We need a new forum, market, localcoin, exchange concept.

We're guilty of what I call hype stabbing or neon marketing. Having a market, forum, local meet, and exchange doesn't work if the coin is the main feature rather than a convenience. Some of us want feathercoin to rocket and be money. It won't be global money, but it can be an alternative to StompCoin (LTC vs DOGE) and Foundation Schmuckery Coin (BTC, tainting, scenario leaks). The function of money for Feathercoin would be to remain independent of the passive progress mentality in most established coins.

We started as a self directed group and we came together to compete with other coins. It's time we took that idea into another direction. There's nearly 1000 coins now. Competition is everywhere. We need to stand on different ground now.

Homework assignment: What ordinary everyday forgettable activity supported by fiat would you like to see supported by FTC? Don't try to impress or dazzle. Pick something that you do frequently or that you enjoy and tell the rest of us about it. Short term projects doable by 4 to 8 people in say a day to a week maximum.

Now with that out of the way: We need to turn the forum into a blog space. Maybe have a custom reddit like environment. The front page would be a digest of things that are happening in the community pulled from the subs.

I imagine four kinds of spaces:

Main forum for tech, community, mutual support, and policy.

Feathercoin supported meta market and projects.

Mutual exchange non-coin supported barter and projects.

Personal or community blog.

I would prefer a loosely knit decentralized system like pump.io with a reddit like feel. Main section would be centralized, feathercoin section would be reddit like but decentralized. Mutual exchange would be a cross between reddit and wordpress also decentralized. Personal or community blogs would have widgets allowing two way interaction between them and the other three parts.

Feathercoin needs to make things easier, but the purpose of a market should be to buy and sell, not promote FTC. Maybe accepting LTC and BTC is a bit scary considering the hostility, but at the very least it should offer a jobs section if FTC will be prominent.