Collin1000

I might add Brandon, Charles and Collin to that list and second what you have to say.

Robulosity2, on 14 August 2010 - 02:43 AM, said:

You may, but the subject matter of my boards is huge on Twitter.  Once again, if you DON'T WANT IT DON'T USE IT.  

Damn I swear.  Some of you all just b*tch to see yourself b*tch.  Such a shame.  

With replies like that, no wonder there isn't as much participation here as there should be.

I don't understand why everyone is arguing over $5. IPS has clearly made its point that they think this is an unnecessary feature and an overusage of Ajax in the forum. They are not going to change their mind as we have seen in the past 5 pages. Even though the majority of the posters really wanted this functionality added, and only 3 or 4 customers thought it was unnecessary or annoying. If IPS isn't going to make the change and implement this, I would suggest you add it yourself for only $5. It is a feature your members will absolutely love and thank you for it, as it saves so much time when replying to topics daily and in bulk. Not to mention the resources and bandwidth it can save for your server.

This is why I have created a modification for IPB3 that adds Ajax to quick replies. It includes all of the requested features, such as showing all posts made by others after the topic has been loaded and supporting back/forward browser buttons as if it was a normal page load.

Someone in the topic mentioned my mod was laggy while revealing the Ajax post. If you are experiencing slowness with the reveal effect, there are 4 other effects you can choose from, which are not laggy at all, but a little less flashy. It is all up to you.

>>> http://community.inv...ast-reply-v104/ <<<

Features:

• The browser scrolls smoothly to the new posts.
  
• Posts reveal to the user with one of the following built-in effects according to admin input:
  Effect.Shake
  Effect.Appear
  Effect.Pulsate
  Effect.BlindDown
  Effect.Highlight
  
• New posts that have been made after the page has been loaded are highlighted automatically with an effect of your choice.
  
• If the board is set to merge concurrent posts, the pre-merge post is faded out and the post-merge post is revealed.
  
• Support for back/forward browser buttons.
  
• The fast reply textarea is cleared after every successful reply.
  
• Admin CP settings allow disabling ajax fast replies by forum and by group, selecting effect types, fine-tuning the effect parameters, and enabling/disabling this hook.

Demo Video:

ℜ ´, on 29 July 2010 - 08:53 PM, said:

Design is normally what comes at the end of the product development cycle, so I assume there will be plenty of small adjustments and changes there before the final release. Many features you suggest is not likely to happen in the first version. As with all new products it will be fairly basic at first end then added to when the base functions are all bugfree and ready to be built upon.

TCWT, on 29 July 2010 - 08:43 PM, said:

Agree - any OS that is owned by one company is not going to get very far.

To say it is more popular than Iphone and Android is laughable.

But of course Gerry as usual is always correct.

Rewrites from vB's URLs to IPB URLs are actually done with custom scripts that replace showthread.php, showpost.php, and so on. Thread IDs (as well as post IDs, member IDs, and so on) don't stay the same through the conversion, so the scripts look up the new ID and redirect you to the right place.

Since they're PHP scripts instead of redirect rules, they should work regardless of your webserver.

Yes you do, but it's nothing like on vBulletin. Setting permissions for hundreds of forums takes literally just minutes with IP.Board.

I suggest signing up for the demo, then checking out the permission matrix system that IP.Board uses, and you'll find it infinity easier and faster than anything vBulletin offers.

You also have to consider the Users Internet connection. A server may seem slow, but it could just be them

I'm not sure if you want to hear any more opinions, you might have already made your decision but let me give you a designer/coders side of the story.

I've recently converted an old vB 3.8 forum of mine to IPB (composerfocus.com). The conversion tools are fantastic. I set aside a weekend and I got it done in 4 hours.

Design wise working with IPB compared to vB 4 is a dream. I was hired a couple of weeks back to design and code a style for vB 4. It was no cheap job, it was a $2000+ deal, yet I hated every second of it when I moved to coding the skin. Any ambition with the design had to be cut back due to the ridiculous coding framework of vB4. I've seen some coding horrors but this was unbelievable. The whole system is buggy, inconsistent and frankly and embarrassment.  The style wasn't coded with users in mind, let alone for easy customization.

