Bitcoin Forum

I've spent most of my free time since when i woke up with the news spreading of the closure of MtGox on a project for an alternative forum. So, here it is.

The goal is to decentralize the Bitcointalk community by providing alternative means to access and post with the same group of people. The community you interact with is still the same, the difference is the forum software.

Bitcointalk.org is synched in real time with Bitcointa.lk, thanks for a set of web crawlers that i wrote. By simply sending a PM to a Bitcointalk.org user, you can verify your identity and link your account (http://bitcointa.lk/link_account/) with the Bitcointa.lk one. You will then be able to read the Bitcointalk community from Bitcointa.lk.
Moreover, if you decide to make the jump and install a browser extension (https://bitcointa.lk/pages/browser-extension/) (open source (GitHub) (https://github.com/cedivad/bitcointa.lk); it's needed to bypass the same origin policy of your browser), you will be able to post on Bitcointa.lk; the extension will take care of posting the same exact message on Bitcointalk.org.

Bitcointa.lk uses a recent forum software, namely XenForo, so you will have a faster navigation experience and more features. In other words, a completely renovated forum.

Every kind of feedback is welcome. Thank you for your time.

https://i.imgur.com/L2VkvXp.png  (https://bitcointa.lk/forums/mining.19/)

(Yes, obviously this thread (https://bitcointa.lk/threads/bitcointa-lk-my-alternative-to-bitcointalk-org.281718/) was posted from Bitcointa.lk ;))
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #HRSYr8JTlTnk6kdQ

I dont really see what the point is because we can simply just come and post here...

Interesting idea anyways.

The point is to decentralize the community, provide a viable alternative and a fantastic user experience.
If you give it a shoot you will never come back.

Its like saying that both a FIAT 500 and a luxury car will drive you from point a to point b. Yes, sure, the point is that the 500 will break down in the meanwhile (502 gateway errors), and you won't be able to enjoy the voyage.

(this is how the Italian community is receiving the project, i'm really happy of it) (https://bitcointa.lk/threads/vi-presento-bitcointa-lk-la-mia-alternativa-a-bitcointalk-org.281438/page-3)
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #Y2MrWNY24591Rv42

Looks nice,gonna use it!  ;D

Thank you for this! :)

how dow your forum handles post/threads which are deleted here by mods?
for me it would add a real benefit if i would be able to see them on yours (maybe in a different section)

As of now, nothing happens. The post is downloaded a few seconds after the first time it's posted here on Bitcointalk.org (almost in real time) and is never updated.
Since that it's a feature that everyone is asking for, i'm working on an intelligent way to update those posts.

However, it won't delete them from public view completely. There will be some fancy way of noting that the post was removed from Bitcointalk.org, but it will be completely visible. The same goes for post history; it will be publicly available.

For example, HashFast decided to self-moderate their last thread. The Bitcointalk.org version (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=493435.0) has 247 replies, Bitcointa.lk (https://bitcointa.lk/threads/hashfast-announces-specs-for-new-asic-up-to-800gh-s.271636/) has 455 (!!!).
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #ZbdBYzaDJND7WAek

What's the pm linking do?

To protect your privacy, there is no PM linking. I don't want to be theorically able to read your PM, since that i know what kind of private PMs are being sent here on Bitcointalk.org. However, every time that the browser extension fetches a page on Bitcointalk.org, it will check if you have unread ones. If you do, it will report it back on Bitcointa.lk. Again, no PM is readable from the extension.

https://i.imgur.com/QCkhVQW.png

I might provide an opt-in option to synch PMs in the future, for the brave of you.
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #4MTXATJ2Cg0ZLVXe

Seems like a lot of work for potentially very little upside, but hey. Backups are always useful, you never know.

I enjoyed the work i did on this project and i'm now obviously using it on a daily basis, loving the features.
However it really looks like that spending two minutes to link an account and install a browser extension is too much to ask for the advantages it would bring.

People who made the jump are happy with the results, but there are really a few of them.
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #vU5AqHnal8tW6MWM

I like this. it will be a backup of Bitcointalk. Great way to see what self moderated threads have deleted.
Thanks for your effort!

+1 Nice idea!

This is exactly what this forum needs. I hope you can generate some revenue from ads to recompense you for your work.

