Any interest in a more modern Discussion board?

[luckybit]

The only reason I would say to update the board would be to decentralize it for when it gets DDOSed. At some point if Bitshares ever takes off there will be jealous people in the Bitcoin community who will for sure DDOS just as they did when Bitcoin was rising.

That is something to do right, and do from scratch, and build into OpenLedger. If anything from within OpenLedger a person should be able to communicate on this forum or in many other ways so that DDOS is not effective.

[luckybit]

We need a trollbox in Open Ledger. The current discussion board is fine and I think we need to get away from discussion boards and put the discussions into Open Ledger.

The more time we spend on the forum the less time we are spending in Bitshares.

@luckybit I think most of us are in agreement that a trollbox would be good. It's not a substitute for a discussion area though.

@wmbutler
We don't need a new discussion area and no poll or data is driving this. Decisions like this should be data driven in my opinion but I would vote we don't need a new discussion board.

If we did want to make a change I would go with Discourse, but I would say there is no reason. The most popular discussion board is Bitcointalk and it's not sophisticated. Also having a snazzy discussion board with no troll box will not actually benefit Bitshares and will just have more people spending time on this website.

Build something into Bitshares itself, such as a trollbox, and a micro-blogging ability. There is data suggesting many people want a troll box and some might not trade on Open Ledger without it.

We need a trollbox in Open Ledger. The current discussion board is fine and I think we need to get away from discussion boards and put the discussions into Open Ledger.

The more time we spend on the forum the less time we are spending in Bitshares.

@luckybit I think most of us are in agreement that a trollbox would be good. It's not a substitute for a discussion area though.

+5% Trollbox can't be organized, searched and presented like a forum, so I think we need to keep one around. I do think SMF is quite archaic tho, and am all in favor of flarum. It's "just" a matter of manpower, money and ambition.

What was that Bill, you say you are up for that on top of your UI project management? WOW, you be da man! (now wait for everyone that can't / won't read the posts in this thread to say Thanks for taking this on Bill!!!)

The trollbox on BTC-E can and is archived and searchable.
http://trollboxarchive.com/
The most popular forum is Bitcointalk. There might be better technologies but it seems most people don't want them and prefer archaic at this time. Maybe worry about this after there is a large audience demanding it. I doubt we even have 10,000 people in the entire community and the ones who are here aren't complaining about the forum from what I see.

The saying,if it ain't broke don't fix it applies here.

[Thom]

We need a trollbox in Open Ledger. The current discussion board is fine and I think we need to get away from discussion boards and put the discussions into Open Ledger.

The more time we spend on the forum the less time we are spending in Bitshares.

@luckybit I think most of us are in agreement that a trollbox would be good. It's not a substitute for a discussion area though.

+5% Trollbox can't be organized, searched and presented like a forum, so I think we need to keep one around. I do think SMF is quite archaic tho, and am all in favor of flarum. It's "just" a matter of manpower, money and ambition.

What was that Bill, you say you are up for that on top of your UI project management? WOW, you be da man! (now wait for everyone that can't / won't read the posts in this thread to say Thanks for taking this on Bill!!!)

[wmbutler]

We need a trollbox in Open Ledger. The current discussion board is fine and I think we need to get away from discussion boards and put the discussions into Open Ledger.

The more time we spend on the forum the less time we are spending in Bitshares.

@luckybit I think most of us are in agreement that a trollbox would be good. It's not a substitute for a discussion area though.

[cass]

we talked about flarum several times before .. the main problem is port users and posts to ..

But i 100% agreed .. flarum is bar far the best forum framework out there currently ..  +5%

[luckybit]

We need a trollbox in Open Ledger. The current discussion board is fine and I think we need to get away from discussion boards and put the discussions into Open Ledger.

The more time we spend on the forum the less time we are spending in Bitshares.

[fav]

I wouldn't expect this to happen overnight, but why not consider it?

http://flarum.org/features/

Reasons:

- Attaching images is archaic with phpBB
- formatting text is archaic
- URLs are cryptic
- Page reloads are required for every post (as opposed to live streaming and sockets)
- General UX is terrible with phpBB (it was awesome in 2005, but it's not so awesome now)

+5%

[carpet ride]

I wouldn't expect this to happen overnight, but why not consider it?

http://flarum.org/features/

Reasons:

- Attaching images is archaic with phpBB
- formatting text is archaic
- URLs are cryptic
- Page reloads are required for every post (as opposed to live streaming and sockets)
- General UX is terrible with phpBB (it was awesome in 2005, but it's not so awesome now)

+5%

[wmbutler]

I wouldn't expect this to happen overnight, but why not consider it?

http://flarum.org/features/

Reasons:

- Attaching images is archaic with phpBB
- formatting text is archaic
- URLs are cryptic
- Page reloads are required for every post (as opposed to live streaming and sockets)
- General UX is terrible with phpBB (it was awesome in 2005, but it's not so awesome now)