输了众筹 赢了朋友
It’s been a bit over a week since we launched Flarum on Kickstarter. If you’ve been following the campaign, you might be a little curious about the lack of updates on our part. Although we have been reading and responding to feedback, we haven’t been pushing and promoting the campaign nearly as much as we should’ve been.
我们已经为 Flarum 在 Kickstarter 筹款一周有余了. 如果您一直在关注活动, 您可能会对我们贫乏的信息更新而感到好奇. 尽管我们在听取回应大家的反馈, 但我们还是远远没有做到应有的对这项活动的推进.
a bit over a week 一周多一点 campaign 活动 the lack of updates 缺乏更新 nearly as much as 远远不如
As it turns out, while we have been really happy with the initial response to Flarum, the feedback we’ve received has given us a lot of food for thought. What are we actually building? How? Why? After some lengthy consideration, we’ve made a decision:
事实证明, 虽然我们对 Flarum 的雏形非常满意, 但我们收到的反馈还是让我们陷入了深思. 「我们实际上做了什么? 如何做? 根据什么? 」经过深思熟虑, 我们决定:
We are pulling the plug on the Kickstarter, in favour of openly and collaboratively building Flarum on GitHub from the beginning.
我们放弃在 Kickstarter 上众筹的行为, 打算在 GitHub 上以开放、协作的方式给 Flarum 新的开始.
food for thought 回味无穷 in favour of 支持 collaboratively 合作地
Why are we doing this? First, let us be clear about our number-one mission with Flarum: we want to make forums better for everyone. We don’t care about money, status, or personal gain. We simply see that the forum software scene — particlarly in self-hosted PHP land — is far less than ideal, and we want to fix it. That is our mission with Flarum. That has always been my mission since the conception of esoTalk back in 2009.
status 地位 personal gain 私利 particularly 特别是 far less than ideal 远不够理想 back in 早在
Admittedly, then, one could suggest that we were a tad hasty with the decision to launch Flarum as a Kickstarter. The idea of crowdfunding appealed to me, especially after seeing the success of similar open-source projects. I would take a year off studying medicine to do something that I loved, to build something that I believed in. We would work out a way to set up a cloud hosting platform and achieve a sustainable business model.
In the past week, though, we’ve realised that this probably isn’t the best way to make Flarum happen, nor the best way to achieve our mission. The forum software market is a saturated one. There are well-established modern platforms out there, and it isn’t easy to justify $50K of pledges for yet another player.
Additionally, it has become apparent that the idea of username centralization is a bad one. Take a scenario where a paying business customer wants to use their own name on their own forum... but they can’t, because a stranger from the other side of the world has already reserved it. This proposal is easy enough to retract, but things are complicated by the fact that we have already started pre-selling usernames through the campaign.
This is all OK, and it doesn’t make us believe any less in what we’re doing. Flarum certainly does solve some big problems with forum design, ease-of-use, and customizability. Account centralization still seems like something that is worth looking into (sans global usernames, of course.) But we have come to believe that building Flarum by ourselves, while surviving on donations, is an unnecessarily covert and expensive way to build open software — one that is probably doomed to failure.
Instead, we want to harness the power of open-source right from the start.Among all the feedback, we’ve been blown away by the huge number of developers who have expressed interest in helping. Building Flarum as an open-source project means that we can do it without funding and without risk, and we believe it will ultimately lead to better forum software.
Before we can get started, we need to consolidate our progress into a workable foundation and surround it with solid logistics — and all the while I have exams I need to study for. But within two months, we’ll push everything we’ve got so far to GitHub and lead a collaborative effort to build Flarum. Follow @Flarum on Twitterto stay in the loop and get involved!
Thank you to everyone who made a pledge on the Kickstarter, asked questions, and left feedback. We are immensely grateful for your support and advice.
Together, let's build the best forum software out there.
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