This Forum Needs to Pull Up Its Pants. Now.

[Muhammed Zakir]

It has been over a year without avatars (ok, not too much of a setback). However, things we need like 2 factor authentication or at the very least email verification doesn't even exist. The talks of a new forum is starting to get old, we're so in the dark that 99% of users here have no clue what is going to happen and when. A new captcha service needs to be put in place to prevent those bots signing up thousands of accounts as has been seen in the past few days.

I agree with you.

Newbie jail needs to come back. I know, theymos, it does give you more ad views but come on, it is not worth it for us (the number of annoying and worthless loan requests, the bots, the overall lower quality coming from brand new users).

I don't agree with you in this. There are people signing up for particular things such as for service announcement, technical doubt/help etc... It's better to make force 30 seconds class on first few logins.

Please make the changes that we require, or at least pass on (or share) this power to do so onto another, preferably capable, person.

Current admins are capable of it^[1] but they are concentrating more on new forum. I think adding 2FA and email confirmation needs more debugging of the forum.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=955218.0

   -MZ

[Madness]

It has been over a year without avatars (ok, not too much of a setback). However, things we need like 2 factor authentication or at the very least email verification doesn't even exist. The talks of a new forum is starting to get old, we're so in the dark that 99% of users here have no clue what is going to happen and when. A new captcha service needs to be put in place to prevent those bots signing up thousands of accounts as has been seen in the past few days.

I agree with you.

Newbie jail needs to come back. I know, theymos, it does give you more ad views but come on, it is not worth it for us (the number of annoying and worthless loan requests, the bots, the overall lower quality coming from brand new users).

I don't agree with you in this. There are people signing up for particular things such as for service announcement, technical doubt/help etc... It's better to make force 30 seconds class on first few logins.

Please make the changes that we require, or at least pass on (or share) this power to do so onto another, preferably capable, person.

Current admins are capable of it^[1] but they are concentrating more on new forum. I think adding 2FA and email confirmation needs more debugging of the forum.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=955218.0

   -MZ

Yeah well , for the last two suggestion you just said (2 Factor Authentification & email confirmation) that would be really useful , like connecting using Social media website (Google+ , Twitter , etc ... ) and it can also prevent .. like prevent a lot the spamming bots that keep making hundreds of accounts daily , even if there is some high level BOTS that could verify emails etc .. but it makes it harder

~ Madness

[Joca97]

I'm sorry if I come across as rude, but this forum needs to make the important changes/additions now. While you're reading this remember that this forum is pretty much the only one that represents bitcoin.

It has been over a year without avatars (ok, not too much of a setback). However, things we need like 2 factor authentication or at the very least email verification doesn't even exist. The talks of a new forum is starting to get old, we're so in the dark that 99% of users here have no clue what is going to happen and when. A new captcha service needs to be put in place to prevent those bots signing up thousands of accounts as has been seen in the past few days.

Newbie jail needs to come back. I know, theymos, it does give you more ad views but come on, it is not worth it for us (the number of annoying and worthless loan requests, the bots, the overall lower quality coming from brand new users).

Please make the changes that we require, or at least pass on (or share) this power to do so onto another, preferably capable, person.

@marco

i agree with you this is really needed,and you are right this is getting old pretty much,also newbie jail is needed really much

especialy that they dont come to gambling section or loan section
if they are in gambling section they will make scam ponzis,but if they are in loan section they will ask for loans so they could just leave!

[valkir]

Do you know if 2fa will only be google autentificator??

I prefer Authy because its linked to your phone number. I broke my phone and was able to recover authy but not google.

Any idea on this ??

[Muhammed Zakir]

Do you know if 2fa will only be google autentificator??

I prefer Authy because its linked to your phone number. I broke my phone and was able to recover authy but not google.

Any idea on this ??

I don't know about Authy but Google 2FA and Bitcoin 2FA is there.

You can scan Google 2FA with Authy but I don't know whether it will backup Google 2FA codes. I suggest you to backup 2FA codes, so you can import it later.

   -MZ

[Quickseller]

Do you know if 2fa will only be google autentificator??

I prefer Authy because its linked to your phone number. I broke my phone and was able to recover authy but not google.

Any idea on this ??

I don't know about Authy but Google 2FA and Bitcoin 2FA is there.

