[...] Give it up to 2 more months weeks and you will see why you were wrong.
Not before the end of the month?
[...]There will be a public beta before the end of the month, I think, at which time I'll post more about what's left to be done.
I have no idea why it doesn't run on your box, because it's broken? I'm as trusting of this 'private beta' as I am of theymos honestly spending 2.3+ million dollars on new
BBS forum software.
What could a screen cap possibly reveal that's not in the source code, exactly?
Why would an open source project be afraid to post screen caps?
How many layers of bullshit are you going to pile on here?
I think he is saying that he is accessing the forum on a site that uses the new forum software. That site is a PRIVATE beta of the new software for Bitcointalk. It is essentially another site that mirrors the current one, but it is run by Theymos and therefore is actually Bitcointalk. Since it is a PRIVATE BETA, he is not allowed to disclose any information about said PRIVATE BETA so he cannot post a screenshot. He is NOT running the software on his own box.
And will likely do so for the foreseeable future.
Wrong. I'm using the new software right now. Stop trolling because you have no evidence to back up such claims.
Please feel free to describe the advantages of the new (as yet unfinished, $2.3 million dollar ++) software over
SMF 2.0.11.
Also:
You can not possibly know how secure the new (unfinished and untested) software is.
You can not possibly know how how it will scale.
You can not possibly know what
maintenance/community support will beAlso:
[...]
But this is all beside the point. The software is just a byproduct -- flotsam and jetsam -- neither here nor there. You know this as well as I do.
*but kudos for knowing who butters your bread.
The advantages are that all of the modifications that Theymos and all of the other past and present admins that were made will be in the new software. This forum has not been updated to the latest and greatest SMF because the current one works and adding all of the mods and security patches that have already been made would be such a pain in the ass. There have been many changes to the forum software such that to upgrade to a new system could be potentially dangerous. Security holes patched here would need to be re patched. Changes made here would need to be remade. Other problems could crop up with using the new software such as new security vulnerabilities. All in all, it is much more difficult and irritating to upgrade to a newer SMF. Epochtalk will not have those issues since Theymos is dictating what the software will include, so it will definitely have the modifications made here built directly in.