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The search engine friendly nature of the system is my main attraction as well. If it doesn't get released soon, I am going to have to use another BBS; are there any others that create HTML files?
Feb 1 2003. ;-) Seriously, it was to be a done deal by now - then we slowly woke up to running the hottest site on the net and had to focus on priorities. Not sure of a time frame at this point.
>price
$10 more expensive than anything else out there. It has a pretty impressive unique selling point in that it runs the largest forum on the internet today.
$229 for UBB.threads
$99 for Invision Power Board
$160 for VBulletin
$4995 for WebBoard 6.1 Premium
$1999 for IdealBB
Does this mean that we will be looking at $5000+? <Quietly slips the credit card back into his pocket...>
How about providing a support-free version for those of us who can probably cope with running and fixing it ourselves? Cheapskate, I know, but $5000 just isn't going to be feasible for the vast majority of people interested in the board.
Your USP of being the "biggest" board will carry weight with the corporations, but your average Joe Webmaster doesn't need that much power.
Anyway, I hope that you price it within the reach of the rest of us ;-)
I signed up a while ago and got no new info on it. But like you said you have been busy with this site...and I can see why.
I have a webserver that is just waiting to run a good message board...
Scott
Setting a price of 29$ would open up to a lot of risks, anyone would be able to buy it without a problem, and it would be very widespread etc, the risk would be that the source code contain security holes that would be used for a "non-good" reason, and since this is a highly popular board, it may cause a lot of problems (Not sure there are security holes, i think Brett has found most of them, but there is always human flaws, even though it might not be Brett's fault (probably isn't either)).
(remember i really don't have a clue about how the software works, and the enourmous amount of code it contains)
I think it's similar with the Google Search appliance, it's not mega expensive, but it's expensive enought that no one would buy it just to have a play with it.
And remember the amount of time it has taken to develop this board, the enourmous amount of programming hours, h*ll if it was me i would set a higher price than any of the boards you mention.
And non of those boards had similar tools that this board have (not from what i understood anyway)
(remember again this is IMO only).
On the other hand though, it might be nice for them to make it more wide spread... letting people take advantage of what is obviously a very nice bit of coding.
>donating a copy to free sites that are good causes?
A discount policy for nonprofs is certainly on the table. However, it's not the software alone that would be purchase - it's the inevitable support requirements that go with it hand and hand.
>Straighdope
Ya think? [alexa.com]
Are you selling the software on a license basis (i.e. per site) or for the software package (unlimited sites)?
that's the only reason I installed alexa - and saw my alexa rankings boost from 'no data' to in the top 100000
It is almost 2 months after the Feb 1st date, and some of us are keen to get our grubby little mits on a copy :)
Jan 1, 2003.
Then our traffic doubled.
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Then our traffic doubled.
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And suddenly, instead of 6 hrs a day of light work around here, I had 14 heavy but fun ones. Most of which, I credit to the software.
We'll get there. May-Sept time frame.
While they say .htm, the threads actually are database driven on the fly, right? Otherwise how could posts be marked new or not?
>dynamic vs static
Right. There is the option to do pure dynamic and an option to do it via SSI (as opposed to .htaccess).
Should I be checking the site every day in anticipation of its imminent release?
The people on my current forum (ikonboard) love avatars, hehe.
