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Legacy Clients

Lifetime and Perpetual license holders should see the IP.Board 3.0.2 release announcement for updated information.

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!

I was thinking perhaps you guys can make a board like IFSZ does (Invision Free Skin Zone), and they have a board full of skins. Like Graphic Contests, and much more. Resources boards can be made for modifications, etc.

bfarber, on 15 July 2009 - 01:13 PM, said:

To be fair, I did say "most", as I know not every bug can be fixed for any given version.  I know you guys will pull the trigger at some point, even with 'x' number of outstanding bugs.  I know many people are waiting for some of the bug fixes in 3.0.1 (including me), so if I had to guess it would be sooner than later.  

..Al

Well, if you want "most" bugs fixed we're already there.

There's around 50 open bugs roughly (not counting FFFV reports) and 241 fixed bugs in 3.0.1.

bfarber, on 15 July 2009 - 03:39 PM, said:

Yeah, I looked at that list as well, it is impressive (and I gave you kudos several days ago for all the bugs you've been fixing!)   You have my blessing to push out 3.0.1 so I can work on it this weekend.  

..Al

Rolling out 3.0.1 with the current fixes would be nice, as I have time to do the updates this weekend.

I think that there will obviously be a 3.0.2 coming along quickly as well (like in August at this point), so I'm for a 3.0.1 coming out this week as well (like on Friday).  That way we can test it out, report back any new bugs and so a lot of people can relax about the who search issue and such.

More than likely it will be tomorrow.

HaZuuKaa, on 15 July 2009 - 02:29 AM, said:

Considering a winner hasn't even been chosen yet, I doubt that will be the case.

just try it and surprised that it is not using ajax? discussed before ?

I'd love to see it for the weekend so I can work on it and test it locally, but I would not expect it by then either.  Next week is more realistic.

  ..Al

I doubt it. Since they actually have to support these releases, I think they'll update on Tuesday. If they release it on a Thursday or Friday, they'll get a huge backlog of support tickets and bug reports. Instead of letting it soak here over the weekend, and do the final finishing touches on Monday, and release it the next day.

We are pleased to announce the first release candidates of IP.Blog, IP.Gallery, and IP.Downloads for IP.Board 3.0.0 are now available.

What is a Release Candidate?

A release candidate is a version of the software between the beta phase and a final release. With the release candidate of these applications, 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 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 the final release.


Technical Support and Service

These release candidates 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.




Downloading

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.

chasz, on 27 May 2009 - 04:11 AM, said:

What are you talking about?