IPS has released a new version of their famous product, Invision Power Board.

The major changes are as follows:

• Improved search and member list performance
• Date filter options for Active Content page
• Many improvements for Sphinx searching (i.e. ability to filter by forum, ability to search titles only, ability to group posts as topics, plugin functionality for modifying the query, and misc bug fixes)
• Ability to hide an application’s tab on the front end, while still allowing it to be publicly accessible
• Improved IP address lookup tool can now support add-on applications
• Portal option to not pin pinned topics for articles
• Added link to user profile when editing a member in ACP
• Added display of time remaining for suspended members when editing a member in ACP
• Spam Monitoring Service support
• Ability to control image quality for Gallery images (jpg/png only)
• PHP version 5.3 is now supported in IP.Board except for OpenID login method. We are awaiting updates from OpenID vendors.

A release note can be found on this thread posted by IPS guys

First impression on converting MSEO (IPBSEO) to Invision Power Board 3

Moderately easy, I have been playing around with the sytem for around 3-4 hours today and I was pretty impressed with the application folder system. It is quite nifty and powerful. The installation system and development tools are a true helper while importing the settings.

So far I have been able to get the acronymiser and secure redirects working with only 2 file edits. This means good news and I could get a working version within the first or second week of June.

Hi all, in the view that IPB 3 is going to be released soon a few guides will be posted up on this blog to help new and advance users to understand the new structure and interface.

So for the first in the series I have created a quick overview of the skinning system of IPB 3.x.x. This should help new users to get familiar with the interface.
As this is my first full production screencast I would like some review on how to make it better.

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A recent contest postsed on the IPS forum has started a lot of excitment throughout the design community of IPS. Read the rest of this entry »

Invision Power Board 3.0.0 Beta 5 Released

Invision Power Board 3.0.0 Beta 5

Invision Power has now just released their latest Beta for IPB 3.0.0.

To download go to the client area on IPS’s website. Unfortanetly there is no details of the fixed bug in the post but you can find it through the bug tracker.

Remember this is only a beta of the software and you shouldn’t run this on your main (live) board.

While going about a few forums lately I have realised that a lot of forums have search flood enabled. That annoyed me quite a lot as I was looking for something quite important.

Then a question poped-up in my mind: “Why do we need to have search flood?” Does Google have that?

I will answer both yes & no as there are advantages and disadvantages to having search flood on a forum enabled. Read the rest of this entry »