I wanted to make sure everyone knew how hard Tom worked on doing this merge. He had to write his own merge script (several hundred lines of code) in his spare time over the last few months. A lot of time and thought was put into the process. Many practice runs were done on a dummy copy of the BBS. Then, when the time came to actually run it for real, all sorts of unexpected things went wrong including a problem where he lost connectivity to the BBS right in the middle of the process.

I know that everyone (myself included) has all sorts of little gripes about the changes. But I wanted to say publicly that I think the new, integrated BBS is very cool, and that I think Tom is a class act and is totally, utterly cool for putting this kind of time into it. I'm sure that I speak for everyone here when I say that.

Tom, you da man.