IB was merely riding the wave of the old development team and the older quality versions of vB and as expected once the original core team left, the quality of the product suffered as a result: This brings us to vBulletin 5 Connect. The reality is, the great reputation vB once had only came due to the strong community and quality development of the old team before Jelsoft was acquired by Internet Brands, and this is when things started to go downhill (in 2009 Kier Darby, Mike Sullivan and Scott MacVicar all left vB/IB) In the mean time in the private license holder forum at vBulletin we have vB staff members openly bashing customers, disrespecting them and showing absolutely no professionalism at all towards customers. After the lawsuit was finally settled in February 2013, IB was hopeful to put this behind them and move on, and was hoping people would essentially forget about the previous events that took place in fear that it would continue to “tarnish” their reputation. IB was also accused of bullying XF and its developers Kier Darby and Mike Sullivan so they received some negative attention for it. This lawsuit happened to coincide first public beta release of XenForo as IB announced the lawsuit one day prior to XF beta launch and claimed it was a mere coincidence. For a period of nearly three years, IB was in the news for the lawsuit they filed against XenForo. In their eyes, things were looking up for them. Perhaps Internet Brands (IB) could learn a thing or two from this quote by Einstein. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ― Albert Einstein “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking.
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