I'll be checking it out!

cedivad, I'd like to highly recommend you to disable the feature of deleting posts

This way, bitcointa.lk is a truly interesting achieve which will enable anyone to gain insight into what was removed from self moderated threads etc. without the owners being able to delete it over at bitcointa.lk.

As of now someone would have to register on Bitcointa.lk to remove (from public view only) their posts.
Now registered users can see posts that were removed with this method.

However this has to be implemented in a better way by synching moderation activities from Bitcointalk.org, the goal would be to leave everyone able to see removed/edited posts, comparing the history, etc.
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #3HnCJawG2fBoUw9J

This is the most awesome thing I've seen for a while. Just being able to read deleted posts is priceless. Sad, i can't find a donation address. Thank you for your hard work. Keep it up! Hope you don't mind if I put a link into my signature ;)

Don't see the point? You want to keep using several years old SMF version with a lack a features you could barely now call this software a bulletin board to begin with. New forum software has nice features, color, a much better user experience then you'll get here.

Oh yeah, first post with the Bitcointa.lk system! Great job, great contribution. Thanks!
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #uMVZwFyOFyEPTPTk

I'm using the new software now, and I feel like I'm back at 2014 instead of 2005. What a difference in just navigating and reading. I can read twice as much within the same time it took me on the "old" site by utilizing the features and options here. Very good job and I really hope this stays up. The operators at bitcointalk should at least consider this temporarily and pay you for your work so far. By all means, they have enough money. Millions.
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #eD1AqAdeEYzllFbs

I agree! I even got a super cool notification of your response to this thread! :)
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #njT393rHNvxPEYjg

Really nice.
And i think u spend less money than 350 000 $ ?  ;D

the software does indeed look nice but my biggest gripe is that you ripped off the name of this forum with just a . added

How should have i called it? Bitcointalk-2014.org?

I don't feel like to have done anything wrong. It's the Bitcointalk community, on a nice domain, platform and server. It's what the bitcoin community deserves, but was unable to get due to (the lack of) administration.

We are not talking about a private for profit forum here. It's one of the major, if not the major, community center of the Bitcoin community.
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #EbEQMDBJpD4kKz5O

How is that a problem? After all it is a newer veraion of bitcointalk!

I took the advice from cedivad and "replaced "Bitcointalk.org" with "Bitcointa.lk" in this url to see how this page looks like on a proper forum."


And was floored.

This is what a forum experience is supposed to be like?! I feel a fool. Why the hell is it not this way over here? Easier on the eyes, rss, more statistical information presented at top level...

I feel like the younger sibling that got a sucker when the older sibling got a bowl of ice cream. With cherries.  ;D

Good work man, this is useful and you have provided value to the community. Post me a donation address when you get a chance please.


~Green

Awesome work, cedivad, hat off!

But why using a commercial software?
This would render more difficult a possible (official) switch to this new board, I suppose.

I would be happy to gift a license along with my help if an official switch were to happen. Non commercial forum boards are mostly bogus, lacking features, and non maintained. Almost nothing can compete with the features and code quality of this board (that btw was created by Kier Darby, ex lead developer of vBulletin).

So the answer is simply "Why Not?" ;)
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #849sSjIyS04BvoRH

I just poked about bitcointa.lk and it's pretty fast and very slick.  Very impressive. I'll be watching..

Yay, a proper forum interface.
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #enorel3rZ5YDkWKp

please add the last post on thread function.

If by last post of the thread you mean the first unread message (there is an extensive db side read tracking system), you should click the blue icon left of the thread title. You might need to be logged in for this function to work.

https://i.imgur.com/naCRioz.png

You can also find a "Go to First Unread" link inside the thread navigation. Unread posts are also marked as "New":

https://i.imgur.com/qiT0IQr.png

Btw, it looks like that the images proxy server @ Bitcointalk.org is currently down. You can check the thread on Bitcointa.lk (https://bitcointa.lk/threads/bitcointa-lk-the-bitcointalk-community-with-a-2014-forum-software.281718/page-2#post-5559428) to see them (we have an images proxy server as well there ;))
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #r7xrvtUp29FL32NC

Just curious, how u managed to get them in sync?

