What do you think of the new Hard Fork 20 of the Steemit block-chain?

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Mixed Opinions really. I for one love what this new update brings to the blockchain  but kind of hope the transition from HF19 to HF20 was handled and even tested properly before being released to the general public. 

It was really absurd (well at least for me XD) to think that 99% of accounts on Steem was somewhat "forced" to take a break for over a day on our beloved Steem. From what I have read, it was mostly because the new update take into consideration the past transactions an account had made 5 days before the Hard Fork making everyone's RC on the negative (or on debt) on the day of the HF. They however released a patched hours after forgiving the RC debt and resetting everyones RC to 100% and even multiplied the amount of RC one has to around 10 times to accommodate those who have low SP.

I mean why not do it from the very start? Reset everyone to 100% and allocate a big amount of RC and from there reduce it gradually so as not to disrupt users daily activity on the platform. Well I just expected the transition to go smoothly though not like this XD

Anyway as to what this new update brings to the blockchain: At first I really hate it as it somewhat limits low-level accounts on what they can do on the platform. Before they release the patches a default 15 SP account can only make around 3 posts/14votes/16transfers which honestly is not enough. 

Minnows/Planktons are what makes this platform more lively whether the whales agree to it or not (excluding the spammers /upvote fishers of course). Limiting what we can do is really discouraging. They always say that in order for one to grow on this platform, one must go socialize to others and yet they try to set a limit on how many posts/comments an account can do. Oh well! XD

Well that is before the patches, now a 15 SP account can do at least 22 comments/100+votes/100+transfers which honestly is enough for a "human user" on the platform and will make "bots/spammers/upvote fishers" being really limited on what they can do.  It also encourages everyone to power-up their liquid payouts so they can do more on the platform and not immediately cash-out.

So yeah! I think what this new update brings to the blockchain is really great but the way it was implemented was very disastrous! Either way things are starting to settle down and return to normal so I believe mostly positive things will happen from now on. :)