Kier leaves VB

[Rainbow]

As many of you know by now several key Developers that have helped make vB the success it is today have left the team and are pursuing other career opportunities. On behalf of the vB Staff that has worked with Kier, Mike and Scott all these years I would like to express our thanks to all your hard work and best wishes to each of you in the future. You will be missed as both friends and colleagues

 

Kier has done so much for Vbulletin and basically programmed it in such a way that from it can deal with very heavy load, so in particular to other softwares, VB has been further optimised for large boards and this clearly shows how good he was. The best part of that was that this optimisation has not been made at the expense of sites expecting to run a smaller scale operation. Kier managed to develop the scalability, and the ability that VB gives to the admin to tune his or her installation to precisely suit a particular site's needs. Over and above the essential components of forum/thread/post/user etc., almost every feature can be adjusted, or even turned off completely, in order to provide a fast and responsive experience for visitors to the site. He worked for VB for almost a decade I believe. When Kier wasnt part of vBulletin it was designed essentially to be UBB running with PHP and MySQL however Kier opted for Perl and flat-file storage.

I think this may alert people, since Kier in my opinion was the main man behind VB, I spoke to him a couple of times and he was very nice. I really hoped he would of stayed with Jelsoft for longer. Also I was always a VB fan but I think this signals a very good opportunity for IPB to start taking some domination... Will be interesting to see if anyone can actually replace Kier and the other staff that left. Thoughts?