Is bitcointalk preparing for 100 million users as bitcoin grows?

[boyptc]

Whether this forum will reach 100 million members or not. Still there is a new forum software that is waiting for us and that will make this forum upgrade. And with your concerns that's the job of mods.

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[mtwelve]

Whether this forum will reach 100 million members or not. Still there is a new forum software that is waiting for us and that will make this forum upgrade. And with your concerns that's the job of mods.

Agreed. We've been waiting for a new software update /visual UI overhaul/upgrades in general for a long time. While it seems to be reliable and work with minimal latency for me, Bitcointalk is starting to show its age and there's no guarantee the current implementations would be able to handle more users. Once that's achieved, I think we can start looking for more staff members, or do both simultaneously.

[stephanirain]

Whether this forum will reach 100 million members or not. Still there is a new forum software that is waiting for us and that will make this forum upgrade. And with your concerns that's the job of mods.

Agreed. We've been waiting for a new software update /visual UI overhaul/upgrades in general for a long time. While it seems to be reliable and work with minimal latency for me, Bitcointalk is starting to show its age and there's no guarantee the current implementations would be able to handle more users. Once that's achieved, I think we can start looking for more staff members, or do both simultaneously.

If ever that might happen, I would stick in Bitcointalk since it's the simplest forum I've seen. Addtionaly, this site is designed to for a long time purposes. As Bitcoin exist, Bitcointalk must be there to guide newbies and other concerns.

[LeGaulois]

Bitcointalk is far to have 100 millions users and won't happen. So far, never i have meet any forum with 100 millions members. With currently +900k members, many of them are inactives, as said by someone, and many are alt accounts. I see about daily people obviously using an alt account here trying to cheat guys from campaigns. Sometime the forum is very slow, so imagine with just 1% of 100 millions users are active daily, we are going to see the usual "503 too much busy" very often 

[cpfreeplz]

Whether this forum will reach 100 million members or not. Still there is a new forum software that is waiting for us and that will make this forum upgrade. And with your concerns that's the job of mods.

Agreed. We've been waiting for a new software update /visual UI overhaul/upgrades in general for a long time. While it seems to be reliable and work with minimal latency for me, Bitcointalk is starting to show its age and there's no guarantee the current implementations would be able to handle more users. Once that's achieved, I think we can start looking for more staff members, or do both simultaneously.

Can Theymos even afford more staff though? It doesn't nessicarily work where more users are signed up so you can afford more staff members. It depends on his current cashflow.

[oktana]

1. where there will be millions of legendary and hero applying for a campaign.

Because these forums allow registration of more than one account, too many accounts with high ranks in future is not balanced with potential emergence of limited signature campaign. This is serious problem for future of bitcointalk. Increased competition, new players will not be able to join in signature campaign, because it was preceded by multi-account controlled by senior players. Tracking multiple accounts will not provide significant solutions, as long as these forums allow multi-account, if five accounts could be caught, it will be born 500 new accounts on the same day.

3. where there will be lots of stupid threads and spaming

If signature campaign manager requires participants to post a lot of things in a week. The more the required number of posts, will only add spam in multiple threads. They are not thought to create a new quality thread, but choose to kill a lot of thread with necromancy pattern and "beating a dead horse"

[boyptc]

Whether this forum will reach 100 million members or not. Still there is a new forum software that is waiting for us and that will make this forum upgrade. And with your concerns that's the job of mods.

Agreed. We've been waiting for a new software update /visual UI overhaul/upgrades in general for a long time. While it seems to be reliable and work with minimal latency for me, Bitcointalk is starting to show its age and there's no guarantee the current implementations would be able to handle more users. Once that's achieved, I think we can start looking for more staff members, or do both simultaneously.

Those additional staff members will depend to theymos or if there's a need for sure they will take action for it. And I'm very excited with the new forum software that we will use.

[BillyBobZorton]

1. where there will be millions of legendary and hero applying for a campaign.

Because these forums allow registration of more than one account, too many accounts with high ranks in future is not balanced with potential emergence of limited signature campaign. This is serious problem for future of bitcointalk. Increased competition, new players will not be able to join in signature campaign, because it was preceded by multi-account controlled by senior players. Tracking multiple accounts will not provide significant solutions, as long as these forums allow multi-account, if five accounts could be caught, it will be born 500 new accounts on the same day.

3. where there will be lots of stupid threads and spaming

If signature campaign manager requires participants to post a lot of things in a week. The more the required number of posts, will only add spam in multiple threads. They are not thought to create a new quality thread, but choose to kill a lot of thread with necromancy pattern and "beating a dead horse"

That is not a non issue. As bitcoin grows, more services will demand people to promote their website through signature campaigns. So yes, there will be more Legendary members around, but there will be way more new businesses and websites using the signature campaign method to drive traffic onto their websites in order to rank better in google (so this means more opportunities for new people to get in a campaign and start making their firsts satoshis in a way that is less depressing than the pathetic amounts faucets give you).

Let the market decide, let's not add regulations specially in a forum about bitcoin.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

100 million forum members, I think it's only theorical thing. Until now, bitcointalk have less than million registered users, and half of these users didn't made single post. I predict that real number of active bitcointalk users is around 100k people.
If bitcoin community will grow, it doesn't means that all these people will use bitcointalk. Not everyone is interested in discussions, signature campaign, spamming, ranting and etc. They only will use bitcoin as a currency.
But if forum community will grow, bitcointalk will need for more staff to control everything.

I doubt it's even close to 100k unique members.  There are so many farmed accounts and alts, that I wouldn't be surprised if there are only a few thousand members.   100 million?   Yeah, it'd be a huge shit show at that point, but that's not going to happen.  I don't know any forum that can boast that many members.   I do think we need a new ranking system,  because pretty soon the legendary tag is going to be meaningless.

[mtwelve]

100 million forum members, I think it's only theorical thing. Until now, bitcointalk have less than million registered users, and half of these users didn't made single post. I predict that real number of active bitcointalk users is around 100k people.
If bitcoin community will grow, it doesn't means that all these people will use bitcointalk. Not everyone is interested in discussions, signature campaign, spamming, ranting and etc. They only will use bitcoin as a currency.
But if forum community will grow, bitcointalk will need for more staff to control everything.

I doubt it's even close to 100k unique members.  There are so many farmed accounts and alts, that I wouldn't be surprised if there are only a few thousand members.   100 million?   Yeah, it'd be a huge shit show at that point, but that's not going to happen.  I don't know any forum that can boast that many members.   I do think we need a new ranking system,  because pretty soon the legendary tag is going to be meaningless.

Why do you say that? It still takes a while to build up to legendary status, taking me over a year on this account. There should be like a little insignia, colored coin, etc which indicates that like you were a member of this forum before this date (perhaps before the next block halvening) or something like that to distinguish "early adopters/ early mainstream" vs mainstream audience.

[chixka000]

100 million forum members, I think it's only theorical thing. Until now, bitcointalk have less than million registered users, and half of these users didn't made single post. I predict that real number of active bitcointalk users is around 100k people.
If bitcoin community will grow, it doesn't means that all these people will use bitcointalk. Not everyone is interested in discussions, signature campaign, spamming, ranting and etc. They only will use bitcoin as a currency.
But if forum community will grow, bitcointalk will need for more staff to control everything.

Right there were actually bitcoin users who does not care of joining into forum. You can only see few forum that has millions of users (eg. Reddit and stockoverflow) which is covering a different niche.

[cramcram21]

Yeah I am pretty curious about this stuff,
So if the bitcointalk have 100 million users then there would be a plenty of campaigns right,
I mean there would still be a campaign for all of the active user's.