"Rick Baker: why have you left out SO MUCH of what makes UBB a great user experience when you made UBBT"
Rick left nothing out. Rick simply has not added it yet. UBBThreads is a lot younger than UBB and has not the benefit of time and developement that UBB has had. Rick was also writing a perl and a php version at the same time and that slowed things down considerably. Now that he is doing only one version look for things to move a lot faster.
"Yours & Infofpop's sustained indifference is troubling and astonishing."
I don't know where you come up with sustained indifference. That in itself is troubling but if you view sustained indifference as not adding your favorite feature to a product we only just bought I think you are being a bit unfair in your appraisal.
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