Steem Witness Forum - Recording from last night with @elipowell
You can find the recording here.
A lot of things are happening at the same time currently on Steem.
Steem Alliance, worker proposals, lot's of communication from Steemit inc. + the usual developments from third parties.
Keeping up with everything Steem already took a lot of time but now it's become almost a day task just to keep up with all of it. (And that is even without being part of all of it, just keeping up).
Example:
Steemit inc. has been showing up to plenty of radio shows explaining their future plans and vision. As an investor and Steemian I want to know what's being said so I listen to all the shows.
Most of these shows span several hours. I have therefor now become an expert at listening at 1.5x speed and trying to work my way up to 2.0x to save time.
Yesterday @elipowell (The new MD @ Steemit inc.) was on the witness forum being interviewed by @aggroed.
I think so far she been a breath of fresh air in the way she communicates with the community and she done a proper job of introducing herself to us.
But I promised myself to no longer listen to nice words and focus on actions only. So I'm looking forward to those in the future too. But this is a great start! Especially for a first week.
She will be bringing out a business/product roadmap that is coming next week so she doesn't have to answer the same questions al the time on the shows which I understand.
If you don't have time to listen to the show here is a small recap:
How Steemit inc. saved money already:
AWS bills are cut in half.
The Layoffs
Salary pay cuts for all employees.
Out of an expensive lease in Austin (I'm assuming an office).
Programatic selling of STEEM was projected at 20 cents (It's currently trading higher, not really a money saver but it helps).
Advertising income is already coming in.
Future Plans:
Focus on Condenser and they will finally put focus on Community pull requests/plugins already developed for it.
Lowering infrastructure costs. RocksDB top priority.
Signups need to be simplified (I'm not sure how, but that's what she said, I just took note).
Advertising is a focus for them.
Business/product roadmap is coming next week so she doesn't have to answer the same questions al the time.
More focus on being Open Source.
Powerdown Steemit account
It's not her call. Currently no plans to stop it. She can't explain/have a good answer why the board is powering down.
She, herself, would like the powerdown to stop.
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It is encouraging to see how the communication has shifted but still need more follow through to consider we are past their previous actions of starting to improve just to disappear again. I think it could be different this around but still engaging as if Steemit Inc is just another out there.
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If the problem is Steemit Inc.'s Board, it's possible they'll try to tie @elipowell's hands, but she also talks about that in the interview, and said she wouldn't have accepted the job ahead of time, if they hadn't agreed to let her make major decisions @newageinv.
I also suspect that the Powering Down of @steemit's account will be used for some sort of Partnership, including but not limited to @steemalliance.
Thanks for the short summary @exyle, I am with you on the incredible amount of time it takes to follow up, simply impossible for me but still want to know what is going on
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Same
Same here!
“She, herself, would like the powerdown to stop. “ hmmmm . She’s the new head honcho and can’t explain the power down?? Strange one that . All this sudden friendly communication and changes in structure , powerdown . Something tells me that we are up for sale imo.
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LOL, great idea to listen to recordings at higher speed! People sound like they've been inhaling some helium, right?
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Very interesting! That is awesome that they are starting to be a little more transparent about what is going on. That is really smart that you area starting to listen to the recordings at a faster speed. I know a lot of people watch movies like that, but I hadn't thought of doing it with audio recordings.
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