{stands back to avoid the rush}

http://support.yuku.com/topic/1748/t/Ezboard-to-Yuku-board-migrations.html

So, according to “Michelle”:

“The migration process is running very smoothly now … and we’re now able to move boards from ezboard to yuku in a very smooth process. The big backlog of boards is gone (having chipped away at them for the past few months) and now the queue is up to date.”

So does that mean that there are now 500,000 ezboards at Yuku like they claimed as far back as September 2005?

Well … no! Go to the Yuku domain search and marvel at the 6,200 or so apparent Yuku boards.

Ah … wait a minute: aren’t there a load of test forums, abandoned forums (you can’t delete a Yuku board) and test ezboard to Yuku imports? Take a look at the third largest board by membership - “OARfans.com” - and then notice the two listed below (as of today’s date). Yes, they’re test and re-imported version of the same one. Now go to page 623 of the Yuku listings and what’s that? Yes it’s another OAR re-import. I haven’t bothered checking for any others.

Maybe the explanation comes from Michelle herself:

“Of course, there are the occasional hiccups”

Ah yes. This is ezboard, after all.

Still, no doubt there’ll now be a mass move over to Yuku. Unless people are still waiting patiently for its beta status to be changed to final. Or maybe they’re waiting to hear about sharing advertising revenue as promised by Robert Labatt. Or maybe they’re waiting to find out about backing up their message boards to their home PCs (as promised by…). Or maybe they’re waiting to find out how much it’s going to cost them to have no adverts.

Oh and talking of “Silent Rob”, there’s still no sign of their CEO on Yuku since 9 April. Has he gone? Yuku staffers seem to be side-stepping that question recently in this thread.