anyone who would want to create their own forum could just use epochtalk to create it.
So with a full software package that could be used by so many comes full responsibility of building and testing for bugs and vulnerabilities hence the very long wait.
I never spent much time paying attention to the new software developments, and the longer I've been a member of this forum the more I've come to believe that the way we have it now is the way it's going to remain in perpetuity.
By the way, I'm an ignoranoobus when it comes to computers and software, but if what you wrote is true, wouldn't that mean that by the time the epochtalk version of bitcointalk rolled out it might already be outdated?
Well I don't see many people testing epochtalk now on coinbistro for example.
That might be because people have lost faith that this software upgrade is ever going to happen, or they could just be satisfied with how the forum is right now. I count myself in the latter category mostly. The look and feel of bitcointalk might be dated to some folks, but personally I like it and I like consistency in website appearance.