I'd like to extend my personal thanks to PowerGlove for the recent implementations to the current forum software, as well as theymos who has continually contributed their own time towards improvement. As well as some third party projects which I think have contributed positively to the average users forum experience. I'm sure there's others behind the scenes that have also helped, as theymos hinted.
I'm absolutely sure it took theymos a lot of time, and frustration to pull the plug, which ultimately I believe started as a ambitious passion project, come heavily invested project.
Ultimately thank you to the community for continuing to contribute, and keep the ol' heart running around this place.
Echo this. Power Glove is a bad ass, his contributions have been incredible and his openness to hear others out, even idiots like myself w/dumb ideas, it's pretty cool. I know he's being paid but never hurts to send a few pieces of corn to buy him dinner or something and Theymos, the username speaks for itself.
@Theymos.. I read this thread yesterday so going off memory here. You mentioned how things wont ever be the way they use to be ( I miss those days) but I think they could def improve. Just a thought but advertising the forum could really help. Likely brought up before but maybe now worth revisiting ? I feel like this could be done at a reasonable cost. I have brought a lot of people here, they had no clue this place existed. It's a bit hard to find if you're newer to btc. When I started collecting physical btc's I didn't even come across btalk, I think I was googling and searching the web pretty decently..tho that was a decade ago nearly. I just can't imagine my life without having found this place. It's special. If more people knew about it, they'd come. Could help combat road blocks, like YouTube censoring the fuck out bitcointalk..insane.. if you type "btalk" "btc forum" "btc talk" it'll be gone in like 5mns or less.
Twitter is a cesspool to converse crypto. r/bitcoin..I don't need to tell you..it seems to have changed a good bit. I'll come across a post where everyone is saying "yeah keeping your coins on coinbase is fine" ..you use to get persecuted for nonsense talk like that, and you absolutely will here and rightfully so. So many people need btalk, they just don't know it yet. Anyways I've always thought it would be awesome if r/bitcoin "advertised" for btalk somewhere, "for more in depth conversations, where Satoshi conversed while active, hodl" etc. I can't remember if you run a bot there but a thought...I've seen constant physical btc's pop up there and a lot of the time no one with knowledge joins the chat. Or you get.. "bitcoin is not physical lol dummies..it's just a souvenir coin"..a bot leading to collectibles would be cool /helpful ! Esp for posts like "I have a 2FA Titan coin, I can't redeem it, help!"..bot says take a look at bitcointalk collectibles sub (they find my scam write up, they just got a huge favor and maybe stick around.
Just my 2 satoshis /thinking a bit out loud. Preciate ya big time regardless.