BlockChan now has ID's and a new Domain. What else is needed before Advertising/Marketing?

>BlockChan.Link
The domain feels like it could still use work (though it looks like most of the other blockchan domains are premium or taken, rip)
>Post Tags
Could these be shortened? Why do we have posts like "771CC61A064CA1904CF433B603116DD8E7A774D5B5F8E34073E2624B5C1B3E2A"? Could it be made so that the tags start shorter but maybe automatically increase in size as they are filled out (like how Jow Forums does it)?
>UI
Pretty basic and still has some problems atm but I'm sure you plan on improving it.
>No captcha
Don't you need this to be safe from bots? Obviously recaptcha is shit but do you plan on adding a custom captcha or something?

>How do you deal with the eternal chan problem of banning CP and glows spamming the board to death?
Images must be manually downloaded. You can turn on download for all images, or you can individually click show image for it to be downloaded and shown

>Damn, this just keeps getting better and better.
thanks fren

>No Mods/No Jannies
>This is probably the only thing I'm worried about, but other than that this project looks like it's doing well
There are potential solutions around this that I'm thinking about such as being able to flag a post as illegal or nsfw where that if it it got flagged, a user would have to manually turn on showing those images as well

Could we also have some way to filter encrypted threads from the catalog (maybe it could be done by default)? No point in them being there if we won't have the key to access most of them

That’s me fren. I’ll be linkposting a storm

>The domain feels like it could still use work (though it looks like most of the other blockchan domains are premium or taken, rip)
Yeah, anything worthwhile is 5-10k usd and I don't want to dump that kind of money right now

>Could these be shortened? Why do we have posts like "771CC61A064CA1904CF433B603116DD8E7A774D5B5F8E34073E2624B5C1B3E2A"? Could it be made so that the tags start shorter but maybe automatically increase in size as they are filled out (like how Jow Forums does it)?
I'm working on this, the only thing I can think of is making a 16 character hash of the ripple transactionID which is the long string you see

>Pretty basic and still has some problems atm but I'm sure you plan on improving it.
With the new UI, I really am not sure what else to do. It functions almost exactly as Jow Forums does to my eyes. I suck at UI though and miss a lot of things apparently. I'll gladly make changes, but they have to be pointed out to be in detail sadly

>Don't you need this to be safe from bots? Obviously recaptcha is shit but do you plan on adding a custom captcha or something?
I didn't think about this. I will try to find something that isn't captcha but is still functional

>Could we also have some way to filter encrypted threads from the catalog (maybe it could be done by default)? No point in them being there if we won't have the key to access most of them
Ahhh, this is a good idea. I'll add that tonight or in the morning

>I didn't think about this. I will try to find something that isn't captcha but is still functional
There was that hcaptcha thing some people on here were shilling, but I'm not sure how good it is. hcaptcha.com/

The only issue is that it would have to hit an external API and I want the BlockChan client to only interact with Ripple and IPFS. I'm worried about the slippery slope of adding server calls to other places as it allows possibilities for tracking, unanonymizing people, etc..

Don't add captcha until you actually start having bot problems

>Don't implement a fix for a security issue until it's actually an issue
What's the problem with adding captcha, especially if it isnt as bad as recaptcha

>Don't add captcha until you actually start having bot problems
I definitely won't and if I do add something, it will be less obnoxious that captcha which fails 20 times in a row even if you click the RIGHT MOTHER FUCING GODDAMN BOXES WITH FIRE HYDRANGTS IN THE MEHADSFJJSD90 2309320923092002092

Flags for biz board

How many LINK do you own faggot? And why ripple? Couldn't you have done this on eth or something?

