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It's that time again! We're rolling out a few more updates to the site, most of which are outlined below. Feel free to post any questions, comments, or concerns. I've removed the three previous Question & Answer challenge questions at the registration screen and replaced them with three new questions. I plan to add additional questions over the next few days. These questions will be progressively harder than previous iterations, solely as an effort to combat continued registrations by spam bots. Please remember to do your part and report spam posts / profiles as you see them! Regular members may no longer sell licences in our Marketplace. This includes licences for IPS, XenForo, or vBulletin. The risk of scamming is far too great, and neither of these companies officially support licence transfers. However, trusted members may continue to sell licences. What is a trusted member? Anyone belonging to the following usergroups: Staff (Admin, HM, Mod), Veteran, Support Team, Uploader, or Retired Staff. Essentially anyone but Members and +Donators. Also, our Marketplace now requires a minimum of fifteen (15) posts to create or reply to any topics there. This will not prevent users from viewing the topics, so if you list an external contact method, users will still be able to make an attempt to initiate a trade. We added this new restriction to prevent new users from offering services with their first post, and to bring our site-wide posting restrictions parallel to one another. As you should already be aware, to submit requests or use our shoutbox you are required to have fifteen (15) posts as well. Which brings me to... The previous post restriction for sending / receiving Private Messages on WebFlake has been increased from ten (10) to fifteen (15), to synchronize with other posting restrictions. New awards have been added to the site! See them all on our Awards page. New posting achievements as well! All awards except posting achievements and your award for your first upload have to be manually issued. If you believe you're missing an award, please contact an Administrator. Our Veterans usergroup has been purged and all retired Staff have been moved to their very own usergroup: Retired Staff. We've received a lot of feedback from the community about this, most of it not so enthusiastic about the current use of our Veterans usergroup. As a result, we're restoring that usergroup to the community and have even promoted Lock Down as its first member. Why are the colors so similar? Simple. Retired Staff are no different than our members. We don't want any presumed hierarchy between the two groups. The only difference between the two is extra perks, such as access to +Donator areas and expanded caps. They've all earned that much. New usergroup logo for Retired Staff: More updates in the coming days. Stay tuned!

Okay, I struggled for about an hour or so getting this to work properly. All the tutorials I found on the net were somewhat outdated since Facebook updated the way they have their app setup now. I figured to save others the frustration, I would post how I got mine to work! The steps are as follows (I will try to make them the most accurate and easiest way possible)! I have also included images to help those who like visual instructions in the spoiler tags below each step! You will need to be logged in to both your Facebook account and your IP.Board's Admin Control Panel (Duh, lol) Go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps/ and click the "Create New App" button. Now, in "Display Name" enter what you want it to be named. The best thing is just the name of your website. Then select a category (I chose Entertainment) and then click the "Create App" button. You will need to also enter a captcha when you do. Just make sure you type the characters correctly (although if you have been on the internet for longer than a minute, I am sure you are used to captchas ) In the sidebar on the left hand side, click on "Settings". Now enter an email address for the contact email (this is required). You can use the same email address as your Facebook profile or the admin email you used for your IP.Board. It is up to you! Click the "Save Changes." button. Next, click the "Add Platform" button and click "Website". Now input the URL that you use for your board into the "Site URL" textbox. (This includes the subdomain if it is in one.) - Click the "Save Changes" button. Now, in the sidebar click on "App Details" and scroll down till you see the "Configure App Center Permissions" button. Click on it. Next, where it says "Auth Token Parameter" click the dropdown and select the "URI Fragment (#access_token=...)" option. Now where it says "App Center Permission", enter in the following permissions (it will bring up selectable things as you type so when you are typing, if you see it listing below as you type, click on it.): email, read_stream, publish_actions. Click the "Save" button. Next, click back on "Settings" in the left sidebar and click on the "Advanced" tab. Find the section "Deauthorize Callback URL". In the textbox for Deauthorize Callback URL you will be using this URL, tailored to your boards url: http://your-board-url.com/interface/facebook/index.php When you are finished click the "Save Changes" button at the bottom of the page! Next, click on the "Status & Review" button in the left sidebar, and click the little toggle button next to "Do you want to make this app and all its live features available to the general public?" to enable the App to be activated. This will bring up a dialog box asking if you want to make it public. Click the "Confirm" button. Now, login and go to your IP.Board's Admin Control Panel. Under the "Application & Modules" category on the left sidebar, click "Community Enhancements". Then, click on "Facebook". This step will be pretty long (long-ish) but here goes. Go back to your facebook app stuff and click the "Dashboard" button in the left side Sidebar. You will see some stuff that says "App ID" and "App Secret" click the "Show" button next to App Secret to display it. You are going to copy both these fields into their appropriate equivalent textbox fields in the Facebook settings stuff we just opened in IP.Board. (e.g. copy App ID into Application ID, Secret into Secret key). Keep all the other settings the way they are on the IP.Board side and click the "Save" button. NOTE: If you keep the 'Facebook "Real name/Display name" handling' option as "Allow User's Choice" you MUST have the setting to let users choose display names ON. (This can be found and edited in System Settings -> "Members" tab -> Username Restrictions -> Display Name Restrictions -> Allow display names) Now go into the register or login pages on your board (you must be logged out of your admin account but still logged into facebook, obviously ) and test to see if it works. If it does, it will open facebook and ask if you want to have the app gain access to your info (email and profile info used for registration). And if you follow the prompts accordingly, you will be linked back to your forums with the option to use the Facebook login to create a new forum account or link it to an already existing one! That's it! You have successfully setup the Facebook login/registering feature on your board! Congrats! All these steps worked on my end, doing it twice, both succeeding. If it worked for you, let me know. If it doesn't work, also let me know and we can troubleshoot. If you liked this post and thought it was helpful, a nice PM or message is always appreciated as well as voting this post up to help out my Rep. Cheers!

