Aftermath after the 70% layoff annoucement
I am glad to see so many people reacting from the Steemit community to @Ned incredible annoucement. I saw the annoucement and right away went to check out the video. However, this just goes to the Interview I said a few weeks ago about @Ned on a podcast called Steemit Habla.
My views seems to be on point for what I said, that Steem price will depend mostly on the market price and that unfortunately I dont see much innovation from the Steem Inc camp in the past few years. After a friend post gave me the opporutnity to comment these points that I just descided to comment here:
I am dissapointed by @Ned lack of leadership, but mostly lack of innovation. There has been poor predictions and not a real enough push to achieve these predictions. I dont 'blame' him, in the sense that I understand is not easy getting it right. But I also didn't see much tangible effort on for example, investing in the child dapps, bringing Steem Inc apps on board.
Steem year 1:
- Steem Bank, he created Steem Savings, it soon drop to 0% interest and was never touched again.
Steem year 2: - Steem Store, there was a third party app which also did an MVP but no further development/investment was made.
Steem year 3: - Smart media tokens, still on TBA.
Meanwhile steemit.com has had very little change. There hasnt been much more added like:
- Code highlight recognition
- New Markdown sytanxes
- Emojis
- Mobile apps (1st party)
- Image manipulation
- Toolbar menu
- Formating for DTube
- Bookmark tools
- Chat integration
- Advanced Taxonomy
- Improved Search engine
- Notifications
- Groups and communities
All these things were asked, and even coded and submitted as a patch, but the team did little to have these patches integrated into the main project.
A lot of people asked themselves what was the @ned account for? It certainly was never to act as a whale, or be a community fund, or do VC for Steem based projects. Also it blogged very little, at the same time, I have seen that many of the whale drama was never producing much for the community either. So I am not sure what was their role on steemit.com on the first place. At least miners process transactions, BP in EOS create new stuff, but whitnesses never really did much except for he development type.
About me:
Steemian, crypto fan, like to listen to 90s hip hop, and loves to chat about Linux Python and Free software. Runs a local Tech club in sunny Cancun, and enjoys hopping on planes and landing somewhere else.