The timeline for Nexus transition

[Mnikolic]

They didn't stay because they didn't agree about how Brian handled everything - from the sellout to the switchover of IF boards to TT, then the assurance that ZB as a forum service would stay online and finally to the sudden decision to switch ZB boards to TT as well. The ZB staff are people who believed in what they did, they loved ZB, some even helped developing it. To find out after 15+ years that all of your coding and designing work would no longer be needed or working because the new platform that yours is switching to isn't compatible with your work must have been devastating to both the staff and the coders. A decade and a half of work and dedication - AND FREE OF CHARGE - was just thrown to the trash with like 1 signature and 1 financial transaction from TT to Brian. Skins, codes, graphic designs made by everyone - all of that is basically useless. All the dedication from the staff members was just thrown out the window. The service doesn't exist anymore.

Cory did create a Jcink board and is trying to salvage what can be salvaged, but he won't be able to save everything since most of the coders and designers left either weeks, months or years ago. Some changed their e-mail addresses and some perhaps don't even care. That and they obviously didn't like the idea of working for/with TT for various professional and/or personal reasons. A decade and a half of hard work and dedication was just spit upon, trashed, thrown into space... Believe me, those kind of people are too proud of their work, their dedication, their goals and they weren't going to just throw them away. TT is not their home, never was and never will be. They called ZetaBoards their internet home. Now that home is gone, so there's no reason for them to stay on a ship that has already been sunk. Of course, Tapatalk must be giving its employees good paychecks, I'm sure of that, but for those who left, the paycheck means them very little if they are not allowed to bring their talents, experience and knowledge up to their full potential. If they have other sources of income and the possibility of (re-)starting their own board elsewhere, they are going to do it. Many actually did and have left before the support board was switched to TT. Myself - I'm fully onboard with everyone who was basically tricked into believing (in) one thing and one person, but instead, they got something they didn't ask for and didn't even want.