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This is only suggestion.

Would be there possibility make some Google Webmaster Tools integration?

Like:

• sitemaps status (how many topics was submitted and how many topics are in Google
  
• which domains link to my site

etc

I have (relatively) big plans for calendar in 3.2.  We can't really say too much yet, but I promise - you will see improvements to calendar in 3.2 (not just a few small bug fixes or tweaks).

IP.Content is a great product however from what i've read it is not easy to use by people who no coding skills. Many webmasters fall in that category, my question is: are you going to do anything about it in the future?

Having just upgraded to 3.1.2 I was dismayed to find that the "Systems Statistics" block had been moved from the Dashboard area to being hidden under the Support tab... and being hidden is I have to say a retrograde step that compromises ease of use. Having this information available upon logging into the ACP was a very useful set of indicators that were immediately to hand concerning the status of accounts, topics and posts. Actually having to go look for this information means that things requiring attention will now get missed.

I had previously posted about my IP.content site here: http://community.inv...ontent-website/

That was a limited release as I needed to enter a great deal of content to enter before I could roll out some of the pages like the geographical areas section. Some updates:

Geographic area index
http://www.wanderthe....php/stateindex

State Page
http://www.wanderthe.../state?state=ca

National parks page is now fully developed
http://www.wanderthe...ex.php/natparks


Further, I have implemented a structured rewards program where users earn points for contributing photos and comments to spots in the geographical area section of the site. They can then use those points to enter monthly drawings for camping gear. Points are spent in the user cp where the user can view the current months giveaway and enter up to 5 times per month at a cost of 10 points per entry.


Example user page with rewards
http://www.wanderthe.../user/236-rich/

This page  is going to need a redesign but for now I'm just demonstrating the points functionality. You can see the items this user has won in the lower left.

Points Log
http://www.wanderthe...ts_log?user=236


And finally, the result

Here is a national park (Death Valley) that has received significant user contributions of photos and comments:

http://www.wanderthe...hp/areas?area=1

I post now here a new topic, because here no IPS staff answer for month.

When import a application it overwrite still all languagepacks.

Solution for this big problem:

Give us a dropdown when importing a languagepack (application).

So we can select the language pack in which we would import the application (or if no one selected create a new languagepack / install the application to all languagepacks).

Dear IPS:
We want this.
Make it.

Love,
Mod Authors.

Me and Collin1000 develops the iArcade System, and come across a problem, I go away soon and he can't manage files that I have submiited so heres a suggestion for a future release of IP.Downloads.

Dual Authors, this could allow the main file submitter to assign someone (maybe from his/her friends list) to help manage a file, to update the description, name, file, and screenshots (possibly more), abit like how in IP.Blogs you can assign someone to moderate a blog entry, accept in this case someone to manage a file submittion.

I think this suggestion will benifit many people in the long run, more so on the IPS Resources here.

I do hope this feature gets implimented soon

Logo / Header - I know this may sound weird but having a option to have a rotating header / logo and have the interface in the ACP so users would only have to turn it on or off and upload what logo / headers they want.

Sliders - To be added to the top of the forum (global or not). Make the interface on the ACP side and people will only have to update the picture, text, and hyperlink to where they want people to go when the click it. Current you have to edit the skin, upload different files, then recode it to change everything. I say add this to IPC as a block and/or to the IP Board.

I would say adding the first would not be much of a problem and should be fast, the second one, is a little bit to high in my coding knowledge to how in depth it would take and/or how big an issue it would be to add it.

Thank you for taking the time to read and think about it.

I like the feature of being able to automatically promote members once they have posted X number of times......but I would really like it if I could choose to promote them on X number of Topics. I would rather have my members create 10 new topics, then require 25 posts. Just a suggestion

It would be really nice if somebody from IP stuff or its members could make a simple IP Content basics video tutorial.

Nothing major, just a plain simple corporate intro home page, product or service page, contact page and proper css forum integration with new members registration on home page.

Hi,

I think most translators encountered the problem with ipb that the administration is only partly translatable. Since version 1 and 2, it has been continuously requested that the adminpanel should also be translatable. For me it was a shock when I found out that v3 is only partly translatable. It looks quite unprofessional when some part of it is translated and other parts remain in english.
It only double shocked me when recently translating the download addon and found out that the phrases of general setting part is again stored in an xml file, and cannot be translated via the language manager. I think we can ask the question, what's the point of having a language manager option. You might as well just drop it all together.

IPS products are great and quickly evolving to be the best if their kind. I think this translation flaw should be priority #1 to solve. All the other forum softwares, including the free ones, are 100% translatable.

English users might say, stop 'Barneys Girlfriend'ing and translate the xml files, but put yourself in the shoes of those who provide translations. Even if you have translated everything you have to say to users that there are some parts that you have to translate for yourself. Oh.... you don't speak english... well there you go... you're screwed.

I know solving this problem is not as easy as adding a new feature, but I hope IPS staff can understand my problem with this and will look into this matter and solve this as soon as possible.

