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MetaTalk post: *end theme from Incredible Hulk plays*
Yes. No matter how remote or rural the context, or whether it was 2G or EDGE, Metafilter ALWAYS loaded.
posted to MetaTalk by infini at 12:32 PM on April 26, 2016
"pb" always sounds like peanut butter when I read it.

I have never ever been frustrated when loading a Metafilter page, even when on my rickety, out-of-date telephone browser. Thanks, pb!
posted to MetaTalk by aniola at 12:30 PM on April 26, 2016
Thanks pb for all the amazing work you've done over the years and for putting up with us and our dank ponies.
posted to MetaTalk by Foci for Analysis at 12:28 PM on April 26, 2016
Thanks for everything pb. You've been an inspirational pony shepherd and a true human being. You have my best wishes for a lifetime of joy.
posted to MetaTalk by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:27 PM on April 26, 2016
I always appreciated that not only was pb Metafilter's technical wizard, but that Matt was wise enough to recognize that and allow him to remain so: pb's role was very well defined and never bled over into "backup moderator."

Best wishes in your next endeavor, pb.
posted to MetaTalk by We had a deal, Kyle at 12:22 PM on April 26, 2016
Just be sure to use your time traveling abilities to come back to us from the future after you finish your next gig, pb.
posted to MetaTalk by Kabanos at 12:10 PM on April 26, 2016
Thank you for all you've done, pb. Wherever you're going next will be lucky to have you.
posted to MetaTalk by Metroid Baby at 11:57 AM on April 26, 2016
Such sad news! Thank you pb for everything you've done for the site and for your fast helpful responses on the contact form. Best of luck with your next adventure.
posted to MetaTalk by ellieBOA at 11:52 AM on April 26, 2016
Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold.
posted to MetaTalk by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 11:45 AM on April 26, 2016
booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
posted to MetaTalk by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 11:43 AM on April 26, 2016
NOOOOOOOOOO
posted to MetaTalk by Going To Maine at 11:41 AM on April 26, 2016
We wish our hero godspeed, and honor his memory by telling children of the dark days before his arrival, when Jrun errors prowled the land...
posted to MetaTalk by the mad poster! at 11:39 AM on April 26, 2016
Hail and farewell, pb. Fair seas and the wind always at your back.
posted to MetaTalk by Splunge at 11:37 AM on April 26, 2016
I think MeFi is in great hands and I'll continue to lurk and learn as always.

Great hands, of course, but you're the one who put tools in them.

Many, many thanks for all your work, pb.
posted to MetaTalk by Doktor Zed at 11:37 AM on April 26, 2016
Oh man. Is there no continuity any more!

Well, um. *Straightens smock* Thanks pb! You're unmissable.
posted to MetaTalk by Namlit at 11:35 AM on April 26, 2016
The big features are great and all, but I'm sure I'm not the only pedantic hypernerd here who deeply appreciates all the zillions of fiddly little cosmetic glitches that pb has cleaned up with alacrity and aplomb.
posted to MetaTalk by aubilenon at 11:32 AM on April 26, 2016
Everyone's gone to the moon.

No, pb's just going to live on a big farm upstate somewhere.
posted to MetaTalk by Chrysostom at 11:27 AM on April 26, 2016
Fair winds and following seas, pb.
posted to MetaTalk by stevis23 at 11:28 AM on April 26, 2016
Good luck in whatever you do pb. You did such a good job here that we probably can't properly appreciate how good a job you did.
posted to MetaTalk by nom de poop at 11:26 AM on April 26, 2016
Aww, we'll miss you. Best of luck in your future endeavors!
posted to MetaTalk by JiBB at 11:26 AM on April 26, 2016
Thanks for all the hard work and amazing technical tricks to both assist and entertain us all! Big shoes to fill indeed.
posted to MetaTalk by meinvt at 11:25 AM on April 26, 2016
OMG, this day was inevitable and so is my sadness to learn that pb is moving on. However! We have been made
the better, thanks to your mad skillz and some lucky new organization (maybe your own?) is going to reap the benefits of having you on staff. Thank you, thank you, thank you for all that you've done here. Good luck in your future! I ♥ pb
posted to MetaTalk by Lynsey at 11:25 AM on April 26, 2016
Everyone's gone to the moon.

Adios, pb.
posted to MetaTalk by jonmc at 11:25 AM on April 26, 2016
Immediate gut reaction to this?
"Holy shit!"
*pause*
"2016 sucks!"

I'm sure you're heading on to bigger and better things, and for that I am v. v. happy for you.

But man, is this what it feels like when your kids go off to college?!
posted to MetaTalk by romakimmy at 11:13 AM on April 26, 2016
I'm pretty sure that pb is the nicest person I've ever met. Which is good, because if he were evil he'd probably use his wizardry to rob us of our hearts. The pang I have in my heart is a sign it's still there.
posted to MetaTalk by Kattullus at 11:10 AM on April 26, 2016
My goodness! Thanks for everything! All the best to you!
posted to MetaTalk by crush-onastick at 11:09 AM on April 26, 2016
Aw, hell. Quick, somebody break something so he feels compelled to stay!

