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[Kaine]

Hi folks,

Firstly a quickie for the admins - i tried to register and boo boo'd my DOB year (left it as 2010) - tried to go back and it wouldn't let me correct it - then I tried to email you from the email link on that page (admin@ibforums.com), but this bounced back as no such user. Logged in using FB account instead. Just thought you may like to know this bug.

Anyway I'm a long term forum owner (three forums) and have historically used phpbb - I'm not a developer in anyway however can fnid my way around styles and templates well enough. In January I made what is appearing to be a mistake when i upgraded my main forum to vbulletin4 - although its getting better its not what I expected and I really feel like I've been conned into buying a product that isn't really Gold release.

Fortunately my intention was to trial it on one forum and then obtain two more licences for my other forums when I was happy - I'm glad I did this.

Ok, so now I'm looking at IPBoard instead for all three forums, however I don't want to make the same mistake so have a few simple questions (will search the forum in parallel to this)

1) Has anyone migrated from vbulletin 4.0.2 to IPBoard recently? Any probs
2) Is the phpbb3 to IPBoard migration straight forward?

Thanks in advance

Kaine

[bfarber]

Kaine Pritchett, on 12 March 2010 - 06:19 AM, said:

Hi folks,

Firstly a quickie for the admins - i tried to register and boo boo'd my DOB year (left it as 2010) - tried to go back and it wouldn't let me correct it - then I tried to email you from the email link on that page (admin@ibforums.com), but this bounced back as no such user. Logged in using FB account instead. Just thought you may like to know this bug.

Was this on the registration form itself? If so, that's a COPPA form (I didn't even realize we had this feature enabled) and is designed to block anyone under the age of 13 from registering, more or less. You can disable this feature in your ACP if your site isn't designed for children.

Kaine Pritchett, on 12 March 2010 - 06:19 AM, said:

1) Has anyone migrated from vbulletin 4.0.2 to IPBoard recently? Any probs
2) Is the phpbb3 to IPBoard migration straight forward?

Thanks in advance

Kaine

1) If you look through this pre-sales forum, you'll see many topics from users converting from vBulletin recently. In some, they update their topic with their experiences post-conversion.

2) The phpBB converter should be straightforward, yes.

[Kaine]

thanks Brandon - this was registration for here - I know COPPA - just wanted to let you know the glitch I found trying to register here thats all - especially the email addy not working

Thanks for your info.

Maybe a silly question - just looking at the products pages - when I buy a board license is this time limited? (i.e 1 year license etc) or just a one off purchase

Thanks

[Panupat]

My just migrated my forum from phpBB about 3 weeks ago. The converter worked like a charm And I am very happy.

[bfarber]

Kaine Pritchett, on 12 March 2010 - 06:27 AM, said:

thanks Brandon - this was registration for here - I know COPPA - just wanted to let you know the glitch I found trying to register here thats all - especially the email addy not working

Thanks for your info.

Maybe a silly question - just looking at the products pages - when I buy a board license is this time limited? (i.e 1 year license etc) or just a one off purchase

Thanks

The license is not time limited. You can run the software for forever, however your access to technical support and upgrades is limited to 6 months. After that time period, you can let your license lapse if you don't need support or updates, or you can renew for $25 (at any time) to get another 6 months of support/updates.

[Kaine]

Panupat, on 12 March 2010 - 08:02 AM, said:

My just migrated my forum from phpBB about 3 weeks ago. The converter worked like a charm And I am very happy.

thanks for your feedback

[Kaine]

bfarber, on 12 March 2010 - 08:44 AM, said:

The license is not time limited. You can run the software for forever, however your access to technical support and upgrades is limited to 6 months. After that time period, you can let your license lapse if you don't need support or updates, or you can renew for $25 (at any time) to get another 6 months of support/updates.

Thanks Brandon

I'm looking at this basically;

IP.Gallery* $64.99
IP.Board: Business License** $299.99
IP.Content*** $49.99
Sub Total $414.97
Setup Fee(s) $0.00
Total Due $373.47

* $10.00 will be due on September 11, 2010 for renewal of IP.Gallery
** $50.00 will be due on September 11, 2010 for renewal of IP.Board: Business License
*** $15.00 will be due on September 11, 2010 for renewal of IP.Content

Q1, I take it the */**/*** parts are optional after the 6 months (doesn't say this)
Q2. Is there any discount for multiple licences - i.e. I'm buying three sets of the above
Q3. I guess I could downgrade to a std licence after 6 months - don't need to keep as business? its just a support level from what I can read

Thanks

Kaine

[Kaine]

sorry another question - just playing with the demo

wrt to teh facebook application part, however does it handle existing members I trasnfer - i.e. can they log in using their facebook accounts and have it conencted to their existing account? (hope that makes sense)

Kaine

[Kaine]

I take it its easy to set portal as the main page - i.e. domain root defaults to portal rather than the forum?

