Can We have bitcointalk user interface changed to something like Facebook UI? - page 2.

lobcmt2

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Quote from: Jet Cash on June 17, 2019, 01:59:07 PM

What is facebook?

I don't use it because it is full of UI ( useless information ).

Why bitcointalk.org, which has strong position in crypto, has to follow Facebook, that is a newbie in crypto? My opinion is: NO. Not only because its UI (Useless Information, mentioned by @JetCash), but also its nearly useless Facebookcoin, namely Libra. There are a Libra's WhitePaper, and theymos' first opinion on Libra after seeing its site and whitepaper.

Quote from: theymos on June 18, 2019, 08:50:34 AM

If they make a permissionless cryptocurrency similar to Bitcoin, good! Then freedom in the world will be increased. But I really doubt that this is going to happen. Right now their paper reads like a standard scamcoin vaporware paper, and I currently judge there to be approximately 0% chance of them actually allowing anyone to use the system anonymously and freely like you can with real cryptocurrencies.

darklus123

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You should know the difference of the word "forum" to the word "social" "media". There is no point in changing the simplicity of the current UI to just looks something like facebook.

Maybe the thing that they should focus is the User experience especially in the mobile devices.

malevolent

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Facebook, instagram, twitter, reddit, etc. and similar 'modern' websites are OK-ish at best for new/fresh content, especially picture or video-based, but suck a big one if you're looking for actual discussions. SMF, especially the current version, is certainly a bit dated now, but I'd take that any day over fb or similar trash. Not to mention the bloat, bleh.

Joel_Jantsen

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Get your game girl

Facebook is terribly slow and the news feed takes a lot of my mobile data. So No.

I'm not a big fan of Epochtalk either, all those fancy colors and animations are not my shit. I prefer simple and plain like the old-school forum's in the 90's. I wish the entire forum was terminal based and one needs to write appropriate commands to perform an action. Undecided

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Quote from: dothebeats on June 16, 2019, 03:12:19 PM

Epochtalk is in the process of getting released and seriously, I'd like to stick more to this current UI than upgrade it to something else knowing that it gets me the vibe of the retro webpages and mailing lists. Also, I doubt you'll get any support into changing the theme of this forum into something new, as most of the users in here currently are in it for the content and not actually the design of the webpages. Perhaps once epochtalk is released, theymos would allow customizing the forum personally (like what Friendster and Myspace did) though I doubt that it'll get that funky and flexible than what we currently have.

We can do it here, it's just not fitting.

Friendster and Myspace are both dead :/ . While btt doesn't look bad in general, it wouldn't hurt to have a much neater UI, and have a few short cuts here and there(for example having a section with a few of your favourite threads or important pages fixed on one side of a page , like reddit^[1]), or when you use the search, suggestions could pop up, et al.

While I get that having a retro look to websites is quite rare nowadays, the user experience quota of the site could be improved in many many ways, keeping in mind the old school theme.

UI is great, UX on the other hand, not so much :/

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Jet Cash

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What is facebook?

I don't use it because it is full of UI ( useless information ).

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Quote from: LearnFxNet on June 16, 2019, 12:43:29 PM

I think its time to change the UI of Bitcoin talk.

Based on what?
Share your proposal mockup and let's see what people think about it.

But as Coyster said: no

LTU_btc

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This is one of strangest suggestions about Bitcointalk that I heard in recent years. How you imagine forum with UI similar to Facebook? So forum threads posts there should be converted into news feed like on Facebook. Honestly, I have no idea how bad it would be.
Content on social networks don't have big value, especially in the long term. Maybe you can find something interesting on Facebook now, but after few days, weeks or months that post will be basically gone and nobody will remember it.
Forums like Bitcointalk are very different. You easily can find posts which was made even 5 or 8 years ago. Bitcointalk is history book of Bitcoin. You can read and analyze Satoshi posts, find story about Bitcoin pizza guy and many other interesting things. I can't imagine similar things on website like Facebook.
If you don't like Bitcointalk interface, I suggest you to go to Reddit/Bitcoin, it looks more like traditional social networks:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/

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No God or Kings, only BITCOIN.

I've been accustomed by the forum's UI, I even like this much more on Facebook. I don't want someone randomly reacts on my postings.

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Quote from: LearnFxNet on June 16, 2019, 12:43:29 PM

I think its time to change the UI of Bitcoin talk.

Who agrees ?

I am getting to use of this forum and if ever there will be changes that will going to made or an upgrade then I can be happy also knowing that it would be an upgrade so we can expect good and more lively forum for cryptocurrency. Besides, the forum now is more on plain text and I think it does need more feature that will likely to encourage other users to stay in and feel comfortable in a new forum. Whatever things that will going to happen in the forum, I will fully support to it because it is good to be in the forum like this and it is an honor having this forum.

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So you're saying you want a big advertising company to decide what you get to read? Facebook has a terrible UI, designed to get people addicted to their "Likes", meanwhile maximizing the amount of advertising and tricking people to "Like" advertisers.
So no, we don't need that here!

Let me quote Cøbra:

Quote from: Cøbra on April 08, 2019, 08:03:45 PM

A hundred years from now, nobody will give a shit about Twitter, Facebook or Reddit. But there's a good chance they will give a shit about Bitcoin (and one can hope they will be using it). You can be sure this forum will be in the history books. Little kids will look over archives of our threads as they dream of one day owning 1 BTC. Threads like "we are the new wealthy elite" will be discussed in classrooms. Homework assignments will ask kids to go and research how the HODL meme originated. If Bitcoin does take over the world, you can tell your grandkids you were in the place where it all began. We have something that can't be replicated elsewhere: history.

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Bitcointalk is a forum, not a social media site. What makes you think Bitcointalk would work well with Facebook's UI? Just wait for the new forum software to be finished; by then, we would have a far better experience browsing through mobile devices.

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Epochtalk is in the process of getting released and seriously, I'd like to stick more to this current UI than upgrade it to something else knowing that it gets me the vibe of the retro webpages and mailing lists. Also, I doubt you'll get any support into changing the theme of this forum into something new, as most of the users in here currently are in it for the content and not actually the design of the webpages. Perhaps once epochtalk is released, theymos would allow customizing the forum personally (like what Friendster and Myspace did) though I doubt that it'll get that funky and flexible than what we currently have.

We can do it here, it's just not fitting.

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Quote from: LearnFxNet on June 16, 2019, 12:43:29 PM

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There is work in progress, and has been now for some time (years). The idea is to migrate at some point to Epochtalk, a software developed not only for Bitcointalk, but with the intent of being able to implement all types of forums. You can take a look at what the software looks like by using this implementation that a forum user has made to enable anyone to test the software: Cryptos-Currencies.Com : First forum using Epochtalk.

In addition, you can take a look at the following post, specifically on the matter: re: what is wrong with the development of new software ? .

And if you want to create your own test forum on Epochtalk: https://github.com/epochtalk/epochtalk

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I think its time to change the UI of Bitcoin talk.

Who agrees ?

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