Lightning network is a pain to use there's no user friendly graphical user interface to transact quickly with LN (Lightning Network) but for me, i only use the normal way to deposit in Gambling sites and the fees are not that high. I guess this is because most users are now using segwit that's why there's less congestion in the Blockchain network. So we can enjoy sending and receiving our crypto in gambling casino's.
I am sure that's a temporary problem which they'll fix soon. How hard could it be to develop a user friendly GUI in the end right?
I think as long as the protocol works safe and fast, GUI won't be much of a problem.
Remember Bitcoin itself used to be complicated for us too right?
Well, it's been quite some time with the Lightning Network, but it did not gain much popularity even though the concept is promising. It seems to me that if they haven't made it user-friendly yet, they might hesitate for years to come, and I also don't understand why. However, it's definitely not the only problem, and some people don't use it for reasons like 'it's not really Bitcoin' (which is true) and centralization issues.
As for websites, I've seen some, but they did not get popular. If the issue is with transaction fees (although they seem normal to me these days),
why not use Ethereum/Litecoin/Doge?You have a point there.
This whole concept is experimental in the end. Just because not many people use LN right now don't mean It won't be huge in the future. It may or may not but it is just another experiment.
What LN trying to achieve is, seeing that if BTC could scale worldwide if there were no altcoins around.
Since there are coins like doge, eth, ltc... it may look like they are wasting their time and effort there but then again, people used to think about that for btc too. satoshi didn't care what the others said and did what he wanted anyway.
As long as there are people who develop LN and somebody uses it, it will continue to exist.
