Vanilla's design goal was to go in the opposite direction of currently existing forum software. The control panel for phpBB and vBulletin are MASSIVE. It takes a week just to set the forums up to a usable state.
We took a different approach, whereby we offered a very simple, straightforward forum where people could get to TALKING to each other without a bunch of buttons and switches everywhere. Hence the name Vanilla. Plain.
@Shane Quotes is not part of the core. This forum's request for the feature motivated me to code up that plugin, and now it is available to everyone. The same is true of Signatures.
As an Open Source project, the goal has always been to encourage the community to contribute features while we work on the stability and extensibility of the core framework. But we end up writing most of these features too.
Someone else tried to write a Quoting plugin before I came along. It was a Russian guy known as TiGR. His plugin is a code abortion that should never have been born. I decided that it was not of a high enough standard to be an officially supported plugin, so I wrote my own.
Initially I was a Senior Developer. I am responsible for the entire codebase. I contribute to all of it. There are large swaths of code that are completely written by me, and the same can be said for Todd and Mark. We are all involved in all aspects of development. That is still my title, but as I have grown within the company, my role has expanded. I have become somewhat of a plugin specialist, and actually rewrote the framework in which plugins are executed. I've also become our system administrator, responsible for building, configuring and maintaining the actual hardware infrastructure that powers all of our forums.
WakeOfAshesPosts: 21,665destroyer of motherfuckers
I would like you to stay. I feel everything in the last 48 hours has been a giant overreaction to basically nothing. If you decide not to stay, can you at the very least re-turn on quoting?
Also, do I understand you correctly that you moved us back to the free server?
@Wake That's actually a lot of work. I would have to export and then re-import your database, downgrade all the code, probably have to fuck around with the damn themes, and then change DNS. Fuck that.
"We have had the same mods for what over a year? Maybe thats time for a change if people are going to stick around here."
I agree. I think if some of the people that whine about everything actually take on the responsilbility for being a mod, it would give some understanding
"I agree. I think if some of the people that whine about everything actually take on the responsilbility for being a mod, it would give some understanding"
Being a mod sucks to be honest, you constantly have people bitching and moaning at you. Do this, ban this person, blah blah blah! Then, when you try to restore law and order (IE: this fucking thread) a shitstorm happens.
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We took a different approach, whereby we offered a very simple, straightforward forum where people could get to TALKING to each other without a bunch of buttons and switches everywhere. Hence the name Vanilla. Plain.
@Shane
Quotes is not part of the core. This forum's request for the feature motivated me to code up that plugin, and now it is available to everyone. The same is true of Signatures.
As an Open Source project, the goal has always been to encourage the community to contribute features while we work on the stability and extensibility of the core framework. But we end up writing most of these features too.
Initially I was a Senior Developer. I am responsible for the entire codebase. I contribute to all of it. There are large swaths of code that are completely written by me, and the same can be said for Todd and Mark. We are all involved in all aspects of development. That is still my title, but as I have grown within the company, my role has expanded. I have become somewhat of a plugin specialist, and actually rewrote the framework in which plugins are executed. I've also become our system administrator, responsible for building, configuring and maintaining the actual hardware infrastructure that powers all of our forums.
Also, do I understand you correctly that you moved us back to the free server?
I agree. I think if some of the people that whine about everything actually take on the responsilbility for being a mod, it would give some understanding
=P~
Being a mod sucks to be honest, you constantly have people bitching and moaning at you. Do this, ban this person, blah blah blah! Then, when you try to restore law and order (IE: this fucking thread) a shitstorm happens.