psiox posted:

one word: quantum

NoneMoreNegative posted:

rotor posted:

posts will be stored in a database. registered users will be able to read and create posts using the Oracle SQL Developer app, available free of charge here: https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/appdev/sql-developer.html

infernal machines posted:

hypothetically, how hard do you think it would be to find the old bitcointalk forum posts when they were donating 1 million+ funbux so that the dipshit who ran it could code a new forum from scratch?

version 1.0 being the most secure, etc? that was some quality stiff and i think those posts would offer a lot of insight if presented in qcs

Soricidus posted:

my main concern with the current forums honestly is that they use https, which is known to be backdoored by the nasa and mi5. I’d like to propose a goon project to design a new secure network protocol using a custom encryption (not "audited" by us governmet!)

obstipator posted:

what about it is “weird”?

Soricidus posted:

as a starting point I’m thinking just XOR traffic against hello.jpg. boy howdy I wish I could see the face of the cryptologist who breaks that

echinopsis posted:

akla twitter, a users posts should load up directly under their profile immediately, none of this searching business


since posting pictures is so much more fundamental to the internet this days and age, maybe add gallery or collage functions inbuilt? some sub forums are almost entirely pictures so perhaps, while [img] things still work, there is a second input box that only takes [img] links and displays the images as a collage or gallery style, so that image heavy threads have inbuilt flexibility on how they are displayed, especially on mobile, of which displaying on will be considered from day one (eg instagram style side scroll images within one post but can scroll to next post immediately)

echinopsis posted:

akla twitter, a users posts should load up directly under their profile immediately, none of this searching business


since posting pictures is so much more fundamental to the internet this days and age, maybe add gallery or collage functions inbuilt? some sub forums are almost entirely pictures so perhaps, while [img] things still work, there is a second input box that only takes [img] links and displays the images as a collage or gallery style, so that image heavy threads have inbuilt flexibility on how they are displayed, especially on mobile, of which displaying on will be considered from day one (eg instagram style side scroll images within one post but can scroll to next post immediately)

Soricidus posted:

he wanted to know how to create a successful internet community, so he carefully studied something awful and then did exactly the opposite

infernal machines posted:

Oh no I just mean coding a new forum from scratch. Like, from the ground up, a new platform for displaying and storing forums. Even I know how I would write a trivial forum site. I'd use Node and MongoDB for backend and vanilla es6 JavaScript/CSS for front end and host it on AWS. I know that set of simple technologies could do it in a minimal fashion, even though they're the only tools that I know. Which is why someone else should probably do it, like someone who does this for a living and knows what they're doing, but I've run into tons of people on here who fit that bill in SH/SC. Many of them would probably eagerly watch a project purporting to be the new version of the forums the post on every day, if Lowtax endorsed it. Some would see opportunities and contribute. Some would take charge because it means something to them.

There is nothing inherently hard about storing and serving up text. Today platforms that serve video are all the rage, but a single video or GIF holds more data than the entire text of some entire megathreads and maybe even subforums. It gets dicey the less minimal you go, but people would be willing to put up with a pretty minimal experience if it meant the forums aren't at risk of vanishing and get to survive forever because the codebase is open source. And then there's no reason to stay that minimal; little features like smilies could be integrated immediately because they're small, simple, and cost nothing to host. Force images and video to be stored offsite, even maybe avatars. No frills at first. Incrementally add quality of life things in as time goes on, but now it's a community doing it and an open source project so there's more potential contributors down the road and no risk of the whole thing suddenly disappearing from the internet forever if someone has a stroke

Of course some of the "frills" I mention are revenue streams (like avatars, plat) so maybe don't flip off the switch of the original forums until the new platform has shown that it can handle that stuff. But I don't see how keeping both websites open simultaneously could really backfire. Worst case, the new platform sucks and no one migrates and things stay the same, and there never becomes a need to expand hosting for the new one so the total cost is $0. Best case, it's better and people like it more and do migrate and still want to find ways to pay Lowtax for it.

infernal machines posted:

i think you just invented the *chans gallery and overboard views

my bitter bi rival posted:

just use a google sheet that we all have access to

spankmeister posted:

may i suggest the forums be coded in a language that's close to the metal?

my bitter bi rival posted:

heres your solution https://jekyllrb.com/news/2019/03/18/jekyll-4-0-0-pre-alpha1-released/