You can use this topic to discuss this announcement.

Congratulations Rick. I'm sure the new enterprise will be a success. Just celebrated our 10 year anniversary using UBB and look forward to another 10 and then some.

Happy New Year
Paul
MonteCarloSS.com

Congrats!

I hope this means great things for both .threads, and for Rick personally. I never considered the pricing to be high, but maybe the drop will bring lots of new customers round.

Congratulations, Rick!

Congrats Rick, thank you for everything you have done, this truly is the best software and customer support ever!!! Cant wait to get my gold license!!!

Its Great to read were not going stale.

Great News and long over due. . .

Roll on v8

Congratulations - glad we can talk about this now

Just one question, which I am sure will get raised.

How does this affect people with wwwthreads licences who have always been grandfathered in and given a 75% renewal discount.

Also is there an alternative number for overseas callers who may not be able to dial the toll-free number. Or cannot convert the letters when dialling

Congratulations Rick . Look like there is a bug in the new members area. I just added my two UBB licenses and can't download any 7.x versions with my Gold license:

BTW - on the members area, you might wish to remove

Groupee.com | Privacy Policy | Newsletters Top ©Groupee, Inc. 2006, Seattle WA

And the link to members area on the left points to socialstrata...

Congrats Rick! I may just have to upgrade my WWWthreads install. (been a long time)

Cheers,
~Dave

Good going, Rick! I like this new business model.

Also nice to see you pop in, Dave. I'm still a big fan of your skins for the UBB.

With the lower pricing, hopefully this means that UBB.threads can win back former UBB customers who switched to vBulletin or other forum software packages. With vB 4.0's higher pricing, I think this was the right time to lower prices on UBB.

Congratulations Rick! It feels like meeting an old friend coming back to WCSoft. =)

Let's hope I'll be running the same great forum system for another 11+ years!

Just need to think of something to do with my second license so I can upgrade that too. =)

Congrats Rick, this sounds like a great move. I'm looking forward to v8 when it's available.

Congratulations Rick! Great move and is sure to bring more business your way.

Congratulations Rick! We are indebted to your loyal expert service. We also are celebrating 12 years on our forums, from Classic to Threads! Happy New Year!

I may just have to look at the gold licensing now... you guys never cease to amaze the heck out of me. We went from classic to threads 2 years ago (when I took over the forums for cyberwar back in 2007) and that was a huge upgrade then.. now looking back it almost feels like yesterday. Now I own my own license and forums talk about things changing.

That all said, I am "all in" with the new look,feel,and restructuring.

Great work again Rick and congratulations.


Dunny

Is Gold Licensing still an option?

Where is the price for the forever license?

I seen this coming with Dave's bet as well as moving to "new" servers and such. I just performed this same exact type of thing with the sale of one of my company assets. Being a web company it pretty much went the same way, move to a new server (even though we own our own servers and net block just like Groupee), Little hints (Just like Dave's), and then the big announcement.

Probably not just trying to convey the support level back at Rick and team that they have shown me the past 8 years or so.



Dunny

Sorry about that Philipp. It should be working ok now. Just let me know if not.

The Gold license option was removed out of necessity. It seems merchant accounts have changed quite a bit, possibly with all of the banking things going on, and no bank would approve a merchant account that offered lifetime software licenses.

WWWThreads License holders can renew for $25.

And yes, we'll be looking at an alternative number for overseas callers as soon as we can.

Hmm, what page is that showing on. I'm not seeing it, unless you used the link on the Site Links which was still pointing to Social Strata

Congratulations Rick!
I look forward to a great product continuing its growth.
What does this mean to Gold License holders? No longer any priority support? Will we still have Lifetime Access to members area?

Gold license holders are still marked as such in our ticketing system so we'll still carry over that priority support, although hopefully with the new staff, nobody will need to wait long.

Gold license holders will have lifetime access to both the members area and the support ticket system.

Rick, I think your a very good programmer and have the ability to take your thoughts and make them in to a very solid product that anyone can use.

This past year I had decided to seek a new message board product for the lack of a full community type atmosphere after the comment was posted that the only interest was in message board software and not a full community related web portal. It appears that the decision was in part Groupee's decision as I now see you are going to implement those other add on's requested by other users.

For this reason I will now stick with UBB and wait for those to be completed. Also the price reduction is a great thing for those of us that have several licenses and with to purchase more in the future.

Keep up the good work and congratulations and regaining the ownership of the product you created.

Congratulations Rick, looking forward to the next 12 years

I just renewed my subscription.. didn't realize it was about to run out in Feb anyway so very cool!

Dunny

Renewed and purchased a 2nd license. Great savings on both.

At first I was scared when I read the email!
Now I am excited its a return to the good old days!

My use of the products goes way back from the time when wwwthreads was freeware and I have continued to use the product (updated of course) on my companies website all these years

I am very excited by what I see concerning version 8 and returning everything to Rick is another good move!

Congrats Rick!

I just see it on the order page:
http://support.socialstrata.com/order/order.php

Whereby I'm not sure to order or not
On that page (link above) the price is 99 $ and on the purchase page 59 $:
http://www.ubbcentral.com/purchase.php.

Is there one special price for someone who purchased UBB in 2000 and owns three vBs meanwhile?

Kind regards, m.

