Announcement on various changes we will be releasing in the coming days:
2. Remove any-2-any trading
Due to the lack of volume and the need to restructure our screen layout we have decided to remove all trading pairs that do not include BTC. I.e. we will be offering only trading to and from BTC in the future. All other trading pairs will be discontinued and all open order deleted.
Implementation timeframe: 25th or 26th May.
I found this last night in the Vircurex announcement thread. There has been no such announcement on the main site, despite the imminent changes. I for one am strongly against these changes, but I thought a greater visibility for this incoming change was required. I would be interested in knowing how many other people feel the same way; there's already a topic about this in another subforum (
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=213302.new), but I thought it warranted one here too.
I've emailed
customerservice@vircurex.com letting them know my opinion on these changes, and I suggest that anyone who feels strongly about it do also. 'The need to restructure our screen layout' is just about the worst justification possible - form should follow function, not vice versa. As I posted in the other thread, the ability to trade any/any is the major reason why I use VirCurEx, and I regard this ability as the distinguishing feature of VirCurEx. Should this ability be removed, I will be taking my custom elsewhere. I am sure I am not the only one.