[UseBB-Announce] UseBB 2 project cancelled

[UseBB P. <co...@us...>]

Years after the initial plans for a grown up successor to UseBB 1, the
largely inactive UseBB 2 project is now cancelled. Studies,
professional work and other personal things have been and currently
still are in the way of dedicating enough time to its development.
Also, I see less value in continuing the current v2 project since in
the mean time many other (forum) systems have met or surpassed the
concepts and features that were to make UseBB 2.

In the future, chances exist I will start a new successor project
("UseBB 3" or using a different name), taking into account the
expectations and methodologies for today's web applications and
offering migration options for existing UseBB users. For this, a lot
of brainstorming and planning has to take place first, which will not
happen in the near future.

What concerns UseBB 1, it can not meet all of today's requirements for
modern forum software, especially in the field of extensibility and
spam protection. Which is not a surprise, given the code base reaching
the age of 9 years, and v1's development stopped quite some time ago
in favour of v2. However, for the time being I will continue releasing
small bug fix and security releases until people have had the
opportunity to migrate to another package or an eventual successor.
The support forum will also remain open as long as possible and
required.

I have to thank the people who supported v2's development in several
ways, offered help and gave comments and helpful critiques. In case a
new project will be started, this will be announced at UseBB.net and
elsewhere.

Dietrich Moerman
UseBB founder and developer