View Full Version : Good bye to everyone!
Xenon
06-09-2006, 03:51 PM
As many of you may have noticed already, there are a lot of changes going on lately. And here is the next one: I will leave the vbulletin.org Staff as Administrator.
Some of you have already noticed, that i didn't spend much time here during the last month, as i got very busy with RL. vb.org was my hobby, my heart was deeply in this site, but you have noticed, that changes are proceeding. There is a thread on vb.com's site feedback, where someone posted that the whole volunteer aspect doesn't work anymore. That might be correct, the site has deeply changed it's clients, from coders only to a big community which wants professional support and takes a lot of administrative effort...
Unfortunatelly i do not have the time anymore to do those big changes which are requested by a lot, and additionally i don't want to do so anyways. I have been a visitor of vb.org since the day it was founded (and i was even a visitor of the old vb.org before Chen was here...). Since that day a lot has changed on this site, i won't say it got better or worse, just different. It's not the old community anymore, and i don't think it will ever be anymore. I don't want to sound negative. It can be a possitive change as well, but i am a fossil, i miss the old times quite a lot, and i don't want to change vb.org into a direction i won't like it anymore.
I always wanted to be a coder, and i took over the Admin job by Chen to be able to make vb.org a worthwile stay for coders like myself, but i am browsing sites on the internet since a long time now, and i know that no site will stay what it was... Each site evolves with users joingin and leaving.
It would be nice to see vb.org evolving further, but regarding to personal issues at university and the rest of the real life (yeah i have such a thing as well ^^) i cannot continue to do so as an administrator, because that would mean a lot of time spending into coding and everything, hey you know the things ;)
With those changes in progress now i think it is the best time for a leave, thanks to all of you, who have worked with me in the past or made my job here as worthy as possible!
Stefan
Gio~Logist
06-09-2006, 04:24 PM
I'm sure you'll be missed Xenon. Hope everything works out for the best. To be honest, this is neither Jelsoft's nor Chen's site, it's yours, Erwin's, etc. for putting so much time in! I'm sure this will impact vb.org a great deal.
ManagerJosh
06-09-2006, 04:25 PM
Stefan, it's been a pleasure having you here leading vBulletin.org and it's an honor having you around leading this community.
You will be missed greatly! :)
Ntfu2
06-09-2006, 04:26 PM
I step forward, two steps back
Good luck with rLife, we all need it :)
noppid
06-09-2006, 04:26 PM
Good luck Xenon. It's been a pleasure learning from your examples.
joeychgo
06-09-2006, 04:28 PM
Thanks for your contibutions Xenon....
Lottis
06-09-2006, 04:30 PM
I was waiting to read about the announcements from Boofo, instead i see your name leaving v.org.
I am in chock.
Hope everything works out for the best fore you Xenon.
Im shure you will be missed.
Ohiosweetheart
06-09-2006, 04:30 PM
*sigh* this is a very sad day indeed.
All the best to you Stefan.
FLMom
06-09-2006, 04:31 PM
Thank you for all of your hard work and I wish you the best with life! Good Luck to you :)
smacklan
06-09-2006, 04:35 PM
Good luck to you xenon...your impact on this site will be felt for a long time to come I'm sure.
Guest190829
06-09-2006, 04:38 PM
It's been great working with you Stefan, and I wish you the best and I hope to see you around IRC. :)
Chris M
06-09-2006, 05:01 PM
You already know that I will miss you buddy :)
It's been a pleasure to work with you, have a good laugh with you and develop a friendship over the years - I wish you the very best of luck in the future and I do hope you will return every so often and annoy us bless us with your presence :D
Chris
Blam Forumz
06-09-2006, 05:02 PM
:( I'm going to miss you
I hope you'll be back :)
Atakan KOC
06-09-2006, 05:11 PM
contibutions Xenon, tony and boofo
Gio~Logist
06-09-2006, 05:14 PM
contibutions Xenon, tony and boofo
I never even noticed that Tony left too :confused:
cscgal
06-09-2006, 05:15 PM
Stefan, you will be greatly missed!! More than you know, haha! :) Best of luck.
- Dani
Gaskell
06-09-2006, 05:26 PM
Hope everything in the future goes well Xenon :)
Now go and celebrate Germany's win in the football! :D
Corriewf
06-09-2006, 05:29 PM
All good things must come to an end one day. Take care of yourself.
Xenon
06-09-2006, 05:29 PM
oh no, i don't want em to win anything ^^
lasto
06-09-2006, 05:43 PM
goodbye xenon and thanks for all the help u have given me in the past.