There appears to be many problems with your first link marinade.

The socialstrata one is old and you shouldn't end up there at all anymore. If you still do, please let me know what link you clicked on.

Right now, the best we can do is the 10% off with the coupon code. So when ordering 3-5 licenses, you'd pay $134 per license and then get 10% off the total order.

Once we get through the original transition then we might be able to do some type of conversion special.

Congratulations Rick!
I am extremely pleased with the news, wishing you all the best and great success in the future.

Whereby I'm not sure to order or not
On that page (link above) the price is 99 $ and on the purchase page 59 $:
http://www.ubbcentral.com/purchase.php.

Is there one special price for someone who purchased UBB in 2000 and owns three vBs meanwhile?

Kind regards, m.[/quote]

Use the link that shows the $59 purchase price. If you get the 10$ off coupon that drops to $53.10. There are then other options available for purchasing new licenses in the way of discounts for multiple licenses. Since I already had an active license I got the multiple license discount when I purchased my 2nd one.

It has been here:
http://support.socialstrata.com/order/order.php?a=threads&t=service
And before that here:
http://support.socialstrata.com/members/members.php :



I went away from wwwthreads when infopop started. Now vB has made some strange changes and I would like to have one up to date UBB-Version for intensive testing purposes (included a conversion of one vB V3.8.3 to UBB).
If 59 $ is the last word then it could be acceptable.

Regards, m.

Thanks to GregK too

I just recently converted a vB 3.x site over to UBB and it went off without a hitch. I agree on Vb, they've become so egotistical over there and raised prices so much I could no longer justify sticking with them.

I'll see if we can't get those redirected back to our site. I'm sure there are plenty of people with old bookmarks like those.



$59 is the renewal price, $53 if you use the coupon code before it's used up.

Actually, it's $53.10...LOL

*nods*

Also mine went off without a hitch.. however if you do a renewal make sure that you connected your forum account to your license #...almost forgot to do that myself.

So I've ordered it for 53,xx and I'll have a look on it.

Many thanks to everyone for your help

m.

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?: What has happend to the smilies in all these years. They had a complete other look when I remember right....

Excellent - Gold & Loyalty Rewarded

Rick,

We upgraded to UBB Threads last year from the ancient UBB 5.44b and have never looked back since. Your software rocks and has been instrumental with the resurgence in interest for our sailing organization. I just renewed my license for a year and was able to use your discount code. I look forward to seeing the roll out of 8.0! Good luck with your "new" business adventure.

Congrats Rick! I'm very excited about UBB's future.

Oh cool, so we can talk about it now

We can, but you still can't

Psh, I bet that outside of groupee I've known about this change the longest

BTW, love the new member area... took a minute to compose all of my licenses though lol...

I love the new downloads page, looks great; I like how it shows older versions as well; kinda curious what makes certain versions more popular than others to make it on the list though

Well, we only went back basically to the first version 7 release and the last classic/threads versions of the 6 series for import reasons. 7.5.4 and 7.5.4.1 aren't there since they really weren't even in the members area more than a day

you should put a version 8.0 there with a popup that says 'just kidding' on april 1st (only if it isn't out by then)

Rosemary O'Neill had a nice press release styled blog post on their Social Strata site about the transfer of UBB.threads.

http://socialstrata.livecloud.com/displa...500220577771680

Agreed, a very nice article.

Congrats, Rick! I'm looking forward to seeing what you have planned for UBB's future.

Congrats Rick!

Thanks,

Neil Ticktin
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief
MacTech Magazine

From another one of those old guys from the "free wwwthreads" days through the Perl + PHP transition to Infopop who stuck it out and who is again glad he did... I'm extremely happy with this news and that you are once again the Man-in-Charge. You have always been a good friend as well as one dynamite developer.

But where does that leave the ones with a Gold license, will we need to now upgrade our members area access every year?

No. We are always good to go for life.

I know, I should have went beyond the first page.

BTW I'm really stoked about this news

Great to hear about the acquisition, Rick! Congratulations!

Yeah but the rest of us will NEVER get a chance for a forever license. Now that's a rip.

JAISP, one thing I've learned over the years is to never say 'never'. There are ways to get around this glitch and I'm sure Rick will figure something out.

I been saving to go gold, but Rick always surprises us and we never know, it may come back down the road.

Has it been mentioned that renewing for more years per seat gives you a higher percentage discount? Like five or ten percent for four or five years?

I was going to renew mine for 5 years but I didn't have enough cash, I just placed an order for 1000 promotional stickers for my site, and need to make sure I have enough for hotel and car rental next month when I go to a mini vacation/conference ( as well as paying my normal monthly server bills)

but I did renew for 2 at least.

Looks like you don't have too, as the members area is where the downloads are

Very cool! I dreaded falling in line with the vb crowd if UBB were ever to die off.

Agreed

Cool Beans.. Gratzz Rick

I am gold member and now have access.. looking good

This is good news!...and a $25 annual renewal too...cool.

I'm assuming there will be a limit on how many pages of "new wish list" each of us can post...right, Rick?
I'm already getting requests from our members for UBBT forum iPhone apps.

For your consideration...food for thought...
http://seekingalpha.com/article/180565-10-technologies-that-will-rock-2010

Congratulations Rick, I am absolutely thrilled at the prospects of this.