Comments on: Invision Power Services dropping IP.Nexus?

By: Adam Kinder

Adam Kinder — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:05:08 +0000

I think you are probably right, there is a lot going on at IPS about “core” this and “singleton design” blah blah, they probably did realize that Nexus was a mess and needed a core overhaul like IPB3. The bad thing is, I think 90% of it is jumping on the latest shiny PHP practice for no reason other than reinventing the wheel.

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:58:56 +0000

Won’t argue that.

I hate to say ‘hacked together’ because it’s not like VB by any means, but a lot things were just thrown in and meshed together as it grew. There’s a lack of incorporating extensibility as IPB grows…

I hope with IP3’s development it’s starting to ring through that’s the way to go.

By: Adam Kinder

Adam Kinder — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:46:55 +0000

Even if that is the case, still a pretty bad waste of money and resources to recode it, again, after the other recodes.

Q3 is pretty aggressive, we’ll see what happens

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:56:18 +0000

Maybe it’s more of “We started recoding IPSClass (and other things) for IPB3 and realized how hacked together Nexus was. To recode it using the improvements we’ve already finished for IPB would take far too long. We’ll wait until IPB3 is out, and maybe try to piece it all in again.”

Dunno, I’ve heard some things about IP3 coming Q3, which seems like it could be very optimistic, and realizing such they needed to pump more effort into it?

Last I knew only three people were working on Nexus, and pretty sure them working on IPB kills Nexus dev, so it really may be as innocent as that. :/