Peter Poelman
8th January 2004, 05:00 PM
Way back in the stoneage, when XDA-developers just started, we had a very simple forum. In fact, the site was built around some stuff a small group of us had found out about the device, and the forum was sort of an afterthought. It was based on a crappy script, and lacked all the sophisticated features you see around you here.
Lots of people asked questions about the device they couldn't get decent support for, and we did our best to answer them. We answered as a collective, always signed with 'XDA developers', and we liked it that way.
Then came phpBB with its added features, and we all really needed an account of our own. But since we liked the collective feel, we decided to get usernames that looked very much alike, thus adding a slightly weird and mysterious aura to the site.
To make a long story short: we got tired of our own joke. There's more and more situations where we like people to be able to tell us apart, and we want to have a much easier time getting others to be part the ever-changing groups behind the site and the projects that drive it. It's creating an unnecessary split between those that have strange usernames and those that don't. This has long ago ceased to be a place made solely by the people that started it.
So: we're changing our names. All at once. Just like that. The old names will be visible under our new names a for a while to make sure you don't all go completely confused.
XDA Developer #W4XY -> W4XY
XDA Developer #K2PL -> Itsme
XDA Developer #2122 -> The Key
XDA Developer #0666 -> bigmac
XDA Developer #P7SP -> xda-guru
and yours truly:
XDA Developer #A7GH -> Peter Poelman
Lots of people asked questions about the device they couldn't get decent support for, and we did our best to answer them. We answered as a collective, always signed with 'XDA developers', and we liked it that way.
Then came phpBB with its added features, and we all really needed an account of our own. But since we liked the collective feel, we decided to get usernames that looked very much alike, thus adding a slightly weird and mysterious aura to the site.
To make a long story short: we got tired of our own joke. There's more and more situations where we like people to be able to tell us apart, and we want to have a much easier time getting others to be part the ever-changing groups behind the site and the projects that drive it. It's creating an unnecessary split between those that have strange usernames and those that don't. This has long ago ceased to be a place made solely by the people that started it.
So: we're changing our names. All at once. Just like that. The old names will be visible under our new names a for a while to make sure you don't all go completely confused.
XDA Developer #W4XY -> W4XY
XDA Developer #K2PL -> Itsme
XDA Developer #2122 -> The Key
XDA Developer #0666 -> bigmac
XDA Developer #P7SP -> xda-guru
and yours truly:
XDA Developer #A7GH -> Peter Poelman