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    Matt reacted to Rolf Jouaux in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    As one of your oldest customers (even since Ikonboard Times before 2000) i thank Charles, Matt and all your Co-Workers for the Continuity of the Code and the Support in tough Upgrade-Times. To the next 20 years.
    jouaux from mykath.de 
     
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    Matt reacted to Woodsman in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    Always here one way or another and will never be forgotten.
    BTW Mark, Who is that Matt feller I keep seein' around.
     
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    Matt reacted to Steve E in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    Happy to have been running a forum with IPB since February 2003 (and we're still going). Version 1.1.1 was our first (live) iteration - never regretted the decision to go with Matt and the Invision folk - noble creatures all!
    Our first skin (apologies):

     
    And our version number - the newest member name doesn't reflect the content of the site...

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    Matt reacted to Allen Bradford in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    Interesting. My Board is celebrating its 20th Anniversary next month as well. I launched Ikonboard software in 2002 almost as a whim, and as a section to website I had created. I stuck with Ikonboard way too long, and past when it was no longer supported. When server costs soared due the strain Perl demanded I was thinking of throwing in the towel. But Member input and that I found that IPB could do a Conversion of my Board saved it, and in 2016 the IPB Support staff successfully (or as close as possible) Converted my Board to IPB. I wish I hadn’t waited so long. Congratulations to the owners and staff of IPB. 
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    Matt got a reaction from Lindy in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    The most important 8 years.

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    Matt reacted to Jordan Miller in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    Congrats team!! Super excited to see where things go next 😃 
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    Matt reacted to Ocean West in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    I started out in '96 with a cgi script every post / reply was a file on the server. Then switched to UBBTreads that uses sql and php. Then there was an upset in that community and several devs left and started FusionBB was on there till it floundered in '09 and I found my way home here. 
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    Matt got a reaction from Emaxo in Enhance your community with integrations   
    Thanks for the feedback.

    Privacy is of course very important to us, so we'll always be mindful of the data that is sent. APIs by their very nature are designed to move data between sources, and it is something that you have to enable, so it's up to the administrator to weigh up the benefits against privacy concerns and to update any privacy policy attached to the website.
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    Matt got a reaction from The Old Man in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    The short version is that I built another platform called Ikonboard, got overwhelmed, sold it to someone who made promises and then broke those promises. This someone had also bought something Charles built. Charles and I decided it was time to move on so started "IBForums/Invision Power Services" together. From that time, I think only Rikki was involved in Ikonboard although most of the team have been with is for 10-15+ years.
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    Matt reacted to Rikki in Twenty years of Invision Community   
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    Matt reacted to Miss_B in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    That must have been quite a journey. Thank you for your reply. 
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    Matt got a reaction from crmarks in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    The short version is that I built another platform called Ikonboard, got overwhelmed, sold it to someone who made promises and then broke those promises. This someone had also bought something Charles built. Charles and I decided it was time to move on so started "IBForums/Invision Power Services" together. From that time, I think only Rikki was involved in Ikonboard although most of the team have been with is for 10-15+ years.
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    Matt got a reaction from Olivia Clark in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    The most important 8 years.

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    Matt got a reaction from Miss_B in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    The short version is that I built another platform called Ikonboard, got overwhelmed, sold it to someone who made promises and then broke those promises. This someone had also bought something Charles built. Charles and I decided it was time to move on so started "IBForums/Invision Power Services" together. From that time, I think only Rikki was involved in Ikonboard although most of the team have been with is for 10-15+ years.
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    Matt got a reaction from Miss_B in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    The most important 8 years.

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    Matt reacted to Randy Calvert in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    I was so young back then...  now... I'm just old.  
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    Matt got a reaction from SeNioR- in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    The short version is that I built another platform called Ikonboard, got overwhelmed, sold it to someone who made promises and then broke those promises. This someone had also bought something Charles built. Charles and I decided it was time to move on so started "IBForums/Invision Power Services" together. From that time, I think only Rikki was involved in Ikonboard although most of the team have been with is for 10-15+ years.
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    Matt got a reaction from TAMAN in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    The short version is that I built another platform called Ikonboard, got overwhelmed, sold it to someone who made promises and then broke those promises. This someone had also bought something Charles built. Charles and I decided it was time to move on so started "IBForums/Invision Power Services" together. From that time, I think only Rikki was involved in Ikonboard although most of the team have been with is for 10-15+ years.
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    Matt reacted to LiquidFractal in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    I second this...even though there have been one or two occasions where I've complained about things, there's a reason I've been here since 2009, when LiquidFractal was little more than a quirky community site where the odd colleague would pop in and rant about professors, Hegel, Wordsworth, [insert thinker here] or the state of academia in general (which is terrible and getting worse).  My site has since evolved from this (well, sublated its past state...never mind this little bit of nerd-dom 🤓) to become an open learning hybrid organisation.  I'm grateful that Invision has been with me along the way.  Here's to 20 more years! 🎉
     
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    Matt reacted to Hexsplosions in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    I noticed the homepage title now contains the word "creators". Are we going to see new tools or features targeted to towards content creators?
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    Matt reacted to AlexWebsites in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    One of my sites was similar… was using phpfox, vbulletin, Wordpress, and some other scripts. Too much to maintain and align, moved to IPS and converted what I could. 
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    Matt reacted to IveLeft... in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    My first board was a phpBB board back in 2000/2001 ( the first phpBB boards) , then in 2005 I started using vBulletin.....
    From 2012 I purchased my first License and I have never looked back and always been an IPS customer - even if I do have a moan about stuff, your the best by far....
     

     
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    Matt reacted to Grafidea in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    maybe some promotion on the occasion of the 20th ...? 🙂
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    Matt reacted to Sonya* in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    2009 I was looking for a software that offers everything out of the box. My largest project had been a knotted thing from:
    phpBB for forums CMS Made Simple for editorial content and custom modules Coppermine Photo Gallery AJAX chat OpenX Life... (I cannot even remember the name of software for users' blogs) I have connected all logins myself, customized all themes to get them looking similar. And... it was a nightmare to maintain

    It took us almost half a year to convert the whole thing to IPS. And after relaunch... well, my vacation feeling had started:

    I am happy I have decided for Invision Community. The other option I had was dolphin community. 😄 
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    Matt reacted to AlexJ in Twenty years of Invision Community   
    We have a few other surprises to celebrate our twentieth anniversary. We can't wait to share them! @Matt
    Can't wait to see those! Congrats to you and your team for being successful. 
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