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That's a different company (Invision Power Services). This post refers to the design collaboration software company (InVisionApp).
by istvanp 3y ago
That's a different company (Invision Power Services). This post refers to the design collaboration software company (InVisionApp).
- codetrotter 3y agoThe most mindblowing thing is that they still exist. https://invisioncommunity.com/ https://invisioncommunity.com/ I thought everyone just installed cracked pirate copies ("nulled", as it was called) of IPB. How are they making money? Who is paying them for their software?
- throwup238 3y agocPanel most likely.
- Animats 3y agoIt's software as a service now. They host the forums.
- ajdude 3y agoNot exclusively, but they're definitely going towards that route. I'm still paying them huge amounts of money for the license to host their software on my own servers but people who do that is a shrinking population.
- benbristow 3y agoRunning web software without updates from some unknown source doesn't sound like a very good idea. Lots of stories out there of communities using "nulled" software which got hacked because of a backdoor left in.
- Dalewyn 3y agophpBB[1], vBulletin[2], and Simple Machines Forum[3] also still exist. The internet was amazing back then. [1]: https://www.phpbb.com/ https://www.phpbb.com/ [2]: https://www.vbulletin.com/ https://www.vbulletin.com/ [3]: https://www.simplemachines.org/ https://www.simplemachines.org/
- ThatPlayer 3y agoXenForo is made of former lead vBulletin developers. I see that a lot more than vBulletin nowadays.