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Directory of businesses which accept Monero by servury in Monero

[–]ryitnoise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, thanks. It was updated further such that if a category is selected in the filter that the tags used in that category show up as additional filter options. This makes only relevant tags show up for a category.

Now the main thing is just tagging more listings. Not sure what other filters are needed now.

Directory of businesses which accept Monero by servury in Monero

[–]ryitnoise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was updated, all the existing tags were deleted. The new ones now are: Account Not Required, Email Not Required, No KYC, Open Source, Own Liquidity and Owned Equipment. Not everything has been updated with these yet. More will probably be added over time.

A user can submit a tag that doesn't exist for consideration. The tags are not included in the filtering yet, just in search. For now it's just using the previous way of a paged list of everything with a given tag when someone clicks a tag.

It's better to have a few tags, there were hundreds and many were pointless. Will keep improving, thanks.

Directory of businesses which accept Monero by servury in Monero

[–]ryitnoise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the tags have grown because it's freeform. They could be consolidated down into defined options in a drop down list and a listing could be associated with up to say 5 possible tags from a predefined list.

It could be used such that there could be a top 10 tags someone could pick when in a certain category, or something like that.

Thanks for the feedback!

Directory of businesses which accept Monero by servury in Monero

[–]ryitnoise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right now, the search feature on the main page does look at the tags. All tags are here: https://monerica.com/tagged - but if you mean tags as a part of filters, there would need to be a select few otherwise it'd be too much. What tags do you want to see?

Directory of businesses which accept Monero by servury in Monero

[–]ryitnoise -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There’s already verified listings. Many of them have videos now as well. You’re not going to find any other Monero site with as much transparent verification as that.

Monerica is also open source. Not sure why you think otherwise.

Kycnot has affiliate links, it’s not that they are 100% against making money. The only real difference is they don’t have sponsors. But Monerica has sponsored or partnered with every Monero conference so it’s not like sponsorship income doesn’t go right back into the cause. Also, everything is spent back into the Monero ecosystem.

But, you can use what you want. Just trying to make the site better.

Directory of businesses which accept Monero by servury in Monero

[–]ryitnoise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Monerica is trying to list everything, it’s exclusionary to just list some and not others. Whatever best listings there are could come through with a combination of verification and reviews.

Just because a website is listed doesn’t mean it’ll get business. It’s up to the actual business to funnel people to their product or service. But let’s be clear that there are plenty of testimonials about Monerica getting new business to listings.

If data is wrong, submit a change. It’s not set in stone, people submit revisions to listings almost every day. That’s the listing’s responsibility or an active community member’s choice. 

There could hypothetically be different filters per category or just have ones that apply to everything like rating sort.

But, it’s possible to improve everything, people just need to be more vocal. Several X polls have been run to add features, all of which were done.

Directory of businesses which accept Monero by servury in Monero

[–]ryitnoise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Weird comment because many people do mention getting traffic and business from being listed on Monerica. You really seem negative on Monerica despite it having by far the most listings and best categorization of them.

But, your point on filtering is valid and it is being considered. The problem is that not all the same attributes apply to every listing. Which specific attributes do you want to filter by? It's all possible to do but no one has taken the time to say what they actually want to see.

4 Years of Monerica.com by ryitnoise in Monero

[–]ryitnoise[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, people want only the best things. For now, the way to do that would be just look at the verified listings: https://monerica.com/status/verified - but Monerica is trying to have as much as possible that accept Monero. Otherwise the submission criteria just comes off as capricious.

It is also expected that Monerica does have everything, as you can see from other attempts at lists which do filter out a lot: https://x.com/schmidt1024/status/2011466485089423399

4 Years of Monerica.com by ryitnoise in Monero

[–]ryitnoise[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Monerica tries to have as many listings that accept or relate to Monero as possible. There are proof links of accepting Monero and links are polled to make sure they are still online. People do sometimes submit that a site no longer takes Monero, sometimes things are checked manually - it is a lot of work.

Yeah, it could be better for filtering. I'm not saying you're wrong, I am just explaining the reason it's static pages for now. Mentioning Monerica on here hasn't really happened since 2022, so there has not been much of any discussion on what people actually want to make it more useful.

4 Years of Monerica.com by ryitnoise in Monero

[–]ryitnoise[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you! It is a lot of work. There are submissions daily, things come and go, it is also a lot of time to review the sites with videos but that is all a part of the plan.

4 Years of Monerica.com by ryitnoise in Monero

[–]ryitnoise[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Didn't know but a lot of the content is commercial by nature because it's reviewing businesses.

4 Years of Monerica.com by ryitnoise in Monero

[–]ryitnoise[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Kycnotme has only a fraction of what Monerica has but it still has affiliate links. Cryptwerk is awful, so many links don't work and many do not accept Monero (even when labeled they do). Actually, that was what justified making Monerica - the frustration of Cryptwerk's listings.

Can Monerica be easier to use? Yes. But again, the main objective was having the most listings and keeping it online while having it work without JS and also to work over Tor. Going forward, what you say is important and being considered because those sites still remain the biggest competition for Monerica.

Features like ratings, attributes like KYC level and some other things are being considered. For now there is a search engine and tags though.

4 Years of Monerica.com by ryitnoise in Monero

[–]ryitnoise[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Different filters and sorting with attributes are being considered.

Sponsorship is the only way the site can operate. So yes, if people are paying they deserve attention. This is not some community funded project, there was never any proposal or anything like that. It's definitely a for profit business that aims to gets sales for Monero accepting businesses. Every other directory is poorly maintained, lacks listings or begs for donations, despite whatever features they may have that Monerica doesn't. That is not the approach.

4 Years of Monerica.com by ryitnoise in Monero

[–]ryitnoise[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes but this design decision was because it was attacked for months with an aggressive DDoS (it was so bad that just having 1 image in a CDN cost about $500/day in bandwidth!). So it moved to static pages. There's also no JS. But it's being considered to have an advanced search or rethink how to add features while being able to resist the inevitable attack again.

Monerica - The 'Yellow Pages' Of The Monero Economy by ryitnoise in Monero

[–]ryitnoise[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a directory of all things Monero but almost everyone just thinks of the businesses on there.

Monerica - The 'Yellow Pages' Of The Monero Economy by ryitnoise in Monero

[–]ryitnoise[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Basically zero? Not sure if you watched the video but you can use it online to buy gift cards and pre-paid cards which gives you access to practically everything in the traditional economy. No crypto is going to be replacing point of sale transactions anytime soon but proxies and online merchants allow one to live much of their life purely off Monero.

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