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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Downloads 2.5.0!

IP.Downloads is our community file management platform for IP.Board allowing you and your members to upload files for sharing in an organized category listing with permissions, version control, and more. Changes and new features in this version include:

• Approve comments from ModCP - it is now possible to approve comments directly from the ModCP
  
• Re-Rate Files - if you give members the permission, they are now able to re-rate files
  
• Custom Field Searching - the ability to allow searching of custom fields
  
• Tagging - full tagging is now supported by IP.Downloads, as well as prefixes on a per-category basis
  
• Screenshot Efficiency - the ability to set a screenshot URL in your Admin CP
  
• Throttling - an admin can now control the speed at which certain groups can download files.
  
• Live Countdown - forcing some groups to wait a set number of seconds before their download can begin is now an option

Thank you to our team of Beta & QA testers who have made this release possible.

You can view our earlier blogs on this release:

• http://community.invisionpower.com/...downloads-25-dev-update-comment-improvements/
  
• http://community.invisionpower.com/...wnloads-25-dev-update-more-download-controls/
  
• http://community.invisionpower.com/blog/1174/entry-6900-ipdownloads-25-dev-update-file-submissions/
  
• http://community.invisionpower.com/blog/1174/entry-6903-ipdownloads-25-update-other-changes/

We welcome feedback on this or any other release in the relevant feedback forum including suggestions for future releases.

Purchasing

You can purchase IP.Downloads right in your client area by clicking the green New Purchase button in the upper right corner. New clients can purchase IP.Downloads right along with IP.Board. If you an IPS Community Hosting client, IP.Downloads comes with all packages!

If you have already purchased IP.Downloads, you can download this update in your client area.

NOTE: IP.Downloads 2.5.0 requires that you be using IP.Board version 3.2.3

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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Blog 2.5.0!

IP.Blog is our community blogging platform for IP.Board allowing you and your members to run their blogs within your community. Changes and new features in this version include:

• Interface Improvements - a fresher look to the interface to improve the usage of blogs
  
• Tags - improved the tag system to fit in with the features found in other IPS applications
  
• Friends Only - the ability to limit the viewing of your blog to just friends
  
• Blog This - extended the availability of this button to appear in the various IPS applications
  
• Manage Comments - unapproved comments can now be fully managed directly from the ModCP

Thank you to our team of Beta and QA testers who have made this release possible.

You can view our earlier blog on this release for more information on what's new.

We welcome feedback on this or any other release in the relevant feedback forum including suggestions for future releases.


Demo

You can try our free demo to see IP.Blog in action for yourself.


Purchasing

You can purchase IP.Blog in your client area by clicking the green 'New Purchase' button in the upper right corner. New clients can purchase IP.Blog along with IP.Board. If you an IPS Community Hosting client, IP.Blog comes with all packages!

If you have already purchased IP.Blog, you can download this update in your client area.


Requirements / Notes

IP.Blog 2.5.0 requires IP.Board version 3.2.3


Installing / Upgrading

For further assistance on installing IP.Blog please refer to this document and for upgrading please refer to this document

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IP.Board 3.2 was a major new version boasting a new sleek skin with a major overhaul to the user interface. We also added in long requested features such as tagging, the shared media panel, and a brand new moderators control panel along with many more improvements.

We have been thrilled with the overwhelmingly good feedback since 3.2's...

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I agree 100%

 

IP.Content, our popular content management and creation tool, allows administrators to manage content throughout their site. You can create templates, pages, blocks that can be embedded anywhere (even outside of IP.Board!), and databases of custom data with many easy to use yet comprehensive tools built into the software. Development is...

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Any community administrator knows how important moderation features are to a successful community, and the IPS Community Suite offers some great features in this area. The Spam Monitoring Service, for example, a unique feature that is completely unmatched anywhere else, keeps your...

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One of the many pleasures of running your own forum is watching it grow as the years roll by. Sometimes it's fun to go back and look at old topics but they just get pushed further and further away from the first page until you end up with a large database full of posts that rarely get seen.<br /><br />Perhaps you run a massive forum with 10 million...<br /><br />View the full article

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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Gallery 4.2.0!

IP.Gallery is our community media sharing platform for IP.Board allowing you and your members to create and maintain photo and video albums.

Changes and new features in this version include:

• Quick Navigation - supporting thew quick navigation that is found in other applications
  
• Tags - improved the tag system to fit in with the features found in other IPS applications
  
• ModCP - the ability to moderate unapproved images directly from this section
  
• Album Selector - introduces a dynamic album selector that is used everywhere you need to select an album.
  
