vB.org Update - 16th June 2006

[Guest190829]

As many of you already know, Brad, our Designer Administrator, has stepped down due to personal reasons. He has been a great staff member, and he will certainly be missed by everyone. The staff wishes him the best of luck. :)

The recent spur of staff stepping down has been disheartening to everyone; both members and staff. We must move forward, however, and continue with our plans.

First off, I would like to be the first to congratulate the two new Administrators who will be filling the Coding and Designer Administrating positions.

MarcoH64 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=59998) will now act as the Coding Administrator.

And

Princeton (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=925) will now act as the Designer Administrator.

We hope to stabilize vBulletin.org and continue with our planned projects. The staff has some new and exciting things in the works, so please be patient as we work on these projects.

Secondly, vB.org will have its first official Site-Feedback ?Town-Hall? style thread concerning the Private Coders forum, and additionally features that you feel will help Coders here at vBulletin.org. More information on this will be posted shortly.

Finally, I want to personally thank everyone for being patient today as the issues at hand were sorted out. It is much appreciated. :)

[Logikos]

Congrats to the both of you and good luck.

[Daniel]

Congratulations you two. Best of luck to the both of you.

[Atakan KOC]

Congratulations Princeton

[peterska2]

Congrats Marco and Princeton :banana:

[FlyBoy73]

Marco has worked with me on a number of projects and it goes without saying that he brings a lot to the table. Congrats to vB.org on that note.. I don't know Princeton personally but I am sure he will contribute much as well.

Again, a big thanks to Brad and the rest who have contributed their time and efforts. You all will be missed but not forgotten.. (Unless they prune 10 years down the road and we're all gone :p )

[dan35]

Congrats to the both of you, Marco and Princeton!
Good luck!

[sabret00the]

Congratulations, especially so Marco. I'm really shocked to see Brad's no longer here, i'm not sure if i'm sadder that he's gone or that he never made an official bye thread.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Although i can't look into Brad's mind, you could look at it in a positive way: No goodbye thread maybe means he is not leaving, just taking it easier.

@All: Thanks for the congratulations.

[---MAD---]

congrats and good luck.

[MJM]

A lot of volunteer based orgs stipulate a time limit on positions of official duties.

There's a number of reasons for this ...

... which I'm too exhausted to outline.

Ummm ... I guess that's reason #1 ;)

[snowlion]

Congratulations Marco and Princeton

[Dean C]

Member to administrator in just over 2 months. Why not just pick some monkeys out of the local zoo and have them run the place? It really shows the poor level that this site has gone to to see all three administrators and several staff leave within the space of a month. Nevertheless, congratulations to you both and I hope you can persuade me, and everyone else that there is a little life left in the dot org :)

[Ohiosweetheart]

Congrats Marco and Princeton

[Roms]

Congratulations Marco and Princeton. :)

[Lottis]

Wow, there are changes every day here now.

Good luck, Marco and Princeton.

3/4 under 14 days. Are you diificoult to work with, Danny? Hehe, its only you left of the admins.

[Princeton]

The departing staff have done a great service to vbulletin. And, I wish them the best of luck. Accepting this position, I promise to do my best to "leap-frog" vBulletin into the future.

Yes, the past 2 months have been hard on everyone. However, despite the recent departures, I assure you we are moving forward with our plans.
Like everything in life, there are hurdles to jump in which we have no control; So, please be patient with us as changes will come and they will be gradual.

thank you all for your comments

[tehste]

Gah. Do you know what continuity means? Why is the thread title 06/16/06 I thought someone had added four extra months to the year and we had suddenly jumped to the sixteenth!

Princeton and Marco are both brown nosers :D So it payed off for you guys I guess.

[Zachery]

Gah. Do you know what continuity means? Why is the thread title 06/16/06 I thought someone had added four extra months to the year and we had suddenly jumped to the sixteenth!

Princeton and Marco are both brown nosers :D So it payed off for you guys I guess.
In the amercias dates are listed as month day year.

[smacklan]

good luck to the new admins and all the staff here as you move forward :)

[noppid]

This reminds me of an old divorce joke.

Meet the future ex-vb.org admins.

[davidw]

Congrats!

[vbreal]

Member to administrator in just over 2 months. Why not just pick some monkeys out of the local zoo and have them run the place? It really shows the poor level that this site has gone to to see all three administrators and several staff leave within the space of a month. Nevertheless, congratulations to you both and I hope you can persuade me, and everyone else that there is a little life left in the dot org :)

We the members make the board. If the board goes to pot it isn't the admins fault.


Congratz to the new admins.

[Gio~Logist]

Member to administrator in just over 2 months. Why not just pick some monkeys out of the local zoo and have them run the place? It really shows the poor level that this site has gone to to see all three administrators and several staff leave within the space of a month. Nevertheless, congratulations to you both and I hope you can persuade me, and everyone else that there is a little life left in the dot org :)

I think it was obvious how bad Marco wanted it. Princeton is cool though, he's a great help around and i always see him helping others.

[akanevsky]

Congratulations Princeton!

[soniceffect]

Nice one both of ya`s .. i`m sure you`ll both make an excellent job of it

[Immortal]

Member to administrator in just over 2 months. Why not just pick some monkeys out of the local zoo and have them run the place? It really shows the poor level that this site has gone to to see all three administrators and several staff leave within the space of a month. Nevertheless, congratulations to you both and I hope you can persuade me, and everyone else that there is a little life left in the dot org :)

You was a moderator a big ago, so they must be picking monkeys out of the zoo. But, at least these monkeys know something and actually care about vB.org.

Congratulations you guys, more than well deserved! Brad, I believe I already told you how sad it is to see you leave.

