So it has been 20 days since we released MyBB 1.2 and I thought it’d be interesting to take a look at a few statistics and comment on a few different things regarding the release.
Download Statistics
- MyBB 1.2, at the time of this post, has had 22,409 downloads in since release.
- MyBB 1.2 has been downloaded 18,005 times this week.
- Our downloads system (collectively all downloads on the MyBB site) has served 29gb bandwidth since the beginning of this month.
Code Modifications & Plugins
I was extremely worried that with the massive amount of changes in MyBB 1.2, it’d adversely leave those using plugins “out in the cold” and stop them from upgrading due to incompatibilities.
I’ve been proven wrong. In less than a month there are 68 modifications for MyBB 1.2 over on MyBB Mods. This is compared to the 59 modifications for MyBB 1.1.x which was released several months earlier.
I also had the opportunity to dive in and write my first released plugin, a full rewrite of k776 Rules Page modification. It also allowed me to demonstrate the functionality of adding your own user defined ?action=’s to the scripts so you don’t need to upload additional files to the forum root directory.
Translations
I don’t really keep up on the translations - Tochjo is the expert in that area but I believe we’ve already got several complete translations with a few more currently progressing.
Our changes to the license agreement allow greater flexibility for translators too - they can develop their own MyBB support site and throw a modified copy of MyBB up for download on it completely localised - no more buggering about installing separate languages after you’ve installed MyBB.
Well then…
- We’ll be releasing a MyBB 1.2 update very soon which contains a range of bug fixes and fixes one or two low-risk vulnerabilities.
- Planning for the next release of MyBB is underway. I’ve got my notes taken from testers on our beta forums, I’ve read over the suggestions forum and we’ve began collaborating in our “super secret development area”.
- You’ll be seeing a new Admin CP
- Several front end features are going to be reworked - think Calendar and Member List
- Lots of small features, tweaks and modifications to provide an awesome user experience in MyBB
- I learnt more from the 1.2 release than I usually would a normal release - we made some big changes including changing the character set to default to UTF-8 which caused quite a few problems, after all of the javascript issues we had with the new javascript based features there are still more, the upgrade scripts need to be made more flexible (refreshing shouldn’t break it, it should carry on at the next step to complete)
That’s about it - it’s essentially time for me to head back to bed. (these midnight to 8am shifts at work really screw with your body clock)
Sometime soon, I’ll be taking a look at some of the more integrated copies of MyBB running on sites and hopefully running through a little bit of how to do that on your sites as well.
Comments
xiaozhu (September 22nd, 2006, 7:50 pm)
Any screenshots for the new ACP? :p
John Anderton (September 23rd, 2006, 5:38 am)
Wow, impressive stats
Looks like 1.2 is going strong. I guess i should download a copy and try it out as usual to give it a shot 
sock (September 23rd, 2006, 7:37 am)
Use your legal representation to get mybb.com already!
Peter Akkies (September 23rd, 2006, 11:54 am)
Great to hear MyBB is becoming more popular–we really deserved it!
Tikitiki (September 23rd, 2006, 4:00 pm)
Only if you can h4x the staff forum hahahaha! xD
Dunno where you’ve been chris but I already commited a break-free updgrade script (and released it to the public to those who wanted it) o.0
Chris Boulton (September 23rd, 2006, 6:49 pm)
That isn’t entirely what I meant.
Basically if you close your browser and come back later you can pull up the upgrade script and continue at the page you’ve left off at.
The back end code for this is already in, I just need to implement the front end part.
Bobby (September 23rd, 2006, 9:49 pm)
WOW! Glad to see MyBB running strong…
Musicalmidget (September 24th, 2006, 4:54 am)
Those statistics are really quite something.
I must admit I was surprised at the rate at which plugins, themes and the likes were being submitted to MyBB Mods. It seemed like there were several downloads awaiting validation everytime I logged on. Admittedly, there have been fewer submissions over the last few days, but since there are more downloads available (excluding themes) for MyBB 1.2 than there were on MyBB Mods for any previous release of MyBB, the figures can only get better!
It really is great to see so much activity in the MyBB community!
IMPAQ (September 24th, 2006, 5:18 am)
The 1.2 release was simply awesome.
Thanks for all the hard work, time and effort you and your team put in.
Tikitiki (September 24th, 2006, 10:21 am)
oh
Coolest Tech (September 26th, 2006, 10:18 am)
MyBB is doing great!
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.Lou (September 27th, 2006, 8:46 am)
.Lou (September 27th, 2006, 8:46 am)
WTF HAPPENED TO MY COMMENT?
Musicalmidget (September 27th, 2006, 9:30 am)
O_o
.Lou (September 28th, 2006, 11:42 am)
Chris: You really need to fix that, and possibly add a recently typed post or some crap. My work went to waste.
John Anderton (September 29th, 2006, 4:20 am)
lol Lou was haxed!
xiaozhu (September 30th, 2006, 6:15 pm)
plzz plzz
screenshots ;p
.Lou (October 1st, 2006, 12:52 pm)
Nope it’s just wordpress being dodgy with certain characters..
I’m not rewriting my comment, it was rather big.
Just-Nick (November 23rd, 2006, 1:00 pm)
Wow Chris im impressed i had no idea you were doing this. A mate of mine was like “We need to use this forum its awesome” and after i installed it and went to the admin page i saw your name in the credits and i was quite supprised. Ne way thats about all i wanted to say, peace.