Amy T

Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Board 3.2.3, IP.Calendar 3.2.2, IP.Downloads 2.4.2, and IP.Content 2.2.2!

These are maintenance releases after our highly anticipated release of IP.Board 3.2 and its related applications. These releases fix many reported issues.

We are releasing the following new software:


IP.Board 3.2.3
Fully featured community platform including forums, members profiles, status system, integration, and much, much more.


IP.Calendar 3.2.2
Event calendar for your community with multiple calendars, public/private events, and iCal support.


IP.Downloads 2.4.2
Complete file management application including file version control, commenting, and forum topic linking.


IP.Content 2.2.2
Content management for your community - run a full web site or a simple community portal. The possibilities are endless.




What's New

In addition to many fixes for reported issues, the following changes have been made:

• IP.Content: WYSIWYG fields now allow you to configure how to handle line breaks when HTML is accepted
  
• IP.Calendar: Users can now un-RSVP themselves from events
  
• IP.Board: HTML emails
  
• IP.Board: URL photo import
  
• IP.Board: Autosave and editor live-switching in ACP

Since the release of IP.Board 3.2 a few months ago, our immediate focus has been on fixing the bugs that have been reported and making fairly frequent releases to our customers. We're thrilled that IP.Board 3.2 has been a huge success and we've received a lot of feedback which we've enjoyed reading.

Now that the initial wave of bug fixes have...

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We will see tags in the next IP.Content version - it is the most important addition in my eyes.

As for custom tag fields per-database (i.e. ability to create 'tag' fields at will), I'm not positive if this is even technically possible with the tag architecture in IP.Board.  You have to create an extensions file to define the tag definition, and I'd have to see if there were some way we could trick that process.

The day IPB becomes like Facebook is the day I switch to different forum software.

3DKiwi

If I understand the OP correctly;
If people want blogs, they'll go to Blogger or Blogspot,
If they want Flickr, they'll go to Flickr,
and if they want social networking, they'll go to Twitter or Facebook.

My opinion;
Forum software hasn't changed in a decade, for all intents and purposes. No one has done anything other than try to cash in on whatever else seems to be popular. Maybe a little innovating on what it is forums do and a little less imitating of what works for others.

Wanting to add two or three pages should not cost fifty bucks.

always thought the help system could be extended fairly easy to provide a lowkey admin only sort of custom page feature for those who dont want to go ipcontent

That's exactly what IP.Content does

Possible with IP.Content (just saying)

I understand that removing features is always hard but the fact that there's only a few customers complaining over these removed items tells me we chose the right direction to go.

I also understand that change is never easy for some to accept. But if we just churned out the same product year after year then we'd quickly become a dinosaur just like UBB and others have.

We pride ourselves on listening to our customers and using that as a strong foundation for our direction and 3.2 is no exception. We listened carefully to what people have been saying over the last 18 months and almost all have asked for a cleaner, simpler product - and I feel we've delivered that without compromising on power or ability.

Online/offline indicator, topic descriptions and other minor iconography aren't massive things in the grand scheme and as others have noted, our wonderful modifications community have already stepped in. This is a win-win: we streamline the product's interface (nothing to do with code bloat) and encourage our ecosystem to flourish. I honestly haven't seen the modification's community this invigorated for a while, so that's amazing to see.

Amy T, on 19 June 2011 - 11:19 AM, said:

...and they still exist - there is a bug here preventing them from showing on topic page.

I don't know where I've ever said "if you lost a feature you wanted, then you should make a hook for it".  The resource community here, people like myself, are the ones making hooks.  I understand it's not something anyone can just jump right into, and if I ever implied that anyone who lost a feature they depend on has to write their own hook to bring it back, I apologize.

I've tried personally to not only release hooks for some of these features lost, but have helped several others who were getting into hook making do the same.  If these efforts of mine are not appreciated, I'll stop, I've got other things I can devote my time to.

Ikadon, on 19 June 2011 - 04:20 AM, said:

I never claimed they were, and I'm frankly getting tired of people putting words in my mouth.  No, they're not the same, but topic descriptions are, for the most part, worthless.  You only ever see them in the list of topics in a forum, and at the top of the topic view page, they're not searchable, and they do little to add to any description of the topic (as your own example perfectly demonstrated).  If they are so overwhelmingly important to you, don't upgrade, because the new version won't have them, simple as that.

These arguments are getting silly.  People are panicking about features being lost, but it's no different than the feature never being there in the first place.  "I've gotta have feature X and it's not in the product!"  So, hire someone to develop that for you.  The only difference with these things being lost is that they were in the product, found to not be used or useful to most customers, and are being phased out.  Sorry to those who this affects, but IPS has to develop software to please the majority of their customers, they cannot make something that every one of you gets exactly what they need out of it.

And look at that, I managed to retort without once using an "it's bloat"-argument.

I completely agree with Matt on the points he's made. All things that were done is logical to me.

I would like to make a note about the forum rules:

People should be reading these rules when they register anyway. It really doesn't need to be a prominent link. Besides on most popular forums these rules are usually generic and forum-specific rules end up in a pinned topic ("Read Before Posting", etc...). Besides if it is that important to you edit the skin. Most good forums have their own custom skin anyway... I'm sure the navigation in most cases is customized anyway.

It can be done in the Admin CP.  Just find the member in the Members tab, go to their edit page, and look for the 'delete all posts' option in the Actions dropdown.

It is based on your resolution, I see 6 per page in each block: