What do you guys think of this as an introduction to the new thread.. might as well post it up here as it's a community project.
Please feel free to add, correct, criticize and improve.
SLING : THE NEW TEAM
A brief intro to Sling and a glimpse at it's future with a new developer and team.
Sling began back in April 2015. It was an ambitious project...one that promised to deliver a fast crypto currency combined with a decentralized maketplace and a p2p encrypted messaging system for private communications.
The original developer known as D.G Slayer provided incentive to support the Sling network via masternodes, the entry cost to creating a masternode was set at 7331 Sling and that remains today.
With it's marketplace as the primary focus Sling is a prime example of a bleeding edge technology yet to catch on. Blockchain technology outside of currency is increasingly a hot subject in 2015/16 and Sling provides just that, it's not just about the currency.
The initial market built by D.G Slayer (the original developer) was an unfinished product that posed risk to the people entering into the escrow system. There was a risk that if the buyer didn't enter into the escrow system the sellers funds could get stuck. In other words the marketplace was unsafe and unusable.
However, the foundations were in place for anybody with enough talent and vision to pick up the pieces and carry on where the original dev team left off.
Sling was mostly looked over and ignored by many in the crypto community and for months Slings flash fire all but burned out. That wasn't to be as some die hard visionists (new dev team) realised there was actual substance within the project and all it needed was some ongoing TLC.
In stepped a helping hand by way of CryptoVote, a (c++ etc etc dev insert correct skills) who could offer hands on coding expertise and breath air back onto the darkening embers.... (work on right words).
Slings initial parameters were to provide the world a means of buying and selling goods on an open and non governed market, that is unchanged and indeed a reality most of the code is already laid out as can be seen (insert github/bitbucket).
You can buy and sell items on Slings decentralized market as of today, however there are some issues that the new developer CryptoVote has spotted and is fixing, it is stongly advised to wait until those fixes are in place before attempting to trade within Sling.
These are my skills that are relevant to Sling dev: C/C++, JavaScript (with AngularJS), HTML5, CSS and NodeJS.
I purchased 5 domain names for Sling and will be using them for DNS seeders. In the future, maybe a new Sling web site that exposes the market, block explorer, faucet... but definately need help with those. MCDev is working with me to setup/deploy the DNS seeders (he has done this already for BTX) and he will be hosting them as well. The DNS Seeding really boosts peer connections so we will be disabling IRC in the next release. I will post the domain names and you should see them in the source code soon (chainparams.cpp).
Also, please add MCDev to the Sling team.
Anyone have the source for the old Sling web site? I should have swiped it when it was still online.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150526191604/http://www.sling.pw/ - Got em