I have just caught up with your post 🙂At some point within the next few days (or maybe even week, things are getting busy in the run-up to Christmas), I'll write an update post. As with many of my posts, the gold can be found within the comments and I've learnt a lot, understand some things that I didn't previously and have plenty of reason to be optimistic. So as the discussion within the comments and on Discord continue, many will have moved on.

I still keep in touch with the aforementioned steemchiller and although I'm pessimistic about what can be done using existing code from steemit.com, I'm optimistic about being able to use work that steemchiller's doing, assuming that he's got the time (and patience) to help me!