Shame about the avatars but I'm not surprised that theymos takes forum security very seriously. This forum is pretty much the epicenter of the Bitcoin community. If the community here was compromised in some way, then Bitcoin itself would most likely be affected too. Perhaps not on a technical level but you get the idea.
I was really wondering and to be honest this is the only forum with big community that I've seen that use Simple machines forum software,and not sure about this informations but heard that theymos pays 350k $ for developement on this forum ? Can anyone confirm?
Really? $350,000 for this forum? That sounds like too much. And isn't vBulletin normally considered to be the best forum software? Although my information might be out of date. And I don't think vBulletin is open source either.
I heard that someone (theymos perhaps?) was going to change the forum software but I'm not sure. There is also a mirror of the forum at bitcointa.lk which uses a forum software called XenForo which I've never heard of before. It calls itself "the Bitcointalk community with a proper forum software" but I don't think anyone uses it for anything other than finding deleted posts.
As I heard yes it's about 350k $ not sure if the guy was just trolling but he seems like a serious member and he was Hero member if I'am not mistaken . & Yes vBulletin may not be Open source but it's definitly the best from Security and he should only Hire Couple of designers to make a nice Theme + Security Professionals to secure it . I would say It will cost him like 20k $ TOP .
From what I understood the new forum Software that is in Developement is another version of Simple machines forum , Correct ? Or it's completly new ? if not ... Because I was speaking about MyBB , vBulletin etc ... which are totally better from Security and design then Simple machines .
No. The new forum software is being written entirely from scratch, and it uses Node.js. Not PHP like all the ones you've been mentioning.
I really heard of this programming language like for the second time xD I guess PrimeDice gambling website is written using this language , correct me if I'am wrong.
But does this mean that JavaScript will be enabled all the time and we should disable Adblock also otherwise the page won't display as it should be ?
There will be javascript but I think the forum will display fine with javascript disabled.
That wouldn't make sense a lot if you ask me
Anyway the new forum should be available by Feb 2015 (Couple of months more) but they said there will be a Beta test in the previous decemeber or november if I remember right but seems like there is nothing
