I would love to see an escrow service, and it should be decentralized. This will definitely help towards bitcoin adoption and increase market activity for the forum.
Adding youtube videos to posts should be possible as well.
Topic: RFC: new forum software specifications (Read 16944 times)
I think it has been suggested before to show the threads someone started in their profile, similar to posts.
Last chance to suggest features for the first version. I'll start a bidding thread this weekend.
Did this thread ever get started? I can't find it (btw, a way to search for threads started by a particular author would be useful in the new software
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Wow - that's some pretty powerful software for $1500USD. 
Thanks for your comment. I didn't know exactly what was the exchange rate of BTC at the moment but as you know it is a very variable. I can always discuss about the price.
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Our company has experienced and motivated team to build forum software as you specified. Also we have our own ideas which implementations you can rule. We have virtual working environment for project management. We keep all our promises and will deliver high quality in schedule. Data migration service and support also after implementation will be included.
If needed, my company can also offer hosting for forum or for other server software with SLA without any cost.
Our customers are organizations from the private and public sector. You can ask portfolio from me. Please contact via PM so I can offer contact details.
Thank you for this opportunity,
Request
Edit: Just wanted to make sure that we will deliver the service for 500 BTC. We are registered company and we will offer very fair service contract. As a owner of this company I can offer the service for very low contribution margin as kind of donation (I don't need any promotion, there's no "tiny print", I just want to support the Bitcoin community the way I can).
Wow - that's some pretty powerful software for $1500USD.
Hello,
Our company has experienced and motivated team to build forum software as you specified. Also we have our own ideas which implementations you can rule. We have virtual working environment for project management. We keep all our promises and will deliver high quality in schedule. Data migration service and support also after implementation will be included.
If needed, my company can also offer hosting for forum or for other server software with SLA without any cost.
Our customers are organizations from the private and public sector. You can ask portfolio from me. Please contact via PM so I can offer contact details.
Thank you for this opportunity,
Request
Edit: Just wanted to make sure that we will deliver the service for 500 BTC (we can always discuss about the final price). We are registered company and we will offer very fair service contract. As a owner of this company I can offer the service for very low contribution margin as kind of donation (I don't need any promotion, there's no "tiny print", I just want to support the Bitcoin community the way I can).
Edit 2: One more word about our team. One of our team members has worked as professional system administrator in ESET (http://www.eset.com/). He will confirm all the security aspects of the service.
Our company has experienced and motivated team to build forum software as you specified. Also we have our own ideas which implementations you can rule. We have virtual working environment for project management. We keep all our promises and will deliver high quality in schedule. Data migration service and support also after implementation will be included.
If needed, my company can also offer hosting for forum or for other server software with SLA without any cost.
Our customers are organizations from the private and public sector. You can ask portfolio from me. Please contact via PM so I can offer contact details.
Thank you for this opportunity,
Request
Edit: Just wanted to make sure that we will deliver the service for 500 BTC (we can always discuss about the final price). We are registered company and we will offer very fair service contract. As a owner of this company I can offer the service for very low contribution margin as kind of donation (I don't need any promotion, there's no "tiny print", I just want to support the Bitcoin community the way I can).
Edit 2: One more word about our team. One of our team members has worked as professional system administrator in ESET (http://www.eset.com/). He will confirm all the security aspects of the service.
I'll put an API in the "other optional features" category.
Please include an API of some kind (REST, SOAP, JSON-RPC, whatever) that is capable of at least:
1. Getting a list of forums/topics/threads
2. Retrieving messages from a forum/topic/thread
3. Posting to a forum/topic/thread (provided proper authentication, of course)
I'm sure lots of people would find this useful for lots of things.
I will happily write and operate an NNTP gateway for bitcointalk.org if such an API is available.
In terms of features-gained-per-hour-of-development-effort you really can't beat the return on providing a nice simple API. It lets other people do the stuff you don't have time for.
1. Getting a list of forums/topics/threads
2. Retrieving messages from a forum/topic/thread
3. Posting to a forum/topic/thread (provided proper authentication, of course)
I'm sure lots of people would find this useful for lots of things.
I will happily write and operate an NNTP gateway for bitcointalk.org if such an API is available.
In terms of features-gained-per-hour-of-development-effort you really can't beat the return on providing a nice simple API. It lets other people do the stuff you don't have time for.
So you are actually serious about writing the software completely from scratch ?
As I've said several times before: I don't care how the software is built. It would be fine to make a bunch of modifications to SMF or any other software.
OK sorry, misunderstood.
So you are actually serious about writing the software completely from scratch ?
