I have looked through these forums, and found a post that stated that AllenAyres is in talks with Ted O'Neil to "open source" UBB.classic. While UBB.threads is the better solution for large communities, there will always be those who would prefer to stick to UBB.classic. It would be nice to see UBB.classic return, perhaps as free software.
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