What would happen if IF got REALLY Huge?

ZetaBoards
→
Community Forums
→
Community Chat
→
What would happen if IF got REALLY Huge?

We hope you enjoy your visit.

You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.

Join our community!

If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Pages:
1
2
3

What would happen if IF got REALLY Huge?
Tweet Topic Started: Feb 27 2005, 01:40 AM (2,297 Views)
FearKiller	Feb 27 2005, 10:59 PM Post #31
www.drewscripts.com Posts: 1,257 Group: Members Member #1,769 Joined: May 21, 2003 I'm Browsing With Firefox	Matt L. February 27, 2005 09:06 PM This topic is turning into a proboard vs. invisionfree vs. phpbb war. :ph34r: :smiles and walks away: Indeed it has. I originally just made this topic for a little "haha" but it ended up getting a lot of interesting posts IMO. Well I guess I'll leave my opinion on the current little board war seeing as I am a former user of all these hosts/software. Proboards isn't even in the same league with IF or PHPBB. The freedom to customize the boards and the features they provide are, well, scarce. I was with them for 2 days before switching to IF. InvisionFree Boards are feature rich and very customizable since they give the style sheet as a whole instead of the "fill in the blank" crap that Proboards provides. IF also offered the best support out of all of them and has a very dedicated service, but I wanted more customization and access to the PHP code which IF doesn't provide, so I then moved to PHPBB. The way PHPBB is coded was apparently out of my league so I ended up downloading and installing mods created by others. I hated the ACP of the PHPBB and the look didn't have that same welcoming feel as the IF boards had. Also as stated above, they are unsecure. I recently checked their support forums and still see topics that say, "OMG I STILL GET TEH HA><ORS WITH TEH 2.0.11 WTF!!!!11" So out of all three I thought IF was the best one.



Seth	Feb 28 2005, 01:07 AM Post #32
I has a pony Posts: 18,984 Group: Members Member #100 Joined: November 17, 2002	The biggest problem we see nowadays with regards to growth, switching, and retention is thus: people believe that "paid" equals "better". We get a lot of tickets asking to be "upgraded" to Invision Power Board. When we explain that they're already running IPB, they often get confused. "But it's $180 for a license, we can't be running IPB!" Well, yes you are, and for the "price" of a small ad, you're getting it for free. What makes me smile the most is going to that person's IF board... with a nice news ticker, an attractive skin from the Skin Zone, and a lot of members and posts... and then visiting their "upgraded" "full" IPB a few months down the line, which is still using the default skin, no mods, and is pretty much dead. All that power does no good if you don't know how to use it. "But I hate the URL!" Well, we listened to that and created the Domain Manager. You can use your own domain or subdomain and have a completely transparent hosting experience, and people will barely know that your board isn't hosted on your own server. "It's not as customizable!" I would suggest that 90% of InvisionFree users would never use the ability to customize their board templates. That notwithstanding, we've listened to you guys too. We've kept a lot more of the customizability you see in 2.0, but reworked it to make it as easy to use as drag-and-drop, just like you've come to expect from InvisionFree. The skin CSS has been reworked to be less confusing, but more customizable. No more pasting in large codes and hoping they work; you'll be able to pick codes and install or uninstall them with a few clicks. And with PHP mods that can take advantage of pulling data dynamically from your board's database, there's no limit to what you'll be able to do. We're unsure at this time how things will work, but we may be able to provide "hooks" into the board's db that you can use to create your own dynamic PHP mods. If not, rest assured that some of us on staff will be ready and willing to create some of these mods for you... those that the most people would find useful. If IF gets really huge, we'll still be here. And boy, do we hope it does. I'm excited.



Zach	Feb 28 2005, 01:14 AM Post #33
Missjayness Posts: 1,814 Group: Members Member #5,598 Joined: September 20, 2003	ProdigySX February 27, 2005 03:48 PM I can remember when server 2 was setup, and that wasnt that long ago, max 3 years. We are now on server 9!!!! Acually, I grabbed on of the very first s2's, and I got it late 2003. Less than 3 years.



Dennis	Feb 28 2005, 01:25 AM Post #34
Member Posts: 7,431 Group: Members Member #16,894 Joined: April 17, 2004 I'm Browsing With Chrome	Wow, Seth! Sounds really great. I ended up switching my board to some other software, and two weeks later, out comes the Domain Manager. It sucked.



