Brett L

Any clues on if IPS4 will be a mobile only design (as with the current skin) or a mobile first responsive design (adaptive from smaller screen with one column to multiple columns on a tablet and so on)?

Personally I disagree. I commonly keep my webbrowser window a smaller then normal size. I find it VERY VERY annoying when I am on a responsive site and it starts to give me the tablet layout. 

 

 

 

ps; I don't think the current IPS app is bad at all, better than the mobile theme anyway IMO.

Happy user is just meeting minimal expectations. A good product exceeds them. 

I may have to eat my words earlier on this "go native...". Hey, I rather be wrong and get great IPB product that works for mobile devices than the other way around  ;-)

There's a lot more to going native then you might think. It really becomes a project of reinventing the wheel as you are spending hours trying to render complex HTML in an environment that is not meant to render HTML. 

Many companies like facebook are able to recreate their experience well because the content is composed of short plain text blurbs in a controlled environment. 

Forums are the complete opposite. They are typically composed of long post. Many of which contain complex HTML layouts. In uncontrolled environments. 

 

 

If you look at almost every native forum application none of them are any good. (including the IPS one).

Source: I wrote the IPS one. 

I like that the type of line endings used in our files results in a topic starting with "For the love of everything holy.".

 

Sometimes editors just don't behave.  All of us are set to use utf-8 with unix line endings, and we double checked following this topic.  Sometimes an editor just doesn't listen for some reason, however.  As we get into 4.0, we'll ensure this is outlined again in our coding standards document internally.

If everyone used macs this wouldn't be a problem. 

I know there is a popup that says something along the lines of "your post has been submitted for moderator review". However, I want to ability to physically be able to see my own entire post, edit it, make changes, what-have-you. 

 

I tend to be the kind of person who types the post up, click reply then goes back and proofread. 

 

Not to mention the countless times where I post in a thread go back 5 minutes later and can't remember whether I ever actually clicked submit. 

 

Yes, I'm dumb. Please cater to my stupidity.

Member List is also outdated.

What specific changes would you like to see to the member list  While I do agree profiles have lots of room for improvement i'm a little bit curious as to what you would like to see the member list offer that it doesn't already offer. I agree it is rather cumbersome to just a list of thousands of users but how do you propose we improve that?

Not only can you use HTML, CSS, and JS. but you can also use PHP.

IP.Content can be a very very powerful tool for someone who knows what they are doing.

I don't belive you would need 2 installs.
You can simply put them in separate categories.

For instance,
Here is our hosting
https://www.invision...=payments&cat=6

and here is the community suite
https://www.invision...=payments&cat=3

http://community.inv...0#commentsStart

As mark states here our tracker runs on a beta version of IP.Content. When this version gets released he will look into releasing the hooks that he used on the database.

Our client area is IP.Nexus, You can also see what nexus has to offer by going to the nexus page.

http://www.invisionp...com/apps/nexus/

The featured website in the computer screen is
lovethatshot.com which has a very nice front end.


Please note that some of the pages may be put together with IP.Content in addition to Nexus.

Downloading IP.Board 2.3.6

You can download IP.Board 2.3.6 in the IPS client area. You can also download a package which contains changed files only from 2.3.5 to 2.3.6 for easier upgrading.

That was posted in 2008. We are now on version 3.3.4.
You can purchase the latest IPB from here.
http://www.invisionpower.com/store/

I would love this, can we please have SSH instructions somewhere?

It's actually relatively simple. The picture pretty much tells you everything. Your server must have both curl and unzip installed. (It is probably possible to do without these but thats what I used).

There are really only two things that might trip you up.
1) getting your auth_key
2) entering your username & password must be url encoded.

To get your auth key just open ssh and type

curl www.invisionpower.com

Search the html that is returned and find your secure_hash. (Secure hash is the same thing as an auth key)




Once you have that you can simply login using your username and password.

curl -c cookies.txt -d "ips_username=testing%40test.com&ips_password=Testing%21%40%23%24%25%5E%26*&auth_key=880ea6a14ea49e863734fbdc5015a024" "https://www.invisionpower.com/clients/index.php?app=core&module=global&section=login&do=process"

In that example my username/password is
[email protected]
Testing!@#%^&*

Notice how all special chars are url encoded. If this confuses you it might be best to temporarily take them out of your password then remember that the @ sign in your email is replaced by %40.

Once you run that last command you are now logged in and your cookie is stored in a file named cookies.txt

Next all you need to do is grab the URL to the file you want to download in the client area.



Then run

curl -b cookies.txt -0 "http://www.invisionpower.com/clients/index.php?app=downloads&module=display&section=download&do=do_download&id=22" > ipb.zip

replace the url with the url you want to download and "ipb.zip" with what you want the zip file to be named.

It will download the file into the directory you are currently in in ssh.
You can unzip it with

unzip ipb.zip

I realize you have said you aren't the most tech savvy user, but If you can get on SSH you can download the files directly to your server using 2 simple commands and be up and running in about 10 seconds.
Additionally don't ever feel that we are "too busy" to respond to your ticket. Yes, we typically get a highload of tickets after new releases but we are here to help .

I find that the success of this is directly related to how origional your content is.


Personally if I come flying in off google only to find myself staring at a "you must register page" I leave assuming I can find the solution else where.  



On the other hand this strategy will work if you are the only place that offers said content.

The reason it was changed had to do with forums with a lot of moderators.  We needed to support pagination on this page for those larger sites (as I recall, we had a client with something like 200 moderators or so).

I like some of the ideas put forth so far to improve the design.  Interested to see what other suggestions are made.

I personally would like to see it ordered by member group then user name. They don't have to be in different 'categories', however, I think it looks much more organized if they were at least listed by user group first.

Something along these lines might be a good solution to also allow for separate sort criteria.

So this is one that's been driving me nuts. While working alot of the times I remember part of the name of the template but not exactly what it's called or what category it falls under. This causes me to open up all of the categories and ⌘+F to find it; then I have to manually cycle through the results by clicking the next button.

I would really enjoy to see a more streamlined workflow which would look something like this.



As an example this is how xcode allows you to search through methods.