As far as I see it, vB is on a slippery path. The 3.8 series is solid yet a couple of months down the line vB4 is still a mess and communication has broke down. I watched these forums for quite a while before coming to a decision. For me, IPB look to the future and I'd rather put my money into that than IB.

If you're running a forum with all the addons, look at it like this -

Hosted community: $200/year (or $100/year for the basic package)

vs.

IPB renewal: $50/year
IP.Blog renewal: $20/year
IP.Gallery renewal: $20/year
IP.Downloads renewal: $20/year
IP.Content renewal: $30/year
IP.Nexus renewal: $70/year
IP.Chat: $20/year
Cheap hosting: $60/year
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Total: $290/year

Add in the purchase price of the software ($330), and you're not getting such a bad deal anymore.

Even if you're not planning on using it, it's not exactly a ripoff.

DieselMinded, on 27 July 2010 - 05:55 PM, said:

Upload the file (there's a multiple file uploader available), and it's attached at the end of the post or you can tell it where in the post to put it with an [attachment] bbcode.

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This is actually how IPB does it by default.

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That would be doable with a skin edit; I actually just set up a similar system on one of my clients' sites.

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The addons are definitely a huge plus. To be honest, IP.Content is my favorite piece of web software out of everything I've ever used.

Time To Move On^TM

I really don't consider our hosting plans a "rip off" as you put it. You must keep in mind that the hosting plans include:

• The actual server hosting with a performance guarantee up to the average online users posts.
  
• Installed software of all IPS community software products on the advanced plans you're pointing out
  
• Upgrades to all software when it's available.
  
• IP.Chat services
  
• Some plans even include skin design and SSO implementation.

So you are getting quite a bit more than just "here's a hosting account have a nice day" that most hosts are giving you.

However, as you said, you are not even planning on using our hosting so it's probably better for you to focus on the license terms . As for using our services over vB I am sure that recent vB converts will reply to this topic with first-hand information or just look at other topics here in the pre-sale forum.

j.hamley, on 19 July 2010 - 12:19 AM, said:

In terms of your original question let me put it like this. I had 2 boards that ran through to VB 3.6. Towards the end of last year I converted one. By April I had converted the 2nd one. I've not been around the vb boards since the end of last year, however I wanted to start a new project and the cheapest way to get it off the ground was to use my 3.6 vb forum. In turn I upgraded to 4.0.5 to see how it went, seeing as it was discounted to $30. What a joke. There is so much stuff that is built into IPB that is an additional extra in vb that it will cost me lots more if I progress down this road. It's false economy. I will simply start up the process and move across when I can afford it and once the membership has expanded.

Publishing v IP.Content - definitely the latter. Much more versatile, very easy to work with and highly integrated.
Blogs - again I find IPB version much more integrated and I can't actually believe how bad the vb one is in comparison (I used it previously and its not much better in the new version).

IPB has a gallery by default, IPB has a link directory by default, you see where I am coming from. There are still long lists of useful bolt-ons that don't work in the new version and the number of sites sticking with 3.8 instead of upgrading to version 4 reflects this.

In my experience at least its a no-brainer. Look at the number of people coming to IPB from VB and the support they have got. Now do the same in reverse and look at the reception they have got. It speaks for itself.

GodForum.com, on 26 July 2010 - 05:35 PM, said:

Unfortunately that's not a funny comment. It has been tossed around numerous times that IB has not upgraded virtually any of their forums to vB 4, which has been out 10 months. They also give out no information for a roadmap of what to expect, costing their own licenseholders significant time and money doing all the work again every time they upgrade. The sentiment around the watering hole seems to be that they don't really care and costing the competition time and money... and I guess it only helps lower a potential acquisition price.

Carl - IPS Fan, on 26 July 2010 - 12:14 PM, said:

Any chance IB has little motivation to improve VB too much because they are competing with their own customers ?