Making Fabric Takes Time - A Letter to SteemIt, Inc.
Dear SteemIt, Inc. (Dan, Ned, Sneak, Others)
I know you are hard at work making fabric. Quality Fabric takes time and I am willing to wait for it. What would be great for the community and other potential investors would be a little update once in a while. I know you don't want to be seen a "running" the community, but you could just give us a little communication regarding your work, how the fabric is turning out. How many yards of fabric have your weaved so far? I think the crypto community would also see these updates as a statement that Steem is alive and well and continuing to improve.
It was great to see Ned be such a great sport about the recent Meme Challenge and even make a funny comment or two on other posts. I have also seen Sneak out and about communicating with the "folks".
Build the beautiful fabric, but use this platform you built to engage with us sometimes. Recently, you were talking about making some new hires. Did you find and employ some new developers? These little updates would be positive and might even create excitement and anticipation of future projects.
Sincerely,
@whatsup
A member of the community of SteemIt
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Remember this dude?
Myspace - Tom
It would be nice to see more communication... and it might also reduce the "cloud of speculation and rumors" that swirl around here.
One of the things I always liked about being a contributor on HubPages was that founder Paul Edmondson would frequent the use forums and regularly comment on people's questions and concerns, EVEN when the site rose to become among the elite "top 100" sites worldwide. Community relations. It's a good thing.
I often bore everyone in SteemSpeak with stories of being an early adopter of Facebook. Back then when you signed up, Mark Zuckerburg was your first friend. He often made posts, commented on posts, etc. Back then the huge debate was .. Myspace vs. Facebook. He was always interested in feedback.
I know a lot of people hate Mark Z. But he wasn't a big deal yet. He was the most non-defensive and seemingly interested in the end-users POV.
It sounds like the HubPages founder was the same way. :)
My understanding is that Zuckerberg is (was?) a decent enough guy. Tom at MySpace was, too...
First user generated content site I wrote on was Epinions, in 1999. Nirav Tolia used to check in on the forums, and several staff were dedicated full time to staff-user communications. Early contributors were making $8-10K a month, writing product reviews, in the earliest days... sound familiar? We could learn a good bit from them... I got royalties for writing there till 2014, when current owners (the eBay group) shut down the user content feature. It's the only social writing site of its kind I know of that didn't fail. HubPages is a close 2nd, hanging in there at 11 years and... not exactly thriving, but still there. Of course, neither were built around the blockchain...
I've done some other sites as well. I still occasionally check in on Newsvine.com and a couple of others.
Golos which is the Russian version of Steemit sends out emails to members of the platform. I obviously have to use google translate to read it but at least we know if there are technical difficulties or other issues.
Oh, that is interesting and good!
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