[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by sticky

a) not supported after being supported is a bit irresponsible and leaves MANY people hanging.

b. I read his comments, he abandons everyone, great.

c. I'm glad we have people willing to pick up where he dropped the ball.

Actually, neither this, nor the early versions of AME were ever supported. I remember when the first one was posted and he would help out a little with new releases, making sure any initial bugs were worked out, but he had designed it then so that it didn't need to be. vB 4 kind of nerfed his ability to do it that way again. Problems just kept coming up. For a long time on vB3, it seemed supported, but that was just me answering newbie question and trying to pimp my definitions thread. (Did I just say that out loud?)

Originally Posted by sticky

Absolutely, but I don't see why I can't provide my opinion when he has clearly shown his regarding Vb. With the way he dropped everyone I say good riddance and I thank you for picking up the slack.

Actually, it was a very gradual process. Took several years before he ever fully dropped developing for vB. He turned over his paid hacks to Calorie several years ago, and did some free releases since then, like AME. AME was just the last one to go. The last straw in a lot of ways.

I'm not saying you can't voice your opinion. I'm just saying, given all the facts, it's not really a fair assessment. I actually defend his decision to leave, even though, it makes it harder for me to develop the massive definitions set I had been working on. But his decision to leave has forced me to try and take over development of AME if no one else beats me to the punch, forcing me to look into the beast of PHP that I'd been avoiding or putting off.