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• Re: LTB Redesign and Upcoming Changes

  @jorjxmckie After messing with the redesigned site for only a few minutes I can say it is prettier and easier to navigate (finding Magic Words the exception). Nice work guys!

  Yeah, as @cherapple mentioned, we took off the Magic Words link from the main menu because it would just go to the magic words dashboard section.. but the problem is it would go to a 403 error page if you were not logged in. We are going to be replacing it shortly with a public explainer page of what Magic Words are all about, which will also make it easier to find again.

  Posted on September 27, 2015 at 10:32 AM
  General

• Re: Spell of Genesis Crowd Sale - Invest or pass?

  @adam Honestly the spells of genesis prototype just makes me hungry for a magic the gathering style online CCG, you'd be able to do draft tourneys and all the stuff you can do in real life except with tokenized cards.

  I'm not really a casual gamer and the ccg+peggle thing, while it definitely has a big market who would like it, isn't my favorite.

  I'm still wanting to do something like this eventually :)

  Posted on September 27, 2015 at 10:01 AM
  General

• Re: Magic Words - Where on new website?

  Yeah, you can click on your username in the top right corner to go to your dashboard and there is a form right there for submitting them

  Posted on September 26, 2015 at 10:24 PM
  Listener Lounge

• Re: New LTB Site

  Thanks! I posted a thread about it here https://letstalkbitcoin.com/forum/post/ltb-redesign-and-upcoming-changes

  Posted on September 26, 2015 at 5:49 PM
  General

• LTB Redesign and Upcoming Changes

  Hey everyone.

  As you can probably tell, things look a little different around here. Although scheduled for Oct 1st, we went ahead and launched the new website design anyway, which has been long overdue... Hope you like it!

  Besides the obvious design updates, there have been a few key changes:

  • New look for the forums - no more ugly tables, a bit easier to navigate
  • New dashboard page, with quick magic words entry, forum activity, private messages, personal stats, your token inventory, way better dashboard menu and more.
  • Updated user profiles with new look + additional stats, new sorting options on the community directory

  We have also gone through and updated all the main menu items and content pages. If you see anything content related that does not seem right or seems to be outdated, please let us know.

  As always, there are more updates in progress and we are constantly working on making improvements to the system (although sometimes get sidetracked).

  Some of the upcoming changes and new features over the next two weeks ™ few months include:

  • Sub-forums
  • Threaded forum comments
  • Upvote/downvote system to replace "Likes"
  • Better moderator and forum management controls
  • New forum sorting options
  • Token Controlled Access options for blogs and individual blog posts
  • A "Create your blog" page where anyone can start their own blog
  • Updates to author / editorial submissions and work flow

  Stay tuned for more details.

  Any feedback, comments or suggestions would be much appreciated. If you see any bugs or display issues, you can let us know here in this thread, contact me directly or submit an issue on our Github repository

  PS: If in the "Recent Transactions" section on your dashboard, it just says "Reading blockchain...check again in a few minutes." and does not seem to go away... I am aware of the issue already and working on it :)

  Posted on September 26, 2015 at 5:48 PM
  General

• Re: Upcoming Bitcoin Hard Fork & /r/bitcoin censorship

  So in relating to the /r/bitcoin censorship, here is an interesting chat log from Theymos...

  https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoinxt/comments/3l6njq/theymos_i_know_how_moderation_affects_people/

  Posted on September 17, 2015 at 9:05 AM
  Bitcoin & Beyond

• Potential scam alert: "Global Advisors Bitcoin Investment"

  I just received a random email from something claiming to be the "Global Advisors Bitcoin Investment Fund", I'm guessing this went out to a lot of people.

  Our team constantly seeks and executes opportunities and manage their associated risks. With a strong understanding on what is becoming the greatest financial revolution in the 21st century, we have helped both skeptics and believers realise incredible returns in the Cryptocurrency space.

  Looking to stake a portion of your assets in Bitcoin? ...

  WE HAVE FOUND THE HIDDEN GEM - Try our exclusive product: "Bitcoin Unit Box 150"

  Your ultimate opportunity to get 150% return for the first time in Bitcoin history

  They then go on to tell you that they are accepting bitcoin investments from the 15th to sept 30th ("limited time offer!"), and then straight up give you a BTC address to deposit funds to, with a supposed guaranteed return of 150% by Oct 15th. Hmm....

  In case it's not obvious, 99% most likely a scam, so please don't fall for it :)

  Also, I would be careful clicking the "unsubscribe" link or any of the other links in the email. Delete and move on

  Posted on September 15, 2015 at 11:44 AM
  General

• Re: LTBcoin A Ponzi?

  @goefells There is one comment talking about the nature of LTBCoin and content creation--the aim was to bootstrap a community and content creators together through some reward based system. This, it hoped, would create a viable audience for advertising and cycle up content creation. Since joining LTB there is definitely much less content on the site in written format, and while there are a lot more podcasts, not many people can sit at their desks for an hour or so to listen.

  An interesting article can take 20 minutes to read.

  I dunno, I kind sorta agree with that commenter--what exactly has happened to the LTBC experiment? Has it now become fully embraced in a Tokenly fashion? It's not content that is important, it's merchandise and services now built on top of Tokenly that utlise LTBCoin?

  Instead of diverse content for the audience, are we merely shoppers now with a little bit of content side dish? I don't particularly mind how LTBCoin is used, it's always been about the content here for me(have not ever sold a single LTBCoin :P), but what is exactly happening with the LTBCoin experiment? Is Tokenly a pivot which has dragged LTBCoin with it?

  Things are still chugging along, and content is still being posted almost every day, but yeah definitely heavily weighted on the podcaster side, and the forums are pretty slow most days. Interesting that when we added a bunch of features to our backend blogging / editorial sections, we actually got less submissions, so we definitely need to rethink some things on the content creator side. ..

  IMO these are the main issues:

  • The website is in desperate need of a redesign. The current version is an improvement over the old simple wordpress blog, but to be frank this design was whipped together based off a couple static mockups delivered only days before we were supposed to launch the new site... but yeah, a redesign is coming later this month, working on it as we speak actually. Part of the redesign is also more advertising space to sell (not too much, don't worry), instead of just the 2 spots we currently have.
  • Development efforts have been mostly siphoned off from the main LTB platform (the CMS), to Tokenly products. This is true - but it also is all going to tie together, as you will see very soon. We found that almost everything we wanted to try or do with LTBC required custom solutions, having to build in our own payment processing for different functions (blog submission credits, TCA boards, buying advertisements or sponsorship), token distribution, token vending, TCA etc... so we came to the conclusion that it was better to have these things as properly built, more scalable services which can not only be used by LTB, but by any other token project.
  • We have never really actively promoted or advertised ourselves. Everything is just organic traffic, posts to reddit and the standard social media channels.

  So in other words, need to pretty this place up, make some upgrades and do some promotion. The first two are my department, @adam can maybe say more on advertising and getting more content creation though

  Posted on September 7, 2015 at 10:43 AM
  LTBcoin Talk

• Re: Cryptonaut's Token Emporeum

  FYI the SJCX buy/sell bot is active again and has been loaded with 20,000 new tokens

  Posted on September 5, 2015 at 6:46 PM
  Metacoin Central