Mark

What you're talking about sounds like "Single sign-on" (sharing the same userbase across multiple forums) which, I think, is a different prospect altogether; what IPS are doing is making the "community" the top-level application with a *single* forum, gallery, blog, store, etc. underneath it - as opposed to the "community" app supporting multiple *same* child apps.

The change means that you no longer *have* to use forums, you can just run blogs on their own, or have a shop (without forums) - but still only a single instance.

If you want multiple forums, shops, blog sites, etc. you'll still need a community licence and product license for each site.

Of course I defer to the IP staff if I've got it wrong ...

Cheers,
Shaun

I very much like this change of perspective that forum is no longer the center of the universe. This can only bring good, in the form of innovation. I would not be surprised if this change will bring a new group of customers to IPS, with fresh needs and a different perspective.
For example, it means that Ip.Nexus can grow to a full on e-commerce platform rivaling major webshop software. Putting IP.N in direct competition will lead to more sales and more innovation. The same may happen for blog & CMS, as AWS mentioned above.

Absolutely very positive and inviting growth.

I like the way this is going. The ability to buy the suite and content or suite and blog is the best thing that I've heard in a while. I can buy suite plus blog and convert my blog from WP. Then in the future if I want to add a forum I can buy that and plug it in. I see nothing but positive from this and will only put IPB even further ahead of competitors.

.time, on 23 May 2012 - 12:09 PM, said:

I think it's a rather great move.  People who didn't want to buy the board app but wanted to get another app can do that now without spending extra money for nothing.  I can only imagine that there are some people who have held off on making a purchase because of this.  So being able to do something like Nexus only ($100 + $75 = $175), they're saving $75 by not having to purchase IPB at the same time.  Then if they decide to get IPB, they can add it on.

Since IPB has been the core product for so long, I'm sure it'll continue to get a high amount of attention, so I'm not worried about its quality degrading at all.

Hi,

I always thought that IP.Chat was an for what's it's  worth overpriced chat add-on that runs on your own server, and with multiple available alternatives without any user restrictions.  I'm not sure why I thought that, but after reading the description from the product site again I realized that it's not your overall chat add-on, but a hosting service.

I have thought about this since and came to the conclusion that IP.Chat is pretty awesome. If it's true that it runs on IPS' servers it would mean that even people with a shared hosting plan can offer their users a chat. $20 per year for 20 users is pretty affordable.

Putting this aside, I fail to see how IP.Chat can work how it's advertised. I mean IP.Chat claims to use the own database of users and admins can maintain the chat like it was hosted on their own server. But how is this possible? When the chat is hosted on a foreign server how can this server have access to the database? Doesn't it have to query the local database all the time?

Yesterday morning I upgraded my 3.2.3 board to 3.3.2 with all the latest addons. Even though I waited for a couple of maintenance releases before upgrading to a new major version there were some issues and questions raised.

This resulted in 7 support tickets which in turn resulted in a couple of problems solved by IPS, three resulting bug reports in the Tracker and the rest I could solve myself after getting the solution from IPS and/or being pointed.in the right direction.

So what I am saying is that after less than 24 hours I have been able to get not only quick but also very precise support which has made my board the way I want it to be. Many thanks for the great support and also the great product upgrades. Looking forward to what's coming next

An invoice is "this is what we want you to pay". It is a request for payment, not a demand and not legally binding. If generating said invoice causes financial difficulties for you under your country's laws, I can't see how IPS can be responsible.

If I'm a car salesman, and you agree to buy a car from me, I will write you an invoice. You have no legal requirement to pay the money; you can still walk away. If I decided to print all invoices on gold leaf paper, making them very expensive for me, the situation doesn't change - I could still get 100 people coming through the door, agreeing to purchase, getting some gold leaf, and leaving my store, bankrupting me.

An invoice must be issued prior to any payment; the invoice is the bill. If that invoice costs you money to produce, then that's unfortunate, but not something that IPS are doing wrong.

You guys are just getting caught up on a name here

We call it an "invoice" at that point. Whatever you call it though at that point it's a record of the unpaid order. You can call it "order record" or whatever you like but all it is at that point is an invoice for service. If you actually pay it then it turns into an active service of course.

Regardless it's just a term. If the word invoice causes you this much angst then, as Mark suggested, just rename it in the language files

Your quoting of laws, saying it's a German thing, etc. is really basically wrong when, again, it's just terminology.

since my post is obviously being lost amongst a sea of people in a urinary olympia over who has more forum users and also arguing about $2... where do i go to log my legitimate bug?

Lindy, on 04 May 2012 - 11:31 PM, said:

As the nearest milkshake is 75km's away $2 is nothing. I bought it to see what you had done one thing would be that the VNC be put onto the nav bar it is something everyone uses all the time to click the menu then click VNC is not difficult but a one click betterer.

It is much better than browsing via a web page fer sher!

Hotmail is blocking emails from themselves. People add me on MSN via Hotmail and these get emailed to me as invites. Where do these invites go? The spam folder.

IP.Board comes with a mobile skin. Nobody is asking your users to pay for mobile access.

The app is an optional extra.

...IPS has sold paid software with quality support for years. How is a mobile application any different?

Well I'll be dipped in dawgsh*t...

Thanks fellows.

Its under Nexus: Store Settings: Store & Client Area Settings:  Shipping:  Tracking URLs

The default is:

Fedex~http://www.fedex.com/Tracking?tracknumber_list={NUMBER}
UPS~http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/track?trackNums={NUMBER}
USPS~https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction.action?tLabels={NUMBER}
Royal Mail~http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/track?trackNumber={NUMBER}

But you can just change it to something like this:

Fedex~http://www.fedex.com/Tracking?tracknumber_list={NUMBER}
UPS~http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/track?trackNums={NUMBER}
USPS~https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction.action?tLabels={NUMBER}
Royal Mail~http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/track?trackNumber={NUMBER}
Other~http://www.someothershippingmethod.com/trackingnumberscript={NUMBER}