read.cash roadmap
We are a very young project (started Oct 18th, 2019), so we lack quite a few features. Read more about the project at our About page.
We'll publish and update our plans here.
Things listed here are not in any particular order.
Make one-time QR codes remember private key and re-attempt broadcasting
Ability to translate articles (possibly with revenue sharing)
Ability to send private (preferably e2e encrypted) messages
Mentions autocomplete
Feed of new comments
Ability to see who I follow and who follows me (Telesfor)
"Sticky" footer/left thingy with link to comments and shares?
Mentions notifications (in comment or in article)
Links to to-do items
(?) Clickable explanations (mark)
Wide code block
Promote your own post (opt-in to users)
Consider BIP70 instead of ephemeral QR codes
IPFS videos (source)
A personal About Me page for each user profile, where you can also tip to that user (elrikpiro)
Reminder about unapproved sponsors
Bug: deleting image
Bug: copying images
Bug: italics in code blocks
Bug: pasting into images's caption
Bug: links in images caption
CashID using QR codes and asking for nickname first on registration
Minor: Links hotkey Ctrl+K, Cmd+K (select)
Real-time balance updates
More / cut tag
Twitter embeds / incl. video
Sponsorship minor additions: editing of monthly amount, request to change the logo
Premium parts of article visible for sponsors
Promote your articles via reddit/memo/etc.. (maybe: bounties for promotion)
Description, snippet editor
Better comment editor
Best article contest
Dark theme
Table of contents (in separate editor?) "next", "previous" link, for books, etc...
Add overview of all site functions to onboarding (onboarding v2/v3)
Footnotes and sidenotes
RSS feeds (main page, topic, author)
(!) Warning blocks
Multiple languages for the article(? )
2/3 columns block (wide / narrow / 1-3 / 3-1 split)
Polls / straw polls
Better explanation of upvotes for non-registered users
Ability to close "one-time" QR code (sorry, obvious, but not that easy)
Personalized page (homepage?) based on subscriptions
minor: Save previous H1,2,3 "links" so that change of the text doesn't break old links
Stats page
Change e-mail, change password
Alter egos / pseudonyms switching
New address for each article? Though it's still analyzable
From imkeshav: Give a "Feedback" link on the top right corner, so ppl like me can give quick feedback
From imkeshav: Ability to tip from home/main page instead of having to open the article and do it
From imkeshav: From profile, I can access my articles, also nice to have link to my comments
If we develop a subscription feed - we need to make an option to turn off notifications
Edit history
Footer signature ( box) for additional promo links or banners (@aschatria)
Crypto tickers/ market price though out the posts when mentioned (@aschatria)
Media snippets ( cards) for Twitter and MemoCash (@aschatria)
Auto-post sharing (or/and scheduling) to social media (@aschatria)
Separate tab for drafted or unpublished posts (@aschatria)
Send text of notifications to email (Done: 24 January 2020)
Support Greek (here) (Done: 18 January 2020)
Check the website in Tor Browser (here)
Embed SoundCloud (Done: 17 January 2020)
Fix the upper dropdown on mobile phones (seems to work? iPhones?)
Search the site or author posts (ideally with nice dropdown) (Done: 13 January 2020)
Communities (main page has too many topics) (Unfinished) (Mostly done: 13 January 2020)
Block users, Ability to mute certain posters from the feed (from reading/commenting/appearing in feed) (Done: 10 January 2020)
Automatic addition of sponsors block to the end of each article (opt-in) (Done: January 2020)
Languages preferences (Done: 2 January 2020)
Language filters (main feed has too many languages that not everyone understands) (Done: 28 December 2019)
Sponsors embedding (SVG/iframe) (Rosco Kalis)
+ better "Become a sponsor" button (Done: 24 December 2019)Reminders about ending sponsorship (Done: 21 December 2019)
Select a language for the article (Done: 20 December 2019)
Lead image (Done: 10 December 2019)
Save article / saved articles (@GeukensMathieu) (Done: 10 December 2019)
Better main page (Done: 6 December 2019, but will improve in future)
Export all your articles at any time with possibility to self-host them (include IPFS hosting in discussion) (Done: 1 December 2019)
Reply to the comment from notifications page (btcfork) (Done: 1 December 2019)
Profile links to Twitter, Reddit, etc... (Done: 1 December 2019)
Deposit other cryptocurrencies, withdraw other cryptocurrencies (Done: 28 November 2019)
Monthly/Weekly Sponsorships (Done: 26 November 2019)
Notifications to email (if opted-in) (Done: 24 November 2019)
PeerTube embeds (requested here)
Auto-expand comment entry field
In comments, please show user icon, its hard to distinguish between readers in the thread below.
