[DEV] Feathercoin Web Site Development & Artwork
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Kevlar has a point when he says that our opening line states what we are in the negative:
[center][i]Feathercoin is an Internet currency [b]not[/b] controlled by any central bank or institution[/i][/center]
What do people feel about this instead:
[center][i]Feathercoin is an Internet currency [b]free from[/b] any central bank or institution[/i]
[i]Feathercoin is an Internet currency [b]independent of[/b] any central bank or institution[/i]
[/center]Also what about the word [i]authority[/i] does that belong in there instead of institution?
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[quote name=“chrisj” post=“52569” timestamp=“1389841785”]
Also what about the word [i]authority[/i] does that belong in there instead of institution?
[/quote]I would say that in order to incite, so you probably want to stick with institution.Institution is much more vague referring to governments, reserves, banks and private money systems.
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[quote name=“chrisj” post=“52569” timestamp=“1389841785”]
[i]Feathercoin is an Internet currency [b]independent of[/b] any central bank or institution[/i]
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If there would be a voting, I’d vote for the above and stick with institution.
Also may be it’s worth to use ‘decentralized’ like
Feathercoin is an Internet currency based on a decentralized infrastructure and [b]independent of[/b] any central bank or institution
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[b]Feathercoin is a cryptographic key backed currency based on a decentralized infrastructure and is independent of any central bank.[/b]
Is “snappier” we don’t have to tell everyone everything in one sentence. I changed it cause we’re not just on the internet. Don’t use this, it is just “rough idea”
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[b]Mobile Phone & Non English language Feathercoin v3 web sites versions and start pages.[/b]
I meant we need a separate design project for the “Smart phone web site”. Perhaps even the “3rd world facilities web site”
These are the “Main pages” for those slightly different requirements.
As we are trying to be international, perhaps some Other Languages -> Can run Separate front pages?
eg Non English - front page to “official volunteers” like lizhi could do Chinese and could officially link direct to the main site.
I think we need a hard ware fund, to make sure some basic web API services are distributed. This could facilitate and speed up implementation in non EU / USA countries.
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This is where change control and testing would come in.
The “Your Ideas for Feathercoin” menu buttons were not updated / re replicated correctly when new tools were added to the main forum.
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[quote name=“wrapper0feather” post=“52625” timestamp=“1389873086”]
[b]Feathercoin is a cryptographic key backed currency based on a decentralized infrastructure and is independent of any central bank.[/b]Is “snappier” we don’t have to tell everyone everything in one sentence. I changed it cause we’re not just on the internet. Don’t use this, it is just “rough idea”
[/quote]Complicated sentence. (but very correct)
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I’ve rented a “Digital Ocean” cloud host site ($10 month). My son wants to set up a p2pool.
Its in Amsterdam, I have one droplet but could install another in which"test Feathercoin web sites" could be deployed.
For testing / appreciation of the potential new web site designs to members? Possible no holds barred weekend hack fest etc…
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[quote name=“chrisj” post=“52569” timestamp=“1389841785”]
Kevlar has a point when he says that our opening line states what we are in the negative:[center][i]Feathercoin is an Internet currency [b]not[/b] controlled by any central bank or institution[/i][/center]
What do people feel about this instead:
[center][i]Feathercoin is an Internet currency [b]free from[/b] any central bank or institution[/i]
[i]Feathercoin is an Internet currency [b]independent of[/b] any central bank or institution[/i]
[/center]Also what about the word [i]authority[/i] does that belong in there instead of institution?
[/quote]I know I ruffle a lot of feathers when I do this … but I don’t care, come after me.
I like the new wording, however it does not rid Feathercoin from experiencing the obvious inevitable comment, “[i][b]Yeah, but ACP[/b][/i]”.
So, to me throwing the above line around as FTC’s cornerstone is not going to go over well for teh haters (and there are a plenty), which I know is not your target audience, but it will get back to your target audience via teh haters in time and then FTC’s possibly lost the trust of said target audience.
It’s slightly disingenuous IMHO, until ACP is gone.
Ok have at me.
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At the current time forum post are bumped straight to the top of the thread when they are viewed.
