Changes to the forum - looking for proposals

[bitsapphire]

The BTSX ticker is now up on the forum and on Github. Should work now in all browsers now.

In the near future we will include all exchanges in the API and the last buy price will be saved temporarily on the server side to not overload the exchange servers. For now the price is based only off the https://poloniex.com/ API, as it is the only exchange providing public https APIs to our knowledge.

Not that it matters, but I believe just about all exchanges provide JSON feeds.  https://bter.com/api  etc

Of course, however bter etc don't provide public https feeds. As bitsharestalk is encrypted people would get security warnings if we added non-secure feeds. To solve this we are combining the feeds server side and communicating to the AJAX ticker on the forum via our own API. That should be ready this week.

[gamey]

The BTSX ticker is now up on the forum and on Github. Should work now in all browsers now.

In the near future we will include all exchanges in the API and the last buy price will be saved temporarily on the server side to not overload the exchange servers. For now the price is based only off the https://poloniex.com/ API, as it is the only exchange providing public https APIs to our knowledge.

Not that it matters, but I believe just about all exchanges provide JSON feeds.  https://bter.com/api  etc

[santaclause102]

maybe deleting posts of they are too equal without including a quote or something?

[bitsapphire]

Is there a chance for anti spam measures?
This guy nmtydjnfds  just spammed his one post 39 times across all boards.

We have just deleted all of his posts. There are other spamers too. This is happening because they see that our forum links are dofollow which is like a bait for SEO spammers.

Unfortunately the forum spam filters are insufficient to counter socketpupet accounts, especially if the person simply cycles their IP permanently.

We are looking into more automated solutions. Till then please keep the good work up and report these posts!

[onceuponatime]

Is there a chance for anti spam measures?
This guy nmtydjnfds  just spammed his one post 39 times across all boards.

And this is his third time spamming the same message under different names over the last few days.

[santaclause102]

Is there a chance for anti spam measures?
This guy nmtydjnfds  just spammed his one post 39 times across all boards.

[bitsapphire]

I have a suggestion:

I'd like to be able to start a poll where only participants with certain amount of forum posts could cast vote.
I'd like to use it for picking projects for angel fund funding.
I'd like everyone to be free to comment though.

Is this doable ?

https://www.loomio.org/ might be better suited for this. We just need to create a BTSX login for it. We would not implement this plugin for the current SMF as the plugin architecture is ancient.

[emski]

I have a suggestion:

I'd like to be able to start a poll where only participants with certain amount of forum posts could cast vote.
I'd like to use it for picking projects for angel fund funding.
I'd like everyone to be free to comment though.

Is this doable ?

[bitsapphire]

The BTSX ticker is now up on the forum and on Github. Should work now in all browsers now.

In the near future we will include all exchanges in the API and the last buy price will be saved temporarily on the server side to not overload the exchange servers. For now the price is based only off the https://poloniex.com/ API, as it is the only exchange providing public https APIs to our knowledge.

[LiquidStorm]

Stick to SMF please

[johncitizen]

There needs to be more focus on the chat! Im in there and its empty 

It would also be nice to have a price bot/feed top of the forum.

[emski]

I have a suggestion:

I'd like to be able to start a poll where only participants with certain amount of forum posts could cast vote.
I'd like to use it for picking projects for angel fund funding.
I'd like everyone to be free to comment though.

Is this doable ?

[emski]

Anyway there is no necessity to make the choice now.
Present the new functionality.
Educate users how to use it.
Show us why it is better (perhaps some functionality).
If you enable each of the new features (bitsharesx login, keyhotee, whatever the community desires) there and remove unwanted stuff you will convince majority of the users.
If it is as advertised users will flock to the new forum.
Just make it stable and at least as usable as this one.

[bitsapphire]

ethereum uses a "discourse" forum type, try it out! 
https://forum.ethereum.org/


PS Maybe I am to old and I like our approach better
 PS2     the traffic numbers are high NOT because the forum, it's because the forum is a subaccount of ethereum.org I guess...

Ethereum's forum is not Discourse, it is based on http://vanillaforums.org/. Completely different platform. Ethereum's forum is definitely worse in every respect than the current bitsharestalk SMF forum.

Ahh yes a forum with 6 years of developed plugins has to be worse than a 1 year old  forum software.

SMF has a less frequent and erratic github community compared to Discourse's. Here's a good blog post, we have a similar reasoning.

we need a btsx login .. not Facebook login

Agreed. We plan to implement btsx login in the not too distant future!

The interesting thing is if you start trolling the internet and find the forums with the smart guys, they usually tend to not be on social media reddit replacement mimicking sites.   Granted they're all established but I'm not convinced of the magic conversion rate.  Kids who won't use the forum because it is "2007" aren't likely going to be types with money either.  shrug

I wonder if the firm taking over the software just has a lot more experience in Discourse?

Those point systems mimick the wisdom of the crowd (and no, not concisely and quantitatively).  If the wisdom of the crowd is sub par then it just hurts the quality of the posters.

If we want to make Bitshares DACs mainstream we need a mainstream-compatible platform. I you really want something super exclusive we might at some point create a forum sub-board where only BTSX loggedin users can post. That would solve the potential "eternal September" issue.

If we wanted to go with something we are very familiar with we would have proposed a Node.js forum, but the one's available right now are not ideal for the Bitshares Community.

As pointed out, the point system is from the vanillaforums, discourse does not have that by default, and we would not implement it.

Support that.
is it possible for the developers to build a synchronization mechanism ? Just the posts, not the achievements and badges.

Yes. We won't switch anything until the database bridging is done first. In all likelihood both the SMF and Discourse forum will exist in parallel for 2-3 months before fading out the old forum software.

[gamey]

Oh I see that product is a pay per month solution.  Darn.  Still, I find it suspect complaining how far SMF is behind just because something else has a 1 year old codebase.  There are other facebook login plugins etc it appears.