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C'est la vie. Anything youd recommend if someone wanted to try to make their own like network based off steem? Perhaps just build off Steemit/Busy? No integrations with Django or Drupal yet, if ever?

That's sort of what I'm doing with chainbb.com - building a forum interface/network on top of the Steem blockchain.

Right now it pretty much takes writing everything except the RPC libraries from scratch. There aren't many total integrations at this point with common open source web platforms. I think there's a wordpress plugin, but other than that, everything else still needs to be done.