Hello every one and Merry Christmas!
Alright, so I’ve installed the IPB 3 Beta and I’ve played around with it for a bit and I think this it’s going to be an awesome forum software. The vast amount of features is outstanding. One of the features I am looking forward to is the API. With this feature hopefully I will be able to make any other Faintmedia website work with your Faintmedia account. I am also looking forward to the new Hook system. I already have a few ideas that I will be trying. The template editing area also looks outstanding some of the stuff is buggy right now but once it is sorted out it should be great. I’m also really liking the new announcement feature which allows you to post an announcement to specific forums or all forums. The expiry date is also a very handy thing to have as well. Another reason I like it is when it’s posted it isn’t actually posted in a forum, It has it’s own separate area.
Faintmedia’s forums will be getting changed up once the new version is released. We have a new forums skin designed so once it becomes a more stable version we will begin working on it. We also hope to do some changes to the main site to integrate them together better. One of the things is going to be the private message pop up. So if someone sends you a PM you will be able to access it from any page on the site. We will also be changing up the account area to fit more with the forums and it will be a lot easier to use. We will also be changing the account information area in the top right corner to fit with the forums better.
Finally, I have noticed lots of people on the development boards complaining about “oh it’s too slow” or “Why can’t we have the old skin?” seriously if you haven’t looked there are tons of these posts! For people that think it’s too slow they have to remember it is a beta and it is encoded. It is not yet optimized so please wait until it’s out of beta before complaining. I don’t understand why people are worried about the skin. I would have to say that most people are going to re-skin it and not use the default skin and even if you want the old 2.3.6 why not skin it yourself. Don’t know how to skin? Why not learn? Don’t want to skin? Well I’m sure that someone is going to come out with that skin so just be patient.
Well that’s all for now. Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!