I'm writing a blockchain / running a blockchain project / launching a cryptocurrency.

It was designed to acomplish a state of coopetition with steemit.com:

I started writing it because it was easier to make a new chain than interface with steem's. I so wish that I were exaggerating when I say this, but when I tally up the time spent, I know for certain this is correct.

I'm not doing all of these things all of the time of course, but I'm doing some of each of them. My intention for this chain was to augment Steemit with new media features that I suggested in my very first steemit post and to experiment with alternative models of compensation for users who create popular content. Specifically, I was going to try and see if traffic was a better metric than voting, and if that failed, I was going to try a non-stake-weighted voting algorithm, or possibly some combination of the two.

Steem posts were going to flow into DAWN's chain and be hashed like everything in DAWN's chain.

Then they'd be retrievable via those hashes or via steemit.com same as today. So one thing we'd be providing off the bat is webcomponents that can load steem content from anywhere on the interwebs.

Likewise, DAWN posts from users who have saved their STEEM posting keys onto the DAWN chain (encrypted with their DAWN key, of course-- no one wants their posting keys publicly accessible.... would receive a similar treatment (conversion to standard STEEM post setup) and would flow onto the STEEM chain.

Oh, and DAWN isn't really a blogging platform, though there's some blogging. Point being it wasn't designed to compete with steem/steemit. Today if you visit the link at the bottom of the article, I know it looks exactly like a blogging platform. Looks can be deceiving. Maybe the template wasn't able to capture anyone's full intentions and there's a full UX re-do in the works.

IT WAS DESIGNED TO COOPETITION WITH STEEMIT, @sneak. The steem userbase is still insignificant compared to social media overall. A wiser man would be celebrating every single launch of any user-compensated, chain-based social anything site because this is how compensation for user content becomes the expected norm. I'm sure nearly everyone here has a story about a friend saying that Steemit is a scam. I know I do. The reason people think this is that they haven't been exposed to this mode of operating. More experienced people with more information might think this because the rewards system on steemit is clearly slanted towards concentration of power, but that is frankly another matter altogether. No lies were told about the compensation scheme on steem, and so I'm surely not going to say it's a scam.

Much more likely is the truth: It's an experiment. But real experimentation cannot be participated in by folks banned from engineering resources for some extremely hand-wavey reasons. And there's a strong argument to be made that real experimentation-- a search for truth-- cannot even happen in an environment where folks are getting banned simply because some higher-ranking project participants don't like what they have to say.

Being banned from Steemit's github has surely caused me to reconsider my unify, compete, and mutually pump plans.... which would have achieved several blockchain / appchain / contentchain "firsts."

Here are the facts as I see them on developing things for steemit:

• Docs are non-existent or wrong
• No care whatsoever has been taken to keep node operation simple
• Company lies to community regarding the state of affairs
• Company expects devs who cannot help but know otherwise to tow the party line
• Misinformed community members might have unreasonable expectations of third party devs
• To approximately quote an anonymous steem-dev (I assure you, I'm not quoting myself) I know "whomever wrote this is an asshole, because it gives absolutley zero consideration to the user."

here are some facts about steemit:

• Revolutionary concept concerning the value of thought
• On steemit I've gotten paid for the quality of my ideas and my ability to express them. This has been literally life-changing for me.
• Most web systems, even most blockchain systems do not have the power to change people's lives. That's why I'm writing this here as opposed to anywhere else on the interwebs. It's not so much the coins/tokens earned at this point as it is my "why in the hell would I take my long-form expository writing anywhere else?"
• High-quality community of serial early adopters
• Steemit, Inc is a parasite from the 20th Century when we needed things like corporations leeching off of a glowing blockchain composed purely of human thought and appreciation from the 21st Century. It holds a vast portion of total steem and sells it so that it can sustain its USD expenses. This (of course) depresses the price of STEEM and reduces the user-area of the steem currency and its USD pegged token, SBD by making active posting less attractive to both new and repeat users alike.

I never planned this coopetition to benefit steemit, inc.

I couldn't care less about steemit, inc. That said, if executed, the coopetition would benefit steemit, inc. But that was never, ever the goal, and one thing I am very certain of is:

I have no desire or incentive to do anything that could possibly benefit steemit, inc. I absolutley don't want to benefit steemit, inc due to a conflict in core values.

The goal was always to benefit the thousands of utterly incredible people who write funny, witty, technical, boring, sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek, and overall wonderful blog posts on this here blockchain filled with content.

