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IPB 3.1.0: Centralized License Key

Posted by Josh, 09 February 2010 · 839 views

Over the past year we have introduced new services that are available to our IP.Board Standard Licenses holders, such as the spam service and the chat service. We also have plans for more services that will be tied to your license. While this provides a lot of value to your license, managing these services is a cumbersome process, you need to create keys for each of these services and enter them in different areas of the ACP.

We're always looking for ways to streamline and improve your experience, toward that end we will be introduce a new centralized license key that will work for all services. Starting with IP.Board 3.1, all licenses will be given a single key that will grant access to all services available to that license. When we introduce new services, you will automatically have access to that service without having to log in to your client area account to generate a new key and activate it.

IP.Board 3.1 will include a new license manager in the ACP. When you first access the manager, you will see a screen that lets you enter your license key and your forum URL:

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After you activate your license, you will be able to see the status of your license and all the services that are attached to that license:

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Like all previous versions of IP.Board, your forum will function if you do not enter your license key, however you will not have access to any of the special extra services your license provides until you activate your license key. There will be a grace period where old spam and chat keys will continue to function, however we recommend that you activate your new license keys as soon as possible.

We hope that this simplification of our license key system will be beneficial to everyone and that you enjoy all the services it provides! As always feedback and suggestions are welcome.




I love this. So professional.
I suggest IPS to do something for the copyright removal users, like the users can costomize the copyright information in the ACP directly instead of editing the source codes in and before version 3.0.5, etc.

Thanks.

Nuclear General, on 10 February 2010 - 12:48 AM, said:

I have a small question that doesn't pertain to the blog entry, just curious; What program do you use to get the drop shadow beneath the pictures?

Why does everyone ask that? :P

I know Matt uses Skitch, I don't know who took these screenshots, but they probably use the same.
Windows Live Writer adds effects to images you post to your blog;)

i like the idea with the licensing, similar to the app i released for my customers to manage there App licenses :D
This will be a great addition. :thumbsup:
Is this yet more of a persuasion mechanism for those on a perpetual license to drop it & start paying yearly again, or else we will miss out on more features (such as the anti-spam)?
This system does not change anything. It just presents a central place where you can quickly see all the services and products you have that are attached to your license.
So there is no plans yet for any further features which are blocked for perpetual license holders apart from the anti-spam?

That is good to hear.
There will be future services, like the spam and chat service, not available to Perpetual license customers but that has nothing to do with this license key system so if you have questions you can submit a ticket or a topic :)
What about people that don't wish to upgrade from 3.0.5 to 3.1.0, will the licenses currently used for 3.0.5 system be affected?
Not that I won't want to upgrade to 3.1.0, I just like to wait a bit first and plan ahead.
May I ask what kind of license do I enter?

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