History of IPS

Invision Power Services (IPS) was created by Matt Mecham and Charles Warner in 2002, after leaving Jarvis Entertainment Group (which produced Ikonboard). Their first product was IPB, another forum package, which quickly brings together a community of former Ikonboard users.

Although software developers originally maintained that it will remain a free package, in 2004, ended its IPB communicated freely for non-commercial use. A trial version download Invision Power Board 2.0.0 PF versions 1 and 2 were made available, but were abandoned on 27 September, 2004. He was replaced by a free demo with restrictions of 5000 posts, the son of 1000, 200 members and other restrictions, thus ending its claims that IPB will be free forever.

Many users have been agreed to by this, and some have Mecham attack allegations of copyright infringement. On 1 July 2005, IPS has changed the demo period of 15 days to 5 days and a few months later he was again reduced to 24 hours, and now he was reduced to 8 hours for private use.

IPB 2.1 was released on 13 September 2005. The administrator control panel has been completely redesigned, and display options have been renovated to feature visible text properties (Rich Text Editor), such as bold, italic, underline, etc. have also been posted refaite styles, and a number of other changes have been made including the use of Ajax in many new features.