Looking for someone to create/modify software for this forum [5500+ BTC]

[ElectricMucus]

5500 BTC @ $340 => $1,870,000

Surely you can convert $1m into mutual funds or even government bonds and use the proceeds to hire someone full time

Yah right.  Where are you going to find someone to code a forum for a million bucks.   

Nah you don't get this, whoever is supposed to do this is expected to receive payment in Bitcoins. As of today no software development company specializing in forums software is willing to do that.
So the scenarios here is: Wait till somebody does, wait till somebody competent enough joins the Bitcoin community, wait till Bitcoins are obsolete
or if all else fails... close down the forum and claim to have been 'hacked' <- works every time

[opentoe]

5500 BTC @ $340 => $1,870,000

Surely you can convert $1m into mutual funds or even government bonds and use the proceeds to hire someone full time

Yah right.  Where are you going to find someone to code a forum for a million bucks.   

Nah you don't get this, whoever is supposed to do this is expected to receive payment in Bitcoins. As of today no software development company specializing in forums software is willing to do that.
So the scenarios here is: Wait till somebody does, wait till somebody competent enough joins the Bitcoin community, wait till Bitcoins are obsolete
or if all else fails... close down the forum and claim to have been 'hacked' <- works every time

They don't need to find a company that specializes in forum software. They just need to hire someone that can program. Apparently this has been going on for years now and no one smart enough really expects it to get done. One day, eventually, that coffer will be empty and people will have disappeared.

[FlipPro]

in 2011 the forum software was insufficient for their needs and here it is 2013 using the same stuff. Why in the world the thousands of dollars worth of donations they have haven't done any custom software is just baffling.

At this point it's time for people to start demanding the upgrade...

Where is the money?

Where did all the donations go?

Why have none of the hundreds of inquiries been answered and or addressed?

There are hundreds of competent people on this forum ready to work.

WHY ARE WE STILL USING SMF?

[Raoul Duke]

Where is the money?

Where did all the donations go?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=141503.0

There are hundreds of competent people on this forum ready to work.

And yet there is still no serious bid to get the job done, it seems.

[Dragooon]

Where is the money?

Where did all the donations go?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=141503.0

There are hundreds of competent people on this forum ready to work.

And yet there is still no serious bid to get the job done, it seems.

Mine was fairly serious , if only theymos would reply.

[Martijnvdc]

Why don't we make this into a community effort?
I'm willing to help on this project for free.

[bitpop]

Here you go
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/better-web-forums

[opentoe]

in 2011 the forum software was insufficient for their needs and here it is 2013 using the same stuff. Why in the world the thousands of dollars worth of donations they have haven't done any custom software is just baffling.

At this point it's time for people to start demanding the upgrade...

Where is the money?

Where did all the donations go?

Why have none of the hundreds of inquiries been answered and or addressed?

There are hundreds of competent people on this forum ready to work.

WHY ARE WE STILL USING SMF?

This site is missing some of the best plugins and addons around, and of course can't use them since it is such an old version of SMF. Shouldn't be using SMF to begin with, and could have very professional custom software written easily with all the funds they have from donations. Pretty pathetic the site goes down every week. Site operators, seriously, what's the hold up? Don't tell me you can't find a programmer to do the work.

[buzybit]

the forum ned to be upgades to smf 2.x
it is really old

[bitpop]

no i like it like this
it is perfect

[opentoe]

The OP was in 2011. So if someone wanted to take this old site out of the 1980's they could, but apparently greed and here we are today. STILL nothing done.

[Viceroy]

If you were serious about helping you could follow the link in my signature to help build the new forums... (It's the first link, in red).

[opentoe]

Why is this thread still open?

[cedivad]

Why is this thread still open?

To remember me that after having offered paid and free help for converting Bitcointalk.org i ended up creating my own alternative.

It's in my signature.


Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #krIl0doVInQBT5Rz

[live627]

Why is this thread still open?

To remember me that after having offered paid and free help for converting Bitcointalk.org i ended up creating my own alternative.

It's in my signature.


Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #krIl0doVInQBT5Rz

And why is it better?

[cedivad]

And why is it better?

If you take the time to try it you will find it out yourself.
However, i created a thread to discuss it: (Bitcointalk.org) - (Bitcointa.lk)
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #bw2sje1g1pYMYmpL

[opentoe]

Why is this thread still open?

To remember me that after having offered paid and free help for converting Bitcointalk.org i ended up creating my own alternative.

It's in my signature.


Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #krIl0doVInQBT5Rz

And why is it better?

Why is it better? Dude, they are using SMF 1 here and have had hundreds of opportunities to really turn this place into a real community rather then the same old message board. It is outdated by years, has many security holes, and certainly needs a huge makeover. Just a quick look at the sample forum in the next message looks 10000 times better then this place. The site operator(s) got a little to stuck on holding all that bitcoin. They just can't let it go. By now we could of had the best personal community experience around with a custom software written only for here. Apparently it doesn't look like that will happen and I would LOVE to know the reasoning behind it.

[crazyearner]

Well I could do al lthe requested that is needed however why not just get it running more secure and wouldent need to change everything on it using old out dated software is nly causing more problems here. I could do a site like bitcointalk and I am already putting a lot of stuff together for altcoins and to be a lot more active. If theymos you are still looking for options for this to be updated to new software and setup and maintained for security bugs and making secure so that noe of the problems are to happen feel free to drop me a message and we can talk

[Vortex20000]

Well I could do al lthe requested that is needed however why not just get it running more secure and wouldent need to change everything on it using old out dated software is nly causing more problems here. I could do a site like bitcointalk and I am already putting a lot of stuff together for altcoins and to be a lot more active. If theymos you are still looking for options for this to be updated to new software and setup and maintained for security bugs and making secure so that noe of the problems are to happen feel free to drop me a message and we can talk.

Why would Theymos want to hire you?

Spelling errors. Grammar mistakes. And you wrote that whole paragraph in two sentences.

[Superhitech]

Well I could do al lthe requested that is needed however why not just get it running more secure and wouldent need to change everything on it using old out dated software is nly causing more problems here. I could do a site like bitcointalk and I am already putting a lot of stuff together for altcoins and to be a lot more active. If theymos you are still looking for options for this to be updated to new software and setup and maintained for security bugs and making secure so that noe of the problems are to happen feel free to drop me a message and we can talk

There was no point of necroing this thread as Theymos already found a dev, and the newly developed forum should be released somewhere around this month.