What's Happening To vBulletin.org?

[FreshFroot]

I would say the BEST coders are mostly all gone now that IB has taken over. I'm talking about people, who KNOW how to code VERY well. The best one Chen, who used to admin here at vBorg was one of the best.

It shows the quality of coders have moved on wards...

[Paul M]

Chen left vb.org years before IB ever came onto the scene.

[vbenhancer]

actually, Chen left way before any good coder was there... rofl

ok i was in, Boofo and John were too, but hey, we were not legion.. lol

and now, yeap, most coders left... any generation of vB make a move in the list of coders, some will raise in the next months as there is new gaps to fill in the market.

[Videx]

My own visits have been less frequent lately because things are working so well.

[stevebullman]

Perhaps a lot of the coders have built up a steady amount of work with repeat business from forum owners that they dont need to come looking for work anymore. Speaking personally.....i throw a lot of work at the coder i use and am pretty demanding of him, i know im his biggest customer, but if he has a handful more that give him anywhere near the amount of work i do, then he certainly isnt going to need to be looking for any extra. just a consideration

[BlackThorn]

@Wordplay I don't think it so xenforo suckcs yet 'cause there is no blogs, there is no social groups, there is no photo albums, there is no arcade games, there is no point market system, there is no more! Of course this is the matter of taste I'm respect people who using it.

Well, I just think the one main reason is facebook 'cause it offers so much and also the users could create groups etc within the site, the usage of forums have gone down. but still if the content is good enough the users who really get something out of the active forum conversations will stick to it. A forum conversation is more on thread but facebook has many distractions when compared to a forum. I really don't like facebook it 'cause people being lazy to increase their acknowledge especially in forum that can be useful if we can manage it. sometimes people just seeking fun but don't know the benefits of it. Keep sharing on mailing list and Forum don't be junk by facebook so I've said this on my this post.

[steveman0018]

to be honest about xenforo. Yes it does not have photo albums, social groups, arcade, point etc YET but most of them are mods. THe software has not gone gold yet. Its completely re-written. Kier and Mike took what they did best with the old VB and applied that to zenforo. You can see this by looking at there bug tracker. Its in RC2 and there only 32 bugs. 32! Vbulletin 4 hah, i dont even want to say that number. They are focusing on making the product stable before they release the photo album, social groups, etc. Smart developing ritght there.Its in the works for version 1.1. Xenforo might be small in add on right now but in a year they will be bigger

[TNCclubman]

everyones gone over to xenforo. Im still using vB though for my main site as Im waiting for xenforo to get user albums.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by steveman0018

They are focusing on making the product stable before they release the photo album, social groups, etc.

Are you sure about that ?

I dont recall them ever saying they intend to add such things to the core. I understood they planned to keep it pretty basic and allow features like that to be add-ons.

Originally Posted by TNCclubman

everyones gone over to xenforo. .

Not everyone.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Not everyone.

Hear Hear!