Hi guys, I'm Bobby, the co-founder of CoinGecko. I am really happy to see all the conversations happening around here on CoinGecko.
I hardly post in this forum but I have occasionally lurked around here since the Protoshares days. I've been following the progress of Bitshares for a long time and I really like the development, commitment and progress that I have seen from you guys.
I would like to take the opportunity here to say thank you for all the support, especially the user Shentist who tweeted us to inform us of all the changes. I would like to now reply here with some comments on the feedback that the others have remarked.
bing returns 36000 results, not 4800
alexa ranking is 232000 position, not 470000
I haven't checked anything else but I can bet that all their "stats" are wrong.
EDIT
bitsharestalk ranks141,721 with an improvement of 32,751 the last 3 months!
For Bing, we actually use the following search term "Bitshares coin". We add "coin" to the search term for all cryptocurrencies that do not have "coin" in their name.
For Alexa, I believe there was a discrepancy because we had previously listed the old bitshares-x.info website until Shentist tweeted us to update the link to bitshares.org
Yes, I think its highly inaccurate.
I'm not sure where it gets the developer numbers from, but our development is more active than most of the coins above us, which all have higher numbers.
The community rating is based on reddit subscriptions, facebook likes, and tweets, which means that it counts things we are weak at, and not this forum, which is our strength. Also it means it doesnt give us much credit for our chinese community.
Finally, the public interest stats are much lower than they should be if you actually look at Alexa or bing search result numbers.
We have updated the Github URL to the correct one now and as a result of that, Bitshares is now ranking #5 on CoinGecko. Congrats to that!
We agree that Reddit, Facebook and Twitter does not give a full reflection of the community support since these services are banned in China and penalizes your community score more strongly than the other coins. I have been impressed by the level of support that you guys have received in China since the beginning. We are exploring other metrics where we can better evaluate community support received for coins. One of the options that we are exploring is forum activity stats. However do give us some time to work on this as this is a massive undertaking for us to collect data for all 161+ coins that we already track.
If they changed the logo and the homepage (it at least forwards) would be nice as well.
This site is an example of low hanging marketing fruit... if we can get them to update the stats to reflect reality we should be in the top 3. We should also work to make sure that the information they publish about BitShares is as accurate and up to date as possible.
Someone should draft a summary and give them the data they should publish about us.
Thank you, Dan for replying to this thread! I feel honored to receive a comment from the leader himself!
We are very open to updating Bitshares information listed on our website as shown in our previous correspondence with Shentist.
Feel free to continue tweeting us @coingecko or do drop us an email at hello @coingecko.com and we will update the information. One thing that I would like to point out is for someone to send us an updated About section for Bitshares if there are any new changes since we last wrote the 2 paragraphs.
Thank you once again for the support that you have shown to us. Look forward to hearing more from you folks via email and our Twitter!