Ian beat me, i was doing other thigns and didn't notice that i had been away for half an hour :X

I visit a LOT of boards using all types of software and I find that many are similar and as Rick says some of it is just plain personal preference. Some sites have neat features and some are just plain worse than others.

The fact that the actual person writing the software is here to listen and support you for FREE is amazing. On a couple of the major boards I've been too in the support area you only get other users and not actual programmers helping you.

phpBB has a nice feature where it checks for posts before comitting your new post and alerts and shows you the new post so that the above from Gizmo would not happen, or it could be modified to fit if needed.

But that is the nature of the beast and all software that has ongoing feature additions where one has something the other does not.

The 7.3 and 7.4 feature list looks fantastic compared to 7.2 which has many new features already, but as Gizmo says 7.x was a new version and there are still items being added or modified that users want and ask for.

I think in the long run UBBT will have more features at a cheaper cost than most of the other major boards, but that's (IMHO)

hence why we need a notice to warn of a new post

you know, I did see a forum that had this, and it was kind of nifty to be warned lol...

You mean as above 2 posts up? Yes I think that would be a nice feature to add to UBBT

Wow,
now that is very good news indeed. Hat's off to the team here!!!!!!

I have just uploaded a beta copy of my site - http://www.fansfocus.com/beta2/ if you would like to have a look.

I still have to fully configure the various bits and pieces before going live, but it should give you some idea of 7.3

I'm still on B1 at my Dev Forums, planning to upgrade this weekend at the latest.

Some of the things I have found as being elected Administer on several sites running various message board software is the lack of security. I have brought this up to Gizmo in the past here in the Classic area as a reason not to go with Threads.

I will admit that the staff and beta testers here at UBB are on top of it to the fullest extent and strive not only to have a popular, good working board with many features that users want, but also look at security of the board and database as leading factors while developing code.

I recently bought a new license to use Threads here even though I have 2 Licenses to run Classic. I just like to keep the ability to run more then one board at a time. A little background on me is that I am one of the cheapest tightest persons that ever walked. So if I have 3 licenses then it has to be really good compared to the rest of the systems out there.

Some of the other systems do have very neat features but this also takes a security to a back seat in some cases. The team here look at security in everything they do. It would really suck to wake up and find your board was hijacked by some spammer or something.

One thing I would add and a pretty important concept. ALL the free forums have software that gets hacked on a regular basis. Because this is not public domain software that is available for free, there is much less problems that result from hacking.

Having run a number of forums using a number of different forum software suites, we have had less problems with this one than any of the others. BY A LONG SHOT!!!!