Shame to see people go who are basicaly part of the board but i suppose times change etc and real life comes before the net so best of luck in the real world and with any other projects u take on.
Reeve of shinra
06-09-2006, 05:51 PM
Its been fun. See ya 'round :)
Allan
06-09-2006, 05:51 PM
Goodbye Stefan, that the way is sweet and long for you :)
hotwheels
06-09-2006, 06:41 PM
Goodluck to you stefan, you will be missed............
Logikos
06-09-2006, 06:46 PM
Damm Stefan, you will be missed. I've learned ALOT from you alone. Take care and don't forget about us.
Freesteyelz
06-09-2006, 07:25 PM
You're a class act, Stefan. Thank you and take care. :)
peterska2
06-09-2006, 07:31 PM
All the best Stefan. Take care of yourself and I'll see you around from time to time.
Mike Gaidin
06-09-2006, 07:45 PM
Good luck Stefan.
Floris
06-09-2006, 08:14 PM
Bye Stefan!
Nordinho
06-09-2006, 08:51 PM
Thanks for all the effords you put in this site. Good luck and all the best in real life!
Daniel
06-09-2006, 09:09 PM
Thank you for everything Xenon. Although I did not have the chance to get to know you, you seemed like a very nice guy and a great coder. Be sure to come back and visit us. :)
Good luck to you. You will be missed.
It's not the old community anymore, and I don't think it will ever be anymore... I miss the old times quite a lot, and I don't want to change vb.org into a direction I won't like it anymore.
I agree with you Stefan. Unfortunatelly, all people from old school are gone.
I learned so much from those forums... and I developed friendships that will stay always.
Stefan (you), Scott, Chen, Sinecure, DirectPixel, Neo, Freddie, Boofo and many others who know me well...
I simply hope you will still be here, I will visit the forums for sure to see what's new.
All the best and good luck with your future plans.
Floren
GamerzWorld
06-09-2006, 11:49 PM
Goodluck :)
You will be missed Stefan. Thank you for everything over the years!
Talisman
06-10-2006, 12:22 AM
Cheers to you, Stefan. It's very sad to see you go.
All the best ... :bunny:
Xenon it was your original 'Advanced Editing Options For Mods & Admins' that gave me the tools which made dreams come true. Thank you, and all the very best for the future.
Mark
Azhrialilu
06-10-2006, 05:56 AM
Good luck Xenon!
Chris M
06-10-2006, 08:36 AM
I agree with you Stefan. Unfortunatelly, all people from old school are gone.
I learned so much from those forums... and I developed friendships that will stay always.
Stefan (you), Scott, Chen, Sinecure, DirectPixel, Freddie, Boofo and many others who know me well...
I simply hope you will still be here, I will visit the forums for sure to see what's new.
All the best and good luck with your future plans.
Floren
We are a dying breed :(
Chris
Snake
06-10-2006, 01:35 PM
Bye to my dear Stefan, you were such a great administrator to me! :(
Borgs8472
06-10-2006, 01:45 PM
Best of luck!
Developer
06-10-2006, 01:53 PM
Realy now i can say "vBulletin.org is going wrong"
i can say also you were 50% from vbulleting.org
Boofo
06-10-2006, 02:17 PM
Well, buddy, I guess this is it, huh? Not to worry, sir, as I have always been, I will still be there for you now. You taught me a lot along the way, and made life more bearable at times, when I didn't think it could be. I hope to continue the friendship we built here and move on to bigger and better things together. ;)
See you in the next world. ;)
Snyper
06-10-2006, 03:00 PM
Hallo Stefan.
alles gute f?r die Zukunft, es ist Schade, aber RL u.a. geht vor.
Gru? :)
Stefan, since I joined a couple of years ago, it has been you, Erwin and Boofo that have made this site worth visiting over and over, I hope that you do not disappear altogher, and hope to keep on learning from you and other old timers, to make me giggle and have serious thoughts once in a while. It has been a pleasure to have had yourself and also Erwin at the helm. It will not be the same without you to guide things along.
I wish you all the best in your future endeavours, and you do not stay a stranger.
Paul M
06-10-2006, 05:41 PM
Good luck. :)
We are a dying breed :(
Chris
Ya Chris, I'm sure most of the actual members do not know how good used to be vb.org... those are the days I miss the most.
There used to be days when I slept only 2-3 hours/day just write code and post tutorials... that much I was in love with the community.
And I was not the only one. We were a family.
