Quote from: deepceleron on June 02, 2015, 07:43:46 AM

Quote from: kilter71 on May 29, 2015, 08:39:44 PM

Is $1.5 million for a website a legitimate price? It seems extremely pricy to me, who has literally no experience in website design. I mean, unless it's like a site for Microsoft or something I can't imagine spending that much for a website.

Also, $100,000 a month to a company that no one really knows anything about? It just seems strange, to myself, a total outsider.

There are businesses that have a valuation of multi-billions based on their website software. How much do you think Facebook, Google, Yahoo, or Twitter would be worth if they weren't spending tens to hundreds of millions on development costs per year?

These companies also contribute open source back to the world. Look at the Bootstrap framework (Twitter), Apache Storm (Twitter), Hadoop (Yahoo), Go language (Google), MapReduce (Google), React (Facebook). The mentioned software components are all merely components of a "site", and all have an incredibly large price tag if you look at the developer hours. Imagine the future where the go-to open-source forum software for the web was paid for with Bitcoin, and beat every commercial offering out there.

This is programming, it is not simply a web site just because you are looking at it in your browser. You might also ask yourself why it would cost over $1.5 million to make a word processor, but for Microsoft, that's a billion dollar business.

I was at a Fortune 500 company that decided to outsource a scheduling & timecard budget system. Of course done in India, and they decided to abort it after half a million had been spent. Qualified developers that can see a project through cost more than Indians who program like they read tech support scripts.

I think everybody should just be quiet with their opinions about the web site software anyway. The forum is not run by committee, is not beholden to anyone to be anything other than what it is when it is, and the operator is spending its money on operating and improving the site, the original purpose of donations.

I don't think it matters much how great or how banal the software ends up being no one of any import uses this place anymore. I myself only come here to troll and fuck with people. If I truly want to learn something new that's happening to Bitcoin I either go to Goat's forum or Reddit. Even you don't come here anymore.

To quote your first post after a three month absence:

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Thanks. One of the reasons I have not been active here recently is, besides that I've said most of what needs to be said (x3200 posts), there is no participation here from intelligent people any more, just spam scams and get rich alt coin schemes. Any legitimate service would be wise to steer clear of rewarding those who would destroy their own currency's forum for profit, and the ultimate solution was given nine months ago in post #1.