What did theymos do with 200K?

[QuestionAuthority]

Any idea how much longer it will take to complete?

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[Muhammed Zakir]

Any idea how much longer it will take to complete?

Repaeting: Slickage told that they are at the end. So I think we can see a alpha/beta/stable release by 1-3 months.

   -MZ

[QuestionAuthority]

Any idea how much longer it will take to complete?

Repaeting: Slickage told that they are at the end. So I think we can see a alpha/beta/stable release by 1-3 months.

   -MZ

Thanks

[mishax1]

What will happen to this one?  Will the new one run on this domain ? 

[Muhammed Zakir]

What will happen to this one?  Will the new one run on this domain ? 

I think yes. There maybe downtime when it is released for adding the software and for migrating all data. Else, there maybe server migrating but obviously, not domain.

   -MZ

[mishax1]

And that would be the end for our sig campaigns! sell your hero member now !! 

[KaChingCoinDev]

Will the new forum have signature campaigns?

[dogie]

Any idea how much longer it will take to complete?

Repaeting: Slickage told that they are at the end. So I think we can see a alpha/beta/stable release by 1-3 months.

   -MZ

Alpha by June 2015 -_- At what point do we unretire soon^TM?

[Equinoxx]

Will the new forum have signature campaigns?

Yes it will, I am sure.

[funtotry]

Will the new forum have signature campaigns?

Yes it will, I am sure.

provably. There is a very large economy and advertisement opportunities created by signature campaigns. First it creates spending money for people who don't own lots of bitcoins, and it creates lots of advertising.

[Muhammed Zakir]

Alpha by June 2015 -_- At what point do we unretire soon^TM?

Be positive! Theymos said that there was some problems. It may have caused the delay. We don't want to be impatient! Slow and steady is good for this project!

   -MZ

[mishax1]

Will the new forum have signature campaigns?

Yes it will, I am sure.

provably. There is a very large economy and advertisement opportunities created by signature campaigns. First it creates spending money for people who don't own lots of bitcoins, and it creates lots of advertising.

There are many sides to how that kind of advertisement affects the forum, for good and for worse.  It will sure be interesting to see how things turns out with the new forum.

[BadBear]

I'm pushing for a way to easily disable signature advertising on a per user basis, it would be a setting in your profile you could set yourself. Either filter them by keywords or regex, disable special characters and formatting to make signatures less obnoxious, or something similar.

If one can disable forum ads, one should be able to disable sig ads as well. Since signature ads are so much more prolific it only makes sense. Shouldn't have to disable signatures entirely just because because of ads, users should have the choice. Signature advertising would still be possible, just less effective, and would cut down on the spam without so many users needing to be moderated/banned.

It would also mean sig campaigns would need to be much more responsible. If your campaign has lots of spammers in it that you are not controlling, then people are going to block your ads. If your ad is obnoxious, people will block it.

Edit: I've made a thread to discuss possible signature changes here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=985516

[hilariousandco]

I'm pushing for a way to easily disable signature advertising on a per user basis, it would be a setting in your profile you could set yourself. Either filter them by keywords or regex, disable special characters and formatting to make signatures less obnoxious, or something similar.

If one can disable forum ads, one should be able to disable sig ads as well. Since signature ads are so much more prolific it only makes sense. Shouldn't have to disable signatures entirely just because because of ads, users should have the choice. Signature advertising would still be possible, just less effective, and would cut down on the spam without so many users needing to be moderated.

It would also mean sig campaigns would need to be much more responsible. If your campaign has lots of spammers in it that you are not controlling, then people are going to block your ads.

Sounds like a great idea and compromise. It has my support. How about an 'ignore this user's signature' button in a similar way you can ignore users? Or maybe certain staff or admins could have the choice of disabling certain user's signatures as punishment instead of a ban. The option to either disable them for a short period of a week or something or for three-time offenders disabling them forever (or something extreme like several months even up to a year) may be a greater deterrent.

[Muhammed Zakir]

I'm pushing for a way to easily disable signature advertising on a per user basis, it would be a setting in your profile you could set yourself. Either filter them by keywords or regex, disable special characters and formatting to make signatures less obnoxious, or something similar.

That would be good! It would also help people using mobile data to disable specific ads.

If one can disable forum ads, one should be able to disable sig ads as well. Since signature ads are so much more prolific it only makes sense. Shouldn't have to disable signatures entirely just because because of ads, users should have the choice.

