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.