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KT Walrus, on 10 June 2011 - 12:44 PM, said:

Problem with this is that the cloning system will then be only useful when you are making a lot of forums, 3 weeks down the row you will forget what was the last recorded settings.
With the method I provided 3 weeks down the row if I need to make a new forum it would take me 2 seconds because I get to chose which to clone.

Nick², on 18 January 2010 - 02:26 PM, said:

You right, it was my mistake not trying the Demo first, but thats in the past now. Whats present is me trying to get my money back for a product im not going to use because it sucks.


Edit: And whos the stupid butthole surfer who keeps putting my posts as negative. Honestly.

I bought the blog mod only to find out its nothing what i thought it was. When i requested a refund, i get bombarded with "we cant do that for you" crap.



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Like wow, i just want my 50 bucks back and its leading to be so difficult. I never thought IPS would have this kind of problem. Normally any other Company goes, okay, your not satisfied, thats alright, we WILL give you back the money. The real drag is... i thought IPS was all about Customers, no?


What do you all think about this?

Manual Instructions
For power users who wish to manually patch their installations. Most users can ignore this information.


File: admin/sources/loginauth/openid/auth.php
Line: 371

if( $check['email'] )
		{
			$this->member_data = IPSMember::load( $check['email'], 'extendedProfile,groups' );
		}
		else
		{
			$this->member_data = array( 'member_id' => 0 );
		}

OpenID Security Update for IP.Board 3.0.2

We are investigating issues related to OpenID not completely authenticating data which can result in the security of your community being compromised. This issue can only impact your community if you have enabled OpenID logins as the OpenID is disabled when IPS ships IP.Board releases.

Protecting Your IP.Board

There are two methods to protect your community.

Method 1: Disable OpenID

The easiest fix is to simply disable OpenID logins. These login systems are disabled by default in IP.Board so unless you have specifically turned on OpenID you are already protected. This screen shot shows you what to look for in your AdminCP:

• Click "Log In Management" in the AdminCP
  
• Look for OpenID in the list. If there is already a red "X" then OpenID is disabled and your community is safe from this issue.
  
• If you see a green check: disable OpenID by clicking the drop-down menu to the right, edit details, and set "Log In Enabled" to "No"

If OpenID is disabled and you do not use/need this login method you do not need to do anything further.


Method 2: Upload Source File

If OpenID is in use in your community and you need to keep it enabled simply upload the attached file to your forums directory. The path is included in the zip file and it is just one file.

 260809.zip   5.17K   5430 downloads





Support services note: as this update is a single-file update or the issue can be eliminated by simply disabling OpenID in the AdminCP we do request that clients apply either the setting or file fix themselves if possible. The 3.0.2 download has been updated as of the time of this announcement.

• Find all posts by member X in this topic
• Allow members to choose their own order for forum categories (perhaps by drag and drop via a new area of 'Your Settings')
• Individual 'Post Edit History' for moderators and admins - like on Wikipedia
• If a member has set their gender to female - use a female silhouette as the default personal picture.

When it Reday

Sort of like you can friend someone or watch a topic, click on a post to mark it as a favorite.  Then when you want to recall a post for some reason, you can look through your favorites.  Mark it for any reason, helpful information, funny joke, interesting topic, etc.

We are pleased to announce Community Content System 1.0.1 has been released.

This is a maintenance release for Community Content System to fix bugs reported from the 1.0.0 release. There are no new features in this release. New features will be introduced based on client feedback in the next release cycle.


Downloading

You can download CCS 1.0.1 if you have an active license in the client area. As always, make a backup of your community before proceeding.




Pricing

The introductory price of $35 is still valid for this release. Act now to secure this lower pricing. The price will go up in future releases with enhanced feature sets.

More Information

See the original announcement for more information on CCS.

