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Title: What's actually going on?
Post by: LRENZ on January 22, 2015, 12:50:14 am
Is it just me that finds it so hard to keep up to date with all that's new in the bitshares world or am I just missing a thread with it all listed or something? A lot of other coins have a roadmap kind of thing sometimes in a nice visual which I think would be great for bitshares somewhere to keep updated weekly.  I follow all the YouTube videos/interviews, bitsharestv, Dan's blog etc but things move so fast. A simple list of planned developments and estimated release dates would be great, I look forward to the android wallet. Keep up the great work everyone! :)
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: Ander on January 22, 2015, 12:55:19 am
This is a really great thread for following whats happening:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=895637.0
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: donkeypong on January 22, 2015, 12:56:39 am
Funny thing about deadlines. They don't work all that well with BitShares.

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You can keep an eye on this if you want. Ou guys are working hard for sure.

https://github.com/BitShares/bitshares/milestones (https://github.com/BitShares/bitshares/milestones)
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: Pheonike on January 22, 2015, 01:03:34 am

We have alot things going on in parallel so its harder to track.
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: LRENZ on January 22, 2015, 01:10:54 am
This is a really great thread for following whats happening:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=895637.0

Ahh that's good thanks but ultimately we need something more visually appealing and official looking. A nice graphic listing upcoming developments would be perfect to spread around on social media sites and get the attention of investors. The marketing teams should be doing this asap IMO the whole thing is too complicated to follow for average person working away from computer 5 days a week.
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: speedy on January 22, 2015, 01:24:56 am
How's this for a release date: http://bitshares.org
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: LRENZ on January 22, 2015, 01:34:39 am
Yeah nice but it doesn't even say what its counting down to really. Very vague.

I think a lot of you have forgotten how to look at all this from a normal persons perspective that is new to this technology.
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: Ander on January 22, 2015, 01:42:10 am
Yeah nice but it doesn't even say what its counting down to really. Very vague.

I think a lot of you have forgotten how to look at all this from a normal persons perspective that is new to this technology.

It is counting down to the relaunch of the website, and some PR campaign stuff. 

1.0 should release a few weeks later probably.
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: LRENZ on January 22, 2015, 01:52:46 am
Yeah nice but it doesn't even say what its counting down to really. Very vague.

I think a lot of you have forgotten how to look at all this from a normal persons perspective that is new to this technology.

It is counting down to the relaunch of the website, and some PR campaign stuff.

1.0 should release a few weeks later probably.

I know that because of digging around in threads on here. My point was people that don't have time to visit to forum for hours don't have a clue what's going on and planned for the future.

I'm not hating I'm just pointing out this area needs looking at from marketing perspective asap.
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: Akado on January 22, 2015, 02:02:46 am
Yeah nice but it doesn't even say what its counting down to really. Very vague.

I think a lot of you have forgotten how to look at all this from a normal persons perspective that is new to this technology.

It is counting down to the relaunch of the website, and some PR campaign stuff. 

1.0 should release a few weeks later probably.

I agree with that fact that the site isn't that explicit. If I didn't read somewhere else I'd try to guess it would be v1.0 and if I wasn't in the forums at all or barely came here, my guess would be the release of another DAC or Snapshot.

Although I think it would be kind of difficult to have a detailed road map since there are lots of testing and technical stuff that needs to be sorted out first, in my opinion a more general one should be made so that we could share it with the public. I just lack the needed photoshop skills lol

something like:

------February(v1.0 release)------March(Marketing Campaign, PeerTracks Wallet Release)----May(New DAC Snapshot)------June(TBA)

dunno if things were dated right, it's just an example. Basically, just general stuff

Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: eagleeye on January 22, 2015, 02:04:44 am
Yeah nice but it doesn't even say what its counting down to really. Very vague.

I think a lot of you have forgotten how to look at all this from a normal persons perspective that is new to this technology.

It is counting down to the relaunch of the website, and some PR campaign stuff. 

1.0 should release a few weeks later probably.

Do we know if the site is going to be like bitsharesblocks?
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: eagleeye on January 22, 2015, 09:04:29 am
Yeah nice but it doesn't even say what its counting down to really. Very vague.

I think a lot of you have forgotten how to look at all this from a normal persons perspective that is new to this technology.

It is counting down to the relaunch of the website, and some PR campaign stuff.

1.0 should release a few weeks later probably.

I know that because of digging around in threads on here. My point was people that don't have time to visit to forum for hours don't have a clue what's going on and planned for the future.

I'm not hating I'm just pointing out this area needs looking at from marketing perspective asap.