[Desihunk]

I feel a new skin will really help. ;)

[Brad]

Member to administrator in just over 2 months. Why not just pick some monkeys out of the local zoo and have them run the place? It really shows the poor level that this site has gone to to see all three administrators and several staff leave within the space of a month. Nevertheless, congratulations to you both and I hope you can persuade me, and everyone else that there is a little life left in the dot org :)
I did not make a leaving thread because it was a sudden thing (well an on-going thing for months but it came to a head the other night). I also think they cause a little un-needed drama and I prefer not to make a big deal out of it. :) My step down has nothing to do with all the recent going ons, I just have more important things in my life at this time and I could not spend all my time here anymore.

I really hate to give up my admin position as I love this community, but it was something I had to do. Maybe in a year or so I will be able to devote more time to this place again, I just have to get some things IRL sorted out before I can come back to it all the time like I used to. I will pop-in from time to time to check up on things, and I will also try to keep giving support to the people that use my modifications.

Please try not to give the staff much heat, I promise they are working harder than ever and you guys will see some good things here soon. They really do listen to you guys although sometimes I know it may not seem that way. You just have to give them a little time is all. :)

Congrats to both of you, I know you guys will do a great job here!

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Well it took 2 new admins to replace you Brad. Think that shows how much you did for the community and all should be thankfull for the time you have invested in this Community.

[TECK]

In the amercias dates are listed as month day year.
Just a friendly remark: in Quebec (Canada > Americas), they are listed as day-month-year.

[Zachery]

Er, right the United States of Amercia :p

[Paul M]

It would be better to title it "16 Jun 2006" so we don't all get confused.

(it makes no sense in the UK as it is).

[peterska2]

6 june 2006? Now it's makes even less sense

[Guest190829]

16th June 2006, should make sense. :)

[peterska2]

It does now, much better :banana:

[Adrian Schneider]

As threads are automatically dated, a more descriptive thread title would be better IMO. :)

"June 16th, 2006" is my favorite date format, and should make sense to most people.

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Congrats Marco and Princeton, you have both been a great addition to the community as moderators and members.

[Ohiosweetheart]

In the amercias dates are listed as month day year.

unless you're in the US military... they use the day-month-year format

It would be better to title it "16 Jun 2006" so we don't all get confused.
(it makes no sense in the UK as it is).

this is the format the U.S. Military uses as well

[Marco van Herwaarden]

"June 16th, 2006" is my favorite date format, and should make sense to most people.
I prefer: 2006 June 16
But i guess that is a coder thing, easier to sort etc..

[Adrian Schneider]

I meant it more in terms of "English". I usually write out full dates, but yes, on computers (especially if you are sorting) that makes it really easy.

I love how the focus of this thread is the date, and not the actual announcement...

[Marco van Herwaarden]

You can't blame anyone, not much important that announcement.

[Roms]

Astronomers have used the Year-Month-Day Date Format for over 200 years.

2006-02-04 (or '20060204' in program data storage)
2006-Feb-04 (or '2006 Feb 04' without the hyphens)
2006-February-04 (or '2006 February 04' without the hyphens)

[MJM]

I prefer, ie, removed 'Reply to Post' in the subject line of the email notification so the full thread title gets first precedence in my inbox.

Also having an email subject Title ...
Reply to post 'Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Adv. Editing Options for Mods and Admins'

...is a bit long winded and not very user friendly sifting through inbox eh what??

I use 060616-# (y;m;d) to file my digital pics to facilitate date sequencing/retrival.

I won't be around in the 22 century and I'm sure there will be another method of taking/storing /retrieving pics and posts.

... mods feel free to move date formatting discussion to whatever time zone you like ;)

[FASherman]

16th June 2006, should make sense. :)

Day Month Year is the date format used by the US military so anyone who has earned their citizenship will understand.

[Ohiosweetheart]

that's what I said ;)

[FASherman]

that's what I said ;)
I didn't have the patience to read that far. :D

[Ohiosweetheart]

I didn't have the patience to read that far. :D
lol...

[Reeve of shinra]

I prefer, ie, removed 'Reply to Post' in the subject line of the email notification so the full thread title gets first precedence in my inbox.


I have rules setup in outlook to move replies to posts to a specific folder ... if every site removed or changed this, it would be a pita. I am not happy that 3.6 changes this to update which is too ambigious.

[KW802]

I prefer: 2006 June 16
But i guess that is a coder thing, easier to sort etc..Yep. I've been using YYYYMMDD for so many years now that it takes me a second or so to follow MMDDYYYYY listings. I propose we start a movement to make YYYYMMDD as the international programmers standard. :D

[Paul M]

I don't think programming standards are really relevant to a date in a forum announcement that needs to be easily understood by everyone, and this is also getting way off the original announcement topic. :)

[MJM]

The Title for this thread is not very self explanatory (for an announcement thread) ...

Reeve of shinra, unless your referring to admins or mods who receive the first post of a thread, unless you're using the mail preview option, saving past posts into a folder for further reference, with the exception of for archival purposes seems pretty futile. ... unless I'm missing something here.
I might save specific replies as the ... =118737&goto=newpost ... enables one to find that post in a long thread.

Now I wish someone would find a way to include Username in From tag.
This is the biggest complaint I get from 'staff/members' who get all posts from a specific forum. (They're all from Forum X!)
This is another reason why yahoo type egroup listings are preferred by many for the simple fact that you can read/save/delete emails based on the username being clearly visible in From without need for using message preview etc.

Even further off the topic of date formatting is the frustration of having an international site and Americans reluctance of going metric.
I need to come up with a simple conversion chart accessable from the message posting interface for handy reference, as the only option is to include both when referring to ft/M and temperature.

What does it take around here to get a mod to split a thread. hehe ;)