Now, vB.org is a business almost, not a hobby anymore...
In the old times, if you asked money for your code, people used to look at you like an outsider. Now, you can have forums where people pay to have code that used to be free.
This is one of many reasons why the "dying breed" of coders left.
The passion for helping others is all gone. There is no warm atmosphere in any of the forums anymore.
Look at the newbies, they ask a question and they never get an answer in any area. People are simply lazy to help anyone, coder or no coder.
In the old times, you used to post a question and get an answer withing 30minutes...
Mike Gaidin
06-10-2006, 06:30 PM
Those WERE good days. Well said Floren.
Evil X
06-10-2006, 08:35 PM
who are you lol
Mike Gaidin
06-10-2006, 11:13 PM
who are you lol
Who am I? Somebody who's been here a hell of a lot longer than you. Somebody who has been at vB.org since the beginning so I've been witness to vB.org's good times. That's who I am. LOL. ;)
Mike, don't worry, we know who you are. At least I know you well. :)
EXHB, do you know who is Neo... for example?
He is not the Matrix guy... but a pretty good coder who left also the community, a while ago.
That's the type of attitude that made all the heavy guys leave.
Keep on going guys with those questions, you manage to ruin it all... pretty good and pretty fast.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=118277
tgillespie
06-12-2006, 01:14 AM
Appreciate the work you've done here. Lots of contribution by you, and I know everyone appreciates it.
:) good luck, and have fun with whatever you are doing Stefan.
and ash Chris said, come back and annoy us join us every often
It's been a pleasure to work with you, have a good laugh with you and develop a friendship over the years - I wish you the very best of luck in the future and I do hope you will return every so often and annoy us bless us with your presence :D
Chris
FlyBoy73
06-16-2006, 06:44 AM
Stefan,
I don't think we ever spoke but I have a world of respect for you and most of the other old schoolers here. Thank you for all the time and energy you put into vb.org and those of us that have needed help.
David
ubblite
06-16-2006, 07:52 AM
In the old times, if you asked money for your code, people used to look at you like an outsider. Now, you can have forums where people pay to have code that used to be free.
This can potentially be dangerous in that certain people who use vBulletin are attracted to additional code at no cost, but once hacks start becoming pay-only, you might see people sway from VB and in the end this could hurt VB's income.
Look at the newbies, they ask a question and they never get an answer in any area. People are simply lazy to help anyone, coder or no coder.
In the old times, you used to post a question and get an answer withing 30minutes...
I agree 100% with this. I can't tell you how many times I've seen posts go unanswered and of course since I'm not very experienced with code by any means, I can only do so much myself but it kind of bums me out when I see people struggling for help without getting any answers.
On a final note - take care, Xenon, and best of luck to you.
sabret00the
06-16-2006, 08:50 AM
i take a few days away and this happens, curse my unauthorised absense and the effect it has on all things good in the world. Stefan i really respected you and you will be tremendously missed. to me this just doesn't seem to be a positive change for the site. losing two admins such as yourself and erwin in such quick succession is bound to be stifling, i'm utterly utterly shocked and dismayed.
Logician
06-18-2006, 05:02 PM
aww, I've just noticed this thread! How sad you also step down right after Erwin! It is a huge loss on vb.org end too but my only consolation is that I know you very well that you can not stay away from this community no matter what. So your getting rid of admin responsibilities might give you some more space and time to be more active in your vb.org activites and hacks. This is what I truly wish too. All volunteers who devoted their time to vb.org deserve best kudos and they are the main cores of this website but among all of them "Xenon" is and will always be "the legend".
My best wishes for you pal..
Smoothie
08-19-2006, 04:25 AM
Mike, don't worry, we know who you are. At least I know you well. :)
EXHB, do you know who is Neo... for example?
He is not the Matrix guy... but a pretty good coder who left also the community, a while ago.
That's the type of attitude that made all the heavy guys leave.
Keep on going guys with those questions, you manage to ruin it all... pretty good and pretty fast.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=118277
Xenon, sad to see you go. Teck, I'm back and yea, I remember Neo as well as a few others. Oh well......
Shazz
08-19-2006, 04:37 AM
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=202
Look at his profile.
Its pretty cool stuff. i mean we are talking 2x
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Smoothie
08-19-2006, 06:04 AM
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=202
Look at his profile.
Its pretty cool stuff. i mean we are talking 2x
That's because that dude made a ton of hacks, always free, always supported them. Good stuff.
