SteemWorld Support / 2019-11-25
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This post was created by me (@steemchiller) to act as an alternative support initiative for SteemWorld (https://steemworld.org). Since I am currently in survival mode, I need to take action now to prevent SteemWorld from dying.
If the rewards from these daily posts should not be able to pay my monthly costs, there will be no other way than to make SteemWorld only usable by paying a monthly fee. Each user would than pay the fee (maybe 1 SBD) for each used account per month. The downside would be that you than could only switch to accounts for which the fee has been paid. Maybe I would add a bonus for new users with a reputation < 50 or so to make it more fair for new Steemians.
For costly and not account-related tools like Transfer Search I would use a different approach, maybe by making it possible to buy those features and use it by providing an in the buy process received per-account generated access code.
There is also a donation button in the top left corner of the site, which can be used to donate a custom amount and to help keeping SteemWorld free. If each user would send me just 1 SBD per month, I would be able to continue my development without adding the mentioned restrictions.
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Dieser Beitrag wurde von mir (@steemchiller) erstellt, um als alternative Unterstützungsinitiative für SteemWorld (https://steemworld.org) zu dienen. Da ich mich derzeit im Überlebensmodus befinde, muss ich jetzt Maßnahmen ergreifen, um zu verhindern, dass SteemWorld stirbt.
Wenn die Belohnungen dieser täglichen Beiträge meine monatlichen Kosten nicht decken können, gibt es keinen anderen Weg, als SteemWorld nur noch durch Zahlung einer monatlichen Gebühr nutzbar zu machen. Jeder Benutzer würde dann die Gebühr (vielleicht 1 SBD) für jedes verwendete Konto pro Monat bezahlen. Der Nachteil wäre, dass du dann nur noch zu Konten wechseln könntest, für welche die Gebühr bezahlt wurde. Vielleicht würde ich einen Bonus für neue Benutzer mit einer Reputation < 50 oder so hinzufügen, um es für neue Steemians fairer zu machen.
Für teure und nicht kontobezogene Tools wie Transfer Search würde ich einen anderen Ansatz wählen, vielleicht indem ich es möglich mache, diese Features zu kaufen und zu nutzen, indem man einen im Kaufprozess erhaltenen, pro Konto generierten Zugangscode bereitstellt.
Es gibt auch einen Spendenbutton in der linken oberen Ecke der Website, mit dem du einen benutzerdefinierten Betrag spenden und helfen kannst, damit SteemWorld kostenlos bleibt. Wenn jeder Benutzer mir nur 1 SBD pro Monat schicken würde, könnte ich meine Entwicklung, ohne die genannten Einschränkungen hinzufügen zu müssen, problemlos fortsetzen.
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Hey, @steemworld.org @steemchiller:
Asking for financial support is never easy, and when that support is essentially a moving target, it compounds things. I went looking for your proposal a couple of days ago to see how it was doing and couldn't find it. I then saw in a comment that you'd removed it. Can't say that I blame you at all, given some responses by some prominent STEEM users, but I'm frustrated that the SPS can't act as a consistent funding source.
So, at present, we have a funding pool that doesn't really fund. Not very useful in its present state, but maybe after a couple years of that happening someone will wake up and fix it, if there's still a need or anyone around to use it.
Whatever you decide to do about funding, I will do my best to support. I find myself weighing my own options as to what I will be doing on STEEM moving forward, though I will probably continue on as I have until I can see what Communities will look like and how that might help.
Otherwise, my contributions to this grand experiment may have to wane even further for other priorities.
I wish you well. Thank you for all you've done and continue to do with steemworld to provide us with so many data points and more.
Yo, thanks for continuos effort of trying to get funded. I love your persistence. I was wondering how many people actually use your website? There are so many cool tools for Steem but even the best stop continued work due to the lack of funding (not good tbh but that's sad facts).
So the question is, can you provide some data on the usage of your website so that people can get an idea if your future development efforts make any sense?
It's not that a tool is bad or something, it's just how many are actually using it. SteemProposals, for instance, has only 50-70 daily users, even though that's a default website where people check the proposals. SteemPeak, Busy, Actifit less than 500, at least according to SteemApps.com
I understand that you're trying to replace a traditional income with funds from proposals but I think it's kind of tricky now. Even though the budget is not too small, there are only a few people with enough SP that can help to pass return proposal threshold. I personally observe the whole situation and don't really like it as well, so I'm actively looking the ways on improving the whole process.
In any case, despite how much I love Steem Proposal System to help more people to get compensated for their work, I highly advise you to start working on some team that will actually pay you a salary. Then, you can actually have a financial relief and continue building SteemWorld if that's your baby.
Hope that helps in a way.
Thanks, I just love Steem and I won't go away.
I don't run own statistics, but according to https://similarweb.com SteemWorld had ~ 180,000 unique visits in October. Hard to say, how many users that in reality are, but I think enough to keep me alive. I'm no business guy and I don't really want to be one, but I will always do my best to keep SteemWorld running.
I removed my SPS proposal, because that way of funding does not work for me. I need at least to some degree a constant income, which is hard to achieve with the SPS, especially for a 'non-business' guy like me. I prefer to stay in background and just build awesome tools.
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Tub Cat frequently uses Steem World to check his curation earnings and to review the activity of unwashed humans. The website is very useful for these purposes.
I have the same issue. It is always hard for me to ask for funds for my work. I guess that's just something not everybody is comfortable with.
I'm sorry to hear that you removed your proposal tbh. But I'm pretty much sure there's a lot of stuff to be done in other Steem projects that can actually pay for the work. I think you're a good guy, just ask around. I'm pretty much sure people need some help.
You should have done that a long time ago...
It probably won't be 70 SBD per day, but I hope it is enough to survive until BTC and STEEM start going up again (approx. Q1 2020)
I do not earn a lot of steem, but I will on every Sunday in conjunction with my FOG donation, send 1 steem to you via a wallet transfer, I know it is not much, but I do hope it helps some. I hope you do get enough support via donations to help with the cost, and to keep the program as free as possible. I have been a very long time user of steemworld, and have always thought highly of the program thank you for your efforts in the continuing building of it's capabilities.
I absolutely love the ease with which I can claim all those tiny token rewards. It used to take me thirty minutes to an hour to get them via the steemengine page, and it always required one or two page reloads.
Außergewöhnliche Situationen, erfordern halt manchmal außergewöhnliche Maßnahmen.
Das gilt auch für die Nutzer der SteemWorld! 😎
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Since a cople of weeks I spent from my Blogs 5 % of the rewards go automatically to @steemchiller.
In addition, a large part of the German community has decided to donate voluntarily every month. The Steemian @muelli
https://steempeak.com/steemworld/@muelli/keep-us-from-steemworld-s-downfall
takes care of it and becomes 1. every month a Steemchiller Day proclaim and remind all users to let something come. Greetings Michael
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Here is my full upvote! Keep it as is.
Grateful & supported 100% on behalf of my curation trail. For some reason, the almost weekly "would I like to support?" pop ups have stopped happening. Not sure why, but I was always happy to upvote decently when the pop up came. Maybe others are missing that reminder too? Please bring it back. I use steemworld every day and really appreciate the tool. Yes, I would pay to use it.
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Understandable. I seldom use it my connection is too slow to show me more as a white screen. I understand many , if it is a great help to them to do whatever they do with it you should ask money for it. Steem-engine is not free either. I wish you a good Saturday.
Steemworld is the best tool!
I think I'll able to pay 1 SBD for the fee....