Lack of Decentralized Governance.
Seems like every time I take a vacation away from the blockchain I come back to all the projects I've been working on being broken. The last time was @steemj. I used it to make API calls in Java.
This time all my dsteem tutorials are throwing an error:
I checked https://developers.steem.io/tutorials-javascript/getting_started
to make sure dsteem is still the go-to API, and it is. Upon further inspection
it looks like I'm using the wrong fork.
I haven't put much time in trying to fix this, but it's pretty annoying that we basically have no incentive for developers to maintain their projects. I guess this is small potatoes in light of Steemit Inc. losing 70% of their staff, but still. I gotta head out for work, but if anyone knows whats up let me know. Thanks in advance!
It sucks, I can see more and more why the price of Steem is relative to the price of bitcoin instead of independent. There isn’t a hell of a lot of incentive for devs to go nuts.
I love the place for sure but I see why people are frustrated with it.
Yes, that's why I was so confused in regard to Steemit Inc's obsession with SMTs. Without a dependable API SMTs aren't worth much. Steem doesn't even need SMTs. The API is much more important.
Same happen to me with dsteem. I forced a known good version in my package.json and did an npm update.
Good idea. I'll try using a previous version as a quick fix.
FYI: As of 2 Dec 2018, I'm using dsteem v0.10.0.