Nick²

I know I'm in the minority here, but how about a Windows Phone app...

.time, on 23 May 2012 - 12:09 PM, said:

I think it's a rather great move.  People who didn't want to buy the board app but wanted to get another app can do that now without spending extra money for nothing.  I can only imagine that there are some people who have held off on making a purchase because of this.  So being able to do something like Nexus only ($100 + $75 = $175), they're saving $75 by not having to purchase IPB at the same time.  Then if they decide to get IPB, they can add it on.

Since IPB has been the core product for so long, I'm sure it'll continue to get a high amount of attention, so I'm not worried about its quality degrading at all.

Charles, on 23 May 2012 - 11:33 AM, said:

Don't suppose we'll have the option to keep the add-ons on a separate renewal schedule.  So using your example, if I wanted to pay $10 to keep it renewed for 6 months instead of only until the next IPB renewal.  Or would I just have to wait for it to expire and then when I need it to be active again, renew at that time?  Some people keep the renewal times separates to cut down on a big lump renewal cost, finding it easier to swallow renewals spread out.

I've been wanting this change for SO long!.. Finally be able to run IP.Content solo!

Grammar - Being professional, using grammar, and punctuation is something that is needed. If you were on a company forum and saw staff writing like "lol, yeah I kno right" that will instantly make me not bother posting on the website or even browse their webste.The members look up to you and then they wish to be a staff member which leads to better members.

Atmosphere - Always try your best to have a great atmosphere. If you have trolling, offensive language or spam going on your boards, it pulls many guests away from your forums.

Appearance - This is another major one for your forums. You want to give your users first impression. Many people will x out of your website if they aren't liking your websites appearance. It's like going to your first interview or going out on a date, they will reject you. You want a skin that is clean, professional, and clear.

I've gone through all the forum/bb software out there including all of Joomla's.  IP Board covers everything I need in a very simple fashion without overdoing it.  It's simple for my users and simple for me be an admin.  With the spammers/troll prevention and the simple moderation of topics, I can actually still read some of the forum instead of being an admin all the time.  Because it's designed with SEO in mind, search engines love it.  

But the real reason you should consider IP Board is because of the technical support.  I can handle my own with mod edits, db dumps and uploads, css editing and so on but when you get into a real problem they are very quick to help.  Down time is dead time and you look amateur.  With IP's tech support I've had my mobile template error and a connection reset notice.  When you play with the settings/layout/applications on your board, you will eventually going to cause an error or two.  It happens with even the best software out there.  The good news is both of my errors received responses from IP's tech support within 10 minutes on a Saturday morning.

That IS the difference.  If you are going to bother to do it.  Do it right.

This should be partially possible already.  IP.Content does not know what domain/link to use when generating the links itself, however it will retain the base link from the page it was visited as long as it is configured in the "URL to index.php" (one link per line) in the Advanced settings.

So, to summarize, if you have this in advanced settings

http://homepage.com
http://articles.homepage.com
http://otherdatabase.homepage.com

And you visit http://articles.homepage.com, it will load the configured index.html file and then continue to use that as the base of the link.  The missing piece here is specifying which page to load at each domain, and that is something we would like to explore in a future update ("domain entry points").

I'm pretty sure we have stated it in the past but we might not have so just to be clear on our plans: we will have new mobile app along with IP.Board 3.3's release.

My Request

I run a site with multiple subdomains. What would be really, really useful is if IPContent catered for that. Currently two different domains are supported, one for the forums and one for IPContent. What would be very, very useful would be if IPContent allowed databases, categories and pages to be assigned to different subdomains.

That one addition would make IPContent a much more flexible tool for all those who have multiple subdomain based sites.

Perhaps I oversimplify, but if the index page for IPContent (the one that allows for IPContent to be placed on an external domain) set the entry database / category / page, and that database / category / page stipulated the domain then this could be achieved?

Sites using subdomains are often sudivided according to topic, with features such as "articles" existing on multiple subdomains.

Even if features exist on their own domain such as glossary.domain.com, if you wanted to use IPContent to manage the glossary and use it to manage articles on articles.domain.com this is currently not possible (as I understand it with there only being one gateway).

By allowing multiple gateways by allowing gateway pages to have different entry points (database, category, page) the above scenarios would be accommodated.

I understand that subdomain users are perhaps in the minority, but to invision I would ask that this be very seriously considered.

Just incase I haven't said so in awhile.  —  I really appreciate the IPS community & staff.

Thanks.

I just purchased IPB license #55 today

My IPB sites are regulated to the auto industry - they are essentially non-profits with proceeds going to good causes - kid and animal charities. . .but I have fun doing them.

At any rate, I'm posting to let perspective customers know that IPB is the way to go

jackflash, on 21 November 2011 - 12:57 PM, said:

With that many successful sites, you might consider writing a tutorial/guide for other members to use for being able to improve the success of their sites.

You might also consider sharing a list of your sites so that others can see what you've accomplished.

Yes, Robotech is good at what he does.  A couple of us others will actually throw tickets at him if it seems like something that would be difficult (at best) to try to resolve.  You see, he has this stick which he uses to beat issues into submission.  Issue goes in fighting, then comes out limping on a crutch, crying and saying "Sorry, I didn't mean to be that much trouble."  Sometimes it's funny to look at the list of tickets and try to not blink, only to have your eyes give in and blink and when you do, a large number of tickets have vanished.  Of course, when wanting to work on tickets, you have to move quick or Robotech will fix it before you can even read it.

Just wanted to drop a line to say that although I am a coder being able to access the stellar support provided by Invision saves me a lot of angst. I finally decided that running my personal site on Wordpress (et al) was just too much trouble so now all of my stuff is now running under the various parts of the software built by Invision.

Thanks guys! (oh and of course lovely Debbie)
Larry

I got the Credit Card over the weekend! And I bought it! I'm so happy!
Thanks for all support!