The Geek

Sorry for the late response Matt, I just saw this. Thanks for the clarification, it helps!

Just saw that Matt. Great news :)

I mean, blog comments. New comments aren't easy to see IMO I like the 'New Content' result page where you can easily see New Content for each section, however many times those sections are empty. For instance you View New Content in your forums then click the blogs tab and its empty. It would be nice to have the tab highlighted if there is new content in that section. I would think this could be done by a user field that stores the last date that section was accessed. It wouldn't be as smooth as using read markers, but suspect read markers would be a serious resource drain. Thanks for the feedback. I am drawn to the Sphinx support, however I have also heard that there are some issues with sphinx (haven't really looked close into it yet though). IMO IPB's site still feels really sluggish when searching or viewing new content. Still on the fence about vB. I agree with your comments regarding their MO, however they still ahve the ability to stay the leader, its just that the gap is rapidly closing. I need to understand IPB more to be 100% sold on the system and I am lacking the time right now to do that :(

What are your thoughts on the swiftness of the search. Its hard to get a good compare between vB and IP in this area because I am unsure of either site hardware. I bring this up because the 'view new content' (only search I have really used yet) seems really lethargic on all the sites I have been on. Considering how swift and responsive the rest of the sites seem to be, the search seems like its choking up somewhere. Or is it just me? To me, search responsiveness (and of course relevance) is crucial. Couple other things: 1- Is there a way to not show already read threads in the 'new content' results (kind of like vB) or do I just need to get used to it again? 2- Do recent blog comments show up in 'New content'? 3- Love the new content page overall but would love a New Content portal that would show last x activity from specific zones. I think this would be fricken huge. Can this be done with Invision Community Pages? 4- Would love for the 'New Content' tabs to specifically highlight what sections have new content without having to browse to them. TA

This is true and IP looks to clearly hold the potential to win the 'making major mods' category (much better than vB) however at this stage I cannot see (yet) IP ever having as many mods as vB simply because it lacks the ability to pop a few lines of php into a (vB) hook. The process of putting together an IP hook right now is more cumbersome to me than vB and I don't think that is totally down to 'the newness' of it all.