Topic: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - page 5. (Read 33690 times)

Yeah, im sure it will pleasure you to know that 141014 was another race and we have apparently won again.  Simplecoin is claiming the same block with 0 confirms and looks like the invalid has buggered his pool software once again

No problems, and please take your time, as this is your hobby project. It's just whenever you have some spare time, and most important things are scratched off the list. Thank you for the work you put into this pool.

Haha!   Thanks alot, man!  Just what i need! 

All good suggestions... ill do what i can as i get the time.   User stats are a bit tricky for the long term because in order to keep the site fast i throw a lot of data out after a round has been paid out.   I only keep counts after everything is paid out correctly but perhaps there is something i can do.  Ill have a look at the data I keep and see what can be done with it and if need be more data can perhaps be retained to make better stats... we'll see   Thanks for the input!   

I don't blame you for postponing the design work, not a biggie at all. I still see that the link on http://mining.mainframe.nl/support is pointing to forum.bitcoin.org I think it should be updated to bitcointalk.org since it got moved and all that.
I am looking forward to the graphs!  Would still like to see a bit more worker stats in time, like total share count for each worker, round share count (which could be resettable) for each worker, perhaps add a average lifetime speed of individual workers (if possible to implement). Not trying to be an arse, just trying to bury you alive in work

Hey cyberlync and ihokamik,  thanks alot for the input.  I think ive fixed the issues the two of you mentioned (kinda cheated on the color issue but i will work on nicer coloring later and pull out photoshop for some repainting on a few elements all at once - bah...i hate design work!)  Which reminds me if anyone wants to work on a new color scheme i can provide an image pack if anyone feels like playing or helping out in that regard.   Im only mildy useful with fireworks and almost useless with photoshop.

Gonna go work on some graphs now.

I like the new design, feels more polished. I have a comment on the "Update Settings" "Cash Out" "Change Password" buttons, I feel the color is a little too bright, perhaps if it matched the same blue as the top of the site it wouldn't stick out as a sore thumb. Maybe I'm being picky, it's not a problem at all if you don't change it, it's aesthetics.

edit: The link on the support subpage should be updated to bitcointalk.org

I really like the new look.   It's still light and well spaced but it looks more refined at the same time.

I noticed some minor visual bugs with the new design. Nothing exactly critical but I felt like sharing.

When reloading a page using Firefox 5, I can see the page with no CSS at all flash quickly before it's fully rendered.  It's as if the CSS was applied only after everything is dowloaded.    I only get this problem in FF, Chrome and IE both render the CSS instantly.    

IE has a few different rendering issues like some stuff overlapping but frankly, it's to be expected with IE.  If I was in your place, I would ignore most IE issues.

When simulating a smaller screen, the "statistic line" that tells us the BTC value, hash rate and donation will overlap with the pool name on the left.   This happens in all 3 browsers I tested.

Keep up the good work!  The site is only getting better and better.

EDIT: One more little thing, I think that the monospaced text on the donation page (osList) is a little hard to read with the default font size values.  The size could probably be increased a little.

Hope everyone noticed the changes to the site.  Major overhaul actually and have a nice framework in place to start adding some really nice new stuff.  Graphs are coming next with more stats and more details on everything possible.   Stay tuned and please give feedback on the new design!!  

Thanks for the input!  Vladimir or I will have a look and see what we can implement... sounds reasonable.

I would like to have some info on stale shares, on the individual workers, the number of stales and also a percentage next to it (I kind of like the worker stats on BTCguild). Total share stats on the individual workers, possibility to reset the share count (not for all shares, but to be able to test various worker setups, again kind of like BTCguild does it.)

Perhaps current estimated speed, and all-time average speed, which could take all the shares produced by the worker, divide or whatever needs to be done with worker age. Just an idea.

Sorry for comparing to BTCguild so much, but they do have some stat features that I like, and it's easier to give you an example.

Hi All,

Due to only receiving positive feedback on the new optional charity donation methods,  ive gone ahead and implemented it and Im super happy with the transparency and ease of maintenance this will bring. 

In light of this,  if you have a normal user account you will notice that the fees you are paying have been reduced from 1.5% to 0.5% because the 1% for charity has been made optional.   If you feel so inclined to donate, please take a moment to update your donation settings.

