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thank you for letting this discussion take place. i don't think any of the posts have been flaming any product. there are obviously some users who are die-hard supporters of certain companies, but that is exactly what i wanted to hear.
i don't think anyone here would discredit any one company's programmers... and i think for the most part, we are all responsible site owners, and for that matter BBS consumers with some of the same 'real world' problems... thats why this forum and this discussion are so very valuable.
i'm personally at this moment leaning towards holding steady with 6.5.1 (fending off sometimes daily complaints from users) and wait to see what infopop.1337/NG has to offer.
I do find it terribly odd that infopop does not have a demo board available for customers, and perspective customers. honestly, there can't be anything terribly ground-breaking in the bbs software world that hasn't been thought of or done. I think they owe it to loyal customers to at least publish a full feature list, and/or post links to sites running the beta. instead i search google for a possible beta site that his been indexed.
i have even gone so far to run some trial months on .eve. I really want to make things work with infopop, but sometimes it just seems very hard to make it work.
re: open source boards. I share the same concerns with them. A site similar to ours was terribly hacked due to their phpBB. Unfortunately it seems that any downloadable bbs that is popular will be combed for security holes. But on that same note, the lack of frequent patches for .threads has really upset me, and my confidence in infopop's business practices.
i'm guessing/hoping that this thread has been forwared along and read by some of the senior management of infopop. and hopefully, these same folks might address their customers and share the vision... this is the internet folks, we have a short attention span... and we, and our users have become acustom to getting what they want, now.
thanks for the feedback all. again, this has been a great community, and IP's .classic and .threads have been stellar products that have both built my online community. I just hope we can keep the streak rolling!
