RE: Important Changes to Steemit.com and Wallet
Change is not bad, but communication is key for adoption of (said) change. If there is barely any communication about coming change, most people will not like it.
My main problem with this is the following, and especially people with a lot of $$$ in their wallets should really think about it .... Apperantly steem leadership is able to change the setup of our wallets, without any warning they changed (and now redirected) us to another site ... with said wallet (and re log ins) they say it will be safer .... but what if we have a bad actor out there, and no redirection happens .... all your funds (even though still on the blockchain somewhere) will be gone. How about that for hyper inflation management 😉. All in all, i’m not really happy about it ... but i just own a couple of steem, so it is not really worth my bothers
Thank you for this helpful feedback. We will continue trying to improve our communication efforts. We have provided multiple updates through @steemitblog over the course of the last two months, but we understand we need to do a better job of making sure that people read those updates and the message of the updates is clear. We released the wallet almost a month ago and have been regularly informing users of our plans to remove the wallet from steemit.com to address security concerns, increase development speed for both apps, and decrease resource consumption.
These are just some of the updates we provided that discussed this social/wallet split:
Wallet App Soft Roll Out is Live
Engineering Update: Condenser Split, Key Backup, MIRA
Engineering Update: DDoS, Wallet, SteemDAO
SteemitWallet.com is just a web interface for the steem blockchain. Changes to a website have nothing to do with the blockchain itself. In addition, since there is now an open source standalone web wallet application (the software powering steemitwallet.com) anyone can create their own web wallet in literally seconds that uses the same backend but with a totally different user interface. Of course, nothing was stopping anyone from developing their own website and their own wallet for the Steem blockchain, but now they will have a turnkey solution that will make it much easier for them to do so.
Do you expect the average user to read engineering updates? None of these titles indicated any urgency. There should have been a warning at the top of the page before you implemented this change.
I do agree that separating the wallet was necessary for security reasons.
Dear @andrarchy
I appreciate your kind reply.
The only reason why so many people are very well informed about this publication is because Steemit Inc decided to make it very visible and public.
Why not to use similar solution and let people prepare themselfs for what's coming. Educate them and warn to make a copy of masterkeys.
There has been many people who lost their keys and only have their posting keys left. That's really very tragic.
Yours
Piotr