Quote from: Wolf0 on August 21, 2017, 05:33:25 AM

Quote from: hanskan on August 21, 2017, 02:07:13 AM

The whole process is quite complicated for a "normal person" and that is a huge problem even though the price you have to pay for 1TB storage is more than 10x cheaper. Hopefully with time they come up with simple drag and drop solution otherwise i can't see this thing going to the moon.

Thing is - that is actually entirely optional for them, and if they continue doing the core shit right (decentralized storage that's secure & reliable, and providing robust means to use it, most notably an API), they won't even need to. Other people will. They'll see the incredible resource that Sia is - and the tech people, the devs, and the power users are gonna build atop it, not the grandmas. The grandmas will be using some random service that probably has made it big... but Sia will be the backend for that shit, and that will matter.

That sounds about right to me. I mean there are tons of companies with tons of IT personnel that I think would gladly suffer the user-unfriendly interface to save 25-50 percent on data storage.

Not to mention all of the companies that can act as middle men between grandmas and the Sia network...

I think the REAL reason Sia's interface isn't very user friendly is the same reason their marketing is lackluster: They haven't focused on it YET.

All of their moves, improvements, updates etc have been about Sia's infrastructure, it's scalability. What they've done so far has been pretty impressive, and if these Obelisks are real / get delivered, SiaCoin will be one of FOUR coins with an Asic secured blockchain.

Do any of us REALLY think that Siacoin won't make it to the moon because they can't make a nice interface? I mean for real tho. Is that what we're saying? They raised millions to secure their network with asics, they established a functioning marketplace of decentralized data storage, they're releasing updates and new features all the time... BUT they got done in because they couldn't make something LOOK nice?

Idk. Maybe I take interface development for granted. I'm sure (like anything else) it's hard to do well... but i mean... come onnnnnn!!!