Confluence Is Now on All New Builds And A Few Other Points Of Interest. Also, Happy 500….
Confluence XBOX is now on all new builds and can I say what a nice skin Xbs and all those involved with this project have achieved. It’s available as a choice within the Appearance Settings on all new XBMC4 Xbox builds which can be had via the Xbox Latest Nightly Build tab at the top of every forum page or of coarse using Dan’s XBMC SVN Installer to upgrade your build from within the Xbox after downloading via SVN Repo Installer.
Other topics of interest going on within the forum of late have included some really “Outside the square” lines of thought regarding XBMC which in my opinion is what enhances development. If we all did what we know works, we would never improve. Imagine if we never experimented. XBMP can show where we have come from with people thinking differently. Xbox development reminds me of the NASA spaceship that was only designed to go out past Mars on a two year journey and with the tech heads, it was able to continue out past Pluto and beyond for over seven years on what was described as “Ancient Hardware”.
Modding has had me pretty occupied of late. After working on more stock Xboxes than I can remember, I’m finding it quite enjoyable trying different things in the way of case mods and hardware changes of which I’m far more confident doing than software mods. Let’s just say, I’m much better with my hands than I am with my fingers.
Help And Troubleshooting is as popular as always with many people helping others with Xbox and XBMC related problems. Good to see this help amongst the members with everybody pitching in. This help can be invaluable when your stuck or not sure how to do something.
500 members the forum now has and I’m seeing no slowing down. It’s good to see new members coming on board and it’s always nice to see members welcome first time posters. I see a forum much the same as a business where first impressions have a lasting impact. Anyway, congratulations XBMC4Xbox with 500 and counting.
XMAN
2370 users
Nothing about XBMC4XBOX 3.0?
Good reading Xman!
3.0? would be nice to hear whats instore with that.
And again my thanks to all involved…
@bulkzooi
If someone cares to let me in on it ,I’ll be glad to write about it but as it is, my knowledge is based on what I read on this forum and that’s it. No crystal ball here. I would really appreciate people P.M.ing of such events. It would make my life as editor a hell of a lot easier.
XMAN
I think the space probes that xman were referring to were the voyager probes launched during the summer months of 1977 (I am a closet space dork) Both of these probes are still transmitting data and have greatly outlived their intended lifespan and are expected to continue sending back data to earth for at least another decade, or when there is no longer sufficient power to transmit back home. I have been chewing on this for a wile and it would seem appropriate to name the next incarnation of XBMC4Xbox in some way after these probes who have achieved so much more than they were originally intended. Just an idea.
The only persons who knows what 3.0 is, is Arnova?!?! What a “community”…
@bulkzooi
We kinda all know about if you look at System Info. I think Arnova hasn’t made any plans available cause he doesn’t have a release date. I’m sure he will say something when the time comes – as a developer myself (although not an XBMC developer), I know it’s quite hard to estimate when stuff is going to be completed, there’s always stuff coming against you, even when you thought you were done…
xbox FTW. this community rocks.
@DAN:
I understand but what is stuff? Would make it easier for community to test stuff or other stuff depending on what’s comming. Maybe it would even inspire community members to update wiki’s and think along.
And besides, no one would fire him if things turn out to be different. It’s just that devs can greatly improve overal performance of the community by being open about the near future.
I can tell this from different rols as tester, consultant, project manager (and once even developper) and customer.
BTW: no 500: [URL=http://img683.imageshack.us/i/500q.png/][IMG]http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/8738/500q.png[/IMG][/URL]
@bulkzooi
, but personally (as a user here) I don’t care if there’ll every be a version 3.0 as long as i goes forward. I think development is going well enough, fixes are being made, skins are getting in there and there a lot of user activity on the forums, a bunch of good people supporting and a lot of discussions about improving things – and thank god I haven’t seen any frustrated comments yet 
so overall I think things are going well. Can more be done? absolutely, lets give it some time, we’re not trying to run the perfect project here, but one that goes forward, even slowly.
I don’t want to enter a debate (especially here on blog comments
And yes, we have 500 users now in the forums (not that it matters that much anymore, I think we’ve proved there’s plenty Xbox users out there
, it just happened that Steve got excited a bit early, when they were about 490 
Make me a pessimist, but I think very few of the 500 users would like to contribute to wiki or content creation, but that I guess is human nature, some maybe are thinking they cannot create things, not trying to offend anyone, but that’s what I see.
no 500 = number 500…..
Your reaction has nothing to do with my initial comment and neither with my folluw up comment but itś a nice story though…
Just trying to explain how a community normally works (= as a chain of efforts).
I missed my point. I ment: (= as a chain of efforts working together)
>Would make it easier for community to test stuff or other stuff depending on what’s comming
we are all working together and everything we do is available for users to test.
>It’s just that devs can greatly improve overal performance of the community by being open about the near future.
How more open could we be? public bugs, source, and actively participating with forum discussions on a daily basis.
there is no fixed plan for v3 other than we will tag the current codebase as v3 when we think its at a stable point we feel comfortable with (and obviously this is directly linked in to users feedback in regards to bugs etc).
I just wanted to add that Im glad the XBOX community didnt just die and leave us XBMC users on the XBOX platform looking for another solution as I still love how nice the old XBOX can rock a skin and play movies, sure at times things freeze up but thats what testing and development is for…which there has been thanks to a lot of ppl on this forum.
Keep it up and hope to see more innovative ideas and skins for XBOX.
I would like to thank all involved in devloping and in community. Thinking about buying another box!