[]Medar said:
Jamie I respect your enthusiasm, as I once 'loved' Threads above all others as well.
But when Groupee decided to hang its 'years long' users as well as the newest ones out to dry - they slowly built up a lot of anger toward Infopop and/or Groupee. This was not an overnight occurrance.
Go to ubbcentral.com and look at the boards, especially at the inactivity. Forums were heavily moderated, posts deleted, people banned, etc etc - all for ASKING for support.
While I share the same sentiment in that UBB7 is hopefully a great product and better than its predecessors...I can also say I have gone from 5 sites with UBBThreads, down to one. And that is completely because of Groupee. [/]
Hi Medar,
yes I have to say that I probably missed a lot of the whole drama. As I said, I am fairly new here and have only read about it. That is why I probably are missing a lot of information.
I understand that UBB-users had to wait a long time for the new downloadable product and that it was initially planned for Summer 2005. Now it obviously is not going to be a new product but an ugrade of UBBthreads.
What I don't understand is: why were users so mad against Groupee? Was it because they were hoping for new features?
Personally I have to say that I DID choose UBBthreads in October last year. And I chose it because it did not have all these whistles and bells. So my point of view may be different fromn other people's.
Also, I understand that UBBclassic users were afraid that support and development of their product was likely to end. But now that I see that Groupee offers a switch to UBBthreads, I think that's a really fair solution. Classic is still a Perl product and we're in the year 2006 now. Basically ALL perl scripts have been replaced by PHP and MySQL.
What were your reasons to be angry with Groupee? I hope I'm not waking any sleeping dogs here but being a new member I would like to hear a bit more about the drama in order to form my own opinion about it. So far I am really happy with Groupee and for me UBBthreads is one of the fest forum softwares out there. So I'm a Grouppe-fan and not looking for any Groupee-bashing. BUt I understand this is a controversial topic.
So far, however, I don't see anything that Groupee has done wrong. I don't think it is necessarily a disadvantage that they're not bringing out new updates and features for the board software constantly. I would rather describe it as ad advantage and it was the reason why I chose the board software.
