The last patch of btct.co lead to a downtime of several hours, if I recall correctly.
burnside: I suggest you announce the trading engine change prior starting the update, if it could have the same impact.
I agree, and in the spirit of this...
I apologize for the short notice, but in anticipation of the server load going forward we are going to be upgrading our database server today. The interruption should be minimal, but I will almost certainly have to halt trading for a few minutes while we flip the switch from one to the other.
Crazy day for sure.
Hey Burnside, I would like to suggest a standardized IPO share release process. Some sort of announcement process where the issuer and/or yourself post specific date/time information, and maybe even a countdown clock announcing new IPOs.
I am making this suggestion because I am watching and waiting for the Labcoin release and would find this sort of standardized process helpful.
I'd say it's up to the issuer how they handle things and if they fuck up, it's their responsibility.
But I'm not sure, if this option is implemented and if it's not, this is a feature request: issuers should have to option to stop all trading activities. This could be default enabled for new assets.
Well, I didn't know exactly how to suggest something like this. I just tried to word it politely. I'm not a techy, maybe a countdown clock would draw too much traffic to the site and cause delays or the whole site to just go offline?
I would just appreciate, like many others, to have more info.
But do issuers have the option of a nice big countdown clock?.... I guess they have that option here on the forum.
I know there are some concerns around the IPO process but I think in most situations we're going to leave it up to the issuer to take care of their potential shareholders as best they can. From the exchange's standpoint, the IPO date/time is the moment the 5th required vote comes in, and that is not predictable so trying to put time restrictions around something that is unpredictable like that is just going to add heartache.
On thing that someone asked for a while back was to be able to receive an email notification of new issues being approved. This is definitely something I'm on board with and will work towards implementing. That should alleviate some of the issue.
Cheers.