Quote from: gjhiggins on May 15, 2015, 05:15:50 PM

Quote from: Taek on May 15, 2015, 03:00:20 PM

Do you have more specific criticisms?

The mining section provides the user with no information whatsoever about progress. So the user is mining, but what's their relative power? Do they need to devote more cores? Threads? How long should they expect to wait before gaining coins?

I waited a while and then realised I could be waiting forever, so I closed the wallet.

Spreadcoin's mining tab addresses these issues.

I found the app a little too laconic and uncommunicative generally but you're looking for specialist help, so I thought there's little point alerting you to issues that you're almost certainly already aware of. Hence my confirming the severity from the user's perspective.

Cheers

Graham

Thanks for your feedback. I agree with your criticisms of the Mining page. The reason it's a bit lacking is that we have been debating whether normal users should be using the miner at all. Since serious miners will be a minority of users (hopefully...), it might make more sense to create a separate, more informative interface just for them. I'll check out Spreadcoin's interface to get a sense of what you're looking for.

We are refining our mining API right now, with the goal of supporting "drop-in" third-party miners like Bitcoin does. Once the mining API is stable, we can improve the Mining page quite a bit (adding hash rate, performance graphs, etc.). But in general, our mining situation is pretty nascent; it essentially forces everyone to do CPU mining.