[Dev] Feathercoin Web Site & Forum - Issues and Improvement

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Since changing over to Neoscrypt and GPUs only mining from a peak FTC hash rate (with ASICs and Scrypt), there has been a reduction in FTC “Difficulty” reading.

Difficulty is adjusted with hash power on the network, so it is an excellent indicator of the number of “miners”. However, the difficulty is constantly adjusting, so all readings are an average. Feathercoind can be poled to output any required average period, for each block.

In retrospect, when neoscrypt was programmed we should have multiplied the difficulty reading back up, so it was the equivalent of the scrypt “Difficulty” reading. The same thing happened to Litecoin when it used scrypt there are less hashes for the same “security strength” in Bitcoin which is all hashes and no scrypt.

Viewing coinplorer therefore looks strange to anyone who does not understand the history.

https://coinplorer.com/Charts/Difficulty/FTC

What can the trend of difficulty show us?

For the last 6 months FTC has been running at a difficulty of ~ 2.5 neoscrypt difficulty per day
Since April 2016 the difficulty has doubled to 7.0 peaking at 22 at the end of April.
The current FTC difficulty has settled to ~ 3.5 per day

It would therefore be good to have FTC Difficulty chart in tools drop down menu. It would positive feedback showing the consistent strength of the network.

I also note that we used to have tools in the forum drop downs, which was useful, and where visitors hang out…

Resources needed:

The difficulty for historical periods and lengths can be extracted from Feathercoind

At simplest : a chart of last weeks daily difficulty.

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@wrapper : the charts where taken from external sites, but some of the sites are gone, or our newer software doesn’t have an interface available to pull the charts.

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This difficulty chart on Blockchain.info seems more informative

https://bchain.info/FTC/

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@Wellenreiter said:

@wrapper : the charts where taken from external sites, but some of the sites are gone, or our newer software doesn’t have an interface available to pull the charts.

These are some additional charts I am thinking, the resources seem OK.

I or someone might volunteer to host some charts.

As you know, our p2pool mirror site got closed down by Digital Ocean when the Tories came in and changed the rules so you couldn’t pay by paypal (have an anonymous account). But I have been looking for something similar (to set up pool20 on again) and not U$A based …

Also,if we had that mechanism i.e script or chron txt output to chart, we could host the p2pool difficulty charts we created …

plus : someone might have a cleverer idea, how to do it. or know that a NodeBB addon does that already?

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It maybe because Firefox on Linux not MAC, but been testing the download pages and get this on the MAC page :

https://www.feathercoin.com/

Reported Unwanted Software Page!

This web page at www.feathercoin.com has been reported to contain unwanted software and has been blocked based on your security preferences.

Unwanted software pages try to install software that can be deceptive and affect your system in unexpected ways.

The Windows download works though …

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@wrapper I think, that still is related to the binaries, that can be downloaded from the main page.

the Mac version of the browser doesn’t like the mining code in the wallet.

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Just a note on general statistics on traffic for the Feathercoin (FTC) forum over the last 2 months :

500 unique visitors a day from guests and members, each read on average 4 posts.
2000 visits a week

Highest visits and page views to the forum occurred on May 13, 14, 15 at 17,500 page views a day by 2500 visitors.

Which coincided with the Craig Wright not Nakamoto discussion / controversy

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Test of Coin Bot

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On-Line QR generator failed to make Stealth Address

Feathercoin Qr code generator accepted a stealth address, but then cut it down to normal address size.

https://www.feathercoin.com/qr-code-generator/

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To avoid confusion with old or development issues I’ve started a new thread, for web site and forum developments.

http://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8895/dev-feathercoin-web-site-forum-issues-and-improvement