[BirdOPrey5]

Apologies ChrisTERiS, and to get back on topic....

I often see people say things aren't like they used to be... Not only here- but everywhere in life. In high school teacher's would say we weren't like the students a few years earlier used to be. In college the professors said the same thing. Even Alumni from my fraternity would say things aren't like they used to be (2 or 3 years earlier before they graduated.) When I got my first real job and I'd talk to people who have been there for years they'd tell me how things weren't like they used to be just a few years earlier. When I was in the hospital, nurses and hospital staff would tell me things in the hospital weren't like they used to be... When I was moved to rehab, the nurses there said the rehab wasn't like it used to be... And when I started with vBulletin the more senior coders used to tell me about how it used to be.

It's like my entire life I'm 2 or 3 years behind "what used to be" and had I been born a couple years earlier I would have been living some sort of dream life hitting everything at their "highs" instead of being just a few years too late to see how great they used to be.

The fact is though... No matter when or where you find yourself it is likely you will always find people saying it's not like it used to be- because the fact is- they are right- things change, there are no constants- Whatever vBulletin.org is like today I can only promise next year it will be different. Whether you consider it better or worse will be up to you but it will never be like it used to be. That is an unattainable dream.

I no longer worry about how it used to be... and I take what I hear about the "old" days with a grain of salt.