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Welcome to IP.Board 3.1.0 Beta 1!
Welcome to the latest development version of IP.Board 3.1.0. We're excited to reveal the product we've been working on for the past few months. This build contains all the features we've blogged about recently including the search improvements, Twitter integration, Profile Customization and more.

As always, this is a very early beta build so please expect to find the odd bug here and there. Please report any bugs found into the tracker as usual.

As always, we'd love to hear your feedback. Happy clicking!

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Preview Only: IP.Board 3.1 is in preview only. It is not yet available for download. Keep an eye out for a future announcement.

What's New
Link Sharing
Easily share links from your community to Facebook, Twitter, and more. Great way to drive traffic to your community!

Status Updates
Enhancements to the existing member status system in IP.Board to include the ability to reply and more.

Topic Preview
Preview the first few lines of a topic without loading the entire topic.

View Reputation
Optionally allow your members to see who gave reputation points on their posts.

Twitter Integration
Your members can now link their account with their Twitter account!

Improved Facebook Integration
Further enhance the link between your community and Facebook to drive traffic.

Advertising Code Integration: Part 1 and Part 2
Easily place advertising code throughout your community with simple settings in the admin area.

Profile Customizations: Part 1 and Part 2
Allow your members to customize the look and feel of their profile page.

Skin Upgrader
Upgrading your skin between versions of IP.Board just became a lot easier.

Soft Delete Posts and Topics
Rather than actually deleting a post or topic you can now hide it from view to easily restore it later.

Notification System
An easier way to be notified of all the various events that happen in your community.

Modification Development Enhancements
Great tools for those that create modifications for IP.Board

Hook System Improvements
Improvements to the IP.Board hook system to make it easier for modification developers to expand the functions in the software.

Search Engine Optimization: Part 1 and Part 2
Allow search engines to better index and rank your community in results.

Search Engine Overhaul
Search engine rebuilt from the ground up introducing more flexibility and power.

The problem with that is then the warez kiddies can find information too.

P2P forums that are under lock and key is a good thing in my opinion... now, if they could figure out how to get their search to work like Google, then they would be on to something..

I do understand where you're coming from because like yourself I like searching and finding things rather than bother people with something that has been asked over and over again....

Jamie

The search is vastly improved in 3.1 which we'll use here as soon as we can.

We used to have the P2P forums open for everyone a while ago and it was a very unpopular decision based on the feedback of our paying customers. Most of them didn't like that those who chose not to renew their licenses are able to access the same level of forum support as the ones that do. This was the feedback we received from our community.

finally, thx for response,
@Mark allthow your response is an official one it is very unclear, maybe  or maybe not.. nothing to understand about that
@Josh -  i like very much your opinion and i am perfect ok with that, all thow in my opinion  social groups are not braking apart the community ,  it gives the power to those who want to have a subforum , peoples with commun interests.
@Jυra- it is true, but also is true that no member who is part of a social groups is just interested there, and not in other groups of the main forum
We humans share many comun interest, as my self, i like sports,science,internet development,making the world a better place an so on, so you see, if i will have a social group called boxing, this not means that i am not interested in the main forum or another group.
To be more clear, social groups does not break apart your forum/community, it just completes it.

- as i wrote above, my main concern with mods developed by individuals is that i will have no guarantee whatsoever that i will have updates  and bug fixes, am i right?
that is a main problem when choosing between vb and ipb,
i hope ipb will give me the tools in order to make my community better

ghyghty, on 18 March 2010 - 06:05 AM, said:

I made it clear it was my personal opinion. And let's not get silly and try and claim that we can only use the term 'community' if we have social groups. Social groups are just one feature that might make up a community. We have dozens of other things too.

@ Rikki , are you an ipb official?  please tell me, if you are, it means i can throw away my ipb license, if this is the official response, and the official understand of a community here, i give up..
did you know what a community means?
did you know what the title of the  invision power website is?
"Invision Power - Community Forum, Blog, Gallery, CMS, and more - We are community experts"..

Please, but please confirm or infirm that your opinion is an official one, if so i give away my ipb license ( free/no charge)

I know that I grumble once in awhile, but it's time to give credit where it's due. IPS has great products and great support personnel. This latest board (3.0.5) is just incredible and the ACP has been redesigned for ease of use, even with a bunch of new features. The IPS support staff (I know I'll leave somebody out) - Josh, Jason, Michael, Mark, Matt, bfarber(Brandon?), Charles, Debbie, and others are the best you can get. A sincere thanks!