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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: Heyenezz on January 12, 2012, 01:31 am
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I think if the HTML coding for how to design SR (e.g., it's look, ratings, various functions, etc.) were open source, it would insure that if SR were ever shutdown that someone else could easily create a similar onion site.
It would also encourage innovation by giving others the opportunity to discover room for improvements (e.g., more reliable ratings, new features, better security, etc).
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sorry mate, total disagreement with you there - why would SR want to give potential competitors a winning formula that could take away some of their profit?
anyway - right click and 'view page source' - if you know web design you could pick it apart yourself and fill in the gaps to make it work
there are already similar sites about, you just need to know where to look - none of them even come close to SR and the community here
Agreed. The only way I could see something like this is if someone else started an open source project to produce a framework for a generic anonymous trading platform (I've heard some discussions of ideas like this) under a license like AGPL. If it turned out to really rock who knows? Maybe SR would adopt it.
But then again maybe not.. The big problem I see here though is that open source development is driven by rapid release/deployment and feedback from actual use. That suggests the developers need both experience and somewhere to test their ideas and as you said right now the competition is miles back in the dust and there's no immediate incentive for anyone trying to make a site like this work to share their hard work with others. Then there's the fact that every site would probably want to make extensive customizations and tweaks for differentiation and to fit their needs. I'm not sure how much common code you'd have left that existing web development frameworks can't provide.
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I'd think it'd be a good idea to at least have a backup somewhere that could be put up in the case of SR going down permanently. I'd say the best route would be that the operator entrust a close friend with the source so that it could be put back online if he were raided and arrested, or something along those lines. I don't think releasing the code would really be a threat, though, because for the most part the value of SR now is in the community itself, and not the platform.
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I totally disagree. Just makes it easier to phish us.
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I think if the HTML coding for how to design SR (e.g., it's look, ratings, various functions, etc.) were open source, it would insure that if SR were ever shutdown that someone else could easily create a similar onion site.
It would also encourage innovation by giving others the opportunity to discover room for improvements (e.g., more reliable ratings, new features, better security, etc).
Html source is always public... View > View page source.
If they were to post the actual source code for which I'm assuming runs on multiple different types of coding languages / systems, that would also give LEO an upper hand to trace things.
Terrible idea, sorry...
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drugfather
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Then you might as well remove escrow and ban GPG.
This would cripple the security of SR.
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Then you might as well remove escrow and ban GPG.
This would cripple the security of SR.
Security through obscurity is no security at all. It should be robust enough to be able to withstand the entire source repository being released. That being said, I don't think we're likely to see this happen. The only legitimate reason IMO to not release it is that it makes more advanced (ie functional) SR imitators possible.
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It's a bad idea and I really doubt it will ever happen.
First, it makes it easier for phishers to just mimic the look of SR in order to lure people in so they'll give them their usernames, passwords, or even deposit bitcoin and then just steal it.
Second, someone else could use it to mimic SR and be legit but have lower fees which would impact SR's profits.
And finally, people can use View > Page Source to see how most things appear.
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Bigglesworth, bozangles... I think you got the right idea.
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...disagree
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Very bad idea imo. The source that powers the site should remain strictly guarded.