Really? Is beta.bitcointalk.org legit the latest version?
Web server is down Error code 521
La site was opened in april 2016 for Beta testing, but was taken off-line somewhere in the interim between the said date and
july 2018 (I can’t pinpoint the exact date).
The reason seems to be somewhere along these lines:
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Wouldn’t it be better if Bitcointalk provided a common test environment that was open for anybody to use, without people having to download the software and setting up their own environments?
beta.bitcointalk.org was run for a couple of years, but virtually nobody used it. It was too boring. I'd ideally like people to actually try using Epochtalk for various things that they find fun/interesting. Maybe try a more restrictive moderation style, maybe make it more niche-focused, maybe try adding some crazy features, etc. If people actually try to use it for real things, then the real deficiencies will be found.
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Not that I completely agree with the above. If one wants people to try out the software, for the immense majority, I figure they’d prefer to test it on known data (i.e. derived from a forum snapshot with real content that one can relate to and compare against the current software).
