There's now a read-only demo of Epochtalk operating on live bitcointalk.org data which you can check out:
https://demo.epochtalk.comRight now only boards, topics and user-pages are supported, and it's read-only, but over time I'd like this to become an increasingly-useful alternate interface to bitcointalk.org. (Only when it's feature-complete and bug-free would bitcointalk.org
switch to Epochtalk.) Already, some people might like to use the demo on mobile devices, where it often works better than the current site. Also, if you look at the requests that the site makes, you can see that it has a JSON API; people who run bots might like to check that out, though we don't officially support/recommend relying on this API yet.
If you see any bugs, use the "Report a bug" link in the top right of the demo.
Wow, what do I see? Is this real? This is a real Christmas / New Year gift from you. I swear you really made me happy.
I'll use this opportunity and ask you, have you checked my thread
Bitcointalk - Responsive design challenge? If yes, then I'd love to hear your feedback. I think that one of the most important challenge of Bitcointalk is that it's not attractive place for many young people and it's not responsive, you can't get a good experience by browsing Bitcointalk from your smartphone, tablet or any other device.
Do you plan to hire a professional team of web designers to design a user friendly Bitcointalk? Or do you plan to create a bounty and share it with talented Bitcointalk members? What are your plans about the future of Bitcointalk? I don't want to bother you but it's very interesting question for me.
I'll test epochtalk and I'll share my experience.