RE: HBD price feed by Coingecko has gotten RIDICULOUS - and there is an easy solution
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We already have a full custom made API for Coingecko to their proprietary specs already created and fully functional, and have gone through a number of form submissions, as well as requests for them to start tracking some of our internal market frontend (like Mahdi and others' interfaces), all of which have been rejected at least once or more. The Coingecko submission process, in a word, sucks. There are no reps, no actionable feedback provided with any rejections, and cascading tiers of forms and info all needing completion and minimum submission waiting times all complicating the matter. I've got pages, and pages, and pages of work and stats and sheets done in anticipation of finally closing the book on this as well as getting a better spread of our own interfaces listed there.
A great example from the past few weeks was that our CG page had a malicious Discord link on it, and despite me submitting multiple times from the actual hive.io url, my form requests to correct were rejected until I went into their telegram and discord and caused a public disturbance. It took more than 2 weeks to change the Discord link on their site to match the one on hive.io, even after they were informed and well aware of a phishing danger AND at least one known user was compromised wholly.
Long story short, the great service and personable team behind the scrappy upstart Coingecko is long gone, replaced with an awful, inefficient automated Google form hell that I'm slowly untangling and working around 👍
It would be very smart of our interfaces to use internal feeds or witness calculations rather than rely on CG for HBD, so hopefully SPL and Peakd change that. If you do believe you have any viable listing options we're not already working on, feel free to let me know, as most of the final work in this area ends up with me at the end of the day and I've got most of the documentation and negotiations pre-prepared. I'm happy to help.
TL:DR; these changes as well as a custom made api for CG already submitted, this should fixed when they finally work through and accept all the submissions we have provided them.
Awesome response Crim.
Yes I will keep shouting at peakd, hivepay, splinterlands amd whoever else comes up.
Yes I will reach out to you on Discord to talk about listings.
Terrible about the CG stuff. I have fought things like this before, namely my dappradar saga. Usually making disturbance helps, but its tiring for sure.
Thank you captain 🧙♂️
cc @awesomianist
He is a coingecko rep with a hive account
He still seems sort of active too. But is he still at CG?
Yes, he is. The last time he asked me here on chain to message him on telegram, I was once again pushed back to the forms. He is also one of the main telegram moderators and despite me pinging him directly repeatedly during the whole fiasco, it was an entirely different person who answered me over course of three days. So he's done a pretty good job of separating out his 'personal' and his CG lives so far.
There is no hope :)