Exciting news...new version of the forums software released

Following on from the recent upgrade to the forum software the latest release of IP.Board is now available, with dozens of new features, improvements and fixes, including revamped search engine, centralized notifications and a brand new mobile forum experience.

Revamped Search UPDATED...

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Dear Simon,

I realise I'm somewhat playing a broken record here but do the specs for the board state that any particular browsers are "recommended" or, more accurately, if some browsers A, B etc can be expected to give problems ? I hv met this kind of message on some other [anti-Microsoft] sites - "this site is tailored for Firefox, IE may work poorly and Opera will probably not function".
In my case I hv noticed that both Firefox (including no script + addblock add-ons) and Opera (no extras) will sometimes go to the (selected) latest post in a thread and other times (currently ) to the first post. However IE6 (!) seems to work perfectly (at this moment anyway) but invites loads of other unwelcome visitors. It's a minor irritation but I wondered if it's a known limitation / any other browsers which might hv more chance. Maybe you've specifically answered this query before in which case my apologies in advance. Seemed to me the board designers must know about such basic things.

I had been blaming the defect on my own Firefox settings somehow since nobody else ever mentions this problem and Opera which I recently switched to seemed to correct the situation. But now I'm not so sure.

Rgds / Charles.C

As well as new features the new version of the forums software has a number of bug fixes. I will look into the detail to see what is covered and post it here.

Hi Charles,

After searching for a while on the IPB website all I can tell you is version 3.1.1 fixes many dozens of bugs, provides numerous enhancements and a number of brand new features.

Let's hope the issues you have been experiencing are resolved by this update, I know it's been a pain for you.