Quote from: veleten on February 04, 2018, 02:21:41 PM

Quote from: wetsuit on February 04, 2018, 10:29:23 AM

Sorry about the delay in payments the last few days, we had a few users making large withdrawals which drained our hot wallets and created a backlog in sending payments out. We have a better hot-wallet refill policy in place now which should hopefully minimize such issues in the future.

A few points to clarify the re-branding:

The re-branding and addition of new coins will not happen suddenly, it will be done over a period of a few months and we shall send 3 emails over this time so that pretty much all of our users are aware before the name change.
We have the freebitco.in name registered until 2025 so even after the name change, all freebitco.in links will work as usual (no need to change banner or referral links etc.) and everyone visiting freebitco.in will be seamlessly directed to the new website with a message informing them of the re-brand.
All coins will have all of the features that bitcoin has but I am yet undecided about the lottery (maybe it will be a combined one with the prize paid out in the currency of the users choice)
Users will be able to claim only 1 coin every hour to begin with but hopefully I can increase the limits eventually.

The re-brand is part of a process to make freebitco.in more than just a faucet. My plan is to implement a no-KYC shapeshift.io style exchange after the rebrand to enable users to exchange between coins instantly. I feel like we have outgrown the freebitco.in name and the rebrand will allow us to do a lot more stuff without people associating the website with being just a faucet which somewhat restricts our growth now.

you are the owner and its up to you to decide
but from the marketing point of view it is counterproductive to rebrand this way
you have a recognisable brand,it is one of the best names imaginable to draw the new clients in
you think the market of the faucets is long gone? let me agree to differ,with the adoption speed increasing,literally daily
there will be unlimited pool of new people who would want to try their hand at this new bitcoin thingy
and there is nothing better than "try first,buy later model" ,also you can have an unlimited number of services at your site
and position your site as a bitcoin portal where you can earn free bitcoins by claiming them every hour,winning,saving,trading etc. etc.
not even talking about SEO and rankings,it will take months if not years to get your new domain into top 100 for certain key word searches
but I'm sure your Google stats will show you how many search engine visitors you are getting daily
tl:dr redirect freebitcoin domain to the new one is a waste,I hope you reconsider

I agree with veleten. The vast majority of people who google "free bitcoin" and get your site, freebitco.in, as one of the top results (in fact for me it is the top result after ADs which I normally ignore) will not like the redirecting because it always feels suspicious when you are redirected to somewhere. Taking into account that 99.9% of them never read this forum they have from little to no chance to know that there's nothing wrong with the redirecting and that it isn't in fact some kind of a malicious redirection.

If you feel like you have outgrown the freebitco.in as we know it and that you have the ability to create a no-KYC exchange that's great and I sincerely wish you good luck in getting that paid off, but I think it's better to reconsider the idea of redirecting. IMO you can keep freebitco.in the way it is while placing banners and information about your new business on the frontpage of this popular site.