Aqua-Soft ForumsIs invision board free? On their site it cost 60 bucks. thanks.
btw is wardriving legal in CT,NY,MA,RI
Invision Power Board Question
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There is a "non-registed" version for free, you are not REQUIRED to pay but you won't get extra features.
where do you get the non registered. Where did flarexd get his? (flarex.tk)
Originally posted by htmlishard@Jan 17 2004, 02:14 AMIs invision board free? On their site it cost 60 bucks. thanks.
btw is wardriving legal in CT,NY,MA,RI
whats wardriving 
stick with vB, its better
, why do you want invision board?
Invision board operate a full, unlimited demo, which allows full use of the software with no restrictions other than that you must leave the invision board copyright notice at the bottom. There are no extra features in the paid version, apart from the support you can get from invision staff (which you dont need).
stick with vB, its better
Not really... Invision has surpassed vB 2.x now... only vB 3 (which is still in beta and rather buggy) matches it. Plus vB don't operate a demo scheme of any kind, oh, and from personal experience, the staff there are asses.
Note: Invisionboard 2 beta 1 should be out near the end of the month, so they say... Lots of new features etc 
Cheers,
Originally posted by grim53@Jan 16 2004, 08:44 PMwhats wardriving
Driving, or walking for the wheelless folk, around with a laptop and a wireless internet card, finding open wireless networks if memory serves me right. Sometimes, you can have teams to see who can get the most.
But, how does this pertain to the topic?
lol, htmlishard is my next door neighbor, and he went out with one of his friends, i couldn't go though...
, i think my wi fi cards broken.
vb got the dirtiest coding :S ack
Allow me to be a hypocrite:
You should also look at PHPBB, Its completely OPEN SOURCE, which is better than free. The new version which is in beta (but stable) completely matches IPB. And the stable version is pretty good as well.
Just because its open source doesnt mean its good.
Seems to me that we have ignored openbb in this... Perfectly good forum software.. Its fast and reliable and not too harsh on the eyes Don't know if its in IPB's league, but hey...
Cheers,
For customization, I feel that vB is really simple. I was only using vB for literally 2 minutes before I knew how to customize the look of your forums. phpBB is not that customizable unless you really get your hands dirty. And right now I am having problems with customizing IPB. But, IPB is indeed a nice piece of software.
I just got up the board.
Just Changed severs and cut the hosting from 9.99 a month to 4.99 and I got double the features including the board.
Originally posted by wizard@Jan 18 2004, 06:48 PMFor customization, I feel that vB is really simple. I was only using vB for literally 2 minutes before I knew how to customize the look of your forums. phpBB is not that customizable unless you really get your hands dirty. And right now I am having problems with customizing IPB. But, IPB is indeed a nice piece of software.
lol... don't you think Wizard that if it's soooo easy to customize (Vb) it's because it's coded like... a pig???? well it is, the functions are everywhere in the files, it's the same base of code since Vb2.x!!!!! Vb is a very good forum manager but... soooo hungry !!!! if you customize it a bit you rapidely grow to 25 or more queries!! and it's worth on Vb3 What decide is the price of Vb.... wouarf...
IPB has been designed to be better organized in the files AND in the db, the templates customization is a "mr. hankey" but very powerfull when you have differents styles... i take an example of the DB difference:
vb => 47 tables, 1,7Mb for the templates (2 templates set i made + the original)
total=>170Mb BW/month: 7go
i ported the stuff under IPB cause i couldn't get my license updated
ipb => 37 tables, 900kb for relatively the same templates
total => 130Mb BW/month: 5go with about the same pages view per month
Waow... not the same... even if i made a lighter style under IPB, the diference is significant!!
I tried PhpBB but... i'm not conviced, Vb, PhpBB and WBB are all jurasic...
IPB rox for most of the use that people need Vb is good but not very cheap!!
Well, I just need to figure out how it's processing the pages. The only thing I have figured out so far is to get rid of the "(Powered by Invision Power Board)" tag. I have yet to compare the bandwidth. I am not that far yet.
Just wondering if anyone had considere IkonBoard. I know a few people who use it (although most haven't been bothered to update recently) and they say it's pretty good, although I only have knowledge of UBB which is a complete ass to use, and too god damned expensive :rant: (Please excuse me if that offended you).
@Timan: In customizing IPB, how exactly do you add your own custom badges?
The way I found is you set up a new title in Members/Ranks and put a minimum amount of posts a user needs to have to automattically get the badge. But, I look on a few other forums, including this one, and see that people with custom badges have a few posts. Now what I'd like to know is, what if someone else reaches the same amount of posts as a person with a custom badge? Will they also get the badge?
Don't know if thay makes any sense, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
Originally posted by Acaeris@Jan 19 2004, 04:24 PMJust wondering if anyone had considere IkonBoard. I know a few people who use it (although most haven't been bothered to update recently) and they say it's pretty good, although I only have knowledge of UBB which is a complete ass to use, and too god damned expensive :rant: (Please excuse me if that offended you).
Ikonboard is nasty. Just... nasty. IPB is nicest from my localhost-only experience. 
Originally posted by Ludge@Jan 19 2004, 05:26 PMIkonboard is nasty. Just... nasty.
I used to know some people who used Ikonboard, a couple of years ago... It was ok for its time, but it's low on features now compared to the current generation of boards, and like most cgi-based boards, it seems really slow compared to php based systems like ipb, openbb, phpbb and vb. I still stick by ipb for now, unless someone else releases somehting that manages to surpass it /shrug
Cheers,
I wouldn't know about the cgi version. I just tested out myIkonboard (It's low on features but that's probably because I'm testing the free version). They are currently working on converting IkonBoard to PHP as far as I know but there hasn't been any news on myikonboard since October apparently.
neway, enough of that. I'd say go with IPB, unless you want to self program one in PHP (not as hard as it may seem).