Topic: Looking for someone to create/modify software for this forum [5500+ BTC] - page 11. (Read 165572 times)

There are people here that would work almost for free, the problem is the admin that likes it as it is and dosent want to change it.

I like this forum a lot and seen improvement in the short time I've been here.  Frankly I'm surprised no one has taken you up on your offer for a new system yet...

That's not how the watchlist works.


OK, I did that for the default theme (using CSS3 media queries). I removed a lot of wasted space and made it so horizontal scrolling isn't required. It looks OK in a small Firefox window. I don't have a smartphone with which to test it, though.

Thank you for making me a laught off you.

Rude?  Yes, absolutely. I  have very little tolerance for people who are too stupid to formulate an intelligent reply.  Again, if you go back through my posts, if you approach me with civility and intelligence, you usually get the same in response.  You approach me with rudeness and/or stupidity, you get rudeness in response.  It's pretty simple actually.

Again, you and your post is a good example.  You approach me with name calling (and it's not even accurate) and you (apparently?) expect me to be civil to you?  Seriously?

Let's say that you are simply the rudest one right around here.

And this time i appreciate this.

Somehow, I don't think you understand what a troll is.  Nice try, though. *golf clap*

Before you come back with some mind bendingly stupid response as to how I really am a troll, please provide citations where my posts are made purely to disrupt the forum and/or take the thread off topic.  What you will find is that my posts are typically on topic (or if they stray off topic it's in response to someone else who has posted an off topic reply, such as this one.) and relevant to the discussion at hand.  You can try to redefine troll in whatever manner you see fit, but you will be wrong. Ergo, labeling me a troll is incorrect, no matter how much you want it to be.  I know it's easier to label me a troll than to actually address the questions or comments I make with logic, forethought and rational discussion, since that is usually in short supply in most people, you being a good example.

You are not only a paid troll, you are a troll, that's all.

Lets say that this time I appreciate your goals.

WAP lol... seriously?  You want us to use a feature designed for phones that do text only and through a protocol that was dead before it was even born?  Come on.  Forum Runner and Tapatalk should be supported at a bare minimum.


Yes, it does affect me because the moderators can't do their job properly.


Is not a subscription.  The watchlist function is barely adequate and is basically a hack on top of a hack to make a feature that should be in the base forum software.  It is, in a word, craptacular.  I have to go to two separate places to find threads I want to pay attention to.  Then, once I post in that thread I can't @#%#@$ remove it from my list of watched threads if I lose interest in it, without deleting ALL MY POSTS in that thread.  Pure, utter stupidity.


I'm not sure what sites you are using or what browser you are using, but you're using the wrong ones in either case.  Try some on modern forum software on a modern browser.  They work fine and don't interfere at all.


Again, much like the watchlist, it's barely adequate.  If you want to strive for mediocrity, then it's a win.


Sorry, but normal people don't use junk like that.  Look at the current WoT.  It's barely used compared to the community here.  It's a failure because it's too difficult to use.  It needs to be built in to the forum and simple, otherwise people won't use it, no matter how superior it is.  


Great!  Switching to modern forum software will accomplish this goal perfectly.  Sticking with the bug ridden, feature bare, security holed SMF is not furthering that goal.  It's putting a forum on life support and hoping for the best.


Yes... and when I tried to report the multiple threads, I got the stupid "You must wait 20 seconds between posts" so I didn't bother reporting the three other threads that were posted after the first one.


Because it's a pain in the ass.  Again, you don't seem to understand that people want convenience, not a complicated ritual to post a !@#%#@$ image.  It's called making your forum rich in content, not making it user hostile.  With an image gallery/attachment manager, you can have the best of both worlds - people can still post links if they want, or they can use the built in tools that allow them to communicate instead of trying to decipher how to post an image.


Then what is a priority?  You don't seem to be advancing anything as a priority.  Everything that makes a good forum is "not a priority" so far.


Take a look at the profiles of a modern forums software package for an idea.  Yes, SMF works pretty well for something from 1999.  It works like a piece of crap for something from 2010... and here it is almost 2013.

This thread will be a year old in another few days and there has been exactly zero advancement of this forum as far as security and features go.  It's the same forum from a year ago.  You are never going to get custom software written in a reasonable timeframe.  Just pick one of the modern forum packages and go with it.  I suggest vBulletin, but I honestly don't care what package you go with, so long as it has modern features and abilities.

Try using that with a tablet or phone touchscreen and then tell me about it

Would you be willing to insert a mobile browser detection script and serve a custom css file to mobile browsers?

The first two are already included. Go within a sub-forum and use the search box at the top right to search only that forum. Same with thread.

https://bitcointalk.org/?wap2


This feature exists... Use the search box while you're in a thread and it'll search that thread. Use it when you're in a section and it'll search that section.


There won't be a global reputation system. This forum is for discussion, which global reputation systems interfere with.

A web of trust reputation system would be good.


These would be nice, but they're not priorities. I worry about supporting discussion first and trading second.


Have you ever even seen automated spam outside of the newbies section?


What's wrong with posting links? Then you can handle the links however you want in your browser. Use a browser-based image gallery userscript if you want.


There won't be, since the forum won't support attachments.


That'd be a good feature, but it's not a priority.


Advanced in what way?

I'm not saying that we're staying with SMF forever. There are many improvements to make, and I'm uneasy about SMF's security. But SMF works pretty well.

Guess it pretty much depends on who does it, who would be aware, word of mouth, bitcoin irc, first page google result.
My idea people would pretty fast recognize if there is an better organized and technical advanced option.
It most probably, in my opinion, would not be the same as if the owner of this forum decides to do a software upgrade.
Whatever, im just bored trolling the forumz.

EDIT:
A useful search would for example not print a 404 when i enter a search, click on a result and use the go back buton on firefox.
A useful search would also know google operators, intitle, intext, filetype etc...
A useful search could print results in ajax or something similar, letting you stay on top off buzzwords.

"Search this forum"  "Search this thread"  Binary search.  Complex searches. etc...

Can you elaborate on your ideas of a useful search?

And not only that.

Anyway theymos, will you ban me if I start up an alternative community and spam it in this topic only and in my signature?

Impex FTW