Topic: What new changes would you like to see on Bitcointalk in 2024 ? - page 2. (Read 617 times)

How about a decentralized bitcointalk.org?

A lot of beginners here are very lost and there are lots of information on the beginners and help section that it feels overwhelming for newbies to just consume and start up on the right foot and honestly, the motivation is very low from the start, until you're a full member. In view of these discouraging complexity of this forum to a newbie,

I'm proposing a sort of a video tutorial from one of the very senior members on the rules of engagements and forum whereabouts to help prepare these newbies with an easier to consume content.
Secondly, these training can be organized monthly in the beginners and help section and it can run for the first week and end with a kind of bitcoin knowledge quiz and a writing contest, to train new users on how to make quality posts. It should promise to be fun and engaging. This will give our newbies a proper sense of belonging and engagement, prepare them properly for the journey ahead of them.

There may be limitations to number of times  an account can participate in the newbie competitions, but the video contents about the forum should be available for everyone to consume anytime and any day.

I would be looking out for an alternative way of supporting those creating an engaging topic on the board that might not be merited yet.

Like, setting up a default system that can automatically merit a conversation that has up to an 100 replies with say 5 to 10 merit.

And also considering give provision for a voice note mostly in the local board. Their are some replies you will want to drop that it would be better to pass it verbally to express it weight.

There are many changes that have been integrated in the forum throughout 2023 and these are welcomed by every user. I'm not sure what other changes or improvements to expect - maybe a more mobile-friendly display or something. In terms of security - the forum already has 2FA, while you can also recognize the topic creator by "OP".

What has not been approved throughout 2023 is only; additional merit source. So I think they might need to consider some new merit sources in 2024 - especially for users who have already prepared themselves by applying with 10 worth posts or more.

Until now:

Theymos has made changes to the forum this year, to be honest they were a little more than I expected. I was of the opinion that nothing fundamental changes in Bitcointalk but I was proven wrong. Theymos really sees all the requests made on meta. For the new year, I would love if Theymos grants at least one of request for a merit source in the Nigerian local board. And also a merit source for the gambling board. I think both boards are in dire need of merits.

I think the forum is great as it is although of course, there are a few things that I would love to see at least in the foreseeable future if not at once. Before anything else, we all know that 2023's been a very tumultuous ride for the forum but we're still in one shape! Congratulations to all of us, 2023 was not a joke and I think I speak for everyone here when I say we're happy you're still with us, whoever's reading this.

Now, back to the focus of the discussion. So I got a couple things that I would love to see more in this forum, first off, a more standardized meriting system. The merit system when it was introduced is one of the most awesome things about the forum. It allowed people at least in paper, to actually be incentivized for putting in the effort to create productive content, but as it stands today, merit sources who are supposed to be able to provide merits as they see fit had to wait for weeks, sometimes months in order to get their merit bags filled so they can approve of good content. Now I'm not solely putting the blame to the mods or whatever, it's just the fact that most of us here are sitting at 40 maybe 50+ merits which we could've shared towards each other.

It would be really awesome if there's a standardized merit system, such as if someone who's sitting in 20+ sendable merits aren't able to send any of his in the next 120 days, it goes back to the pool to be shared amongst merit sources so they can carry on with their work. That way our poor heroes wouldn't have to beg or wait to get their jobs done.

I also would second putting out a standardized newbie introduction board/place so newbies wouldn't have to introduce themselves or ask for the most common stuff in high-level info boards and forums. It ruins the environment and incites the same action towards newbies which dilutes the quality of the board. I heard that this has been in the works already but I wanna see it at least in the next 3-5 years. Should do our forum a massive solid that way.

I like the forum as is, what I will be looking a lot forward to using is the telegram bot that I've not had the chance to look at but I see that as being extremely helpful for notifications and keeping you up to par with what is going on in the threads that you have recently posted in. I think overall I am very happy with this forum, it works quite well IMO.

Changes have been rampant early this year so I think the forum is now good enough except for the last change this year which is mixers will no longer be allowed. I think the admin should try to consider giving it another chance but it seems the decision is final and we won't be seeing mixers for good.

The meriting system is another thing. I hope to see changes on how these newbies have established their mindset about earning merits. The forum does not exist to provide merits but to educate the members most especially the newbies. I hope this will be an eye opener to those newbies that they should not rush earning merits as it loses the essence why they are in the forum in the first place.

I like him exactly the way he is. I have always been a participant in internet forums in the past, they all died because of many changes, mainly functionalities and layout.

Here it is alive and will continue to be alive thanks to the good quality of users and the standard layout.

