The Steemit 2017 Roadmap As a Table - the Super TLDR Version!
Introduction
Today marks the release of the Steemit 2017 Roadmap which you can view as a PDF here. The Steemitblog announcement is here.
I have summarised the main points in a table below along with the estimated dates for implementation.
You can download a text file copy of the table in Markdown here - feel free to use it as you please.
Steemit 2017 Roadmap Table
| Feature | Availability |
|---|---|
| AWS/EC2 Migration | Q1 2017 |
| Lower Latency to Production | Q2 2017 |
| UX upgrades | 2017 and beyond |
| Drag and Drop Image Hosting | Q2 2017 |
| Blockchain Data Microservices | Q1 2017 |
| Comment Moderation by Authors | Q2 2017 |
| Communities | Q3 2017 |
| Official IOS/Android Mobile Apps | Q4 2017 |
| Steem Login "Signing Service" for 3rd Party Applications | Q3 2017 |
| Steemit.com rebrand | Q3 2017 |
| Tutorials and Walkthrough | Q4 2017 |
| Gamefication (Achievements & Insignia) | Q3 2017 |
| New User Prompts/ Tasks for retention | Q4 2017 |
| User Status Bar | Q3 2017 |
| User Understanding Features | Q3 2017 |
| Design Language Overhaul/UX | Q4 2017 |
| Steem.io transformation to Steem Platform Dashboard | Q2 2017 |
| Developer.steem.io (developer documentation) | Q2 2017 |
| Officially Supported Client Libraries | Q2 2017 |
| Reducing Blockchain Account Creation Cost | Q3 2017 |
| Post Reward Sharing (Steem Blockchain) | Q2 2017 |
| Multi Chain Parallelism (Steem Blockchain) - FABRIC architecture | Q4 2017 |
| Decentralised Global Talent Pool, Asynch Comms etc | Ongoing/Multi Year |
| Decentralising the @steemit Account Stake | Ongoing/Multi Year |
Quick Discussion
This is really exciting and I think it will take us a few days to really digest what is in the Roadmap.
I thought I would just quickly highlight some of the things that stood out to me beyond the usual UI issues that I think have been and will be discussed a lot by others:
- Decentralisation of the Steemit Account - this is not really completely new but I think making a formal declaration on this will help to ease some of the fears of both long term and new investors. Further the overall re-emphasis on Steem being the platform and Steemit being merely an app is very important int terms of branding.
- "Communities" will be a great way of differentiating content and customising different niches and areas, as well as helping with organisation. This is in some ways closer to the Reddit model and lot of people have been asking for something like this for a long time.
- Reward Splitting/Sharing - this will help a lot with collaboration and team based posting. It will also have big implications for things like profit sharing on new apps.
- Steem Login - this could be really huge. I envision this as a killer feature which could be used throughout the web much the same way as the FB login is used - except this can potentially earn you money.
- "Fabric" Multi Chain System - as technology nerd I can't help be enthused by this - another killer feature and we can't even know right now the amazing ways that people will find to use the multi chain system. This could make Steem the most advanced blockchain platform around (if it isn't already).
- Optimising the Developer Experience - via developer.steem.io this should help to accelerate the advancement of the platform as a whole.
One thing is for sure the future of the Steem platform just got a whole lot more exciting! Feel free to have your say on the Roadmap in the comments section.
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This, I think, will be the most important booster in terms of getting & retaining users. I suspect a lot of us have settled into using our feeds as our "communities" anyway: subject-based communities will dovetail with that habit. Also, communities will make Steemit more "normal", if you will.
Yes it will definitely help. I think right now it is overwhelming for people!
This, or mobile apps, or achievements/tutorial/notifications, or some combination thereof.
Or something a 3p developer builds with our great docs and libraries.
It's a multi-pronged approach, as there is no single silver bullet.
Do you think this roadmap will lead to investors buying in again and getting money back into our economy despite infighting and various other things?
This seems exciting--I guess my question is mainly whether or not historically if investors respond to this kind of news. I'm still new to this world.
Investors will come if people come. These changes seem to drastically improve the site and its appeal for the general user. So IMO yes it should, though maybe not right away.
I think it will certainly help. Generally investors (in the crypto community) respond really well to this sort of thing. The point is that it will require both the roadmap itself and actually delivering what is in it to get true investor confidence.
Your thoughts parallel mine, tho' I expressed myself more verbosely :-)
Nothing wrong with that:)
My take: It certainly could. STEEM has gone though a classic downtrend, the kind of downtrend that makes speculators leery about "catching the falling knife." Arguably, the bear market ended in early November and since then STEEM has flatlined.
In itself, that's not the reason to hope for the price to rise - but a flatlining trend does whittle away at a blocker to a new bull market. When sentiment is gloomy, folks sell into a pump and throttle it. (This throttling took place today, btw.) They do so because they think a pump isn't going to last & the price will slump again. When the market's at a pessimist-dominated bottom, that selling-into is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
But the number of pessimistic holders, so-called "weak hands", eventually runs out. Once their number is a small fraction of what it was, and once the remaining pessimists become more convinced that the bear market is at an end, the conditions are ripe for a real turnaround: a real bull market.
But the kickoff requires a catalyst. The roadmap might well be one - not in itself, but in its fulfillment. The altcoin world is basically news- and hype-driven: if one of the features, implemented, drives speculators' imaginations afire then we'll see STEEM rise again.
But not as a result of the roadmap itself, though anticipating it might well have driven STEEM up to >22,000. It'll be the features, plus speculators' imagination on what they'll make possibel
Investors will come in 2018, after the road-map has been implemented
I hope they come sooner than that: - but we will have to see.
If they build it, they will come.
Excellent abstract! Resteemed.
My favourite goal from the roadmap is not on the list but included in all of these points: growth! :)
Yes for sure we all want that. The actual roadmap does say quite a lot about it in the introduction where it talks about goals - I think all of these changes will help to push growth:
Yessss! I was applauding while reading that part :-))
Awesome!
Great summary, thank you.
You're welcome:)
Thanks for the extra goodness of sharing this concise version of the updates and upgrades coming our way soon. This is just so awesome and can't wait to see what is around the corner. Just mind-blowing a technology and the community is building into an incredibly varied and more astute crew every day. This is so empowering for us all. All for one and one for all! Namaste :)
Yes for sure!
It's great to see the roadmap finally out, and it includes a lot more than I thought it would! If they can deliver even half of those juicy bullet points, it's gong to be an exciting year. I wonder what @good-karma thinks about the idea of an official mobile app that would be direct competition for eSteem. Maybe @dantheman and @ned should save themselves some time by officially adopting him into the dev team. They could rebrand eSteem and then that's one item already checked off the list!
Yes we will have to see what happens. It would awesome if they just hired @good-karma - would show the opportunities that are available for people who make good apps on Steem:)
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Wow. Looks like Q1 and Q2 are gonna be MASSIVE.
Yes!
You're my go to person for everything Steemit news @thecryptofiend! Thanks!
You're welcome:)
Is the optimal time period for voting on posts still 30 minutes or whatever?
Yes.
Those rules have not changed in a long time. What is the optimal time to vote on a particular post is probably a matter of debate though.