well, i suggest divorcing mindraven from ubbthreads in that sense.
i personally use mindraven too for my dedicated server and must say that is an excellent service, so the two really aren't an all or nothing venture, from what i surmise.
support for ubbthreads is really a much easier job than support for hosting.
i tweak threads installs all the time and install new things.. add new styles all that..
but keeping a hosting company running is a different beast..
so as i see it, support for existing or new installs won't suffer in the least
if anything, it will get better, because there won't be this huge version8 gun to rick's head anymore. and believe me, it was a big one...
