Fred Sherman
Well-known member
To all of those who have created the growing list of Xenforo mods.
I started my IT career more years ago than I'll say as a mainframe and then a Unix system administrator. Its a thankless job. When all goes well because you're busting your ass, no one notices. You only ever get noticed when something bad happens. No one notices how quickly you fix it, only that it had to be fixed to begin with.
From that I learned that its important to stop every once in a while, a let the people who work in the background know just how much you appreciate what they do.
So, on behalf of the xenforo admin community, let me take the time to thank you for all you do. We know we can be a pain in the ass sometimes. You post your mod and before you even get a chance to post your screenshots, there's already a post blasting you for not posting them - 1 minute after your first post.
And yes, we can be demanding when something doesn't work right, pestering you to fix it quickly. Sometimes we forget you're a real person. You might have a baby crying in the background, be out for an anniversary dinner, or (because some of you are better than you should be at your age), doing homework!
We apologize for asking for an update 5 minutes after a maintenance release has made changes. We don't mean to be impatient. Please, take it as a complement. You've created something good enough that our users are beating us up too.
It seems like every special group on the planet as a day...Secretary's Day, Nurse's Day, Groundhog Day, Left-hander Day, Opening Day - okay a couple were bad examples...
I humbly suggest that we, the Xenforo community, make the anniversary of the initial release of Xenforo "XF Developers' Day", in honor of all developers, both formal and mods, to show our never-ending appreciation.
I started my IT career more years ago than I'll say as a mainframe and then a Unix system administrator. Its a thankless job. When all goes well because you're busting your ass, no one notices. You only ever get noticed when something bad happens. No one notices how quickly you fix it, only that it had to be fixed to begin with.
From that I learned that its important to stop every once in a while, a let the people who work in the background know just how much you appreciate what they do.
So, on behalf of the xenforo admin community, let me take the time to thank you for all you do. We know we can be a pain in the ass sometimes. You post your mod and before you even get a chance to post your screenshots, there's already a post blasting you for not posting them - 1 minute after your first post.
And yes, we can be demanding when something doesn't work right, pestering you to fix it quickly. Sometimes we forget you're a real person. You might have a baby crying in the background, be out for an anniversary dinner, or (because some of you are better than you should be at your age), doing homework!
We apologize for asking for an update 5 minutes after a maintenance release has made changes. We don't mean to be impatient. Please, take it as a complement. You've created something good enough that our users are beating us up too.
It seems like every special group on the planet as a day...Secretary's Day, Nurse's Day, Groundhog Day, Left-hander Day, Opening Day - okay a couple were bad examples...
I humbly suggest that we, the Xenforo community, make the anniversary of the initial release of Xenforo "XF Developers' Day", in honor of all developers, both formal and mods, to show our never-ending appreciation.