I have just aped on some Punks On Hive!
@punksonhive has a new feature that allows us to sort the punks in ascending order, from the cheapest top to the most expensive. Because of this feature, I have managed to grab the lastest 4 cheapest punks!
Meet my Punks:
It has costed me a lot, not gonna lie, just blew almost $200 USD on those punks, but the logic is, there are only 10k punks on Hive and I expect Hive to eventually have waaaaay more than 10k interested users that would like to have at least one punk. By having as many as I can I hope that someone identifies as one of those I own and want to buy them for waaaay higher in the future since no new punks will be minted!
Oh, also, I bought that HIVE on Binance, and on the "memo" transfer I added the link to Punks on Hive, so that it is registered on the blockchain! Hope analytics tools catch it up and give those punks some traction! I am doing my part!
One more thing:
@themarkymark @blockheadgames @punksonhive
I am not sure which one of you takes care of the code for the website, but the performance when sorting is terrible! I think this is because the website loads all punks at once! My computer is not that great, so the user experience is terrible!
Maybe the website could use paging, so it would be a table/list where the user can select how many punks to load at once, and navigate through pages of punks that are fetched and loaded only when needed, so the computer does not have to request and handle this much data?
If the website becomes more responsive I am sure more people will start using those punks!
Congratulations on your punks, it's been a fun project so far!
I also bought Hive and moved it in for punks and that is good for the economy.
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I will keep buying more until I manage to get one that I think looks like me to use as my profile picture. I think that is a nice use case. But I will keep buying from the cheapest to the most expensive so I can get more punks for the buck
I bought some at original mint price. I'm thinking that after their success to buy a few more with better stats.
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I was afraid of getting in too late. I am powering down to keep buying some more weekly until they get expensive.
I still have my fair share of criticism towards Hive-Engine, but I dream of it becoming a great platform in the future, with those punks and all!
Pagination is coming. The site does load about 6MB of data, on modern computers this isn't an issue, on really old computers it can be slow. There is no way to avoid loading all data as it needs them all to know how to sort them. Pagination will help with image loading, but the data still needs to be fully loaded before it can actually sort it.
Couldn't it be sorted on the backend? Is it open source? Maybe I can help. It is quite a recurrent feature to paginate in the backend and send, for example, only the first "n" results after skipping the "x" first number of items, so the backend would only send what is needed (idk how it works back there tho)
It can be, and I may ultimately turn it into an API but right now for market the client makes a call out to Hive Engine, then that data is merged with the ALL PUNKS data.
Since all the data is static, I saved it out as a static file.
The static file makes sense. But remember, since blockchains are democratic many people can be from underdeveloped countries. Some people may even be using it from old phones, so far from modern desktops, so any performance improvement is welcome!
But thank you for the work anyways! It is a very fun game!