It's time to not forgive IBB. This crap needs to end.
Apr 9, 2009 | 9:57 pm
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It's time to not forgive IBB. This crap needs to end.
What an incompetent bunch of morons.
How they manage to keep a job in this economy when there are undoubtedly many people, who actually have skills, looking a job is beyond me.
If their jobs were to be offshored it should take way less than 15 minutes for knowledge transfer.
How they manage to keep a job in this economy when there are undoubtedly many people, who actually have skills, looking a job is beyond me.
If their jobs were to be offshored it should take way less than 15 minutes for knowledge transfer.
Apr 9, 2009 | 10:33 pm
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As one who runs several small vBulletin boards (all of which incorporate vBSEO, as does FT), I will say that most people probably can't begin to fathom the complexity of the system. I've reamed my ISP any number of times in the last year.
Doing it all on the scale that FT does boggles even my mind.
That's not to excuse performance issues, but there's surely a lot more behind the scenes than meets the eyes. Hungry people looking for jobs are NOT the ones you want for this. You need to pirate the really good ones that are still employed!
Doing it all on the scale that FT does boggles even my mind.
That's not to excuse performance issues, but there's surely a lot more behind the scenes than meets the eyes. Hungry people looking for jobs are NOT the ones you want for this. You need to pirate the really good ones that are still employed!
Apr 9, 2009 | 11:17 pm
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Apr 10, 2009 | 8:09 am
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What I find interesting is that we very rarely had these problems when things were run by the House of Miles staff. They certainly did not have the resources of IB but seemed to make things work just fine for us.
Apr 10, 2009 | 8:40 am
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I had thought the technical aspect was the strong suit for IBB but they keep failing us since the takeover.
Apr 10, 2009 | 12:55 pm
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and why is he called IB-Dick? You think he might want to be called Rich or Richard?
Tim at WebFlyer has a nice ring to it
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Apr 10, 2009 | 2:44 pm
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Apr 10, 2009 | 4:17 pm
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As one who runs several small vBulletin boards (all of which incorporate vBSEO, as does FT), I will say that most people probably can't begin to fathom the complexity of the system. I've reamed my ISP any number of times in the last year.
Doing it all on the scale that FT does boggles even my mind.
That's not to excuse performance issues, but there's surely a lot more behind the scenes than meets the eyes. Hungry people looking for jobs are NOT the ones you want for this. You need to pirate the really good ones that are still employed!
Doing it all on the scale that FT does boggles even my mind.
That's not to excuse performance issues, but there's surely a lot more behind the scenes than meets the eyes. Hungry people looking for jobs are NOT the ones you want for this. You need to pirate the really good ones that are still employed!
I agree with your point of hiring the good ones though some may be unemployed because someone thought that it was a good idea to offshore their jobs but I don't believe that offshoring could do much worse than this - well it could, but several may do much better.
I'm swamped right now. Though I doubt that I'm the best, I'm still pretty good.
Apr 10, 2009 | 6:11 pm
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Apr 10, 2009 | 6:11 pm
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Apr 10, 2009 | 7:05 pm
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This is not an issue that has been going on for a few hours or even a few days. Problems have been prevalent for months. People have been nice and we get responses from IBB such as (paraphrased) "FTers are a tough crowd". "FTTers will find a work around".
I may be able to find a work around but that should not be necessary after months.
Apr 11, 2009 | 9:44 pm
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The folks at IB have always been more than friendly and professional. Unfortunately, timeliness has not been their strength. Perhaps FT just needs more IB TLC?
Apr 12, 2009 | 3:35 am
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There are some other HUGE boards run on this software and I have never experienced their being down -- much less incessantly riddled with problems that no one seems to know how to fix.
I agree the IB folks are nice, but they seem completely out of their league given how long these multiple messes have been going on.