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Topic: very basic bitcoin news overview site, feedback welcome (Read 1975 times)

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although traffic is low, it is good to see that some people actually do use the news overview site Wink

Traffic


full member
Activity: 167
Merit: 101
1 BTC = $ 290.29 (+0.74% in 24 hours)

Just updated, if price is higher than 24h 'average' (well, (high+low)/2 Wink ), it will be shown in green, otherwise in red
full member
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Merit: 101
You can now choose to:
  - generate mobile-friendly links to target pages
  - display some thumbnail images

Go to http://bitcoin21.info/switch.php
hero member
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Merit: 500
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very basic bitcoin news overview site, feedback welcome

http://bitcoin21.info/

Responsive design: optimized for all devices: desktops, tablets and smartphones.


For design: 5/10 maybe add more css and combine with flat design Wink
content: 8/10 i like the content, especially show news on reddit and bitcointalk too, although just direct to reddit or bitcointalk forum.


~iki
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Merit: 101
PS: reddit link doesnt work ---> This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

Fixed! Thanks
legendary
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Merit: 1000
it would better if you add date and time, also coloring red the hot news ?  

PS: reddit link doesnt work ---> This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
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oops ..
thanks Smiley !
will look into this asap
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Bitcoin News

Warning: file_get_contents(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /home3/connecty/public_html/bitcoin21.info/index.php on line 89

Warning: file_get_contents(http://p.b.gw.gd/pricefeed/bitcoin_price_feed.php?format=fullticker): failed to open stream: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /home3/connecty/public_html/bitcoin21.info/index.php on line 89

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'String could not be parsed as XML' in /home3/connecty/public_html/bitcoin21.info/index.php:96 Stack trace: #0 /home3/connecty/public_html/bitcoin21.info/index.php(96): SimpleXMLElement->__construct('') #1 {main} thrown in /home3/connecty/public_html/bitcoin21.info/index.php on line 96

You might want to disable error display on the live system. I've seen sites that actually display usernames and passwords for mysql-database this way.. Also, there's always the danger of feeds becoming unavailable when working with a 3rd party, so you might try to check for this in the code, so there's a proper message in cases where third party info is not available.
full member
Activity: 167
Merit: 101
thanks for positive feedback Smiley

new feature added: generate mobile friendly links, see http://bitcoin21.info/?d=m
target pages (after clicking a link on this 'special mobile' website) are now very well readable on smartphones with small screens

scraping no problem, I use RSS feeds which are public and used to generate traffic,
it's just a simple rss overview site, no ambitions to add new content,
member
Activity: 170
Merit: 10
I like the concept, but I agree; if you could find a way to prioritize the stories, it would help focus attention. 

Keep up the good work!
hero member
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Merit: 500
You should probably ask the admins of the websites permission before scraping stuff from there, they might nt want it(or the may want it). Either way, on the front end, you need to make it better, because I feel the website is just too simple. Try to add some unique content, because using these feeds will not give you any optimisation for SEO.
sr. member
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Grow SMALL amount of BTC by earning it
I like the concept! simple and clean yet informative.
keep it up.
full member
Activity: 167
Merit: 101
1 BTC = $ 290.29 (+0.74% in 24 hours)

OK, how about this: 1 BTC = $290.60 (285-299) where 285 is 24h low and 299 is 24h high, see http://bitcoin21.info/
full member
Activity: 167
Merit: 101
Looks good, I wonder if you could cut the number of links down seems a bit too much for me, prioritise bigger stories. Maybe have a most popular/trending section.

Thanks!
Ok, limited to max 12 per source, prioritisation is dependent on source.
Will think on how to make a nice popular / trending section..
legendary
Activity: 1106
Merit: 1000
Looks good, I wonder if you could cut the number of links down seems a bit too much for me, prioritise bigger stories. Maybe have a most popular/trending section.
full member
Activity: 167
Merit: 101
You use PHP to fetch the content right?

correct, php fetched content is cached for performance (and using cloudflare, so it could be used by a kazillion users), i will increase frequency of cache now to each 10 min for frequently updating sources
legendary
Activity: 1484
Merit: 1001
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Maybe underline the link when we hover? So we will know it is a link. Rather than looking at the mouse..

Thanks! Just fixed this

Great! It look better now! You use PHP to fetch the content right?
full member
Activity: 167
Merit: 101
Maybe underline the link when we hover? So we will know it is a link. Rather than looking at the mouse..

Thanks! Just fixed this
sr. member
Activity: 434
Merit: 250
Loose lips sink sigs!
I like it, there's a lot of links and it's VERY clean looking.
How did you get the name "Bitcoin 21"?

thanks!
it's also lightweight and responsive, try it on a smartphone Smiley

21 -> 21 mio existing BTC

Thanks man, I also just figured out what 21e6 means, hahah...slow but catching up!
legendary
Activity: 1484
Merit: 1001
Personal Text Space Not For Sale
This thread should be posted in Service Announcements instead of here. Anyway, I like that you actually have a simple design. Maybe underline the link when we hover? So we will know it is a link. Rather than looking at the mouse..
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