I agree completely
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: MrJeans on January 22, 2015, 09:28:58 am
There was a good idea here:
http://bitsapphire.com/dac-git-branching/

But I think it has been abandoned?
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: bitmarley on January 22, 2015, 11:04:05 am
Since bitshares constantly needs to adapt to expand and improve perhaps software features specifically targeting delegate reviews and analysis would answer the question permanently for everyone. Imagine the client allows users to view the delegates page and re-sort and filter the list by project name so you see which delegates are working on the same kind of projects. Under each project is a list of links to milestones and funding goals. These are connected to crypto-assurance contracts and you can click any project and see how much funds have been raised and what is needed. Perhaps delegates have links to their special offers. A chart of each delegates voting history over time is a useful metric to make available. We can connect these forums via direct links in the client where all the specifics on each row could be discussed. The other side of the coin is a listing of bounties managed via assurance contracts and escrow access. All of the criticals for newbies are plugged into the client which is the transparent center in our decentralized network, maaaaaaan. Many of these features are already being worked into the mix. Once these tools become available even newbies will be up to date and plugged into participating with whats happening. 

Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: davidpbrown on January 22, 2015, 11:24:47 am
There was a good idea here:
http://bitsapphire.com/dac-git-branching/

But I think it has been abandoned?

That does look like a good idea.. immediate sense of the various DACs will be useful.
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: Empirical1.1 on January 22, 2015, 11:46:13 am
Yeah nice but it doesn't even say what its counting down to really. Very vague.

I think a lot of you have forgotten how to look at all this from a normal persons perspective that is new to this technology.

It is counting down to the relaunch of the website, and some PR campaign stuff.

1.0 should release a few weeks later probably.

I know that because of digging around in threads on here. My point was people that don't have time to visit to forum for hours don't have a clue what's going on and planned for the future.

I'm not hating I'm just pointing out this area needs looking at from marketing perspective asap.

This is valuable feedback. Thank you. I think this is one of BitShares main marketing problems.

Despite its complete transparency, BitShares works like an insiders only club where only a 100 or so people really know what's going on.
 
The forum stats (new members, posts, topics) are steadily declining month on month as it's hard for new people to try grasp everything or feel like they want to get involved and contribute.

Possible ideas -

- What is BitShares? A 5 minute video or few pages that clearly explains what BitShares is & gets people excited about it.
- A delegate site that makes it easy to see who the currently paid delegates are, even those in the top  200 and what they are working on.
- BitShares News. A weekly news show < 5 minutes, that lets you keep up to speed with what's happening in BitShares without having to navigate the forums and try to extract the nuggets yourself.

It's not an easy task though, NXT have tried to create a visual overview of their system on one page and it is still incredibly complicated and confusing to an outsider trying to make any sense of it imo.

http://www.nxttechnologytree.com/

They also have NXT magazine I see

http://nxter.org/

-----

My approach I think is to try present BitShares as a holding company for various business models.
I think new investors will be able to better understand BitShares & its value by seeing sites that vastly undercut and outperform existing options such as Dwolla, UBS, BullionVault, IG etc. and I think customers need to be taken to a site that fulfills their specific needs too.

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=13325.msg174295#msg174295

Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: sumantso on January 22, 2015, 01:07:26 pm
Not too fussed to be honest. Stress should be on marketing the products with easy to use clients and documentation.
BitShares is the shares in this awesome company. If you want to be an investor take the time and look around. Its also necessary as it relies on the shareholders votes to run efficiently.

BM and Bitshares.org are planning on pushing the Decentralized Exchange, while some marketing efforts are being directed towards promoting some choice BitAssets. The end users need not know all the gory details of the backend.
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: Empirical1.1 on January 22, 2015, 02:09:16 pm
Not too fussed to be honest. Stress should be on marketing the products with easy to use clients and documentation.
BitShares is the shares in this awesome company. If you want to be an investor take the time and look around. Its also necessary as it relies on the shareholders votes to run efficiently.

BM and Bitshares.org are planning on pushing the Decentralized Exchange, while some marketing efforts are being directed towards promoting some choice BitAssets. The end users need not know all the gory details of the backend.

That's why I prefer giving the end user product specific sites, I don't even want them to navigate the gory exchange if all they want to do is buy some BitGold & Silver & want a vault experience.

An investor can only invest a lot in a company he can confidently value. While surely grateful for the transparency, they don't want to, nor do they have the time to browse all of the internal communications & conversations of every company they may consider investing in.
Treat investors like customers too in the sense you want to give them a one stop resource that would give someone a strong overview of valuation relevant investment information in the shortest possible amount of time. (What is BTS? 5 min weekly BitShares News & delegate information & navigation site are possible elements of that imo.)

