The new forum software has been a meme for me over the decade or so since it was announced. At first I was excited for it but over the years it just became a meme imo with how long it was taking so good to have some closure now I guess. I think the intention behind it was good though but sometimes things just don't work out.

A better idea instead of having a set team to work on it might be to have it more fluid. Like Theymos himself said he and some other members of the community made updates to the current forum software themself and not the team that was hired for epochtalk. I think we can take a decentralized approach to the new forum software instead of relying on a specific time. Of course you can say Epochtalk was already opensourced but the reality was there was a big expectation that the epochtalk team would develop epochtalk, especially because they were paid to do so. There was no expectation for epochtalk to be developed in a decentralized manner by community members. So I say we revamp this idea of the new forum software. Instead of depending on a team let's make this a decentralized effort from the outset and develop the new forum software for bitcointalk in a decentralized manner. I think this would have much more potential of actually materializing into something useful.

A point against a new forum software though is that like others have said in the thread we have lots of nostalgia for bitcointalk at this point and many don't want to see it look to different. When the new forum software was announced a decade ago of course people liked the current look of btctalk but we didn't have the level of nostalgia for it as we do now so changing things wouldn't have affected us as much back then. However with how the crypto space has changed since back then imo it makes it even more important to have bitcointalk as a beacon of the old days and most of the OG feel should be kept the same. However I think we can still create a new forum software that still carries over the OG feel of bitcointalk. We just need to design it properly.

Forums in general have been in a decline all over the internet, most platforms now are thread based which isn't that great. I really prefer forums to thread based platforms. The forums of the good old days have a much better feel. So with this New Forum Software we could use it as an initiative not just for bitcointalk but to help forums become more of a thing across the internet again. I think that's something a lot of people could get behind. 

Over the years a lot of Bitcoin/crypto discussion has left this forum. Another goal of this new forum software initiative could be to have activity and discussion return to bitcointalk.

The new forum software has been a meme for me over the decade or so since it was announced. At first I was excited for it but over the years it just became a meme imo with how long it was taking so good to have some closure now I guess. I think the intention behind it was good though but sometimes things just don't work out.

A better idea instead of having a set team to work on it might be to have it more fluid. Like Theymos himself said he and some other members of the community made updates to the current forum software themself and not the team that was hired for epochtalk. I think we can take a decentralized approach to the new forum software instead of relying on a specific time. Of course you can say Epochtalk was already opensourced but the reality was there was a big expectation that the epochtalk team would develop epochtalk, especially because they were paid to do so. There was no expectation for epochtalk to be developed in a decentralized manner by community members. So I say we revamp this idea of the new forum software. Instead of depending on a team let's make this a decentralized effort from the outset and develop the new forum software for bitcointalk in a decentralized manner. I think this would have much more potential of actually materializing into something useful.

A point against a new forum software though is that like others have said in the thread we have lots of nostalgia for bitcointalk at this point and many don't want to see it look to different. When the new forum software was announced a decade ago of course people liked the current look of btctalk but we didn't have the level of nostalgia for it as we do now so changing things wouldn't have affected us as much back then. However with how the crypto space has changed since back then imo it makes it even more important to have bitcointalk as a beacon of the old days and most of the OG feel should be kept the same. However I think we can still create a new forum software that still carries over the OG feel of bitcointalk. We just need to design it properly.

Forums in general have been in a decline all over the internet, most platforms now are thread based which isn't that great. I really prefer forums to thread based platforms. The forums of the good old days have a much better feel. So with this New Forum Software we could use it as an initiative not just for bitcointalk but to help forums become more of a thing across the internet again. I think that's something a lot of people could get behind.