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IPS is making some changes to our pricing to streamline our offerings and recognize changing business needs.

That Pesky One Cent

It gets pretty old saying "it's nine ninety nine" so we are going to round up all prices to their nearest dollar. So, for example, our community hosting Basic 10 service will now be $10 rather than $9.99 or IP.Blog will become $50 instead of $49.99.

Yes, we realize it's only $0.01 but really you have to admit $10 looks so much cleaner than $9.99. Rikki, our interface designer, is very happy at being able to clean up the web site design accordingly.


Business Needs

We introduced the IP.Board Standard and Business licenses toward the end of 2006 and have not adjusted the prices since then. That was over 5 years ago and as with everything else in the world, the cost of doing business for IPS has increased.

In addition to costs, we offer more free services included with the licenses (spam monitoring service, IP.Chat 5, IP.Tracker, Marketplace, free installs/upgrades, etc.) than we certainly could have dreamed up 5 years ago. Therefore, we are changing the price of the IP.Board Standard license to $175 and the IP.Board Business license to $400. The renewal pricing for these two licenses remains unchanged for all existing clients.

We will not be actually implementing these pricing changes until January 2012 so if you are considering using IPS software now is the time!


Multiple Licenses

We introduce a discount program for those with multiple licenses back in 2009 and it has been a huge success with clients purchasing often dozens of licenses to our software. The program we introduce in 2009 has remain unchanged and is simply if you have more than two full price licenses then the third and so on is $99.

That has worked great but we want to change it up so more clients can benefit. The new multiple license discount structure is as follows:

License 1: full price
License 2: 10% off
License 3 - 5: 30% off
License 6 - 25: 50% off
License 26+: contact us for special pricing

Best of all these discounts apply to all product licenses!


All of the changes listed will go live in January 2012.

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Since the very start of our company IPS has offered free scripts you can download to assist in converting from other forum or community software to our platform. Thousands of you have taken advantage of this over the years and we are happy you have chosen to be part of the IPS family.

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I really REALLY liked ip.content
that's about all I liked from IPB though..hehe

 

Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Gallery 4.2.1!

IP.Gallery is our community media sharing platform for IP.Board allowing you and your members to create and maintain photo and video albums. This is a maintenance release to fix issues from 4.2.0.

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.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

If you downloaded and installed the public QA version, you only need to download and overwrite all the files for this release.

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Commenting is a powerful and important feature available with all of your IP.Content databases, 'Articles' included. Not only can you allow your users to comment on the database records, you can require approval of comments before they become public, you can moderate the comments as needed, and your users can get notified of new comments made on...

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Development of IP.Content 2.3 continues, and while we have many more great things in store for this release, we wanted to take a moment to tell you about two new features you can expect to see in this release. Many of the recent blog entries have described consistency improvements, SEO improvements, and other integration changes, but we wanted to make sure...

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Tagging is a powerful feature made available through the IP.Board framework that allows you to collect "tags" for submitted data, either through an ad-hoc system whereby the members provide tags at will, or through a closed system where the available tags are pre-defined. Tag support in IP.Content is, arguably, the number one requested feature,...

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We hope that everyone is enjoying reading about the upcoming changes you will see in IP.Content 2.3. As we outlined originally, our focus is on four primary goals: usability, consistency, SEO and strengthening our existing feature set. One common usability...

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With every release of our products, we like to spend some time identifying areas which can be improved slightly, and small feature suggestions we can use. 3.3 is no exception, and I wanted to write a quick blog entry to highlight just some of the smaller enhancements we've made to 3.3 to make the product more powerful and easy to use.



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IP.Board has featured a reputation system since 3.0, allowing users to give positive or negative reputation to posts, as well as content in other apps in the IPS Community Suite (blog entries, gallery images, etc.) as well as content in third party applications.
In IP.Board 3.2, we enhanced this by adding a new way of viewing the reputation system, in terms...

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IP.Content 2.3 development is progressing nicely. We are sticking to the four core points we wanted to address with the release of 2.3, namely: usability, consistency, SEO, and strengthening the existing feature set. All of these points tie in together and...

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As part of our continued effort to strengthen existing functionality in IP.Content 2.3, and bring about a more consistent and reliable experience for novice and advanced users alike, we have implemented support for IP.Nexus blocks in IP.Content 2.3. ...

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As part of our goal to improve the usability of IP.Content, particularly for non-coder administrators, we've used the 2.3 release to look at ways of reducing or eliminating the amount of code that needs to be written in order to create great websites.

In the current version of IP.Content, blocks require individual templates (entered as part of the...

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Anyone that runs a lively and thriving community knows that now and again you have to make the hard decision to ban a member. IP.Board has a powerful set of tools built in to manage this for you and you can ban a member for a set number of days or permanently with a few clicks via the warning system or the ACP member management system.

Currently, there are...

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While we have discussed many great things you can expect to see coming in IP.Content 2.3 already, we've got a few miscellaneous changes that we wanted to let you know about, but that weren't necessarily grouped into a single "theme". Still, we felt you would be interested to hear about these changes, so I've taken a moment to compile...

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During each release cycle we often take some time out to assess performance and look at ways to improve in this area. We're also in a unique position to have first hand experience at hosting tens of thousands of IP.Board installations via our own hosting network.

We also work closely with our clients...

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Our core goals for IP.Board 3.3 where to clear up the moderator tools, make IP.Board more efficient for larger communities and improve SEO.

We've already blogged...

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I don't think their seo will ever compare to vBulletin's 4 or Xenforo.

 

I'm glad they're trying to make improvements.

 

IP.Board was one of the first commercial products to make use of Facebook integration to allow logged in Facebook users instant membership. We extended this in subsequent releases to include the ability to share status updates and links from the board such as topics. During this time, we also added Twitter as an authentication system and the ability to...

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