>With the new UI, I really am not sure what else to do. It functions almost exactly as Jow Forums does to my eyes. I suck at UI though and miss a lot of things apparently. I'll gladly make changes, but they have to be pointed out to be in detail sadly
I can nitpick somethings; I think it would be better if the left side bar wasn't so long that its something that you can scroll down on, would probably look better if it was something that was always in full view (maybe decrease the space between the logo and "Home"?), when replying to a thread it's annoying to have the "Post" button be above the message box instead of below which could be fixed by moving the "Post" button below the box and putting just stale text like "Message:" in it's place, I think in the catalog that "Replies" should be placed before "Images" as it is more relevant

I didn't think ripple was meant for storage lol

What happens when the chain is filled with cheese pizza

>Flags for biz board
The only way I can turn on flags is if I code it in such a way the the BlockChan UI makes a request to a 3rd party API that exposes your IP to them for it to figure out your geolocation....I can code this easily but think it is against the intended purpose of this project. The other solution is putting a centralized server been the BlockChan UI and ripple, but then that also defeats the purpose

>How many LINK do you own faggot? And why ripple? Couldn't you have done this on eth or something?
I used to own very many LINK, but had to get rid of them. But that's a story for another day.

I chose ripple because I needed fast transactions (3-4 seconds) and the transactions to be able to store data. No other crypto even comes close...it's unfortunate that it is ripple though because I quite dislike it to be honest

>I didn't think ripple was meant for storage lol
Sure wasn't

>What happens when the chain is filled with cheese pizza
IndImm uploads to the blockchain, BlockChan uploads hash pointers that reference IPFS. IPFS has their own protocols for dealing with illegal content and is not Ripple's or BlockChans responsibility

Thanks for the feedbak fren, I will definitely take your advice and address issues you spoke about this weekend

Have you also looked at the info from gtmetrix.com/? Or would most of the suggestions on there not work for blockchan?

I guess my overall question is, is it ready for me to more aggressively advertise? I'm worried about "gold plating" it such that I never truly release/market/advertise it because I keep trying to make it perfect.

Is it good enough now, is it a "minimum viable product" as I constantly here bitched about during meetings for my big boy job

Lastly, how do I market/advertise it?

>Have you also looked at the info from gtmetrix.com/? Or would most of the suggestions on there not work for blockchan?
That wouldn't be applicable. Latency issues are primarily from IPFS and the initial connection to ripple. I do have more speed improvements coming but the technique I'm using honestly hurts my brain due to it's complexity and its very time consuming to code

>That wouldn't be applicable. Latency issues are primarily from IPFS and the initial connection to ripple. I do have more speed improvements coming but the technique I'm using honestly hurts my brain due to it's complexity and its very time consuming to code
But what about the javascript and browser caching suggestions? Can you not apply these

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Swing linker and xrp shill. I'm firing up my spam bots right now.

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>But what about the javascript and browser caching suggestions? Can you not apply these
Yes, good point. I am working on caching as well as dynamically updating the data opposed to doing true data refreshes. The complexity arises from the way I have to do image loading to handle all the displaying use cases

>Swing linker and xrp shill. I'm firing up my spam bots right now.
I never swung my link, I sacrificed them so to speak

Most of these suggestions though are for initial page loads and info served from a web server. This is not applicable at all to BlockChan

Bots are on standby. I'm waiting for a proper explanation as to why you don't own any link.

haha. I have a suicide stack of 5,000. Used to have just over 100,000 until May.

Now that's interesting

Are the rumors true that you are whale killer?

Make a porn containment board please sir

>Make a porn containment board please sir
I'm thinking about making it so that users can create their own board and moderate their own board. It would cost about 4 USD to create a board to cover the XRP costs of generating a new address

More business related question. How are you monetizing this?

>Are the rumors true that you are whale killer?
no comment

>More business related question. How are you monetizing this?
I am not and have no plans to. Any monetization will come from this being a proof of my skills for future projects and future backings.

I have a couple of Seed/VC funded projects that failed so need to up my track record

>-No Mods/No Jannies
interdasting. can't wait to see how this plays out

How long untill the website becomes unusable due to gore spam?

>How long untill the website becomes unusable due to gore spam?
I am thinking about putting a toggle on the bottom of BlockChan where people can toggle between a version that is moderated and a version that isn't

So what's the benefit exactly posting on a blockchain and regular chan?

