Author: pangor » Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:57 am
This is all well and good. However, the question is not were to download IM3. The question is really, why there are nobet a releases and as I would hope by now, RC releases! There is a still relatively large userbase of folks who would install and use and so also help in finding problems and even the solutions. At this point we are forced to deal with the buggy integration of cracker tracker of the existing 1.4.x series. when will we see even one beta release of IM3 with phpBB3? When phpBB4 has already been released. I do like the IM series, however, I find this almost 3 year long wait for a production ready level release of IM quite trying. As it is, there are out there already too many scripts in the hand of kiddies for exploiting the know issues of IM 1.3. While the buggy 1.4 series is hardly ready for use.
Release the current beta or RC version of IM3, now! Even if it is only a snapshot. Let us install it and so assist in locating the issues that need addressing. and shockingly perhaps even fix some bugs and then send you the patches so you won't have to be so slow.
At this rate by the time you have the grand public release of a production IM3 it may well be a non-event---as most who have been waiting, will have gone to other options.
If this will take much longer, how about releasing an IM 1.4.2 that actually works and had the cracker tracker integration fixed! or without the cracker tracker. and perhaps some of the other known issues of the 1.4 series fixed. It is more than hard to believe, it is impossible to believe that IM3 has not been stable enough to be released as beta or RC. Your own use of IM3 for such a long time for this your support forum does prove my point.