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#2260605 Bugs in the Translations-feature

Posted IPBSupport.de on 28 April 2012 - 04:05 PM

View PostJean, on 28 April 2012 - 04:03 PM, said:

Some people report on a bad behavior on the Hebrew translation pack. When uploading this pack to the forum, it won't show the:
→ and ← properly.

All these icons are automatically replaced with:
ג†

Thanks Alex!
Looks like the "html-problem" i posted above...

Edit: Oh, the attachment no longer show in the post above...

See here, Alex:

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#2259407 IP.Board & The Forum Will Be Dead Within 5 Years

Posted Matt on 25 April 2012 - 02:29 AM

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I agree that facebook was mostly social talk. But not anymore. Facebook is changing and they are improving their groups step by step. Their groups are now turned into social groups with many features and on topic discussion. Facebook is pushing members to join their groups, by allowing anyone to add others to groups. It does not beat forums in discussion functionality yet, but it surely will get there.

Quite the opposite actually. We've been approached by at least two heavy Facebook brands who have or want to switch to IPB because they've outgrown their Facebook page. They cite that it's hard to interact directly with fans and that it's impossible to search for content or look at older content.

I expect this trend to continue as companies use Facebook to build a brand and then look to expand it outside of Facebook.


#2258435 Bugs in the Translations-feature

Posted Alex on 22 April 2012 - 04:29 PM

Just to keep you updated on this, we are working on these issues you have pointed out and will let you know when the system is updated here. :)


#2253380 Bugs in the Translations-feature

Posted IPBSupport.de on 12 April 2012 - 04:40 AM

We have posted here on this topic a lot of other issues - not only IP.Board specific...

E.g.:
  • "Untranslated Text" does not work
  • "Outdated Text" does not work
  • Search does not work and/or we can not search for "keys" which is essential
  • If a member change a translated string to a new one, the number of "contributions" on the old translator of the string doesn't change (e.g. if member A translated 10 strings and member B changed all 10 strings member A have still 10 contributions)
  • If you save a page all strings with special umlauts/special characters (like ü ö ä) show as changed ("A minute ago"), although you have not changed anything
  • There are "ghosts" (no member name) in the "Top Contributors" list(s). E.g. HERE
  • Special characters shown not as html in the translation area
  • ...
Maybe forget / miss any bug...


#2251680 Timeline also in IPB?

Posted Rhett on 08 April 2012 - 12:25 AM

I don't know anyone who likes the timeline on FB


#2251691 Timeline also in IPB?

Posted Marcher Technologies on 08 April 2012 - 12:55 AM

View PostJean, on 07 April 2012 - 11:50 PM, said:

That was just an idea. That's a little funny, I am not using the timeline on facebook but wondered if it could be a nice app for IPB (built-in or as an app released on MP).

View PostCollin1000, on 07 April 2012 - 05:37 PM, said:

I believe what you are looking for is this: http://community.inv...uper-news-feed/
A: This.
B: Why would you take the one thing driving people AWAY from FB that actually ..... i dunno, enjoyed it, and try to get it into the core of IPB?
C:
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#2241108 Content is the key

Posted Gaffney on 15 March 2012 - 06:32 PM

Forums are websites where people come to please their minds. So if you have a forum or your setting one up content is your number one concern. But what is content?


The three main versions of forum content:

1. Content can be a platform to share your work or views.
2. Content can be information to help you.
3. Content can be entertainment.

Often I find forums or websites that have no content. No basis to really share my work or views, no helpful information, either none at all or information I can find anywhere else. Or no entertainment/no entertainment I can't find anywhere else. So if you want to have a successful forum then you need to fill at least one of these fields.

Number 1 is the hardest for most people unless you can feed a lot of traffic to the site that will attract people to share content.

Number 2 and number 3 are easier, they are similar but not the same thing. Some people get confused, a lot of people come to forums just to get information like how to be really good at playing a game. How to fix a common software fault etc.

So if your forum is pointed towards a niche where people want helpful information from it. Your number one concern before forum software, look, promotion etc is how to offer unique #2 content for that niche.

If your forum isn't really a niche eg gaming then your probably better focusing on entertainment but it might be a good idea to also offer a lot of useful unique information on a niche. Some gaming forums start with a clan that you can join into or people who are good with games and can offer a lot of advice with games.

This might seem really obvious but this could help some people. Without one of these three points your forum will not succeed. If you cannot offer these points but have the technical ability to set up a good looking forum, try getting some people to come with you that can produce this content.


My site currently has 220,000 posts, 9000 members, 4,700 twitter followers and 4,900 facebook likes. My niche is a certain football club. I've got into this position by offering good helpful information on the team, helpful facts, good views, a place so they can share their views with other people(be social). I've also offered a lot of multimedia for the niche, graphics and videos. So I've offered a lot of different aspects of content then I've promoted it and made it really easy to get, view and use with good forum layout, good software, plugins and look.

You can never have enough content, try to pace out your content(it's not easy). If you burst out loads of content in one day, a lot of it might be missed and people will then be left with no content for eg the rest of the week. If you have big gaps between content then people won't use your forum. Try to offer content at peak times and make sure there is plenty of content for people to consume daily.


#2240602 Never take your board off-line

Posted Deano© on 14 March 2012 - 01:17 PM

Even though this is a small tip comparing to what the rest of you guys have mentioned I still think it’s a key part of a successful board.

Never take your board offline unless it is absolutely necessary. Those few moments its offline can have a big impact on your board.  :)


#2237274 On Moderation - A Short Guide

Posted Mr. Mikey on 03 March 2012 - 04:24 PM

This is just the guide that all my moderators have to agree to before they're allowed to wield any power. I've directly copied it from my staff forum, it applies generally to most forums as it's quite a broad list of guidelines. I hope that this helps you in running your own community.

