5) Spread the word. I know we all want to get some bursts in our pockets before the big pump! I want that too and say "ehi, I became rich with an hard disk! *evil laugh*", but there will be no pump if we keep on going like this. We need the Dev and the supporters beign a little more present and start to tweak old features, instead of continuously focus on developing new ones. There is no need in having 5-6 different miners and 5-6 different pools. We are 3K miners more or less, not 300K! Try to talk to each other and come up with a single, easy-to-use (i.e. idiot proof!) miner and merge some of the pools. Dev, what's the point in having Dev1 (old) and Dev2? Remove both and go for a Dev3 with some graphic and search function to see how each miner is progressing. To all, update the "how it works" I still see a lot of spelling errors and wrong information!
The point of dev1 was originally to get a pool running as quickly as possible, even though it was not a good setup. When dev1 was created and launched, reward assignment had not been made yet, so users had to generate plots to addresses held by the pool. This means that users mining there cannot use those plot files on other pools. Replotting with the newer and faster plotters likely isn't an issue for most, however enough users have expressed concern about wanting to continue using it as is that it doesn't make sense to force them off or alter things. Regarding your dev3 suggestion, I doubt most people would rather have me tinkering with pools instead of working on features, and graphics are not a strength of mine.
Where is the dev?? 5 days now without a damn post here. Even just a heads up on how things are going would suffice - we now he has been online and answering PMs, time he showed up here too.
I wonder... Have you ever been in contact with a dev of something in general? Or have you been developing something by your own?I generally update my customers when, uhm... when I have an update. Programming isn't easy, it takes time and a lot of patience. Sometimes I'm so tired I don't even want to see a keyboard for 3 days (but I do, my job, dammit!)
5 days are nothing. I agree that some updates could be announced or advertised with some kind of "Dev newsletter", but as I said in my previous post: this is a WIP coin. Give time to everyone. Last feature was released 5 days ago. Don't panic, everything will settle
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