RE: "Steem Is Broken!?!" A Conversation with Sida of Partiko
Cutting Edge Technology requires Cutting Edge Developers. There clearly is a sizable incongruency between the two. And the current, less than fair quality of HF20 execution with such egregious oversight of not adding an RC reset scaling speaks for itself as to exactly which part is out of sync. What has clearly been lacking is an effective "de-risking" strategy to this HF20 launch! In other words, not enough "what if..." scenarios were covered; the basics of an effective Project Management and the common cause of "oversights"
Front END of STEEM is paramount and yet all emphasis keeps stoking the back end. There is an incongruency of resource allocation such that the Front End is SUFFERING for improvements! In this case, Steemians need not reset expectations but rather raise them. This is where competition comes in to provide exactly what users want and better it. At the end of the day, users always get their ways.
Remember, even in a decentralized environment, STEEMIT must be a USER pull and NOT a DEVELOPER push process. A Developer Push often misses the mark in meeting the USER needs and wants. This HF20 has clearly forgotten this such that the best anyone can now expect is hope for the five days to quickly pass and this ignominious event be swept into the dustbin of history.
I'm surprised to have such a controversial figure commenting here. While I have your attention, would you mind discussing any relationship (if any) you have with @ranchorelaxo and any concerns within the community about the disproportionate amount of the rewards pool your analysis posts accumulate on a daily basis? You've been at the center of a lot of drama, flag wars, etc. I'd be interested in hearing your side of the story. Maybe do an interview, if you're up for it. If you have a post that summarizes things, please link to it in a reply. My hope is Steem will be mostly for people who care about wealth creation over value extraction and consider the benefits of psychological egoism.
As to your points, there are many front ends to Steem. As I've said before, Steem is not Steemit. Steem is more valuable than Steemit. Steemit is, in many ways, just a reference implementation of what's possible with the Steem blockchain. We can use https://steempeak.com/ or https://busy.org/ or build our own, if we like. Saying the front end of Steem is paramount doesn't make it so and may not align with the long term goals of Steemit, Inc. I talked about this a bit after SteemFest²: Bridging the Gap Between Perception and Reality.
I agree, HF20 has been pretty frustrating. A post telling everyone to expect some disruptions is quite different from "things will be completely unusable for a time." It seems we have a new update which will take another day or so to replay the full nodes to see the benefit of. Witnesses are already building and replaying their backups to be ready, but replay time is unavoidable at this point. HF20 was rough, no doubt. To say it was a failure would require us to compare it to similar technologies in the blockchain space which have done better. Are there any examples or is Steem doing something brand new?
You mention competition. What are some of your favorites at this point? All I've seen, so far, are unfulfilled promises and/or centralized solutions such as wordpress with token incentives added on top.
I think HF20 was a pretty rough release, for sure. I hope we get a detailed explanation of what went wrong from the team that built the code so we can learn from it and create better expectations in the future.
What a great Interview and a great dialogue with a “controversial” figure as you put it.
I hope that he takes you up on your offer.