There's no brand new welcome section, just a welcome message which new users will be promoted to read upon registration and can also access at any point later on in the forum.

We will not be getting any more forms of restrictions for lower ranked members since Newbie jail was stopped.

Members actually can request for it! but their account must be in a good standing in terms of reputation plus have a good reason for such change.

I honestly like the way things are right now-- when it comes to username change. It could cause extra confusion and give birth to scam attempts if this was available to everyone.


Either one of these:

1. Mobile friendly interface
2. Security and privacy board
3. Local board for the active local communities on "Other languages/locations"
4. Built in notification tab

I support your recommendation I recommend a brand new level account where you are restricted to the brand new welcome section and you need to create a post
in the Brand New Discussion and Forum rules discussion after you create two posts you will ranked up to the newbie level and that's when the whole section of the forum will be open up to newbies.
And also to take away the evil fee if possible because of the huge transaction fee.

Although I do not expect much from the administration to make major changes in the forum, since I notice that the updating processes are carried out slowly and very carefully. This is acceptable as long as it keeps the forum robust and working well.

One of the wishes that I am waiting for its fulfillment is to activate the new forum software and see it work. This new forum software project is moving at the speed of a turtle and all possible changes are supposed to be in it. I also noticed that the community is not much interested in it anymore.

Personally I'm not waiting for big changes. After all in 2023 we got 2FA what is big thing and we waited for it so long. New forum software, I doubt that we will get it next year. And I'm not sure that I'm waiting for it that much. After so many years using current version it will be difficult to get used to new forum look.
Mainly I just want no more changes in negative direction. Mixers got banned from forum this year, not worth to expect that it will return. But I don't want to see more things banned from Bitcointalk because of regulations or pressure from institutions.

I would to see some social media elements in this forum. like Notification Feature and Tagging other members (when we tag someone his username become clickable. and also he'll get notified that someone tagged you) But I think implementing these features ina SMF forum would be very difficult. otherwise forum Admins would've already had these features. believe me these would make our forum navigation a lot easier.

I would also like to have the ability to modify our account's usernames. Lets see what 2024 Brings for us.

I don't see any other way to discourage users from creating useless/repetitive topics/posts than to report each such post/topic to the moderator and be deleted. Each board should have a sticky topic like the one that exists in the Bitcoin discussion, and all those members who ignore it and persist in thread/post spamming should receive a temporary ban. If even then they do not understand the message, there is nothing left but to ban them from participating in the forum.

The real question is when we will see our wishes to come true even if we mention them here, that's because 2FA was implemented a few days ago. I think the admins don't have time for this forum that's why they have moderators and mod might not have this kind of job to manage the improvements like new modifications. Well the one and only feature I want in BTT is whenever I enter a URL tag the = (equals to) sign should be written automatically.

And whenever I have to use underline italic, or Bold tags, I just have to select the text and would use the hotkeys like ctrl+B to bold the text, instead of selecting the text and then clicking on the bold tag. It is just too annoying. Besides this, I hope the issue that we see of invisible sticker other than the above mentioned ones in edit tools will be solved even if those sticker shows up in the post but if written in text editor of BTT they are not in preview.

I like the forum the way it is and I believe the forum doesn't need any changes at all. If any change that's necessary for the betterment of the forum then that's removing of all those board that aren't active anymore as more board without any activity are some extra burden on the forum's space. If that somehow takes place then I would want a few good board to be created which have been requested by the members many times.

I got some ideas for changes I wanna see happen on Bitcointalk.  First off, theres way too much spam and scams all over the place there and  it is super annoying trying to find real info or talk to people when theres all these fake bots and whatnot interfering.  We gotta get some better filters to block that junk. 

Also, searching for stuff here pretty much sucks.  The search engine we got now barely works half the time.  Upgrade to something more powerful thatll index everything people post.  That wouldd help big time when trying to find old threads about stuff.

Oh and it should be easier to use on phones and tablets! The site looks janky on mobile.  I end up pinchin and zooming like crazy trying to click buttons and links.  Optimize it to work good on smaller screens. 

They could also step up the community features.  Let us like or share good posts we find.  Get people more engaged.  Maybe even add some blockchain voting and identity checks.  Thatll secure things and give more control to real users.

Anyway those changes would really improve Bitcointalk in my opinion.  Make it less shady and annoying to use.

First of all I wish for a separate local board for Pakistan and Bangladesh. We are waiting for more than 5 years and I believe that 2024 will bring a joy on our every local member face with this change.

-If some new emojis are added it will be interesting. we can add from keyboard but official emojis have own fun

- Thinking of motion support in the signature just like GIF

If anything other comes in my mind, I will update here