>So what's the benefit exactly posting on a blockchain and regular chan?
Posts can't be taken down, censored, or be modified...like on infinitechan where post times were modified

Isn't this an utopia though?

Im sorry, I don't follow

Actually really cool. Glad to see use of a blockchain too

The idea that you can have a place that's unmoderated, uncensored and unmodified? The idea is nice. But in reality it will probably become unusable due to spam.

user, you desparately need to support native tags so we can middle-click to open in a new tab, so we don't have to keep wasting network power reloading the page we were just on manually.

The little "open in new window" button is not working for me, btw.

Also, please allow a non-catalog view previewing the OP, such as >>

Such as https colon slash slash boards dot 4channel dot org slash biz slash

I'm fixing the open in new window link now. It was malformed earlier.

I'm thinking about this, I wasn't sure there was a need. Ill implement soon

I am toying with having a toggle that makes you view in moderated or unmoderated mode and having a moderator for the moderated version. Thoughts?

gore spam actually keeps reddit away, it does amazing wonders. its the cheese pizza that needs to be kept the fuck out

and congrats on it OP, it finally took a Jow Forumsentleman to code up that shit

the dark skin sucks, cant you just fucking make it look like 4 chan?

also remove the fucking sidebar, we dont need a fucking sidebar on Jow Forums.

and the catalog looks like ass yoi have too much paddings and wasted space

Exactly this. It has been improving, OP. Great job, but make it more not shitty.

Also btw, native anchor tags come with a slew of other helpful features like tab-stops, route previews near the status bar, etc. - I'd recommend them.

Can we get an anime board? If nothing else, it will serve as containment. Please

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I'm god awful at UI and appreciate the feedback. I will continue to make more improvements and make it more like Jow Forums

>Can we get an anime board? If nothing else, it will serve as containment. Please
I will be adding a anime, guns, and technology in the coming weeks, maybe more; also going to give users the ability to create their own board and be able to moderate it

I fucking hate XRP and think it's a scam.
Would BlockChan suit me?

>also going to give users the ability to create their own board and be able to moderate it

Blehh. I hate that 8ch/reddit gimmick. It just splinters the community and creates hugboxes, and will definitely lead to CP hives. Just my opinion. I look forward to the new boards though

>I fucking hate XRP and think it's a scam.
>Would BlockChan suit me?
I'm not a fan of XRP at all and the community is much worse

However, XRP was unfortunately the only thing out there that is fast enough and has the ability to store a forum like Jow Forums completely on chain. Also, it's the cheapest. Using ETH for example would be much more expensive and slow, but I am in process of using it to make redundant backup

>Blehh. I hate that 8ch/reddit gimmick
I do to but I've been getting a lot of requests for it. I'm trying to steer this by community suggestion

Opening in new window is now fixed

Also will this shit actually usable (go to website and post) or just some theoretical superslow piece of shit nobody will bother using - hello torchan 0xchan -?

Cool, but do I need to pay tx fees and wait blockchain confs to post?

Right now it takes a couple of seconds for initial loads as well as refreshes. I am working on caching and optimization where that the only slow load will be the initial page load

Right now, I consider it usable in that you can go to a thread and have a post on it within about 5-6 seconds

Use the binance puzzle piece but themed different

>Cool, but do I need to pay tx fees and wait blockchain confs to post?
You don't have to pay but you need to wait for them to confirm which is the problem for other blockchains.

Also, other chains only let you store 32bytes of data which makes it near impossible to store a chan on

Nice.
How about accessibility - will it have an URL mortals can simply go to or you need special browser extension, tor fuckeries, nasa shit, whatever?

8niggers are looking for a new home, so of course somebody looking to create an innovative new imageboard is going to get a lot of requests to make it exactly like 8ch. I would heavily advise against it. Sometimes the community doesn't know whats good for them. I'd like to see the site build up an active userbase before it gets splintered into 50 different niche boards that get 1 post a day.

