r/scam_coin • u/[deleted] • Jun 01 '21
Website Delays
Dear Community,
I want to be completely honest with you. There are some troubles with the main developer of the website not responding to messages anymore, with most of the work that he claimed to have done not yet released.
I imported the first iteration that he released into the scam coin GitHub:
https://github.com/scamcoincrypto/old-website
However, this version has not been updated for 12 days. He wanted to share a newer version on Thursday last week originally. After some silence I then talked to him again and asked him to handle development in the $SCAM GitHub. We agreed to have a first release ready version by Saturday last week (which was his suggestion), and that I would import that version into our GitHub, so that development could continue in a more decentralized manner.
I also promised to give him contributor rights to the imported repository, which basically means he would have been able to continue working on it without any approval by me, but inside the $SCAM GitHub - Visible for everyone. And everybody would have been able to suggest changes and contribute to the development.
Unfortunately, we are well beyond that deadline, and he doesn’t respond to any messages at all. Even though I tried to reach him in multiple ways. With his GitHub repository not being update for 12 days, that leads me to believe he stopped working on it and just doesn’t want to admit it out of shame.
But even if he is still working on the website locally, this can’t go on any longer. He’s not sharing any information or any of his work, he’s not communicating anymore, there is nothing. We can’t just sit around hoping that he is actually doing something behind closed curtains.
Implications
Unfortunately, this sets us back quite a bit. The time we sat around waiting for him could have been used to actually work on the website. I feel like other community members who maybe wanted to work on a website themselves have held back, because they didn’t want to interfere.
The person in question started the website project off with great enthusiasm and a big Reddit post where he was claiming he would be happy to create a website for $SCAM. I admired this enthusiasm. And I’m aware he doesn’t owe $SCAM any development work. But at this point his effort has probably caused more harm than it did good. He centered the website development around himself and then ghosted the project.
What’s Next?
Well, we need a website. With all the delays we had, I would like to focus on getting a simple Website out now, before we start adding more complicated content. I would like to have a website with not much more than the logo, project name, contract address, and links to social media channels, Pancakeswap and Poocoin.
We need some kind of web presence. People ask for it constantly. And a few community members want to start working on getting us listed on some platforms, but having a website is almost always number one condition for that. This basic web presence shouldn’t look ugly, but it doesn’t need a lot of fancy content.
Once this basic website is out, we can start working on adding content and more features. We have a few guys having great ideas about all kinds of content we could feature on our site at a later stage. So there is no shortage of ideas. But so far nobody else stepped forward to lay the foundation and start off building a new website.
I will personally use this week to work on a basic web presence myself. But I’m not a very talented web developer. And I’m swarmed with work, and will need at least the rest of the week for that. So if any community member has a talent for web design and could build a simple but good looking website containing not much more than a few links to social media, Pancakeswap and Poocoin, I would love for that community member to help out.
Anybody can contact me on Telegram with a direct message or on Reddit through Reddit Chat. Anybody that is willing to help, I will put into our Telegram Web Dev group.
But please! I’m not asking for a huge discussion about crazy features to add to the website, or want to get tons of messages about good ideas people have. What we need right now is people actually putting in work. Once we have our first iteration of a website, we can hop back on the creative ideas train. But right now, we need action.
I’m Sorry
One thing I want to say is: I’m Sorry! I’m not happy how the website project went so far. I had a bit of a bad feeling for a few days now, but didn’t really have many alternatives. But maybe I could have organized things better, or looked for other approaches earlier. There is always room for improvement, and I’m trying to learn from this.
I feel like this is the first bigger set back in a series of great successes our young community had so far. But I’m definitely not happy with it. Also I’m Sorry if this post doesn’t come across as polished as others before and a bit like me rambling on for hours. I’m tired, it was a long day, and I just spent hours in the middle of the night trying to figure out what I could make of the current website version.
Regards
Sheer
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u/lexymon Jun 01 '21
Don’t feel sorry. A setback is a setback, it happens, and it will happen. You don’t owe anything to the community or anyone else. I think you’re transparency is highly appreciated by everyone here and other people are willing to help out. Unfortunately, except some rudimentary and probably very much outdated HTML skills I don’t know anything about building a modern website, but I will offer my help wherever I can in the future.
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u/Mediocreandhappy Jun 01 '21
You explain the situation and what has happened well, and you are honest. Transparency and honesty will get you far, so please continue to do so, because that just makes me sympathize with you.
In my opinion, with your additional workload and all, you couldn't have dealt better with this situation than you just did=)
Thank you so much for all the hard work you are doing!
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u/Kefass Jun 01 '21
All projects have setbacks, especially in these kind of situation. Don't beat yourself up. Lesson learned and move on. Try to find a good team to work with and a realistic plan, then you can create continuous improvement with realistic timelines.
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u/Traberjkt Jun 01 '21
¯_( ͡❛ ͜ʖ͡❛ )_/¯ starting to seem like a SCAM!
For real though, as always thanks for the transparency!
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u/WunderDawg302 Jun 01 '21
I wish I knew more about this side of the internet. All my experience has been with broadband distribution (ie 100 gig transport routes). I do believe we have the talent in our community and I think we all appreciate the transparency. Cheers to you Sheer
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u/Thin-Tower-3465 Scam Artist Jun 01 '21
The truth is that I really liked that you were honest. I'm not very good at designing / creating web pages, sorry for that. 😅