Hey Rob, thank you for your valuable feedback on this
On the topic of change, I personally get attached to original GUIs,
for instance, I still used the original BiblePay wallet theme for a loooong time before finally switching to the bezaleel theme,
and I got upset when Gmail forced new GUI on me haha
Forum wise, I like SMF / phpBB layout vs the Discourse layout, the discourse layout is weird, I like what Im used to
But I do like this quote: "The only constant is change"
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heraclitus
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Comparison of Internet forum software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software
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Proposal wise, I agree this proposal lacks any funding,
its more of a "Should we use Discourse over SMF?", I probably should have worded it that way or started it as a pre-proposal,
I think Im trying to push consensus through now vs letting it sit for months in discussions
Im not sure what an accurate time estimate is, but it only took me about 2-3 hours to set everything up,
for switching over, add an hour to switch DNS records, add in hours for migrating accounts/threads/posts
and add in hours for learning a new system, and add in buffer for unknowns
I think the 80 hours estimate is very high, maybe 20-30 hours combined would be my estimate
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Also, any time Ive spent on this Im donating to BiblePay
Im cool with whatever decision gets made, just offering this as an interesting alternative
I agree on almost all of the above points and discourse doesnt look too bad, especially if PIVX uses it.
However on this one:
"Im not sure what an accurate time estimate is, but it only took me about 2-3 hours to set everything up,
for switching over, add an hour to switch DNS records, add in hours for migrating accounts/threads/posts
and add in hours for learning a new system, and add in buffer for unknowns
I think the 80 hours estimate is very high, maybe 20-30 hours combined would be my estimate"
I agree with the 20-30 hours for migration tasks other than migrating the entire forum content.
I make the assumption that (not knowing which method we would use to move the data), that we would not move to an empty discourse forum. IE that we did already manually create the old topics and threads and configure the software (in X hours or so) I assume we still need to move some data. The rest of this time was a guess on my part for migrating the data. I don't know if a data migrator exists or not (from SMF to discourse). This is basically padding the estimate to ensure TheSnat would want to entrench himself in this endeavor.
Im neutral on this subject- so I think we should let thesnat weight in more on this as I feel we would be pushing the lions share of work over to him if we switch to discourse. (Especially if he is willing to be hosting the forum etc). He might be working on POG PHP pages, or proposal enhancements, or wanting to run a copy of dashninja (we should consider calling that BiblePayRabbi if we ever do that) etc. I would like to see how he would like to spend his next 6 month time. If he wants to push this off and still do it later please let us know Snat.
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