Please post all official news to twitter, im tired of scrolling through so many pages of non relevant stuff.
yup, this is what im talking about
+1, any improvement in the coordination of official communication towards all stakeholders would be highly appreciated and can fairly easily be addressed.
>> Trading: Exchanges (should be informed beforehand about risk - was this done?)
>> Masternode operations: masternode owners (perhaps go to the specific #irc channel for updates from Evan?)
>> Mining operations: DRK pool owners & miners (let no-one forget how important the miners & pools are to DRK ! )
>> End users of the wallet (customers) who need to update
Waiting for an update on darkcointalk.org, scrolling through btct, the #irc channels is not efficient nor effective.
We need a "who is who" in the DARK "crowd sourced company" and a well defined communication process.
This is especially important during transition phases, as clearly shown.
Contingency planning when something goes wrong when the software is deployed was also missing.
Nonetheless, community pulled together and got things done once more! Quite amazing and didn't take much time imho.
Let's improve this process however for anyone involved.
Thanks,
Agreed, my points, for what they are worth:
1) Twitter CAN be the best "official" place to go. There needs to be an official Darkcoin feed that has multiple Contributors. Evan obviously being one. Several other trusted individuals as well.
2) Wallet releases need to be numbered correctly, updated in this thread, on the main site, and in any other critical locations IMMEDIATELY. EVERY time. If there is something holding up one of the critical release locations, the release should be delayed everywhere, until the update is linkable everywhere.
3) Wallet update information needs to be pushed within the wallet.
4) Building a Twitter feed notification panel into the wallet would be great. In the spirit of decentralization, it could be disabled or the feed address(es) could be changed. It could be configured to read any RSS feed from anywhere, but default points to the Darkcoin Twitter feed.
5) Darkcoin is special because there are going to be multiple known hard forks, by design. This isn't like most coins where the coin is released and all work on it stops, and hard forks are only a dreaded consequence of a big flaw. Given this crucial feature, which IMO makes Darkcoin what it is more than anything else, it makes sense IMO to build some kind of "centralized" service that will alert users to problems, updates, etc. without them having to rely on searching forum threads and the like.
6) Communication with Important Community Members (exchanges, pool operators, known Masternode operators, etc.) is CRUCIAL and should be done WELL IN ADVANCE (like, a week at minimum). If a large and important entity cannot be reached (e.g. Cryptsy, Mintpal) then any planned changes should be delayed until they are brought on board. Exchanges and pool operators in particular will have to deal with angry customers, and they will point the finger straight at the Darkcoin development team. Really the exchanges should have halted all deposits and withdrawals for a period until they made sure that the fork didn't cause any problems. This is the kind of stuff that can bring down exchanges -- people depositing DRK knowing that the exchange is on the wrong fork, trading them for BTC, then withdrawing the BTC, then the exchange is out the BTC and the attacker kept the DRK because it was never sent on the right fork.
Darkcoin screwed up, big time. It gets a free pass on this one -- chalk it up to a rookie mistake -- but next time, faith will have been lost.
Thank you all very much for your comments. I have added these to the thread I created on this subject over on the darkcointalk Community Team sub-forum, naming each of you. Please let me know if anyone has any objections to that.
