RE: ANNOUNCEMENT: I'm fed up of dealing with the badly programmed steemd, I'm out
No, mostly from running a witness node.
And yeah, piston-lib has been very difficult.
I don't see a future in the platform because I have had my loyalty rewarded with far too many arbitrary and stupid changes, the resistance of Steemit, Inc. towards fixing the injustice that has seen a constant attrition of userbase.
You can search the blockchain for code snippets and guides and NONE of the code works anymore, on the piston codebase. It's not been your fault in many cases either.
I appreciate what you have been doing, but I am pretty sure that you also are probably getting to the end of your tether about dealing with the operational policies of Steemit most especially towards development. You made a lot of rewards from your early work on it, but I can see how it wasn't really even half of what you needed to deal with the constant instability of the API, this new hardfork broke so many things, again... In my opinion the 'beta' tag doesn't excuse it anymore.
The absents of new updates to the library is not caused by the constant improvements that the Steem teams does but rather by other obligations that are currently eating up my time.
I can only slightly agree in that some changes could have been communicated better, but saying that those are just too much, is IMHO an overreaction. There is of course something in between constant breaking changes like with steemd and never chaining software like bitcoin.
Agree