About My Addons And My Retirement

Ozzy47

Well-known member
Effective immediately, I will be retiring from addon development for the most part..

I'm not getting any younger and I made this decision after some long thought about what the result would be if something unexpected should happen to me. I've also been overly busy at work and do not expect to get much free time to continue to support such a vast library of addons. So, I've decided to pass my addons on to the most capable hands of Painbaker. There is about 675 addons currently available in the library and about 50 unreleased addons that Painbaker will be taking over. He will handle support and updates for all of the addons, with the exception of the Spaminator line and the Advanced Forms addon.

For now, all of my paid addons that you may own will remain on snogssite.com available for you to download. That should make the transition easier for those that have licenses for my paid addons and nothing will change so far as where and how you download them at this time. Once Painbaker has his site set up completely, then you will be able to download your paid addons there, they would no longer be available here. The only ones that will remain for download and purchase here are the Spaminator line and the Advanced Forms addon. Those four will be maintained and updated here as usual. Please be patient while Painbaker gets his site up and running to allow purchases once again.

I will also respond to questions asked directly to me about the transition. Once Painbaker is fully set up on his site, all questions should be asked to Painbaker.

With that I'd like to thank everyone, and say that it's been an honor and privilege to have served the XF and vB communities for all these years.
 
Thanks for all your work and dedication over the years @Ozzy47.

Your addons have allowed someone like me (and probably many others) to build and expand my forums with minimal knowledge and ease.

All the best going forward :)

I've always enjoyed what you were able to accomplish on your site with the look of the addons.
 
Ozzy's lived a life of service. Served our country in the US military. Served the vbulletin community with "quality of life" plugins and service, charging on relatively few of his products just enough to pay his online expenses. Meanwhile serving the public loyally irl at home heading up a city department. Then he came here to xenforo and once again it was service.

It's been my honor to have been his loyal sidekick/wingman/site admin throughout all these years. Thank you Ozzy, for service. Mostly selfless service. And sometimes unacknowledged and unappreciated service.

Ozzy and I plan to continue with "our children" as he jokingly calls them, the Spaminator line of products and the Forms add-on. Nothing will change regarding support and updates for these.

For one customer Ozzy and I worked through Christmas and well into Christmas night one year, figuring out a complex workaround to make our Spaminator play well with a terribly coded add-on that was blocking us. That's service people. That's dedication. I think that night really speaks to the heart and core of what Ozzy's all about.
 
Ozzy's lived a life of service. Served our country in the US military. Served the vbulletin community with "quality of life" plugins and service, charging on relatively few of his products just enough to pay his online expenses. Meanwhile serving the public loyally irl at home heading up a city department. Then he came here to xenforo and once again it was service.

It's been my honor to have been his loyal sidekick/wingman/site admin throughout all these years. Thank you Ozzy, for service. Mostly selfless service. And sometimes unacknowledged and unappreciated service.

Ozzy and I plan to continue with "our children" as he jokingly calls them, the Spaminator line of products and the Forms add-on. Nothing will change regarding support and updates for these.

For one customer Ozzy and I worked through Christmas and well into Christmas night one year, figuring out a complex workaround to make our Spaminator play well with a terribly coded add-on that was blocking us. That's service people. That's dedication. I think that night really speaks to the heart and core of what Ozzy's all about.

I don't think I could have done it for so long without you being there to keep me focused.
 
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Man… that’s heavy. You’ve done so much on XF and there’s no XF board not running an add on from you. Thank you for the great service. And best of luck in your future endeavors.
 
Much respect from an addon dev who also had to make that choice in the past. It's not easy to hand something like that over.

No it's not, the most important thing for me was to consider the community, leave them in a place where they wont get shafted by my retirement.
 
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