The current approach of focusing on the exchange is fine but I'd like to seperate more business models than just the decentralized exchange that investors are familiar with and that customers are looking for.
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: LRENZ on January 22, 2015, 03:07:11 pm
Yeah nice but it doesn't even say what its counting down to really. Very vague.

I think a lot of you have forgotten how to look at all this from a normal persons perspective that is new to this technology.

It is counting down to the relaunch of the website, and some PR campaign stuff.

1.0 should release a few weeks later probably.

I know that because of digging around in threads on here. My point was people that don't have time to visit to forum for hours don't have a clue what's going on and planned for the future.

I'm not hating I'm just pointing out this area needs looking at from marketing perspective asap.

This is valuable feedback. Thank you. I think this is one of BitShares main marketing problems.

Despite its complete transparency, BitShares works like an insiders only club where only a 100 or so people really know what's going on.
 
The forum stats (new members, posts, topics) are steadily declining month on month as it's hard for new people to try grasp everything or feel like they want to get involved and contribute.

Possible ideas -

- What is BitShares? A 5 minute video or few pages that clearly explains what BitShares is & gets people excited about it.
- A delegate site that makes it easy to see who the currently paid delegates are, even those in the top  200 and what they are working on.
- BitShares News. A weekly news show < 5 minutes, that lets you keep up to speed with what's happening in BitShares without having to navigate the forums and try to extract the nuggets yourself.

It's not an easy task though, NXT have tried to create a visual overview of their system on one page and it is still incredibly complicated and confusing to an outsider trying to make any sense of it imo.

http://www.nxttechnologytree.com/

-----

My approach I think is to try present BitShares as a holding company for various business models.
I think new investors will be able to better understand BitShares & its value by seeing sites that vastly undercut and outperform existing options such as Dwolla, UBS, BullionVault, IG etc. and I think customers need to be taken to a site that fulfills their specific needs too.

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=13325.msg174295#msg174295

Yes just a simple roadmap on bitshares.org would suffice IMO. People need to know there is currently no mobile wallets, web wallets etc and  that they are being worked on with a rough estimated release date otherwise they come to forum seeking answers and get overwhelmed with all the different projects going on.
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: xiahui135 on January 22, 2015, 03:33:07 pm
Hope there is a page show all the programs and the progresses.
(The web wallet is the most important one! )
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: GaltReport on January 22, 2015, 03:42:05 pm
 +5% for roadmap and financial report for existing development/marketing efforts.

Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: xiahui135 on January 22, 2015, 04:56:45 pm
maybe it is hard to gather all the progress, but we can encourage people to register program and update progress on one tool. A small list tool may help.
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: xiahui135 on January 22, 2015, 05:00:20 pm

maybe it is hard to gather all the progress, but we can encourage people to register program and update progress on one tool. A small list tool may help.
And we can even create a new board for program discuss. Web wallet may be listed as a sub-board under it.
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: eagleeye on January 22, 2015, 05:10:33 pm
Ok so we need the following

- A roadmap graphic
- A comprehesive website maybe new bitshares.org will be it
- Subforum for web/mobile/light weight clients development

Please chime in with more points
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: Akado on January 22, 2015, 05:12:54 pm
Ok so we need the following

- A roadmap graphic
- A comprehesive website maybe new bitshares.org will be it
- Subforum for web/mobile/light weight clients development

Please chime in with more points

Maybe the subforum should be for projects in general (clients, plugins, stores, etc) so everyone can show what they're doing and people can help/support
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: eagleeye on January 22, 2015, 05:18:48 pm
Ok so we need the following

- A roadmap graphic
- A comprehesive website maybe new bitshares.org will be it
- Subforum for web/mobile/light weight clients development

Please chime in with more points

Maybe the subforum should be for projects in general (clients, plugins, stores, etc) so everyone can show what they're doing and people can help/support

I agree what should this forum be called ?
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: islandking on January 23, 2015, 01:12:01 am
Ok so we need the following

- A roadmap graphic
- A comprehesive website maybe new bitshares.org will be it
- Subforum for web/mobile/light weight clients development

Please chime in with more points

We should make a roadmap with specific deadlines, however we are still really early in the development of Bitshares. Its only been 6 months since we actually launched the BTS wallet.

I think right now we need to focus on the community. We need die hard early adopters right now who are on the forums actively voting with their stake, brainstorming ideas, helping new users, supporting new projects etc.

Its the community that will really determine whether BTS is a success.
Title: Re: What's actually going on?
Post by: LRENZ on January 23, 2015, 02:16:54 am
Without a relatively high end computer bitshares is not even usable right now. Certainly been that way for me over past few months and others I see. I can't recommend bitshares to friends yet but I am patient and know there is lots of intelligent people here working very hard.