RE: We Need More Development On STEEM!
I agree. one of the major problems we have on Steem is the lack of development on here. Of course, over the past few months, a lot have changed and we've seen more people working on developing things. But, we could be better. Way better.
One of the problems with getting more dapps on Steem at the moment is the lack of tokens. For so long, some initiatives have had to work without a good means of incentivizing their users and it's slowed down their adoption and progress. And Judging by how easy it was for @shredz7 to build a side chain (state of steem) and then build a dapp Stratos for communities, it's very correct to say our biggest stakeholder and developer company Steemit is incompetent through and through. How do you develop a fine technology such as Steem and then sunset it at its peak? It's been over 2 years and a team of over 12 programmers couldn't figure out how to give the chain tokens and yet someone singlehandedly did it in a few months. Today, through State of Steem, we've been able to build tokens with Steem Engine, which is awesome. i hope more developments can kick off from there.
Still is no match for a place like EOS even though we've got a great community going. Like you've said, we need Hackathons and reward incentives to attract more top developer teams here. And the ways i see that happening is either if
- Independent communities fund them;
- Witnesses come together fund them;
- Steemit Inc fund them (like Block.one did at the start).
However, i do not advocate for dependence on Steemit inc. For me, they do not seem to think long-term enough to want to throw money around for that. So, i do hope the other two options are good enough (there could be better options though).
In all, i do see a beacon of hope for the chain with Steem Alliance (which i think is too slow and without clear purposes or form yet), @shredz7's State of Steem, Stratos for communities (@stratos), Steem Engine, and the SPS being developed by @blocktrades. And i hope with these things in place, more useful developments start popping up. I also hope i can join in developing for the chain too. Someday!
I'm 100% with you, couldn't have said it better, especially the part:
Steemit.inc didn't do anything during a whole bull market and the beggining of a bear market! The best time to attract new developers and new users is during a bull market and early bear market! And Steemit.inc wasted this opportunity away... They also lack in communication!
Things are improving, and ned is starting to get more involved, better late then never I guess...To be completely honest I've lost all hope for steemit.inc, and look up to our witnesses to further the STEEM development!
Thanks for reading @pangoli! you always provide the best comments on the blockchain :P
Thanks for talking about my projects! I have a very similar version for the future of Steem and as soon as I am done with Stratos communities will start work on Spire: a very simple and easy way to launch Steem sidechains on a determined protocol by simply creating a transaction! I definitely hope to get some hackathons set up for Steem sidechains as soon as I have these tools set up - so be on the lookout!
You and @aggroed should probably work for steemit.inc, damn, take over for dan, he delayed SMT time and time again, and u both came up with a sort of token system without the amount of resources steemit.inc has! Imagine if you had their resources!
Hackathons are a must imo to bring more developers to STEEM, we really need them, in order to surpass all the other blockchains in development! We have a really strong community! A community that makes any dapp go to the top of the statistics with activity! We just need more dapps, more developers, better tech, better programming! Hackathons will further the STEEM development really fast imo!
Yeah definitely! I’m really wanting to get Spire out by the end of summer, maybe even by June... but a lot of help from the community is needed to get it done (maybe from Steemit Inc too) - a larger dev community would be really beneficial to Steem.
I can’t wait to be hosting hackathons and having dozens of new DApps on Steem!
The Man!