It's housed in an underground facility. You wont be seeing it until public beta at the soonest. Heck, just the other day a photographer was trying to take pictures and Capps shot him dead.

That Capps... you gotta be careful around that dude... he broke my arm one time for trying to get a picture of Infopop's top-secret next-gen graemlin technology.

I KNOW YOU HAVE IT, INFOPOP!!! I WILL NOT REST UNTIL GRAEMLINS 2.0 IS MINE!!!

---Jamin

*evil, bone-chilling cackle*

:puts feather away: it wasn't me!

Is this product still to be released in the spring? Any place we can go to read more information? Anyone testing the product current? Will it be cheaper?

So many questions....So many questions...

I will be looking forward to it..

Will it be released in the spring: As far as I know

Anwhere we can go to read more info: There is an announcement at UBBCentral about the new product, nothing has been said since then.

Anyone testing the product: There is a beta team.

Will it be cheaper: If I told you I'd have to kill you.

I don't think it's going to be released until "next generation".

Is there any way to be automatically notified when this new product is ready? I'd like to be amongst the first to run it.

We'll most likely send out an email to the members here, that should do it for anyone who accepts email from the site

I want to see some screen shots! or beta sites!

Thanks. Back to your regularly scheduled flogging.

I can guarentee you that there are none of either lol

Please... for the love of everything sacred and holy... give us SOMETHING! Give us a screenshot. Give us a release date. Give us access to just ONE beta demo site. I don't care. Just give us ANYTHING!

I read in Infopop's (and/or Groupee's [*shudder*]) May newsletter that the NGP is behind schedule. This makes me sad. You have no idea how much I loathe PunBB. I originally moved away from Eve, and into PunBB, hoping that it would be a temporary thing, maybe a month or so until the NGP came out. But I absolutely hate PunBB, and I hate it more and more as I continue to use it. I really don't like phpBB. I really don't like Phorums. And I really don't like any of the other freebie forum packages.

It is this sheer hatred of PunBB that is giving me thoughts of... *gasp*... buying a vB license. Or even IPB, God help me. They're pretty. They seem (from the limited amount I've been able to see them on other sites) relatively easy to customize. They've got fairly big development/modding communities. And more importantly, they are available NOW, which means they would allow me to instantly rid myself of the horrible scourge to the forums market that is PunBB.

Seriously. Infopop. Groupee. Whatever you want to be called now. Just give us SOMETHING. Something to reassure me that I won't be disappointed after waiting this long, and suffering through PunBB for this long. That's all I ask. I really don't know how much longer I can deal with PunBB... even vBulletin is looking better than that...

---Jamin

Look at threads... look at classic... look at eve... now combine and swig back some vodka and there is NG

hehe, I don't think the beta team has rec'd copies of the new stuff to upload, hence the 'we're behind' speech www.ianspence.com will probably be the first place to see it in action.

Anybody that'd use software named punbb really deserves a lotta misery. I've never even heard of it



Why didn't you just move back to threads? Wouldn't have been that difficult to import and make pretty (yes, it can be made to look pretty, just not in its stock form ). Would be nice to be given the next estimated time of release instead of just "we're behind schedule".

As previously stated (in a few forums) some beta sites are:
www.undergroundnews.com
www.ianspence.com
www.nightly.net

just to name a few... None of the beta testers have open beta boards up

well there you go

In retrospect, I should have moved back to Threads. But several of my forum members used PunBB, and recommended it. On paper, it's actually not a half bad system... in practice, though, it's retarded. Sorta like communism.

At any rate, if this development stall continues much longer, I'll probably switch to Threads, as soon as I get the time to write my own import script. Took me HOURS to pull all my content out of Eve and into PunBB. Had to write my own script and all, gigantic pain in the hind quarters. Actually, on a side note, my membership expired before 6.5 was out, so the newest one I've got is 6.4, before the importer was added. So it probably would have taken just as long to import to Threads from Eve, too. Oh well. Lesson learned.

---Jamin

At this point, I'd just like to hear something - anything - to give us an idea of when we should expect the new product. The last newsletter left me more confused than ever.

I'm sure all of us understand that delays happen and programs don't always run the way we expect them to. But I've got multiple systems waiting for a PHP-based board before I can put them online. If it's going to be months before it's ready, I'd like to know that so I can consider other options (Threads, etc.) and go ahead and get the rest working. On the other hand, if it's just around the corner, it seems pointless to move everything over to Threads or another option only to turn around and do it all again.

Know what I mean?

it's not just around the corner, I can guarantee that

Agreed with Ian, it's a ways off before we expect to have our beta sites up.

I'd reccommend that you sign up for threads; afterall the license conversion to the new product for current licenses should (keyword should) be free. Additionally I'd also reccommend purchasing a license now rather than waiting for NG to come out...