Ryan R

http://community.inv...-24-ipboard-3x/

Choice is the key function here.

While folks like you (Michael) who help a lot of people and receive a lot of rep could get tired of all the notifications, it could really make someone else's day, week month or year. As long as no one is forced to endure excessive notifications, it should be all good.

We all know the vast majority of users never post. A smaller group posts rarely. A very small group posts regularly. This is not really for the regular posters as much as an encouragement to get the wallflowers to post more frequently and maybe to get some to post at all.

I released a basic "like" hook on my blog here: http://blog.mattmecham.com

Anthony., on 11 October 2010 - 11:39 AM, said:

I think Facebook has 500m users for many reasons but not solely because of a single feature be that a 'like' link or any other minor feature.

Giri Fox, on 08 October 2010 - 09:43 AM, said:

I think you have nailed it, xF offers a crisp clean design that does exactly what you would expect it to do.   This cleanness does make xF 'addicting' but don't everyone want their guest/members to find your site addicting?  


I have found myself in tweaking my IPB install removing things that cause clutter..  Buttons that aren't active because you're not logged in, language changer when only one language present, the entire footer of the wrapper, etc..

I have added sometimes I thought would be useful, but am finding that it's just adding clutter...  so I will be removing them soon.

My ideal thing it to have the team here see that xF will hit some marks and will work in some areas..  use them to push this platform forward.  (ie: Images!    )     Cleaning up the design like Matt has already hinted at before xF came out.  And lastly building this on top of the already solid core and making it all work together with all the apps..  

While I am at it..  there is already an undertone of Xen Xen Xen and this will bring out the people here that will get upset at all the Xen topics..    It's my hope that this community can see with any new player on the market there are going to be many topics of this nature, and that doesn't mean people want IPB to copy xF...   for me it just means I want IPB to continue to push forward and to for the lack of better words..  rip anything that is great in another platform and work it into IPB..  This only HELPS IPB grow through great ideas..  it doesn't matter where the idea came from.  

So let's not 'draw lines in the sand'    let's step up a community and support each others wants and needs and if we don't want or need that feature, we'll just move on.  Each community, each admin is different.  I love IPB and don't plan on moving my community, but I do want some features of xF.   This doesn't change my commitment to IPB at all..  it's just me looking out for my community which is my number one goal.  

Jamie

Speaking entirely for myself, I am really hoping to see the IPB devs continuing to move forward with what they have been doing all along and not trying to make IPB look/act/feel like xenForo or any other forum package.  Bells and whistles do not equal innovation.

If I wanted xenForo, I would purchase xenForo.  The fact remains, IPB does what I want and the sneak peeks we occasionally get of what the devs are working on have me even more enthused about the future.  If you listen closely to how Matt describes the reasons for coding the IPB Suite as it has been, it's easy to get excited.   I hope everyone at IPS continues to dance with the one what brung 'em, because it's really going to get better and better.

Anthony., on 05 October 2010 - 06:34 AM, said:

Did you see Matt's reply?  We already have it.  It's just styled different.  Enable only positive reps, change the template to list the users on the page instead of in a popup, and then change the icon from a plus symbol to a "Like" button.  Done - you have a "red hot like button" now without any new feature set required on our side.

Another ex vb owner since early 2.x .... jumped just before 4.0 was released and to be honest I now wish I had done it sooner ..... There is very very little I cant do here that I could do with vb... Invision has much better support (in fact thats a massive understatement IMO) .. They are not ridget by the book people in respect of support. I have broken things myself before now which have been looked at even though officially it would be unsupported. ... The staff are friendly (enough said about that for VB) ..

One major thing that I have found about invision above all else is that they listen to the customers ....... Lemme give you an example and you make your own judgement of whether you would see this happen on VB.

Version 3.1 in production and in fact practically finished in its beta stages (baring in mind there are no RC's here and therefore it was practically RC as far as it would be in your case) .... The notification system which had been written was driving people nuts and there was a fair sized thread on how it could be improved and what could be done .. Yes there was some hesitant staff reluctant to change it as in any software, however one of the head guys basically saif "if you dont like it, it will be changed before release" (very much reworded but ya get the idea).


Make the jump ... Ya wont regret it.

Oh and feel free to post a list of every modification that you currently have on your installations that you will need. There are a few who have done this and you will always get a good response on here.