Well, I concur with the above comments regarding Coppermine.
What's amusing is that we have an RFP out right now for someone to take over the management of our computing services including our Forum. One of the first responders, said "Your forum is currently running under a product called UBB. I find it to be very outdated and, frankly, kind of ugly."
Ha!!! Sometimes we don't see ourselves in the mirror, the same way that others do.
---Ignoring Coppermine (or any others), it appears that in spite of all of the UBB upgrades to get to 7.6 that we are woefully behind in offering new or expanded functionality. I don't mean to dredge up this old topic from 4 or 5 or 6 years ago.... but I can't imagine how many new customers we're seeing these days. Any insights?
Whats missing from UBB.threads 7.6.0? Please enlighten us?
Since you care enough to complain, and If you complain about there being a problem, and you dont do anything to improve its conditions, you are being part of the that problem.
As relating to your RFP responder's comment, "I find it to be very outdated and, frankly, kind of ugly." comment, I'm quite sure that comment was directed square at your own personal forums, still running UBB.threads 7.5.8. After looking at
your forums, I would have to agree with his comment.
The entire 7.5.x line has not received any major presentation updates beyond what was given to it when it was first released in 2006. If you are running 7.5.x, that comment is most certainly directed at your installed version.
Beyond having the ability to fully customize the display of your forums past the "out of box experience," UBB.threads 7.6.x brings several entirely new styles to compliment its cleaned up interface. It also provides something that has never been offered in the UBB.threads line. Ever. Its Mobile compatible and brings the program up from xHTML Transitional, to HTML5 complaint.
Attached are a few screenshots of your forum main page. Its random and cluttered, and its style looks like it has never been customized since it was first installed over a decade ago. Frankly, it looks like no one has cared to put any time or heart in to its presentation. It looks abandoned. Especially when a stickied post on the first forum in the list is for a post created in 2005, having broken links, or software which has long since been abandoned.
