[Tony G]

For a long period of time, especially around September 2003 until now, I observed the site go down and down. I, as well as Faranth, and other people have worked to get more people aware of vBulletinTemplates.com. Like Wayne said, with 13,000 members and only a handful of posts per day, you can see that something isn't working.

A community really excels when there is active administration around. Members feel like when they're having problems, that they can contact an active admin with ease about anything regarding the forum. That's definently one of the reasons why the forum started to die. I would get frequent messages over AIM, and even threads here as you have seen asking where SaintDog was. SaintDog is a very big part of vBT, and I realised that it could not function without him, without an admin to be on the forums when needed. It came to the point that people asked me to do administration jobs for them, when I couldn't. At a time during last year, I was the really only active staff, but brad.loo started to come alot more and it helped me, and the community alot.

All this, together with vBulletin.org being the place for template questions brought vBT to where it is now. But I feel, I know, things will change.

I have always offered my services to SD and vBT, supporting, and helping around here. It's my duty, as a moderator, to do that. The last thing I wanted to do was let down the community, non-active moderators would be the last thing we needed. But we need more people, like I have, devoting some time to vBT.

I am happy to see that SD has appointed Brad.loo to admin, and planning to appoint other people to help out too. This will bring the place some active admins, and will make members feel better again.

Also, the planned upgrade, will help members to come back.

But more must be done, awareness of vBT needs to increase like it was back when we were on vB2. Together with all these improvements, vBT will improve.

xiphoid - I spefically remember telling you over IRC that we had decided that no new staff were required at that time. I know you had waited a while, so I informed you at the time. The administration was struggling, but with little posts, the mods were doing fine. I thought you understood that at the time. It means as much coming from me as it did coming from SD in an e-mail. And the problems you address in your post, with no name changes and such, are because of administration, not moderation. Community members have as much right to help out as staff do.

But in summary, better things are to come, and I'm glad these changes are coming.