Infopop have brought WWWThreads. The main coder for WWWThreads basicaly couldn't keep the ship afloat by himself anymore and needed help.
The BAD NEWS..... They will discontinue the Perl version. They are concentrating their efforts on the PHP version. Ugh Ugh Ugh Ugh!!!!
The new product will be called UBBThreads. The differences now with Infopop products are that UBBoard is flat-file based and php and it's crap(!) and the UBBThreads will be PHP/MySQL based and is a threaded message board (hence the name - where uuboard is not).
Here's the email I got about it (a while back):
In reply to:
Over the past 5 years WWWThreads has turned into one of the most fully
featured discussion forum products available. In spite of this, it's user
base has remained fairly small. In the past several months I have been
trying to figure out why that is. Basically, it is because on the backend,
this has been a one man show. Answering sales questions, processing orders,
etc. Doing these every day tasks has taken alot of my time away from
actually being able to develop the program. As the program grows it starts
to become harder to manage and it takes even more time to add new things.
So, how does all of the above affect you? I've decided to sell WWWThreads
to Infopop (http://www.infopop.com), the makers of UBB and OpenTopic. The
actual change will take place on Monday, October 15. Hopefully, this will
make sense to you as it is a very good thing for everyone. Infopop will be
purchasing WWWThreads, providing support, answering many of the day to day
questions, processing orders, etc. This means that you, the customer, will be
getting top notch support. I have always tried to give good support, but it
has sometimes been neglected due to everything that was going on. I will still
be the lead developer and providing support. And those of you who have special
licenses that don't expire, these will still be honored by Infopop.
You will also see a name change coming. UBB really started the discussion
board era and most everyone on the Internet knows the name. To take advantage
of this, WWWThreads will be known as UBBThreads. There may also be some other
changes coming, but just as you've been supportive of my efforts over the past
few years I hope you will be supportive of the new ownership. Together, we
hope to make UBBThreads into a market leader.
My $0.02.... go for the new, but very powerful and steady board from Gossamer Threads.... http://www.gossamer-threads.com. Pricey, but an outstanding board. Download it free of charge for 30 days. la di la. I gotta stop plugging at some point ;-)
Cheers
Wil
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(DH Regular)