A set of web crawlers i wrote. Nothing special (someone asked if i have a backdoor in the Bitcointalk.org database server... Well, no, but it would be handy :))
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #8mVBrycEgnkC7ZZs

That's cool!

I told you that I went to school with somebody that looked like you. (Indiana)

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSTYpW8yJoz461b3vzFY38nWIL5TvruxCaVLSdlQL8zilJoIOjc https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7204/13346850194_19bdb60aef_o.jpg

Changelog for today.

1) Fixed the non parsed urls; urls to matched content on bitcointalk.org/bitcoin.org are now converted to the proper page on Bitcointa.lk. (Example) (https://bitcointa.lk/threads/payment-server.25/)
2) Bitcointa.lk can now be used to send post with special/accented characters. (Example) (https://bitcointa.lk/threads/bitcointa-lk-problema-s-kodirovkoj.286194/#post-5598777)

The next on the todo is checking how posts are modified and removed on Bitcointalk.org to sync that as well.
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #Txh3CN06iKrcf9o8

This looks really nice.

Obviously it's 10x better then the .org theme, but you should modernize the XenForo default theme.

Send me a PM if you need help.  :)

Thank you, but i think the design to be fine for now. I'm working under the hood, if we grow enough to require a quality and custom design, it will be in the future.

I got inspired yesterday and i finished the history thing this morning...
3 example previews on imgur: http://imgur.com/wTvH0B6,HiKVu7M,A4DmNyD (http://imgur.com/wTvH0B6,HiKVu7M,A4DmNyD)

https://i.imgur.com/HiKVu7M.png

I'm quite happy with the results. (i will release this feature in few days, i need to play with some permissions).

Requests on what to do next? (i have my plans, but maybe the community has better ideas)

:)
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #T7NX2Pem3yRcXSzC

respect

I just wanted to say thank you to theymos for having decided to ban our crawler twice during the last 12 hours.

Thank you, theymos.
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #zVLYbY4xqc1tjOKy

Can't say I'm that surprised, but it's a shame to see such a good project be hamstrung.

Maybe make it request every 5 seconds?

It looks like that the bans are automatic, and that something changed yesterday that broke the crawlers that were working fine since a month.
If that is the case, there won't be any problem but a momentary one :)
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #cRv7AQPa5tFOaBz5

Is there a way to import my Watchlist to Bitcointa.lk?

No, but expect it soon (1 day).

If you visit the "browser extension" page with the browser extension installed you will see a list of things you can import, such as like your ignored users, watchlist, etc. I was lazy so i only coded the interface and the browser extension part of it. I still have to code my server side.
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #jNWlq7lTM2DDfVAh

Wow, this is really great! ;D
I'd be happy to help texture the forum, and including historical posts (back to 2009) would be pretty cool!

Do you mean something like the first thread satoshi did in this forum (https://bitcointa.lk/threads/welcome-to-the-new-bitcoin-forum.2/)? :)

I have to admit that it was interesting to see it while the posts were being downloaded chronologically.

It would be awesome to have a "wayback machine" feature to show for example what the forum was talking about the first of april 2010

:)
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #rYwUGDDlNUSTXDKj

Oh.. Lol...
https://i.imgur.com/KdA4oT1.png
By that feature you mean show posts in order by last updated up until a certain date, as they'd have appeared live at that time? Because that's something I'd also love to see. ;)

Indeed, a member is using bitcointa.lk to show proofs of delete messages here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=548245.msg5971689#msg5971689 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=548245.msg5971689#msg5971689)

BTW, nice service, thank you Cedivad!

This is very difficult to get my head around all this. Theymos, with enough bitcoin to equal I think in the millions of dollars has asked for help on creating new software and updated the database. Then for whatever reason, just sat on it and did nothing about it. Literally years went by with many offers to create not only a custom forum but a brand new one. One that was never used before. Funds was not the problem, but unfortunately I think greed got in the way and he couldn't part with 1 bitcoin. My guess, is soon as you start to get donations, more and more donations and theymos hears about this your crawlers will be shut down %100. This forum is a money making honey hole for the site operator that refuses to update the forum software.

