Klisis

DarkGizmo, on 17 August 2010 - 03:02 PM, said:

PHP allows about 20 concurrent connections at once before all hell breaks loose and it freezes up and breaks. This means, that after about 15 or 20 users join your chat, it will explode into thousands of errors. Also, with that many users, you would be running one hell of a lot of MySQL database queries, which at some point, would explode too.

Then you throw in constant ajax refreshing (I mean its not a chatroom if it doesn't update often...) and you've broken your server, been shut down, and been kicked off your hosting. IPS has therefore been baned from that server, all because you installed that chat on your server.

Also, IPS has a custom backend on their server, which is what the chat runs off. Its not as simple as just adding some PHP and MySQL and AJAX and [emeril_live_style]Bam[/emeril_live_style] you've got a chatroom. Hell, I'm not even sure they use PHP. Its not something they can release for the masses to use on their own. (especially since it would end up being another pirated product).

If they did release it, it wouldn't be a fair release at all. You have to think about all of those people on their shared servers. This is something that requires one massive server setup to run, and very few people have the resources to do so. Its easier to let a different company handle it. Also, most other chat services don't let you install their source code on your server, its almost always exactly like IPS's (although maybe a bit more uptime).

If you don't belive me that a chatroom on your server can bring it to its knees, then PM me and you can try running the one I made, and see how long you can last.

We don't have any immediate plans to include AJAX Quick Reply, certainly not in 3.1 anyway.

Have you noticed almost every board that upgrades to 3.0 is suffering from a downturn in visits, lack of activity on the forums compared to previous, forum members not understanding why they made such a change. Well I have, well I can't say every one for sure but I've kept an eye on more than 30 forums that have upgraded and not a single upgrade has been successful. This has only been a problem since the move to 3.0, and the totally unspiring skin all forum owners have had to try and work with.

It was my concern well over a year ago and I tried to this through to you in beta stages but nothing happened. You MUST make a better more accessible skin, that is fast loading, easy on the eye and skinable for those without tons of knowledge.

I have stuck with 2.3.6 and it looks like I will for the foreseeable future until something gets sorted out. May we have to wait till 4.0 now until something is done??? Sorry for the outburst but it needs to be said (again).  

texterted, on 19 January 2010 - 02:09 PM, said:

Opposite, ive made my point and i just wanted to reply to those who "laughed" at me apparently for making this thread.


... And i have moved on.

Mat (FDNZ), on 03 December 2009 - 12:37 AM, said:

Actually, you're incorrect. IP.Shoutbox is an official IPS release and it's released by IPS Resources. Check out the information at IPS Resources. I'm just not bothering with either of these releases because of the problems I'm having with their installs. It's really bothersome that I've had these problems with installing these addons.

Lindy, on 23 October 2009 - 08:27 PM, said:

mmmhhhh, this is a point, which is now very important for ex-vb users. We are "burned" by the new vbulletin policy. Because our old licences are not worth a lot anymore after vb stopped upgrades and only sells now new licences for old users for 175 USD (instead of upgrades before that for 40 USD or 60 USD.)

The value of a used vb-licence was always one of the factors, why we were willing to pay that high prices. If IPB basically eliminates every possibility to sell a licence after someone decided not to use it anymore, this is difficult. Then again our money is kind of locked in forever.

With 25+ licences, we are talking about a heavy investment. I just lost over night with vb already a fortune with all my expired licences and no cheap upgrade possibility. So I am quite cautious in this issue.

So I would suggest, that you think about this policy again to be able to attract even more vb users

Μichael, on 21 October 2009 - 07:28 AM, said:

No, he brings up a very good point. I'm planning on using IP.Board for my next version of my website which I'm currently working on with IP.Content. However, I'm using PHPBB3.0 on my current site and I've always found PHPBB super easy to upgrade. I download a small upgrade package and then run the update from the admin backend and it's done in just a few minutes.

Uploading 2,500 files isn't very efficient, especially when the FREE competition is able to do it faster and easier.

Now I understand that changes have to be made to the core codebase whenever a new version of IPB is written. But in the last couple of updates (3.0.3 and now 3.0.4) I have had skins that I have developed during the 3.0.1 era break completely on me, because of deprecated skin code and a complete disregard of the skin's CSS on browsers (possibly as a result of deprecated skin code). Now, as I have worked very hard on my unique themes and they are vastly different from the IPB default skin, simply implementing the Skin Differences published is easier said than done, nor should I expect to constantly update my skins in this manner.

I was led to believe that when 3.0.0 was released, that custom skins could be created without fear of them breaking in future releases. This has turned out to be a false belief. Skins made the second a brand new version is released should be supported 100% until the very end of that version's life cycle. If nothing else, I would expect the money I paid for this software (and services) to reflect this, considering I have no time in my life now to micro-manage my skins whenever an incremental update comes out.

IPS, figure out where you want to be with your skin design and stick to it, please! Stop changing your mind every twenty seconds and invalidating my custom skins. I would like some confirmation that this issue will not occur again in future updates, otherwise I might as well just not make skins for my forums again (what would be the point?).

Regards,
Svend Joscelyne.

You know, 14 hours is far too long to just let a ticket go without even bothering to respond to it.
Of course, during that time, I was able to find and handle the issue myself, but if this is the typical 'response time', I'll find somewhere else to take my business.

I'm not an impatient guy, 4-5 hours is reasonable, at least as long as things are submitted during business hours (which this was), but 14 hours is pushing it.
Even better? A second reply took 45 minutes or less. Kinda ironic.

The moral of the story? DON'T keep your customer waiting. If they open a ticket, they deserve a non automated reply, same business day, urgent or not.

I really don't give a hoot if he's right (not in my book he wasn't), being patronised by a user who has no connection to IPS isn't going to impress me. If I had wanted to post a bug report I would have, but the fact is people don't look at those and the title of this forum section is entitled "IPS Company Feedback > IP.Board" is it not? Did I not provide feedback or am I wasting my time? Not sure why you'd let casual users patronise another user when all he was doing was "providing feedback".

IPS Staff: I hate to say this but the IPS Upgrades are becoming a real inconvenient Annoyance.

What am I talking about? Everytime there is a service update to IPB (2.0.1, 3.0.2, etc) the upgrade creates havok with the hooks that I have installed. Not only do I have to disable the hooks, but, they have to be un-installed and then re-installed. The upgrades are not anticipating already installed hooks and adjusting for them and it's becoming an annoyance.

Does IPS plan on fixing this problem or is this going to be a regular 'romp and stomp' action with every upgrade/update? For one, I would love to see this corrected.

To buy a IPB blog requires you to buy a IPB board? WOW that's just a waste of money.

Now that's a total of $200.00. WOW you guys are trying to make money off from us.