• Album Manager - enhanced the album manager from within the AdminCP
  
• Reputation - the ability to like images from within a gallery
  
• Image Only Global Album - we've now made it possible to have a global album that only accepts images and not albums.

Thank you to our team of Beta and QA testers who have made this release possible.

You can view our earlier blogs on this release for more information on what's new.

Tagging. ModCP & Quick Navigation
Album Selector
AdminCP Improvements
Functionality Improvements

We welcome feedback on this or any other release in the relevant feedback forum including suggestions for future releases.


Demo

You can try our free demo to see IP.Gallery in action for yourself.


Purchasing

You can purchase IP.Gallery in your client area by clicking the 'New Purchase' button in the upper right corner. New clients can purchase IP.Gallery along with IP.Board. If you an IPS Community Hosting client, IP.Gallery comes with all packages!

If you have already purchased IP.Gallery, you can download this update in your client area.


Requirements / Notes

IP.Gallery 4.2.0 requires IP.Board version 3.2.3


Installing / Upgrading

For further assistance on installing IP.Gallery please refer to this document and for upgrading please refer to this document






Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Nexus 1.4.1!

IP.Nexus is our commerce system to sell products, membership access, advertising, digital downloads, and more. Includes tools like a support desk to help manage you clients. The 1.4.1 release is a maintenance release to address issues from the new 1.4.0 release.

We welcome feedback on this or any other release in the relevant feedback forum including suggestions for future releases.


Demo

You can try our free demo to see IP.Nexus in action for yourself.


Purchasing

You can purchase IP.Nexus in your client area by clicking the 'New Purchase' button in the upper right corner. New clients can purchase IP.Nexus along with IP.Board. If you are an IPS Community Hosting client, IP.Nexus comes with all packages!

If you have already purchased IP.Nexus, you can download this update in your client area.


Requirements / Notes

IP.Nexus 1.4.1 requires IP.Board version 3.2.3


Installing / Upgrading

For further assistance on installing IP.Nexus please refer to this document and for upgrading please refer to this document

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Over the past few years, we've invested a good amount of time into ensuring that your forum content is spidered well by various search engines. We've created a crisp clean skin with good semantic mark-up, introduced a friendly URL system and made numerous enhancements to ensure that search engines read your content and spider it...

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hmm, I was going to read more but their site isn't loading

 

IP.Content, by it's nature, is largely managed via the admin control panel. While there are front-end capabilities available to allow you to distribute some of the work load to your moderators (and, in some cases, members), the majority of the setup and management is performed via the admin control panel. Additionally, because IP.Content is...

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a blog entry discussing our efforts towards moderation features, and specifically the new warning system.
Today I wanted to talk about another area of moderation, perhaps the most important area - managing...

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Parts of this entry may only apply to those who create hooks for IP.Board. Feel free to skip the sections that may not interest you.

For IP.Board 3.2 I made several changes for both applications and...

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In our last IP.Content blog entry, we discussed some of the major interface changes you can expect to see coming with IP.Content 2.3. These interface changes represent improvements to your work flow and enhancements to...

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We made changes today to the way we meter and track data and media storage on our hosted communities. Previously our main limiter for a package was online users. This normally works fine as it's a simple formula of the more people you have online the more server resources your community consumes. However, there are some long-established...

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IPS is looking for a mobile app developer to assist us in greatly enhancing our presence in the mobile application space.

Key Requirements

• Experience in iOS and Android development (Windows phone a plus)
  
• Working knowledge of IPS community suite software
  
• Examples of previous application development

Other...

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Development of IP.Content 2.3 continues, and as mentioned in the introductory "What To Expect" blog entry, one area of the software we wanted to place a focus on was search engine optimization. While this particular subject can bring about heated...

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Ah, good read, considering I recently puchased IP.Content for one of my sites. Seems to work well already, but definitely has a ways to go.

 

Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Blog 2.5.1!

IP.Blog is our community blogging platform for IP.Board allowing you and your members to run their blogs within your community. This is a maintenance release to fix issues from 2.5.0.

Thank you to our team of Beta and QA testers who have made this release possible.

We welcome feedback on this or any other release in the relevant feedback forum including suggestions for future releases.


Demo

You can try our free demo to see IP.Blog in action for yourself.


Purchasing

You can purchase IP.Blog in your client area by clicking the orange 'New Purchase' button in the upper right corner. New clients can purchase IP.Blog along with IP.Board. If you an IPS Community Hosting client, IP.Blog comes with all packages!

If you have already purchased IP.Blog, you can download this update in your client area.


Requirements / Notes

IP.Blog 2.5.1 requires IP.Board version 3.2.3


Installing / Upgrading

For further assistance on installing IP.Blog please refer to this document and for upgrading please refer to this document

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