled that you are having such a positive experience. I was just on one of your forums this morning, BSchwarz, and it's looking great. Please do let us know if you need any assistance or if you have some feature improvements / suggestions. We do listen and we're all active in the feedback areas so we'll definitely see it.
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Works is progressing well on the next version of our blogging software. A lot has already been completed and I wanted to take a moment to share some of the improvements. Efficiency and Extensibility I've put a lot of effort into refactoring a few core classes to make them more useful and extensible. The ultimate aim is to remove function duplication and consolidate common actions into single functions or classes. I've also introduced more caching to lower the query count and remove some of the more intensive queries. This has seen a reduction of nearly 60% of SQL work on a few page views alone. Categories Return During the development for IP.Blog we converted the categories system into tags. We felt that being able to apply several tags to a single blog entry was more useful than putting it into a category. This worked well but I felt there was still a need for 'fixed' categories. I've added categories back in and you can select multiple categories to file an entry in as well as as create new ones on the fly. The following screen capture shows the new interface when making an entry: This screen capture shows the blog list with the new "Categories" widget showing available categories with the number of posted entries in each. UserCP Improvements I've put a lot of work into making the UserCP more functional for the blog. Currently, you can create a new blog and edit its settings. The new version allows you to do that as well as quickly mass-moderate comments and entries. This screen capture shows the new UserCP Blog dashboard: This screen capture shows the new UserCP Manage Comments screen: These are just a few of the features already completed. We'll follow up with some more next week.
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Yes, this has something that has come up before. It's something we're considering but it would be a pretty invasive change so I wouldn't expect it with any point releases. :)
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Please do open a ticket. It'll help us keep track. I'll speak with Mark.
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Regarding the one-in-all search. Back in the preview board days we did actually have this. It worked by lumping all searchable data into one table. The problem with this is that MySQL isn't very good at managing large busy tables. Even on a modestly sized community, this search index table would be receive many write / read and delete requests. Generally speaking, MySQL locks the whole table when one process accesses it. You can use InnoDB which has row level locking but then the MySQL full text search doesn't work on InnoDB so we can't use that. We found in testing that the table would lock frequently causing other processes to queue (effectively piling them up). During peak times, this could build up and cause MySQL to crash. This problem would only get worse the busier and large a forum gets. We decided to scrap this idea and work on Sphinx integration which is separate software that specialises with search indexes rather than try and force MySQL to do a thing it is not good at. Bluntly, it would have been a disaster. Ajax searching, live searching, etc are all grand ideas that are very easy to implement from a technical point of view but they are impractical in the real world.
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Hmm. Yeah. I'll investigate.
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The multiple selection box allows for multiple selections. :)
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Back-ups run around 6am-7am BST. It's always slow around that time.
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Thanks DG! Very helpful. A lot of people from vB instinctively look at modifications without realising IP.Board can do a lot of what they need already.
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That's correct. You'd just upload the files we have to the same location as your vB was.
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My apologies, the PM was sent to me. Generally speaking, PMing is the slowest way to get an answer. As per my reply, I can't find your email in our system at all but I did locate your old account.
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The easiest thing to do would be to look through our company blog. We often use that to post development information, etc.
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You are certainly welcome to contact us at sales@invisionpower.com to discuss your individual needs.
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Just to confirm that by major, we from 3.0.x to 3.1.0 to 3.2.0, etc.
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David - sorry about the mod informarion. I'll take a look after the weekend. WTG - good posts!
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Well, we're far off into the land of theoretical situations now. :) I don't think I can write a cast iron statement that will cover all eventualities. If we did bring out a more attractive license then we probably would offer some way of switching. We've done it in the past.
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Happy to help. :)
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Unfortunately we don't have a downloadable demo to offer. Yes, we did extend the demo to 24 hours recently. We have some developer's documents here, though: http://community.invisionpower.com/resources/official.html?category=37
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You can't. :D I'll agree though that Charles' post was a little ambiguous. What he meant was that you can run IP.Content in "www.domain.com" even if your forum is at "www.domain.com/forums/". I'll do my best to see what I can do for you today.
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As mentioned previously, if we do change things then we always honour the existing licenses in circulation. We still honour the terms of the lifetime and perpetual licenses and we'd do the same with the standard license. If we sell you a license that says that as long as you keep on top of renewals then you can get access to upgrades at no extra cost then that's what we mean. Even if we did bring out a super new license, the license you have is still valid. We wouldn't be foolish to "pull an IB" and pull the rug from under you. I know you're looking for a little something to give you confidence that switching is going to protect you from all the hassle you're having now. All I can do is say that we're straight up, in it for the long haul and won't be careless with your trust.
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Good catch, I've updated my original post.
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Ah. Yes, I mean 2005. I think it does work on 2000 but 2005 is much better.
