Everything is usually hush hush. That's expected though. If every company said hey were gonna put this out in x-months with x-features it wouldn't be a secret nor would it be part of the fun. Ok maybe it's not fun that much fun. But I do understand the secrecy a bit.

Regarding a heavily modded site. All I can say is keep some really good notes. Add comments to the files so you can find them much easier in the future. If you keep good notes and comments it does help for transferring them to an see more upgrade. At least you can narrow down the files and code to edit. Some mods will not be transferable or work in future releases, that's the way it is. It's a bummer but what do you do. Everytime microsoft puts out a new operating system it's the same thing. These devices or software may not work. Some you can patch, some you can re-install and some just plain old wont work.

Again what do you do. If you want to upgrade to the new technology you either eat your lossed time and money and move on, spend hours trying to get them to work, or start over. It's kind of a no win situation. If you want the new technology you really can't do much. Just don't jump into an upgrade/release. All your members are used to the way things are now. You can test a new release in a subfolder/directory. Atempt to copy mods, and make things work. If successfull then you can just move new files and update the database. Kind of a test run without affecting a live site. Time consuming too, but it wont mess your site up or bring it down.
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