A similar option is available here:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=profile;sa=theme but we can't disable specific ads, right?

Signature advertising would still be possible, just less effective, and would cut down on the spam without so many users needing to be moderated/banned.

Agree.

It would also mean sig campaigns would need to be much more responsible. If your campaign has lots of spammers in it that you are not controlling, then people are going to block your ads. If your ad is obnoxious, people will block it.

That would be more effective! Is it in the future feature list?

   -MZ

[BadBear]

I'm pushing for a way to easily disable signature advertising on a per user basis, it would be a setting in your profile you could set yourself. Either filter them by keywords or regex, disable special characters and formatting to make signatures less obnoxious, or something similar.

That would be good! It would also help people using mobile data to disable specific ads.

If one can disable forum ads, one should be able to disable sig ads as well. Since signature ads are so much more prolific it only makes sense. Shouldn't have to disable signatures entirely just because because of ads, users should have the choice.

A similar option is available here:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=profile;sa=theme but we can't disable specific ads, right?

Signature advertising would still be possible, just less effective, and would cut down on the spam without so many users needing to be moderated/banned.

Agree.

It would also mean sig campaigns would need to be much more responsible. If your campaign has lots of spammers in it that you are not controlling, then people are going to block your ads. If your ad is obnoxious, people will block it.

That would be more effective! Is it in the future feature list?

   -MZ

Yes, currently you can only disable signatures entirely, which is undesirable. Signatures can contain valuable information. Mine contains my PGP key for example, though I should probably add it to my profile now that I think about it.

It is not in the feature list, though it shouldn't be difficult to add, either as a feature or by theymos later.

[Bitcoin_BOy$]

Yeah, that's Slickage's $100k monthly fee. The amounts aren't exact, though. I send approximately the correct amount to an intermediate wallet of my own, and then it gets sent to Slickage via Coinbase.

The total cost will probably be around $1.5 million, which is more than I'd hoped, though not entirely unexpected.

1.5 million dollars thats is a high amount and also how could the new forum be  ??
also can this be an investisment really ? can the Roi back in 1 year ?? and also we won't see
the sdite down for ddos ever ever ? and could i know that how u invest 1.5 million dollar and the
project will be open source , really u (The forum ) are very generous . Respect


Bitcoin Boy

[Equinoxx]

Yeah, that's Slickage's $100k monthly fee. The amounts aren't exact, though. I send approximately the correct amount to an intermediate wallet of my own, and then it gets sent to Slickage via Coinbase.

The total cost will probably be around $1.5 million, which is more than I'd hoped, though not entirely unexpected.

1.5 million dollars thats is a high amount and also how could the new forum be  ??
also can this be an investisment really ? can the Roi back in 1 year ?? and also we won't see
the sdite down for ddos ever ever ? and could i know that how u invest 1.5 million dollar and the
project will be open source , really u (The forum ) are very generous . Respect


Bitcoin Boy

Dude my hopes are seriously high.. I am expecting some awesome stuff and there return of avatars.

[Muhammed Zakir]

Yes, currently you can only disable signatures entirely, which is undesirable. Signatures can contain valuable information. Mine contains my PGP key for example, though I should probably add it to my profile now that I think about it.

I understand.

It is not in the feature list, though it shouldn't be difficult to add, either as a feature or by theymos later.

Okay! No problem! Hope this catches theymos' eyes.

1.5 million dollars thats is a high amount and also how could the new forum be  ??

Everybody is eager to see it!

also can this be an investisment really ? can the Roi back in 1 year ??

If theymos really need to get it, he can add new donator tags for lower amounts.

and also we won't see the sdite down for ddos ever ever ?

Unpredictable but totally expectable.

and could i know that how u invest 1.5 million dollar and the
project will be open source , really u (The forum ) are very generous . Respect

Bitcoin Boy

"There is no letter in English alphabets which can be used to describe theymos perfectly!"

   -MZ

[Lauda]

1.5 million dollars thats is a high amount and also how could the new forum be  ??
also can this be an investisment really ? can the Roi back in 1 year ?? and also we won't see
the sdite down for ddos ever ever ? and could i know that how u invest 1.5 million dollar and the
project will be open source , really u (The forum ) are very generous . Respect

Bitcoin Boy

There is no ROI. There doesn't need to be one. The forum wasn't indeed to make a profit.
It was just something needed for the biggest Bitcoin community, since the free alternatives are 'bad'.