Running a cryptocurrency is the same thing as running any other business. What I can see every time I work with Decred are poor public/community relations and poor chaotic organization. Users who provide real support for a crypto should not experience stupid problems, like not working or insufficient manuals or lack of them at all. The information regarding configuration of anything regarding the crypto should not be spread across unlimited number of sites and provided by occasional people. It seems to me that developers wait until someone will write some guide for running or configuring anything! What a stupid philosophy!? Its clear as day that people are busy with coding, but there always be an organizers in this case who define the strategic road-map which includes wiki (OFFICIAL), marketing, PR, etc... IS THERE ANYBODY within Decred TEAM who realizes it? Why should some chaotic/unstructured community makes fundamental things like writing manuals?! Proposal. Let's define a person who has enough brain to organize the process!
You are right there is no easily identifiable link to docs. But they do exist. https://docs.decred.org/
Decred is moving forward : https://forum.decred.org/forums/requests-for-proposals/ And please kindly read below.
@_ingsoc / devs - It might be a good idea to put a more visible link to the docs on the main page vs just in the forums. That part of this complaint is valid.
I'm looking forward to see more people interested with the new website, and the official Gui Wallet. Guess you are a bit disappointed because you invested in Decred. Step by step, we will get more and more attention. I think it's good to not enter in a pump/dump as we've seen with Ethereum, and Lisk...
I agree with you on avoiding pump and dumps. However, I would not hate on Ethereum or Lisk. Both of their stacks are pretty interesting and humans are to blame for price volatility for the most part, not the tech. I prefer, from a implementation standpoint, Lisk. I like the idea of separate sidechains to keep main-net size down. The only question I have is who mines those sidechains? I bring this up because both of those systems are good examples that Decred can and should follow in creating it's own Smart Contract system. Not talking about dApps at this point, just contracts.
I should point out that the new documentation was funded by the devs as part of an RFP. I know, because I was one of the successful bidders and I was paid for my work. The devs know they can't do everything in a timely manner and so are contracting out to members of the community. These contracts are legal documents which I had to sign with my real time and included the real names of the developers so everything is kept above board for both the devs and contractors. I've actually been quite impressed with the professionalism of the devs through the whole process. However, yes, I agree that the links to the docs need to be much more prominent. The first thing a new user should see when going to decred.org is the getting started guide.