RE: Steemit.com - Coding In The Community
This is the situation when the upper classes cannot, and the lower classes do not want to live in the old way. According to Lenin's thoughts, this is actually a revolutionary situation :)
You have touched the very essence of Steеm's life. What is happening now can be called stagnation. According to the theory of systems development, growth is possible after stagnation, or this will be the beginning of disintegration. Now is the moment when we need an impulse for growth. If I understood correctly, @Xpilar's voice was not heard and there will be no impulse from above. In any case, a long time passed and no action followed. The rescue of drowning people is the work of the drowning people themselves (c)
I do not know how the budget allocation system for code development / improvement is organized here. For me, English is not my native language, and through a translator it is sometimes difficult to understand the meaning of even simple texts. I'm not talking about technical ones. Moreover, I'm not a programmer.
But it is obvious to me that work on improving and developing Stееmit is simply necessary. We are already significantly behind and the further, the more deplorable the situation will be.
But this is all lyrics.
I think you should come up with your proposal at https://steemit.com/trending/hive-192037 or maybe a representative of Justin Sun (he himself is unlikely to descend)
Whether they will hear you ... I don't know. Of course, this work shouldn't be free and the wox-helpfund won't be enough (just kidding, of course).
I do not hope for a miracle, but suddenly ...
If I were a Digital Agency pitching the best solution to Steemit.com in a presentation, my solution would be fairly simple -
Start again.
In my (professional) opinion, the existing site is too specialist and finding people capable of working with it competently, extremely difficult.
Not the data layer, or security layer but the front-end needs to be done properly. The HTML / CSS needs to be written from scratch. The necessary templates to reflect the design of the site, built in such a way that when the design needs upgrading again in 3 years time, it's an easy task. Then layer over your JavaScript, the interactive functionality, asynchronous loading of content, etc. And selecting a programming language that's learned the world over to plug the data in. Whether that's ASP.NET, Java, PHP or something else. But not react.js. Not something so specialist that my £250 per day becomes £500 per day.
Total ball-park cost? £150,000 (GBP). Or $200,000 (USD). Or 5,000,000 Steem. If you're paying an agency to do it
It could definitely be done cheaper.
Do you think Steemit is important enough to Justin Sun to spend this kind of money? He paid $4.6m to have lunch with Warren Buffett so you'd certainly hope so. But then the question that instantly springs to mind - surely they already know this - why haven't they already done it?
Or maybe they have and that's what steemitblog's big surprise is.
Again, I'm not a programmer. Half of the terms you used sound to me like Chinese without translation. But as a person who is close to designing, I know for sure that the patient will die without resuscitation.
The situation can go the other way. We can get the HIVE of the second version. Simply if the system does not develop, it either dies or goes its own way. I would not be surprised at any scenario. At the moment, events are developing extremely badly for the system.
Justin Sun has invested in the integration of NFT into the blockchain. Perhaps the social component of the platform does not interest him anymore. And then again I won’t be surprised at anything. I'm tired of wondering at the general madness of the world lately...
This is an interesting line of thought. We've assumed that because the Steem token was created to be an integral part of a Social Media platform, that this is what it will always be. Does the Steem token need steemit.com as a "blogging platform" in order to exist? I have no idea. I have next to no knowledge of crypto whatsoever.
NFT is also a token. I also have no idea how both tokens can interact. But NFT has become a crazy trend and everyone wants to jump on that train at full speed.
Blockchain can be bluntly used as an NFT data store, although there are other options. I'm not good at this. And I don't know what San's plans are. But for some reason I am not particularly optimistic.
🤷♀️ I won't pretend to understand NFTs.
I'm finding it hard to find reasons to be optimistic Especially now that I've experienced first hand the code that they're trying to work with.
It worries me that nobody from within Steemit/TRON has come out and said "Get excited about Steemit because we're doing this..... 🎆". Why don't they do this? "Buy the rumour, sell the news" is a well known stock market phrase.
Finding different ways to upvote authors via sc01 or booming just doesn't excite me.
This is very similar to the stone that blocked the flow of the river. An attempt to stimulate the flow with curation, ratings, any marketing ... this is just a compress on the legs for a dying from oncology.
You see the problem, those who understand programming see it. Maybe there are people who receive some money for correcting the code and it is simply profitable for them to work for a long time and receive money?
But in addition to fixing bugs, development is needed ... which is impossible without fixing bugs. The circle is closed ...
I have already ceased to be surprised and worried. There was a time when I almost completely seriously decided to grow to a killer whale. This is part of the social game. Your opinion about the code clarifies a lot, I continue to play this game, but without any excitement.
I don't think there's any profit to be made by maintaining the existing codebase. I suspect that when Justin Sun bought Steemit, he expected the existing development & developers to stay and for things to continue. Having no idea what was on the horizon. I found this profile today - notice the 4 resteems of developers resigning on the same day. Then they've suddenly got a codebase and nobody to work on it.
In most companies, there are 2 teams for this. One for BAU (Business As Usual) whose responsibility it is to keep the existing site ticking along. Then there's a "Change" function - responsible for enhancements and new functionality. I have no idea how Steemit / Tron handle this. The developer that I'm aware of is probably trying to do everything on his own.
Yes, I think it was a surprise for Justin. The developers took offense and left. This is a verdict for the platform if you do not create a new development team and invest in development of additional funds.
Judging by the results and the technical state of the platform, the development team does not exist now. Some of the remaining ones seem to be trying to fix current bugs. But it's like patching holes in a leaking roof after every rain. At a time when the roof needs a major overhaul or a complete replacement with a new one.
It all looks pretty bad.