Which track is that?

Well, despite the continued absence of “Silent Rob” Labatt, ezboard, Inc. CEO – or is he? – there are some strange goings-on over on Yuku and indeed ezboard.

We’ll take ezboard first. If you take a look at the ezboard Wikipedia entry you’ll see that the current version, version 7.32, was released  two years ago and is widely acknowledged – by ezboard Customer Services [sic] droids as well – to be full of bugs. With Yuku launching in 2005, 2006, 2007, this week, next week, sometime, etc. it had previously been reported that ezboard would continue to run but would not be updated or bug-fixed. So how does that explain this? That link in turn links to one of the ezboard staff’s Test Board and a post which says:

“Why a new version?
The primary reason for making the new 7.33 version was to compile the 150+ patches that we have made over the past two years into a new version of the software. This will result in more uptime and quicker restarts upon reboots becuse the application will no longer have to load all the patches upon a reboot.

We also made a few tweaks to the templates to make the user experince a little easier and enjoyable.

What’s in version 7.33:
- More stable code base that will result in more uptime and less downtime as well as faster reboots whenever a server is restarted.
- Quick Reply Feature
- Rebuilt Invite Friends Feature
- Share This Thread Feature
- Yuku Icon Feature
- Last Comment Author now links to the users’s profile
- Personal Photos (aka avatars) are now 100 X100 in size”

So there you go: a major wrap-up of over 150 bug fixes. But why bother updating ezboard when it’s going to be closed? Who knows…

So alison on nehalf of Yuku/ezboard quickly chimes in to explain away the new version before coming up with the Quote of the Year so far:

“Yuku’s development continues on track.”

Oh really? Wasn’t Yuku “available now” in September 2005. Or “ready for primetime” at various times during 2006?

Oh and we appear to have a new mission statement for ezboard, Inc.:

“No-one is forced to stick to a former statement just because they said it.”

Clearly not, if it’s ezboard, Inc. saying it. You know? Things like regular backups, advertising revenue sharing, etc.