More interfaces are likely to go this direction, so that they can control their own advertising revenue from the traffic. As long as they are using their advertising revenue to benefit their members, it would help the value of the tokens (and drive more traffic to their platform). If they are using their advertising revenue to enrich themselves, the move will likely destroy their communities.
Either way, we will stop using SCT tags from Oct 15 but we will continue with staked SCT as long as there is an active contingent of SCT users among SBI members.
Does running your own frontend take a lot of resources? Domain registration and perhaps a small cloud server for hosting the files, but are they also running their own database? They would just be mirroring/using a public node I imagine to pull and show the data from the blockchain that's tagged with their tribe/dApp, in most cases? Talking about a clone of the steemit condenser.. dApps like steem-bounty/steem-hunt, actifit etc are probably also running a database I imagine.. but generally, the tribes don't seem to be running anything 'special', right? Just wondering!
Most of the front-ends use steemit API instead of running their own nodes.
I love Basic Income concept... thanks for what you are doing, guys!
!sbi status