Disana tidak disediakan opsi guest account —sebagaimana di Bitcointalk saat ini—. Jadi, untuk ikut terlibat dalam diskusi dan ingin tahu lebih jauh apa/bagaimana persamaan ataupun perbedaannya dengan Bitcointalk, mau tidak mau mesti register.
Oh, berarti ane mixup fitur kali ya. Dulu pernah lihat ada akun guest soalnya (namanya ga bisa diklik). Atau mungkin itu user yang udah dihapus. Eniwei, kalau ga punya akun setidaknya masih bisa baca" dan lihat menu" yang ada (yang sangat familiar kalau udah pernah visit forum berbasis SMF).
Kalau akun yang pernah mas lihat namanya random sebagaimana nama akun pada umumnya namun statusnya guest (sebagaimana beberapa contoh diatas), kemungkinan akun tersebut adalah akun yang di delete admin.
Sementara kalau hanya untuk membaca-baca aturan/postingan bahkan profile dan user statistic disana memang masih bisa tanpa login.
Bicara soal forum, mungkin bakal benar" berbeda nanti kalau Bitcointalk udah pindah ke Epochtalk (kalau ini masih dalam development). Ane udah lama ga ngikuti perkembangannya sih. Apakah masih lama sampe softwarenya dimigrasikan ke domain forum sekarang?
Perihal Epochtalk, berdasarkan postingan theymos di sini:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5528745.msg65023545#msg65023545Nampaknya Epochtalk sudah tidak lagi menjadi target untuk diselesaikan berdasarkan waktu tertentu, disamping masih adanya beberapa bug juga.
A very long time ago now, we hired a company to start developing Epochtalk, which was intended to completely replace the software which currently runs the forum. It was originally supposed to be done in one year; that target was totally missed, but it
did eventually get to a usable state which was ~90% feature-complete. However, starting around 2020, development really seemed to stall. I could see that good progress was continually being made, so I didn't want to cancel it, but it never really seemed to get any closer to being ready for bitcointalk.org to actually
use it, since it was still missing features, it wasn't stable/bug-free enough, and there was no solid plan to smoothly make the transition.
Recently, a
live-data demo of Epochtalk was released. I had been pushing for something like this to be released ASAP in order to have a solid milestone to aim for, and also so that Epochtalk could be tested in a real-world context. The demo works, and in some ways it is actually useful, but I found it underwhelming, and subsequently the community found a really inexcusable number of bugs in it. After seeing the low quality of the demo, in combination with the many years of disappointing progress overall, my opinion on the Epochtalk project shifted from "this is going too slowly, but it might still bear good fruit eventually" to "this is probably going nowhere". Therefore, I've decided that the forum will no longer pursue Epochtalk. It's frustrating to pull the plug on this after investing a lot of time and money into it, but I've come to believe that continuing would be "throwing good money after bad" at this point.
For forum users, nothing has changed. The developers of Epochtalk were not working on anything
actually used by forum users: they were working on a hope that we might someday move away from PHP/SMF. Most of the original goals for Epochtalk have in fact already been completed
in the current software through work by myself, PowerGlove, and others in the 10+ years since the idea of new forum software was first contemplated. Since 2011, we've added trust, merit, 2FA, "evil fees", watchlists, drafts, a sane reports system, and many other improvements on stock SMF. Going forward, we will
continue to make improvements to the current software. One of the most requested features is improving the forum's usability on mobile devices, and that is already being worked on.
Epochtalk has always been open source under the MIT license, so you can still go run it right now if you want; the code is in the repos in
this Github organization. The developers have indicated to me that they intend to independently continue its development, without our support. The
Epochtalk proxy of bitcointalk.org will also stay up for at least a while.
