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RE: Beyond Steemit
While I understand this point from the real and active blogger perspective, you need to remember that Steem is just a backend for a blogging platform. The most important thing is that the backend can actually support all the features and a huge userbase. That's why developers are still prioritizing it. There hasn't been anything like it before, so the devs are creating something totally unique and the problems they are facing are also completely new.
Steem is only valuable if people actually buy it. And people (by which I mean consumers, not backroom programmers) couldn't care less what is happening inside the black box. They only care about the thing they interface with.
All this insistence that the back end has to be perfected before the user experience can be worked on is frighteningly reminiscent of a Word Perfect mentality. The people around here are putting the cart light years in front of the horse. But no matter how many times I raise the warning cry, the lesson is not learned.
Others may be content to let Steemit become the Word Perfect of the 2010s, but I'm not going to stick my head in the sand on this issue.
When the Steemit community finally gets tired of failing, I'll be here for you. Until then, I'm going to keep being as blunt as possible. And yeah, I know it makes me look like the bad guy. But I wouldn't have it any other way.
Isn't it the the other way around? The horse in this case is the blockchain. It's the engine that runs the whole system. If it sucks, it's impossible to build a great service on top of it. In the case of social media system, we need to have really scalable blockchain so it can actually serve all the millions of people who are our potential users. If the blockchain doesn't scale, we end up in a situation like Bitcoin is now. Blocks are full and people can't use it anymore. Then it doesn't matter how beautiful the website is: it's still unusable.
You are not a bad guy, you just have a different perspective on this.