Hi Paul,
I totally understand your confusion as we have a long history with some interesting twists along the way. A couple years back it was decided that it just didn't make sense to continue developing to separate downloadable forum products, so we took the path to rewrite a completely new product and discontinue both UBB.classic (formerly Ultimate Bulletin Board) and UBB.threads.
As this progressed we realized we were using a lot of the foundation of UBB.threads so we continued with the name. It is compltely rewritten in the front end, but uses a variety of the existing scripts from the 6.5 version.
Groupee owns UBB.threads. We still have the hosted application, Eve, and the Social Network 'Groupee', while we continue to develop UBB.threads.
Where's it going? There are many plans for the future of UBB.threads. I'm the primary developer. I've been with the product now for about 10 years. Some features we're looking at for upcoming versions are photo gallery forums, user blogs, payment integration and a variety of others.
So the future is very bright. As to sticking with UBB.threads against going with another product. That really boils down to a personal decision. I'm the developer, so naturally I'm biased
Please let me know if you have any other questions, or if I need to clarify some of my answers further.
