Should Discourse be the new engine behind bitcointalk?

[ripper234]

Discourse.org is a promising new open source forum engine software.

They're working hard with three industry partners to tailor the forum software to their needs.
So far they launched with two partners, and the 3rd partner slot is still open.

We are currently evaluating our options for third partner – who we hope will be equally amazing and definitely our largest yet, by volume. If you feel your organization is a good match, mail us, explain why you're a good match, and let's try to make a love connection.

IMO going Discourse is a much better approach than developing something custom made.

We need to speak now and approach them. Theymos, I brought this topic up before and haven't heard a good argument against.

[🏰 TradeFortress 🏰]

Already suggested and shot down before: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=180726.0

[ripper234]

Already suggested and shot down before: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=180726.0

Thanks!

At least this time I saw some real arguments against it, earlier when I mentioned it it was pretty much ignored.

[Viceroy]

You should read the first link in my signature.  Discourse is not interested in working with us. 

[ripper234]

You should read the first link in my signature.  Discourse is not interested in working with us. 

Too bad. Perhaps they would have been interested had Theymos wanted to, but you guys haven't shown the ability to attract any kind of userbase yet.

[Viceroy]

They don't know who Theymos is or maybe they know that Theymos doesn't want them:

DISADVANTAGES:
- Annoying interface.
- Categories, not tags. (Any forum I switch to must have hierarchical tags instead of categories.)
- Non-threaded discussions. (Ditto.)
- I'm not a fan of Ruby.
- Uses Gravatar, which never works correctly.
- No watchlist?
- "User-controlled" moderation, which is terrible for free discussion because people censor each other.
- Probably very limited mod tools. It's probably worse than Stack Exchange, and Stack Exchange is pretty bad -- I see spam there all the time. Can Discourse split threads, merge them, send PMs for deleted posts, automatically ban proxies, smartly detect spam text, subject new/suspicious users to additional proof-of-work to prevent spam, have self-moderated topics, nuke users with automatic smart IP bans, track all of a user's IPs with proxy detection, etc.?
- Doesn't seem to support OpenID.
- No polls
- Limited user stats, etc.
- Can't ignore users.
- Can't ignore categories.
- No categories that only some users can see (?)
- Doesn't print nicely.

I'm not going to use Discourse.

So your poll is lacking two important options:
1) it's already been done and they said they don't want us
2) Theymos thinks discourse sucks