Failed Interview with Lawrence Cole

I just saw TAZ did an interview with the vBulletin's Operations and Marketing Manager, Lawrence Cole and I question why these questions got the "no comment" remark??

Have you read the interview, what are your thoughts on this and the direction vBulletin is heading?

 

Wow, I wonder why he put No comment on all those question. Perhaps, his bosses told him to keep quiet? That's a very failed interview.

 

It looks like PR saw this and issued a few answers to cover the "no comment" ones..

 

This is hilarious. Personally, I think since the birth of Xenforo, VBulletin's user base has diminished rather quickly and will continue to do so.

 

I just saw Mr. Cole had posted this to one of the past developers that helped vBulletin when they went to vb4..
I've known Mert or the "Lizard King" for many years, we've butted heads a few times but I know he's decent at vBulletin. For the marketing manager to post something like this in public and then go back and bold certain words just shows his immaturity.

 

Note that that board is only viewable by licensed members--it's not public. Still, that shows a complete lack of professionalism, something that he should definitely possess in a position such a his.

 

This is honestly hilarious, it's like watching an old building slowly crumble..

 

Do you have a link to the actual thread?
I didn't see it in the taz article when I looked earlier.

 

No, nor do I have access to the customer forum. There may be a link in this thread on TAZ; I only checked page 1.

 

I actually would of not be bothered to publish the article if he did that to me personally. But its good I guess that he came back and answered it.

 

I would have responded to the last question's answer with " What future?" lol

Just goes to show you that age is only a number as he clearly acts like a child and should be treated as one till he decides to act his age instead of his shoe size.

 

Oh.. I can look for it if needed, I don't visit vb.com or .org much these days, but I do still have access.

 

A lot of people were claiming that vBulletin will die down because of Xenforo. It's the same thing of Google + competiting against Facebook. Both products have been out longer than the new ones, and I'm pretty sure vBulletin still has a ton of loyal members, and people advertising the product. Just like Xenforo does, but the fact remains, vBulletin will remain on top for a long time, and Xenforo is basically another forum software that you could use instead of vBulletin. It's really all about personal taste and such.

 

vB definitely lost a whole lot of good will insofar as mod and theme coders. Just look at the amount of styles available on the .org for 3.8 vs 4. For me pretty much any software can do the job but what drew me to vBulletin originally was the strong community around it. XF appears to have a very active community of modders and such.

Right now XF seems to be interested in implementing features vs. producing upsells as vB seems hell bent on.

I don't wish vB any ill will nor do I want to see 'the ship go down flaming' but XF looks the most promising to me right now.

 

I saw Shawn from Digitalpoint post this and I just had to share it.

 

Ya, that's ridiculous. With that many developers, you should expect more things coming out of vBulletin, but no. I guess it really hurt them when Kier left and made Xenforo.

 

That is what I was thinking, I didn't know that they had so many developers.

 

I was one of the biggest vbfan boys around the web a few years ago and yes, I've made and continue to make money off what vbulletin is doing but damn... I think we miss the old vBulletin, the one we could trust and look forward to updates. The only thing my clients and myself look forward to anymore is bug fixes.
It stuff like all the focus on paid mods and very bad marketing that makes me sad.

Also I don't see why vbulletin emails from the ibemail URL.
Use the vbulletin domain so it's not always marked as spam.