The holy grail of community-centric CMS systems is the total integration of community and content. Poorly integrated systems like Joomla/Wordpress/Drupal with IPS/Vbulletin etc is inevitably a technological dead-end. I have wasted my time with many iterations of these integrations and inevitably every one of them gets abandonded.

CCS will probably be thin on features in the short term but ultimately it will be the only solution that makes sense over the long term - a fully integrated CMS/forum.

I'm going to have to disagree with you on Joomla too. What a POS that is. The admin is a nightmare and when I worked with it last year I found that it had a lot of bugs. Drupal is really a better CMS and I've been using Expression Engine which is very nice for certain kinds of sites.

We are pleased to announce our new Spam Monitoring Service

Our new Spam Monitoring Service will assist with the ever-growing problem of spam account registrations on communities across the web. This service will use a central database, hosted by IPS, to track those that may try to register an account on your IP.Board-powered community and stop them from registering.


How it Works

Each time a user tries to register, your IP.Board will contact the service and report the IP address and email address attempting to register. The service will scan a list of known spammers and give the account a score of 1 - 4. There are various options you can configure to control what behavior happens based on the score such as banning the account, letting it through normally, or queuing it for approval.

By harnessing the power of the many thousands of IP.Board communities, the service can "learn" over time what accounts are spammers. For example, a real human could never register on 5 IP.Board communities in just one minute so the service would see that account as a probable spam account.

The service will also monitor the "mark as spam" feature now included in IP.Board. This means that, as you and your moderators manually mark an account as a spammer, the information is reported back to the service to help stop those accounts on your community and other IP.Board communities as well!

Through these methods we are creating a service that learns from the collective data gathered from all IP.Board communities who choose to participate in the Spam Monitoring Service.



Privacy

IPS will collect various registration information to track and catch spam accounts. Information that is not from a spammer is only kept temporarily (to detect trends so we can catch spam accounts) then deleted. The only information permanently kept is for those known to be spammers. The service is completely optional and no IP.Board is required to participate.

Activating the Service

The Spam Monitoring Service will be available in IP.Board 3.0.2 and is already being tested here on the IPS company forums. Once you have IP.Board 3.0.2, simply login to the IPS client area and activate a special key used for the service and put that key on your IP.Board AdminCP.


Pricing

To further our continuing efforts to not only enhance the products we offer but also the services around those products: this service will be offered at no additional charge to those with an active support and service license for IP.Board and for IPS hosting customers!

We are (extremely) pleased to announce the first release candidate of Invision Power Board 3.0.0 is now available.

This is the first release candidate release so please take a moment and read this entire announcement before downloading. Everyone here at IPS is very excited to reach this milestone of development and we look forward to working with everyone to sort out any remaining issues that crop up during the RC stage so we can quickly move to the final release.

The release candidates for IP.Blog, IP.Gallery, and IP.Downloads will be available in about a week.


What is a Release Candidate?

A release candidate is a version of the software between the beta phase and a final release. With the first release candidate of IP.Board 3.0.0 you can safely assume that we consider the software stable enough to use on your live community. There will be bugs and issues but it is our belief that any issues that come up should not impact your overall ability to manage your community. Keep this in mind as you make your decision to upgrade to IP.Board 3.0.0 RC1 and only upgrade if you are comfortable working around any possible issues that are present. We will of course fix any issues that come up in IP.Board 3.0.0's final release.


Technical Support and Service

IP.Board 3.0.0 RC 1 can be considered safe to use on a live site but it is not quite the final version of the software just yet. We want to give those comfortable upgrading to an RC release the chance to do so and report issues before we encourage everyone to upgrade. Technical support and service is not offered during the RC stage but of course will be available when the final version is announced.




Download IP.Board 3.0.0 RC 1

To download, log in to your client area. You will see the RC download information by clicking into your downloads. As stated above, technical support is not available so please only download if you are comfortable testing software.

IPS Hosting clients: a build of RC 1 for your use will appear in the client area soon. Sorry about the delay there.