I don't know why, but this forum doesn't seem to be particularly active. As such, you may want to seek help at YaBB's official support forum. At least there you'll likely get a relatively timely response.

As for the latest regarding YaBB, you may want to check out Dandello's YaBB 2.5.4 Alpha (RC1) forum.

Good luck with your upgrade, and have fun with YaBB.

Stuart wrote on Nov 25^th, 2013 at 6:53pm:

YaBB is really great forum software. I've used/enjoyed it since 2002 to accompany one of the sites I've operated since 1997. I started with version Yabb 1 Gold SP 1.4 and I didn't upgrade until version 2.4 (I'm still using that version).

During all of that time, I only installed one anti-spam-bot hack, and then two anti-spam mods after learning how to use Boardmod. My main reason for not installing more mods, despite the temptation, was that I could see there wasn't much of a chance for mods to be supported with newer versions of YaBB. There didn't seem to be a system in place to sync YaBB's development with its mods. As it turns out (after reading through Dandello's YaBB 2.5.4 Alpha (RC1) forum), my concern about support for exisiting mods seems to be valid.

Even if things go well with the newest version of YaBB, and admins are generally happy with it, I'm not likely to upgrade from 2.4 unless there's a way for me to make that upgrade in a way that's user friendly, and compatible with what we have now.

On the other hand, from what I've seen so far, the installation process should be reasonably easy to accomplish, and each one of the two mods, plus the hack I installed are part of YaBB's newest version.

As for this particular forum (still using version 2.3.1), my hope is that pride of ownership will become evident again with regular updates, and that an overhaul of offerings will match YaBB's development as it moves forward.

YaBBWorld is gone - however, SOME of the old mods from there have been updated and can be found at http://yabbforumsoftware.com/