Just keep what I said in mind. Simple suggestions. Keep it up, this is really cool.

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Nice. How about pics?

>How about accessibility - will it have an URL mortals can simply go to or you need special browser extension, tor fuckeries, nasa shit, whatever?
Completely accessible, you just need the BlockChan client and an internet connection. It works even if DNS's are down/blocked.

BlockChan is really just a payment reader/writer interface to the ripple blockchain/ledger

pics are stored on IPFS with their hash pointer stored on XRP

Yep there definitely is need for a truly free chan.
Torchan 0xchan and the other nunbersoups failed at this, nobody uses them because of mostly shit user experience.

Infinity has been abandoned by hotweels and is now run by a burger who lives in the Philippines.

Cost and time wise, how much would that be to upload say a 1mb pic?

>Yep there definitely is need for a truly free chan.
>Torchan 0xchan and the other nunbersoups failed at this, nobody uses them because of mostly shit user experien
Is the user experience for BlockChan currently a deal breaker in your opinion? Is it really that much worse than Jow Forums? Or is it just too different?

>Cost and time wise, how much would that be to upload say a 1mb pic?
Cost is about $150 per Terabyte that I pay for. Ripple costs are negligible (5000 posts per 1 USD)

What do you mean I need the Blockchan client.
Please explain as if I was an octuagenary. Do I need to install some shit or browser extension? I can 't just type an URL?
In that case, 0xchan and TorChan already paved the way to failure, STST

Another thing that is great is that anyone can clone this and setup their own "BlockChan" just by running

github.com/ndm-inf/BlockChan.git

then changing a few XRP addresses to the addresses they own

and publishing to github with

ng build --prod --base-href "ndm-inf.github.io/BlockChan/"
npx ngh --dir=dist/IndImmUI
ng serve

Haven't tried BC so can't comment on UX. Pretty important point though

>What do you mean I need the Blockchan client.
The BlockChan client is just HTML and Javascript with no serverside communication except with the blockchain

The client is just what you get when you go to BlockChan.Link

>github.com/ndm-inf/BlockChan.git
git clone github.com/ndm-inf/BlockChan.git

I encourage you to do so fren, OP pic is what it looks like

I appreciate the alacrity and agree this would tap an unsaturated niche.
My concerns are around UX and tech-savvyness requirements also in light of the utter failure which were other altchans.

Alright, I'll give this a go.

I think the UX is usable enough as it's very similar to Jow Forums and tech-savvyness is not needed at all. You literally load it and post like you do here

and I actually like the dark skin and layout, its easy on the eyes

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The site is really pulling together user. My only complaint is the font color. Everything else is looking good.

Yeah that sounds pretty good actually. I like that idea.
I agree

>and I actually like the dark skin and layout, its easy on the eyes
Thanks fren

>The site is really pulling together user. My only complaint is the font color. Everything else is looking good.
I was thinking the same thing about font color, what would you guys suggest?

Pretty seemless - the issue I have is pics not autoloading and actually taking a long time to appear. That's an IPFS issue right?

Pic autoloading is turned off by default due to people being worried about illegal content being automatically downloaded. If you toggle the button in the left menu to turn Download Images on, then that setting will save

Slow images are an IPFS issue

Slow post loading is because of the initial ripple connection and due to some performance mistakes I made. I'm addressing those performance issues this week and afterwards, once initially loaded, the site will run quickly

Image loading speeds will actually increase if this site is used more due to the nature of IPFS

big fan of this shit i think it is the future of image boards. not to mention it actually gives xrp something to do, fuckin shitcoin

>big fan of this shit i think it is the future of image boards. not to mention it actually gives xrp something to do, fuckin shitcoin
Thanks fren. I ask anyone who actually believes and likes this to spread it's word. It will only get adoption if people use it and I have no idea how to get the word out other than shilling it here

Another feature of 's: Browser support for right-click -> copy link address, open in incognito, open in new tab or new window entirely.