This is the Zcash forum, yet users have no way of associating their Zcash addresses with their usernames.
If I wrote a plugin/patch for Discourse to allow a custom field for forum users to have a Zcash address on their forum profile, would the forum administrator be open to using it?
The field would make sure that only a valid Zcash UA is included, no (non-UA) T-addresses.
I’ll write it if it gets used. Thoughts?
Sounds like an interesting idea, particularly if as part of @zooko’s vision to eventually display stake, donations to the dev fund, etc.
Currently anything you input under “Name” in settings shows on your profile, including hyperlinks. Users can show their address that way or there may be a plugin to have more user filled fields. I’ll look into it.
If not I would not be opposed to having a custom plugin for it.
the u addy is too long
Fair. Can it be securely shortened though? Or do you have a better alternative in mind?
I recall shortened GPG keys were created to be more more human readable, which is nice, but they were also insecure as it did not take much computing power to generate a collision.
we can use a transparent address and post the addy and viewing key to the forum. you could even pin the transparent address, and everyone can post their Identifier with their u addy.
I added a new optional public profile field: “Zaddress”, but since I’m logged in as admin on mobile, I can’t test it at the moment, anyone care to look?
Does it work/have a character limit?
Yeah, not in the pop up but it shows on the profile. Not sure there’s a way to fix that.
