[DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated

[FuzzyBear]

Hey all,

So coinzen is down but I setup http://devcointalk.org/index.php back in the day and still have all the forum data and everything so just pointed the domain back to my server.  Feel free to join there, I have even enabled a chatbox so you can talk in real time to each other 

Any issues etc please PM me, here to help

http://devcointalk.org/index.php

Fuzzybear

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[novacadian]

Don't know if it changes things, but pretty sure coinzen.org will be back in your hands very soon.

The current owner of the domain seems like a reasonable individual, and has agreed to release the domain upon settlement of some unfinished business. I have agreed to pay off what he feels is payment due him, and not sure how the domain transfer will get done, but pretty sure you'll have the domain back in just a few days.

He also asked if you need a disk image in order to restore the forum. If so, he'll get that for you as well.

TT

This is odd TT as after exchanging emails with the administrative address they said they were planning to put it up in an auction. If they have a disk image then it would appear you have been talking to tenthirtyone about it? BTW, a backup from 2015-08-15 is available. That was almost the last day up by my reconning.

Personally the idea of a rebranding using forum.devcoin.org would be my preference. We could start with the backup to ensure we have everyone's account and then let ashleysly loose with a makeover. The plan was to focus on all things DevCoin, only, so the CoinZen is kind of misleading.

CoinZen.org would be handy to redirect traffic, though, as there are loads of links out there that could get clicked on.

Just my 2 shatoshi worth.

- Nova

[Edit : s/devcoin.com/devcoin.org/ ]

[Tsquared]

Don't know if it changes things, but pretty sure coinzen.org will be back in your hands very soon.

The current owner of the domain seems like a reasonable individual, and has agreed to release the domain upon settlement of some unfinished business. I have agreed to pay off what he feels is payment due him, and not sure how the domain transfer will get done, but pretty sure you'll have the domain back in just a few days.

He also asked if you need a disk image in order to restore the forum. If so, he'll get that for you as well.

TT

This is odd TT as after exchanging emails with the administrative address they said they were planning to put it up in an auction. If they have a disk image then it would appear you have been talking to tenthirtyone about it? BTW, a backup from 2015-08-15 is available. That was almost the last day up by my reconning.

Personally the idea of a rebranding using forum.devcoin.org would be my preference. We could start with the backup to ensure we have everyone's account and then let ashleysly loose with a makeover. The plan was to focus on all things DevCoin, only, so the CoinZen is kind of misleading.

CoinZen.org would be handy to redirect traffic, though, as there are loads of links out there that could get clicked on.

Just my 2 shatoshi worth.

- Nova

[Edit : s/devcoin.com/devcoin.org/ ]

Completely agree. IMHO forum should be at forum.devcoin.org, and coinzen.org should redirect to it. There may be another purpose for coinzen.org. On the other hand, just because I don't see the reason for having the forum at coinzen.org, doesn't mean there isn't a good reason for doing so, and I'm not close enough to know much. so please take my opinion for what it's worth.

Anyway will PM details about the domain name.

TT

[FuzzyBear]

Just to say i've had a look round and the data was last collected off coinzen.org on the 1st August 2015 here https://web.archive.org/web/20150801091922/http://coinzen.org/

So i can grab the threads and conversations etc if needs be and import to http://devcointalk.org/ if this is what we want to do?? is more work so would rather have consensus from community as to where the new forum will be, as said before happy to run devcointalk on my server, have been running peercointalk for over 3 years now, no issues, nice community, good experience on keeping out spammers etc.

Just let me know what u think.

Also if anyone having sign up issues atm sorry, litterally just switched the forum back on last night and can see the email nameservers are not correct so confirmation emails will not have gone out.  I'll see if i can resolve this tonight.

Fuzzybear

[novacadian]

Just to say i've had a look round and the data was last collected off coinzen.org on the 1st August 2015 here https://web.archive.org/web/20150801091922/http://coinzen.org/

So i can grab the threads and conversations etc if needs be and import to http://devcointalk.org/ if this is what we want to do?? is more work so would rather have consensus from community as to where the new forum will be, as said before happy to run devcointalk on my server, have been running peercointalk for over 3 years now, no issues, nice community, good experience on keeping out spammers etc.

Just let me know what u think.

Also if anyone having sign up issues atm sorry, litterally just switched the forum back on last night and can see the email nameservers are not correct so confirmation emails will not have gone out.  I'll see if i can resolve this tonight.

