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General Discussion / Changes to the forum - looking for proposals
« on: August 17, 2014, 12:26:23 pm »
Bitsapphire is currently looking to add certain small features to the current forum.

The following three are planned to happen within the next 1-2 weeks:
  • Add a PTS and BTSX price ticker to the header of the forum
  • Make all outgoing links on the forum nofollow. This way we won't be as attractive to spammers and Google most likely ranks us better.
  • Change the current URL structure to something human readable (the current links would redirect to the new links, nothing gets lost). This is for both legibility and better search ranking.

We also plan to have unobtrusive bitsapphire delegate voting buttons instead of advertisements on the forum.

Let us know what you would like to change on the forum!

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General Discussion / Re: Bitsapphire taking over forum maintenance and development
« on: August 16, 2014, 03:35:12 pm »
Quote from: Gentso1 on August 14, 2014, 09:53:18 pm
AWESOME :'((they are tears of joy)

First its great that someone is taking on the forum as I am sure it is going to be getting very busy around here.

Lastly I have asked this question to other delegates and I would like to hear your thoughts, How do you feel about single individuals or companies running multiply delegate accounts?The argument I have heard is that there is not enough people that what to be delegates but I and the list of delegates beg to differ.
So do you think centralization through the running of multiple delegate accounts further compounds the problem? Or do you believe that with only 101 positions that the running of multiple accounts does nothing to hurt the network?

Thanks!

There are pros and cons. Right now there really are not enough individuals with enough technical knowledge to become delegates. Looking at the delegate list right now you can see that there are several individuals with several delegates in the game (don't forget to vote for us!  :)).

In the future I believe that we will see 1 delegate = 1 person/entity, not because that is what share holders vote for but because delegates will become specialized and offer delegate services for multiple DACs at once. We also see that DPOS most likely will become key to shosing Open Transactions federation servers which don't collude with one another and Codius Oracles. We're writing a short blogpost on these topics right now. Once that happens delegates will be data center owners rather than normal geeks :)

A much bigger fear of ours is that due to some game theoretical models, share/capital accumulation will happen over time, and hence certain people/entities will decide on the fate of the DAC(s) ever more. Without some inbuilt anti-accumulation feature this is a serious long term problem, maybe just as problematic as mining today.

However, because we have the BItshares Toolkit anybody can soon build any kind of DACs. We will see a thousand DACs bloom, all with new and improved features.

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General Discussion / Re: Bitsapphire taking over forum maintenance and development
« on: August 14, 2014, 09:38:58 pm »
Quote from: toast on August 14, 2014, 09:33:16 pm
+5%

I support these guys 100%.

(Please be delicate with transitioning the forum to a different forum software...)

Thanks toast! :D

We won't touch the forum software any time soon. We believe that once the BitsharesX wallet UX/UI is ready we will see mass adoption, so we need to get the forum ready for such mass adoption ahead of time.

If need be we will even build a Discourse Android app.

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General Discussion / Re: Bitsapphire taking over forum maintenance and development
« on: August 14, 2014, 09:36:42 pm »
Quote from: tonyk on August 14, 2014, 09:26:10 pm
Dartmouth ???

 state/country.... or  country

Kosovo? USA?

Thanks for asking tonyk!

Bitsapphire started at the Dartmouth Entepreneurial Network (DEN) in New Hampshire last winter. Two of us lived in the US for some time and had the chance to take part in the DEN experience. Since then we moved to the republic of Kosovo where the rest of the team is located.

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General Discussion / Bitsapphire taking over forum maintenance and development
« on: August 14, 2014, 09:16:36 pm »
Dear Bitsharestalk community,

Today we have several exciting announcements to make!

Bitsharestalk.org is now under Bitsapphire ownership and management. Our team is excited to be part of this emerging industry!
Please keep in mind that this forum is a separate entity from I3 but works together with the industry as a whole.

Amazon, the original creator and manager of the forum, had other day to day activities to look after. He decided that a professional full time team needed to get behind the forum and that the community needed long term plans.

Until the end of the year these are our plans for the forum:
  • Switch the forum over to Discourse once the android/iphone app matures. (See example community). This won’t happen until we find a good solution for the taptalk android users in the forum.
  • Find a better solution for communication between the Chinese and American community on the forum (for the first time this month we got more visits from China than the US). Miscommunication is rampant
  • Start a social media and inbound marketing campaign for the community.
  • Backup server in case it goes down.
  • Start penetration testing for the forum.
  • Switch the forum to a different cloud platform (AWS or Google), with better performance
  • Setup social media accounts and create a social media strategy
  • Setup a weekly curated newsletter for forum subscribers. Many readers simply don’t have the time to follow every important discussion.
  • Setup delegates which donates funds to the forum upkeep (to phase out any funds coming from the community)

SEO optimizations on our todo list:
  • Google analytics
  • Google Webmaster Tools
  • Meta Data Inclusion - Meta description creates interest and click through from social media and search
  • Bot Accessibility - Bot-readable URLs need to be mapped to their respective existing forum pages
Frankly, the forum software is almost a decade behind in terms of what web technologies can do now. Our original plan was to slowly change the design of the forum to get everybody accustomed with the new interface and then switch the forum software to Discourse, but that is now off the table. The software is simply too old. Fortunately there are good open source solutions exist.

Please follow us on our new official social media profiles:
Twitter
Facebook
Google+

We intend to keep Bitsharestalk free of ads forever. Please vote for our delegates to support the forum and our greater goal of creating Bitshares web applications! Full blogpost of our Bitshares web application plans coming soon!


  • bitsapphire
  • bitsharestalk1.bitsapphire
  • bitsharestalk2.bitsapphire
  • app1.bitsapphire
  • app2.bitsapphire
  • delegate.bitsapphire


The official forum donation addresses are:
Bitcoin: 1J8mEZvuTpKHvns9n25EqDouSbJ7sN3za8
PTS: PmD7Czt8B7gFuMbAgEHbbZ3cGjGpHepMqu
BitsharesX: bitsapphire

Please let us know what you would like to change in terms of forum management and online marketing efforts.

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