does it make any sense at all to post suggestions for the things to come?
if yes, where to post them?
can one assume that the major features will stay, or will we have to re-request things?

my first request:
kill the three email fields and do it groupee-style:
email address is the login name, display name can be chosen.
change of email / login name requires 2nd verification.
preference to display email or not, functionality to send email through the board, without reveiling the address.

experience showed that many users clear both admin and public address field, or enter bogus data, but still want to receive newsletters.
above solution would be the least confusing.

Feature suggestions can go here or over on the Classic board. Do note, however, that the feature set for the initial release is pretty much set in stone, so please don't expect too many suggestions from here to make it in that first version.

There will be an option to log in using an email address. This is to allow for greater ability to integrate with Groupee, actually. How exactly this will impact the registration screen is yet to be determined. The Display Email field will still be present.

However, the login name / pdn / email / display email split will still be present by default.

Please guarantee that all the existing links will migrate into the new software. I moved form UBB.classic to UBB.threads and when the links didn't work anymore, it was a major PITA.

There will be a set of replacement scripts that will properly redirect people to the right posts, topics, and forums.

Correct - there will be a set of scripts that will replace your existing UBB.threads or UBB.classic installation that will read the old URL paramaters, look up the old data in the new database, then redirect the user to the new location of the requested page. These scripts will support spider-friendly mode.

Perfect!

HUGE favor to ask as a loyal Infopop customer and new Threads user who has moved up from Classic. As I was upgrading/moving and not starting from scratch, the member #'s in my new Threads forum start at #14193 (previous #2 account in Classic), and overall the member numbers are quite high and have large gaps in them as well. So although I have about 4000 active users, the last user # is over 50k.

When designing the import module for the upcominng software, could you please offer the option to renumerate all users (basically to reassign numbers on the fly with each imported member)?