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A lot of these are self explanatory and common sense, but I'll still do it.

Okay, well here's the basic run down of things.

Dealing with Problem Members

Don't air dirty laundry in public. When dealing with problem members please act mature, don't just swing your ban-hammer around with no due-cause. If you're being aggravated by a member, bring other staff members in. If it's a personal conversation you can do that via the "Invite" button.

If you're unsure, please get confirmation from another staff member, if you both agree that this is the right action to take, then so be it.

We don't use the warning (infraction) system here at Off Topic Hut. I'm of the belief that the warning system causes more problems and angst than it solves. The member who has been infracted/warned gets hurt feelings, often if a PM is sent automatically, they respond to the PM in a negative fashion, making matters worse and we possibly lose a good member.

We've never had to deal with this problem thus far, so it's always been a "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it" scenario, however if a member is being particularly problematic, please send them a nice PM asking what's wrong, why they're being the way they're being, try to be friendly, however if they continue, contact an admin and we'll "Suspend" them as a timeout. If it gets worse, we'll ban them outright.

Dealing with Problem Content

Problem content is to be reported, then unapproved. Unapproval is akin to deletion except that it's easier to restore (by approving it), and it makes the content invisible to users whilst we decide what to do with it. Please do not leave content unapproved for long periods of time. If unapproving the first post in the topic, please move the entire topic to the "deleted" forum and report it.

Once the report is dealt with by staff and it's been decided what will happen, the report is to be marked as closed (important) and the content is either deleted (soft deleted only) or it is approved again. At no point during this process is the user made aware that we're discussing their content. No point in that.

Admins will have the final word over super mods (staff), and I have final say over everyone. Just saying. :)

Dealing with Site Problems

If staff notice an issue with the site, please bring it up in the staff forums, not inside the public areas of the forums (this has been done in the past, and I don't believe it's helpful to the site).

If the site is down, send me an email at <snip> - I'll get it on my iPhone and I'll do what I can about it. At this point in time I (Mikey) am the only person with server access. It's safer this way but it may change in the future.

Miscelleneous

Everything discussed in staff forums, stays in staff forums.

Staff should be encouraging activity with positive actions and attitudes. Staff are allowed an alternate account, should you need it, to be able to behave/post differently (should you want to). Please note that this isn't an all or nothing rule though! You can post how you wish, as long as you're not constantly negative.

Remember. Negativity does stifle activity, but constant positivity with everyone agreeing can also be just as bad. I trust each of you to know what I mean.

We're an online community, not a totalitarian regime. At the end of the day I have final say in any decision made, but I very rarely flex that muscle. If you guys can reach decisions without me, I'm a happy camper.

Thanks for reading, please reply to acknowledge you understand. :)



#2216779 Remove or improve "Help Files"

Posted Charles on 03 January 2012 - 08:02 PM

I would personally lean toward removing them. The Help files don't really tell you anything of use. "click post topic to post a topic" ... yeah you think?

There are other more useful tools like IP.Content that could better serve a community.


#1914189 Reputation Suggestion

Posted iAdi on 16 February 2010 - 11:25 AM

Hello, I have a suggestion to the Reputation System in IPB3+.
There are members that don't like the Ratings of the Reputation system, so you can add an option to the user control panel:

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Disable Ratings of reputation system?
:)
Thank you.


#1848019 Subscription Manager Suggesting

Posted jewelersalert on 23 August 2009 - 01:03 PM

Another suggestion for " Subscription Manager " would be that i can set up 2 tabs on my forum page 1 for subscriptions & 1 for advertisements so they can each have different packages set up

also to be able to change name on the tabs


#1850466 Translation of default and selfmade Profile Fields

Posted Elanor on 30 August 2009 - 04:19 AM

At this point, profile fields are not listed in translation menu. I guess that's because board admins can alter and add as much as they like. In the front end of the board however, this means that people choose a language, but when entering a profile, everything is in english (and there are many people in this world that do not speak english well enough to understand everything).

Off course Board Admins can translate these fields into the native language of their board, but then English people using the english language will be confronted with that native language. Translating therefor is only an option if you translate a board in your native language and only use one language throughout the entire board.

There is an option to add new profile fields, but that means new columns in database will be created, because one part uses english profile fields to enter data and the other users de fields of other languages. This makes it difficult to query data, cause same type data is spread in the database over various columns.

Then there is the possibility of altering the profile fields zo contents will be in both languages. That's an option for boards with few languages, but with more than 2 languages, profile field names will contain so much text that filling in a profile is not appealing to new users.

It would be nice if this important part of forums (after all it all starts with registration and creating a profile) would be in the translation bits.
It can start out with the primary profile fields, with the contents in english, that come with the installation. When translating through ACP it at least minimizes the need for entering custom profile fields with same data as the ones in english. That would allready be a big help for many I guess.

But above that it would be great if a feature was created that offered "instant" translation options when adding a custom profile field, like when you create a new custom profile field, you do so in default language, but after creating, you'll be offered a screen saying:
"You've added a custom profile field. We've located # other languages on your board, please fill in the language bits for each language" offering a list of boardlanguages, with empty strings for each profile field entry, (like in translation part of ACP). In that case adding a field means you add it in all available languages.
Don't know if thats possible, but I guess it would be a wonderfull solution for all foreign customers with a multi-language board. If this feature should be created, I'll do my part by translating the default profile fields in my native language, dutch.

Perhaps others, reading this topic, can give their opinion about this suggestion, maybe even improve the suggestion with other, more usefull ideas.


Elanor


#1831035 Introducing Spam Monitoring Service

Posted IPS News on 22 July 2009 - 04:07 PM

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.

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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!


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