Morrigan

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Gerry 5039, on 23 May 2012 - 02:13 PM, said:

Wasn't this always the case?

I've been wanting this change for SO long!.. Finally be able to run IP.Content solo!

Yes and the same renewal rates and 6-month cycle as now will be unchanged.

We're certainly not changing to a monthly renewal structure or anything like that

Posts will continue getting trashed like this until IPS either implement the native BBCode mode for CKEditor, or (my vastly preferred option) restore the option of using IPS's home-grown standard editor as seen in 3.1. No amount of bug fixing is going to cure the underlying cause of converting back and forth between HTML and BBCode within the editor.

I hope a final solution for this is already under development for IPB 3.4.

<p>1. When I toggle off the fancy mode I still want to click BBcode buttons, but they&#39;re all faded out.<br />
2. It should be easier to remove or hide icons from the editor like the code button on a forum that doesn&#39;t have a use for it. Maybe someone only wants to display the basics as opposed to a Las Vegas casino.</p>
<p>3. Changing the link title in fancy mode isn&#39;t easy or user friendly. I find myself switching off fancy mode to edit it.</p>
<p>4. A way to turn off the copy and paste copying of the text size and font, etc.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The current editor is like sticking plastic lawn chairs (the editor) in a Bugatti Veyron (IPB). I&#39;d rather have an editor hand crafted by IPS.</p>

I tried posting this after switching on and off the editing mode and it didn't show the topic. I hit back to copy my text to repost and I get the HTML stuff. My third time trying to post this.

Along these lines... do not FREQUENTLY turn your board offline. If you are doing maintenance, in which turning the board offline is necessary, then keep it offline until you know you are done. Turning them offline, then back online, then offline again because you found something else, etc is frustrating for your memberbase, and can have a larger negative impact then just keeping it offline for a prolonged period of time.

And, on that note, always notify your members first before turning the board offline for anything longer than 15-30 minutes, and schedule a time to do so. That way they simply know that the site won't be available within that timeframe and will be less frustrated about that fact.

Marcher Technologies, on 18 September 2011 - 02:37 PM, said:

I've considered it, but notwithstanding the technical challenges of showing content from multiple database tables mashed up in a profile...most article/database content is 'site-owned', not really user-owned, which is why I've not really traditionally felt a huge need to show it in the user profiles.

I don't know when it disappeared, but I really wish it'd come back to the front page sidebar. I watch content as a way to easily reference topics (ones I respond to, ones that have similar issues [with or without solutions], etc) and it was very convenient to be able to scroll through my watched content on the front page.

Why would you like to know who have read a topic, isn't it enough to know how many have read?
Which topics individual members have read should be a private matter.
I really dislike these 'spy' functions in IPB. Who have visited the profile, what members are doing etc.

You already can do this, and have been able to since 3.0.0.  Just edit the bbcode in the BBCode Management page and select which groups can use it.

When IP.Board 3.0 came out, I worked hard on making sure I could convert as many of my old mods to the new setup, and seeing if they could all be done with zero file/skin edits.  I was largely successful, but even at the point we're at now with the 3.1 series getting ready to be replaced, there are several old mods of mine I still have no means of upgrading.  After reading through the blog entries of the new updates for the Hooks and Apps system and seeing not a whole lot I think the resource community has been asking for or can make use of, I wanted to give you a rundown on the big issues that are roadblocking the mod upgrades I still have not been able to accomplish.

Admin CP Hooks
We need to have some way to write hooks for the Admin side.  We can make Admin-only applications, but there isn't any way to hook into the Admin section.  Things like template hook, skin overloaders, data hooks, etc., would be a means to allow new development to take place there.

Mods of mine I can't upgrade because of this limitation:

• Ban Filter Reasons
  
• Reorder Emoticons

Intercepting the member creation/updating process
Sometimes it would be nice if we could hook into the IPSMember functions to do things when members are created/saved.  We might want to ensure certain things are set the way we like when a new member is created on our site.  Just some way to get access to those fields before there are inserted/updated would be nice.

Mods of mine I can't upgrade because of this limitation:

• Default Signature
  
• Require Birthdate at Registration

Set our own parser flags
There are a ton of places where the bbcode parser is used, and the various flags being set on whether things like bbcode, smilies, html, etc., can be used is hard-coded.  It would be very nice if we could define for certain instances of the parser whether we wanted to allow things to parse or not.  Of course, setting a default value on these is fine, but it would be handy if we could overload those when we wanted.

Mods of mine I can't upgrade because of this limitation:

• HTML Signature Permissions

Robust custom installer for hooks
You gave us the option to run a custom installer script for hooks, and that is very cool.  But it is also very limited in what we can do with it.  It basically just lets us run a bit of PHP code that has to execute in a single page load.  That is fine for small things, but what if we have a hook that needs to update something for every member of a 10,000 member forum?  I'd like to see a way we could have a custom installer for our hooks that allowed us to perform loops of actions over multiple page loads.

Mods of mine I can't upgrade because of this limitation:

• Number of Topics Started

Thanks for taking the time to look at these requests.  I encourage other mod authors to add their thoughts to this.  Of course, none of this will make it into IP.Board 3.2 at this point, but it would be nice if IPS would consider these things for a future version.

Morrigan, on 20 January 2011 - 02:43 PM, said:

I totally agree with you. As I mentioned above most of the members who ask me to delete their account end up re registering later on.

All they have to do is adjust their notification options and that will do everything for them.

I tell them no.
If they don't wanna use the board they can put on their big girl panties and just NOT USE THE BOARD.

I will go in and change their e-mail to username.noemail@getalife.com so no one will be able to contact them thru the board.
And I will delete any other personal info in their profile.

If they stay away for 12 months they will fall into the inactive users group.