Recognition of the excellent work done by the developers of this board software.

Recently, I have become aware of some of the truly wonderful features of the software created by the developers of this board. They did a trulyl magnificent job and I’d just like to say how much I appreciate that.

It takes an awful lot of effort to make the size and shape of the windows fit within one another and I’d just like to give a big thank you to the developers. I have tried to think just how I would go about it and I must admit that I am fairly well stymied at just how much work it would take for me to do such a thing.

So, publicly, I’d just like to say “thank you” to them and express my admiration for all the work they have done. I now see many little features that I never saw before I actively started looking.

I appreciate your kind words, Charlie! I was one of the main developers and we worked long, hard hours getting everything just right. I’m glad it’s paid off!

And where would all this be if Al Gore had never invented the Internet?

I, too, applaud your good work sir. I extend this laurel and hardy handshake.

In all seriousness, even though I don’t exactly know what you mean by window shape fitting in one another (what windows do you mean?), if you want to compliment the board developers you should hop on over to http://xenforo.com, which is where many of the vBulletin devs – those responsible for this version of vBulletin – ended up.

Short version: the folks who developed vBulletin from its early days through the start of version 4.0 included Kier Darby and Mike Sullivan, who were part of the company known as Jelsoft. Back in the late 2000s, Jelsoft was bought by Internet Brands. I’m not sure of the year but it was around the time vB4 neared alpha, IIRC; I was a vB alpha/beta tester for both vB4 and 5, and I remember this going on just after the vB4 testing period.

While Kier, Mike and the other devs wanted to build vB4 from scratch, IB didn’t like that idea and nuked the original developers’ plans. The company’s atmosphere and responsiveness to customers changed quite a bit, too. Not long thereafter, an exodus of the original folks began.

Some of those who left, including Kier and Mike, eventually formed a new company and forum software, now called XenForo. Terrible name, I know. Lawsuits followed but were settled.

Anyway, the point is, the version of vBulletin you see here, minus the few SDMB-related tweaks added/subtracted by Jerry (which I think are more evident behind-the-scenes rather than to us), is largely the result of the hard work from the gang at XenForo.

Note: I’m not a Xenforo dev or customer myself, so this isn’t advertising. Just information from a forum geek.

Nod to Jonas Salk. Yo, Jonas!

/hijack

I also don’t understand what the “windows” talk is about in reference to the SDMB.

Sam Colt for making men equal so they had the time to develop things like this board? Yeah Sammy!

Elitist Apple user, heh?

I will try to explain. But I don’t know how well I will be able to do that since it happened quite quickly - and that was my point. The designer took a good deal of **their time **to ensure that I would not have to use a good deal of **my time **when using that process. Make sense?

I believe I was using the Search function and I had to enter some info into a child window of the main window. The child window opened and was positioned in such a way to make it line up exactly with the info in the main window.

I doubt if you will be able to figure out exactly what I mean. However, the alignment of the child window was just perfect insofar as it made things very convenient for me to see what was going on between the two open windows - the main info block and the child window.

At any rate, I just noticed how the designer of that process made things happen in such a way to make it very convenient for me.

I hope you will be able to take that info and figure out just what I mean. But I kind of doubt that will happen.

Just by way of a general comment, it seemed to me the designer of that process put a lot of time into designing things to save time for me when I was using it.

I hope you will be able to make some sense out of that. Best of luck to you in that regard. Were you able to make some sense out of that?

Sometimes I wonder if you’re a real person.

Did you have to register somewhere?

Do you mean in lieu of sending money?

If so, the answer is no. I never sent or received any money. But I did get a delicious recipe for some apple cake. It was similar to apple pie - but in the shape of a cake.

By the way, did I ever tell you the famous “banana bird” joke?

I can’t speak to whether or not **lieu **has heard this joke but I’d sure like to.

nm.

Why no love Charlie? If it wasn’t for me (and many more developers) you’d have no Straight Dope. Even tho I didn’t do it for the glory, I’d appreciate a little thank you every now and then.

Good job on those little windows, Ambi.

I like the URL popup too. It just works. Thanks.

Love how the curtains match the carpet.