First off, thanks for your interest in contributing! Your help will foster growth for the benefit of Bitcoin Cash and the community overall. More are always welcomed.
The site maintainers do not endorse nor confirm the legitimacy of the listings linked to on this site. While we try our best to verify the information submitted, it's possible that we may miss something, or a service may change/information becomes outdated. If you notice anything, please raise a new issue.
Adding a site is easy. Read below for the basics, and if you're more technically-inclined, detailed instructions are further down this document. Regardless, the only thing you need is a Github account.
We offer two easy ways to submit a new site to be listed.
- Use the Merchant/Website Addition Request form to the best of your ability.
- Open a new issue and fill out the template that's provided as a placeholder. Try to fill out all of the fields as accurately as possible. We are looking for the following:
name
-- Name of merchant/siteurl
-- URL of merchant/site (https preferred)img
-- Logo Image (URL to PNG/JPG, ideally a square/circle, 32x32px)twitter
-- Twitter Username (no @ symbol)facebook
-- Facebook Username or Page URLregion
-- Region (see region code list below)country
-- Country (see Wikipedia link below)- (Optional)
state
-- State (capitalize name, use full name) - (Optional)
city
-- City (capitalize name) bch
-- Accepting Bitcoin Cash (yes/no)btc
-- Accepting Bitcoin Legacy (yes/no)othercrypto
-- Accepting Other Crypto (yes/no)doc
-- Documentation/Help Guides (URL)- (Optional)
exceptions/text
Exceptions/General Notes - (Optional)
lang
-- Language if noten
(see Wikipedia link below) - (Optional)
keywords/-
-- words that can be useful for users that are trying to search for something that relates to this listing.
For 2-letter country codes, use ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.
For 2-letter language codes, use ISO 639-1 codes.
For 2-letter region codes, use:
Code | Name |
---|---|
af | Africa |
na | North America |
oc | Oceania |
an | Antarctica |
as | Asia |
eu | Europe |
sa | South America |
Press the shiny Submit new issue
button and you'll be notified when changes to your submission occur.
All the data is managed through a series of YAML files so it may be useful to read up on the YAML syntax.
To add a new site, go to the data files and get familiar with how it is set up. There is a section and corresponding file for each Category. Site icons are stored in folders corresponding to each of those categories in their own folder, and must be a 32x32 PNG (alpha optional) or JPG image.
- Don't break the build: If your pull request causes the Jekyll build to fail, it won't be merged. If you want to test locally, instructions are listed below. Keep reading!
- Use a Nice Icon: The icon must have a resolution of 32x32. PNG is the preferred format, and remember to choose something that's legible at such a small size.
- Be Awesome: You need to be awesome, but you've read this far, so you probably are. That is all.
It's easy to run everything locally to test it out. Ensure you have Ruby on Rails installed. You can then use either plain Jekyll or Bundler to manage everything for you.
- To install Bundler, just run
gem install bundler
. - Install dependencies in the Gemfile,
bundle install
. - Run Jekyll:
bundle exec jekyll serve --watch
. The--watch
is optional and makes Jekyll watch for file changes.
To verify that your additions are fine, you can run the entire set of tests locally which will check all links and images with:
$ bundle exec rake
However, this can take a while as there are roughly 900 links that it checks. If you just wish to test your YAML changes, you can run:
$ bundle exec rake verify
- Install Jekyll if you don't already have it:
gem install jekyll
. - Run Jekyll:
jekyll serve --watch
. The--watch
is again optional.
A list for excluded sites has also been created to ensure sites that have been removed are not added in the future. The list also contains the reason for its removal.
View the complete list in the [EXCLUSION.md file][exclude].
When adding a new category, you will need to select an icon from the SemanticUI Icon set. Once you have identified the icon to use, you can use any of the following means to add a new category:
1) To add a new category, modify the sections
value in sections.yml
and follow the template below:
- id: category-id
title: Category Name
icon: icon-class
page: page the category shall belong to
Then create a new file in the _data
directory with the same name as your section's
id, using the .yml
extension.
- From the command line, run:
$ bundle exec rake add:category
- Answer ALL the questions it asks
When you are finished, it will add in the new category to the sections.yml file and create a new file in the following format: [<section id>].yml
in the _data
folder for you to add listings to.
If you are adding multiple sites to the AcceptBitcoin.Cash list, please create a new git branch for each website, and submit a separate pull request for each branch. More information regarding how to create new git branches can be found on GitHub's Help Page or DigitalOcean's Tutorial.
Adding a new website should be pretty straight-forward. The websites
array should
already be defined; simply add a new website to it as shown in the following example:
websites:
- name: Site that doesn't accept BCH (yet)
url: https://example.site
img: logo.png
twitter: twitter_username
facebook: fb_username
bch: no
btc: yes
othercrypto: no
The fields name:
, url:
, bch:
are required for all entries.
If the site supports Bitcoin (Legacy) or other cryptocurrencies, btc
and othercrypto
should be entered as well.
If a site does accept BCH, it is strongly recommended that you add the doc:
field where public documentation is available. Other fields should be included
if the website supports them. Any services that are not supported can be excluded.
Sites supporting BCH should not have a Twitter, Facebook or Email field.
The following is an example of a website that supports BCH:
- name: Rocketr
url: https://rocketr.net/
img: rocketr.png
bch: Yes
btc: No
othercrypto: Yes
doc: https://rocketr.net/blog/2017/07/30/bitcoin-cash-coming-rocketr/
keywords:
- shops
- payments
If a site does not accept BCH, the twitter:
field should be included if the site uses
Twitter. Facebook can also be included using the facebook
field, as well as Email using
the email_address
field. If the website does not use the English language, the lang:
field should also be included. The fields btc:
and othercrypto:
can be completely removed
but should be added if they accept BTC or any other cryptocurrency respectively.
The following is an example of a website that does not support BCH:
- name: Netflix
url: https://www.netflix.com/us/
twitter: Netflixhelps
facebook: netflix
email_address: example@netflix.com (Only if available and monitored)
img: netflix.png
region: na
bch: No
btc: No
othercrypto: yes
If a site has an exception or important detail regarding BCH, you can note this on the website. There are 4 ways to customize how it is displayed:
-
A default message acknowledging restrictions will be used with the following config:
- name: Site Name url: https://www.site.com/ img: site.png bch: Yes btc: No exceptions: Yes doc: <link to site BCH documentation>
-
The message can be replaced with a custom set of words:
- name: Site Name url: https://www.site.com/ img: site.png bch: Yes btc: No exceptions: text: "Specific text goes here." doc: <link to site BCH documentation>
-
You can use a YAML validator to ensure that you've used the correct syntax.
-
To validate a submission before committing the change you can run the following script to verify your work is done properly:
$ bundle exec rake verify
-
See Guideline #2 about icons. The png file should go in the corresponding
img/section
folder. -
For the sake of organization and readability, it is appreciated if you insert new sites alphabetically and that your site chunk follows the same order as the example above.
-
If a site supports BCH, their Twitter and Facebook handles as well as their email address are not needed and can be left out for cleanliness.
-
If a site does not yet support BCH but there is documentation that they are adding it, then use:
status: <url to documentation>