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Re: Up with Mises Forums!

Wheylous — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:03:47 GMT

Php, unfortunately :P

Re: Up with Mises Forums!

Groucho — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:01:48 GMT

I'm stuck between Rate of Return and Ruby on Rails.

Probably something totally different though.

EDIT: Hahahaha guessed it!

Re: Up with Mises Forums!

DanielMuff — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:01:43 GMT

Would you utilize Ruby on Rails to make the new forum software?

Re: Up with Mises Forums!

Wheylous — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:55:15 GMT

Eh?

Re: Up with Mises Forums!

DanielMuff — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:39:00 GMT

Wheylous:

What if I make a new forum software that is awesome? :D

RoR?

Re: Up with Mises Forums!

Groucho — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:44:11 GMT

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.

Re: Up with Mises Forums!

Wheylous — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:14:50 GMT

What if I make a new forum software that is awesome? :D

Re: Up with Mises Forums!

Kakugo — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:11:13 GMT

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.

Re: Up with Mises Forums!

Bert — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 14:51:54 GMT

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.

Re: Up with Mises Forums!

Michelangelo — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 07:19:50 GMT

I will match your ten dollar donation minimum.

I also offer a photograph of Jeff Tucker using shaving cream.

Re: Up with Mises Forums!

Malachi — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 05:47:55 GMT

I will donate money.

Re: Up with Mises Forums!

Groucho — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 05:44:07 GMT

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.

Up with Mises Forums!

Groucho — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 05:39:01 GMT

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!

What sort of support will you pledge to help the Mises.org forum move forward with an upgrade to vBulletin or PHP/UBB software?

(now I had intended to put a poll in here, but... surprise surprise... there seems to be no way to do it! And what's this? My paragraph spacing seems to go from double to single... time for extra line-breaks again!) Um, so anyway...

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.