I invented / applied a system, in which for this case,
[b]Each forum post view, would raise the post one in the list. This system would automatically keep popular post high in the list.[/b]
New posts still start at the top. Less useful posts, or short term News Items would drop down the list.
I propose applying this technique to solve a known cause of failure, discriminating useful posts in a large forum. As it is by a self aligning method it applies no additional strain on moderators or members.
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[quote name=“HopeStillFlies” post=“52572” timestamp=“1389842221”]
[quote author=chrisj link=topic=6616.msg52569#msg52569 date=1389841785]Also what about the word [i]authority[/i] does that belong in there instead of institution?
[/quote]I would say that in order to incite, so you probably want to stick with institution.Institution is much more vague referring to governments, reserves, banks and private money systems.
[/quote]Good feedback, thanks.
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lets not mention the competition… (when did you see - Pepsi is not Coke?)
[b]Feathercoin is a modern, open, distributed currency.[/b]
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[quote name=“Tuck Fheman” post=“52662” timestamp=“1389886164”]
[quote author=chrisj link=topic=6616.msg52569#msg52569 date=1389841785]
Kevlar has a point when he says that our opening line states what we are in the negative:[center][i]Feathercoin is an Internet currency [b]not[/b] controlled by any central bank or institution[/i][/center]
What do people feel about this instead:
[center][i]Feathercoin is an Internet currency [b]free from[/b] any central bank or institution[/i]
[i]Feathercoin is an Internet currency [b]independent of[/b] any central bank or institution[/i]
[/center]Also what about the word [i]authority[/i] does that belong in there instead of institution?
[/quote]I know I ruffle a lot of feathers when I do this … but I don’t care, come after me.
I like the new wording, however it does not rid Feathercoin from experiencing the obvious inevitable comment, “[i][b]Yeah, but ACP[/b][/i]”.
So, to me throwing the above line around as FTC’s cornerstone is not going to go over well for teh haters (and there are a plenty), which I know is not your target audience, but it will get back to your target audience via teh haters in time and then FTC’s possibly lost the trust of said target audience.
It’s slightly disingenuous IMHO, until ACP is gone.
Ok have at me.
[/quote]Does Bush or any person or small group have the ability to control the network in any way? Does ACP have any more features than the control of depth or the off button?
Centralisation is not absolute, it’s a continuum. It’s also not a moral issue, the actions of individuals is. An environment that has centralised aspects will over time afford bad behaviour on average but does not necessarily do so. Right now all cryptos are “centralised” sociologically speaking, how was the fork in Bitcoin averted in March? The pool operators have one another’s phone numbers.
The point is that the distributed network is our goal at the end of this never ending journey we are all on unlike the Banks whose sole aim to control. But we will never reach our goal if we are not prepared to make the hard choices on the way.
Just my opinion, thought I appreciate the concern. Does anyone have a perspective on this?
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Also, if you want to get meta perspective, ACP is only centralised on a consensus of the past, when someone tries to re-write it.
At the time the transactions happened it was a decentralised consensus.
At no time was ACP a requested feature, it was only ever implemented as the minimum of 2 evils, the other being attacked to the detriment of loyal miners. I sat there in the attack watching my coins get unconfirmed and disappear from the wallet, so perhaps have a different perspective…
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Ok I had a meeting with @Severino this afternoon following the comments from people on this thread, Peter Blachford and @Kevlar most of which are on this [url=https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1orkheq_SxXRPVexglILynO47xY3mqDWDTHIEQ3jQuMM]Google Doc[/url]. Send me your Gmail if you wish to comment.
Points made were:
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[*]The market price should be displayed high up
[*]Other key stats like hashrate and Market cap too?
[*]Tools button should smooth scroll to the bottom with a grid including QR Code generator etc
[*]The 3 boxes below the hero image should be:
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[list type=decimal]
[*]Why Feathercoin
[*]Where to buy
[*]Where to spend
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[*]Do lighter version of the same theme. This is because this theme will need to be distributed across the forum etc it might be that the light text on black is too difficult to read when applied to the forum
[*]AB Testing should be done on 2 or 3 key designs
[/list]So the overal information hierarchy should be:
[list type=decimal]
[*]Basics - Why Feathercoin
[*]Necessities - Buy and Sell
[*]Ancillaries - Tools
[/list]Over to you!
