[Epic 4G General] BThomas22x:
Well put man, I was quite literally going to post something similar, but luckily the search was actually working for me for once lol. If you guys don't mind, I'd like to add a little to this.

I'll start it off by saying I'm sorry to everyone that I've ever offended. If I've pushed your buttons in the wrong way, said something out of line, or even if it was something as small as not appreciating those who showed legitimate gratitude enough, I apologize. When I joined XDA, my intentions were never to upset anyone, although I've seem to have done that a lot. Even if by accident, a lot of folks are quick to throw you to the wolves. I have a HUGE respect for every other developer for the Epic, and every other phone for that matter, and despite what anyone else says to try to change that, it's just how I personally feel, and that's not gonna change. When I first came here, I was eager to do as much as I could, as fast as I could. I don't know how many of you remember me from when I first started here, but if you can remember, I used to put updates out every couple of days or so. But with doing that, more and more people complained that it "wasn't good enough" or that it had "bugs". Instead of looking at the fact that I was putting updates out so quick to try to fix these issues, people were just looking at the bugs. Yeah, I'll be the first to admit, when I first started, there were a LOT of bugs... I was, after all, just starting. From that point on, every other developer for the Epic said "We do not support ViperROM", which is fine, it's a matter of opinion I suppose, but I joined thinking this was a community. You know "maybe they would step in and show me a step in the right direction".

Developing is my passion. I love and live to do this stuff, even if I'd never make a penny, because I've NEVER been in this for money, I'd be satisfied with knowing that at least one person likes their phone a little more now. I am truly humbled by all those that have donated though, so I would at least like to say thank you real quick. Although the other devs didn't support ViperROM in the beginning, I'm compelled to ask, "what makes us so different now?" Please don't take that wrong, I'm not saying that anyone's ROM is generic, or un-original, because they're all original in their own ways, but rather what I'm trying to say is "where is the community that I've been hearing so much about, but rarely ever see?" I can honestly say, that even though my ROM has been pretty much banned from the entire Samsung Epic chat room, the team and I have NEVER turned anyone from another ROM away. We get folks from all different ROM's coming to our thread, or our chat, asking if we knew how to fix a certain issue, (not saying that everyone's ROMs are full of bugs, they're all great ROMs in my honest opinion, and it's rare, but it does happen) but if we know how to fix it, we are more than happy to help out as much as possible. This is a community, so your gain is our gain. I know that I've messed up with crediting issues myself (I gave credit to the wrong person before, and I even left a credit out before), and although I've taken responsibility for my actions, and I've apologized, there are still posts consistantly degrading/slandering our efforts to help this community, even if they're not 100% accurate claims. I was legitimately hurt when I seen some of the posts that people were making about me. Shabbypenguin has been an honest to god great person. He apologized for what happened and how it happened, and for that, in my eyes, that makes him a truely good hearted individual, but to see what some of the other people said made me want to leave and not develop anymore. The team and I have come a long way from when we first started, and we just want to make this community an actual community rather than a high school soap opera. So with that being said... I issue a challenge to every other dev for the Epic, and the challenge is simple:

I challenge you all to join Team Viper and create at least one unified ROM and Kernel. Just one ROM and Kernel that has a little of everyone's touch to it, and has to create a teamwork environment. I challenge you all to forget about the competition of ROM developing to make one ROM more popular than the other, and concentrate on making a ROM that's got a true community spirit behind it. I challenge you all to put the past behind you, and look forward to what this community CAN and WILL be if we all do our part, myself included. If you guys are interested in accepting this challenge, shoot me a PM and we'll set up a chat to discuss what we want to do. If you guys want to continue the way things are now, that's fine too, as I'm sure there are certain people that don't want to forgive and forget... it is after all 100% your choice, and I would never hold it against you... but I personally, look forward to new friendships, new bonds, and new chances. I'm in this to find out the potential of one communities drive to better the Epic... so........... who's game?