Just a couple of snippets from one support thread as nothing much is happening over at yuku (well, apart from staffers disappearing; the expression “rats leaving a sinking ship” spring to mind).

Firstly, remember that one of the key ”benefits” of yuku is “google friendly URLs”. I see. Let’s look again at that support thread’s URL: it’s http://support.yuku.com/topic/3493/t/–did—-fix–wasn-t-broke—-place-.html

Somewhat different from the actual topic title of “So why did you have to fix what wasn’t broke in the first place?” Now I wouldn’t call that URL Google-friendly, would you?

Secondly, have a look at this reply in the message thread, apparently from a user called Ben. Nothing untoward there? Now read this later reply:

“Well that’s odd - I don’t remember making that post up there (#17). Maybe it’s down to bad memory on my part, but the time of the post is 7:18pm in my time zone - and I was NOT on the PC between 7pm and 7:35pm. What is going on?”

The answer? It was a yuku staffer logging in to that user’s account and posting. Yes, isn’t it reassuring to know that if your message board is on yuku or you have a user account on there, ezboard, Inc. can log into your account and post away pretending to be you without you ever being the wiser! Of course, compare that with, say, a vBulletin where as an administrator, I don’t have access to a user’s password (other than the ability to set a new one, but then they’d be aware of that).

And given the documented antics of certain staff (and indeed, ex-staff), they’re the last people I’d ever trust.