A pity.

If I was @crypto.talk, I would remove the chat feature and re-engineer the gamification one.

Partiko was great even when it lacked most of the common Steem features. It will still be great if there is no incentive for people to use it. It is the best client out there, people will use it. People who aren't yet could be more for loyalty to their client. There is no need to offer anything to the users.

There is a informal law in computer science which tells that any app keeps adding features until adding a messaging one. Partiko also did it xDDD But it is not needed.

I wasn't aware of that fact about early votes, @toofasteddie