I did not develop the original Hostboard. Hostboard was originaly based on UBB v5.x For the pure fact that at that time I was only a casual user of message boards and very new to actualy running a system like this (previously ran a 24 line BBS back in the day, before the internet existed and then interfaced that to become the first dial up ISP in CT) and the users were comfortable with UBB I thought it in the best interest not to rock the boat in terms of users knowledge or what little I knew at the time.
Although not 100% sure I beleive IP purchased Threads as a stop gap for a product with a MySQL backend as well as a solid platform to at some point base a product line on. Why else would they purhase something that did basicaly what UBB did?
I am sure there are archived threads about the merrits of what IP stayed with flat files vs a database backend and I belive the primary premis was it was able to run on more platforms, which would have been true back in the day. However current technology and solutions have database installations more of the norm instead of the rare.
I would love to have Hostboard become its own platform. A few problems face this dream. First I am not a programmer and do not have the time to learn. Between working as a network engineer, running Hostboard & running a monster truck on the circuit time is precious. So I am relegated to working with whom ever I can find.
For me it is probaly more of a fustration level not to mention the leaving of a small community that I ahve seen grow over the years.
