Is this quality of life idea?

[libert19]

Whenever someone mentions coin ticker with prefix $, site automatically hyperlinks it to coin tracking site (cmc/cg). For example, $BTC, will be automatically hyperlinked like this $BTC.

It's just idea I had in mind, it could be useless but I wouldn't know, second person can judge better.

[Faisal2202]

Whenever someone mentions coin ticker with prefix $, site automatically hyperlinks it to coin tracking site (cmc/cg). For example, $BTC, will be automatically hyperlinked like this $BTC.

It's just idea I had in mind, it could be useless but I wouldn't know, second person can judge better.

So you are proposing an idea and I thought this is a thing already in functioning haha silly me. Well, I liked the idea and it will make things really quick while talking about the token but what if any token will not be listed on these (CMC/CG) sites, or what good it brings for us?

I mean people search for the tokens/coins on these sites when they have to get the live price, trading volume, etc., etc. Or some specific information according to the post in which it has been used like "the trading volume is skyrocketing" One might want to see that and this automatically hyper linkage can take us straight there and can save our 30s.

Well, small ideas will always save time, but in my opinion, the developers of this forum should add an equal sign in front of IMG and LINK tag so we don't have to write it manually <-- This suggestion can save more time of ours. And still idea is an idea and you made a good one.

[Adbitco]

Whenever someone mentions coin ticker with prefix $, site automatically hyperlinks it to coin tracking site (cmc/cg). For example, $BTC, will be automatically hyperlinked like this $BTC.

It's just idea I had in mind, it could be useless but I wouldn't know, second person can judge better.

This function mostly work better with social media especially when you # or $ it stand as key to link up the post to site or to all content where such article or posts are also mentioned. But btw I don't think if such would be implemented here as since this is a forum and not a social media like Facebook or twitter (x) maybe linkedin, is more related to such site however here is a community that focuses on discussion and not to hashtags any website instead you can get direct link of the website and hyperlinked it while making post or use such site you are including as a reference purpose to your content.

[hilariousandco]

Whenever someone mentions coin ticker with prefix $, site automatically hyperlinks it to coin tracking site (cmc/cg). For example, $BTC, will be automatically hyperlinked like this $BTC.

It's just idea I had in mind, it could be useless but I wouldn't know, second person can judge better.

So you are proposing an idea and I thought this is a thing already in functioning haha silly me.

It does read like that.

I doubt this is something theymos would implement and I don't think it's necessary nor would it be popular but someone could easily make a script for it.

[Cantsay]

Instead of this being implemented why don’t we talk of something more useful like this: A small merit-sending UI tweak, this will be more useful than your current suggestion although it might be useful to some.

And btw, what do you think will happen if a user decide to just include a special character in his post that turns out to be a ticker? Or some random token comes up with a token that its ticker is not found in cmc/cg what would be the result? It would only just make the post be filled with so many urls that lead to nowhere, if someone wants to checker out a token then they should do it the way they have been doing it… after all this is not an app its a forum so all they have to do is to open a new tab aid they don’t want to lose their current screen and search for whatever it is that they want to search.

[ZAINmalik75]

This function mostly work better with social media especially when you # or $ it stand as key to link up the post to site or to all content where such article or posts are also mentioned. But btw I don't think if such would be implemented here as since this is a forum and not a social media like Facebook or twitter (x) maybe linkedin, is more related to such site however here is a community that focuses on discussion and not to hashtags any website instead you can get direct link of the website and hyperlinked it while making post or use such site you are including as a reference purpose to your content.

That was the idea of Op to save some time as the first poster has said because only typing the $ sign as a prefix behind every ticker would save many Op a lot of time but I think its implementation is not possible or would be an easy task because a lot of people use dollar sign behind the token ticker I don't see many here but on almost all the website's articles they use dollar sign behind the ticker.

Overall, I like the idea but as I said its implementation seems impossible but there is no shame in proposing new ideas who knows what might attract theymos?

Adbitco we can hyperlink any word using the tags but this would save us a lot of time I guess. Don't you think?