Theymos seems to act respectfully for now. Sure, he is a bit upset for the crawlers, but who wouldn't?
https://bitcointa.lk/threads/bitcointa-lk-what-is-it.288458/page-2#post-5642191 (https://bitcointa.lk/threads/bitcointa-lk-what-is-it.288458/page-2#post-5642191)
I'm monitoring the requests/second and i'm trying to optimise it, to see if i can make space to sync removed/modified posts as well.

I don't plan on starting to accept donations, but i would like to code an advertising system and launch it when we reach 10k pageviews per day :)
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #k3E7QDUZNR74h8wh

Feature request: a link to the original thread/post on this site, when it exists.

(I understand that all threads here get replicated there but the inverse is not possible, is it right?)

It is possible. But i don't want to put a link every page.
We can do something like:
https://bitcointa.lk/threads/bitcointa-lk-the-bitcointalk-community-with-a-2014-forum-software.281718/page-3#post-5710434 (https://bitcointa.lk/threads/bitcointa-lk-the-bitcointalk-community-with-a-2014-forum-software.281718/page-3#post-5710434)
=>
https://bitcointa.lk/ (https://bitcointa.lk/)org/threads/bitcointa-lk-the-bitcointalk-community-with-a-2014-forum-software.281718/page-3#post-5710434
Redirecting to .org
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #fnnucySVyM46T3Je

That would be nice, and I don't see the problem of having a link in every page.

Other problems I'm seeing for example going to https://bitcointa.lk/index.php?topic=549112.0 :

- text inside <pre> tags does not get correctly rendered

- the breadcrumbs (path to forums) should be:
while on bitcointa.lk I see:

1) pre: the guy posted raw html content and later converted it to bbcode, however the edits weren't imported on bitcointa.lk because of the robot access speed limitations theymos is imposing. I will get around it.
2) the thread was initially posted on Bitcoin Discussion and later moved to Alt. Cc. The crawler uses the original forum. (another thing to fix).
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #waDddtlF35ojJRCQ

This new place already feels so much better.
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #NtHShqY5lftRVd8N

And we are now at 100 linked users in 20 days. Awesome! :)
I will have some time to work on this project starting on the 10th of April (by some time i really mean "some" time). If you have some important feature you would like to be added, apart from the bugs described above, let me know :)
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #12BJ7U9ZZPiHavIn

This is neat did not notice this was around until Friedcat made a post then deleted it so I thought it was just an archive site and not a renovated 2.0 forum now I look forward to seeing it grow

I have a problem when trying to install the extension.

Some days ago I linked my account, but just today I installed the Chrome extension. Then I went to https://bitcointa.lk/pages/browser-extension/, but it says
Clicking Refresh does nothing.

When I try to link my account again, it says that
which makes sense.

I'm doing all this logged in as R2D221 in bitcointa.lk (I can be sure because I can see my name in the top right corner, and my photo in the menu that pops).

It's a cache error.

#1 try to click "Refresh" a few times, until the text changes to "loading". If it does and you are logged in on Bitcointalk.org/lk, the error should disappear.
#2 always while logged in, disable and re enable the extension.

I'm sorry for this problem. The project is growing and i should use more time improving it.
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #R33F1rPWZGvuWFqv

OK, I think it's fixed now.
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #7aD687Ytr5pPGjBM

Just FYI, for the second day in a row our crawler got banned at around 4AM GMT. Just fixed it. However somehow a new bug was introduced and we lost the posts from 4AM up to now.
Something changed, because this kind of problems were handled properly before.

Again, I'm sorry for those disrupts in the service.
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #1bIJ6DoTeF5eUzOs

I liked the idea, but...XenForo. I dislike XenForo massively.

I'm sorry to hear that, is there a specific reason? Just out of curiosity, because the overwhelming majority likes it :)
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #LdpyLzRFpcqjLcHA

For me, XenForo misses a lot of my beloved features and mods. That's basically it, I could stand it if it had mods say bringing it closer to vBulletin or MyBB, but if it does I rarely see them used.

Using this now. Considering I love XenForo more than SMF, this is great. :) Great job!
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #PAMKwrQAVHYQJhAc

Great mobile experience so far, I'm only missing an iOS home screen icon.