[Kaine]

well so far very good - liking the whole default layout a lot

Am I correct in assuming i can create static pages - i.e. a special FAQ section etc?

[Kaine]

static pages are added within the 'IP.Content' section of admin - correct? Appears under the 'Pages' tab - I take it the Pages tab can be remained (sorry for all the questions - the demo setup you offer is excellent btw)

[bfarber]

Kaine Pritchett, on 12 March 2010 - 09:09 AM, said:

Q1, I take it the */**/*** parts are optional after the 6 months (doesn't say this)
Q2. Is there any discount for multiple licences - i.e. I'm buying three sets of the above
Q3. I guess I could downgrade to a std licence after 6 months - don't need to keep as business? its just a support level from what I can read

1) Yes. If you decide not to renew on Sept 11, for instance, then in December decide you want to renew (i.e. because we've released an update you want), you can renew at that point for the same $25 (and your renewal period starts from that date). Further to this, you can renew just IP.Board if you only wanted the IP.Board updates, and leave your Content/Gallery licenses expired (and/or optionally renew them, separately, at any point as well).

2) Volume pricing starts on your third license. You do get a small discount based on the number of applications you order at once as well.

http://community.inv...enewal-changes/

You may want to contact sales@invisionpower.com to get the best information on this.

3) Honestly, I'm not 100% positive how that would work. That would be another question best answered by our sales staff (same email as #2 above).

Kaine Pritchett, on 12 March 2010 - 09:35 AM, said:

sorry another question - just playing with the demo

wrt to teh facebook application part, however does it handle existing members I trasnfer - i.e. can they log in using their facebook accounts and have it conencted to their existing account? (hope that makes sense)

Kaine

Yes, your users will be able to login using their Facebook account on the login page, and then associate it with an existing user login.

Kaine Pritchett, on 12 March 2010 - 09:46 AM, said:

I take it its easy to set portal as the main page - i.e. domain root defaults to portal rather than the forum?

Do you mean the portal, or an IP.Content page? Either way, the answer is yes. For portal, you edit a constant in initdata.php (which you can't do via the demo of course). With IP.Content, you do the same if your forum is in the root of your domain, else you can use a special index.php we include with the package.

Kaine Pritchett, on 12 March 2010 - 09:51 AM, said:

well so far very good - liking the whole default layout a lot

Am I correct in assuming i can create static pages - i.e. a special FAQ section etc?

Using IP.Content you can create static (or dynamic) pages.

If you only need an FAQ section, you could get away with just replacing out all the help files in IPB and renaming the "Help" page appropriately (view help). I'll assume, however, that the FAQ mention was just an example.

Kaine Pritchett, on 12 March 2010 - 09:59 AM, said:

static pages are added within the 'IP.Content' section of admin - correct? Appears under the 'Pages' tab - I take it the Pages tab can be remained (sorry for all the questions - the demo setup you offer is excellent btw)

Yes, static pages are added using IP.Content. The "Pages" tab just leads you to the "index" page (which you can change). What you would do is add links to your additional custom pages where-ever you want them to show up (i.e. on this "index" page you can link to your other custom static pages, or you could add links directly in your skin templates if you wanted).

You can rename "Pages" under System tab -> Manage applications (edit the IP.Content application, and change the "Public Title").

[Kaine]

Brandon - thanks very much for your detailed response. You already know this of course, but I have to commend you on a very well thought out package (from my point of view anyway)

Will contact sales today

regards,

Kaine

[bfarber]

Kaine Pritchett, on 15 March 2010 - 05:52 AM, said:

Brandon - thanks very much for your detailed response. You already know this of course, but I have to commend you on a very well thought out package (from my point of view anyway)

Will contact sales today

regards,

Kaine

Sounds great.

[Collin1000]

Hopefully you got in touch with Sales, do you have any other questions?
Welcome to IPB!

[Kaine]

Hi Collin - yep, emailed yesterday, however no reply yet - guess their a tad busy

[bfarber]

Usually sales inquiries are responded to pretty quickly. If you don't hear back from us today, I would assume something crossed somewhere. Send me a PM if you don't get a response today.