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I have made the transition to IPB on https://bash.zone. The new Invision Community test site is located at: https://testing123.info It is running beta 3 at the moment. If you would like admin access to check it out let me know and I'll send you the test admin log in info.
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I am in the process of converting http://bash.zone to IPB. I have setup a test site running v5 beta2. If you want play around with it feel free. The data that I import will be wiped out when I do the final conversion when 5.0 is done. If you would like admin access let me know. I'll set up a test admin account and pm you details if you like. Site is at http://ipb.bash.zone
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Invision Community 5.0.0 has reached a huge milestone; we're now in open beta testing. After numerous alpha releases, we're ready to move forward with the last stage of development and testing. The beta stage is primarily just fixing bugs and tweaking existing features and we're confident that the beta testing stage will run smoothly as its already stable and being used on a handful of production sites by brave souls who have upgraded immediately. Of course, we'd not recommend being so cavalier, especially if you are not very technical and do not have the time or patience to wait for fixes and risk broken functionality between beta releases! The good news is that you can use Invision Community 5 beta on a test installation, so you can set it up, and learn its new UI and feature set before planning your upgrade. The beta is available for both Invision Community Cloud customers, and Invision Community Classic customers. Invision Community Classic (Self Hosting) If you have an older license type (Invision Community Suite) and want to test Invision Community 5, then you are welcome to switch to the new v5 license in the client area. The renewal structure has changed, and all this is explained before you switch. If you have the classic license, you will then see the Invision Community 5 Beta download in your client area. Invision Community Cloud Our Cloud customers can request a time-limited v5 demo. Instructions on how to do this are in the Invision Community 5 Beta Testing Club. We're thrilled to move closer to a final release a year after Ehren revealed the "fresh new vision" for Invision Community 5. We'd love for you to join us in the Beta Testing Club and let us know what you think of Invision Community 5. -
I have installed IPB on a test site. At one time I had all my sites on IPB. I left vBulletin during the version 4 debacle and imported the sites to IPB. After a few years I decided to switch to xenforo. I haven't looked at IPB in a few years. I got an email about IPB 5 demo and looked at it. I went into the client area and renewed one of my old licenses. Site can be found at: http://forumadmins.org I will open it to guest posting once I figure out the permission system again. It's been a while.
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ip.board Invision Community 5: Tagging Reinvented
Guest posted a topic in Forum Software Discussions
Invision Community v5 takes a fresh approach to tagging and content discovery. It overhauls the concept to bring content across different sections together with a beautiful new tag page. Tagging is a powerful concept but underused with Invision Community 4 due to overly complex interfaces in different areas of the suite, a confusing open tagging model option and no real benefit in content discovery beyond a simple list of content items. A driving force behind Invision Community 5 is the question of how we can help time-pressured community members find the content that most interests them. Invision Community has robust taxonomy through forum and category structures, but what about content in less visible areas such as Blogs, galleries or Events? How can we bring those together to homogenise the type of content and focus on the content itself? Taxonomy via tagging across all applications in the community suite is the answer. However, we needed to re-approach how tagging was implemented in the Invision Community to bring our new vision to life. Out with the old The current tagging system is implemented loosely, allowing open tagging, which is more akin to hashtags than high-level taxonomy. Allowing forums, albums, and blog categories to define their own tags turns tagging into more of a status label, which does nothing to help bring disparate content together. In with the new With a new focus on taxonomy and content discovery, we set about rebuilding tagging for Invision Community 5. The UI to tag items is the same, but now each defined, globally available tag has its own page with cover image and ability to feature items within that tag page. A uniform approach to different content items in the UI breaks down the barrier between content types and focuses solely on the content. Tags featured on its page are automatically displayed on the community Featured Content page. Finally, tags can now be followed, allowing your community to get a daily or weekly digest of all new tagged items, bringing people back to read more of the content they love. Let’s take a closer look In Invision Community 5, all tags are defined in the Admin Control Panel. The ability to use open tagging and per-node tags has been removed, but don’t worry—the upgrade system will offer conversion for those tags. Once defined, the tags are available for all content types and feature on a dedicated new tag page. This page features cover photos and more information on the tag via a description. Content from across your suite will be displayed on this page. If a single piece of content has multiple tags, it will appear on every relevant tag page making it easy to have content in multiple areas. If you want to permanently or temporarily feature individual content, perhaps your latest news or product release, you can do so right from the tag page. Featured content will show on the community’s Featured Content Page. Blurring the lines Now that we have an attractive and focused page for each tag, we can start to blur the lines between applications and, indeed, forums and categories, offering a new way to organise content. For some communities, the need for multiple forums to categorise content is diminished, and instead, tagging can be used to separate and find content from across the community. Tags can be featured in the menu system, offering new ways into your community for new visitors, regular community members, and even those who visit daily. Invision Community 5 is fearless in challenging past decisions or streamlining features to make them stronger and more focused. Our new approach to tagging takes a vague and underutilised concept and pushes it front and centre in any content strategy. How will you use it in your community? Continue reading... -
In the future Forum² will move to IPB as its software. Forum² started out on IPB and when IPB 4 was first released it was less then stellar so I converted to xenForo. Now that 4.2 is about to be released with new features not available in any other software I decided to convert back to IPB. I feel this converion is needed to move Forum² into the future.
