Good work BitCoinDream but this is not even peanuts.
Theymos accepted 6000 BTC in donations to upgrade this forum but kept it all for himself. Morever this forum even got hacked cause he didn't even update the forum software.
6000 BTC is a lot to build a replacement to this shitty forum, with some much needed features.
Anyways, personally I feel it is good because Theymos also owns the bitcoin wiki in addition to bitcointalk.org and 'centralization is bad' for bitcoin. I want people to move away from here and form their own communities. Decentralize people!
I think our mod here, Benson Samuel, should agree with me since he is a member of GBA Alliance that stands against the mighty Bitcoin Foundation.
If you look at it, very few number of people (less than 10) control the majority of bitcoin channels. Theymos, FriedCat, TheBitcoinFoundation each are very rich, powerful and closed. This kind of centralization should be alarming.
the domain for bitcointalk.org is owned by Sirius, if I am not wrong. The forums do run on a decentralized organization structure with theymos in hold of the wallet.
I honestly cannot see a better way of doing this without complicating the kitty out of it.
But I can see a bunch of things happening in the back end such as an addition of automated ad slots, etc.. So hopefully these will come forward quite soon to add some value to the forums.
However, there is a dire need for more initiatives such as the forum or the wiki in order to maintain a decentralized approach. While quite a few have tried to start new ones, nothing has really come close to what we have here.
