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Until now, Flipstarter links on social media would always result in a generic Flipstarter description instead of details about the actual campaign. salemkode fixed that along with the language changes above so that social media previews are now about the campaign itself, and in your chosen language.
Accountability
As a simple update to encourage accountability on Flipstarter campaigns, salemkode added a new required item for each campaign: Where can people follow progress during and after a campaign?
Technical Changes
Easy to use editor for campaign creation
Until now, campaigners had to learn how to write up their campaigns using the markdown language. salemkode removed that barrier by adding not only an intuitive editor, but also improving Flipstarter so that all the features of markdown are available such as tables, linked images, and more.
Updated Plugin here. It is also linked from campaigns that use the latest Flipstarter release.
Now that Flipstarter established a level of trust among users, there is an alternate design on the way from Software Verde that has a better user experience and takes less extreme security measures. For those who prefer to continue using the plugin with Electron Cash, it has been improved to be safer and to have a better user experience
Show a more helpful message before pledging that lets you confirm the receiving address
Instead of a generic message in the transaction history, the message now includes the details from your pledge so it is easy to identify multiple campaign
These are the people making the long term project and the current round of updates possible:
Special mention for salemkode who attacked a long list of bounties on his own initiative, creating almost all of the updates discussed here, even doing some of them on a volunteer basis
Andrew Groot of Software Verde provided a code review service
Calling Culianu improved the automation of Flipstarter releases
Daguerreotype volunteers as maintainer of the Electron Cash plugin
emergent_reasons of General Protocols volunteers as overall maintainer and organizer
farbi did a bounty to improve the labeling of pledges in Electron Cash history
freetrader improved the clarity and helpfulness of the plugin confirmation message
merc1er volunteers as maintainer of the Digital Ocean easy-start, and the Flipstarter site
sploit keeps the hosting alive for the Flipstarter site
uak added the Arabic translation
These are the people making the long term project and the current round of updates possible:
Special mention for salemkode who attacked a long list of bounties on his own initiative, creating almost all of the updates discussed here, even doing some of them on a volunteer basis
Andrew Groot of Software Verde provided a code review service
Calin Culianu improved the automation of Flipstarter releases
Dagur volunteers as maintainer of the Electron Cash plugin
emergent_reasons of General Protocols volunteers as overall maintainer and organizer
farbi did a bounty to improve the labeling of pledges in Electron Cash history
freetrader improved the clarity and helpfulness of the plugin confirmation message
merc1er volunteers as maintainer of the Digital Ocean easy-start, and the Flipstarter site
sploit keeps the hosting alive for the Flipstarter site
uak added th
It's fantastic, amazing and humbling to see how the Flipstarter community is methodically making decentralized crowdfunding real. When I started down this road with Lighthouse years ago, the Flipstarter community is what I imagined and hoped it would eventually look like. The cryptocurrency world sadly has many projects that are hype over substance, but I believe that when the history of this time is written it'll be the projects like Flipstarter that left the biggest long term impact. - Mike Hearn, 2022-03
11,500+ BCH, permissionless money raised with a decentralized tool that has no owner, no platform to be shut down or censored - it's something special. Much appreciation to everyone involved in creating Flipstarter, as well as to everyone campaigning and supporting what is important to you.
As an open source project, Flipstarter has been fortunate to get a series of significant updates recently. Now all the updates have been applied to the Flipstarter source code, the docker hub image and also the Digital Ocean easy-start. All are documented on the Flipstarter Site. We hope that the updates will benefit all campaigners and contributors
discovered, and we'll encourage the ecosystem to put opinions up as we approach commitment.
Version Restriction and Relaxing Transaction Size Restrictions
Also on the table for commitment are two more proposals: Transaction Version Restriction and Relaxation of Transaction Size Lower Bounds. We at General Protocols do not directly benefit from these changes, but do view them as necessary and straightforward cleanups that should simplify upgrades and mining on BCH going forward. We support both of these proposals.
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