Migration testing ended up running an import script on the server ended up taking up way too much resources on the server. We are figuring out a better way to not starve the production box. This wasn't because of a DDOS.

It's coming. Data migration + server ops setup these days.

It's really up to the owner. A good reason is maybe for people to actually come to the site and not have unauthorized 3rd parties syndicate content?

API's will probably not be public unless given a good reason to be.

Will be providing them towards the end of the month.

The public beta is scheduled for the end of the year. Check out our progress here: https://github.com/epochtalk

Seems like this shouldn't be a problem in the upcoming beta.

Size isn't an issue. However maybe usernames with 0 posts for a certain amount of time automatically gets deleted from the system. Big names like Twitter is guilty of not doing this. -_-

All existing accounts with content will be saved. I'm not sure what should happen with accounts with no content yet.

Thanks for the heads up. This is a bug in the existing SMF system and we won't make the same mistake. It's also ridiculous because of the lack of references to the actual version and the quote is a literal copy/paste action automation.

Design is a huge effort in itself in terms of UI/UX. We will be open to suggestions once we have a public version out.

Noted, thanks for clearing that up jackjack! Multi-deletion should be no problem.

Confused about this as well. What is the purpose? How is it different from deleting an individual's posts?

There are no plans to change hosting providers.

^this is definitely going to be a priority feature once we get our notification stuff going. I'd personally like this feature as well!

Currently getting kinks out in our importer for this SMF 1.x version of the forum with fixes from Satoshi and Theymos. Update on our progress:

Epochtalk Core's imported size uncompressed for bitcointalk.org: ~12GB

Modules:

- core - LevelDB based messaging platform built from the ground up.
- api - HAPI based Node.js HTTP interface.
- frontend - Angular, Browserify.
- admin - Admin tool for community admins and developers.
- messaging - Under development, for direct messaging.

Will be providing a mirror of the forum in read-only state for the time being after importer kinks are knocked out. The purpose will be to improve until production ready (especially for security). Great job and thanks to the community for all your help and contributions in the forum. Hopefully we can gain more steam on Github once we have it deployed so we can garner more interest. Things are moving quickly so keep updated on this forum and Github!

Collaboration on Github: https://github.com/epochtalk

I'm very glad that people are looking forward to the new forum. The Alpha-Preview should be up by the end of the month as planned. Our team is working very hard. Development is happening everyday on Github.

Interesting idea. It'd take a bit to get going on mobile. But this is definitely useful.

Github does this so I'm not against this.

Could be ok if it's simple like Github's ones. Not sure how to make this feature elegant otherwise.