The 1.5 million dollar (5067 bitcoin) new bitcoin talk forum. - page 5.

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Quote from: Puppet on March 13, 2015, 01:49:30 AM

Even if the software turns out to be amazing, who's going to maintain it? Proprietary forum software developed by a temporary association of overpriced devs is a security disaster waiting to happen. Im pretty sure this will also prove why companies usually dont put inexperienced ~18 year olds in charge of large software development projects

I give it 3 to 6 months before this 1.5M software is dumped in favor of some standard platform.

That's exactly what happens in even the biggest companies (including Google). You make something proprietry, it works okay for a year or two, then the off the shelf systems start overtaking it. Then - because you didn't learn last time - you start planning the next proprietry system.

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It's a general purpose forum that's intended to compete with others. Once the theme engine is in place, we'll be able to get more involvement from the public. For now, you can check out the source. On top of that a beta is being evaluated with the staff at this point so please sit tight.

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Normally I do not like new upgrades but for this one, I'm actually excited. It will take time to learn about everything but to be honest I don't like change. I'm used to this one and I don't think 1.5million dollars to make a new forum is necessary.

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Quote from: Muhammed Zakir on March 13, 2015, 01:43:38 AM

Quote from: QuestionAuthority on March 13, 2015, 01:32:10 AM

I hope he's getting full rights to the software and it's closed source so he can recoup some of that overpriced talent through software sales.

https://github.com/epochtalk. Published under MIT license.

Well then I truly don't understand the expense. That makes vBulletin 5 Connect + Mobile Suite Bundle seem like a bargain.

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Even if the software turns out to be amazing, who's going to maintain it? Proprietary forum software developed by a temporary association of overpriced devs is a security disaster waiting to happen. Im pretty sure this will also prove why companies usually dont put inexperienced ~18 year olds in charge of large software development projects

I give it 3 to 6 months before this 1.5M software is dumped in favor of some standard platform.

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Quote from: QuestionAuthority on March 13, 2015, 01:32:10 AM

I hope he's getting full rights to the software and it's closed source so he can recoup some of that overpriced talent through software sales.

https://github.com/epochtalk. Published under MIT license.

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Quote from: Vod on March 13, 2015, 12:33:47 AM

Quote from: QuestionAuthority on March 13, 2015, 12:22:11 AM

They would still have enough money left to hire 12 of the most talented software engineers from Google, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Ebay and Bloomberg L.P. to work exclusively on the forum for a year. Um yeah, I expect some pretty fucking amazing things from this software.

It's been posted there are only four full time coders working on the project. So I guess each of them is three times better than the best from the software companies you listed.

If they were paid $187,500 a year for two years ($1.5m) that's $50k a year more than the highest paid software engineer at the best paying companies that I listed. I hope he's getting full rights to the software and it's closed source so he can recoup some of that overpriced talent through software sales.

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Quote from: QuestionAuthority on March 13, 2015, 12:22:11 AM

They would still have enough money left to hire 12 of the most talented software engineers from Google, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Ebay and Bloomberg L.P. to work exclusively on the forum for a year. Um yeah, I expect some pretty fucking amazing things from this software.

It's been posted there are only four full time coders working on the project. So I guess each of them is three times better than the best from the software companies you listed.

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Quote from: QuestionAuthority on March 10, 2015, 10:34:47 AM

My expectation for a mill and a half is that the forum sucks my dick everytime I log on and after I make a log it wipes my ass too.

That's a weird exception for forum software dude. Makes me wonder what you'd expect a sexbot to do. Facilitate intelligent conversation? Wink

Well I certainly wouldn't expect Bitcointalk to "facilitate intelligent conversation". That hasn't happened here since early 2011. With $1.5 mil spent they should buy 50 great computers and give them away as a promotion. They would still have enough money left to hire 12 of the most talented software engineers from Google, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Ebay and Bloomberg L.P. to work exclusively on the forum for a year. Um yeah, I expect some pretty fucking amazing things from this software.

