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Summary of discussions (see posts for replies to this post for agenda)
Mechanism not a policy for features like
ability to create specific collections of any type
rollback Mechanism
Add an application name to the collection
Multi-player app topic
Remove it from the explorer display — it remains in the profile
Add into the browser authentication that you are making it known that you will be publishing
Revoking access to an app or do whitelisting on the Gaia side
Explorer reliability
We have a sprint kick off next wee we have a lot of issues for the explorer. You can see the issues on our Zen Hub board
BNS Authenticate
Great feature (BNS authenticate app) we just don’t have a timing plan. It doesn’t seem like this would happen in Q2. If devs want to see it happen a PR is always welcome.
Over the past weekend, I introduced a number of lightning developers to Blockstack. The explorer wasn’t working (as of this post, the homepage isn’t displaying any names or data). I understand that this is because of internal resource constraints. I wanted to flag this again with the hope it more resources can be dedicated to improving it and adding basic features like the ability to see possible transactions immediately when they hit the mempool.
Thanks @larry, we’re actively working on fixing the Explorer’s homepage problems at the moment, and kicking off a sprint formally to make a variety of other Explorer improvements starting next Tuesday.
Is there an issue filed for the mempool-related request in particular? If not, mind filing one so we can make sure to consider and prioritize properly?
We met last week to discuss the situation, and came out of that with a number of action items. Some of those are already in the works. We will be dedicating a lot of time to explorer stability in the near future.
In terms of new features, we meet regularly to go over tickets and prioritize. We can add this idea (I definitely like it!) to get prioritized.
To summarize the feedback from the collections design forum post, there were 2 major points brought up by community members.
1) The ability to have multiple instances of each collection type. As a user, you might want to store your sensitive data in a separate collection and be able to choose which collection to share with an app.
Meeting discussion: This may or may not be a common use case. We don’t currently have data to support this, but many participants of the meeting said that they would want this feature. So what we want to do is make sure this can be enabled later with the current design. We will not implement this with the MVP of collections.
2) The ability to only roll back changes made by 1 single app to a collection
Meeting discussion: This also might not be a common use case. The ability to roll back to a specific date should satisfy 99% of cases. However we could add the app name to the historical file naming scheme so that the feature can be implemented later in the file manager.