RE: Steemit.com - Coding In The Community
Thank you for this post, reading it just makes me glad on one hand but sad on other hand. Unfortunately, I am not a programmer otherwise I definitively would spend my time with creating something on Steem blockchain. I am good in my profession, but that will not help.
It is true that many good and enthusiastic people left to Hive and I am very glad for them as well I am glad that they are getting successful. In general I am pro-innovation and pro-blockchain technology. I must say I have respect for those ones who are working hard there and putting their creativity in development and also advertisement.
Investing into the people who can write codes is very important. No matter how expensive it is at this stage Steem has great potential to be successful and if we can attract investments and bring the Steem from Rank beyond 300 to the first 100, then we all notice how the value of Steem will grow.
Currently the value is melting like early snow that we have in Scotland. We sleep over and the Steem dropped another 10% in its value. I'm even scared to look at the tanking nowadays.
Once again, @steemcurator01, the Steemit Team no idea who is behind the account and if you are reading such comments or just busy with giving Upvotes without reading much.
This is a serious topic and the Steemit Inc has enough finance, you have a proposal please read it and support it. Pay to the people who are happy to work and bring shine to Interface of the Steemit site.
I think I'm erring on the side of sadness. In writing this - the subsequent conversation I've had with bambuka and others who know the code far better than me, the conclusion that I've come to is that the existing codebase is unworkable. (I won't repeat what I said to bambuka below (or above depending upon what order the comments are 🙂))
I think that any developers who already work with or try to work on steemit.com in the future will experience the same issues that I've had and will almost certainly come to the same conclusion. The level of specialism required is hard to come by, which means it's expensive. In the long run, Steemit will be much better off starting again (not completely, but I mention that to bambuka 🙂)
Agree with that it is always easy and better to create new as to try to patch the gaps in old one. I do not know if then it will affect the blogs and will need migration of everything like it was with Hive? 8that is still @stef1, but I am curating with Art-venture, just lazy to switch between the accounts :)
Ha ha 🙂 Don't worry, I know your alter-ego.
It can all be done without affecting the data (i.e. the blog) - it'd be more like plastic surgery, made to look pretty 😉 Then we can start adding the bionic limbs.