Delete your comment (Done: 14 November 2019)
Hot, new, top (day, week, month, year) sorting of the main/topics/author pages (Done: 17 November 2019)
Make QR code payments more resilient (Loss of funds due to race conditions on upstream server availability)
Do something about rest.bitcoin.com connectivity (often down) (Done: 14 November 2019) (in case of repeat: gRPC research)
Affiliate program (Done: 13 November 2019)
Mobile payments links (Done: 11 November 2019)
Incognito mode creates a new wallet, should warn about existing
Related: ability to import seed into another browser (Done: 10 November 2019)Detect links in comments (Done: 10 November 2019)
Image popup (zoom) (Done: 9 November 2019)
Wide images (Done: 9 November 2019)
Image links (Done: 9 November 2019)
Links to H1, H2, H3 in the article (Done: 7 November 2019)
Better interface for embeds (Done: 7 November 2019)
Show number of subscribers (Done: 7 November 2019)
List contributors (on article) (Done: 7 November 2019)
Article last updated (Done: 5 November 2019)
Auto-avatars / upload (Done: 5 November 2019)
Upload image interface + unsplash (Done: 5 November 2019)
Ability to edit comments (Done: 4 November 2019)
Follow author (Done: 4 November 2019)
Follow topic (Done: 4 November 2019)
Upvote without having to create account (via QR code) (Done: 3 November 2019)
Add topics to articles (Done: 3 November 2019)
Topic pages (Done: 3 November 2019)
In-site notifications (suggested by @JonathanSilverblood) + archive (comment, upvote, reply) (Done: 2 November 2019)
Shouldn't be possible to open two tabs with same article in editing mode (Done: 2 November 2019)
CashID (suggested by @JonathanSilverblood) (Done: 1 November 2019)
Deposit US Dollars (Done: 26 October 2019)
Embeds (YouTube, etc..) (Done: 26 October 2019)
Comment upvoting
Comments system (done: 25 October 2019)
Images uploading and storage (done: 24 October 2019)
Possible ideas (under consideration)
Spoiler tags
Theme for your blog
ToDo upvotes
Paywall, premium content for sponsors
manual
rel="canonical"(maybe?)Better code editor (not that easy to implement)
Article analytics / stats (is it even useful?)
SLP tokens support? (probably not)
Bounties for posting
Custom domains (wallet problem)
Sideproject: projects like KAIN1 are hard to pull of even in 2019
Upvote your own comments (George Donnelly)
ToDo items, like this list (maybe?) (done: 24 October 2019)
Want a specific feature?
Comment below!
How can I donate to further the development?
Upvote this article or write another article (about anything) and upvote it yourself. 100% of such upvote goes to us.
How do I contact you directly?
Send an email to hello@read.cash or via Reddit - send a message to u/readcash. We also have a public reddit for discussions at r/readcash.
...and you will also help the author collect more tips.
Comments
Oh, that's a pity! Can you type here the letters that are missing, so that we can better check? Thanks!
Αυτό είναι ένα κείμενο στα Ελληνικά που δεν εμφανίζεται σωστά. Τα γράμματα "μ" και "π" φαίνονται μεγαλύτερα από τα υπόλοιπα.
Translation: 'This is a text in Greek that does not appear properly. Letters "mu" and "pi" appear larger than the rest.' [You have to put the text in the body of an article to see it.]
The "Montserrat" sans-serif font used for the title is also slightly problematic, but to a much lesser degree. Maybe you should use some font family from 'Google Fonts'? Or, even better, (making a wish here :D ) use the Computer Modern font family?
https://www.checkmyworking.com/cm-web-fonts/
Edit: A related problem is that when I mix Greek and Latin letters in my text (e.g. by placing some English words), the Latin letters appear bigger than the Greek ones. This implies that some glyphs are pulled from a different font; maybe one font is used for all Latin and a couple Greek letters, and a different fallback font is used for the rest.