Fuzzybear

The signup worked for me last night fine Fuzzybear.

Your standing up to the plate is really appreciated. Shattienator has prepped and is committed to put up the forum once we have decided on branding. It would be nice to bring him in as Forum Administrator due to his great skill with PHP projects in the past as well as offering him an Admin position after his continued loyalty to the project. If anyone disagrees with that reasoning then consensus always works for me.

- Nova

[FuzzyBear]

Just to say i've had a look round and the data was last collected off coinzen.org on the 1st August 2015 here https://web.archive.org/web/20150801091922/http://coinzen.org/

So i can grab the threads and conversations etc if needs be and import to http://devcointalk.org/ if this is what we want to do?? is more work so would rather have consensus from community as to where the new forum will be, as said before happy to run devcointalk on my server, have been running peercointalk for over 3 years now, no issues, nice community, good experience on keeping out spammers etc.

Just let me know what u think.

Also if anyone having sign up issues atm sorry, litterally just switched the forum back on last night and can see the email nameservers are not correct so confirmation emails will not have gone out.  I'll see if i can resolve this tonight.

Fuzzybear

The signup worked for me last night fine Fuzzybear.

Your standing up to the plate is really appreciated. Shattienator has prepped and is committed to put up the forum once we have decided on branding. It would be nice to bring him in as Forum Administrator due to his great skill with PHP projects in the past as well as offering him an Admin position after his continued loyalty to the project. If anyone disagrees with that reasoning then consensus always works for me.

- Nova

Hey nova,

No problem for me stepping up to give us devcoiners a dedicated forum of their own, am happy to run, many thanks for verifying the sign up process worked to.

Yes more than happy to assign some admins out for this, Peercointalk keeps me quite busy on there admin side of things as it is so the last thing i want is to take on the sole responsibility for this admin job.  Just need to confirm the settings are good on devcointalk and ideally a bit of communication for who should be assigned admins etc, i will probably put a few extra roles on the forum to as i have done for peercointalk which allows spam killers or thread organisers to put threads in right section and keep them on topic, but let me duplicate what i have on peercointalk as i know this all works well. 

Fuzzybear

[tyz]

Agree, a subdomain of devcoin.org would make the most sense and it centralize all features under one hood.

Why not just use a sub domain of devcoin.org like forum.devcoin.org?

That sounds like a great idea to me.

- Nova

[ashleysly]

I am on that forum. Haven't seen that forum on that domain in a while.

Anyway that forum domain seems promising and I like it!

Cant wait to get this going.

[misterbomac]

Hi,

Since I had no further replies from you (even before coinzen went down) I deleted your invoice to prevent DVC to be sent into oblivion. Your new address has to be validated first. So you are not gonna make it into this round either. You can pm me here.

Regards,

Flam

Hi Flam,

Thanks again.

I PM'd you here a few days ago, and again just now, in case the previous one didn't make it to you.

The new address, currently showing on my invoice page is NOT an exchange address. It's from my new wallet on my replacement computer.

Best Regards & Much Appreciation,

bomac

[Hunterbunter]

Sorry if this is common knowledge, but what happened to the forum?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=233997.msg12136563#msg12136563

- Nova

Yes, saw that Nova, but I guess my question was more along the lines of how that could have happened because hijacking a domain is not easy these days, and registrars usually give ample warning to pay the small renewal fee before allowing a registered domain to be resold.

Anyway...

Why not just use a sub domain of devcoin.org like forum.devcoin.org?

TT

Hi Tsquared, there has been a bit of a breakdown of communication. I'm not entirely sure who originally had the coinzen.org domain, the people who were supposed to have it didn't. Tenthirtyone was the forum administrator, but said he wanted to hand it over to someone else a few months ago, and we've been looking for another solution. The domain name issue came into being recently, and I'm not sure if they're related. Tenthirtyone could probably clear that up for us.

In any case, I like your suggestion too. It's simple and clean enough for our purposes. I *think* Jasinlee has devcoin.org, so we can probably get him to add the sub. Fuzzybear, I believe shattienator had already got the forum replacement ready with a backup of the old one - Nova, do you know the status of this?