Seth	Feb 28 2005, 02:04 AM Post #35
I has a pony Posts: 18,984 Group: Members Member #100 Joined: November 17, 2002	:X You're USING myBB? Switch back! For the love of the domo-kuns! :'(



AndrewF31	Feb 28 2005, 08:51 AM Post #36
Otorrinolaringologista Posts: 2,316 Group: Members Member #37,434 Joined: December 10, 2004	lol, IF2 sounds like those plug and play monitors. Looks like it's going to be real good. Can't wait! Only worry is the period in which the old codes don't work and the time new versions come out, unless you're planning on releasing the codes of some of the more popular ones with the update?



maxxillian	Feb 28 2005, 08:58 AM Post #37
Member Posts: 965 Group: Members Member #7,342 Joined: November 9, 2003	Matt L. February 27, 2005 09:06 PM This topic is turning into a proboard vs. invisionfree vs. phpbb war. :ph34r: :smiles and walks away: we'd know the outcome of that one



Veritech Pilot	Feb 28 2005, 09:01 AM Post #38
Bunny Boi of IFS Posts: 3,215 Group: Members Member #38,568 Joined: December 17, 2004	unless Duff's been giving wwx some info on the IF2 code i doubt any of the popular codes will be released with the update.



ProdigySX	Mar 12 2005, 12:36 PM Post #39
Member Posts: 68 Group: Members Member #1,675 Joined: May 18, 2003	deat February 28, 2005 12:14 AM ProdigySX February 27, 2005 03:48 PM I can remember when server 2 was setup, and that wasnt that long ago, max 3 years. We are now on server 9!!!! Acually, I grabbed on of the very first s2's, and I got it late 2003. Less than 3 years. Read my post, I said MAX 3 years ago that server two was set up, MAX.



Deleted Account	Mar 12 2005, 01:54 PM Post #40
Member Posts: 920 Group: Banned Member #42,065 Joined: January 20, 2005	Dude, it's not like he was insulting you or anything, just telling you the date.



Aka Tolken	Mar 12 2005, 02:28 PM Post #41
I'm a valued number. Posts: 1,239 Group: Members Member #5,260 Joined: September 13, 2003	deat February 28, 2005 05:14 AM ProdigySX February 27, 2005 03:48 PM I can remember when server 2 was setup, and that wasnt that long ago, max 3 years. We are now on server 9!!!! Acually, I grabbed on of the very first s2's, and I got it late 2003. Less than 3 years. I think you're thinking about s3. I thought it was s2 as well, but then I remembered I only arrived at InvisionFree when s2 was first opened. http://support.invisionfree.com/index.php?...ndpost&p=476634



alamir6	Apr 4 2005, 04:57 PM Post #42
Unregistered	You can actually make REALLY LONG URLs if you want to. It's a great service for people who like to type. For example try this long link (almost twice as large as it needs to be!) : http://ww2.6URL.com/F98/MOUKPTMHQQWDPEYRARYWJPRULMBQDBCXVODC XTVGZPFWYEOJJKHPSPATTLKIMASWENMCNLEZOIOVHWXJSJQOBOIMCESIVZBV NFVBWKNYXHXUQVGBBCZOKHRLLDBAESKOWFETFDWYGZNNZVOARBPGTGADUDRZ URTNFXTTOCFQPZWMINXAZAYFCYQDDVAZDQCMNXCSXBUPY
Unregistered


Candyguitar	Apr 4 2005, 05:10 PM Post #43
Member Posts: 258 Group: Members Member #49,361 Joined: March 29, 2005	Quote: How does Duffman make profit from this? I think profit is made when people pay for ad-removal.



Rory	Apr 4 2005, 05:12 PM Post #44
i;m a mess Posts: 6,147 Group: Members Member #451 Joined: January 25, 2003	All of the money made by advertisments and ad-removal etc. goes back into InvisionFree.



1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)


« Previous Topic · Community Chat · Next Topic »

Pages:
1
2
3

Track Topic · E-mail Topic

7:05 AM Jul 11

Board Links

Zathyus Links

Board Feed