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RE: Steemit Update
I'm sorry you feel this way.
Your small team of developers and a few servers doesn’t cost tens of millions of dollars per year.
Our team does in fact cost many millions of dollars per year, even after these layoffs.
Infrastructure costs line towards $2MM USD per year. This is the most expensive website per visitor to run through the top 1000 Websites, if not much lower, by infrastructure costs.
People would pay monthy to access RPC nodes. They just don't know they will yet.
Just like people pay monthly for the Digital form of the New York times, or washington post, or LA Times? How many on line monthly subscriptions do you Pay For?
If you want to put it like that. I invest money each month in steem via hosting IPFS nodes. If we had more seeds, and software that enabled lower ram machines to do seeding (as far as the full steem nodes) then centralization wouldn't exist regarding RPC/API and steemit.com
I pay for internet access. I have tried monthly subscriptions before in the past, I will never pay another monthly subscription. (It was not a good experience). I do not see people paying for internet access, then paying other companies to look at their site. It has not worked well for newspapers, and on-line magazines, I doubt it would work for Steemit. Where are the monthly fees companies like AOL, Compuserve, and Genie now? Just saying I do not think people would pay a monthly fee.
If you pay for internet access, you can seed content. Run full Steem nodes and IPFS nodes. 1 Trillion USD has left the big "free/monthly" companies. Because they are unsustainable. The question becomes, why should i host your data? And the response should be from both sides, community.
I had a business plan and discussed it with many people to run nodes-as-a-subscription-service, but I also called all this platform mismanagement bullshit as far back as a year ago or more, and in the end, decided to run my business ideas elsewhere and in different forms, in more accomodating environments.
Ok... Why after several years of service this project is not connected with the "real economy".
You have thousands of users? Ok... Run Ads, what's wrong with that?
More important, you are printing the money, why you don't clearly tell/ foster good content creators? If we write something that will be the first page on Google Search (and yes, there are many examples from my community) it's the free advertisement for Steemit.
Order good authors, real pros - and give them something. If you left the whole thing on "free will" it will go nowhere.