Crowdfunding the creation of the next version of LFGSS

The intent is that it would be possible to sell on the software aswell to other companies that run 'forums' to get a new take on their 'forum' right?

Nope.

Like tumblr, for forums.

Instead of doing the equivalent of installing your own servers and your copy of Wordpress (vBulletin, phpBB, Vanilla in our case)... you just say you want a forum, and seconds later you have a forum.

This removes so many security problems with out of date software, removes the technical barriers for those who want forums, etc.

New sites would get sub-domains on microcosm.app. So LFGSS becomes lfgss.microcosm.app

And then domain owners can CNAME their domain so that accessing www.lfgss.com would access lfgss.microcosm.app

Piece of piss.

Yet... if you are technical, and do want to fully bespoke the front-end or create a deep integration with something else, then great. Everything the site can do, the APIs can do... and we will fully open our Django front-end, so you can see it all in action and have a starter for 10.

Then all you need do is run an instance of Django pointing at our APIs.

We still keep the users' privacy intact, and the server secure... but you can render it however you please.

10 second starter for the non-technical, as close to full control as possible for the technical.

Going back to the local cycling club in Ipswich which only has 20 members... it should take them no more than a matter of minutes to go from nothing to forum that they can use. No technical knowledge required, and they don't have to pay.

The cost of a row in a database is virtually nothing. The cost of serving a web page I want to be so low that it also is virtually nothing. This way it is possible to make a business using those razor thin margins on affiliate fees.

It's effectively a volume business in which the costs have to be low and usage high to make money. But that's exactly what I've proven is possible with other forums I've run