So we should add this to the spec for the new forum software:

• No zero-day exploits and/or architecture which makes it easy and fast to patch such exploits

What will this prototype actually do?

Obviously.

I'm curious how much actual "tipping" goes on in the forums and the bitcoin community in general.  Have you tipped?  Been tipped?  Not been tipped?

Please choose one option from the "soliciting" options and one from the "giving" options.


edit: sorry, I decided to add a couple more options, so I hope I didn't screw up the choices of whoever voted while I was doing that.

No, of course it's not easy.  But this community is made of highly competent people, many of whom are developers, some of which already have experience hacking on forum software.  So I think we have a leg up there.  Nobody said we're going to make something better than vBulletin in a short amount of time.  We'll make something more targeted to the features we want, instead of compromising by using off-the-shelf stuff that lacks certain things (why do you think this thread was started?  because there exists no forum software that has it all).  You start small, with a core set of features, and you make changes incrementally.  You write the code in a way that is extremely easy to modify, just as specified in the OP, so that you can make complex changes without much trouble.


So we should implement those features.

The point is not to catch up with them, but to implement the specific features you want.  Those systems are behemoths with all manner of silly features and plugins.

We have many very very experienced people here, as you can see by looking at the development forum.


If you read the spec in the OP, it explicitly says "well-optimized", so I think that's covered.  And adding memcache to a site for additional performance is trivial.

Absolutely necessary?  Maybe not.  A good way to get the features you want?  Definitely.  If you have hard and very specific requirements, no off-the-shelf software is going to meet them all.  Custom development is the way to go, and there are plenty of people here who have the skill to implement a simple message board system, as well as plenty of people here willing to donate to the cause.

To that end, I have set up this donation address for some of the project costs: 1H43Z8YHwn7bX67T5eNzwbGRcFATExr7am.  If you support this effort, please give whatever you can.  My first order of business will be to commission a logo.  Does anyone want to throw their hat in the ring for CEO?

...it would automatically send the "sorry, we don't have enough money to pay out your winnings" messages?

I stand corrected... your second transaction.  Good to hear.


Well, if you want the truth, I think it's kind of important for anyone considering whether to frequent your online casino to know the history.  I certainly wouldn't trust you to pay out any winnings after that sad showing in the other thread.

Did you by any chance read the thread about logansryche's miserable failure at running a trading card store, which involved the only sale he ever made going south because he didn't actually have the merchandise, and he didn't have enough cash on hand to process a refund (which would have been about $10)?

What's stopping you from starting to build it now before getting a domain name like a normal person would?

Yes, there are far more important things to do, such as naming a CEO, coming up with logos, deciding whether your bevy of programmers should use web 2.0 or web 3.0 technology (I suggest 3.0), setting up a forum, ordering up business cards, designing some "under construction" graphics, "hiring" a VP of Marketing (working for equity only, of course), writing up a mission statement, ordering a copy of "PHP Illuminated", etc etc

The deal is set, isn't it?  Why the bump?

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This is snarky but valid feedback, Atlas.  The way you write makes you sound like you're emulating someone who's prone to flowery, absolutist, and grandiose language (and I think we know who that is), but that you don't have enough experience with the way people actually talk to pull it off.

edit: You can point to Stephen Fry's argument about creative use of language all you want, and it has validity, but at some point you're just using it as a crutch for ignorance, not creativity.  If someone said "I is good with langwidge" and then trotted out Stephen Fry, claiming it was perfectly clear what they meant, we'd call that person an idiot.

What Silver? LTD Inc.

Counting people who don't show up is a clever angle.  I got a B in Differential Equations, but I'm in the 99th percentile if you count all the people who didn't even take the class!

I'll go 50% over asking if I can pay in McDonald's gift certificates.  Logansryche, you haven't indicated whether you're even considering it.  Should I quit offering?

Is there some reason you want it in BTC, but you set the price using a USD-to-BTC conversion tool so the actual BTC amount changes dynamically?  Would you just accept $12.10 for it?