Just to answer some questions for you folks.
1) I did hire a Vbulletin developer - here is his website (
http://vbresults.com) You can hire him too and even ask him about me. He is using my login credentials.
2) It does take time to fix issues if you're not a professional coder... Turns out we had over 500,000 copies of our "settings" that were being loaded with every page visit. Ouch!!
3) Im NOT new to this! I own many websites. I buy and sell websites for a living. Look me up on Flippa.com :)
4) I worked on Rick since October to buy the website. We became friendly and he finally got to the point where he was ready to retire. It wasn't one day where he just decided to sell.
5) Yes, Michael posted in the staff forum yesterday that he is retiring.
6) Literate Stylish IS and always will be banned at any of my forums.
I read Buffalo Bills Insider every week for years. I was a lurker on the Range back in the day as well. I DO know a lot of the people. Well, not know personally, but I know of them. I feel like they're my family in a way.
But guys, in all seriousness, the Range and Zone are two fabulous websites and any poster would be happy to be a member on either. Stay with what you're most comfortable with. A lot of you have become very comfortable at the Zone and that's great!
Thanks for hearing me out! Goodnight.