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Re: [Electrum-discuss] Electrum direction
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From: Amir T. <zg...@ya...> - 2012-07-23 19:18:06
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Hey jokc, Cool stuff. That bug you mention - I never seem to encounter it. It's more like I startup Electrum and it doesn't connect. I switch into the old view, and it shows the server not connected. I then have to reselect another server. It seems this is because of server stability - they're constantly going down and coming back up. About the packages: yeah flatfly is awesome. It's also really cool because coblee (Charles Lee) has just made a Mac installer which Tachikoma is testing out. Tachikoma also just fixed the long standing "recursion depth reached" bug on Mac OSX systems. I've heard more than once that the artwork/styling on the UI needs tightening up. Quite exactly how to do that, I'm not so sure yet. Guess it needs time to play and toy around with as we perfect it. Accounts (multiple wallets) is definitely an important feature though. I'm using Electrum with AcceptBit to accept payments for conference tickets. Having a way to separate funds into different wallets would be really handy. One thing I've noticed is that the conversion utility (for showing amounts in EUR) is really useful and practical for me. A common use case is that I want to send X EUR, which means toying around with various BTC amounts until I find the right conversion. However, I'm apprehensive to put multiple input boxes or allow people to change the currency because this means people might make the mistake of typing BTC when they mean EUR or vice versa. ________________________________ From: Joe Kalac <mr...@ho...> To: ele...@li... Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [Electrum-discuss] Electrum direction Hi, I would like to share my experience, which is very different from unclemantis. From a user's perspective, servers are not currently unstable. We now have between 5 and 7 servers to connect to at all times, and I can't remember not all of them being down at once. However, there does seem to be a long-standing *client* bug that suddenly prevents the client from connecting to any servers. This bug should get more attention, as it causes user frustration such as what unclemantis described. Apart from that, I would put the priority on objective #2 - "Better packages and a smoother user experience getting started with Electrum" Right now, Mac and Linux users don't have truly foolproof installers, ready for mainstream adoption (compare with MultiBit, which has addressed that issue from the beginning). Also, the client needs a more robust/transparent way of switching between servers when one is not reponding. The only truly user-friendly installer is the Windows build by flatfly. Great job on that one! I just wish he could make a build for 0.61 as it has been out for a few weeks now. Not sure what is holding such a build. Objective #3 should be a close second, IMHO. Jokc > Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 09:55:44 -0700 > From: zg...@ya... > To: ele...@li... > Subject: [Electrum-discuss] Electrum direction > > Hi, > > Stability or development? How should I focus Electrum in the next few months? > > 1. Stability of servers. > > > 00:48 < unclemantis> is there something going on with the servers? > 00:48 < unclemantis> my unconfirmed number just went up to 25 on things that have been confirmed for DAYS > 00:50 < unclemantis> guys i can't connect to any of the servers now > 00:51 < unclemantis> i need a client that is more stable than this. I may just have to export my private keys and go elsewhere until this > > Right now, the servers are often slow, down a lot and not working. When I start Electrum, I have to switch between different servers a lot. > > This would mean development effort with a libbitcoin backend. Below this point there is a lot of detail concerned with scalability and security. > > 2. Better packages and a smoother user experience getting started with Electrum. Right now it doesn't work on Macs. And the Android client would need development. > > 3. New features like accounts and so on. Tightening up the UI and making Electrum more usable. > > One of those above 3 points will take priority over the others, although I hope to cover all of them within the long term. In particular, I'm thinking a lot about Electrum architecture. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. 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