Mobile internet users with a monthly download quota are complaining because the blockchain quickly depletes that quota. Some of the beginners are unaware about the amount of data that needs to be downloaded at the first run - because not everyone reads through the docs - so a warning would be nice before the download begins. For example: Warning ~9GB needs to be downloaded at the first run. Continue?
Thank you for the great work.
@falinatecas Can you point me to the discussion you're referring to?
If you speak hungarian... :) So far there was only one complaint on a hungarian bitcoin forum, but it sounds like a good idea to me. Are there any drawbacks if a warning like this would be implemented?
Are you talking about a Bitcoin-Qt warning or one for bitcoind?
I think in general that a more "wizard like" experience in Bitcoin-Qt would be welcome, including some messages and explanations given at times. Doing that properly isn't easy (it's hard to do it in a non-annoying way), but I wouldn't object to it.
We are 3 devs now able or willing to do GUI stuff, so perhaps we should collect some ideas and start doing things. Where should such a whish-list or brain-storm-list reside? I'm happy to participate there.
@Diapolo and it's indeed a good idea to brainstorm about where to go with the GUI. Maybe we should also discuss some way that the community can fund our work. There are a lot of people, for example on bitcointalk or reddit, raising issues and/or making improvement requests, but who have no dev skills on their own to fix them. It would be nice to get some community-funded development initiative going. I have no experience in those things, though :/
@laanwj I'd have thought that "funding" can be provided by the return on investment. i.e. a developer purchases bitcoins, develops the app making it available to a far wider audience - bitcoin price rises - developer is therefore compensated for their work. simples.
@rebroad hmm.. i'm not sure if investing in highly volatile bitcoin to fiat exchange rates is the right thing for core-developers. I would just say it's to risky. The exchange rate will probably not be related to the developers work. I made very good experience with donation options for free software. Because you can donate with the software you'd like to donate to, it would be even more interesting. :) But if there is more then one person developing a free/os software, it will maybe be more complicate to use the funds. But we might switch this discussion to another issue/platform.
That's truly the most idiotic suggestion I've heard for a while. I'm baffled.
and what am I to do with all these underpants?!
@gmaxwell LOL @falinatecas Don't post such inane stuff here.
Closing this issue, see #2628