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Quote from: QuestionAuthority on March 10, 2015, 10:34:47 AM

My expectation for a mill and a half is that the forum sucks my dick everytime I log on and after I make a log it wipes my ass too.

That's a weird ~~exception~~ expectation for forum software dude. Makes me wonder what you'd expect a sexbot to do. Facilitate intelligent conversation? Wink

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Quote from: Tongkar on March 10, 2015, 10:05:46 AM

So I was reading a interesting thread yesterday about theymos spending 1.5 million dollars on the new forum.

Please tell me what your expectations are. Are you excited nervous what new features are you looking for ?

My opinion is this forum is a huge part of bitcoin in general and I really cant wait for this new software.

Did i really read that 1.5 million dollars?
A freaking forum worth $1.5 mil ?
Wow!
That would be amazing

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Quote from: Somekindabitcoin on March 10, 2015, 08:28:07 PM

It better have the greatest DDoS protection ever. I also hope that all this information will be transferred to the new website and hopefully no one will have to restart as newbies again.

Password won't be moved to new forum AFAIK. You will get an email to reset your password. Password log will be full of resets when new forum come. Grin

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It better have the greatest DDoS protection ever. I also hope that all this information will be transferred to the new website and hopefully no one will have to restart as newbies again.

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Quote from: Herbert2020 on March 10, 2015, 11:46:22 AM

it would be nice to see the new forum sooner. does the 1.5 million dollar which is spent on the new forum came from the forum advertisements or donations?

Mostly donations. I think advertisements were mainly used to pay moderators but blance maybe there.

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Quote from: snarlpill on March 10, 2015, 11:13:07 AM

There is already a long thread about the new forum software, search and ye shall find. I remember coming across that thread while checking out bitcointa.lk one time.

EDIT: Here you go- https://bitcointa.lk/threads/questions-to-theymos-about-the-1-000-000-forum-software-project.256309/

there is something wrong with the https secure connection for these links

Bitcointa.lk is good site and IMHO, is secure. Go at your own risk!

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$1.5 million?! Holy cow, I had now idea 1) forum software could be so expensive and 2) this forum was capable of raising that kind of funding. Looking forward to the unveiling!

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it would be nice to see the new forum sooner. does the 1.5 million dollar which is spent on the new forum came from the forum advertisements or donations?

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Quote from: gkv9 on March 10, 2015, 10:58:04 AM

You haven't given any links towards any announcement, so shall we expect one???
Also, is there any ETA for the release of the new $1.5m BTCTalk forum???

There is already a long thread about the new forum software, search and ye shall find. I remember coming across that thread while checking out bitcointa.lk one time.

EDIT: Here you go- https://bitcointa.lk/threads/questions-to-theymos-about-the-1-000-000-forum-software-project.256309/

there is something wrong with the https secure connection for these links

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Quote from: gkv9 on March 10, 2015, 10:58:04 AM

You haven't given any links towards any announcement, so shall we expect one???
Also, is there any ETA for the release of the new $1.5m BTCTalk forum???

There is already a long thread about the new forum software, search and ye shall find. I remember coming across that thread while checking out bitcointa.lk one time.

EDIT: Here you go- https://bitcointa.lk/threads/questions-to-theymos-about-the-1-000-000-forum-software-project.256309/

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Quote from: cassius69 on March 10, 2015, 10:34:35 AM

a new one at a new url or a replacement for this one?

They said in the development google doc that they would have the old urls match the new forum (automatically redirect and link) at least for a while, probably after a year they will disable this as google is finished the indexing and people are fully used to the new forum. Hopefully there will be better features like a redeveloped trust system and maybe built in escrow, address signing login, 2fa... the list goes on and on

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Seems like a lot of money to spend on a forum but I'm still looking forward to the change over and more functionality (avatars etc). Be good if satoshi came back to bless the new forum

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You haven't given any links towards any announcement, so shall we expect one???
Also, is there any ETA for the release of the new $1.5m BTCTalk forum???

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