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[quote name=“wrapper0feather” post=“52676” timestamp=“1389888824”]
Also, if you want to get meta perspective, ACP is only centralised on a consensus of the past, when someone tries to re-write it.At the time the transactions happened it was a decentralised consensus.
[/quote]+1!
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I can’t wait. Brilliant work.
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[quote name=“wrapper0feather” post=“52668” timestamp=“1389887444”]
lets not mention the competition… (when did you see - Pepsi is not Coke?)[b]Feathercoin is a modern, open, distributed currency.[/b]
[/quote]I like the word distributed!
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The Digital Ocean cloud hosting is more for apps like p2pool than wordpress.
Normal Web hosting which have cPanel and wordpress installed already would be better for beta testing new web site templates…
Digital Ocean - has server virtual machines you can run, for instance - Listen to Feathercoins? or other blockchain related services.
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[quote name=“chrisj” post=“52671” timestamp=“1389887908”]
Does Bush or any person or small group have the ability to control the network in any way? Does ACP have any more features than the control of depth or the off button?
[/quote]Yes, Bush has absolute control over miner abilities. He can solo mine the chain himself with no competition, allowing only what blocks he mines into it, undoing any longer chain with a single GPU. He can destroy the network, locking all miners out of it, or selectively manipulate it to any lesser degree, allowing himself to mine as many coins as he chooses before allowing miners back on to the network. It’s at his discretion not to do such things, and having adopted the client which listens to ACP, we are powerless to prevent it.
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Centralisation is not absolute, it’s a continuum. It’s also not a moral issue, the actions of individuals is. An environment that has centralised aspects will over time afford bad behaviour on average but does not necessarily do so. Right now all cryptos are “centralised” sociologically speaking, how was the fork in Bitcoin averted in March? The pool operators have one another’s phone numbers.
[/quote]I agree that there are trade-offs to be made, but the difference here is that people can unempower the pools by moving their hash power away. With ACP, the pools aren’t in control, AND the miners aren’t in control, one person is. On the continuum of centralization, one person acting with impunity is still more dangerous than a group of people beholden to their constituents.
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The point is that the distributed network is our goal at the end of this never ending journey we are all on unlike the Banks whose sole aim to control. But we will never reach our goal if we are not prepared to make the hard choices on the way.
[/quote]We’ve agreed verbally to this, but we also agree that it’s an uneasy sacrifice, and one best planned away from and apologized for with an explanation as to why it’s an appropriate if not entirely necessary evil, not leaned into with wild abandon and touted as a long-term solution. The danger in not allowing the free market to determine the fate of the blockchain is that the free market no longer determines the fate of the blockchain. It’s an even harder choice to say, “Well, we run the risk of crashing and burning because the technology is immature, but I’d rather try and fail, and then innovate to fix the problem, rather than bury the problem behind a solution that enables me to not innovate, and never address the real problem.”
The problem is that the network isn’t secure from malicious attackers. Exchanges responded to this by increasing the number of confirmations required. This was a VERY GOOD solution that addressed the problem correctly. ACP succeeded in bringing back down the number of confirmations on the exchanges, but it turned FTC blockchain into a centralized ledger dictated by one person. At any time the feds could arrest Bushstar and seize his servers, and we’d be back where we started. The price paid was WAY WAY WAY too high. I’d rather have 100 confirmations than a Liberty Reserve blockchain.
I said over and over and over at the time that the right solution was to fix the protocol to increase network security. And here we are, 6 months later, and all ACP has done is allowed us to NOT innovate. What if we had left it at 100 confirms? Might that have motivated people to fix the problem correctly?
Failure is always an option, and sometimes you learn more from it than from an empty victory.
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Just my opinion, thought I appreciate the concern. Does anyone have a perspective on this?
[/quote]My retrospective on the past isn’t going to win any favors with anyone. The training wheels were put on, and we need to move boldly forward (boldly move forward? move forward boldly? stupid split infinitive) into a world where they can come off. That means securing the network in a world without central authority. That means innovating in the code, and attracting the miners.
Anything short of that is doomed to failure.