As I've said several times before: I don't care how the software is built. It would be fine to make a bunch of modifications to SMF or any other software.
Last chance to suggest features for the first version. I'll start a bidding thread this weekend.
So you are actually serious about writing the software completely from scratch ?
This way it will take YEARS to achieve the number of features of the current forum, unless it is based on one of existing forum systems. And you have *completely no guarantee* that it will be in any way faster or more secure than ANY of the existing systems.
This is madness.
http://slashcode.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb-index.cgi
Slashcode is still available... It definitely doesn't support all the features you're looking for though. It's also written in perl and judging by my near inability to find anyone else who can write perl and who also is familiar with Bitcoin, I would say it's probably not a wise choice. I do dig the perls though. :-)
I am liking some of the new features vBulletin 4 offers over the older versions. It's a few $'s, but you say you have much more than that amount available in BTC at least. Perhaps it would be more wise to develop a priority list of all the features you want, then add a development cost to each line item. Perhaps much more can be done for the funds that you do have available through writing modules. In addition, you may find more willing volunteer help if it's only writing or extending modules and not the whole complicated mess. Not everything has to be bought and paid for.
You only have around $1300 in funds anyway. That is not enough for a ground-up software development project. Focus on your key issues, knock out all you can with pre-built modules, then custom develop anything remaining.
Great ideas, BTW. I'm working on creating a new forum for my local community and your idea list gives me food for thought. :-)
Slashcode is still available... It definitely doesn't support all the features you're looking for though. It's also written in perl and judging by my near inability to find anyone else who can write perl and who also is familiar with Bitcoin, I would say it's probably not a wise choice. I do dig the perls though. :-)
I am liking some of the new features vBulletin 4 offers over the older versions. It's a few $'s, but you say you have much more than that amount available in BTC at least. Perhaps it would be more wise to develop a priority list of all the features you want, then add a development cost to each line item. Perhaps much more can be done for the funds that you do have available through writing modules. In addition, you may find more willing volunteer help if it's only writing or extending modules and not the whole complicated mess. Not everything has to be bought and paid for.
You only have around $1300 in funds anyway. That is not enough for a ground-up software development project. Focus on your key issues, knock out all you can with pre-built modules, then custom develop anything remaining.
Great ideas, BTW. I'm working on creating a new forum for my local community and your idea list gives me food for thought. :-)
Last chance to suggest features for the first version. I'll start a bidding thread this weekend.
In sites that hide comments/posts when they've been too downvoted, i tend to always unhide them, and often i disagree with the "decision" to have them hidden after reading the contents myself; i don't trust the masses with censoring stuff for me.
You certainly have a valid point.
However, it will be impossible to keep any order and forums will be a permanent mess with scammers, spammers and such. People will get scammed every day, and BTC reputation will suffer.
Which is exactly what is happening now BTW.
In sites that hide comments/posts when they've been too downvoted, i tend to always unhide them, and often i disagree with the "decision" to have them hidden after reading the contents myself; i don't trust the masses with censoring stuff for me.
If they are that obvious they get deleted anyway, the moderation team here does a pretty good job. Also if there is such an obvious troll you can just hit ignore, and you will never see that persons posts again. Or are you wanting to control what other people see/read as well? I would rather read all peoples opinions on a topic and consider for myself the worth of the content, not what the majority on a forum deem useful.
1) Something similar to Facebook's Like / Google+ +1 / Reddit's Upvote / etc...
Not necessary.
Slashdot-like meta-moderation system is waaaaaaay better.
It allows users gaining reputation, stops 99+% of spam, hides 95% of useless posts and can work similarly to FB/Google's +1.
No. I've seen how people react around here to anything that could be construed as even slightly negative about bitcoin. I'd like to see a forum that encourages discussion and alternate ideas, not a circle jerk of nerds all congratulating themselves on being awesome.
1. You don't even know how the system works, and yet you speak.
2. Also, moderation depends on what majority thinks, and on this forum majority is noobs. So there won't be any kind of "circle" of self-adoration.
3. Normal mods would still have greater power than rest of the people
4. To some degree, sooner or later every forum becomes a circle of people-with-similiar-mindsets who adore themselves and reject incompatibile mindsets, so your point is invalid.
So you think being able to downvote and hide posts is a good idea?
I have accounts on multiple forums, and the ones that have reputation system are the least messy & spammed.
This system can be tweaked, so only posts of people with the worst reputation can be hidden, and only if they are seriously downvoted.
System can be tuned so that only obvious trolls are removed from discussion.
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