I will gladly give your beta a whirl on my forums.

The sooner I get a journal system compatible with the old version of vBJournal installed on my 3.5.0, the better. Many of my users preferred using their forum blogs over LiveJournal. Also, if you wish I will gladly re-add the changes I made with vBlog (another customisation of vBJournal) and share them with you.. :)

I would love to help test this on my forums :).

*bump*
I fixed all Bugs reported so far, as well as a whole bunch of issues releated to Private Journals/Entries (hopefully ...):
- Guests cannot view private Journals/Entries
- Private Journals/Entries do not show up in Top Stats
- Private Journals do not screw up Index Display/Pagination
- Private Entries do not screw up Journal Display/Pagination
- Latest private Entries/Journals do show up if the User has Permission
- If a public (or Private Journal where the User has Permission) is being shown on Index, and it's latest Entry is Private (eg. User does not have Permission) it will show "Private" instead of a Link

Other Changes
- Fixed Journal Rating (should work now)
- Fixed a lot of Redirection URLs
- Added some checks for Invalid IDs
- Settings saved in Datastore => 1 Query less for every Page generated by journal.php

Please test and report Bugs :)
If everything goes well, Alpha 1 should be ready within a few Days.

any chance their might be a rating system, like on the invision blog system?

Is this only a port of vbjournal? Or are you going to develop your own hack once you get a stable version released?

Maybe I missed the obvious, but where do we download this beta from ?

i believe you have to request it from him via pm/email

Nope. Go to his site to test..

http://kirbydemos.ath.cx/forum/journal.php

As stated in the first Post, it's not yet available for installing it yourself, just for testing on my Site.

Any idea when a release will be made public?