MyBB 1.9

Abhi

https://mybb.jsoltesz.com/mybb-1.9/index.php

This is were MyBB 1.9 's new responsive theme is being demo -ed . According to the team, it is more or less complete. You can register and see how it works. The responsive part really works, you can see that for various screen sizes. Check the link from mobile too.

MyBB 1.9 release date, price. If these are what you want to know, MyBB 1.9 is free and open source. As for the release date I can only say that somewhere in 2020.

admin

@Euan posted something on their 1.9 development thread. He is re-basing 1.8 changes to 1.9 and it is taking a lot of time. According to him, holiday season didn't cover his needs. Now that all developers are back to regular life, there will be some delay before 1.9 made available.

Abhi

A lot of forums still use MyBB and they want to upgrade to 1.9. Only time can tell when it will be released.

Jason

Still they have long way to go, it is Free so can't say much. As the developers and users have come down the contribution has also come down sadly.

admin

If it comes out before Q3 this year, that is good for a lot of users.

Jason

But the current themes, addons, won't be compatible right? I have a custom theme in MyBB and it won't be upgraded to 1.9 by the author sadly 🙁

Abhi

Yes. The update might break themes and addons. But you have at least another 6 months in your hands from what we have seen so far.

By that time your forum will be super profitable so that you can make another theme without worry 😉

Abhi

Here is the 1.9 installer demo if you want to try out

https://devilshakerz.com/lab/mybb19/install.html

Jason

Abhi The link shows the setup page, and it is yet to be completed by the administrator

Abhi

It is a demo for us to see. It is not a full fledged installer yet. But when v1.9 comes out, it could be possibly like this.

Because they are not even into beta. And there were talks about using a CLI based installer.

Jason

Abhi Oh my bad, i didn't read your description 🙁 As of now it looks good.

admin

Looks nice to me as well. But not sure when the stable version will arrive.

They have most of the front end ready. Now only back end works pending. Which is a lot by the looks of it.

Abhi

Some interesting work-in- progress

https://devilshakerz.com/lab/mybb19/closed.html

https://devilshakerz.com/lab/mybb19/error.html

https://devilshakerz.com/lab/mybb19/install.html

https://devilshakerz.com/lab/mybb19/upgrade.html

Jason

It looks really cool, but waiting time for the upgrade is too long. Need patience 🙁

Abhi

I will not expect before October.

admin

Give it till December. The team is too thin now. Too much work and 2-3 people on it.

Abhi

admin Too much work and 2-3 people on it.

Don't they get volunteers ?

Jason

Abhi They had great no of volunteers, but now most of them moved to paid forum or busy with their life & work.

Abhi

MyBB denies a request from an user to focus all staff on v 1.9. According to them a lot of people would still be using version 1.8 and would need support.

The problem is that even after 1.9 is released, there are going to be forums still using 1.8. We can't just completely drop support for them. In an ideal world, all resources would be focused in one direction, but that's unfortunately not the way things work.

Source

Abhi

A MyBB user was so unhappy about v 1.8 not having a responsive theme. In the end, the user has himself modified the default MyBB 1.8 theme to be responsive and shared to the community.

Jason

Abhi Yes i saw the post yesterday, sad that the team didn't come up with a responsive theme. Like IPB they should have come up with a cool responsive theme as 1.9 might come out late.