AndyF

I report the post to administratior...They will take care of it... :)

Thanks WTG, I appreciate your feedback. :)

On ACP, in same where it always have been. Type news on ACP search and you

It depends on how large a db file phpmyadmin will accept without timing out. ;) , your host may be willing to adjust this (I "think" its not actually the php.ini upload limit its set it my.ini although I'd have to check that)

Myself, if its over about 5mb I would not try it and wait ages for it to just timeout. :)

See my reply above (post 7) , I'd suggest using BigDump (although sometimes you can get some strange issues) if possible as its a good tool to use and very straightforward once you have used it once, its easy.

If I'm using localhost I just use the command line as its fast and always works. :)

I'm glad it worked!!!

Also, one other correction...

I was recieving the error:
WARNING: no such index 'forums_search_delta', skipping.

forums_search_delta is actually forums_search_topics_delta and forums_search_posts_delta

Ah crap. For those people out there that may have the same problem in the future...
Make sure you check ownership permission stuff!

Sorry about the stupid topic. Hopefully my idiocy helps someone in the future. :whistle:

I was a long time vbulletin user. Watched and participated in the discussions on EZBoard when John first started to develop vbulletin and was the first install on a large active site converting from UBB. I was the first to test the converter, John sent me many variations until it was right, and use it to convert the site I owned at the time. I never really thought I would ever use any other software. A couple months ago I decided having all my eggs in one basket wasn't a good idea. Many of the things that were going on with IB looked eerily similar to what was happening with UBB years ago. I bought my first IPB license for a new site. Since then IB decided that long time, loyal customers like me had no place with them and basically kicked us to the curb. I have since bought 2 more forum licenses and one suite license and converted 2 of my sites. I have 5 sites left. More licenses will be bought over the course of the next month or so I will convert the rest of my communities.

I am thoroughly impressed the software and the support. It says a lot when the owner, Matt, offers help via twitter. It used to be that way with John. It helps to build loyalty and trust. The software itself runs far better than vbulletin. I will be here for a long time and want to say thanks for opening my eyes. If I didn't buy my first license I would never have seen how powerful IPB is.

OK guys,
I am currently running a vbulletin forum with a professional design set. My first and foremost worry about moving over to invision was the design of my forum. My thought behind this is that it is going to be a big enough move over to invision as it stands without the fact that the forum will look completely different.

NOW, bare in mind I only purchased invision less than 24 hours ago. I have almost managed to duplicate the look of my forum with only a very very basic knowledge of CSS and some knowledge of photoshop. How have I done this? I would seriously urge you to have a good read through the topic on this forum http://www.smartestcomputing.us.com/index.php?showtopic=37422

This tutorial, I would print out and have at the side of you throughout your transition. Its simple, and it works...... Dont worry about your skinning guys. IMO its easier than vbulletin 3.8 and at the end of the day, you would have to learn 4.0 anyways.

Well sort of ... I have bought invision LOL ..


I want to leave feedback in here in the same way as I would on the vbulletin licenced user area... Truthfully

For anyone who is currently a vbulletin licence holder and has been reading over there, you know what it has been like. I have purchased my software here, they have had email issues, high telephone volumes, site being swamped with questions etc etc ...... So here is my purchase:

Step 1: I had a query regarding pricing, and therefore emailed the sales team here at invision. A few hours later I recieved an email from their exchange saying that it was undeliverable. Now my first thought was "here we go again, they all the same"

KEEP READING

Step 2: I decided to send a pm to charles on here, who is busy as hell with questions LOL .... However me being impatient decided to call the telephone sales line too.

Step 3: Called the sales support in the US, from the UK. As the sales line was extremely busy, I was passed to an operator almost immediately who took my telephone number and said someone would call me back (yep, a callback in the uk from the us ... Impressed)

Step 4: Bare in mind I have had no responce from Charles. I recieve my telephone call back within 10 mins.... And who was on the other end of the line... Charles!!!!! ... My query was sorted, emails sent to me, and I had purchased everything as I required within 5-10 mins.



That my friends, is why I have switched........ Because it makes a change not to be ranting at someone who doesnt listen.. Instead I'm asking questions of people who do care about their customers.

No, you'd need to make sure you have a copy backed up. When your license/renewal expires, you won't be able to access the download center.

We do not expect our volunteers (like Andy) to go through a rigorous performance testing routine for each modification submitted. To put it bluntly - it's not his responsibility. Andy does a good job just looking through the modifications to try to spot any obviously "bad code" (like he said).

At the end of the day we don't endorse or support modifications, so any time you use one it's at your own risk.

A reasonable request. I'll add it in for 3.0.4.

Which competition??? There's many forum softwares out there.

How about instead of merely saying that what Invision have is lacking, and what the competition has is better... Why not actually be constructive and say what it is that you want? Tell Invision, and the rest of us, in detail, what you consider to be "proper" documentation. What would satisfy your requirements?

Your hand-wavey complaints help no-one, constructive feedback would be much more useful.


Edit: Also, for the sake of being pedantic, as you were, "can't" can mean forbidden to / not permitted to, and thus IPS can not permit themselves to waste time on duplicating documentation. Thus they can't have both. :)

I just wanted to give kudos to the staff for all of their work on the new board.

We have a forum which carries a visual theme which we have kept with since the version 1.x days. Despite the skin changes that came with 3.0, we have found that skin development time was cut in half to bring our look into line with the previous layout while still keeping the improvements that were made to the software.

Our migration strategy ended up being especially fun, as we migrated to a new domain at the same time as we were applying the upgrade. The only real issues that we had in our first test run were related to not uninstalling mods in the old structure before upgrading. As long as you turn off all mods installed with the Universal Mod Installer and ensure all forums and members are set to the "use board default" skin choice before running an upgrade, things go smoothly.

We have been live for 24 hours now on 3.0.3, and have had ZERO complaints,,, in fact we have had quite a few positive comments about all of the improvements both us and IPB have made.

Kudos again to the IPB Development team - you took an impossible task and came up with a product that blows away the competition!

In order to receive support, please make a topic in the Peer-to-Peer Technical Support -> IP.Board section, while signed in under your Active Customers account.

If you let your moderators delete topics then no....I mean, they can just click the checkboxes to the right of the topic listing already, so you're not protecting anything. You're just making it take potentially 20 seconds longer.

Indeed, this reinforces the need to ensure you are only handing out moderation privileges to those who can be fully trusted and who take reasonable measures to secure their own accounts.

It's always been like that as far as I can remember. Although I do agree personally I do not think anyone without ACP access should have access to the forum side prune tools. :)

Hello,


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If you are an existing customer, please log into your client center and follow the instructions for upgrading your IPS forums account, found at the bottom of the first page you see.

We look forward to helping you!

http://welovegfx.webatu.com/forum/

Now it's working! Thanks alot man!:D

Checks the file conf_global.php this way in this part of the URL:



$INFO['board_url'] = 'http://welovegfx.webatu.com/forum';

Post result.

Today i've created a forum, and I've downloaded FTP and MYSQL and all that.
I've followed the install guide, but when I try to go to http://welovegfx.webatu.com/forum/index.php
It looks like the lo-fi version. how do i fix it? And when I try to click on a link on the forum, it directs me to the hosting webpage.
what do i do?

That did the trick. Sweet! Thanks. :)