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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: envious on June 18, 2011, 10:35 pm

Title: Why the new forum is good
Post by: envious on June 18, 2011, 10:35 pm
1. Distributes load off the market server. I'm sure everyone noticed how slow the market server has been lately.
2. If this server is hacked (which so many are worrying about) the worst that can happen is they will be able to post under your name. Oh noes.
3. No hidden service is logging IPs as everyone is worried about. Your IP shows up as 127.0.0.1 which is local loopback.
4. If market server goes down, we aren't left out in the dark.
5. The forum software is open source. This is a good thing because anyone can review the code for holes, therefore it is less likely to have them.
6. The forum software has the advanced features that were needed.
7. Developers can now focus on improving the marketplace instead of reinventing the wheel (forum).

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Title: Re: Why the new forum is good
Post by: phubaiblues on June 18, 2011, 11:48 pm
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4. If market server goes down, we aren't left out in the dark.

...and that's huge!  Everybody's was asking everybody, and there seemed to be no one place we could rely on for info...and we have to be careful, and had nowhere to check...and it seemed the btc forum was getting irritable at the SR people, and more than one thread was removed or edited...this forum, being separate, we can get accurate info, instead of all the rumors and misdirections that happened. 
Title: Re: Why the new forum is good
Post by: barry soetoro on June 19, 2011, 01:17 am
8. The old forum kinda sucked
Title: Re: Why the new forum is good
Post by: paine on June 19, 2011, 05:21 am
Quote from: phubaiblues on June 18, 2011, 11:48 pm
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4. If market server goes down, we aren't left out in the dark.

...and that's huge!  Everybody's was asking everybody, and there seemed to be no one place we could rely on for info...and we have to be careful, and had nowhere to check...and it seemed the btc forum was getting irritable at the SR people, and more than one thread was removed or edited...this forum, being separate, we can get accurate info, instead of all the rumors and misdirections that happened.

You should try the SILC channel, there's usually someone there who knows what is going on and puts it in the topic. Very useful.

Thanks to leaf and whoever else runs that.
Title: Re: Why the new forum is good
Post by: nomad bloodbath on June 19, 2011, 10:10 pm
Quote from: paine on June 19, 2011, 05:21 am

You should try the SILC channel, there's usually someone there who knows what is going on and puts it in the topic. Very useful.

Thanks to leaf and whoever else runs that.

This ^. :D
Title: Re: Why the new forum is good
Post by: phubaiblues on June 21, 2011, 04:04 am
Quote from: paine on June 19, 2011, 05:21 am
You should try the SILC channel, there's usually someone there who knows what is going on and puts it in the topic. Very useful.

Thanks to leaf and whoever else runs that.

Thanks: I'd seen that, and didn't know if it was used of not, and forgot about it...thankyou!