[CommunityDiscussion]Existing popular markets have difficulty keeping up with traffic. Could a stripped down market find success this year? Less like Amazon - more like RAMP?

I wonder about the potential of a forum-based or other stripped down market site. A site that depends less on scripting, and generating content on the fly, should have less vulnerability and lower resource use per customer / vendor served.

The markets are dominated by a couple of very popular sites. Neither site is able to keep acceptable uptime and speed, and this has been true for months. It is a source of unease in the community and turns off potential buyers and sellers both.

What do you think? Could a stripped down marketplace enter the scene successfully and usher in a new era of 1990's style ugly but functional drug bazaars?


Comments


[2 Points] BrodhiRoundhouseKick:

Text based like an newgroups from years ago would be prime... very little data to load...


[2 Points] robutsounds:

East India seems to be really stripped down but also has a good layout.


[1 Points] 349t394349034:

Literally all it would take is a phpbb forum for verified vendors that allowed direct deals or multisig w/arbitrators, not as organized but the forum wouldnt be involved in transactions or hosting images or anything thats causing all the problems were seeing.


[1 Points] mithrakush:

That was the philosophy I had in mind when I designed Zanzibar. The server typically generates a page in about 50 ms and I can scale it across multiple servers. I already have a proxy capable of load balancing in place between the webserver and tor.


[0 Points] ShulginsCat:

Something like /r/multisigbazaar ?