You can scan Google 2FA with Authy but I don't know whether it will backup Google 2FA codes. I suggest you to backup 2FA codes, so you can import it later.

   -MZ

You could take a screenshot of the 2FA code and then encrypt the picture, then backup the encrypted picture after destroying the original.

Implementing 2FA however would likely result in a lot of people being locked out of their accounts because they lost their phone, their phone was turned off, ect.

[Muhammed Zakir]

lYou could take a screenshot of the 2FA code and then encrypt the picture, then backup the encrypted picture after destroying the original.

Implementing 2FA however would likely result in a lot of people being locked out of their accounts because they lost their phone, their phone was turned off, ect.

+1.

It's their choice. It's good to use Bitcoin 2FA because Bitcoin 2FA is in this forum now and is working good but is done manually by Admins. In the new forum software, it will be automatic.

   -MZ

[Equinoxx]

Bump.

It's almost March and the new beta or new forum was expected to be here this month. dafuq.

[ajareselde]

Do you know if 2fa will only be google autentificator??

I prefer Authy because its linked to your phone number. I broke my phone and was able to recover authy but not google.

Any idea on this ??

I don't know about Authy but Google 2FA and Bitcoin 2FA is there.

You can scan Google 2FA with Authy but I don't know whether it will backup Google 2FA codes. I suggest you to backup 2FA codes, so you can import it later.

   -MZ

You could take a screenshot of the 2FA code and then encrypt the picture, then backup the encrypted picture after destroying the original.

Implementing 2FA however would likely result in a lot of people being locked out of their accounts because they lost their phone, their phone was turned off, ect.

Its better having to contact forum staff about being locked out of your account due to loss of device (which wont happen as much as u may think), than to have to contact them because your account got
stolen, and/or someone tried to pull some scams with it. Dont u think so?
2fa is a must have on any serious site.

cheers

[IronMarvel]

Bump.

Why are you bumping this thread?
Everybody knows about the problems and they have been called out many times.
Changes would be nice, but as staff said, there will be no changes until we have the new forum.

[Ume]

Bump.

Why are you bumping this thread?
Everybody knows about the problems and they have been called out many times.
Changes would be nice, but as staff said, there will be no changes until we have the new forum.

That is right but if all of us get united and bound together we can make them to make changes .

Ps- @0p laat time someone put a java script on for which damaged the forum .

[moko666]

i agree
newbie limitation and additional security during signup is required
about avatar it can be set like that users will available to add avatars after they reach a specific ranks

[hilariousandco]

about avatar it can be set like that users will available to add avatars after they reach a specific ranks

I think it might be wise to restrict avatars to higher ranks or at least to prohibit newbs from having them because it will make it easier for imposters.

[funtotry]

I think we should have 2fa login on here. I loaned to an account and now have it for collateral but some people think the account may have been hacked and this will stop the risk of that happening.

[hilariousandco]

I think we should have 2fa login on here. I loaned to an account and now have it for collateral but some people think the account may have been hacked and this will stop the risk of that happening.

2-factor is coming with the new forum.

[Madness]

It's weird how the developpers of the new forum ignore such a threads here or the "new forum software" section when we ask about when the forum is going to be released ... but they do answer us sometimes on our suggestions .
We simply want to know an estimated date for the final release or Beta , dosen't matter then we will shutup  

~ Madness

[hilariousandco]

They probably don't have a concrete date for when it will be released. If they give you one people will only complain when it's missed which will be likely. Best just to have some patience and it'll be released when it's ready though I'm sure they'll give us an update when they have something definitive.

[marcotheminer]

I think we should have 2fa login on here. I loaned to an account and now have it for collateral but some people think the account may have been hacked and this will stop the risk of that happening.

2-factor is coming with the new forum.

Which was supposed to launch this month.. So when is the next 'deadline', next month? year?

[hilariousandco]

From what I gather the forum was always stated to be 'early' next year but it wasn't guaranteed (though a beta may have been mentioned for then). These sorts of things usually always go past deadlines so there's no point giving more release dates out when they'll likely just come and go then people will whinge again.

[PenguinFire]

How often do people get into other's accounts?  Do we really need 2 factor authorization?   I am not saying we don't; I am just asking.