Will add it :)
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #Iy0oPUKu9trbQZ3C

I am having issues with syncing:
https://i.imgur.com/QgKdHSo.png
When I click import, the button turns gray and it is not imported.
Also where is the number of posts on the new forum,  I liked that.
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #vHBkVwT1bSdjC1Ob

Yes, it's a rushed feature that is finished client side (extension side) but was never coded on my side. I need to fix that.

The number of posts is visible in home on the right sidebar, there is also a per-forum counter in the forum list.

When I buy items on this forum I want to see if this someone has just made a new account or is a long term member.
Now I have to click on the name and check their posts, but ideally I would see it right under their profile picture.
But that is just my opinion.

No, you are completely right. However trying to detect scammer is slightly more complicated than that. If you click on the user profile, the informations are loaded using ajax, so you won't have to load another page. Registration date, posts, activity, all there. Also, the activity is used to generate custom user names (as in this forum). Use that as a first filter :)
I will try to make some additional informations appear under the avatar/userbit of the post, but I also want to keep it as clean as possible.

Just released what Bitcointa.lk is lol...I thought it was some sort of cached/archived version of this site (and I know now to a degree it is) - anyway just signed up and wont need to bother using this old version anymore.

Nice work!

Is there any way to increase the number of posts per page? I'd like to be able to set it to 100 posts per page so I can just scroll instead of having to find the 'next page' button which is very annoying.

Btw, you should change the forum name to Bitcointalk 2.0 ;)

I'm sorry, but that's global setting. It would have sense to have it, I agree. There is probably a mod for that. I've a list of things to do on Bitcointa.lk that I've delayed for a while, however I'm gonna catch up.

Soon as you attract too much attention, Theymos will disconnect you some how. He's had the resources and plenty of of years to upgrade the bitcointalk.org site to a premier site with awesome, custom software.

Is there a lag? I posted something on the main site and still waiting for it to show up here, 10-15 minutes has gone by.

It's not a lag, it's a problem, unfortunately. I'm looking into it right now. There is a backlog of around 4500 posts.

You should add features that aren't available in the current forum (thanks button, tipping etc)

I doubt it. Theymos & crew have wanted to get rid of this forum altogether for ages. Though at the same time, if this forum wasn't here BC talk would have a lot less traffic lol

Definitely, even if it's just something simple that functions like the Reddit tip bot.
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #CpTGY2TG10ecMfBJ

Posted this in Meta, but was advised to post this here. Thanks in advance for any help!

Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #bjqOBvgjd6imNIrV

Yes, XenForo doesn't support tables by default, however there are some mods for it. I will implement it in a few days, along with almost everything what was proposed here (that I delayed for a lack of time) ;)
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #pReyOXq5lS0vHjct

Awesome! More people need to use Bitcointa.lk
We need more profile pictures! (:

Done. It's now possible to switch back to Bitcointalk.org adding "org/" just after bitcointa.lk on the url, or by clicking the ".org Version" button in the footer of some pages (every thread, forum, user page and the home).

https://i.imgur.com/DdMUk5n.png

(more features and bug fixes coming soon, hopefully)

Tables are also working (both ways, tables on Bitcointalk.org are now synched and not ignored):

The only unfortunate detail is that the mod uses TH as a table header field and SMF does not, so we can't take advantage of that.

https://i.imgur.com/gPNHkyL.png
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #x0pbbb2XUqrq1kQP

The "thanks" button is already there (default for xenforo), the tipping function is not there though. I've tried to contact the changetip guys, if they have time to lose for a small market maybe we will get our tipping function :)

Awesome! Very quick updates.  8)

Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #Tp66u8KWxCD5nN5y

is it maybe possible to make a link converter.
for example:

-insert https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=515932.msg7025439#msg7025439 in link converter on bitcointa.lk
-get referred to the new forum link on bitcointa.lk

Just replace "bitcointalk.org" with "bitcointa.lk" in the url, press enter and you will get your url converted.
You can do the opposite by adding "org/" to bitcointa.lk and you will be redirected back to bitcointalk.org :)

Alrighty!, didn't try that before.
Thanks

Looks like Bitcointa.lk is running on XenForo. Is there any free version available of this forum software like phpBB ?

No, there is no "free" version of XenForo.

