I have to agree the wait has been rather long without anything more then screen shots. Then agin I have seen 2 new letters claim UBB 6.7.3 is going to be released but yet see no site running a beta version of this yet.
Unfortunatly IP err Groupee used to be the for front for message boards. Unfortunatly they have been out paced for a long time and now seems like they are scrambling to play catchup to the rest of the industry. How long had I heard IP hold hard and fast against PHP/MySQL solutions.
While Hostboard runs on a system based on UBB I have struck a deal with another company to port Hostboard over. I most likely would have stayed with UBB and have Hostboard almost completly ported over to 6.7.2 but with its demise and the eventual lack of support and a loss of the development community I saw the writting on the wall and gave up 6 months of development in favor of supporting a company who has a very agressive development community where I can find someone to assist me in my quest to build a better site.
As far as VB goes it does not take alot of power to run as my twin 1ghz 4gig RAM system powers it without even the slightest hickup. In fact in runs almost as fast as Hostboard and the only reason it does not is Hostboard was desinged with a single purpose. Also I think the only reason VB does not seem to run quickly is to proprly runa heavily used message board system you really need to properly configure your server for it and unfortunatly most use the base defaults or are running on a shared system where they can not optimize the server for the application. I do however agree the interface can use a bit of freshening in the way things are aranged as it does seem bloated.