[Hunterbunter]

Since the coinzen forum is going to be switching soon, I will use this thread to post bounty proposals:

I'd like to propose a bounty for 240 shares, for sidhujag to update the devcoin client (https://github.com/sidhujag/devcoin-wallet) and devcoin android wallet (https://github.com/sidhujag/devcoin-android) from its current version, 8.5.1, to the newest bitcoin core, 0.11.0.

Notable changes per release:
0.9.0: https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.9.0 - windows 64 bit installer, autotools build system, bitcoin-cli changes
0.10.0: https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.10.0 - Faster synchronization, Transaction fee changes, RPC access control changes, REST interface, improved signing security, watch-only wallet support, and more
0.11.0: https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.11.0 - Block file pruning, memory usage optimization, improved fee estimation, improved privacy

If there are no objections, this will go into effect in about a week.

Since there were no objection, this bounty is now in effect.

[novacadian]

Sorry if this is common knowledge, but what happened to the forum?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=233997.msg12136563#msg12136563

- Nova

Yes, saw that Nova, but I guess my question was more along the lines of how that could have happened because hijacking a domain is not easy these days, and registrars usually give ample warning to pay the small renewal fee before allowing a registered domain to be resold.

Anyway...

Why not just use a sub domain of devcoin.org like forum.devcoin.org?

TT

Hi Tsquared, there has been a bit of a breakdown of communication. I'm not entirely sure who originally had the coinzen.org domain, the people who were supposed to have it didn't. Tenthirtyone was the forum administrator, but said he wanted to hand it over to someone else a few months ago, and we've been looking for another solution. The domain name issue came into being recently, and I'm not sure if they're related. Tenthirtyone could probably clear that up for us.

In any case, I like your suggestion too. It's simple and clean enough for our purposes. I *think* Jasinlee has devcoin.org, so we can probably get him to add the sub. Fuzzybear, I believe shattienator had already got the forum replacement ready with a backup of the old one - Nova, do you know the status of this?

Yes, Shattienator has agreed to take on the Forum hosting once all is ready. He has been supplied with a backup of the old forum's DB to get things going.  Ashleysly has already been named to the position to handle the day to day administrating of the forum and will be working on its rebranding of being DevCoin specific in nature.

- Nova

[ashleysly]

Sorry if this is common knowledge, but what happened to the forum?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=233997.msg12136563#msg12136563

- Nova

Yes, saw that Nova, but I guess my question was more along the lines of how that could have happened because hijacking a domain is not easy these days, and registrars usually give ample warning to pay the small renewal fee before allowing a registered domain to be resold.

Anyway...

Why not just use a sub domain of devcoin.org like forum.devcoin.org?

TT

Hi Tsquared, there has been a bit of a breakdown of communication. I'm not entirely sure who originally had the coinzen.org domain, the people who were supposed to have it didn't. Tenthirtyone was the forum administrator, but said he wanted to hand it over to someone else a few months ago, and we've been looking for another solution. The domain name issue came into being recently, and I'm not sure if they're related. Tenthirtyone could probably clear that up for us.

In any case, I like your suggestion too. It's simple and clean enough for our purposes. I *think* Jasinlee has devcoin.org, so we can probably get him to add the sub. Fuzzybear, I believe shattienator had already got the forum replacement ready with a backup of the old one - Nova, do you know the status of this?

Yes, Shattienator has agreed to take on the Forum hosting once all is ready. He has been supplied with a backup of the old forum's DB to get things going.  Ashleysly has already been named to the position to handle the day to day administrating of the forum and will be working on its rebranding of being DevCoin specific in nature.

- Nova

I am ready to start whenever it is possible!

[FuzzyBear]

So does the community want devcointalk.org or not??

Happy to run it, happy to import the data and threads from coinzen backup, don't want to have 2 forums running side by side though if someone else getting coinzen back up up and running.  No offence but it has been some time now?? any idea on what the delay is? and the people allocated to run the forum... what evidence is there they will not dissappear like coinzen later down the road?

Fuzzybear

[Tsquared]

So does the community want devcointalk.org or not??

Happy to run it, happy to import the data and threads from coinzen backup, don't want to have 2 forums running side by side though if someone else getting coinzen back up up and running.  No offence but it has been some time now?? any idea on what the delay is? and the people allocated to run the forum... what evidence is there they will not dissappear like coinzen later down the road?

