NinjaBoard were supposed to launch today and we really tried very hard to meet our own deadline. However after solid feedback from a selected group of testers, there's an clear demand for features like sub forums, proper acl, JomSocial integration, AEC integration and more. In addition to that we're not reached a state were NB is usable, yet. So the bad news is NB will release later than planned, the good news we're spending the extra time focusing on adding in the top requested features, improve the security, better performance and a smoother migration from NB 0.5.3.So instead of releasing a product that's incomplete.
Since NB is build completely on top of the Nooku Framework we have decided - after discussion with the Nooku Team - to release NB simultaneously with Nooku Framework 0.7. A release date for Nooku Framework 0.7 has not been set yet. The Nooku Team is currently working fiercely to get all the features in, some based on our own feedback, to make it a killer release. If you want to track their progress you can tune into the Nooku Framework on Sourceforge or Ohloh and offcourse we will keep blogging out our progress.
Picture below is of the new "load parts of NB in regular module positions" feature that'll make integrating NB with your site even more fun. One of the features we're adding in to prove to you we're not delaying NB just to watch Scrubs all day long, but to make NB even more awesome!
More details and screenshots after the break.
Follow up:
Now, what you see in the screenshot above is NB loading its contents in 3 separate module positions.
I chose RocketTheme's Dimensions for showing this off for two main reasons.
- It's one of the oldest templates for Joomla! 1.5, but way ahead of its time.
- It's very tricky to use its more advanced features, like the footer slider in this case, from a component like NinjaBoard.
This feature will most likely find its way into the Nooku Framework, so one of the reasons we're holding off the stable release, is to allow us to work more closely with the Nooku guys to make NFW solve more of our problems, and to contribute back to hopefully solve others problems as well.
But this does not mean you wont get to try out the new, sexy, NFW powered version of NB before NFW 0.7 is out the door.
We will most likely release betas and release candidates before that so you guys can give it a spin and tell us what you think.
But we wont call it "stable" before NFW is out.
We're also going to keep up the frequent blog posting about NB, showing you more code, screenshots, stats and maybe even videos?
To round things off, here's a couple of more screenshots of some NB plus dimensions action.
If there's a particular topic you're interested in learning more about for the next post, you're welcome to leave us a comment 
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Thanx for your Good Work.
I wud like to see post about features and possiblities of your new editor for NB.
All the rest is going good. Delay is not so bad, if it is for making things better.
thumbs Up.
Please don't let the feature creep delay the release until *never*.
Best,
Ken
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