Dear people of MetaExchange,
First of all, i think MetaExchange is doing a great job in helping the BitShares platform by becoming our main gateway to and from our BitShares. It feels solid and works really well.

I am working on an website where I compare different Instant Cryptocurrecy exchanges, and tried to implement your api into my project. But i found it pretty hard to use your API first off all, sometimes you have to use POST sometimes GET, it isn't REST.
Second thing that struck me is the amount of parameters that I get back when I ask for the rates :
{"symbol_pair":"bitBTC_BTC","ask":"1.006","bid":"0.994","ask_max":"1","bid_max":"0.8","ask_fee_percent":"0","bid_fee_percent":"0","up":false,"btc_volume_24h":"0","last_price":"0","asset_name":null,"realised_spread_percent":"0","price_delta":"0","flipped":false}
url: shapeshift.io/rate/<pair>
method: GET
 
 => {
        "pair" : "btc_ltc",
        "rate" : "70.1234"
    }
If you are planning to do a API update ever in the future, have a look at the shapeshift API: https://shapeshift.io/api.html
Help the people that want to build upon your API. But you ofcourse you are busy with other stuff and understand if it doesn't have much priority. If you need some help I am a programmer, so maybe could do somethings myself.

But thanks for the already amazing service!

PS: And it would really help me if it was possible in the future to send to a bishares address in stead of a username.

Great work, looks already a 100 times better.

- Have you thought about flipping the sell orders book in reversed order, like how they do it on the Coinbase exchange. This gives a good perspective on the spread.
- What I also really like about Coinbase is that they don't let you scroll through all the tables, just showing the most relevant ones that fit into you screen. I often get tangled up by all the scrolling views in the Bitshares client.
- I don't know the exact consequences of this, but have you thought about the idea to integrate shorts into the sell view. Give the shorts a different color that the sell orders, don't show the intrest rate or collateral. They aren't interesting for a buyer of the asset. And show the price as the max(minimum_price, price_feed).
Only the moment someone clicks the short tab, a user is interested in the intrest rate and collateral. So I think it would be good to only show it than.

Keep up the great work!

TeleUSd sounds cool!

Great work, see a wrong tekst when I click sell bitBTC:

Once you enter your bitcoin receiving address, we will generate your deposit address and send your bitcoins to you the instant we receive your bitBTC.

Where shall we send your bitcoins?

Just used it to sell BTC -> bitBTS and and never bought BTS so cheap!

Thanks

Great moment!

Thanks for your feedback, I changed the explanation.
And added the current exchange rates to have a better overview.

Hey everyone one r/cryptocurrency, there are 3 posts in the top 10 about Bitshares, I think this is a great change to start an active discussion in the heart crypto communty about BitShares, comment, upvote!

http://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/2us8ll/the_bitcoin_dream_its_volatility_problem_and_a/
http://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/2urcl2/shapeshiftio_now_facilitates_bitusd_and_bitshares/
http://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/2usr2p/wow_bitsharesorg_finally_doesnt_look_embarrassing/

Yesterday I wrote this blog post (2min), to teach about BitUSD. I would appreciate it if you would read it, comment on it and make suggestions. Because I think it could help us as a community to focus on our goal and understand again where its all about.

https://medium.com/p/6ebf941a4f81

Ooh, and I am dutch, so someone who would like to spell check would also be great