Yeah I need to reiterate, this site is for people who grow legally under state law or live outside the US with different laws. If you post something publicly that shows you are growing illegally, your account will be deleted. I do what I can to make this as clear as possible in the TOS and at the bottom of every page.
So far everyone using has kept their stuff hidden. For the fed's to get a warrant for any one persons data on any website they need to 1) know you are using it 2) know which account is yours and 3) know that you are in their jurisdiction. We take all the precautions possible for #2 and #3 (there is no law requiring you to keep IP logs, and even if there is one in the future IP's are easy enough to change), 1 is up to the user (with plenty of ways to keep it quiet). Posting 'This is all conjecture' in your signature is not a legal defense.
How much you worry about this (and posting on forums) obviously depends on where you live and how you grow. If the argument is 'The feds are after me, this would be dangerous', then yes please don't use it. You're not bursting any bubbles. I'm optimistic when it comes to MMJ legislation. I think down the road more people will be able to grow and study how they grow without an overwhelming fear of being watched.
@Lucifer, No plans on open sourcing at the moment. Not all of it anyways. Right now I'm working on a measurement unit converter for all of our data types. I was planning on releasing that to the PHP community, but maybe I'll try to make it into a vbulletin plugin. Another thing I was thinking, was seeking out developers and people who maintain strain lists and databases and see if there isn't a way to standardize. I'm not sure what kind of variety you have in Missouri, but the available genetics here have blown up. It'd be nice to compile (anonymous) stats about them all and have it public domain.
So far everyone using has kept their stuff hidden. For the fed's to get a warrant for any one persons data on any website they need to 1) know you are using it 2) know which account is yours and 3) know that you are in their jurisdiction. We take all the precautions possible for #2 and #3 (there is no law requiring you to keep IP logs, and even if there is one in the future IP's are easy enough to change), 1 is up to the user (with plenty of ways to keep it quiet). Posting 'This is all conjecture' in your signature is not a legal defense.
How much you worry about this (and posting on forums) obviously depends on where you live and how you grow. If the argument is 'The feds are after me, this would be dangerous', then yes please don't use it. You're not bursting any bubbles. I'm optimistic when it comes to MMJ legislation. I think down the road more people will be able to grow and study how they grow without an overwhelming fear of being watched.
@Lucifer, No plans on open sourcing at the moment. Not all of it anyways. Right now I'm working on a measurement unit converter for all of our data types. I was planning on releasing that to the PHP community, but maybe I'll try to make it into a vbulletin plugin. Another thing I was thinking, was seeking out developers and people who maintain strain lists and databases and see if there isn't a way to standardize. I'm not sure what kind of variety you have in Missouri, but the available genetics here have blown up. It'd be nice to compile (anonymous) stats about them all and have it public domain.
Yes I have put some thought into a "master database" of strains as well. Need a reliable central location and a good system to let people input their results, seperated by breeder and reliability of the source.
Auto-events code I didn't write, I can go through and take a look it shouldn't take much effort to fix. There are still some lacking areas that I'm building up, by 1.0 it will be solid for small/medium/large growers but it'll take a bit of time to get there.
