Qortal - fully decentralized infrastructure - websites,trading,communications

[Antidiluvian]

Wow I am really impressed with this, thank you for your hard work on whomever is building this

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[Qortal Seth]

A major update to Q-Tube, our completely decentralized, censorship immune YouTube replacement has been updated with the following features:

Users can subscribe to Q-Tube channels. The Home Page has a tabbed pane that lets users select whether to view all videos or subscriptions only. Subscriptions are saved to the browser, so they do NOT transfer between the UI and chromium browsers. In the future, import/export of subscriptions and publishing them to QDN are planned.

When saving a file, any characters that the Operating System doesn't allow used to be replaced by _ now those characters are removed entirely.

The video type filters on the Home Page use Radio Buttons instead of Checkboxes because they are mutually exclusive, which fits Radio Buttons better. Clicking the button changes the video type without having to click the search button as well

The Video Player doesn't put controls menu over the video anymore. When fullscreen, the controls menu will disappear when the mouse exits the screen while video is playing for a better viewing experience.

Q-Tube statistics are displayed on the Home Page

Supported Codecs are displayed on the Publish Videos page so people know what encoding settings work.


Persistent storage of the following variables has been added:

1. List of Subscriptions
2. Video playback speed
3. Video Type filter
4. Home page currently selected tab

[Qortal Seth]

Starting now, I am posting a weekly summary of progress so that the community can have a better idea of what is happening, and be prepared to discuss our progress at the Think Tank.

Week of Feb 26-Mar 1

Monday Dev Meeting:
Kenny has made PR to show all fees related to trade portal transactions, he will also review Quick's PR: https://github.com/Qortal/qortal/pull/178

Tuesday
Qortal Think Tank:

The structure of the Monday Dev Meeting and Friday Marketing Meetings is going to change to make them more efficient:
1. The intended duration for the meetings is 30 minutes instead of the hour or more it used to be
2. There is a new structure: Announcements, then Q&A, Then Conclusion/Discussion to keep the meeting more focused

Crowetic announced a greater focus on the voting system now that the Self Sponsors have been eliminated.

Qortal Seth was paid 800 QORT for the bounty that Adds a Subscriber List to Q-Tube

A new public group called "mesh network and hardware group" has emerged on Q-Chat. This is the place to go for news related to Reticulum updates, testing, hardware, etc.

Friday Marketing Meeting:
Qortal Seth suggested moving marketing focus away from Cold emails and instead on the following:
1. Publishing content exclusively on Q-Tube/Q-Share and letting people on Web2 platforms know it is there while providing links that explain why our content is exclusively on Qortal
2. Make our current/future videos on Web2 platforms have titles that regular people will search for such as: "how to be private online", "censorship resistance", "Best Free Speech platform", etc.

Marketing Ideas/Progress
1. Rory B Bellows has an account on Brighteon named "Qortal Network" and is working on showing them the value of Qortal.
2. Rory suggests giving password in marketing materials that people type in general chat so we know where they came from. He wants us to have our marketing success determined by metrics be only within Qortal, and therefore completely disconnected from Web2 services.

Justin has announced the Q-Fund for the next month of the Qortians' Exclusive Marketing Club here:
qortal://APP/Q-Fund/crowdfund/Qortal%20Marketing%20Team/q-fund_crowdfund_qortians-exclusive-marketing-c_mR8dOO


Be sure to let any interested devs know that we have Coding Sessions where our main Q-App developer streams their Q-App development live and answers any questions about Qortal Development.

Coding Sessions take place in Qortal's Q-App Discord at Wednesday and Thursday at 12PM PST here: https://discord.gg/yWQghTR3Er

[lyynx]

I discovered the thread by looking for information for Qora. Does the project still have anything to do with the Qora or is it a completely unrelated project? I still have some Qora token and wonder if I can do anything with it in this project.

It is related, but your Qora will be of no value in Qortal. Many Qortal users were part of Qora, myself included.