[]I do find it terribly odd that infopop does not have a demo board available for customers[/]The current templates use hard-coded colors of red, hot pink and green to test the CSS classes. I assure you that you don't want to see it in that state, as you will want to gouge your eyeballs out with a rusty spoon after getting your first sight.
That and the templates are far from final. We don't have any images either. Actually, I've kind of grown to like it without the images. Whatever...
Yeah, making a decision may well be hard. I realize that the last few Threads releases hardly inspire confidence in our abilities to get things done right in a timely manner.
There's also the whole feature consideration going on... as stated many times before, the 1.0 release won't have much in the way of new features. It borrows the best from both Classic and Threads, so each side will get a few new things... but nothing really, honestly new.
We also will not ever take the "kitchen sink" approach to adding features... so yes, some other products will always have more features, but how many of them do you end up using every day? When we add something, we'd want all of our customers to be able to use it, instead of the vast minority. How often would you use a feature to put one user on everyone's ignore list?
Of course, at the same time, there are things that we know we're missing that we want to get done, like a better way to split topics, topic merging, and other administrative tasks. There's a difference between a speciality one-off feature like the global ignore I mentioned, and something that's of real use to most people, like better thread management tools. (Insert subforum hand-waving here, sorry
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I can't give you a feature list right now, but one will be available when we finally release the blasted thing.
One thing that I can tell you we'll have is optional Groupee integration for existing license holders. I can't imagine that most of you would use that, however, so it's of no use to you.
There's also plenty of really, really cool new things that those that dabble in the code will appreciate... but those will also have to wait.
Everyone should feel free to post any questions about the product here, though I may not be able to answer them.
