Github open source design it in php/mysql [because then so many more people can contribute]
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?
Github open source design it in php/mysql [because then so many more people can contribute]
+1 I would be willing to start adding to an open source forum.
Aren't SimpleMachines, MyBB, PhpBB, Discourse, etc... open source already?
Yes but to get on the team to have your pull request merged is very hard, if not next to impossible. Also I know Discourse already has a development team so yeah. If this was to be used for these forums, I could justify the time I would spend on it by making these community better. It be a smaller group so the pull request would be merged and better testing. It is like trying to be independent developer at google, rather that just take one of those project and modify it for a niche group you get it?
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
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You can fork one of them, but you always have to keep somewhat up on their fork cause bugs and security patches. This would limit really some of the direction the project can go. Also modifying that code could open new bugs. It is hard thing to choose to start from nothing or from a codebase. Granted SMF is pretty secure, but just a lot of bloat.
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.