Ok, some preliminary testing shows that it's not an easy problem to solve, as everybody loves Merriweather and don't want to see it go, but it implements letters μ and π as symbols, so that's why they appear bigger. It seems that the only solution we could do is to use another font completely for articles where Greek letters (not mu and pi) appear, so even if we add a closest font as a backup - it still looks weird. But it'll take some time, sorry :( I'll add it to the Roadmap and we'll try to do it whenever possible.
Thank you for taking the time to look into that! I understand I am a somewhat niche user and it will take some time. A quick fix for most of my problems would be:
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Either providing a new CSS for a user that has [only] "Greek" enabled as language; the CSS should use only 'serif' as font-family
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or, doing some typeface engineering and removing the problematic "μ" and "π" glyphs from the font that is loaded. See here: http://zarniwhoop.uk/files/PDF-contents/Merriweather-contents.pdf
I'm patient. :)
Should mostly be fixed: https://i.imgur.com/JX1WYhu.png
To see the proper font in the editor - select the language to be Greek.
Yes, it works beautifully! Thank you very much, that was super quick! Good luck with your project, and thanks for providing the platform for my blog. <3
Yeah, I think we'll just use another typeface if the article has Greek as a language or maybe if it has Greek letters in it. Still need to think about it both options.
Yeah, I can see the problem. Merriweather is one of the fonts from Google Fonts. It just doesn't have any Greek letters it seems, so it falls back to some other system font. We'll see what we can do.
New feature request:
Suggestion: allow us to block people that we don't want interacting with our content and delete option for unwanted comments. You have a user supporting rape and pedophilia on page and I don't want that jealous garbage of a person leaving his spam and insanity under my posts.
✓ Already in the list
Hey guys, this site is getting cooler by the day
Is there a way to access my comments like I can access my articles from my profile?
Thanks! yeah, we need to do that. It's still not done and still on the roadmap. Sorry, not enough time for everything :)
suggestion: let me add my https://nfogix.com/ key to track visitor stats. it's more privacy friendly and encrypted!
We won't be adding any trackers to the site, sorry.This is a slippery slope towards the modern web where you have hundreds of corporations tracking your every move.
nfogix is not a corp, and has no access to individual stats.
how do you show value to potential sponsors?
The problem isn't with that. We(users of read.cash) have an internal wallet on read.cash, which is accessible to anything that can execute JavaScript on the site. If we allow this tracker - that means they can decide at some point that it's much easier to steal everyone's Bitcoin Cash and be done with it, rather than building a company. It's a security risk we can't accept.
mh i see... that's an actual problem. thanks for the explanation.
Search the site or author posts (ideally with nice dropdown)
this is the feature i look most forward to!
Yeah, it's coming. We feel this pain ourselves too.
Resolved
BTW are you doing anything to get btcfork Reddit acct unsuspended? Maybe it would help if we vouched for you somehow?
We've added the usernames.
:-)
I wasn't being precise enough I think, but what you did also helps.
What I was after is to see who I am "Sponsoring". Right now in that table I see only my logos and the amount, until when etc. (and it seems new: "by btcfork" but I know that because I'm looking at my own sponsorship page :)
I'd like to see which username I am sponsoring.
Yeah... that was a case of "pure stupid" on our part :) Should be fixed now.
The only thing I see in the database by you is sponsoring us (https://read.cash/@Read.Cash/what-is-readcash-7b0bfcfc the logo is still there) Is that it?
Resolved
Oh, ok. Got it. We'll check it out.
Don't spend time on it now. Only if you get other reports like this, as I may be misremembering.
Well, there doesn't seem to be anything to look at. There are only 2 sponsorships by you, both at $1, both in the database and in logs.
You can always email us at hello@read.cash Yep, the username makes sense. We'll add it. As for the situation with sponsorship - I'll look it up.
General low-priority question / suggestion, not sure if at all feasible based on your implementation:
Sometimes it would be great to see the Edit history of an article.
I suppose you might not store updates in a version control format though, but if you did, that would be a nice feature to quickly see what an author has modified, whether some corrections have been suitably applied etc.