Thanks so much for your work here, pb. Best wishes for the future, and I'd love to see you lurk less and comment more. If we can't have you wielding the metaphorical wrench behind the scenes, we can at least get you dropping knowledge and humor on the site itself. Cheers.
posted to MetaTalk by soundguy99 at 11:07 AM on April 26, 2016
Chat will be a poorer place without your willingness to give us ridiculous headlines.

DUN DUN DUNNNNN PENTOPUS 🐙
posted to MetaTalk by Existential Dread at 11:06 AM on April 26, 2016
But who will feed and exercise our ponies??!

Thank you, pb. We will miss you a lot.
posted to MetaTalk by rtha at 11:03 AM on April 26, 2016
Thank you pb.
posted to MetaTalk by audi alteram partem at 11:01 AM on April 26, 2016
I can't help but worry that we are all somehow little dreams pb is happening and he's about to wake up from a long winter's night.

thanks for everything!
posted to MetaTalk by selfnoise at 11:01 AM on April 26, 2016
I've said it a few times, but MeFi's mobile site should be held up as an example to every other site on the Internet. There has never been a time that I visited a site and didn't think "Eh, this could be better / more useful / closer to the desktop version", except for here.

Godspeed, you magnificent bastard.
posted to MetaTalk by Etrigan at 10:59 AM on April 26, 2016
I guess Oregon is going to light all the bridges in blue?
posted to MetaTalk by AFABulous at 10:59 AM on April 26, 2016
🍻
posted to MetaTalk by exogenous at 10:58 AM on April 26, 2016
We're all going to be worse off for pb leaving, but still wish him all the best!

Can we get a description from the other mods about what kind of terrifyingly powerful creature pb becomes when he's coding?

He turns into pb. Isn't that terrifyingly powerful enough?!
posted to MetaTalk by Pope Guilty at 10:57 AM on April 26, 2016
pb, I've thought more than once that you were living inside the server. You were so quick with bug fixes and pony implementations. It was like having The One in the Mefi-trix.

I'm happy for you, and thank you so much for everything!
posted to MetaTalk by CancerMan at 10:56 AM on April 26, 2016
Aw pb we will miss you! *sniff*
posted to MetaTalk by IndigoRain at 10:55 AM on April 26, 2016
edit window

*more sobbing*
posted to MetaTalk by infini at 10:52 AM on April 26, 2016
Thanks pb, for everything you've done for the site! I'm sorry you're leaving, all the best of luck in your future ventures. (And yes, maybe this means you can come camp again!)
posted to MetaTalk by Secretariat at 10:51 AM on April 26, 2016
Thank you, pb! Good luck to you in your future endeavors!
posted to MetaTalk by ThePinkSuperhero at 10:51 AM on April 26, 2016
👍👍 pb. Thanks.
posted to MetaTalk by GuyZero at 10:47 AM on April 26, 2016
Bon voyage, pb. Some of the best dev work I've seen, and for such a lousy bunch of ingrates too.

Now you can finally pursue your dream to transition healthcare.gov to ColdFusion.

"Let me guess: mathowie recruited him and now pb is going to work at Slack. Great.

Untrue.
"

Failure on your part, chump.
posted to MetaTalk by klangklangston at 10:47 AM on April 26, 2016
pb, you're amazing. Thanks for your incredible response time and your remarkable talent. I wish you success in everything you touch.
posted to MetaTalk by eamondaly at 10:46 AM on April 26, 2016
Lemme tell you, 2016 is turning out to be a real hum-dinger. Best wishes, pb - you are part of the staff that makes this community a delight.

I move that pb be granted an official [retired] tag.
posted to MetaTalk by kimberussell at 10:46 AM on April 26, 2016
pb's presence was always more of an annoyance for me, because whenever it arrived it meant chat was being restarted.

WHY DID YOU NEVER STAY AND TALK :(

Clearest of paths, and best of luck in the future!
posted to MetaTalk by isauteikisa at 10:45 AM on April 26, 2016
pb, I don't even know where to start with this. When you first started helping out, it was a little over a year after I started doing MeFi full time and the code was absolute shit, and at first you could only work part-time one day a week to chip away at the cruft and slowly rework the site into something much more powerful and manageable. Then it became two days a week, then thankfully full-time.

To give you an idea of how bad the codebase was in the early days, I used... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 10:34 AM on April 26, 2016
Oh no! pb has always been my platonic ideal of a developer (all the ones I work with are...not pb), and I know that great things surely await but I am sad for us.

Best of luck, Paul!
posted to MetaTalk by Lyn Never at 10:30 AM on April 26, 2016
Thanks for all your work making this site what it is, pb.
posted to MetaTalk by dazed_one at 10:28 AM on April 26, 2016
pb is the technical wizard that we all aspire to be: level-headed, inexplicably beloved, frequently invisible, and responsible for a now-ubiquitous and completely-obvious-in-hindsight web feature. MetaFilter will be a poorer place by having literally anyone else behind the scenes. Good luck wherever you end up, Paul.
posted to MetaTalk by Plutor at 10:28 AM on April 26, 2016
I routinely brag about our toolset to other mods on other sites, and it's entirely because of pb's brilliance, speed, and consistency. We're really gonna miss you, man.
posted to MetaTalk by restless_nomad at 10:26 AM on April 26, 2016
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