Acronym for
Ultimate Bulletin Board. Wildly
popular web-based
Bulletin Board software package written in
Perl. Many UBB boards look alike, and they mark a serious departure from the usenet-like threading of many other packages.
In UBB, the screen is not split into
Thread and
Posting. Threads are always displayed with the contents of all postings visible at once.
The upside is clear: No more infinite clicking through threaded trees.
The downside is clear as well: the lack of
hierarchy within a thread makes long threads difficult to navigate.
But: People cope, and once one's gotten used to it, it's not bad at all.
Their website can be found at
http://www.ultimatebb.com.