Several months ago BlockTrades made a strategic decision to switch from the existing implementation of our web site in Angular 1.0 to using the more modern Angular 2.0 libraries. Unfortunately, due to major changes to Angular’s architecture in 2.0 versus 1.0, this meant we had to completely re-write the existing Javascript implementation of our web pages. However, we felt this was an important change for our long term growth, as it will allow us to add new features more quickly and gives us more opportunties to create a very responsive, high performance web site even on slower mobile connections.
We are happy to announce that our new site is finally available for production usage, so please visit us at https://blocktrades.us and try it out! We’ve tried to keep the look-and-feel as close as possible to the old site, except where we felt that we could make minor changes that would improve user experience. In particular, we’ve tried to make changes that will prevent the most common forms of user error such as not knowing what information to provide for a receive address when purchasing Steem or not knowing the minimum amount that is required to pay the fixed-price bitcoin transaciton fee when buying bitcoin. Over the course of the next couple of weeks, we plan to continue to make slight revisions to the site based on user feedback, so please let us know what you think about the new site.
Here’s a list of some of the new features:
- Switcher button to swap the direction of a trade. For example, if you first visit the site and it’s offering to send you Steem for Bitcoin, you can press the switch button to get Bitcoin for your Steem.
- More mobile friendly (for example, at smaller sizes our menu switches to a “hamburger button” that is suitable for selecting menu items via finger presses).
- Displays minimum fixed-price fees that must be be paid when sending a coin in the information area after pressing the “Get a new Deposit Address” button.
- Tabular display of transaction data in sortable format
- Improved ability to change passwords
- Ability to change account to a new email address
Now that the new web site is finally released, we also plan to introduce some exciting new product offerings in the near future, so stayed tuned for more updates soon!
Edit: After some questions in comments about Angular 4 vs Angular 2, I've confirmed with our web guys that we're actually running Angular 4 at this point.