I just want to let the community know that I do read the requests to add coins to CCE, and wish I could honor all of them.
I see CCE as a place to gather information form a neutral source and I believe it is vital to the cryptocoin community.
However, I have a few issues to deal with:
1. I cannot continue to put coins on the homepage the way it is, there are too many coins on it as it is. I am trying to come up with ways to deal with the homepage crowding. Perhaps a tabbed view where every coin has it's own page. The home page could just list all the coins and their network hash rate and link to the coins individual page where links and basic information could be put, maybe even a coin developers statement.
2. RESOURCES. Every coin requires a daemon to be running and database updates every time a new block comes on the network for every coin, on top of the web traffic and API requests to have the explorer read and interpret database query's. CCE is spread over two VPS's now, and not cheapo shared website type hosting. To upgrade the VPS's to the next level would double my costs, which have gone up to around 8x what they were when I started this project.
I have been offered bounties or donations to put coins on CCE presently and in the past. While they are greatly appreciated, they do not go into my decision process on a very high level, most of the bounties and donations I have received when I put a new coin on CCE were for coins I had planned on adding anyway. One also needs to realize that new alt-coins are generally not worth all that much. This is not to say I do not enjoy getting them, but projects such as this have real costs involved with them on a recurring basis. This also makes me reluctant to take bounties or donations towards a new coin, how long do I keep supporting a dead or dying coin on CCE before removing it. I do not like making that decision in the first place and if a community has given me a bounty it will make me feel worse.
I started CryptoCoin Mine to help with all this, and granted I have not put one of the established major coins on yet, but the reception has been luke-warm at best. I guess only time will tell if that project pans out.
3. Other projects and CCE improvements. I spend ALOT of time maintaining and trying to improve CCE on top of working on other projects with other developers. I honestly do not think anybody would believe me if I told you how many hours a week I spend total. Here is a hint: I recently finished my 2nd degree (Network specialization). When the Dean saw how many hours I put in, she waived the internship/coop requirement without question...
To sum up - I just wanted to tell the community that I am not ignoring requests to add coins. There are some issues to get worked out and decisions to be made in this new Alt-coin environment.
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