Well it’s becoming increasingly bizarre. The silence from Yuku/ezboard is deafening.

No updates to the CEO Blog in over a month, likewise his Yuku “blorum” (doesn’t that sound like vomiting?). But wait! That’s apparently because he’s been away on holiday. What? For a whole month? At such an important time for his company?

And there was me, incorrectly assuming that it was because he was too embarrassed to do any updates as – yet again – all those milestones had been missed (and still haven’t actually even figured on the ‘event horizon’). And yes, Yuku does appear to me to be another black hole…

Still, the Yuku Developer Blog will have been updated? Er, no, not really. They seem to be preoccupied with individuals’ profile pages for last month or so. Forget the main architecture and concentrate on the periphery, eh?

But occasionally snippets leak out in the absence of official announcements. Like the supposed ezboard migration promised for mid-May. One of the minions has said:

“the migration for whole boards is not available yet, and probably won’t be until the domains have been totally redone – we’re talking more into months than weeks“

And that was posted on 30 May!

These same minions – the supposed “Customers Services” [sic] staff – are getting quite shirty now, referring to Yuku as being in its very early beta stage. That’s the same Yuku that was supposedly “available now” at its launch in September 2005…

They’ve also said that the Yuku help [sic] forums aren’t fully-staffed just yet – these are mainly the same people who are doing such sterling work over in the ezboard Server Status Forum - yes, I know it looks as though they’re not actually doing anything in there for the last few days and ignoring all the extended downtime on their servers, but we are told they check in there regularly and report to the huge number of technicians on hand 24/7/365 (I apologise if readers’ sarcasm detectors just got overloaded there…).

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