vordmeister - 5:02 pm on Nov 22, 2009 (gmt 0)

I ended up stumping up and downloading the beta for a test installation. I had been worried by the increased bloat, but download speeds on my server are similar to the current version (apart from the first visit which does seem to take a fair bit longer - so not an improvement for search traffic).

I'm not convinced it is still the best software for my application, but the alternative would have been moving to different software and suffering a change to all my nicely ranked URLs.

I'll not be surprised by the direction they take the software. Unless they reduce the features and streamline it so it's really quick and effective as a forum. Then I'll be surprised.

Take all that with a pinch of salt - I'm still miffed by the licensing changes. Bad year for it.