Since I, uh, wrote many of steem's docs and filed many an issue on steem's github, and participated in design discussions, and basically-- gave my input freely, without charge, for the fun of it, yeah, I'm pretty offended about being banned from participating in the engineering for this "open source" project, steemit.com. Given this:

I can't help but get the feeling that I'm not the only person who thinks that @sneak isn't taking steem's engineering praxis in a favorable direction (despite his many excellent code contributions). This isn't an accusation. It's my opinion, and I'm sharing it because I've been forced to call into question the wisdom of programmatically interacting with the steem blockchain despite the engineering effort that both myself and the supernaturally talented @baabeetaa put into the situation. See, such interactions rely on a certain degree of trust, for example:

->-------river------>--------bill's house--------->-------------your house--->--------

Imagine that bill likes to shit in the river. Imagine that for a decade prior, Sarah had owned the house and being a decent soul, Sarah shat in the latrine. Your house uses the river for all of its water needs. You shower in river water, drink it, etc. Bill moves in and suddenly you've got cholera. I'm one of few people on steemit who can honestly say they've had cholera and let me tell you, it SUCKS. Not only do you spring a 105.5 fever, you also get to live for the rest of forever knowing that at some point, you dined on some dookie. Bill won't stop shitting in the river. You stop using your house. It goes unmaintained. Bill has destroyed the value of your house. This is what steemit, inc does to the vast majority of downstream projects with its shit docs and other practices that equate to shitting in the river.

The little >'s denote the direction of the water in the river. Granted, this example is somewhat flawed because the truth cannot exist in rivers:

Truth of a potential dawn-steem relationship-- an impossible-IRL 2-way river

-----river---------<Steem------------<dawn
-----river--------->Steem------------>dawn

Rivers, of course, never flow in two directions at once.

Analogy: API Insanity, github banning, lack of docs, blatantly wrong docs == shitting in the river

YES-- many things have improved surrounding interacting with steemd lately. Kudos to the people who built those systems, who notably-- DO NOT work for steemit, inc. Both I and the community owe you high-fives. I don't see anything steemit, inc has done to improve developer experience, and when I dare to bring up this subject-- indeed, sometimes in profanity-laced rants on this platform that maybe I shouldn't have made (or then again, maybe I should have-- I'm of mixed minds on this matter) well, forget my post earnings-- those seem to have recovered with a greater erecognition of the reality that I'm not bullshitting, nope-- instead I'm banned from a github org where I am the.....

Oh, I've been scrubbed from the contrubutors list.

Commits

Contributors

I'd be right about where @bmann is, were that accurate. It's not like I did anything that groundbreaking. I just wrote the repo's introduction and tried to make the README.md file as friendly to newcomers as possible.

I'd wanted to try and give this site the ultimate pump by in quick succession:

• Releasing a pure swagger API for steemd, opening up previously unimaginable development options
• Releasing several branded front-ends, one which I owe to someone awesome, another for free, and another for my personal use. (eg: jacobgadikian.com)
• Releasing ___________________, which ____________________ resulting in steem upwards

... and finally, by using a voluntary relationship between steemit and dawn to illustrate coopetition. I have to deliver the front end to the awesome person, so that's my current main software dev task. I owe him, despite the reality that steemit has never ever lifted a finger to make derivative sites any easier, I am indeed in the wrong. I got frustrated, because well, I completed the task once, @baabeetaa completed the task once, then there was some other half-successful attempt, and then there was of course that time that lack of documentation (and some lack of knowledge of the encryption involved-- I'll openly admit this) caused me to think that steem-js hid a terrible, terrible truth.

I know others on the platform who're also deeply frustrated with the DX here. LOTS of others. It's really freaking hard when the docs are outright wrong-- if they exist at all. To say that developing to interact with steem takes 10x the time is an understatement. I'd have to say it's more like 15-20x. I have contributed to hundreds of projects on gitub, most with either the odd commit here or there, or with a README.md work-over, or just reporting bugs. github.com/steemit is the only github organization that I've been banned from.

I'm not coming to any quick conclusions here, and no, steem/steemit doesn't suck. I AM looking for input, however, because I've been given ample reason to think that my work could get cholera if exposed to steem's river :(. There's definitely big chunks of poo flowing downstream.

To squelch any accusations that DAWN is some form of vapor, here's a pitiful version of it running on a single-node:

http://52.221.207.170:8000/

You can see an early version of the steem integration here:

http://52.221.207.170:8000/test/steem_getpost

You can create an account and post content to the test chain. If you're feeling to lazy for that (since it is only a test chain, after all, you can find some test accounts on the create account page. Log in using your private key. Currently fixing the IPFS issue that is causing glogchain not to accept posts.

Its source code can be found here: https://github.com/dawn-network/glogchain

The repository leaps with joy each time that it is starred.

I will not ban anyone from its repositories nor will I allow anyone to ban anyone from its repositories. It can surely be made less pitiful. I'm doing my best.