The forum is written in PHP using Laravel
For me much better functionality have SMF
SMF doesn't have anything close to the functionality we require, and it's not like we could transition from SMF to something else later on. It's great to want to take shortcuts and deliver things quickly, but history has shown that rushed decisions early on in a cryptocurrency's life will stick with them for ages (see: Bitcointalk, Litecointalk, Bitcoin's Qt interface, etc.)
Great job on the forum, don't get me wrong now, but building a forum from scratch takes a lot of time, how much donations was used to fund this? The reason I'm asking is that I would prefer if (my) donations was used for development of the coin itself.
Also, who built the forum?
Donations are less than 20% of our expenditure thus far. You can be safe in the knowledge that the donations have only been used for core development. Or have only been used for blockchain bootstrap download bandwidth costs. Or have only been used for OpenAlias development. Or have only been used for development of the forum. Cut the cake however you feel most comfortable:)
The forum was built by some of our non-C++ contributors
Hello! Most people here. I can confirm we do NOT want to sign up for yet another site.
I remember shoveling copypasta about Ciphermine from the LTC Forum to the Securities sub here. What a waste of time!
Bitcointalk is not a good environment if we want serious discussion about Monero. That much should be obvious. At some point we have to start cutting the apron strings and disconnecting from Bitcoin, especially since we share few common goals and no common code. It would be unfair of us to force newcomers interested in Monero to dig through thousands of scamcoin, shill, and troll posts on bitcointalk to find the occasional gem of information.
Additionally, you cannot possibly convince me that people needing help in running and using Monero should all gather in a single thread on a Bitcoin forum?? Nah, we've done our time here, there's no value in maintaining all the Monero threads on Bitcointalk. Anyone here who needs to know about Monero already does know about Monero;)
