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Back in February, we posted a series of blog entries about improvements to our Calendar application (part 1... View the full article at IPS
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In this entry, I'll be showing the new streamlined Sign In and Registration process in IP.Board 3.2. Registration in particular is a key interface in any community. Too complex, and users will be put off signing up and taking part, potentially costing your community dearly. We've known for some time that our current registration process... View the full article at IPS
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With each release of IP.Board we try to give attention to every area of the software that our customers care about. This is a challenge, of course, because all of our customers have different needs and priorities. Some users want us to make interface improvements, while some customers want us to make it easier for them to edit the interface... View the full article at IPS
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IP.Board's Admin CP comes with many useful and powerful tools to edit your board's skin. You can edit virtually all of the HTML as well as the CSS from within the "Look & Feel" interface. This suits most people but sometimes you just want to use your own desktop editing tools so you can take full advantage of your text... View the full article at IPS
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We've gradually been revealing aspects of the new IP.Board 3.2 front-end interface, and naturally there's much more to come. In this... View the full article at IPS
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We recently blogged about the notification interface enhancements. I'd like to take a moment to go through some further enhancements we've made in this area. We want the notification system to be something you and your... View the full article at IPS
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We've added a lot of exciting new functionality to IP.Board 3.2.0 already, such as tagging, shared media,... View the full article at IPS
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Moderators fill an important role on your community: they help to maintain order, they help to filter content out that should not be made available, and they help to assist new users and keep the site moving in the right direction. It is important that moderators have the tools they need made available to them in a manner that is easy to use, and... View the full article at IPS
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It is not an uncommon task that you or a moderator might need to edit a member of your community. Whether the member has uploaded an inappropriate personal photo, posted links to a competing website in their signature, or needs to be temporarily suspended so they can "cool down", managing members is a common task that moderators carry... View the full article at IPS
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We added a notifications system in IP.Board 3.1.0 and it's been a very popular addition allowing your members to select the type of notification they receive for specific events like a new personal message, quoted post, etc. However, we've received a lot of feedback since and we wanted to make some enhancements to address some common... View the full article at IPS
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Moderating your community is an important function that is carried out not by administrators alone, but often by community volunteers. For this reason, it is important to make moderating your community as easy as possible. To that end, we have made improvements to moderator capabilities in IP.Board 3.2.0, and in this blog entry we will describe... View the full article at IPS
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As work progresses on the new interface for IP.Board 3.2.0, we can now go into some more detail about the new functionality that's already been added. I must of course stress that the only screen shots I can show are closely... View the full article at IPS
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The ability to easily share content within your community is important to your members. If your members submit an image to Gallery, it's quite probable they'll want to include that image in a post at some point, and there needs to be an easy way to do this. Likewise, if your members submit a file to the Download Manager, they may want to... View the full article at IPS
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While we aren't quite ready to show off IP.Board 3.2.0 in its entirety yet, I wanted to talk a little about what you can expect from our new front-end skin - our thinking behind development, areas we've focused on, etc. Goals Before development commenced, we created a list of goals that we aimed to meet.... View the full article at IPS
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Parts of this entry may only apply to those who create applications for IP.Board. Feel free to skip the sections that may not interest you. In my last blog entry I mentioned the improvements we have made for the hooks... View the full article at IPS
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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. As mentioned in our previous blog entries about IP.Board 3.2 we are focusing not only on adding new features but also on improving some of the current areas as well. In this entry I'll talk about the... View the full article at IPS
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IP.Board allows you to set "ACP Restrictions" which allow you to restrict which administrators have access to which areas of the Admin CP. The two main pieces of feedback we hear about the ACP Restrictions system are: - It should be easy to set up and manage ACP Restrictions, without having to check lots of boxes, but still remaining... View the full article at IPS
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IP.Board allows you to set "ACP Restrictions" which allow you to restrict which administrators have access to which areas of the Admin CP. The two main pieces of feedback we hear about the ACP Restrictions system are: - It should be easy to set up and manage ACP Restrictions, without having to check lots of boxes, but still remaining... View the full article at IPS
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One of the areas we identified as requiring significant update in IP.Board 3.2.0 was the member management process. Member management is, for most communities, the most frequently-executed task that happens in the AdminCP, so it is important the process is quick and easy. In previous 3.x releases, each different type of member (normal, banned,... View the full article at IPS
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Of all the features we receive feedback on, view new content receives the most. To many this is their primary browsing page and it's vital that it works accurately. We've had database level topic tracking for many years. It was introduced in 2.0 and has gone through many refinements for efficiency and accuracy. We rewrote the system in... View the full article at IPS
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In our last Calendar-specific blog entry for this upcoming IP.Board 3.2 update I wanted to discuss the last big change you should expect to see: support for importing and exporting events to and from your calendar using the universally-supported iCalendar specification. View the full article at IPS
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In IP.Board 3.0.0 we added a reputation system. This allowed your members to "up-vote" and "down-vote" a post's "reputation". This not only allows you to quickly identify "valued" replies but you can also elect to filter out replies below a certain threshold. This system has worked very well over the... View the full article at IPS
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One of the primary areas we have targeted for improvement in IP.Board 3.2 is a fresh style and usability improvements for the AdminCP. Our AdminCP has long been considered one of the best in the industry, so while we didn't want to tear up that work and start again, we did feel it was time to make substantial improvements. Overview First,... View the full article at IPS
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Hot on the heels of our blog entry detailing how RSVP-style events will work in Calendar as of IP.Board 3.2.0, we would like to take a moment to discuss some interface changes we have made in the next release of Calendar. Some of these changes are relatively minor, but we feel that they should improve usability and make it easier for users to... View the full article at IPS
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This entry rounds up our series of blogs on the new text editor and how we've enhanced other areas of the interface that use it. View the full article at IPS
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