Dear mods: It is my understanding that I'm allowed to bump my own thread once every 24 hrs, as long as its subject remains unresolved.
Kindly refrain from deleting posts you feel are too terse/you do not like/don't understand.
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-Half of the posts don't display: http://s30.postimg.org/yrzysgeg1/Capture.png
-Search doesn't work.
-quotes/links in messages 404.
-database doesn't synch.
-text doesn't parse right in editor.
TL;DR: unusable as forum software. As expected.
OIC.

Happy New Year

So, by "using it now," you meant what, exactly? Databases aren't synched, most of the stuff doesn't work, most of the posts don't display, so useless for its intended purpose. What were you doing with it?

1. "if I missed the 2 million dollar beta" != 2 million dollars is missing. Parsing error.
2. Been covered, start here.

Yeah, just fired it up in TOR browser. Feel sorry for competing forum software, almost unfair how good it is. Now I see where all the money went.



@knightdk: Create a new user, that works fine.

So. Lying through your teeth?

Sure. These things take time. Just checking in, seeing if I missed the 2 million dollar beta of our new bbs forum software.
Oh, since you're in the loop, how will the beta interact with this, the legacy forum? Share the database?

Happy New Year!

Not yet?

This thread isn't about theymos' skills as a project manager.

Imagine hiring a contractor to build you a bathroom.
Now imagine looking at the bill, and learning that 2.3 million dollars of your money went to a company called 'Sewage,' to design and build a toilet seat. From scratch.

Q: Would your first thought be:
    a. "Why is my bathroom not finished yet"?
    b. "Perhaps hiring Sewage to designing a toilet seat from scratch wasn't such a smart idea."
    c. "Call me jaded, but there's something not right here.'
    d. "I wasn't doing anything with that 2.3 mill anyhow, maybe the toilet seat will be real nice when its done'

mexxer-2; XinXan: your catty, ad hominem and completely off-topic remarks -- that's trolling.

Had I claimed to be the owner of this website (or the king of Siam), and logged in from an account created last year, you mean? Yes, it would be hugely hypocritical.
I claim to be no one beyond Anon, so I guess the short answer is 'no.'

BTW, next time anyone tells you they own this forum (or the Brooklyn Bridge)? Consider not simply taking their word for it.

Because account is registered in 2014.
Because bitcoin.org != bitcointalk.org.
Because 'one of the administrators of bitcoin.org' != 'owner of bitcointalk.org.
Because posting from main account is not complicated.

Please post from your main account to confirm.

You know that copy of Windows for Workgroups you're still running, because the custom security patches you made would be a 'big pain in the ass' to port to Windows 8?
You know how you're writing your own OS from scratch, so you could use those security cludges you wrote?
Well, some claim you might be OK going with Windows 8, even tho

Are you a part of this private beta? Or just guessing with your caplock on?

Two and a half million dollars' worth of a pain in the ass?! This is just frickin' forum software, not rocket surgery.

So what you're telling me is it's easier to do everything from scratch? Easier than starting with hardened, updated & feature-enhanced version of current software, you say?
 
And though this forum has the functionality and looks of an off-the-shelf '09 SMF, theymos completely recoded the back end in hand-optimized assembler, counting clock cycles as he went along, and this '09 SMF is a sleeper with chained death under the hood, correct?

Look, I wanna believe you, but I don't. Because you'd be lying. Find it pretty insulting that you expect me to buy this "Theymos did important, complicated and dangerous stuffs you won't understand because scientific and dangerous, so don't ask!" shit.

Honest? More dangerous than running brand new software coded by dude calling himsel wangbus, who, btw, theymos never even met?
Intrigued, do tell me more.

When new software versions are released nowadays, some of the security holes from the previous versions often get (by oversight and due to shabby workmanship) omitted. Making them difficult, if not outright impossible, to 're-patch.'
Follow this links to SMF to learn the new shit that happened in the software world since '09.

I agree, changing from '09 version to a new major version, one which underwent an extra 7 years of development, might introduce some security vulnerabilities.

Good thing there's no chance of that happening with new software coded by (at best) an unknown company with no experience in coding forum software & beta tested by a handful of toadying yes-men

Not before the end of the month? 

I have no idea why it doesn't run on your box, because it's broken? I'm as trusting of this 'private beta' as I am of theymos honestly spending 2.3+ million dollars on new BBS forum software.

What could a screen cap possibly reveal that's not in the source code, exactly?
Why would an open source project be afraid to post screen caps?
How many layers of bullshit are you going to pile on here?

Not implying anything, Lauda -- telling you that you're lying like a rug.
You did not post a screenshot because you don't have it running on your box.
Just how credulous do you think I am?

>If I had the 'green light' to post a screenshot I would.

You clearly don't understand how open source software works, Secret Squirrel.
Also: Get better at lying, or stop embarrassing yourself.

Pains me to see you reduced to lying and toadying for the few crumbs which fall your way from theymos' table, Lauda.

Спасибо товарищу Сталину за наше счастливое детство!

Please feel free to describe the advantages of the new (as yet unfinished, $2.3 million dollar ++) software over SMF 2.0.11.

Also:
You can not possibly know how secure the new (unfinished and untested) software is.
You can not possibly know how how it will scale.
You can not possibly know what maintenance/community support will be

Also:

*but kudos for knowing who butters your bread.

Nobody needs "millions of dollars just sitting around." This doesn't imply that the only options are "flushing it down the toilet" or "spend it on re-writing existing, in all likelihood superior, and most of all *free,* software."

Also of note:

-After a 2.3-million-dollar expenditure, there is NO NEW FORUM SOFTWARE, better or worse than SMF 1.1.19, the six-year-old 2009 copy of SMF forum software bitcointalk is currently running. There's no product.
-Better forum software already exists, one example is called SMF 2.0.11. It's the Sept. 2015 update of SMF 1.1.19, the six-year-old 2009 copy of SMF forum software bitcointalk is currently running. It's tested, it works, and you can click here to download it for free.
-In the meantime, bitcointalk is still running the shitty six-year-old 2009 copy of SMF software. And will likely do so for the foreseeable future.

But this is all beside the point. The software is just a byproduct -- flotsam and jetsam -- neither here nor there. You know this as well as I do.

>What else was he supposed to do with the money exactly?
You're confused as to what should be done with $2.3 million one has no immediate use for?
You feel that it should be immediately flushed down the toilet? Have you considered *saving* it?

>Theymos owns the forum
No, theymos does not own this forum.
Theymos has never claimed to be the owner of this forum.
Theymos runs this forum, like a CEO runs a company.
The money was not donated to theymos, it was donated to bitcointalk.
When a CEO pockets corporate funds, it's called embezzlement, which is a bad thing.