The Firefox extension is no longer on their market, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bitcointalk/

I wonder what their reason for removing it was
Interested in what Firefox devs have against it myself

Not sure. Hopefully it's not because it's Bitcoin related.

It's because I was injecting some really dangerous code via a variable... That was sanitised using parseInt: (if someone doesn't understand it, it's irony, the code was perfectly safe, but the reviewed didn't think so)
https://github.com/cedivad/bitcointa.lk/blob/master/firefox/data/global.js#L19

I just have to repack it in a way that fits their guidelines and upload it again, sorry. (You can however still download the .xpi from GitHub).

Oh, makes sense. Thanks

Any update?

Password recovery feature seems to be broken.

Doing it today. Edit, done.

Fixed. I'm afraid I just sent out the entire email backlog. (I forgot to add postfix to the default initd).

It looks better, but still horrible.

Good job anyway!

Add better mobile support pls. Cant send pm's or make posts

Browser extensions are only supported by Firefox mobile or some weird browser like that. I would need to publish an app for that, it would take a lot of work, and you would most probably have to trust me on the code because you couldn't review it.

Just from a web developer's point of view: isn't there still the problem of duplicate content and thus Google massively downrating your forums (or maybe even both)?

Google shouldn't have any problem handling this kind of duplicate content. What I noticed is that some content that has not been indexed on Bitcointalk.org was on Bitcointa.lk. I'm talking about old content, mostly. So no damage done.

Meh, i'm fine either way, i'll trust you xD

Something is down:

I.e.:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104664.0
Last post: June 27, 2014, 07:05:36 PM

https://bitcointa.lk/threads/btc-mining-pools-list.64010/
Last post: Jun 17, 2014

I've just noticed it, well done :)

Is there any way to put the ".org Version" link somewhere else than the footer. Maybe put another one underneath the thread title?

EDIT: There seems to also be an issue with quoted URLS:
http://i.gyazo.com/e0041a319f2d9fd2e8fe54bd5283e209.gif (http://i.gyazo.com/e0041a319f2d9fd2e8fe54bd5283e209.gif)
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #jnmBf6I0cxqcakPn

First - hats off @cedivad - I love using the bitcointa.lk version of the forum.

I am wondering - is it just me - or is there some issue with it at the moment. I'm seeing all threads as "last updated Tuesday 10:30am-ish" - so several days ago now.

It's like it has stopped syncing. I've tried logging out / logging in and several different browsers. Can't think of anything else to try my side.

Hopefully it's an easy fix!

Thanks again

The site are link to bitcointalk . org ?

I'm sorry, but I won't have a computer for the next 10 days. I will try to fix it from a phone, but that won't exactly be an easy thing.

Noticed that nothing has gotten posted to the forums I'm watching since ~ July 8th, so something has botched the sync. I really appreciate bitcointa.lk and hope it gets fixed. Thanks.

That's true, I deleted some of my posts here 10 days ago but they still exist at bitcointa.lk

Seems the main user "bitcointa.lk" has stopped crawling the site and isn't even active on the BitcoinTa.lk forums.

https://i.imgur.com/Vp7xwl6.png

Seeing the user back on should be the first sign that the forum is back up.

No, the bitcointa.lk user is simply my admin account. It has nothing to do with the crawling (its only used to verify linked accounts via pm).
I think to have it up and running again by the 22 night (afternoon for you Americans). Sorry again.

Awesome. Looking forward to it coming back up. You don't have to apologize though. You are offering this as a free service with no restrictions. No one should have expectations of any sorts. Keep up the good work :)

Looks like it's down again?

honestly i like the interface and experience of this one ... i dont like how .lk looks / feels

Has been since when I went on holiday the first time this summer. I've yet to catch up with things.

Might be a good time to fix it with all the legal action going on.

best thing about bitcointa.lk forum is we can see deleted post from this forum there :)
hmm i see link account feature. can i link my account and post there?
after that my post will appear in this forum?

Well it is not really good ... even if you will delete your message for some reason (your BTC address or something else)  people are still able to see it on Bitcointa.lk...

This feature is in my opinion not really good.

Also I very don't like the way in which Bitcointa.lk is designed ...

I like the way in which bitcointalk.org is looking and that's all.

