Blizzix

I agree with some of the points in this post. The Arma servers do need more development attention and I think adding people who are fluent in SQF and who are competent programmers who work well in a team environment would be a very great idea. It is my personal opinion that people who fill that role are very difficult to find. There are so many factors that play into why I say that in which I am not going to name all here but would be willing to have a conversation about it if you so choose. Now - personally, I am not the one looking through applicants or making decisions, and I do not know about these "very odd reasons" in which people are not given a chance. But I do know from my real life experiences that in development, a applicants technical skill is not the only thing that matters to the employer. I also know from a technical standpoint just because someone "knows" a language does not mean they know the extent of which it should be used. I would like to re-state that what was said above is my personal opinion and I do not have great knowledge of the reasons previous developer applicants where denied, or everything that is searched for from said applicants. I do however know that @TheCmdrRex plans to address this topic and I look forward to how things proceed and I assume you do as well. I hope my input is of some value to you, and like I said, my dm's are always open. :D

I just wanted to clarify to some extent. We currently have four developers - Rex, Dash, Phunky, and myself. Many people are aware that there are multiple sides of development depending on the specific skill of said developer. While Rex primarily handles the Arma side of things with the help of Dash - they are considered Arma developers (who work with SQF). It is pretty obvious what they do as it is what everyone interacts with every time they log into the Arma servers. That being said, a lot of people are unclear what Phunky and myself do as the key phrase they hear is "web development". Now, while to an extent this is true - we do "web development", it may not be exactly what you expect. The things we develop are commonly not seen or used by the public or are not yet ready to be released to the public. Additionally, we don't work on the forums as that is something that was developed by a company and is a commercial product. Things that we actually work on usually involve tools that staff or the factions can use to improve their operations. One example was an application @Phunky made which allowed staff to handle tickets more effectively by saving them time using more modern methods. Or things that add to the quality of life to everyone as a whole such as the discord bot that I made which displays statistics from in-game to our discord server. There are a handful of proof of concepts that have also been made that may arise in the future. Currently, my closing remark is even though most of the stuff Phunky and I work on is not made very public it still benefits the community greatly even if its not realized. Also, our tasks are not limited to web or discord development as taco mentioned, that is just the easiest way to explain what we do without having something to actually show you. Keep in mind that our knowledge is not limited to just web or just discord development, just not sqf for multiple reasons. In conclusion, we do a lot more than on the surface and hopefully over the coming months everyone will come to realize that, it is just hard to notice something without seeing it. After typing this, I realize there should be more definition provided to the community on how the development team actually operates and that is a conversation that will be addressed at a later date. Once things start to settle down, there will be more clarification but we just need to get our ducks in a row first. Things take time. I would also like to add the fact that somethings Phunky and I work on are long-term projects that take weeks if not a few months at a time to be completed (most of the time this is the case where we have multiple of these projects on the backlog) so just be patient. Feel free to send me a message if you have any questions.