Unfortunately, I belive it will be about the same price as Threads. But remember: QUALITY OVER QUANTITY!

we have no information on this yet. It could very well be aligned on the price of ubb.classic or even cheaper in order to compete head to head with vb.

One thing we can count on is our licenses for both products being able to be converted to the new product without any additional charge.

This means that if you have a license with either product that you'll be able to just pay a member area renewal to download the new product (from what I got out of the anouncement anyway).

Thats very disapointing...still I imagin it's January and demos of this new product should be released soon so, when they are I guess that will be the deciding factor if I switch to UBB. I rember that before I learned webdesign and coding I loved UBB forums. Once I had learned webdesign and coding eveyone I asked had instructed me that UBB was unreasonably expensive, blew and was no longer the top forum softwear and to either go with IPB or vB and I went with vB.

Well, I figure it like this; you get a base package from Infopop and you can apply modifications to it with the large community here at UBBDev... No feature? ask for a mod ... Heck, that's how some mod's make it as a feature...

Are any of the betas on the web yet for us to see and play with?

I couldn't wait and made the switch to VB. I'm a long time supporter of UBB.Classic ever since version 5.x came out. I upgraded to 6.5 when it came out, was planning to do a 6.7 upgrade but waited until the smilie mod to come out and upgrade. The mod showed up on UBBDev, but it was an incorrect link, so I PM'ed one of the staff members and posted in the thread to ask for the correct link. No one replied to my post or PM (PM was read BTW), and I waited for months. I really hope you guys can come up with something good, because VB is years and years ahead of UBB from what I can see.

I love the UBB, it's easy to mod and most requests posted to the requests forum are looked at by more than one person; I just wish i had the cash for another license for one of my other sites

Steven replied to my post on Infopop Nation that the next-gen product is in private beta currently. "Private beta," I would assume, entails the number of people who are allowed to download and install the product. But the whole point of a beta is to get it tested by a decent number of people...

So...

Does anyone have a viewable site running from the next-gen product yet? Can you provide links to said site?

My users are starting to demand that I move away from Eve because of the slowness (no matter how much I personally may like it), so I need to start thinking about alternatives. And I'm hoping the next-gen downloadable will be my solution. So if anyone's got a site I can look at just for a basic overview of the script, I would greatly appreciate it.

EDIT: I was impatient and didn't read the few recent posts about the same question. Sorry. You'd think having as many posts as I do would automatically preclude me from making n00b mistakes like that. Apparently not. Anyhoo... if anything's changed since the last time someone asked for a demo site... you know what to do.

---Jamin

Wow... apparently my post has been deleted from Infopop Nation. God forbid I mention the fact that my users think Eve is slow. Even with that whole paragraph about how much I personally love Infopop, too.

I'm so glad I got a warning and all. (Oh, wait, I didn't...)

I'm really not sure what to say at this point.

I guess this sorta says something about my loyalty to Infopop...

---Jamin

According to the Infopop News Letter there is a "feature complete" date towards the end of March. As for Private Beta think of it as an alpha period to assist in coding of the overall project (finding bugs, requesting updates etc).

At this time there are 0 public beta boards to tinker with; however, some of them will be:
http://www.undergroundnews.com/
http://www.ianspence.com/
http://www.nightly.net/

and possibly flave?

you mean flare

oh, did they change their logo?

I've been using vBulletin for so long now.. I think Infopop starting thinking about too many different things to maintain their lead. They started it all.. I hope they come back with another great product...

Hey Sal How are the 80's treating you?

Hi Allen! Oh, God.. There's so much drama there.. The site is still doing well, but my new baby is the Cadillac site.. Boy, did that thing take off like a rocket.. Otherwise.. You're the only reason I stuck with UBB for so long when I did.. You made my boring message board something very interesting.. Thank you.

You're welcome Good to see you around, come see us again in a couple months when we have something to show off

I'll be waiting.. I signed up to be a beta tester but somebody went insane and decided not to get back to me. heh. I've only been using these message boards since the mid 80s. (Yes, before the internet as we know it)

I've been watching this Next Gen thing rather intensely for a while now, and it's very exciting!

Maybe someone can clear up one question I have... I know a lot is still up in the air, but if "feature complete" is supposed to be near the end of March, what would that mean exactly? Public beta? Or should we expect to wait into April or beyond for a public beta?

I know private beta is going on now, and it's great to know that bugs are being worked out, but even though I've been keeping an eye on the private beta sites I know of, I still haven't managed even a tiny peek at anything NG. Should we expect something to "pop up" (in unfinished form) before the end of March, or am I getting this all backwards?

I'm fine with being patient, just want to get a better handle on what sort of timeline we're looking at.