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Comment by pmontra | Hacker News Reader

One of the toughest onboarding ever.

I read the text and I have no idea of what to do. Tried to click around, nothing. Tried to click on the example link and got a Firefox download dialog

    You have chosen to open:
    waronether_player_example.sol
    which is: BIN file (1.8 KB)
    etc

Going back to step 1:

> First, create a bot contract having an "execute" function which the game contract will run each round:

How to do it?

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There's some prerequisite of knowing how Ethereum works and how to work with smart contracts at this point. There's room for more explanations for the public which is not that involved in Ethereum.

I realized that after reading the comments on HN, but the web page doesn't contain the word Ethereum. I think it should go into the very first line of the instructions.

Ether is a pretty generic term and I was setting up some IP addresses when I checked that site. I was primed for a different context :-)

Heh. Good point.

The word "Ethereum" could appear somewhere on the webpage, if that's the case. That might be a step in the right direction.

I mean, expecting prerequisite knowledge is one thing. Expecting your audience to be telepathic is another.

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