Chris Soyars, Head of Infrastructure at CyanogenMod wrote:
Invision Power Board and vBulletin have some of the worst code I've ever seen.
I'm pretty sure I've heard +Koushik Dutta say "flower-box comments are sign posts for shitty code". Proven once again, these code bases are full of flower boxes.
Seriously, code like this is just, horribly wrong:
if ($some_variable) {} else { $some_other_variable = 1; }
If you want to make gorillions, write forum software that doesn't suck.
SOURCE:
https://plus.google.com/103712172077289099783/posts/evxqomGeDeSI'm glad that in all the recent UBBT code I've read through, I've never seen stupid [censored] like that.
Thanks SD!