Bitcoin Forum

As the number of smartphone users grow exponentially, I feel it would be optimistic to launch an official bitcointalk forum app.
It would enable more people to learn and discuss about cryptos and make the way for cryptos to penetrate into the mainstream market faster!
Using smartphones are easier, makes it simple to read, write and discuss than being on the web using a computer or even mobile browser :)

I hate all these apps, and the way Google keeps trying to install more. Hopefully the recent action by Trump will lead to Huawei releasing a Google free phone, and I can use that to create an efficient communication tool again.

There is reddit already if you badly need an app that discusses crypto.

When you want to launch an APP on playstore you need to make compromises with Google so it is completely wrong to give details of an decentralized platform to centralized company.

BitcoinTalk is centralized.

It's surprising how well-documented history can become totally forgotten... Satoshi created the forum on Nov 22, 2009, and was head administrator until almost 2011. Then Sirius was head administrator until 2012, which is when I took over.

Cobra also owns the bitcointalk.org domain name. I consider the forum to be basically owned by or at least dedicated to the Bitcoin community, though; I don't call anyone an owner of the forum.

That wiki article is kind of terrible...

You likely missed this one, and ownership of Bitcointalk decentralized between some people, not only theymos.

Are you having an issue browsing the forum from your mobile?

The only real problem I have on LoyceMobile is that I have to scroll a bit from left to right to read posts. A bigger screen would solve that, unless the forum formatting could change a bit.
I don't think it's worth developing an app to offer the same features a webbrowser has already.

This thought occurred to me recently:

If you wanted to implement Merit in a decentralized forum (ie. one in the vein of Freenet's Frost or FMS), you could do it in this way:
 - Everyone can, from their own perspective, give unlimited merit to posts, and these merit transactions are put into files which each user publishes via the decentralized system. (Like a merit.txt.xz which every user publishes.) Unlike on bitcointalk.org, you can also give people merit without an associated post.
 - For everyone who has merit, you download their merit-transactions-list, but scale down/up all of the numbers so that the total merit that they send is equal to the actual sMerit that they own. It might or might not be useful to do this via some sliding time frame scheme so that merit transaction amounts aren't just continually diminished over time as they increase in quantity.
 - Apply the above step recursively, creating a web-of-trust-style merit network

Then every user has a subjective merit score for each post (sort of like the bitcointalk.org trust system, which was inspired by FMS). And if you wish, you can assign people to be merit sources from your perspective by sending them large amounts of merit directly; these might or might not appear in the merit-transactions-list which you publish.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4500633.0

When you want to launch an APP on playstore you need to make compromises with Google so it is completely wrong to give details of an decentralized platform to centralized company.

Wait for Epochtalk to be developed more, for Bitcointalk to hopefully migrate to that new forum software in the future. Epochtalk is already responsive in terms of UI so an app would be quite unnecessary.

A member of this forum created a forum that uses Epochtalk, specifically to test the new software. Check it out if you're interested: https://www.cryptos-currencies.com

I am not sure if how the mobile responsive thing can solve the UI issues or the difficulties that we are currently experiencing right now cause mostly what the mobile responsive thing can do is just to make the site looks good on your phone but It can't actually do a lot of changes when it comes to your functionality.

Mobile responsiveness can definitely fix the issues. Check the link I provided. Mobile responsiveness can also fix UX also, not only UI.

What specific functionalities are you looking for in the first place?

If someone will create then its good but I don't think that it is needed since the forum is already ok for the smartphone users.

For me, it is easier to write and read on my computer rather than my smartphone.

Yeah I have seen it already I've already encountered some Ux issues which actually really makes it quite difficult to address unlike making an app which is actually made just for phones. Upon testing it this still really have to fix a lot of things.

I was actually referring to the copy pasting of quotes and filtering your quote is quite hard in mobile since you are touching it and sliding around instead of using mouse. Hopefully they can come up with idea on how to make that one easier on your phone practicing the mobile responsive site instead of an app. 

The only real problem I have on LoyceMobile is that I have to scroll a bit from left to right to read posts. A bigger screen would solve that, unless the forum formatting could change a bit.
I don't think it's worth developing an app to offer the same features a webbrowser has already.

Agreed, I regularly browse and post on Bitcointalk on mobile, haven't come across any issues, except the scrolling from left to right. (though not really an issue IMO)
Then again, I usually browse other websites in desktop mode, so I'm probably somewhat weird in that regard.

I'm personally fine with Bitcointalk on mobile when I'm reading posts. The scrolling from left to right is easily fixed by using landscape mode on my phone. What bothers me a lot though, is when I'm posting or replying to quotes. Formatting quotes to make my reply look clean is too much of a hassle as you'd have to manually erase the irrelevant stuff.

Having Bitcointalk in a web is much convenient than having an app since it will not need storage on out phone. Anyways, its all up to the admin to whether do one or not.

If this is a social media like facebook, twitter, and IG where we can view pictures, an APP would be good, but here it's different, we have some kind of interaction here but mostly through the post we can read and it's really more convenient reading it through our PC than our cell phones.

Having Bitcointalk in a web is much convenient than having an app since it will not need storage on out phone. Anyways, its all up to the admin to whether do one or not.