RE: Curation and Economic update
DTube has been a disappointment for me.
I worked hard putting a lot of my content into the platform, even promoting it for free to my fans and friends.
Recently, YouTube has been deleting channels and banning people more than ever before, causing an "ad pocalypse" and millions of users have left, looking for somewhere else to view and post videos.
I've been begging people to try DTube for months, but everybody who tries it tells me they would use it if it worked more often.
And sadly, over time, I've had to admit that I was wrong all along, and DTube doesn't work even for my needs - uploading 10 minutes of video a couple times a week. Almost nothing uploads, almost nothing plays, and EVERYBODY I know (all over the world) has the same results.
FaceBook has been losing market share recently, as well. People are saying "if only there was an alternative where people can post updates, pictures, and videos". DTube should have been working well enough to scoop up those millions of people, but it wasn't, and it still isn't.
So, as much as I've supported you in the past, until your site actually performs its purpose (upload and play videos reliably), it's not of any use. It's literally the only thing people need from DTube - Steemit has already taken care of the other 90% of the experience. You MUST fix that problem first before any other "updates" matter.
This is a much more free marketplace for websites and applications than ever before. DTube should know that, and see themselves losing out on millions of users, and do something.
But it seems instead, DTube is making a pointless update, stalling, and asking for money. Not a good sign, guys!
I wish you the best of luck in getting things up and running properly ASAP!
Exactly. I've built two streaming networks that run 24/7 here (msp waves first, resigned, then built steemstar network) and they work, and we have to upload our replays to youtube because across all those shows and hosts, none of them can upload a video to dtube ever at all, the ones that are there stall, because they are served from IPFS nodes in some nerds basement somewhere, subject to be erased or turned off or broken at any given time, meaning when we do encounter someone trying to use dtube, we have to remind them to go edit their post in put in a permanent youtube link.
Sorry, none of the d-sites are ready for production use yet, and while the fees have been removed now? Shit, I am VP of an international SaaS enterprise scale product company serving fortune 50s and federal agencies and our entire dev budget is under 20K a month and when I see the state of things here, but an 80-100K curation pile is coming in monthly? Yeah, that doesn't bode well.
Well, overall things were working pretty well since 0.5, but our last update with new GPU servers didn't really go as planned. 0.8 focuses on storage and loading speed a lot.