If your warning to open a social network then I would recommend PHP-Dolphin.

Username: Skreamzja First Name: John Age: 20 Rate your English out of 10: 9 Additional languages spoken: N/A Software specialization: IP.Board IPB skills: 9.99/10 XenForo skills: 7/10 vBulletin skills: 6/10 WordPress skills: 7/10 HTML / CSS skills: 10/10 Other qualifications: I'm a skin developer and graphical designer. What can you bring to the team?: Let's just say I know how the site rolls and how to manage sites like these, So I have a fair bit of knowledge and understatement of the jobs and what needs to be done. I'm here to help and provide with support.

Updating the FAQ now. Thanks for the reminder.

Can you provide a link to your forum board? It seems with a quick glance of the images you have some .css issues.

We need some more information. What will the website be based on?

I'm pretty firmly convinced that IPB 4.0 will kill XF in terms of features and functionality, so I would choose IPB if I were you. Sure, XF has loads of mods, but is that a good thing? The more mods there are, the more you know how many features are missing from the core software. XF is great but IPB is just better in so many ways.

for community's like this it would be an understatement for someone to tell you to use one rather than another. Because when it comes down to it it's what ever forum software you feel more comfortable with and understand the functions and flexibility of it the most. Personally I'd choose IP.Board since I know how to bend it backwards ( metaphorically ). But for people to say Webflake use IP.Board rather than xenForo because IP.Board has all they need for a community like this, Well it's like your judging someone with no idea of what they have done. Because xenForo actually have all the applications and hooks that are related to what are used here on webflake. So it's just down to your personal decision on what you are wanting your forum board to be using.

Personally I would pick IPB. I am waiting for 4.0 http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/400418-40-front-end-responsiveness-round-up/

Well, IPB suits webflake as it has everything they need, Xenforo and IPB vary from each other as they've got some different features. Lets say if I was going to make a gaming community I would probably choose XenForo because it is good for gaming communities as it has a few more gaming Modifications than IPB.

It really depends on the purpose of what you're going to be using it for.

A great site to create names from is Band Name Maker. Although it says band name, you can get many names for lots of things. For example, you would could type the word design and it would bring up a list of suggested names. Example :: Design Commode Toad Of The Design America Till Design Design Nun Design Weed Design Legacy Design Sensation Design Gag Design Frog Disabled Design

Agreed with Debug. Something that catches the eyes of the audience, yet relates to designing. I'll think of some names in a bit!

I wouldn't suggest anything with "design" in the name. It's overused.

Well it shoud be related with web design,in that case from the domain name users can get an idea about what that website is. good examples; militaryphotos.tld militaryforum.tld freewebhosting.tld earncash.tld But most of popular names are already used sp you need to be creative and in same time do not register to long domain name max 14-15 charters

Welcome to Webflake.

Go to admin -> skin_cp -> cp_skin_global.php and find: and replace it with this: Save and go to admin -> applications -> core -> extensions -> dashboardNotifications.php and find: and replace with this: Save and you're done. In general, this works for 3.2.x, 3.3.x and 3.4.x.

Alright, alright, enough fun. Let's get back on topic.