Topic: Seeking a team to develop Bitcointalk 2.0 forums (apply within) (Read 23505 times)

Whatever it was, the post was deleted.

Ente

Check this post out... this is EXACTLY the asshole problem we have.  Here's a perfectly legitimate request by a member who asks that a developer stop posting in an 800 page 4 year old thread and make a new thread.  The response?

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/official-cgminer-mining-software-thread-for-linuxwinosxmipsarmr-pi-4110-28402

What ever happened to common courtesy.  Is politeness asking too much?

A new forum is definitely needed.  This place is a dump, IMO (no offense to legit, honest members, no seriously, i mean no offense.  You legit, honest, professional members should not be offended by this post, and will probably agree) and the fact that this was one of the very first forums I came across when I was introduced to bitcoin, means that this forum should be representing bitcoin better and instead is representing bitcoin as a whole very poorly.  It definitely lacks professionalism on a massive scale. Scammers and hackers everywhere apparently, there is clearly illegal activity going on here, and the poll suggests it even more.  If this forum is allowing illegal activities I'm pretty much done coming here effective immediately.  While there is a lot of positive going on here, there's a lot of dirt.  Definitely not intending to offend anyone, but the truth is the truth, and that is the vibe I got from this forum pretty much as soon as I joined it.  I've made a few posts here, and I regret it quite honestly.  Not because I didn't get a positive outcome from my posts, but mostly due to the amount of dishonesty going on around here.  At first glance, coming to this forum tells an average user that bitcoin is a complete waste of time.  As for the demeanor of certain members of this community... well, there's nothing to say.  Pick a post, and read it.  These members are everywhere.  The more I read some of the conversations that go on here, the less I want to visit this forum.  Silk Road had non-illegal activity going on there, and the innocent legit members of silk road got severely screwed by the illegal activity involved around silk road.  This concept, IMO, is no different for this website, whether the website is directly involved in such activities or not.  It shows a major flaw in the system, and if the mods/owners of this site don't care about the illegal activities that its members are taking part in, then this site is going to either go down quick, or be tainted for any positive bitcoin development in the future.  The new silk road of bitcoin?  Yeah I'm out of here.

If I get any sort of response like "Stop visiting if you dont like it GTFO noob, why are u here if u dont want to visit"  etc etc is only proving my point.

Thank you and have a great day.

Do you mean open-sourcing the development of the forum, allowing for multiple people to create the forum (using MyBB/SMF/etc...) and then closing the source once production begins; or actually creating a new forum software?


Why would you want to reinvent the wheel when you can use MyBB or SMF... forum software that has proven to be stable and powers huge communities including BitcoinTalk?

I am asking not out of sarcasm, but out of questioning...

Is there something that the newly developed forum would do better than current solutions?
What would the forum do greater, or focus on a larger scale, that would make the forum software better in general or for certain niches?

Maybe if we developed it with Python it wouldn't be such a bad idea, but there are so many PHP forums out and there have been for many. I'm sincerely wondering what the point is.

Hey Viceroy.

Bump

Ugh, Develop something new based on PHP? Ok nothing to see here.

Is this like NXT or Mastercoin where we put coins into an "exodus" address so that in the genesis block we have our share? If so, let me know if you think I qualify to be a mod or staff or whatever in the new forum. (But I don't have coins, hhehehehe.)

I'm interested in seeing where this goes and have 1 dire request for BitcoinTalk 2.0:

Please implement an open API for developers!

So much action in the community occurs right here on the site and the only API I could find was this one:
http://bitcointalkapi.appspot.com/
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/unofficial-bitcoin-talk-forums-api-154131

While I appreciate the work Logik put into this solution, it never seems to be synchronized with the actual content on the forums.
This would make it easier for us (the development community) to incorporate trending news in apps and automate the posting of important information to the site.

I don't know, we haven't started it yet.  Are we ready to begin?

How goes 2.0?

I think I see where you are going but you do not have to join their teams, while they don't use Git per se you can "fork" them and have a BSMF (bitcoin simple machines forums) so the base is established and you don't have all the leg work of starting from scratch.  Although that throws in the issue of familiarizing yourself with a foreign codebase which could almost be written again by the time you learn what they already have. In any case it is a can of worms whatever direction the project heads in, someone needs to choose a direction and start digging the rest will fall into place.

(ramblings of a tired mind )

Aren't SimpleMachines, MyBB, PhpBB, Discourse, etc... open source already?

How can I help?

I don't think that Discourse is going to be the best for bitcointalk in general. Maybe for coders and such, but only for that.

DiscussBitcoin is up, but SMF is a bitch and I'm currently trying to fix a ton of bugs, including one reoccurring bug which hates the forum.

LOL

Yea that image makes the site sound super desperate.

We do not feel like competitors to bitcointalk. It is more like better bitcoin talk but also to remind from the roots of it all - bitcointalk.org. We acknowledge all the good things bitcointalk has made to Bitcoin community in general but as have been said on this forum a billion times, the community needs something different.
Bitcointalk will surely exist, I believe, for years to come because of its enormous user base. What we are trying to build is better discussion, maybe in more detailed topics. Surely we are not building marketplace etc - which are IMPORTANT but not good talk, I'd say.

Its distasteful as well.

dont like domain name.

Citing your competitor in your logo is not exactly the best way to promote your service