It seems like there's two camps here. One that wants to see Gridcoin stabilize and grow, and recognize the issues that come with it being a single developer project. The other wants to get rich, now.
I don't care much for the second group.
i've been following GRC since around thanksgiving and I want it to succeed however launching a coin and updating the client every few days is not a good idea at all. There is to much conflicting information, the files on the website aren't even the correct versions of the client...if you download the msi you're fine if you get the zip you get old versions etc, if you want to do a coin etc you need to release proper versions with proper communication, saying go this forum or go to this twitter page is not proper communication. The website should ALWAYS have the proper versions of the software and NEVER have a version that is out of date.
I agree, this is essential, I can't see a reason for this not being streamlined already.
Thing is, problems wont outgrow with time, but tend to get more w growing adoption.
My suggestion: tedious update routines like website version maintenance and thread/OP updates should be delegated. assertion of consistency is straightforward and can be outsourced. We need a single specified source of truth. Then a sendmail-task in Rob's release-toolchain is enough to have agents swarm out to fix the various sites.
I agree the official web site should be the source of record for the latest version, we should have a list of latest news bulletins on the web site to allow people to understand the state of the coin, and that zip should not be out of date, or it should be removed.
We should have a disclaimer on the non official supporter web site: Click here to go to the official site, etc. Aysyr created the other site on his own and did a relatively nice job, but communication is lacking.
Regarding stuck transactions, the newest version will pull up more transactions and you may not receive the -5 not on file error (Chiznit was receiving).
I have not received PMs from Poloniex or allcrypt yet, I have no idea if they are running the newest version. If they do not sync, PM me.
Rob
