Quote from: d5000 on November 05, 2020, 11:03:17 AM

1) Duplicate content. If the site is allowed to appear in search engines, it could affect the ranking of the original Bitcointalk, as well if create confusion - for example, some threads could be indexed for "Original BTCtalk", and some for "Beta Bitcointalk". This can of course be solved with the "noindex" tag or directly disallowing crawlers in robots.txt. This would however prevent people finding the site. But for the usage I mentioned first it would be the best solution.

Bitcointalk has high rank in search engines, there is no way any new website will be able to beat it in any result, so if someone clones bitcointalk, this still shouldn't be a real problem. Otherwise, yeah, that's a good solution.

Quote from: d5000 on November 05, 2020, 11:03:17 AM

2) Copyrights. In theory, every forum user is an author who can decide where their posts should appear. I'm not an expert but this probably would't be a problem if the "Beta Bitcointalk" appears on the bitcointalk.org domain. Otherwise, maybe something similar to the Internet Archive regulation could also apply. If this was a problem anyway, then the current staff could update the Terms of Use accordingly, so people writing in the forum would also give automatically permission for its posts to be published on Beta.

Loycev has a website that scrapes and saves our posts. And there wasn't any problem about it, right? Personally I think that shouldn't be an issue, I hugely doubt anyone will seriously complain it or has exclusive rights and ownership on posts here Cheesy

Quote from: DdmrDdmr on November 05, 2020, 11:29:02 AM

I still believe that it would be better to have an official Beta on Epochtalk back, with as much Bitcointalk content as possible (a recent migrated content snapshot would suffice, no need to make side-by-side running content updates), run by the development team. They’d be the first to see/hear the issues people would be encountering during the Beta test with Bitcointalk content, which is really our main focus, let’s face it.

We know that the scope of the project surpasses Bitcointalk in principle, but most of us really are likely to be rather more Bitcointalk centered, than striving to test Epochtalk’s forum capabilities in a general sense.

Thanks for that quote. It would be better to have official epochtalk beta but seems theymos doesn't plan to run it. Epochtalk is an innovative product and should be too, so I think we need some time to adapt on it. He could find some place on this forum to place beta.bitcointalk.org advertisement, this way a lot of people would know about it.

To be fair, I don't even know what to say. Will this CMS ever be finally finished? What are we waiting for so many years? Should epochtalk make revolution? I think yes but in reality it won't happen and sorry but it looks like a failed dream.