Well it’s been a while since I’ve posted here. Most of what I would have posted here has gone to our official MyBB Blog. So unfortunately I haven’t really had much to post. Since we’re not giving a release date, it makes sense to fill you in as much as possible instead.

So for the last two weeks I’ve been working on the last and final ACP page; The Themes page. It’s going to be pretty cool and a lot simpler than MyBB 1.2’s. I’ll post an overview of the Themes & Templates section once I’m done with the Themes page on the Official MyBB Blog.

The theme’s page will still take a considerable amount of work to finish. Most of the front end is complete, but behind-the-scences things like when you save a theme still needs to be programmed or finished.

Why is it taking so long? First and foremost, the Theme’s system is extremely complex. More complex then something I’ve ever dealt with. The system was originally designed by Chris Boulton (Lead MyBB Manager & Programmer) and was planned to be finished by Chris, but his time has been taken up by many other things so it was handed off to me. While I can code the mockups created gererously by Chris B. and Justin S., the logic that goes on behind the scences isn’t something you can just pick up on and code in quickly. As I stated before, it’s extremely complex to do correctly.

So because of that Chris and I have been in constant communication about how x and y works. The only problem is our communication is limited to the weekends because of time constrains (And living half across the world from each other doesn’t exactly help either). Even then, the weekends can become busy with other priorities.

To sum this all up, we’re trying to wrap up MyBB 1.4 as soon as we can.

Nevertheless, we’ve had an awesome turn out for the public beta and over 400 bugs have been squashed since the beginning of beta testing. I have to definately thank everyone who has participated for contributing their feedback and findings for MyBB 1.4. Hopefully, 1.4 will turn out to be an awesome product.