Matt

I've made some changes to the system for 3.0.1 which can be seen on this board now. We'll continue to refine and work on the search as the product matures.

I have Ikonboard 2.3 alpha on my desktop still. Never released. It was written before the 3.0 recode was started.

Yes, just note down their details and you can manually add their transaction at a later date.

When did you upgrade from 2.3.6 on your live board? Was it at RC 1 or later? There is a good reason for asking.

I think it's worth pointing out that we fixed John's problem this morning. It was because his session table wasn't clearing. ccmarsig - feel free to submit a ticket or check the number of rows in your sessions table. If there's loads then let us know.

Ah-hem. I'm going to be packaging it up for QA today.

You can edit the email template easily enough to add a note to 'not reply to this email because...'

That's great to hear. Thanks so much for sharing!

Final stage guys. Should have something to release later this week.

I did add some code to our build script to remove these. Will check that.

The subscriptions manager was mentioned in the release announcement. It's not so much missing as it's been removed and made into its own application (removes files and code if you don't need it). It will be available for download soon. The style and colours can be tweaked via the ACP CSS files if desired and I'd use the Live Search box (top right) as much as possible. It's a really helpful tool for finding settings, etc.

I think that if we were to add that in is a feature we'd go the scratch and sniff route so it's basically opt-in.

Thanks for the feedback! The extra testing we did certainly paid off.

I'll see what I can do about 2.3.6 but most of the changes are fairly invasive and we'd need to re-work a fair bit for 2.3.6 which may be more work than it is worth as we have a better working version in 3.0.0.

Why not use the per-skin tools and leave the 'master' skin alone? :D Check out /cache/skin_cache/masterMap.php To be able to edit a skin outside of the ACP, do this. 1) Create a new skin set within the ACP. It can be a 'root' skin or a 'child'. It doesn't matter. Make sure you enter a 'skin_key' which must be unique. 2) Put your board in IN_DEV mode by editing the constant in conf_global.php 3) Create a new master skin directory in /cache/skin_cache. It must be something unique, like 'master_myskin' for example. 4) Add your new 'skin_key' to the 'templates' array below. 5) Back into your ACP, go to the list of skin sets. Click on the menu icon for your new skin set and choose: 'EXPORT Templates into 'master' directory...'. You should now be able to edit those files as you browse the board without the ACP. When you are done, simply choose 'IMPORT Templates..'. */ /*

I find you completely agreeable.

We would need a time machine to do anything 'yesterday' and that's still in Alpha. A tech tested it yesterday and hasn't been seen since. Last we heard he was chasing a butterfly in the Jurassic era. Hope he doesn't squash it. Regarding vB. As mentioned above there's only so much you can do with a forum. You could turn it upside down and inside out but then all your customers would want things back where they are used to them being.

IP.Board 3.0.0 and 2.3.6 cannot share a database. You either leave it as-is for 2.3.6 or upgrade it for 3.0.0. You can copy your database and upgrade the copy. The subscriptions manager: Yes, it's a separate download. Yes, it's being worked on. I hope to have a beta / RC out early next week.

Just a quick note on small update releases. We do plan to make them fairly frequently but you don't have to upgrade if you've not encountered any bugs. You can wait until 3.0.2 or later if you wish.

If you're interested, I'm making a start on the hooks and last few bits today.

You guys make my head hurt.

You can click the green plus on a tab to go full screen, if that helps.

Remember there is the option to create skin specific 'master' folders so you can work outside the ACP in your favourite editor. No matter how fancy a JS editor gets, it's never going to replace what you use on your desktop so we figured why even try?

Regarding the subscriptions manager. I'd like to point out that all of us at IPS take it very seriously and no one here wants to see it neglected. We realise that many of you monitize your forums using the SM so we have no plans to remove it or make it a poor cousin. Our immediate plans are: - Refactor the subscriptions manager from 2.3.6 to 3.0.0 [Done] - Tidy up the ACP interface [Done] - Fix reported issues with expiring subscriptions, upgrades and PayPal [Done] - Write hooks and add settings [To Do] - Release to QA [To Do] - Release Beta / RC [To Do] I spent most of last week and identified and fixed several issues. Most of which can be back-ported to 2.3.6. More details to follow.

Regarding the subscriptions manager: it is a separate application and can be released independently of IP.Board 3. Think of it this way: you could wait for two weeks for IPB 3 + SM or we could release IPB 3 and SM two weeks after. Either way, those that need the subscriptions manager will have to wait two weeks. Note: "two weeks" is for illustrative purposes only and is not a written-in-stone release schedule. I have been working hard on the subscriptions manager and it's almost done and ready for testing.