[LTU_btc]

I'm not really sure that such thing would be actively used here. Not against proposal, but I don't think that we need theymos involvenent here. As said above, if there is demand, someone can make script for it, I don't think that it would be very difficult for person with knowledge.
Also, I see little issue in this proposal. If such thing would be implemented, Bitcointalk would have endorse 3rd party website like Coingecko. I'm not sure that theymos want that.

[Stalker22]

To be honest, Im not really feeling this idea and do not see how it would be useful.  It would basically just be giving free promo to some random third party site like CMC or CG, which seems pointless unless there is some kind of mutual benefit for the BitcoinTalk peeps.  There is also the issue that if the service goes down for whatever reason, it would leave a ton of broken links all over the forum.  

[_BlackStar]

Whenever someone mentions coin ticker with prefix $, site automatically hyperlinks it to coin tracking site (cmc/cg). For example, $BTC, will be automatically hyperlinked like this $BTC.

You don't tell us what the goal is - but it doesn't seem like forums will automatically increase traffic to any site unless both parties are affiliated. I'm sure admin don't approve your request or idea - it seems very likely to be ignored, but someone could make a custom script for this idea.

It's just idea I had in mind, it could be useless but I wouldn't know, second person can judge better.

I think your idea is useful - users can easily track bitcoin prices while increasing site traffic. Such hyper links are not really expected - they are a kind of free advertising as most users do.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

It doesn't seem like a bad idea, but it just looks like it's not going to have much use on the forum because it's quite easy for some to search on Google for Bitcoin price or whatever token or coin they want, and they will just get a result pointing to CMC or CG. It's not much of a big deal to get a coin's details through the coin tracking sites like the two popular ones you mentioned. I know that lately, there have been so many requests and ideas for some features, local boards, subboards, and applications for merit sources that seem very important but are still pending. I am not condemning your idea, but I believe that the boss T would come across all this, and he would only add the one he was well convinced about.

[joker_josue]

Whenever someone mentions coin ticker with prefix $, site automatically hyperlinks it to coin tracking site (cmc/cg). For example, $BTC, will be automatically hyperlinked like this $BTC.

It's just idea I had in mind, it could be useless but I wouldn't know, second person can judge better.

I understand the idea, but it wouldn't actually enrich the forum, for several reasons:
- A user might not want their text to be associated with a link, regardless of what they wrote. He almost no longer had "power" over what he wrote.
- The forum is diverting its user traffic to third-party sites. And the objective is for the user to remain on the forum for as long as possible.
- Which site would you choose? I had to earn something to be giving traffic to that site. Something that goes against the forum's own "rules", where affiliate links are not well seen (especially when they are hidden).
- A user could like CMC more than CG, or vice versa. Taking into account that it was the user who wrote the post, how do you choose the site you prefer?
- Technically it is possible, but it is not very useful for the community.

Therefore, despite understanding the idea, I think it is not useful for the forum, nor does it make sense for such functionality to exist.

[hd49728]

Whenever someone mentions coin ticker with prefix $, site automatically hyperlinks it to coin tracking site (cmc/cg). For example, $BTC, will be automatically hyperlinked like this $BTC.

Did you think of where to link it too?

Coinmarketcap, Coingecko? They are all third party websites and they might just stop working or die like preev.com. There is no official website to link Bitcoin to only for checking price.

Preev.com is Down ?

You can have something like this after click on the link and visit a hyperlinked website.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

This function mostly work better with social media <snip>

Yeah, somehow I don't see Theymos going for a suggestion like this, especially since it would be creating code to link directly to sites out of his control.  And I don't know about coingecko, but CMC has been undergoing a lot of changes as of late and who's to say they're going to remain the top site for prices and such?  

Those in the know can probably search for a coin quickly, without the need for a direct link on the forum.  And even for those who wouldn't know where to look up info, I'm not sure the benefit of a function like this would outweigh the effort it'd take to implement (and I'm also not sure there would be any risk necessarily, but IMO it's just not a great idea).

Coinmarketcap, Coingecko? They are all third party websites and they might just stop working or die like preev.com.

That was floating around in my head as well, although I doubt CMC or coingecko are likely to periodically stop working like preev does.  Those two sites probably make money, whereas preev is just a ticker.

