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[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

You could set up a saidit clone in about 2 hours, but to make changes you'll have to learn how to adjust the code yourself, because unfortunately basically no one wants to work on something that has 8 programming languages and a million lines of code, unless you pay them a ton of money. I have also experienced this while trying to find programmers to help with saidit.

I'd be willing to help get the ball rolling with setting up a saidit instance (weren't you working on the saidit docker system with d3rr?) but you're going to have to learn to adjust code to make the adjustments yourself in order for it to succeed.

The fact both d3rr and I know how to operate and adjust the code of saidit is the only reason this site is still alive 3 years after we started. Either that or you have to have a spare $100k+ sitting around to hire top-notch programmers. That unfortunately is the reality of the landscape, in my experience. If you just want to change the header image and do some CSS adjustments, I can teach you how to do all that, just PM me and I'd be happy to help.

[–]fschmidt[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

In spite of our different views on moderation, I consider the current SaidIt to be an acceptable platform which is why I post here. I don't see any point in setting up another SaidIt instance unless I can substantially improve on the current SaidIt, and that would require a programmer who can work with the code. I don't have the time to learn this code myself, and I can't find anyone else to do it, so I don't think a SaidIt clone makes sense for me.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

_ I don't see any point in setting up another SaidIt instance unless I can substantially improve on the current SaidIt_

You can improve and fundamentally help BOTH sites by creating the free speech site so SaidIt can return and focus on civil discourse. The two sites need each other, like Yin and Yang or Good Kirk and Evil Kirk.

Start with that, before you try reinventing the wheel.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Fair enough, I can understand that viewpoint. However I do think that separate forums can be created with similar appearances, but over time evolve to have entirely different communities and cultures. I've seen this happen with godlikeproductions.com who split their userbase in half in to two websites for a year or so. Initially the two were "the same" but after a year they had developed very different cultures and focuses. So even just the saidit software with another name at another url, giving it another focus, is enough to attract some users. Although advertising forums is hard these days, so you need some sort of "hook" to draw people in if you're looking for good growth. Anyways, that's my 2 cents.