Hello IPB Community and makers of IPB. I'm fan of IP 3.X.X when it first came out in June 2009. Now six month later I still don't see much information on how you go about understanding IP's programs and add-ons that much. I have learned much of what I know by of course knowing about some programming and asking questions which is fine. But their needs to be more information out from IP. I'm going to try and point out the reasons behind this and why I say what I will say.

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*Disclaimer*
This is not a rant or other type of fire post just something that I think there should be added and look at in more detail and not just "talk" about, but acted on.
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Okay let get started. First of all the help files that are currently available are great for upper level people who understand what going and stuff is but for novices and beginners there is really nothing there. I will bring up a vbulletin document information. http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html This material helps the user to understand many thing about the program and look here before they have to ask more details questions. Something like this should be added to IP. Another example is here on the gallery and blogs, how does one do this are that. I see many post about how to turn this on or off but don’t know where it at but as far as the developers and makers they know where it at, so then again the user is lacking a place to look at for information but have to wait to get there question answer on something that the makers and coders should know. There is a saying “Don't assume people know what you know,” do having a manual type people can print or download to a book reader would be in the best interest of everybody in the IPB community.

If not then people like myself, customers, will have to go out to someplace and order a book that someone else came up with and give them our money to learn software that the makers don’t want to give us. IE http://www.packtpub....ower-board/book I would prefer to give my money to the makers so that it will fund other projects and improve the software.
Again this is not a rant but to get the word out that there needs to be more then what you have and in more details then just trying to do this and post this. There needs to be step by steps guides for other people who don’t know the software to learn how to use stuff correctly and keep running to the forums for questions that could be answer in a book that makes learning it all faster and easy.

I would like to know the view point of the community on this issue and what IP will do next to pass this along or drop the ball. We will see.

Jaggi,

You are right, most of the stats can be gotten to easily, however there are a great deal many that cannot, like moderation trending, etc, reputation trending, etc. In addition, the presentation and ease of use could be seriously improved. I'm in the process of putting together an outline for the proposed product and some mockups to further the idea.

The goal of IP.Metrics would be:

• Listen, to what is being said.
• Engage, tactically and strategicially.
• Measure, quantify, rather than guess.

Core Features

• Group Scoping, get granular with permissions and the analytical information you're reporting. Create custom pages for different groups, showing them specific information relevant for them. Whether it's moderation metrics for your moderation team. Or custom reports for your community management team, showing them trending topics.
• Widget Reporting. The reports would be done by widgets and placed on pages. Allowing users to custom create their own widgets for their own communities.
• Graphing. Metrics can be displayed in various graph form or in detailed form, with important trending for comparible time periods.

How well do you understand your community?

• Are your keywords and phrases being mentioned negatively or positively?
• How are your members contributing to create content?
• Where are your moderators spending time?
• What content is most accessed?
• How is content being used?
• What are your sites strengths and weaknesses?
• What is the experiance time for your customer?

A couple of specific examples:

• Hot Topics - Helping you understand the customer voice, track the mentions of specific keywords and phrases.
• Temperature - Are posts with your specific keywords and phrases getting good reputation or bad reputation?
• Issues Radar - Find topics being discussed that you didn't know were important. If there are fast appearing topics that aren't in your existing keyword or phrase tracker, this shows you upcoming.
• Application based metrics. Show us which applications are being used, how, and the metrics.
• Identify - There are users who participate, those whom create. Tools to help you identify whom is who and look at the types of content they're creating or participating in.
• Track Searches - If you know what your people are looking for on your site, you can help them find it. Find the content and highlight it.
• Contributions - Reports for blogs, galleries, content pages, chat topics, etc.
• Types of users - Infleuncers (lots of friends, posts get lots of topics, posts have significant outbound links, posts have good reputation, recieve lots of views). Infleucners would be people in your community you want to assist to help in your community. Other types of users would be commentors, connectors, askers, answerers, originators, creators, etc.

That's a very rough outline mind you but you get the idea of why I think a solid metrics package could help nearly any community.

krocheck, on 21 December 2009 - 01:00 PM, said:

Krocheck,

You bring up a good point. Forums are notoriously difficult to effectively market ad sales for. The biggest issue usually revolves around effectively gauging interests, trends, and demographics and user habits. For me, and for any individual running their forums with the plans to sell advertising, they should be very interested in this product. Going to a potential vendor and saying, I have a forum about this thing you sell, is not enough. Being able to show trends, times, interests, key words, etc. Delivering the right content to the right user, is just as important as delivering the right ad to the right user.

Likewise, if you're a product owner, using IPB as your forums, knowing what your customer trends are very important as well. Knowing what topics keep coming up. Knowing where people are linking to the most, etc. Knowing what is going on in the communities you run is extremely important.

I figure you could go one of two routes. You could do this as an addon, or perhaps as a service. On technicaly end the database overhead shouldn't be that bad. I think there would be ways to make a lot of queries, but have them be smart queries. Perhaps the ability to mirror certain aspects of the database that are to be used for doing the data.

I think the amount of time required would be reletively minor.