I see the other message appears to be locked. For fear of offending my ancestors, the RBBS gods, I think most people have lost sight that this is a labor of love.
The software costs money ( UBB Threads ?), although not a lot . But the servers (or hosting service), the time spent moderating and supporting the site, and the communications fees most likely outweigh the raw UBB software cost by 100x.
The backend storage is probably massive- easily multiple 10 TB+. Disk speed and cpu required to run your silly searches is pretty high. Running a migration from UBB to anything else could be a daunting task, so unless somebody has an off-the-shelf conversion program (unlikely) the amount of work to migrate to another platform could be very high.
We all love the latest and greatest, but sometimes the latest and greatest is very expensive. I personally would love to have a AMG Mercedes, a new Ducati and a 80 foot motor yacht. But since my GoFundMe only has raised $5 (thanks Mom !) its probably not happening.
The software costs money ( UBB Threads ?), although not a lot . But the servers (or hosting service), the time spent moderating and supporting the site, and the communications fees most likely outweigh the raw UBB software cost by 100x.
The backend storage is probably massive- easily multiple 10 TB+. Disk speed and cpu required to run your silly searches is pretty high. Running a migration from UBB to anything else could be a daunting task, so unless somebody has an off-the-shelf conversion program (unlikely) the amount of work to migrate to another platform could be very high.
We all love the latest and greatest, but sometimes the latest and greatest is very expensive. I personally would love to have a AMG Mercedes, a new Ducati and a 80 foot motor yacht. But since my GoFundMe only has raised $5 (thanks Mom !) its probably not happening.