Invision Power Board (IP.Board) 3.3.2

New features include user reputations, private conversations and a report center.

Here are some key features of "Invision Power Board (IP.Board)":

Forum Handling:
· Unlimited forums/subforums
· Forums with unread content appear highlighted
· Password-protected forums
· Redirect forums that link to external URLs
· Fine-grained forum permissions, including viewing, posting, replying, uploading and downloading
· Drag and drop forum ordering in AdminCP
· One-click 'mark forum as read'

Topic Handling:
· Pinned topics
· Poll topics, with private or public voting
· Inline topic preview, showing first and latest post snippets
· Various topic sorting options, including Recently Updated, alphabetical etc. at a forum level, and as a user preference
· Topic ratings

Posts & Posting:
· Rich post formatting with our fully-featured text editor
· Automatic embedding of videos from various video services
· MultiQuote for one-click quoting of posts, even from different forums
· Suite Feature Shared Media pane, allowing easy reuse of previously-posted content, like photos
· Suite Feature Our iconic emoticons, with the ability to easily import other emoticon packs
· Advanced attachment uploader allows multiple files to be attached at once, with progress indicator
· Suite Feature Tag topics, with option for open (user-defined tags) or closed (admin-defined tags) system
· Tag cloud can be configured to show on the Board index
· Topic prefixes (shows a specified tag as part of the topic title, e.g. "For sale")
· Bad Word filter to help prevent obscenities, with per-group on/off
· HTML posting support, with per-group on/off
· URL filtering for posted links, on a whitelist or blacklist basis
· Draft posts saved automatically in the editor
· New posts made while replying appear automatically on the page

Moderation Tools:
· Support for super moderators (with site-wide powers), individual forum moderators and group-based moderators
· New topics/posts can be queued, pending moderator approval (per-group and per-user basis)
· Ability to prune topics from forums that match certain criteria, such as age
· Multi-Moderation, allowing multiple moderation actions to be chained for one click access
· Deleted content can be reviewed and restored in the ModeratorCP
· Search by IP address to find all posts/members that match
· Report Center, allowing users to report topics/posts, and moderators to review them
· Members' display name history logged
· Moderating Team page shows super moderators and individual forum moderators
· Flag As Spammer tool, enabling instant ban of a member and deletion of all their content
· Topics can be managed: merged, renamed, moved, edited, deleted, split, unapproved and pinned
· Posts can be managed: edited, moved, merged, deleted and unapproved


Content Consumption & Sharing:
· Suite Feature Full content search, with quick search available on every screen
· Suite Feature View New Content area, showing visitors topics & posts they haven't seen before
· 'Follow' forums and topics, and get notified when they're updated
· Import RSS feeds as new topics in specified forums
· Syndicate topics via RSS feeds, with customization options
· Share content to social networks like Facebook & Twitter in one click
· Extensive notification events & methods, including inline popup, email & mobile push.
· Recent topics shown on Board index

Members:
· Anonymous sign in (hides the member's name and online status on the Active User list)
· Custom profile fields (variety of types; can be required at registration; with access permissions)
· Single sign-on support built in for Twitter, Facebook, OpenID, Live & OpenID. Other providers can be supported via a custom plugin
· Status updates can be shown on the Board index
· Profile customization via background images
· Integrated photo cropper for perfect profile photos
· User ratings
· Reputation points shown on profile, with admin-defined badges at certain thresholds
· Automatic member group promotion after defined post increments
· Auto-profile photo syncing with Gravatar, Twitter and Facebook support
· COPPA support, requiring parental permission for under-13s


Customization & Languages:
· Support for a different skin per forum
· Suite Feature Visual Skin Editor for point-and-click color customization
· Suite Feature Advanced skin editor for manual customization of templates & CSS
· Suite Feature WebDAV skinning allows local editing of templates & CSS
· Suite Feature Support for multiple skins, each with individual access permissions
· Suite Feature Fully translatable interface & AdminCP
· Suite Feature Language packs can be easily imported and exported
· Suite Feature Extensive hook system allowing functionality to be extended

Promote, Optimize & Monetize:
· Simple ad placement system, with user group permissions
· Suite Feature Friendly URL structure for humans and search engines
· Suite Feature Semantic HTML markup
· Support for microformats, including hCalendar, hCard, hAtom and Breadcrumbs
· Suite Feature Auto-generated meta tags, including description, canonical and noindex
· Search engine spiders are recognized and displayed in the Active Users list
· Suite Feature Bulk mailer tool for communicating with membership via email
· nofollow added to posted links
· Search engine spider activity is logged and compiled for viewing

Technologies:
· Suite Feature Support for IPv6
· Suite Feature Sphinx searching supported when available
· Suite Feature Caching support: Eaccelerator, Memcache, Xcache, Wincache & APC
· Suite Feature CDN support for static resources
· Suite Feature Minify built in
· Suite Feature Option to serve Javascript libraries from Google

Requirements:

· PHP 5.1 or higher
· MySQL 4.1 or higher
· SPL extension
· DOM XML extension
· GD2 extension

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· There are no new features except for changes in IP.Board to support customization features for the new IPS iOS App and a new privacy policy option.