Kind Regards,
Anni

With that reasoning, I'm perfectly fine with what you did, better safe than sorry

And to reply on the changes proposal, it sounds as a good idea, the "effect" is the same, but the wording is clearer and it's easier to maintain for you.

Cyberlync,  Yes this was me.   Im sorry but i manually set alot of thresholds to 1 BTC back today as the pool wallet was getting quite large and im not comfortable holding that much of other peoples money to be quite honest.   Hope it didnt cause you any problem.  Quote from the new account details page:

"Please note: Mainframe reserves the right to periodically lower your threshold setting to force payout on balances larger than 1 BTC. We don't want to be your bank. Sorry! We will only do this when we feel that the pool wallet is getting too full."

Thanks for all the hard work, love it ;-)

I'm gonna think about and comment on the new post soon.

I'm writing this time because I saw there was a payout to my wallet earlier, even tho I had set it to 10btc automatic, it paid out when I had 4btc, and the automatic payment was reset to 1btc.

i love this pool.

Hi All,

I'll warn up front this is going to be a bit of a long post.  Please be sure to read the last section of this post!  I need input for a new feature i want to implement regarding donations!

First some status updates.  Been busy working on refining alot of the backend code which is resulting on very low load on the server and better response and performance in general.  Also been adding in some new features and testing others which i hope to roll out soon.  Some of the new stuff added:

- more info in JSON api (last share submitted timestamp if your worker is active)
- shares per solved block
- account payment history (complete mutations on your account now visible in account details) This includes how much you were paid per block and any credits or witdhrawals from your account.
- added some documentation on the about page for our server and user api code
- under the DTD link (donations to date) you can now see how much is reserved and waiting to be donated to developers.  Because of the transaction costs involved in sending large amounts of small payments,  im "queueing" these donations up in blocks of 0.50 BTC and sending them when the queued amount reaches this amount.

Also, in case you havent noticed,  we are now known, tracked, and graphed at most if not all of the aggregate statistics sites such ass bitcoinwatch, btc-poolwatch, pident, etc...


Now regarding donations,  I need your guys' input on a new way of handling donations.   

The main problem is that most of our miners were early adopters (meaning 0% fees) and this means that we are not really collecting much in the way of donations to the open source bitcoin developers.   The secondary issue is that im afraid we might be excluding certain miners who may not want to donate anything to opensource devs but might be interested in joining us if they werent forced to donate.  There may also be users who wish to donate more than the fixed amount we currently are donating to charity.   In essence,  the idea is that perhaps we need to rethink the idea of making donations mandatory and non adjustable by and for the user.  As it stands now,  the system is a little odd and difficult to explain and also difficult to do donation calculations. 

My plan is to change things to a simpler scheme where we simply say 50% of anything the pool makes (less admin fee) are donated to charity.

So if you set 1% donation amount,  .5% goes to charity and the rest to maintaining the pool.  You can set this as high as you want or as low as you want and in this way choose to support the pool and charity or choose to not support charity at all. 

This would also make calculations more straightforward and transparent and not completely exclude new users who are not interested in donating anything to charity.

I will let this float for a few days here and look for feedback and suggestions from you all and if noone has any objections to this i will be implementing it in 3-7 days unless we collectively come up with a better approach. 

Basically nothing really changes for anyone who currently has an account.  It just changes the way i have to calculate how much goes to charity and makes it easier to communicate to users how these calculations are done.   Right now its a bit vague and im afraid not everyone understands how it works.   By communicating it in this way i hope to remove the confusion and It just sounds alot better anyway to say half of what we earn goes to charity.  1% of the earnings of those who choose to donate something is not amounting to alot and if you just try to read that sentence it almost makes no sense.    Much clearer to just say 50% of what the pool makes in user set donations, goes to charity.  Period.

So what do you guys think?  Im open to all suggestions.

Hehe thank you, I'm glad to finally find a block here as well, just recently (before I switched all my miners over to this pool) found a block on BTCguild, and started mining in general just over a month ago

Go Cyberlync!  Nice to see someone other than luxs and vladimir finding some blocken!

We are the block masters lately!  Seems like we are doing well above average lately... *knocks on wood*