Who is Chen?

[youryogi.com]

Here is one of Chen's posts explaining that he left to go to school. http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showp...1&postcount=19

I also remember him saying he was leaving the world of 'virtual insanity' behind which is what online communities are sometimes.

He was also the founder of Hivemail.com which was an early email program with much promise and many users which he transferred ownership to another person (tubedogg) when he resigned. Though I do not believe Chen wrote the Hivemail script it was a decent script and ahead of itself at the time. Unfortunately the newer owner ran it into the ground for reasons unknown burning many users.

Chen was a good coder and a good leader of the community back in the earlier days.

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Brad

I already posted a link that explains all that MRGTB. I'll post it again incase you missed it; https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....7&postcount=28

As for Zachery...well this is exactly why you don't drag up old drama and he should know better by now.

I'm not draging up anything old or wasnt public knowlege back in the day :P

[MRGTB]

that explains

[Brad]

Originally Posted by youryogi.com

Here is one of Chen's posts explaining that he left to go to school. http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showp...1&postcount=19

I also remember him saying he was leaving the world of 'virtual insanity' behind which is what online communities are sometimes.

He was also the founder of Hivemail.com which was an early email program with much promise and many users which he transferred ownership to another person (tubedogg) when he resigned. Though I do not believe Chen wrote the Hivemail script it was a decent script and ahead of itself at the time. Unfortunately the newer owner ran it into the ground for reasons unknown burning many users.

Chen was a good coder and a good leader of the community back in the earlier days.

Hivemail was beta tested here at vB.org...I was one of the testers. Back then it wasn't called hivemail though, and Chen was not sure if it would be released for free (obviously it wasn't as it went one to become a commercial product). I remember yelling at him because the preview feature didn't work in non-IE browsers at first...

I'm not draging up anything old or wasnt public knowlege back in the day :P

The point is; It's old news, it has nothing to do with the topic at hand, and there is really no point in bringing it up, ever. Just let it die...if anyone cares to find out that badly they can use search and google.com.

I wasn't even friends with the guy and seeing him accused of piracy still bothers me...especially coming from you (as a member of the support team and a personal friend). For all I know he may be a pirate...but it's not my job to go snooping into his business to find out. Nor is it my place to talk about it here as if I have soild proof of him doing it.

We all know that if he was still here you wouldn't post what you did. At best it wouldn't be allowed because you're personally attacking another member...at worse he'd see it and a flame war would result with people taking sides...and the only result would be the closing of this thread by a senior staff member a few hours later.

In my opinion you have a problem with him on a personal level...for what reasons I don't know and don't care to know. The fact that you're still chasing him for a petty crime after so many years is proof enough of this.

Please don't take this personal...it just needed to be said (well typed and sent..you get the idea).

[Chris M]

Originally Posted by TECK

Firefly will never be an ordinary member to many of us. I know you meant it as a title position, but in many hacker minds and hearts, he is still the administrator of this site, not to mention a true friend.


Chris, I bet many don't have any idea what was that. Heh, it was fun when we saw it.
Was it you who made the box? Don't remember.


Exactly my words, Bobby. Many have no idea how helpful Firefly (aka Chen) was.
For those of you who are new to this site (less then 3 years, means you are new): Firefly registered the domain vbulletin.org and Sinecure created the first vB.org style, Midnight Blue. I had a small contribution also, I created the second vB.org logo.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=35417

When I look at those old threads, there are so many good souvenirs that pop into my mind. We used to be like a little family in the beginning, only 100 members talking about PHP only. I still have Firefly on my MSN list and I see him popping up on a regular basis.

I tried to contact him 2-3 times, because we used to talk a lot.
He did not answer, so I respected his decision. I wish I could talk to him again, he is a great guy and I miss his conversations.

Chen, if you are reading this, please contact me. I really want to know if you are happy and well, that's all. You can PM me or message me on MSN.

Your friend,

Floren

I didn't make the box, someone else on here did, but I came up with MyChenQL after he helped me fix several query problems and I praised him as a God of MySQL

Chris