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This red "major outage" status has been reported on their dashboard since at least Dec 2, when an (unrelated to messenger) api bug was introduced that I've been waiting on a fix for.

It has been surprisingly slow to get a fix or an update.

Love it! Thanks for sharing.

I remember when split-screen chat started becoming popular in the BBS scene. Being able to type at the same time as the other person was groundbreaking! :) Prior to that, if you wanted to interrupt the other person or break in with a thought, you'd just hit enter a bunch of times or 'fjskdfklsdhfjsd' until you could take over the conversation. It was like if two people were chatting in a text editor.

I also remember versions of chat where each character would cycle through different sets of ansi colors.. harder to read and totally useless, but looked cool..

As someone else said, a blinking cursor would be nice. I got a little lost for the first few seconds without it.

Any comments on the tech that you used to build this?

"Clever" "marketing" language like this is not unique to Laravel, most frameworks use language like it for tag-lines on their homepage. Pyramid, a framework for Python, even goes with the same "artisan" language. They're just trying to be fun, inspiring, etc

From the home page of a few other frameworks:

Django: "The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines."

Flask: "Web development, one drop at a time"

Express: "Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js"

Pyramid: "You need a Python web framework that supports your decisions, by artisans for artisans."

Why is it clean? Build an application with Laravel and you'll find out. :) The documentation and community are excellent. I've used many frameworks across many different languages, and (imo) it really is very nice to work in.

It's funny how the most negativity comes from people with very little experience, or at least recent experience, in the thing that they don't like.

Yes, Coinbase supports daily / weekly / every 2 weeks / monthly recurring buys. They have fees on every buy though.

Interesting, this could be like an RBL for Ethereum addresses, instead of ip addresses of spammy mail servers.

If the data were kept current and remained open for other systems to query, it seems like something that could be useful. There should probably be a way to appeal something that is blacklisted in the database just as there is a way to report.

I'm also curious what the approach was to being able to scrape sites in a way where the code is not coupled to a known, fixed markup structure using css selectors, xpath etc.

What are your plans for the project? Will you be open sourcing the code on GitHub?

Beautiful design!

Care to share any of the details on the tech? Are you using each of the exchange's individual APIs to calculate the weighted average? Did you use any library or framework to help with websockets, or to look at the blockchain?

The meaning of "Estimated Money Sent" was a little confusing to me, even after reading the definition on the About page.

What do the scrolling numbers in the background mean? I imagine there aren't enough of them to be all of the realtime transactions happening on the blockchain. Also, I'm sure you know, but they overlap when showing as 600x120 in iframe mode.

Allowing users to embed the widget in an iframe is nice and a good way to spread the word about your site. Maybe unbury that from the About page and link directly to an 'Embed this' page from the main page, and (as silly as it sounds) use something like clipboardjs to make copying the snippet to the clipboard easier.

Hah. Any idea why the system admin didn't want you to bubble sort anymore?

Was it noticed to be taxing on some system's resources or too long-running of a process or something?

I wonder how many similar stories there are out there and how they were handled.

Good times they were not, though. As a kid who didn't have bad intentions, dealing with the repercussions was a lot.

There was no precedent (at my school, at that time) for how to prevent and deal with a situation like that, though.

Consider if you will be fulfilled by selling a commodity.

It's a race to the bottom and unprofitable users often demand the same level of attention and support as ones who pay more.

Also think about hidden costs. The other company might be priced as they are for a reason.

Is it a product where differentiating on price is something that would even matter to the user? The difference in price would be enough to choose you over the competition?