ripple: let's test it!

[Arvicco]

How are you guys getting the TX id from the system?  I know you can get it digging around the websocket communications.. but its pretty inconvenient.

If you click the transaction inside Wallet->History it takes you to graph tool with appropriate tx_id.

[suppp]

Ripple is offline now? 

[Mogly]

Ripple is offline now? 

Yes. So it seems 

[lebing]

Quite a few people seem to have extended some credit to me, but I'm not sure who. If you PM me with your address, I will likely rep you back.

[veteranBtc]

I think site is down, when i try to start ripple it stuck at "the loading page"

[gweedo]

I think site is down, when i try to start ripple it stuck at "the loading page"

Working for me

[JoelKatz]

We had a few outages today, planned and unplanned. We rolled out a major upgrade to the pathfinding logic and cross-currency transaction support. We hope (fingers crossed) it's all stable now.

[klee]

I lost my 40K XRPs you gave me for free! How did this happen?

[JoelKatz]

Your account has 40,000 XRP in it. I just checked. We've had a few outages today and may still have some issues carried over to tomorrow. Deploying the new pathfinding and improved cross-currency payments wasn't as painless as we had hoped.

[slothbag]

My client keeps loosing contacts.. first one contact disappeared, then i re-added it and then a few days later two more contacts disappeared.

Where are the contacts stored?

[Mogly]

Does anyone know how long Ripple is offline?

[JoelKatz]

My client keeps loosing contacts.. first one contact disappeared, then i re-added it and then a few days later two more contacts disappeared.

Where are the contacts stored?

Contacts are stored in your wallet. Are you using the default wallet provider?

[Mogly]

I am trying to get stuff out of my ripple wallet back to bitstamp.

I enter the "deposit address" bitstamp gives me for my account,
and my ripple wallet is stuck "calculating paths" (whatever that
means).

Can anyone shed some light ?

Check your trust in Bitstamp, it's enough? Maybe it's that.

[phelix]

is anybody actually using ripple for something useful next to speculating on xrp yet? what?

[kwukduck]

is anybody actually using ripple for something useful next to speculating on xrp yet? what?

Of course not. Why would anyone use a rigged scam system like ripple for something else besides pump'n'dump?

[markm]

It isn't really possible to do anything useful yet on any scale, as you cannot even set up an account as a business account - an account that forces destination-tags - which doing anything useful seems to pretty much require.

You can putter around with personal accounts doing personal lunchmoney loans and buying and selling the IOUs of the two businesses who have been provided with a server to try to do something useful with, so I suppose you could say that yes, two entities are doing something useful, the two gateway entities, and the useful thing they are doing is pre-release testing of the server to make sure that it will in fact be useful when the time comes to release it for people to try to do something useful with.

-MarkM-

[Peter Lambert]

is anybody actually using ripple for something useful next to speculating on xrp yet? what?

I started using it to track old debt (well I suggested it, but only one person took me up on it). I feel like it will become more useful when more people start using it and there are more gateways.

[jtimon]

It isn't really possible to do anything useful yet on any scale,

I would say you can save some fees trading bitstampUSD/bitstampBTC on ripple instead of their main site.

as you cannot even set up an account as a business account - an account that forces destination-tags - which doing anything useful seems to pretty much require.

I haven't found where the client does this yet, but I'm currently looking for exactly this. This is the last clue I found (on the browser's console just before the issuer's official name loads in  the trade page):

GET https://ripple.bitstamp.net/ripple.txt  

So it seems part of the client and not the protocol. Currently they own the "centralized list of trusted gateways" but anyone could make his client look into another list or only support basic labels.
By the way, issuers could include more data than just their name, maybe even a legally binding digital signed contract or just a lot of details of the issued IOUs.
It seems to me that this is just the basic infrastructure code to enable more complex things.
Only speaking for myself, I but I would say that's why they've done it.

EDIT: now that someone mentioned namecoin for "storing color definitions", it comes to mind that this information is probably on the ledger, and consists exactly on that URL for bitstamp.
It seems to be this:

https://ripple.com/wiki/Transactions#AccountSet_.283.29
"Domain     VariableLength     Optional    
Domain associated with this account. Look up ripple.txt for the associated verification. The client will show the domain with a green background when it can be verified. Otherwise, as a strike out or red background. A length of 0 clears ledger entry."

https://ripple.com/wiki/RPC_API#unl_add

Can't you use the client to make any rpc call you want to their servers?
I'm not exactly sure about what you mean by a "business account".

[Peter Lambert]

Why doesen't ripple contain contracts on interest rates etc. So I trust XXX for 1 BTC at 5% interest.

You could set it up externally. You agree with whoever when you are setting up your trust that on a given day every month whoever owes money sends an extra 5% interest (or whatever conditions you want).

[JoelKatz]

Why doesen't ripple contain contracts on interest rates etc. So I trust XXX for 1 BTC at 5% interest.

We plan to support it through contracts, but our preferred lending model uses an issue discount instead of interest. For a variety of reasons, that model works better (because of the nature of Ripple, not necessarily in general). This is discussed in more detail here: https://ripple.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1224