Quote from: taggartd on June 23, 2015, 08:47:47 PM

Quote from: CrimsonPermanentAssurance on June 23, 2015, 08:10:53 PM

Quote from: Stealthcoin on June 23, 2015, 08:05:27 PM

Quote from: CrimsonPermanentAssurance on June 23, 2015, 07:58:48 PM

Maybe the front page and website should be updated with an installation file that has the proper peers.dat file in it for everyone from the gate, rather than people needing to learn to search somewhere else... to go somewhere else... to get something else... to replace something else... and so on.

Ideally, the installation file would also create a basic .config file for both Mac and Windows. It would solve all of this.

No it wouldn't like i said.. its your system problem, not the wallet itself. Its just some random people in here who don't know how to configure their system. Then blame their wallet for not syncing correctly.

If this would be really a global problem then we wouldn't have such strong staking network. At the moment the network weight is at 120000

And it could be a LOT higher if you didn't simply assume people have messed up systems and all know as much as you do. That isn't the problem. My system is perfectly fine, and I still had trouble on three different computers. The problem is that people with limited knowledge should be able to plug and play. The numbers would go through the roof then. If all that is stopping that from happening is creating a SLIGHTLY better installation file, it's stupid not to do that.

What happens after a price rise like BTCD just had is that a bunch of new people come in the door. Why not do everything possible to keep them? If they purchase BTCD, and then try and fail to get the wallet going on their computer, what do you think the next logical step is for them? Spend hours searching forums? No, it's pressing the "sell" button.

Crimson I agree with you. I had the same problems but now i don't remember how i solved them ( it was in January..) so i cannot help you. I only remember i had to read a lot of pages and OP and "make this" "no make this" "no go to github".... I only hope my wallet go on syncing,, I don't want to bother again with this stuff that are not part of my knowledge (I'd like to aks dev if they want a house (it's my skill..) like they give to other no skill people; no doors ready: you must know how to assemble a door with all the pieces at floor!! - no roof: damn, you don't know how to build a roof? you have all the pieces.. or they prefer an house where i give you only a key and you can begin to use it? ). I think it's a common problem with a lot of altcoin dev: they assume a lot of people it's all day working or loving a pc or mac... If they could understand a lot of people have also other things to do perhaps they'll have a good success. One of the best story for me was with nxtty: incredibly stupid and funny. Btw time will tell, and time will reward who will understand this simple thing: a good altcoin must be easy to use or will remain for a little tribe.. perhaps happy, but little. And poor...

Thanks for the kind words. I'm okay. In fact, I was the one who wrote the Mac tutorial that is linked from the front page.