Yeah, we thought about it, but it's not quite easy to implement (because you need to store everything, preferably effectively) and also need some kind of diff'ing interface.. I'll add it to the Roadmap, but yes, it's not quite easy :)
Thanks, this could be a longer-term goal. Another thought - if there was a kind of "markup source view" of posts, then a reader could already do the diff oneself without needing much more from the site - provided he had stored an earlier version of the article's "source" himself.
Yeah, we're not quite storing the markup, it's more of a structured JSON that isn't that easy to diff with eyes.
Honestly, I use diff tools, but yes, my eyes are involved ;-)
I'm torn about getting notifications from people I subscribe to. At the moment I only follow very few accounts so it's not a big deal, but I think I prefer to have the notifications only be for upvotes or comments. Eventually I'm hoping you have the option to see only articles posted by those you subscribe to, which might eliminate the need for the notification for articles published by those accounts.
That wouldn't make any sense now, since that's the only thing subscription does (sends notifications). But if we develop something like a feed of subscriptions - then an option to turn off notifications for subscriptions might make sense.
your link in the bip70 line to twitter is a 404
Thanks! Removed it.
After setting the lead image on an article which didn't have on before (used a stock image):
- it shows up correctly when I view my posts
- it shows up with the correct new image on the main page
- when tweeting the link, the old stock image is still used, which defeats my purpose :(
in case it helps, the article in question is https://read.cash/@btcfork/incentivizing-the-debunking-of-myths-introducing-mythbuster-slp-token-84dbae6e
Sorry, missed this somehow. I think it might be a Twitter bug. The article has a twitter:image set to the gold coins image. This one is correct, right?
<meta name="twitter:image" content="https://rcimg.net/images/84dbae6e/L3QkY0r9NhUKhFDt8THfykGO6n0Fa0s79ed7vcBH.jpeg">Yes, that's the correct image. Could be a Twitter bug. I'll try retweeting it. Thanks for having a look!
bug report:
filling profile links, put a Memo address, it displays https://reddit.com/1... link afterwards instead of linking to memo.cash site.
Should be a quick fix :)
Should be fixed now.
Thanks ;)
Oh wow :) thanks for reporting! We'll fix it.
Is it possible to create anchors within articles in some way? That would be useful, as sometimes I'd like to point people at subsections of a particular myth post.
Yes, use the headings, like #, ##, ###. Then you can get the anchor link from preview page.
Maybe a personal About Me page for each user profile, where you can also tip to that user, that could be used to spread the site as you promote yourself.
Good idea, will add in a minute! Thanks!
Long term suggestion:
Allow author to"Export to PDF" or "Export to <some kind of markup> for an article (obv. only those w/o paywall features if those are implemented in future).
I'd really like to be able to backup stuff onto local storage or IPFS.
Of course direct site-to-IPFS article export would be even better. Save the need for some kind of archiving sites like Wayback machine.
Export all your articles at any time with possibility to self-host them
Do you mean like this: "Export all your articles at any time with possibility to self-host them"? Because this is definitely planned. Not quite sure about "Export to IPFS" - what's the use case? Like making sure author doesn't change the article or that read.cash doesn't go offline?
Export all your articles at any time with possibility to self-host them
Of course I overlooked that while scanning the list! :-/ Should have Ctrl-F'd...
My aim here is just to have the full content in case read.cash's servers are stolen or confiscated.
IPFS came to mind as a nice distributed backup where I can simply help to serve my content (in whatever form - PDF seemed nice) as a last resort.
Cool! I think we'll add IPFS to that bullet point and see how it works and what can be done. Thanks!
Ability to mute certain posters from the feed.
Good point. Though the curation of the feed is a generally a problem of its own. Definitely on our minds. But currently more or less people trying all kinds of spam just get bored and leave.
Testing the comment system
Seems to be working
Do threads work?
Seems so.
Commenting works!
And now we can delete our own comments!!
Great!
I Suggest to add a "Mark all as read" button in the notifications menu.
It won't do anything :) By default as soon as you open the notification screen - all of the notifications are marked as "read". Just hit refresh.
Hello! I am trying to start a blog in Greek on your platform and everything has been fine so far except the font. Apparently, the "Merriweather" font lacks some Greek glyphs, and the text is not rendered properly. Is it possible to add a font that contains all (modern) Greek glyphs? Thank you very much for your attention, and good luck with your project.