Fuzzybear

I can't speak for anyone else, but just today the transfer of coinzen.org completed, and the domain now redirects to devcointalk.org. You've done a nice job on the new forum Fuzzybear. The domain can be transfered to whomever, or I can adjust DNS, pointers, etc. as you folks need. Registration is paid to June 2017.

TT

[Shattienator]

So does the community want devcointalk.org or not??

Happy to run it, happy to import the data and threads from coinzen backup, don't want to have 2 forums running side by side though if someone else getting coinzen back up up and running.  No offence but it has been some time now?? any idea on what the delay is? and the people allocated to run the forum... what evidence is there they will not dissappear like coinzen later down the road?

Fuzzybear

I can't speak for anyone else, but just today the transfer of coinzen.org completed, and the domain now redirects to devcointalk.org. You've done a nice job on the new forum Fuzzybear. The domain can be transfered to whomever, or I can adjust DNS, pointers, etc. as you folks need. Registration is paid to June 2017.

TT

Can't login using my coinzen data. The users data table was wiped?

[novacadian]

So does the community want devcointalk.org or not??

Happy to run it, happy to import the data and threads from coinzen backup, don't want to have 2 forums running side by side though if someone else getting coinzen back up up and running.  No offence but it has been some time now?? any idea on what the delay is? and the people allocated to run the forum... what evidence is there they will not dissappear like coinzen later down the road?

Fuzzybear

Ok things seemed to have moved ahead on their own so the backup will be made available to you in a PM, Fuzzybear, so that you can get the accounts installed. We will just have to wait to have the forum.devcoin.org pointed there to be a done deal.

Shattienator, hopefully we can find you another admin position if you are interested. Just let me know in PM.

- Nova

[FuzzyBear]

So does the community want devcointalk.org or not??

Happy to run it, happy to import the data and threads from coinzen backup, don't want to have 2 forums running side by side though if someone else getting coinzen back up up and running.  No offence but it has been some time now?? any idea on what the delay is? and the people allocated to run the forum... what evidence is there they will not dissappear like coinzen later down the road?

Fuzzybear

I can't speak for anyone else, but just today the transfer of coinzen.org completed, and the domain now redirects to devcointalk.org. You've done a nice job on the new forum Fuzzybear. The domain can be transfered to whomever, or I can adjust DNS, pointers, etc. as you folks need. Registration is paid to June 2017.

TT

Can't login using my coinzen data. The users data table was wiped?

Just got a copy of the DB, i'll load this into the forum tonight and all the old coinzen logins and threads should be back up, i'll keep the devcointalk current forum on a seperate sub domain to help transfer any data across from there.  I should be able to get most of this sorted tonight if my internet behaves!

Fuzzybear

[Tsquared]

So does the community want devcointalk.org or not??

Happy to run it, happy to import the data and threads from coinzen backup, don't want to have 2 forums running side by side though if someone else getting coinzen back up up and running.  No offence but it has been some time now?? any idea on what the delay is? and the people allocated to run the forum... what evidence is there they will not dissappear like coinzen later down the road?

Fuzzybear

I can't speak for anyone else, but just today the transfer of coinzen.org completed, and the domain now redirects to devcointalk.org. You've done a nice job on the new forum Fuzzybear. The domain can be transfered to whomever, or I can adjust DNS, pointers, etc. as you folks need. Registration is paid to June 2017.

TT

Can't login using my coinzen data. The users data table was wiped?

Just got a copy of the DB, i'll load this into the forum tonight and all the old coinzen logins and threads should be back up, i'll keep the devcointalk current forum on a seperate sub domain to help transfer any data across from there.  I should be able to get most of this sorted tonight if my internet behaves!

Fuzzybear

Just a word of caution...

Likely you will have members that had old accounts and just created new ones using the same username. Like I did. So not sure what will happen if you try to import usernames that exist on the new forum, but you should expect to run into that.

TT

[develCuy]

Just got a copy of the DB, i'll load this into the forum tonight and all the old coinzen logins and threads should be back up, i'll keep the devcointalk current forum on a seperate sub domain to help transfer any data across from there.  I should be able to get most of this sorted tonight if my internet behaves!

Fuzzybear

Just a word of caution...

Likely you will have members that had old accounts and just created new ones using the same username. Like I did. So not sure what will happen if you try to import usernames that exist on the new forum, but you should expect to run into that.

TT

That should not a be an issue, since we are talking about two separate databases, the old one gets deployed to other subdomain and the new one gets deployed to devcointalk.