fury_imported
OMG Member
- Joined
- Oct 26, 2010
- Messages
- 4
I am fury. I've been a member of the network since before it was a network - when, if I recall correctly, vBulletin.nl was it. And maybe Creations.nl. I call myself an Internet god with an inferiority complex, as it is the simplest way I have determined to describe myself in a sentence. It also makes for a catchy tagline on my bio on Facebook and Twitter and all that.
I've gone through just about as many years of running my communities as Floris. Been through many phases. FuseTalk sucks, UBB forever! UBB sucks, vBulletin 2 forever! vBulletin 2 sucks, Woltlab Burning Board forever! WBB sucks, phpBB2 forever! phpBB2 sucks, vBulletin 2 forever! vBulletin 2 sucks again, and so does Invision Board 1.3...vBulletin 3 forever! Or at least until the next one comes along, amirite?
At some point, Jelsoft became crap and disavowed my ownership of my 4 vBulletin licenses, asking me for an ungodly amount of information that has long since been lost in the sands of time in order to "verify" my rightful ownership. Why don't they just get it over with and ask for my firstborn child? So, with no way left to upgrade my sites, things like plugins began outpacing anything I could do with my own bare hands, and I couldn't get many of them due to the out of date vBulletins on my sites.
Then, through no fault of their own, I let my sites rot, sadly, as I went through another phase entirely of just playing and making online games, paying little attention to forums in general. When I came up for air, one of my sites had gradually eroded its core membership from bickering back and forth without a visionary guiding the site along. Things like Facebook had supplanted most everyone else's formerly forumly activities like sharing links and posting news and pictures about themselves or things they care about. Resigned to just keeping the sites afloat for as long as I could spare the domain name charges (a friend of mine still pays for the server colocation, God bless him), I found other hobbies and inspirations.
Software development, stemming from my early craze in coding and tweaking forum software on the web, has now become my primary occupation. As in, the one that pays me, and invades my every thought and unthought. The inspiration for the work I do comes from many sources: the games I used to play and make (I like my creations to have a little humor), the products I see and use in work and life (particularly admire Apple's attention to detail, quality, ease of use, etc.), and the people who will use what I make (after all, if it isn't a pleasure to use, what the hell did I code it for, then?)
In the same manner as Apple's products sport an unmatched attention to detail and user experience, XenForo has sparked in me that kind of inspiration for forum development again. I hope someday to remember my root password so that I can reconfigure PHP and install it on one of my sites.
I've gone through just about as many years of running my communities as Floris. Been through many phases. FuseTalk sucks, UBB forever! UBB sucks, vBulletin 2 forever! vBulletin 2 sucks, Woltlab Burning Board forever! WBB sucks, phpBB2 forever! phpBB2 sucks, vBulletin 2 forever! vBulletin 2 sucks again, and so does Invision Board 1.3...vBulletin 3 forever! Or at least until the next one comes along, amirite?
At some point, Jelsoft became crap and disavowed my ownership of my 4 vBulletin licenses, asking me for an ungodly amount of information that has long since been lost in the sands of time in order to "verify" my rightful ownership. Why don't they just get it over with and ask for my firstborn child? So, with no way left to upgrade my sites, things like plugins began outpacing anything I could do with my own bare hands, and I couldn't get many of them due to the out of date vBulletins on my sites.
Then, through no fault of their own, I let my sites rot, sadly, as I went through another phase entirely of just playing and making online games, paying little attention to forums in general. When I came up for air, one of my sites had gradually eroded its core membership from bickering back and forth without a visionary guiding the site along. Things like Facebook had supplanted most everyone else's formerly forumly activities like sharing links and posting news and pictures about themselves or things they care about. Resigned to just keeping the sites afloat for as long as I could spare the domain name charges (a friend of mine still pays for the server colocation, God bless him), I found other hobbies and inspirations.
Software development, stemming from my early craze in coding and tweaking forum software on the web, has now become my primary occupation. As in, the one that pays me, and invades my every thought and unthought. The inspiration for the work I do comes from many sources: the games I used to play and make (I like my creations to have a little humor), the products I see and use in work and life (particularly admire Apple's attention to detail, quality, ease of use, etc.), and the people who will use what I make (after all, if it isn't a pleasure to use, what the hell did I code it for, then?)
In the same manner as Apple's products sport an unmatched attention to detail and user experience, XenForo has sparked in me that kind of inspiration for forum development again. I hope someday to remember my root password so that I can reconfigure PHP and install it on one of my sites.