Delphiprogrammi
08-19-2006, 10:31 AM
As many of you may have noticed already, there are a lot of changes going on lately. And here is the next one: I will leave the vbulletin.org Staff as Administrator.
Some of you have already noticed, that i didn't spend much time here during the last month, as i got very busy with RL. vb.org was my hobby, my heart was deeply in this site, but you have noticed, that changes are proceeding. There is a thread on vb.com's site feedback, where someone posted that the whole volunteer aspect doesn't work anymore. That might be correct, the site has deeply changed it's clients, from coders only to a big community which wants professional support and takes a lot of administrative effort...
Unfortunatelly i do not have the time anymore to do those big changes which are requested by a lot, and additionally i don't want to do so anyways. I have been a visitor of vb.org since the day it was founded (and i was even a visitor of the old vb.org before Chen was here...). Since that day a lot has changed on this site, i won't say it got better or worse, just different. It's not the old community anymore, and i don't think it will ever be anymore. I don't want to sound negative. It can be a possitive change as well, but i am a fossil, i miss the old times quite a lot, and i don't want to change vb.org into a direction i won't like it anymore.
I always wanted to be a coder, and i took over the Admin job by Chen to be able to make vb.org a worthwile stay for coders like myself, but i am browsing sites on the internet since a long time now, and i know that no site will stay what it was... Each site evolves with users joingin and leaving.
It would be nice to see vb.org evolving further, but regarding to personal issues at university and the rest of the real life (yeah i have such a thing as well ^^) i cannot continue to do so as an administrator, because that would mean a lot of time spending into coding and everything, hey you know the things ;)
With those changes in progress now i think it is the best time for a leave, thanks to all of you, who have worked with me in the past or made my job here as worthy as possible!
Stefan
I regret this .... .This is a sad day for vbulletin.org however good luck Stefan and come back one day :p
Orphadox
08-19-2006, 01:21 PM
Best of luck in the future. :)
You Shall be missed :D
Code Monkey
08-19-2006, 03:38 PM
This happened over two months ago peeps.
Dean C
08-19-2006, 03:47 PM
That's because that dude made a ton of hacks, always free, always supported them. Good stuff.
Wow, haven't seen you around in ages!
Shazz
08-19-2006, 03:49 PM
Wow, haven't seen you around in ages!
He came to say goodbye, then he leaves again for another year :tired:
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Never is forever. Say goodbye forever and be prepared to eat your words ;)
ShackMaster
08-19-2006, 08:40 PM
He couldn't ended it... I'll be back!
Smoothie
08-20-2006, 04:12 AM
Wow, haven't seen you around in ages!
Hey Dean! Yea, it's been a while. How you been?
This happened over two months ago peeps.So friggin what?
ubblite
08-20-2006, 04:23 AM
For the record, I'm not leaving.
Shazz
08-20-2006, 04:27 AM
For the record, I'm not leaving.
Im sure everyone is Glad. :rolleyes:
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ubblite
08-20-2006, 04:43 AM
Im sure everyone its Glad. :rolleyes:
Yup, I think so.
I forgot to put "TIA" after my post to show my appreciation. ;)
Shazz
08-20-2006, 04:46 AM
Yup, I think so.
I forgot to put "TIA" after my post to show my appreciation. ;)
Whats TIA stand for..
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Dean C
08-20-2006, 04:55 AM
Hey Dean! Yea, it's been a while. How you been?
Not bad man. How about you? I see you switched back to vB again ;)
ubblite
08-20-2006, 05:07 AM
Whats TIA stand for..
Thanks In Advance.
Xenon
08-20-2006, 12:57 PM
nice to see some here are still crazy as they were ;)
thx for the kind words, i still look by from time to time, and enjoy those posts a lot!
Hey Dean! Yea, it's been a while. How you been?
Did you fixed the darn Apple MSN? :p
Valter
08-26-2006, 10:29 PM
Thanks for your contibutions Xenon and good luck with RL. ;)
thenetbox
08-27-2006, 01:16 AM
Xenon you rawk :) Good luck and thank you for every thing over the years :)
SaN-DeeP
08-29-2006, 10:44 PM
my heart was deeply in this site, but you have noticed, that changes are proceeding.thats really hurting to see you leave Xenon.
Good luck with your future endevours. :)
Regards,
Smoothie
08-30-2006, 02:30 AM
Not bad man. How about you? I see you switched back to vB again ;)
I'm good, all things considered. And yea, backed to the best, vB all the way.
Did you fixed the darn Apple MSN? :p
Oops, forgot about that.
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