Let's keep the momentum going here fellow free-marketers! We all want a fully-functional, easy-to-use forum, right? Well let's do it by showing LvMI how much support they could count on to help make it happen!
1. Pledge an extra monetary donation of $10 or more toward the costs
2. Volunteer support with the technical aspects of vBulletin/PHP/UBB installation and design
3. Volunteer ongoing technical support as an administrator
4. Offer advice and guidance regarding purhcase options
5. Other (please specify)
Hey, my paragraph spacing went back to double! K00L. Please reply with what you can do to help get this very worthwhile project off the ground and moving. The only thing I think we should completely rule out is upgrading to a later version of Telligent, so don't go there unless you're trolling.
As for me, I pledge to make a minimum donation of $10 once a software package is decided on. I'd offer more, but money is extraordinarily tight at the moment.
I'd also be happy to offer non-technical suggestions on forum category design.
I will match your ten dollar donation minimum.
I also offer a photograph of Jeff Tucker using shaving cream.
I'll take a $10 donation to upgrade my software.
Also, I don't know if this was ever answered or brought up, but when we get a new forum I assume it's going to be completely fresh, and we will no longer have our hundred to thousand post counts under our name, which disappoints me.
When I made a donation a couple years ago I fully specified to make it go towards a better forum. Little did I now I was contributing towards the new community...
This time I am donating only after I know what it will be spent on. I leave the decision for the forum platform to the mre tech-savvy.
What if I make a new forum software that is awesome? :D
I'd sign up for it! Are you thinking about myBB software?
And I've done a little research on forum software - it might be an even bigger project that I suspected for the Mises forum. It seems that "Telligent" uses ASP instead of PHP programming (ASP-based forums are pretty much extinct nowadays) and it's apparently quite a chore to transform one to the other. They might need different servers and everything!
Sometimes the free market is cruelly ironic.
Wheylous: What if I make a new forum software that is awesome? :D
To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process. Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!" Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."
Eh?
Would you utilize Ruby on Rails to make the new forum software?
I'm stuck between Rate of Return and Ruby on Rails.
Probably something totally different though.
EDIT: Hahahaha guessed it!
Php, unfortunately :P