Well, here goes. My previous posting was NOT intended to be a
complaint or anything close to that. If I had significant issues with UBB, I would have moved to another product years ago. We all know about the "
black hole" that releases disappeared into for a couple of years. I'm not even thinking about that any more. I'm still here and that should speak for itself.
I'm NOT going to write a huge reply in trying to explain one of the "issues" that I currently see. I thought that a short comment would remind us of it, but apparently it was too brief or nondescript. My bad.
When I said "
behind in offering new or expanded functionality" that was shorthand referring to one of many discussions that WE held so many years ago. While the FORUM target appears to have been advanced with version 7.6, I am referring to the OTHER functionality that we don't have. Remember a long time ago when we talked about "
our competition" not being the other FORUMS, but that it was now becoming a whole new gang of applications commonly labeled SOCIAL MEDIA? That's some of the functionality that we don't have. While I actually despise Facebook and it's incessant bad behaviors, my client members LOVE the ability to post photos there for sharing. THAT is the kind of functionality that I wish UBB had for "easy deployment". It is a little disappointing that we are still so oriented on text and don't offer a user-friendly way for our users to manage graphics/photos. I have no idea how OTHER forums are doing this and frankly don't care. I have so much invested in UBB that we will stay here.
My WISH (not complaint) is that we could add some "functionality" that seems to be attracting some of our users away from our Forum.
Lastly, while I'm glad to hear that version 7.6 is good and loaded with stuff like Mobile viewing -- you have to realize that SOME OF US are following the widely accepted practice of waiting 30 or 60 days for a new version like this to shake out the bugs. I understand your excitement at releasing a LONG-AWAITED product with TONS of changes -- but please don't criticize any of us who conservatively follow a wait-and-see strategy before we roll all of this in. I'd say that a 90 day window would be well-within reason for anyone who has a forum with over 10 years of data in it. (I always upgrade immediately when it is a security-related upgraded. But 7.6 hasn't been advertised as such.) So based upon what I'm seeing posted here, I will probably upgrade a tad sooner (ie. 60 days. So only 30 more to go.)