[mk4]

It would somewhat handy especially for when talking about altcoins, but then there will be arguments on which sites to link to(CMC/CoinGecko/etc) and as well as people's moral/ethical standpoints against altcoins.

If this were to be implemented (which I totally doubt it would), it makes sense to only be in the Trading Discussion and Speculation sections.

[Adbitco]

This function mostly work better with social media <snip>

Yeah, somehow I don't see Theymos going for a suggestion like this, especially since it would be creating code to link directly to sites out of his control.   

I believe he would see this post and probably comment here to know his opinion based on what op said although most times he hardly finds time commenting in some post he finds not valuable or meaningful. I wonder how occupied he could be and, what op is suggesting is just something that will be favorable to him maybe if someone else comes and noticed any difficulties he would also want to suggest what will make him have easy access to what he wants by then the forum won't that safe anymore. What I sense from op is that he is a regular user of social media and he wants the entire environment of bitcointalk to looks as one but I can tell op with full assurance that here can never be like other social media, so any one who must stay in this environment most learn to be friendly with the forum.

And I don't know about coingecko, but CMC has been undergoing a lot of changes as of late and who's to say they're going to remain the top site for prices and such?

Maybe Yes or No, but I believe for now they are still the best price checking site for cryptocurrencies there may be other site I don't know but for years now I can say they have most of the population of cryptocurrencies being listed in the site. Any coin/token that is listed there easily get great exposure especially in terms of price increase, still I don't doubt you but with time more site will overcome them.

[Gormicsta]

Coinmarketcap, Coingecko? They are all third party websites and they might just stop working or die like preev.com.
That was floating around in my head as well, although I doubt CMC or coingecko are likely to periodically stop working like preev does.  Those two sites probably make money, whereas preev is just a ticker.

Accurately said. Both CMC and Coingecko provides a more accurate and reliable real-time information and analysis on various cryptocurrencies unlike Preev which simply a ticker. And compared to Preev, they're more well-established platforms and are less likely to experience outages or stop working.

In addition, The company has a 40 man team with 6 data scientists, and Forbes estimates it earns between $20 million and $30 million a year in ad revenue. While Coingecko claims it has over $3 million in annual revenue and tracks over 3,587 tokens from over 259 exchanges. That's a lot of money if you ask me, so it's almost impossible for these companies to experience an outage with that kind of annual revenue.

[hugeblack]

I thought it was a suggestion to show the price of Bitcoin or the balance of a specific address, and then it would be understandable that the forum focuses on Bitcoin to have a task related to that, but adding a link can be done easily and manually.

In general, there are many improvements to the forum, and we may need another software.

[Adbitco]

Hey mate @Gormicsta could you take a look at your post? Please kindly unquote yourself from the post to be well understandable, maybe you don't need to quote post before posting or better still learn before quoting.

[SmartGold01]

I thought it was a suggestion to show the price of Bitcoin or the balance of a specific address, and then it would be understandable that the forum focuses on Bitcoin to have a task related to that, but adding a link can be done easily and manually.

In general, there are many improvements to the forum, and we may need another software.

What op is asking is a bit difficult from theymos since he doesn't have access and control to such site just few user already suggested and/ or any reputable member here can build a site that would be tie to this forum just as someone launched an easy way to upload images after the regular site do not allow image to be host on this forum. Maybe Bitcointalk can have their own price checking site where coin/token can also be listed and will be regularly used by members over here instead of having to browse other site to view price of bitcoin.

[nelson4lov]

What op is asking is a bit difficult from theymos since he doesn't have access and control to such site just few user already suggested and/ or any reputable member here can build a site that would be tie to this forum just as someone launched an easy way to upload images after the regular site do not allow image to be host on this forum. Maybe Bitcointalk can have their own price checking site where coin/token can also be listed and will be regularly used by members over here instead of having to browse other site to view price of bitcoin.

Imo, the primary concern with this is that the cost of adding such a feature to simple machines forum (SMF) might not be worth it. So the cost might far outweigh the benefits and that should put a strain on the servers especially if more users keep using the $ symbol in order to get recent prices. More of the APIs are not even free to use at that scale.