I just made some performance improvements to the frontend, also changed the look a bit. Let me know what you think.
I like the visual changes you have made so far and it does seems to be working much faster than before. I have noticed that you only refresh stats once in 10 minutes, could you get it down to 5 minutes or at least let the users know when it will be refreshed.
I think the following visual changes would improve the site visual appeal:
- move brown page header to the very top of the page - it is kind of standard design on the internet to have site logo at the top left corner.
- move single line Google adds to the empty space between users stats and pool stats at the top and use a square one instead - it will give some more vertical space
- inside pool stats "Select a Currency" title move to the right of the currencies icons - will save some more vertical space
- take away white space inside "pool stats" between page content and page footer.
- make "multipool" inside page header a link to a home page (it is kind of standard practice on the internet)
Functionally:
- I would love to see # of shares that other users (at least top 30) have inside current round (or/and % out of the total would be nice as well)
- You call yourself a PPLNS pool but you never say how many last shares are counted towards the reward: is it 500K, 100K, or is it dynamicly allocated (if so, then how is it calculated)?
- Transaction history is also must have when you are dealing with currencies.
Once you have more transparency in pool operations, you would get a larger user base.
I agree with most of what you said. Although I kind of like the layout as it is. If there are functional reasons for moving the header to the top, I'd be happy to hear them but I think having it there makes the site a little more distinctive vs. the other close-to-stock simplecoin and mmcfe pools out there.
- Google ads - I don't want them to be obtrusive. Are poeple OK with an ad at the top of the page?
Functionality:
- # shares/top 30 - I will add this to Pool Stats when I get some time.
- Last N shares is:
For scrypt coins: current difficulty * 65535 / 16
For sha256 coins: current difficulty * 2 with lower limit of 10000 (to prevent consistent miners from getting screwed when TRC difficulty drops very low, and blocks are found very quickly. This isn't as much of a concern nowadays as it was when TRC difficulty was swinging more wildly.)
I will add this info to the Help page or create a "Reward System" info page in the near future.
I also plan to add a block detail page which will show the amounts paid out for each block and a transaction history for each user.
Just FYI, I have a full time job and a baby and toddler at home, so I am doing this all in my spare time. So please don't get too angry if these things are not implemented immediately, they eventually will be.
