Quote from: Ola on November 29, 2013, 05:10:49 AM

+1000 Ron for restating your stance on this it is much appreciated, however is this going to be implemented immediately without any resistance? I know JR is on board I am not sure of the others. If not, do we deserve to know the board members that have opposing views to this??

I'm building consensus. I can tell you that i think David and I are pretty close in our opinions even though we might have slow differences, and I had a great talk with Antony yesterday so I think he's on board.

J.R. is as usual the more reserved of the bunch.

I don't remember what other board members think about this ... a lot of them have been too quite IMHO due to their time constraints and schedules.

FYI - I haven't told this to most of the board yet - but I've starting negotiating bringing in an additional board member to help with the load! He suggested it and I fully support his nomination 1000%.

I won't reveal his identity right now, I think it's only fair we discuss this internally before I plaster his name all over bitcointalk. I already introduced him to David.

Quote from: Faraday on November 29, 2013, 07:01:32 AM

So it looks like all Mastercoin threads have been moved to the Alternate cryptocurrencies board. This makes it much harder to find the Mastercoin topics than when they were on the Project Development board. At the same time it may introduce Mastercoin to a new audience so I guess it has a positive side to it. Are there plans to create our own forums for Mastercoin? mastercointalk.org Tongue

I expected more from theymos and bitcointalk moderator. We began an open dialog weeks ago to try to find a solution, and didn't expect this one sided action without any prior communication with us. Oh well.

Luckily I just started the effort dedicated to migrating us to Discourse.

I believe it's the best platform for us (I asked this on Quora just to be sure).

In the meantime - can someone with a bit of free time set us up with a Diaspora account?
I want to get us more official support, but let's start with something.

If you have any expenses setting this up, let us know.
Normally this would have been Aric Fadida's task as Head of IT, but I haven't heard from him in a few days (it's holidays and he has some family obligations right now), so I'm putting this out there.

Quote from: Voodah on November 29, 2013, 08:13:44 AM

Quote from: Faraday on November 29, 2013, 07:01:32 AM

So it looks like all Mastercoin threads have been moved to the Alternate cryptocurrencies board. This makes it much harder to find the Mastercoin topics than when they were on the Project Development board. At the same time it may introduce Mastercoin to a new audience so I guess it has a positive side to it. Are there plans to create our own forums for Mastercoin? mastercointalk.org Tongue

I think the consensus was to stay here at bitcointalk.

It may still not be defined though.

I'm assuming the role of benevolent dictator for this specific task (not generally).
Bitcointalk isn't working. Not for me at least.
I can't keep up with the conversation, and that's bad.

I am planning to get this started on Discourse and compete for our community's attention.
If the Discourse forum picks up, I plan to spend my own attention over there rather than here.

Let the community decide where they want to be by action, not by voting in a poll

Quote from: DGulari on November 29, 2013, 09:35:13 AM

The StackExchange link you provided is garbage. It is just a general bitcoin Q&A which has little or nothing to do with MSC. Further, it is a poorly organized system. It is merely a long list. Nobody will use it because you must read 50 questions before landing on a topic of interest.

Quora is also garbage. The landing page invites one to 'sign up' for an account. Do you think I've got time to sign up for another 'account'. I click the back button of website which first ask me to 'sign up for an account' - faster than it takes for the page to load. Pure junk. This has nothing at all to do with MSC. Why is it featured at the top of the MSC web page? If you continue to pile worthless crap at the top of the page - you will destroy the usability of MSC. Now you've wasted another 30 minutes of my concentration bandwidth. I doubt I'll be visiting mastercoin.org again as I'll recall there is nothing but meaningless crap found there.

Can't somebody prepare a decent website for Mastercoin?

Bitcoin StackExchange is a general purpose StackExchange for crypto-currencies, by design. Mastercoin is on topic there.
I am btw the founder of Bitcoin StackExchange - I posted the original idea to start it a few years ago.

Currently it's not seeing a lot of MSC activity. Let's take over and change that - StackExchange is a great platform for Q&A, for many reasons.

Follow specific tags on Stack Exchange on Quora to suit your interests. I recommend go reading about "why StackExchange is good" before forming an opinion that it isn't. Bitcoin StackExchange isn't the first Q&A site I started on that platform, funnily enough I also founded and owned a "Stack Exchange 1.0" website called Draw3Cards. It is dead now due to lack of attention, but it was the best site in the world at the time to get answers on questions regarding Magic: the Gathering (not I am not related to Mt. Gox).

Quora is even better than Stack Exchange for many reasons that you can find on Google (and on Quora).

If you do not wish to sign up to these sites, you don't have to.
Still I would like to use these sites as a Q&A and support platform for Mastercoin.

If anyone is opposed to this, they're free to create a new dedicated thread somewhere to discuss this, or just not use these sites.

I follow Voluntaryism.

FYI we are building a decent homepage for mastercoin, it's just taking a bit of time just like everything else. However serving as a support forum is not one of the design goals for that site.