Kind regards.

The (now most probably broken) link account feature would allow you to literally link the two accounts, as in, verify that you own the .org account you are linking from, and do a couple of interesting things like using .org from .lk, with a browser extension posting the same messsages on .org for you.

I will put a look into those issues. It has been too long.

Wow, nice job... I've only just checked out bitcointa.lk.

If you can get the linking working I'll get on it. (Yes, it looks like it is still broken at the moment)

Integrating bitcointa.lk to my account here always seems to take forever.
Kindly make it faster, i think it will be better.

Well, yes, it's probably gonna take a little bit short of forever until when I decide to fix it.

(Sorry, but I have other priorities. I will finish this other project I'm working on sooner or later).

Could also fix these SSL problems https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=bitcointa.lk
LibreSSL works well with Ubuntu as a drop in replacement if that's your server software https://github.com/libressl-portable/portable just build the official tarball, make install and don't even need to edit nginx configuration since Libre ripped out all insecure ciphers and SSLv3.

Thank you, it was really a painless process.

Leaving deleted information is not optimal, but everyone should take care with any information they post online. Assume that everything you do is recorded in one way or another.

Cedivad, what's going on with Bitcointa.lk? I can't find any new topics since October :(

Just curious if this site is still working
See some topics from November but not sure on the dating system
https://bitcointa.lk/forums/meta.48/

Example meta is in august etc.

I'd hate to revive an old thread but it seems that Bitcointa.lk is no longer being maintained. As others have said, the latest posts have inconsistent dates with some boards showing that the newest topics were made in August 2014 while others showing January 2015. I never used it as my primary forum but after the recent BCT downtime and loss of posts, I figured a mirror is always nice to have.

Also, the site brings up a "This Connection Is Untrusted" error when opening for the first time:

http://s14.postimg.org/m0s7zl0vl/zzzz.png

Clicking on "I Understand the Risks" lets you access the forum but it could still turn a lot of people away. There doesn't seem to be a non-https version.

The SSL certificate expired and I didn't have time or will to update it yet. And no, the project is not dead. I'm waiting for thermos and his move, that should be here by now (since that it was promised by the end of February).

BTW, if you didnt know, cloudflare is giving out free ssl.

Yeah, free out the NSA headquarters.

Keep in mind that you still need an additional certificate because the traffic is only encrypted up to the point of CloudFlare's servers ;)

Yeah, but someone would have to hack cloudflares servers to be able to access the data right? (or your server).

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2013/06/prism-slide-5_2-660x495.jpg

And btw, usually in their setups the client to cloudflare communications are encrypted, but the cloudflare to backend ones are not. So it's basically only making it simpler for the government to listen to it, by centralising it.

Any updates?

I am interested in whether the project is still running
I see a working read-only archive but not aware of what components are functioning and which are defunct.

The read only archive is the only thing left, I was hoping to generate interest to have people post in the "local" categories, but I think that bitcoin.com/bitco.in are already funnelling the users interested in a better forum and even if they are not doing a perfect job it's still probably a bad idea to compete.

If anyone is interested in anything else/has any ideas please just let me know.

Is it completely dead or what?

What is the point of archiving all of the old threads?

It's useful if bitcointalk goes temporarily offline as it occasionally does, and you want to refer to something in an old thread. The information available on bitcointalk is valuable, and it's good to have a backup.

I have someone who has posted misleading and personal information about me on the site which is linked to bitcointa.lk as revenge for a miner which I returned to them after buying from them.
How can that potentially dangerous information be deleted? Any help would be appreciated.

Can you help me with taking down a misleading thread about my personal information? Thanks!

Just PM me.

Shit just noticed it's gone. :(

SMF4Forum. Could buy a theme for $25/yr ?

Seems like a reasonable subscription price to pay for mobile friendly rendering...

https://smfmobile.com/

Yeah, I was somewhat saddened by this. Loved this site as an alternative UI.

I would like to put this back online adding some sort of "time machine" feature so that you can select a date (say, January 2012) and surf the forum at that time. I don't think I have posts after 2015 archived but it wouldn't matter as it's all scams nowadays and the SNR is just terrible.

What's the last date of the last post archived. The site has been taken down totally correct?