I'd like to invite you to the witness steem.chat room so you can see the other issues we're facing. The end user doesn't typically get to see everything going on. But if you really want to learn more, join us: https://steem.chat/channel/witness
We've been very busy with this hardfork. I personally have been going through troves of discussions, staying up to date with parameter settings and patches, and getting an overall feel of what has taken place with this hardfork. For instance, we just learned that the account creation fee didn't update for all witnesses like it was supposed to, so we're updating that now.
Again, didn't go as planned. And for a social media platform it's vital that we do major testing on the testnet prior to updating the network. Imagine if Facebook went down (and you weren't able to post/comment), but they updated their code "successfully". Would that be a success? I highly doubt it. We have to hold ourselves to higher standards. And I know we can do that. But we can't pretend things went smoothly.
I guess I could pretend everything went smoothly and post a bunch of hype to gain more votes as a witness, but I'd rather see our platform succeed in the long-term.
I am watching witness channels carefully. Haven't joined, since I am not a witness, and I don't think my presence there would help.
Yes I saw about the account fee issue. And I saw the one-row solution too.
I don't think we should go on the discussion centralized versus decentralized, pluses and minuses.
I'm glad we both want Steem to succeed on the long term.